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Love low toms, high snare, and high bass drum. Perfect combo for me

Great introductory lesson. Thanks

Great video from a fellow teacher standpoint!!

Wonderful tips! Another simple one that sounds more complicated, is the single-paradiddle in 4/4 with an accent on the single, right beat. This accent can be done anywhere and sounds unique. Love the rudiments!

Thank you

The thanks this was very helpful❤

Very awesome lesson, thank you for sharing.

I saw Irv play with Frank, Irv is one of my favourites, Alvin too.

You are very concise and clear in your expositions about drums, appreciate that a lot, big thank you. I'm not a jazz drummer, but I have picked up a number of things that you do and it has improved my hands, so thank you for that as well.

Man, I’m a past rock/metal drummer who’s needing a new outlet to jazz… this is a great video…. Thank you

I have this kit and number of cymbals set up for playing low volume jazz. Another great choice of drum heads for the snare drum if you play a lot of brushes, is the Remo Ambassador Renaissance batter and resonant/snare side heads. Instead of a coating, the texture is built into the batter head which doesn't wear out while still giving excellent definition at low volume. I use the standard Remo Ambassador Coated batter heads on my toms with Remo Ambassador clear resonant heads. All are tuned higher for jazz. Although I haven't tried the Remo Fiberskyn Diplomats yet, I have heard them in person and they are excellent.

In "Ya Gotta Try" of Count Basie - the Buddy Rich version of that bebop jazz song, there are 2 measures where Buddy got a chance to do the "shank" or "backbeat" on beats 2 and 4 on the snare, in response to the notes A-E on the trumpet section in first and second beats of 1 and 3, in that number. Backbeating on the snare is usually not done in big band jazz except for climaxes in songs, usually near the ending of a number.

As you know, Buddy Rich had to up the ante in the "setup" in the very fast bebop big band number, "Two Bass Hit". So he modified the big band jazz drum count-off intro to straight-eighths to compensate for the very fast quarter notes in 4/4 (actually counted "in 2").

good lesson and nice shirt

Thanks for the well-explained introduction to jazz drumming. I can start working on it for a few hours :-)

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Ed Shaughnessy had me in the Bellson book, among others.....Ed drilled me pretty hard.Great teacher........Ralph Onofrio

Probably the best first drum lesson I have ever come across. Different perspective from what I was told 55 years ago. Wish I could have had this back then.

So many drummers with a rock background seem to have a "look at me" attitude and try to be in the spotlight. The best drummers (particularly jazz drummers) are true team players who want the balance of the band, large or small, to sound perfect and musical. At 1:00, you show how much more the drums blend into the music instead of trying to overpower it. This is what truly distinguishes jazz from rock.

As usual, this video is excellent. I think a little more emphasis on why the ride cymbal should have a light touch touch should be covered. Jazz drumming with an acoustic trio or quartet is MUCH different from playing with a larger swing band. The effect of a bad ride cymbal with a lot of wash or hum can make a good drummer sound bad. Also, choice of sticks and tips make a critical difference (weight, length, shape, wood or nylon tips, etc.) Then, there are brushes... so magical. Both, heel and toe techniques deserve a lot of focus as well, and could deserve a separate video, on both the hi hat pedal and the bass drum pedal. This is where the volume control comes in. For 4/4 time, I usually raise my heel on the "1" and the "3" beats while the bass drum pedal goes down on. It helps my inner metronome. Volume control is always very important. Not all music is played in 4/4 or 2/4. If you're playing for a dance, you will definitely need skills with 3/4 in a waltz tune and combing a straight 3/4 rhythm with the "2-and-3" on the hi hats with triplet pattern on the brushes with only "3" on the hi hat is a very nice soft touch. (Jerry Granelli did this in "Skating" with Vince Guaraldi on the Charlie Brown Christmas album). Choice of hi hat cymbals is critically important for these. Keep up the great work. How did you get so much experience while being so young? I'm 74 and still learning!

Awesome lesson one of the best basic jazz drum lessons I’ve seen on TH-cam. Thank you so much!

Oh my god. Your toms are out of this world!!! Seriosly!!!

This video helped me a ton I was over-thinking this concept a lot.

What size and type of your three drums?

I like High tension! Its the same tension in bottom and top? In toms? And snare?

Hope that I can get to Drum as fast as most Drummers do just with my fingers...I only been Druming for a year now!

