Drum geek sick chops youtube thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiUcE-23RKQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3n3xoE-R8M

dude shredding on Mario Bros

Dude's gotta have a monster reach to hit that dresser.

Dude looks like that O RLY electrosoul guy whose image is all over ILX. After some serious woodshedding.

dorky German shredder shredding over Futurama and Simpsons quotes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHft4OR7Rus

Bernard Purdie (more of a groove video than a chops video, but awesome, and fucking hilarious):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gujufbGoS20

Purdie with Jon Hammond
(check the solo at 5:16)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PWkTjlS5R0E&mode=related&search=

Haha, that first BP clip is great. "Whoaaaaah!"

Oooh, I like that

One of my favorite drummer youtube clips, Brian Blade w/Joshua Redman:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EBjsAyUM1N0&mode=related&search=

Steve Gadd w/ Giovanni Hidalgo
(I love the double hi-hat)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GuBAfPi1cVo&mode=related&search=

Something that might surprise you
Sam Woodyard (of Duke Ellington's band):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a3XXi3krN80

Bill Stewart w/some great trading:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAojnI7e0zA

Dave King:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugPIpfZnNa8

Deerhoof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEYSeygs97Q&mode=related&search=

Note he appears to be using two crashes on a hi-hat stand as is only cymbals

Nice. I still don't know how he can sit that low and play the bass drum.

Ha ha, I love Greg Saunier.

I don't really know much about drumming but one of my favorite drummers to watch is Jim White of the Dirty Three, who is now kind of an indie rock drummer for hire, playing with Bonnie Prince Billie, Cat Power, Nina Nastasia and others. He's got a very flamboyant style with big flowing arm movements. He completely upstaged Bill Callahan when playing with Smog. It's hard to find a good YouTube clip, but here he is with Dirty Three:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3GIWWiKjU

I think this is Ricky Wellman? W/Miles in the 80s. I love his playing on the version of this tune that's on Live Around the World.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00tzcnyDL68

Max Roach vs. Art Blakey vs. Elvin Jones?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA5dt9QT4Ms

Max is totally ridiculous, but when Blakey comes in it's just like "awww shit..."

Here's Elvin's solo, he's not even trying to play the same game as the other two. Also the tape warping sounds sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfZSzDCPBvY

Haha, I remembered the drummer for Diddy doing Kashmere on SNL being sick, and he is!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45MghyE8pOI

lol @ Diddy, but srsly, if there is ever a Led Zep reunion I want that dude.

You can't see Usher's drummer in this clip, but he's totally ridiculous, esp. during the dance break.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zis-L5iBHB4

nick Jim White is one of my favorites.

Shannon is my man. :>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2wJqO2_Xk

Keith Carlock

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=119513888
(his band is also one of the better-sounding awful mercenary drum clinic pick-up bands I've heard)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kfFFAzPCANQ

I am a big fan of this guy, but it's kind of boring to watch this solo on youtube
http://youtube.com/watch?v=T-WBAOgpK0w

although maybe it's just the trumpet player's fidgeting in the background that's distracting me.

I do like when "Boogie Stop Shuffle" kicks back in.

Haha, this is a timely thread revive. I spent a couple hours last night watching JoJo Mayer's dvd: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VLQMFIueUyc

The first disc is real talk, probably the best thing I've seen on grips, basic wrist/finger techniques, moeller, etc.. Then on the second disc he gets into all the push-pull/thumb swivel/crazy fast one-hand stuff, some of which is like science fiction to me. :( But it's good drum geek shit, it made me want to get into more of a definite practice routine. And the little interludes where he's playing beats outside in all these different NYC spots are nice.

that dvd is amazing. it's all hands!

but please destroy thomas lang and marco minnemann

^^^^^yes, i got those dudes' dvds on netflix, ugh

thomas lang is one soulless motherfucker

at least mm had that funny part where he's playing to simpsons samples

Then on the second disc he gets into all the push-pull/thumb swivel/crazy fast one-hand stuff, some of which is like science fiction to me.

