These bebop phrases are really happening and well worth the $13. I have been trying to build up my vocabulary with transcribing and will continue to do so but feels like I hit the jackpot here. These feel really good and are easy to play/absorb and make them my own. Thanks Quincy, I so appreciate your channel.
Oh man! Brother Beatdown, I appreciate you "stopping by" and sharing your kind words. Big fan of all of everything you do as well! We should collaborate on something sometime. Much respect to you Rob👊🏾.
You keep knocking it out of the park with these lessons Q! I've been doing this type of metronome practice since early last year and it has really helped me identify my weaknesses. I generally rushed a lot in the past but this kind of practice really made me more aware of my pulse and tempo. Thanks for showing how you get the click in the right place in your head before starting. Not many videos tell you how to go about doing that part yet it's crucial. Awesome and thanks!
I would love it if all musicians had a metronome routine. I play free improv and the music itself is pretty squirrely by nature, but I feel like the freeness of it is about finding new territory at the fringes of music, not just making noise. Music is like a martial art to me, there is constant growth and increasing awareness of the subtleties that can really only happen with invested time. I'm always blown away by people that don't "study", lol. Maybe I'm a jerk, though! I get excited about what can happen with the entire band, not just my own playing. That's why I watch channels like this. 🥁
Love this, Q! Thank you! Great exercises. Nothing like feeling those triplets land in the right place (or being convinced your metronome is broken when they don’t)
I've been practicing with the metronome off the beat for a few years (thanks to The 80/20 Drummer!). It has improved my time more than anything in decades. Thanks, Mr. Davis!
One cool exercise is a metric modulation thing I picked up from a Harry Miree video. It's basically a 3 against 4 feel, where you accent beats 1 and 3 around a nice medium tempo (115-ish) in 4/4 and you play it as a 3/4 by placing the click in your head as beats 1 and the and of 2 while you play a steady half time beat in 4/4 so it sounds a bit like a clave. Tempo is a great metronome app because it allows you to accent or silence beats as well as try different subdivisions. Awesome video once again Q! :)
Thank you Quincy, these are all great. I was watching a Bill Stewart interview recently, he talks about using the metronome just to find a tempo, play for 10 minutes without it, then come back to see if the time moved. YIKES! Talk about eye opening..
when my financial situation improves, the first thing i will do will be to book some private lessons with you. I could listen to you for hours, what a likeable person. Thank you for all your time you Teaching us with so much Heart! Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland
Oh My God…What an eye opener Quincy. A wise man once said, practice does not make perfect; Perfect practice makes perfect. Thanks to this presentation I am now in for a lot of perfect practice…Thank You!
Thank you very much, Quincy. I previously knew various ways to practice time with a metronome (some even "very hard"). But here you showed at a "difficult level" an excellent and important exercise - how to play with "up beat" before different quarter notes. This is exactly the exercise that cures us from the tendency to gradually accelerate. After all, different drummers have this happening at different times. Someone can accelerate from the very beginning (from the second quarter note), and the other is able to play a couple of bar evenly and then begin to accelerate. Here we study to be real stable.
Awesome video Quincy, gives me some ideas I’ve never thought of before. One situation I can think of where you swing but the metronome would not swing, would be a double time feel, like in some sections of “Blue Train”
Great lesson! I love the idea of zooming in and out of where that click hits. Like having the click hit every 2 bars, or zooming in like how you are doing.
Great, I loved it. I am very grateful for the luck of having videos like this in front of me. Thank you and encouragement for everything you undertake. A very warm greeting. You're worth a lot Quincy. Congratulations ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Quincy, I've been playing drums my entire life and I only wish I would have had a mentor/coach, like yourself, when I was a kid! You're such a badass and I really appreciate how you breakdown your lessons and you are truly a blessing to all drummers!
Also something that helps me with these exercises is to “ audiate “ the sound of a rhythm section - For example , on upbeat 8ths, I hear in my mind a reggae guitar part.
