Questlove "Mind Dividing"

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  • @apples874
    @apples874 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The way Quest made his kick ring @1:42 sounded so good. I'm always impressed by Quest's ability to strike his drums and get different sounds from them and to do it on a consistent bases while have such insane dynamic control and room dynamic awareness

  • @Howitchewstofeel5gum
    @Howitchewstofeel5gum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    When you get so advanced that you start circling back to playing sloppy

    • @rockinrobin
      @rockinrobin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      think about it though . John Coltrane spent most of his career proving his musical chops , and then near the end of his life played that "crazy" "non-sense" stuff . Pablo Picasso as well at the end of his career, developed a sloppy childlike approach to his art . Something to be said about the greats lol

    • @defeatingdefeaters
      @defeatingdefeaters 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      “Circling back” takes on a different meaning these days if you know what I mean 😆

    • @PaintedSockets
      @PaintedSockets 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Gideon Mekhi No, you're right, no one gives a shit

    • @aundrellrobinson
      @aundrellrobinson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Circling back after obtaining insight and wisdom grants a new experience all together ...

    • @lighterwaves5659
      @lighterwaves5659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yea too many coaches/teachers use "practice" n "techniques" that systematically eliminate whats original, genius n great, instead of building on it...yikes

  • @averagejackmedia609
    @averagejackmedia609 8 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Taught me more in a minute and fifty nine seconds then I learned from a teacher in 3 months.

  • @Masterfilm15
    @Masterfilm15 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    he's one of my favourite drummers, I can only dream to get where he's gotten, but has given me inspiration!

    • @homelessinpeckham1094
      @homelessinpeckham1094 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Practice the right things and you'll be an excellent drummer

    • @glamdj
      @glamdj ปีที่แล้ว

      he are so good, so in the same vibe, in the same groove, in the same soul, in this live act...im a music addicted... portuguese, designer, marketeer, also dj, living and working in Angola... and i notice this drummer for the first time in this live act with alicia keys... perfect with the drums... th-cam.com/video/obkrMiyDrbs/w-d-xo.html

  • @guitarcenter
    @guitarcenter  10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Rewind: Questlove discussed "Mind Dividing" a technique used to play both 3/4 and 4/4 beats at the same time. bit.ly/1w0xq0f

    • @isopropyltoxicity
      @isopropyltoxicity 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Guitar Center I want that snare sound so bad!!!

  • @stefangriffin3113
    @stefangriffin3113 7 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Hmm. He's had and continues to have more success than most musicians will ever have, is one of the most sought after drummers and producers in the world...yet some of you idiots think he "sucks" or is plain.
    I hope that those of you that think he sucks learn about musicianship someday.

    • @JCordoba1001
      @JCordoba1001 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stefan Griffin i wouldn’t say he sucks per se, Overrated, definitely

    • @rheeryder2524
      @rheeryder2524 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Stefan Griffin: Let the church say "Amen."

    • @glamdj
      @glamdj ปีที่แล้ว

      he are so good, so in the same vibe, in the same groove, in the same soul, in this live act...im a music addicted... portuguese, designer, marketeer, also dj, living and working in Angola... and i notice this drummer for the first time in this live act with alicia keys... perfect with the drums... th-cam.com/video/obkrMiyDrbs/w-d-xo.html

  • @dinosaurpotatoes
    @dinosaurpotatoes 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I LOVE YOU QUESTLOVE SERIOUSLY

  • @jaydoode15
    @jaydoode15 10 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Quest is the man

  • @calmdominantphenom
    @calmdominantphenom 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Best drum set, I love this kit. Mos def, my favorite kit. Dope sound and it kicks way harder than any other small set I've played.. WELL WORTH THE MONEY!

  • @CANIMALEDETTI
    @CANIMALEDETTI 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A kit so affordable but high quality too, amazing!

  • @screechandmoan
    @screechandmoan 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Badassness. I'm a guitarist, but it's drummers like this that really make me wanna put down the guitar n' listen.

  • @Crates94
    @Crates94 9 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    Dilla taught him bout sloppy.

    • @caspervanhelvoirt
      @caspervanhelvoirt 8 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      together with D'Angelo yes!