Stuff like that quickly turns into chops as an end rather than a means, so I tend to tune it out.

chops as a means to a pair of leather pants

This may have been posted already, but I love this clip of Neil Peart at the Buddy Rich memorial show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bIchqJoxFQ

Somebody should show that to Joe Flaherty.

yeah, sheila e

http://youtube.com/watch?v=33orc70TAxg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jicJsGCO3WU

Jordan, you didn't even say who else was on that youtube. Do you have that other lady's book?

I just watched that with the sound off and imagined what the 'shredder' guy would have done with it.

No jam block, no credibility.

re: neil peart, i don't know, i mean dude can play of course but he sounded kinda high school on the chart, and rockish at times on the solo.

no, she has a book?

The piano player. Rebeca Mauleón. She wrote The Salsa Guidebook for Piano & Ensemble. Check it out.

what the crap is going on in here?

Thinking about it in terms of drumming, it's definitely a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it's great that there's so much information that's available, and not gatekept behind lessons or a music education. It's amazing that you can see how people's hands move (instead of just your one friend in the school band who's decent at drums), get the sticking behind the lick, slow it down to .25 speed, etc.

NOT GATEKEPT is a key phrase here
maybe it's because i have had to maintain delusion-levels of belief in myself to progress as a drummer, or some other reason, but comparing yourself to others is a superhighway to feeling like shit. play like you feel it/be a conduit for the spirit and you may not ever be recognized but at least you are playing music in a way that is enjoyable and i think that is the point. ralph molina otm, he was one of my early role models. in case you wondered, i started playing 7 years ago this June. yes that much time has passed.

Had some actual lols at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzLg6aM3c7U

not a drummer: what is that loofa thing on his snare?

probably just for dampening (real pros use a wallet)

this video is cracking me up

just like his funny faces, and stuff, more than anything. i like this guy and his loofa!

xp I don't know what it's called but it's like this little collection of fake shells strung together that you shake for effect (used here to dampen the drum/add effect).

i assumed it was for dampening but it seems so convoluted for that purpose

esp a fan of "diarrhea of the hands," a phrase I think will enter my lexicon, and being highly interactive with the soloist, died at that one

Love Zackgrooves, his channel has been a good replacement for Rational Funk.

He's just ridiculously good but has his head on straight about everything (and is goofy & funny obv).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6i6liFJ84

Don't know where to put this etc....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZyaOlrb7E

lol that made the rounds years ago

i never get sick of it though

I feel very strongly that that drummer is at the right gig

Lol, was thinking the same thing.

Increasingly getting my drum jollies on instagram rather than youtube.

Monstrous and insanely creative percussionist I follow
https://www.instagram.com/akhamie.music/

This guy is my favorite rn though
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNpZKs6HT5u/

https://www.instagram.com/stevely_man_drums/

Hadn't ever paid much attention to James Gang or their drummer Jimmy Vox, but this is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo0vBdlWQs0

*Fox

Been getting into this French dude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QABXwWOVOk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slHhwUY8hmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty_y_2INYgo

Ok I'm pretty into the 'Everybody Want to Rule the World: Metric Modulation' challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F88Z4Tts4gY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-4cErugi8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEBOIuUKO1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RuVGHL-N78

great stuff indeed

Funk/jazz legend Dennis Chambers hearing Tool's 'Schism' sans drums and then taking a pass on drums a few minutes later. Pretty funking cool and kinda wild that what he came up with at points really is not all that far from Daney Carey's take. Dude heard this like once and then played this...yikes what a drummer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVwyAsU4dus

ha i loved that video

Yeah, that was fun.

Already posted something by Rafael Barata a while back, but nothing by Edu Ribeiro who is an equally big monster and stage presence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPp6mZht230

That is the first tool song I’ve ever heard, all the way through

I’m with Dennis, “not my cup of tea”!