Brilliant way of getting feel with the metronome in fact making playing with the metronome fun.A really useful tool.Its going to really help me with some really challenging ideas my new band are throwing at me.... Thanks for your wonderful teaching as always Quincy 👌🥁
Thanks so much for this. I'm going to give this a shot and see how far I can get before the wheels fall off of the track. Probably won't be too long! This is a great lesson and will give me a great way to work on my timing.
@@drumqtips Haha... I've been working on it and getting there, but when you flip the metronome pulse on the "ah", I get lost. My brain just stops working and I can't hear it or feel it (yet). Amazing that not only can you do it effortlessly, but that you carry on a conversation at the same time.
Amazing exercices! Worked on almost all of them already and I can tell that it's a tough workout for the feeling and the groove! I will try level 2 and 3 with 2 or 1 partials per mesure as I never did that! Btw I also do the level 1 "step 4, 5 and 6": 1 beat per 2, 4 or 8 mesures, normally I place it on the 4 of the 1st measure. (Got it from Jochen Rückert videos). Thank you as always!!!
That's practicing macro time, Joel! Great way to internalize hearing the longer phrase. One thing, though? Why do you put the click on the 4th beat of the 1st measure? Might be cool to place the click on the 4th beat of the 2nd, 4th, or 8th measure. Or the 3rd beat of every 2nd, 4th, or 8th measure. That way, you are playing towards a target with your phrases. That's actually how Jochen taught it in that time feel video, good fine, btw! Just an idea. Drummers and bassists have the best metronome exercises. Everyone else has to take note. As a guitarist, I know that I do :)
I also do another practice with the metronome. I set it on 10 - 20, and either get a beat every 2th measure, or a beat every 4th measure. The last one would mean tempo 160 with a beat every 4 measure. I'm gonna practice the hard and damn hard you showed here. Thankyou.
let's goooo :) thanks for another Q-tip. BTW. I've got question, would you recommend some classic bebop albums to listing and learn from the greats? Just few, to be able to get really deep into that Greetings
Let's go BOOM!!! Check out Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker and also Wynton Kelly's Kelly at Midnight 9 (Philly Joe on drums). Those are two of my all time favorite albums! Thanks for watching as always my man👊🏾
Hi Quincy! Please make your intros longer! That sounded so good!! Now to the lesson! Thank you as always for doing this! BTW Smalls is coming up this month right? Rita
@@drumqtips I was trying to find that video of you doing New Orleans 2nd line snare drum solo. Maybe it's gone? That was so good! Maybe down the road you could do another lesson on that. I love that stuff and you played it perfect! By the way this solo from 2012 was wonderful! Rita th-cam.com/video/T1Sib4JNH10/w-d-xo.html
Hi Sir, would just like to ask the brand and diameter of the ride cymbal you are using. Thank you very much for teaching us how to use metronome in different ways...
Thank you M Q to make the metronome less my ennemy 😄 Please let me know if you use metronome in headphones or speakers when you practice with it ? what reference of metronome do you use ? Thank you master ✌
Excellent lesson Professor Q! I just have one comment and question. Isn't it everyone's responsibility in the band to know where "1" is? Especially in the jazz context i always felt it was a cop out by the other musicians if they rely totally on the drummer to "keep the time." Im not saying the drummer should be going off at a whim in a tune, but if it's appropriate and in good taste to "step out" a bit i need to feel confident that they won't fall apart. Especially relating to tading 4s 8s or whatever. To expect otherwise seems to me to retrict a drummers creativity. Just as it's important for them to expect us as drummers to know song form and basic tennents of melody and harmony it's important for them to know, participate and "feel" the time as well. Is that wrong? Thnx🥁✌
I totally agree with you, however, if we don't practice with the idea of taking full responsibility for the time, we could easily get bulldozed by musicians we play with who don't have good time. But when we get to play in a situation where everyone is really taking responsibility for the time AND groove, FREEDOM and MAGIC! You know what I mean? Thanks for your thoughts BG.