    • @GriimX
      @GriimX 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup, das right.
      th-cam.com/video/SENzTt3ftiU/w-d-xo.html (Questlove comes in about a minute later)

    • @brianbcj
      @brianbcj 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GriimX wow ok I picked that up on first watch

  • @ocean457
    @ocean457 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So that was part of D'angelo's vision for his soul rhythm that made up this drumming style Questlove has. You play as tight on the pocket as James Brown or Prince but in between the Ones you relax everything. Mind, spirit expanding shit. Unspeakable, undescribable. Life greatness.

  • @julians.3311
    @julians.3311 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    legend

  • @SuperPerfect5th
    @SuperPerfect5th 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love this dudes pocket.

  • @wilberforce95
    @wilberforce95 10 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    if I was half the drummer Quest is I would be happy

  • @jonrichmond1098
    @jonrichmond1098 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this guy❤

  • @gxdhabakkagw6268
    @gxdhabakkagw6268 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I don’t know if you know this, but playing a poly meter isn’t that difficult if you learn what needs to be played together. So most drummers aren’t actually multitasking, same with polyrhythms. But it sounds like he’s really trying to feel both grooves at once which is insanely difficult as opposed to just playing the right notes.

  • @snowghost5134
    @snowghost5134 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Less truly is more 💥
    It’s where you put it
    How you feel it
    What you don’t play
    It’s not actually sloppy
    That is a humble way
    Of saying free
    Notice the accents
    The way they shift
    And move
    It pulls your body & mind
    Like the moon does the tide
    Relax feel let go & be free

  • @YashlinN
    @YashlinN 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    you the man! Quest!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @gabe2869
    @gabe2869 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    It should probably be noted that the 3/4 time he was talking about at the beginning is not "swing" like he said, it's "waltz".

    • @eliborg
      @eliborg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A waltz in 3/4 is still swung(in a jazz context)

  • @bryannforeman935
    @bryannforeman935 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really giving a lesson on how to play slightly off. Legend

  • @mrmisfit635
    @mrmisfit635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love it!

  • @BuzzieBee77
    @BuzzieBee77 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great tight snare sound!

  • @RumRummyRummer
    @RumRummyRummer 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    greatest price too. unbeatable

  • @Squirrelconga
    @Squirrelconga 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "One job on left side of 🧠.
    2nd job on right side of 🧠.
    Leaving the center wide open!"
    -Adrian Belew

  • @liluhaas
    @liluhaas 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm happy about this

  • @Theplaceiliveonemoretime
    @Theplaceiliveonemoretime 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "The more sloppier it is the more human it is" quest love

  • @jacoblando5083
    @jacoblando5083 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mastered that in a minute and a half

  • @GuyCostigan
    @GuyCostigan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Okay greay so this video only needed to be about 9,999.33 hours longer

  • @GIGMUSIC-o6z
    @GIGMUSIC-o6z 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool drum lesson.

  • @GeminiKLY
    @GeminiKLY ปีที่แล้ว

    Love what he said about the sloppiness

  • @bea5ToloG
    @bea5ToloG 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    a master.

  • @MrMemtown
    @MrMemtown 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    All I can say is wow. You have magic powers

  • @cigarettecat3981
    @cigarettecat3981 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That snare tone

    • @mrmisfit635
      @mrmisfit635 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Crank it up 2 turns, then tune it back down half a turn...snare drum tone bliss!

  • @philip2404
    @philip2404 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    that is clearly Dilla 1:33

    • @laminebaazi4376
      @laminebaazi4376 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      nah dilla drums are never off beat. the post dilla.people.are
      jays drums are in weird pockets but theyre very clean

  • @beverlyx9546
    @beverlyx9546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful 3/4!!! Do 1 hour 🤔. DRIFTING.

  • @nikoma_
    @nikoma_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah man ✅

  • @charlesthrush9178
    @charlesthrush9178 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kit is really good too

  • @RCLaROCK1
    @RCLaROCK1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Quest Love
    He happens to be a younger generation of Drummer Greats in 2000 era of time
    and those with lack of knowledge of the DRUM craft circle dont know his place in music
    until they research or get schooled.....
    he also knows music history he's more then a drummer ...a Historian a teacher a showman
    much respect Quest
    MICSTRO rc #longestflowonwax
    Read more
    REPLY

  • @jackwilliams8856
    @jackwilliams8856 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How does he get that bass drum sound!!!???!!!???

