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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZrmrlTtd3s

another one of those rad "drummer plays a song after hearing it once" drumeo videos with todd sucherman from styx playing foo fighters "rope." i instantly fell in love with this guy's playing, so much energy yet so fluid

Yeah, I've never listened to Styx but I've seen some of his other videos and he's ridiculous.

Subtle, tasty chops and communication courtesy of the youtube algorithm

Dan Weiss & Ari Hoenig duet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sumZqkZPvto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl4E7lfE9EA

ilan rubin playing "the perfect drug"

Love to see a lefty on a righty kit, he's killing it

Mike Bordin from Faith No More always had an unusual setup. He's left-handed, and plays left-handed, and the drum set is set up for a righty, with the exception of the China and the ride, which are on the left.

Yep that's the standard open-handed setup (see also Billy Cobham, Louis Cole, etc).

I'm a weirdo in that I'm a lefty that fully learned to play right-handed, but I more recently taught myself to play certain grooves with fast hi-hat parts left hand-lead. My independence isn't as good so I have to be careful about what I play that way though, which is annoying. And my right hand has come a long way, but will probably never be as naturally good as my left. Wish one of my teachers would have started me off open-handed!

i am left handed
started drumming late
play in trad right hand style because it was easier to learn by myself
personal fave lefty drummer: Hamish Kilgour (RIP)

yes i am still at it!!

Hell yeah! Btw I've never heard the Clean, what's a good starting point?

I was reminded today that Questlove is one of the few drummers our same situation (left-handed, but learned and plays righty). And his right hand is not slacking at all so I really have no excuse.

as far as the Clean stuff I like most, I would watch this live performance -- the camera zooms in on the drums and you can see the crowd is feeling it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMaZe_aIIfg

Anthology is as good a place to start as any imo.

xpost Ringo is a lefty who learned and plays righty.

Oh right! And he has beautiful technique, from the bit of the Get Back doc that I was able to see.

TIL that Stewart Copeland is also a lefty who plays righty!

Nate Smith on the two piece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oin8V3iVCv8

Happy that ZackGrooves is hitting the drum youtube bigtime. Although based on the tracks he's playing from his album, I also hope that at some point he makes a record that I want to listen to without video.

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

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

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

fucking finally: a decent drum cover of our lady peace's cancon classic "automatic flowers" on youtube. i'm gonna learn this crazy thing

bumping this thread even though my question is not about sick chops, sorry

anyone read this?

https://circularscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Drum-tuning-bible.pdf

anyone have another fave resource?

Holy shit I just got introduced to that anonymous drummer that goes by Delta Empire. Chops so sick people are convinced they're a pro having fun. Mostly metal/hard rock/industrial, super technical, but sometimes fun, too. So on one hand you get stuff like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_dlCC47WxQ

But sometimes you get this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5_f2WcAz74

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBRjo33cUE

i know i'm ilm's resident chad smith defender but this video is so fucking good, he just locks right into it

As much as I often hate what RHCP adds up to, yeah he's got great technique, huge sound, tons of little nuances to his playing. I often think the video of their Rock & Roll HoF performance with other former RHCP drummers -- it's one thing to see him on his own, but in comparison he's such a powerhouse.

Also check his Dua Lipa play through. Total charmer, that Chad Smith.

Also check his Dua Lipa play through. Total charmer, that Chad Smith.

i know i'm ilm's resident chad smith defender

― ivy., Wednesday, October 4, 2023 2:38 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

You will never take my crown

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thx for sharing that ivy - love those drumeo vids

hate the drumeo channel and the losers who run it

ok! i have found them really helpful as someone who is mostly self-taught. they just did a "guess a drummer from their isolated drumtrack" thing and it was sooo fun

Also check his Dua Lipa play through. Total charmer, that Chad Smith.

These Chad Smith videos were awesome, made my day, thanks. I tend to agree with Jordan, although I might have said Flea was the only one I’ll really take, at least until today.

other drummers probably disagree but anytime I can play 4 on the floor I am doing that, it is the best thing to do with a bass drum

Ugh this guy is ridiculous. I've seen his videos but it's actually more impressive when he breaks it down. Nothing more humbling that keeping a simple ostinato going with the feet, see how much of your shit you can play then!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STE5ro6w2FU

Sam isolated "Obstacle 1" snip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4yIuBpqE-Y

Always liked the syncopated 16th note bass drum fills (~14s-->), straight out of Bonham's "Kashmir" breakdown.

Jimmy Chamberlin crushing some straight ahead
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0m6FKFuIVy/

That was awesome, thanks!

Smoke from Rare Essence going off on the congas

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C35hCiBM70Y/?igsh=MWJ1ZGkzbWJpOGM4eQ==

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8unEVgBji0

Walter Perkins playing the melody on a bendy ride cymbal @ 3:55

incredible

that's some of the earliest extended technique i've come across (but I'm no expert)

I guess it depends how you define that. Papa Jo Jones used to play with his hands and fingers and alter the drum pitch by pressing the head.

Only tangentially related but last week Greg saunier ended the deerhoof set by playing with his hands for the last 5 minutes or so. It looked very painful - he was thwapping the crap out of the kit

If I had to guess, what we call extended technique today is probably as old as the original vaudeville trap kits.

Yeah agreed, it was just deployed in more of a show biz entertainment capacity rather than serious free music sounds. Watching the likes of Papa Jo Jones & Sonny Payne it feels very playful and not beholden to the conventions of the drum kit (which is a truly ridiculous instrument anyway).

One of the purposes of the drum kit was to do live sound fx, so that called for all kinds of stuff beyond what we think of as standard playing today