Good stuff! To anyone who may be considering the brushes mastery course, I assure you it is worth far more than its cost. It really opened my eyes what brushes truly have to offer. Brush playing is an art form in itself and this course has been invaluable to me.
This is cool I didn't know this was an actual thing. I thought the brushing sound in jazz was some remnant of either another instrument or the method of recording in old tracks, cool to know that its really a brush
Thanks for the comment and for watching! Yes, drum brushing is a real thing and used all the time in Jazz drumming. If you're a drummer, and want to learn more, check out my Brushes Mastery Course at my online Jazz Drum School: jazzdrumschool.com/course/brushes-mastery-course Keep swinging my friend 🤙
Thanks so much Vaughn for the kind comment and for watching! If you ever need a hand with your brushes playing, I'd love to help you out in my Brushes Mastery Course: jazzdrumschool.com/course/brushes-mastery-course Keeps swinging my friend!
Hello there. So now I know what the sound is a brush. But I do have a question. Don’t know if you know the answer or not. When I was growing up and when probably a lot of us were growing up, we used to listen to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He had an LP that was released, several versions of it but one of the versions I believe was 1972 but I can’t be 100% sure Had a song that he did one of the songs that he did trying to imitate a train not to be confused with the trolley. The trolley goes to make believe this was not anything to do with make believe this was a train. So anyway, in the train song, you could hear the same swishing or swishing noise that you used with the brush, do you think that Mr. Rogers drummer, used some kind of brush technique like that to make the chugging sound of the train. Along with the piano drum and whatever other instruments were used. When I was really, really young, I thought that they used a broom. But now, according to my good friend ChatGPT, it thinks it might’ve been a brush of some kind. So what do you think? Does it sound like the kind of thing that a brush could be used on? No the instrumentation in won’t you be my neighbor album LP, was more of a jazz aligned ensemble. There was that instrument that I believe was a jest. I think it’s called. And there was jazz guitar, a drummer, and of course, the bass. And the piano. Sorry a Celeste or something like that. My spelling is not the best. I know how to pronounce it but because I use dictation, it may not be getting things written properly. So that’s why I was curious if the brush could be used to make the train sound. As part of the chug jug sound that a real train would make or a subway or whatever. Obviously it would sound more like a steam engine because they’re not using harder noisemakers to make a more chugging sound. But anyway, I’m curious if you think the brush is used thank you very much from Alex Now, pardon me I do not know much about the jazz world. Since I grew up, listening to rock ‘n’ roll all my life. Lynyrd Skynyrd The Hollies the Eagles stuff like that. So pardon me if my jazz knowledge is not the best.
Alex thank so much for the question and for watching! The answer is yes! Actually, in the days of silent pictures, they used to have a drummer who played sound effects. One of the sound effects was using brushes for a train sound. Fun fact: Drum brushes were originally marketed in the early 1900's as fly swatters in the old Montgomery Ward Catalogue. Drummers figured out that they could make that train sound and adapted them to the silent pictures sound effect. Later Papa Jo Jones and other greats started using them with swishing motions and creating swing grooves. The techniques for playing brushes have evolved over time and if you'd like to learn how to play brushes in dozens of styles of music, you'll enjoy my Brushes Mastery Course: jazzdrumschool.com/course/brushes-mastery-course Keep swinging my friend!
Good stuff! To anyone who may be considering the brushes mastery course, I assure you it is worth far more than its cost. It really opened my eyes what brushes truly have to offer. Brush playing is an art form in itself and this course has been invaluable to me.
Jonathan thanks for sharing your experience with the course. I’m so happy it has helped you explore your brushing more deeply. 🤙
I will second this. It is a great course!
Steve thanks so much man! I’m really glad you are enjoying it too!
This is cool I didn't know this was an actual thing. I thought the brushing sound in jazz was some remnant of either another instrument or the method of recording in old tracks, cool to know that its really a brush
Thanks for the comment and for watching! Yes, drum brushing is a real thing and used all the time in Jazz drumming. If you're a drummer, and want to learn more, check out my Brushes Mastery Course at my online Jazz Drum School: jazzdrumschool.com/course/brushes-mastery-course Keep swinging my friend 🤙
Good this is good...
Thanks so much Vaughn for the kind comment and for watching! If you ever need a hand with your brushes playing, I'd love to help you out in my Brushes Mastery Course: jazzdrumschool.com/course/brushes-mastery-course Keeps swinging my friend!
you got a golden arm. for now on i following you
Thanks Javi! Hahaha, I don’t know about golden but thanks very much for the compliment! 🤙 I hope you find my videos helpful. Keep swinging!
Well done!
Thanks Sensei!
Hello there. So now I know what the sound is a brush. But I do have a question. Don’t know if you know the answer or not. When I was growing up and when probably a lot of us were growing up, we used to listen to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He had an LP that was released, several versions of it but one of the versions I believe was 1972 but I can’t be 100% sure Had a song that he did one of the songs that he did trying to imitate a train not to be confused with the trolley. The trolley goes to make believe this was not anything to do with make believe this was a train. So anyway, in the train song, you could hear the same swishing or swishing noise that you used with the brush, do you think that Mr. Rogers drummer, used some kind of brush technique like that to make the chugging sound of the train. Along with the piano drum and whatever other instruments were used. When I was really, really young, I thought that they used a broom. But now, according to my good friend ChatGPT, it thinks it might’ve been a brush of some kind. So what do you think? Does it sound like the kind of thing that a brush could be used on? No the instrumentation in won’t you be my neighbor album LP, was more of a jazz aligned ensemble. There was that instrument that I believe was a jest. I think it’s called. And there was jazz guitar, a drummer, and of course, the bass. And the piano. Sorry a Celeste or something like that. My spelling is not the best. I know how to pronounce it but because I use dictation, it may not be getting things written properly. So that’s why I was curious if the brush could be used to make the train sound. As part of the chug jug sound that a real train would make or a subway or whatever. Obviously it would sound more like a steam engine because they’re not using harder noisemakers to make a more chugging sound. But anyway, I’m curious if you think the brush is used thank you very much from Alex Now, pardon me I do not know much about the jazz world. Since I grew up, listening to rock ‘n’ roll all my life. Lynyrd Skynyrd The Hollies the Eagles stuff like that. So pardon me if my jazz knowledge is not the best.
Alex thank so much for the question and for watching! The answer is yes! Actually, in the days of silent pictures, they used to have a drummer who played sound effects. One of the sound effects was using brushes for a train sound.
Fun fact: Drum brushes were originally marketed in the early 1900's as fly swatters in the old Montgomery Ward Catalogue. Drummers figured out that they could make that train sound and adapted them to the silent pictures sound effect. Later Papa Jo Jones and other greats started using them with swishing motions and creating swing grooves.
The techniques for playing brushes have evolved over time and if you'd like to learn how to play brushes in dozens of styles of music, you'll enjoy my Brushes Mastery Course: jazzdrumschool.com/course/brushes-mastery-course Keep swinging my friend!
I wonder, could you get the same sound if you use brushes on bongo drums/congas?
You can, because those heads usually have some kind of texture. Give it a try and keep swinging my friend 🤙