  • @deadmoonscriptures1556
    @deadmoonscriptures1556 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Would this "mind dividing" exercise be a good practice for a beginner drummer?

    • @MrPisster
      @MrPisster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you listen to his story...he was a beginning drummer.

    • @deadmoonscriptures1556
      @deadmoonscriptures1556 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrPisster I didn't catch that detail, thanks.

  • @alya1607
    @alya1607 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wanna be like Quest Love when I grow up ..in the pocket! 👌😅

  • @MitchieMitchMitchell
    @MitchieMitchMitchell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That snare sounds so freaking good, how does he tune it?

    • @mikesmith6129
      @mikesmith6129 ปีที่แล้ว

      The snare side sounds like it’s tuned super tight.

  • @TonyGellaMusic
    @TonyGellaMusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Vals and polka in same time)

  • @TimeNfeel91
    @TimeNfeel91 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Similar. I guess if you were to only play beat one of each time signature, it would form a polyrhythm (two types of subdivisions played on top of each other), but the beat in the video is a hemiola (if you are thinking in 3/4, the 4/4 foot pattern plays over the barline and lands back on one after four bars of 3/4. The opposite would be in 4/4 where the 3/4 pattern falls back on one after 3 bars of 4/4, and both cycles would take up 12 beats.).

  • @STFXLMNS
    @STFXLMNS 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    my god, didn't see that last one coming.

  • @fuzzylogiceire
    @fuzzylogiceire 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is their fittings/ room for a second rack tom?

  • @africanmaan
    @africanmaan 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    My Pearl Export is, it is such a hassle to tune i don't even use the toms any more i only use the kick and snare. The snare is not even the one that came with the kit, it is metal shell snare.

  • @jameslyons1661
    @jameslyons1661 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍

  • @xaviersales92
    @xaviersales92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When you get a black belt, you become a white belt again
    Sun Tzu

  • @BAGAKOOS
    @BAGAKOOS 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    wat kind of cymbals is he using?

  • @theoriginalbillholt
    @theoriginalbillholt 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's personal. I've never cared for Pearl. I heard Mike Mangini's set on TH-cam and thought they sounded absolutely flat. I also saw a video of DWs with the May Miking System. I like DW, I have a May kick mic from WAY back, and a demo CD of May's system played by Omar Hakim on a Pearl set. Pearl had original distribution for May. That Pearl/May demo sounds fantastic. The DW /May kit I heard was like fart bubbles in the bathtub. Go figure. 'Production' can take any kit from pumpkin to carriage.

  • @dreamopeth
    @dreamopeth 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dilla indeed with the last one.

  • @glamdj
    @glamdj ปีที่แล้ว

    this is kind of trip-hop drum principle... its look like that a beat is offset... but its offset synced.... always in the same offset feeling.. i love triphop because of that... you see lots of that in portishead music
    About him: he are so good, so in the same vibe, in the same groove, in the same soul, in this live act...im a music addicted... portuguese, designer, marketeer, also dj, living and working in Angola... and i notice this drummer for the first time in this live act with alicia keys... perfect with the drums... th-cam.com/video/obkrMiyDrbs/w-d-xo.html

  • @babathesheep7
    @babathesheep7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    how did his kick drum get so deep when he got sloppy tho..

  • @HydraulicSandwich
    @HydraulicSandwich 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought break beats where what jojo mayer played?

  • @landonkrulezdood
    @landonkrulezdood 11 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Also known as polymeter/polyrhythm. Look it up.

  • @mrrogers3581
    @mrrogers3581 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a good foundation beat for layering two different time signatures together, but most drummers with a few years of experience will find that it's pretty simple. It would have been cool to see more variations, sped up, played as a fill in a groove, etc. But usually guitar center loves to keep things nice and dumbed down, that's why they always pick someone to win the drum off that was outclassed by other drummers.

  • @k3mikal
    @k3mikal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Reminder that Danny Carey can play 3 at a time

  • @drstew1
    @drstew1 ปีที่แล้ว

    J Dilla beats inside Quest ❤ with some D’Angelo

  • @onthejuan_youtube
    @onthejuan_youtube 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:39 BassDrum Singing =)

  • @MrSaiLikesPie
    @MrSaiLikesPie 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    You mean polyrhythm?

  • @igottheblues1
    @igottheblues1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They're also known as polyrithms.......