I have a different solution for this. A ‘hack’. I have wool felt padding on a string, suspended left and right under the bass drum hoop. 3/8” thick, 3” wide, 4” long. The beater hits that felt, and it sounds truly ‘feathered’. The string has just enough play that I can lift that felt over the hoop and rest it on the shell of the drum when I need more impact. But in small jazz settings, like with acoustic bass and piano, this works great. There’s still plenty of impact when I need it.

What a great teacher! I’m disappointed his website appears to not be active and that he hasn’t released videos for years. Hope he’s ok.

thank you very much. it would be very interesting if you gave a lesson on accents to always play on jazz standards, thank you

I keep my Gretsch Catalina Club Jazz kit tuned pretty low and it sounds awesome concerning the size of the "cocktail" kit. It isn't loud but it CAN be if needed. It sounds great with brushes as well as with the right sticks. and bass drum beater I play primarily in small venues with acoustic instruments and I couldn't be happier with it. The 30-degree bearing edge on the mahogany shells also helps the heads have a "deep voice".

During my very first lesson from a professional jazz drummer in 1965, my first thing to learn was how to hold the stick. Then I learned the rudiments, one at a time and had to practice on each for a week. My instructor was not a teacher. He did this as a favor to me and let me know from the very beginning, that if I did not improve each week my lessons were over. No second chances. He was a polite and soft-spoken gentleman who could do more with brushes in a solo than most drummers could do with sticks. He emphasized keeping time, playing softly, playing to perfection with a LOOSE TOUCH. My first professional gig after that was with an acoustic bass, piano and violin. It was wonderful! Prior to this, I had been playing in a very loud garage band and I was self-taught. I had to unlearn everything I knew and start over. I went from being an arrogant, know-it-all teenager to a respectful student. Best days of my life!

Thanks for posting this

Do both. Rack high, floor low.

Singing I'd quite enjoyable

Boy do I miss this channel

Excellent advice! I started out in rock in the 1960's. Then I discovered jazz. I found a professional jazz drummer who played in small acoustic trios and large swing bands. His first words were, "Keep the time steady and keep the volume low." My first jazz gig was with a violin, piano and upright acoustic bass in a dinner club. I was hired within five minutes of my audition. My hard work at playing less instead of more had literally paid off. This video is a great example of "Less is more." I quiet drummer can still be great. Check out Jeff Hamilton, Joe Morello (Take 5) and Jerry Granelli (Charlie Brown's Christmas). Louder is not better. Focus on the correct areas, as explained at the beginning of this video. Also, explore the wonderful world of brushes!

Although I am not a drummer thanks for the lesson, as I always wondered why some drummers, like Charlie Watts, managed to make different sounds on such a basic drum kit. Now I think I know - its the finger grip.

Hey, Thanks! Good lesson. I'm just starting out with stick control, on a plastic bucket no less. I noticed the tone of your Bass Drum. It seems to be tuned to the 5th. I've been learning some Bugle Calls and they all start on the fifth. The first two notes of the Harmonic series are too low for them to play. I'm sort of developing this idea that everyone is teaching us to start in the wrong place, meaning the Root. The fifth is much more interesting, plus it has the largest interval (the 4th) on the bottom, then a Maj 3rd then the min 3rd. It's like the perfect Musical Pyramid.

This is a great series. What happened to the website?

Good tips bro! I like the infinite possibilities you show in the video, very like using probabilities in math

Thanks for both your lessons. This has been the best jazz drum lessons I’ve ever found on You Tube. I’ve been hearing the terminology AABA etc, being thrown around with some more advanced musicians than me and no one ever explained it fully during our practice sessions. Being predominantly self taught, your lessons will help me no end. Thanks again for great explanations , tips and teaching skills. 💫

My favorite Jazz drummers, tune the drums very HIGH.......Max Roach , Elvin Jones , Bill Stewart, Greggory Hutchinson, etc......

Now I get it !, I was doing it wrong, this was SO helpful,

Great job. I’m a an advanced jazz piano student and like how you demystified the drum set options here. Would like to see how you might approach evolution in dynamics on a basic Blues in F form ( i.e., on Bar 9-12) - hi-hat to ride cymbal for example

Great video. Would it be reasonable to just play 1 and 3 on the bass drum instead of 4 on the floor at really fast tempos?

Perfect! Thx a lot!

I am wondering: If in the two-feel the ride does what you suggest, where is the difference to a four-feel, drummingwise?

That sound so smooth! Thanks

F sake, this is great. I am a jazz pianist and i know only a couple of jazz drummers that don’t drown out the piano. most just smack the shit out the drums. it’s frustrating. like back in the day no amps and presumably audiences could still hear duke or whoever. anyway goid video

What kind of coated heads are those? 😃