Tool (If You Think It's Over)

wow that Ribeiro vid is something!

feels like a missed opportunity to not let us hear the tool track without drums, but still a cool vid with Dennis too

sick counting chops with Mike Mangini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ37nonagho

I've been trying to avoid that Dennis Chambers/Tool video because the algorithm seems intent on me clicking it, but here's what I've been into:

-This Swiss kid who's a fantastic bebop drummer, that's a big thing I've been working on lately: https://www.instagram.com/peterprimusfrosch/

-Joe Farnsworth's insta/youtube posts

-This Japanese kid is who just ridiculous, doing the modern linear post-Chris Dave/JD Beck etc thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uo6Gkv2YLQ

This Swiss kid who's a fantastic bebop drummer

This Japanese kid is who just ridiculous, doing the modern linear post-Chris Dave/JD Beck etc thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uo6Gkv2YLQ

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I kind of hate this tbh, it's good chops but it just feels like a pointless exercise in how many different ways a beat can be subdivided. It's got nothing whatsoever to do with the tune he's playing over, not even in the most abstract/oblique way (other than being in 3)

I get what you're saying, the ubiquity of linear post-gospel chop style playing can all sound the same, it's meant to sound like a blur of displaced notes that miraculously resolves on the 1. But I'm pretty into this style that's more based around the backbeat, with all the skittery subdivisions in between. It's definitely not easy to make it groove (and I've noticed that the Louis Cole/JD Beck trick of putting splash cymbals or household items on all your drums really helps even out the sound between them, it makes it easier to play these beats and have it sound like a cohesive thing).

That video might not be the most musical example, but I think the point of the video is to show how many ways a beat can be subdivided. :) It's basically a backing track and he's got some fresh ideas. The culture of internet virtuosity has its problems, but I watch these for inspiration and to find a little something in there I can practice/incorporate.

A couple more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81-6sUmUpHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OolnA7ElNpU

I love the Tears for Fears Metric Modulation challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEBOIuUKO1w

haha, I see we've already been over this and, in fact, may be where I learned about it XD

Caught...in an ILX drum machine time loop!

There are so many young players out there that have just flat out samarai skills, it's scary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9iIf4tFoyE

It really is. Not only is there so much information out there, but just having the opportunity to watch great drummers at any moment makes such a difference. And there's something about seeing kids in their bedroom doing it that makes it seem much more attainable.

Like, I really need to immerse myself for some things to sink in, and I think I could have been soooo much better when I was younger if I had Youtube. Instead I only got to see someone with good hands at drum lessons or at shows, when there was also a lot of other things going on.

I'm more focused on guitar than drums these days, but I definitely learn and master things more easily and quickly now with youtube than I did in my teens/20s. I spent so much time flailing around trying to figure out how to do things. I don't think I wasted it per se, because I think I learned a lot from all that flailing, it just wasn't necessarily an efficient or effective way to learn when I wanted to develop specific skills/sounds/techniques.

Anyway there are guys that do that hyper-subdividing thing really interestingly and well. I mean I like Chris Dave, but he also grooves so hard. And I've been really into this guy Steve Lyman for a while now, and he definitely does that, but he also has a really poetic flow and it seems purposeful.

there's a fine line between doing that in an interesting way and being the @zachgrooves "diarrhea of the hands" guy

I was just watching Steve Lyman, he's great. I think that's a huge disservice to ZackGrooves though! He can do the gospel chops thing but he knows what it is, and if anything he downplays it. Out of anyone he can play that intricate linear stuff with such pocket and conviction, and can also be a very tasteful jazz drummer. Idk, I've found his videos to be really inspirational and I bet he's only minutes away from getting some legit gigs.

Matteo Mancuso is a guitar version of these young ninja players. That dude's got some crazy unique picking technique that even has guys like Al DiMeola and Steve Vai going how the f' do you do that? And going by some videos, he kinda had most of the mechanical part down as a teenager.

Mike Mitchell is entirely too much, man. Just raising the bar so high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uri8hvC4Ddo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agWHe71VAvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apDcFEmz0E

Can't remember when I last heard someone hit so cleanly and precisely, it's like the hovering of some enormous insect. His rhythmic language is an order of magnitude more complex than I can process, but it's fun to try to keep up ...

Right?! I try to at least pick out one tiny little thing that I can understand & use.