  • @iaminsfiredbytrustfration8502
    @iaminsfiredbytrustfration8502 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What’s in his hair

  • @12345678952657
    @12345678952657 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    He uses Zildjian cymbals

  • @africanmaan
    @africanmaan 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn i wish that kit was out 6 years ago i would have gotten it instead of my bullshit pearl kit

  • @KudosCultureCartel
    @KudosCultureCartel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    damn kick sounds like an 808

    • @Grisu.
      @Grisu. 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      fucking kids and 808 samples man holy shit

  • @jhsaranglao
    @jhsaranglao 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    #dilla

  • @slipknotmfkr3
    @slipknotmfkr3 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Took me three weeks to really master it” fuck I wish…

  • @HydraulicSandwich
    @HydraulicSandwich 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    and KJ sawka

  • @carlosloor88
    @carlosloor88 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    isn't it like polyrythm?

  • @yamsang0__0
    @yamsang0__0 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    anyone agrees that its easier to do this one without thinking about it? like if you try to count you get thrown off. but if you just start doing it it'll come out easy

  • @Drfresh1402
    @Drfresh1402 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dilla student all the way guaranteed.

  • @shawndavidevans
    @shawndavidevans 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's not about the kit.

  • @Aaron_Gentry
    @Aaron_Gentry 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    That bass drum is so small

  • @arturhours
    @arturhours 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    repetition legitimises

  • @theoriginalbillholt
    @theoriginalbillholt 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's originally a superficial thing, like many elements of attraction, but I never cared for Pearl's look. I hate the double-post tom mounts, and that's never going to change. Pearl HAS been an industry leader in many ways, so they still get kudos for that. I did like their Custom Z Series figured birdseye maple from the 1990s. Beautiful. I think that that model ws an answer to Sonor's Signature Series, which I have in African Bubinga.

  • @decadence18
    @decadence18 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    So it took him 3 weeks to separate him time signatures from just 2 different ones? it must be a lifestyle for Danny Carry of TOOL then.... plan and simple, period, thank you, goodbye!

  • @ianspillman2742
    @ianspillman2742 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Mind Dividing" No offense but I've played drums for about 10 years now, and I learned this in the first two or three years? It's a great way to warm up and practice playing circadian rhythms, but it's nothing that you learn in advanced class in music college.

  • @nickpaternostro2611
    @nickpaternostro2611 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy says the drummer needs to act as a Metronome? Try Carter Beauford, for example. He plays the drums melodically and musically. That's why he's the best of all time.

  • @mrbrubbs10
    @mrbrubbs10 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry my brutha I love your playing....BBBUUUT as an ole schooler I hate the sloopy style...bass and drums gotta be tight but thats just me and everybody from the 70's thru early 90's! Could you imagine James Brown wit a sloppy drummer.. James woulda kilt his ass...YEAH KILT!!lololol

  • @prodark1359
    @prodark1359 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    hahahahahaha

  • @bakihanma644
    @bakihanma644 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not a fan of the drunk drumming

    • @snowghost5134
      @snowghost5134 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sober up and you might

    • @bakihanma644
      @bakihanma644 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@snowghost5134 😂. I was -it's just all over Bandcamp now.

    • @snowghost5134
      @snowghost5134 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@bakihanma644 “once you become a black belt you go back to white belt” “one time at band camp..”

  • @mitchellhughes5180
    @mitchellhughes5180 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy is so dull

    • @snowghost5134
      @snowghost5134 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gossip is envy in disguise

  • @ironjaybeatsgymnut8201
    @ironjaybeatsgymnut8201 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    hes plain. but a cool guy

  • @TakisT888
    @TakisT888 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Took me five seconds to master don't get why this should be difficultxD

    • @vasconcelossentimento
      @vasconcelossentimento 8 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      we got a little mr. special talents over here folks

    • @TakisT888
      @TakisT888 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      watch this;) its me showing next level;)

    • @ianspillman2742
      @ianspillman2742 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      one of the ones my teacher had me practice that took me forever to get is sixteenth-note quintuplets on the snare over 4/4 on the bass and hi hat. It's super confusing and took me a good 3 months to get down.

    • @TakisT888
      @TakisT888 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ian Spillman
      well then you were just @beginner level back then?

    • @ianspillman2742
      @ianspillman2742 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      i've been playing drums for about 10 years.