I have an even more difficult exercise than that!!! Play every exercise from the video but make the metronome skip one beat. Then make it play for two beats stop for two beats. Then 4/4, 8/8, 12/12 for the blues form, 32/32 for the aaba form etc. That's a extremely difficult exercise specially when the gap gets bigger
muy bueno Quincy ,pero me gustaria que tuvieran subtitulos porque no entiendo que dises no hablo ingles me pierdo muchas cosas gracias igual siempre algo aprendo de como tocar jazz ,que es la mejor musica del mundo saludos
@@rondeangelis7384 Quincy is doing the offset himself. The metronome is playing at the same rate, but he hears the click as an offbeat and starts playing in between metronome clicks to put the metronome on a different pulse. Also look up 'Benny Greb Time Awareness Using of the Click' on TH-cam, he talks about it a little more and provides a demonstration moving the pulse around without stopping the metronome. Side note: I am working on a metronome app (it'll be free) that will help with this kind of pulse shifting, but it's not quite ready yet unfortunately.
Love your positive message - but imitate? Noooooooo! Please beginners/intermediate and all level players, do NOT imitate. Maybe a small child drummer needs to imitate. A young adult or adult player takes inspiration-even plays exactly what great drummers do (in your own way), then RECREATE. Debatable, it’s a deep subject, but important to my heart. Thanks for all the goodness though, Quincy!
Thanks for the comment Greg but yes, imitate. All of the Masters of music and even the innovators at one point imitated their idols. For example, Tony Williams talks about how he learned everything that Max roach and Art Blakey played on albums. John Coltrane wanted to sound just like Charlie Parker (on alto) and Lester Young before he became “John Coltrane”. Miles Davis learned everything Dizzy Gillespie play before getting to his own sound. These are our innovators of music and yet they too went through an imitation phase. It’s just a part of the path to greatness that is proven. Now of course if you’re not trying to sound great, then you can do whatever you want. Remember this is just a phase. At some point we have to move on and try and innovate and create something for ourself.
Great conversation topic! Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins turned my young brain onto this decades ago and it really helped. In the 90s so many of my crew were focused on being "new" and ignoring where all the music has came from. We all wanted to discard the current sounds and blaze new territory, but I learned that we are a combination of our influences. I used to not see how my hip hop or grunge experiences, or even my grandparents AM kitchen radio, are part of my sound today. Diving DEEPER into my influences, and combining that with practicing the fundamentals ad nauseam contributes to new ground in my improvisation. So imitation perhaps as practice, but not as pursuit.
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--------Lesson Time Stamps---------
00:00 - Blushda Playing Intro
00:32 - Welcome
00:52 - Lesson Break Down
02:45 - Level TRICKY: Step 1
03:59 - Level TRICKY: Step 2
05:15 - Level TRICKY: Step 3
06:55 - Bebop Phrases for YOU
07:24 - Level HARD: Step 1
09:33 - Level HARD: Step 2
12:34 - Level HARD: Step 3
16:51 - Level DAMN HARD: Step 1
19:37 - Level DAMN HARD: Step 2
22:05 - Level DAMN HARD: Step 3
25:12 - Closing Remarks
These bebop phrases are really happening and well worth the $13. I have been trying to build up my vocabulary with transcribing and will continue to do so but feels like I hit the jackpot here. These feel really good and are easy to play/absorb and make them my own. Thanks Quincy, I so appreciate your channel.
THIS is the stuff that makes a musician. Goooood stuff, Quincy 🏆🙂
BIG up Rob Brown! Love your content as well! Thanks for everything. Also, Quincy is crushin' as per usual. BIG UP BOTH of y'all.
I love you Rob .. I got most of your great vedios... I love you from Egypt
Oh man! Brother Beatdown, I appreciate you "stopping by" and sharing your kind words. Big fan of all of everything you do as well! We should collaborate on something sometime. Much respect to you Rob👊🏾.
This lesson gets better and better each time I go through it !
This channel is my new go to. Professor Davis is what great teaching looks like. Thanks!
That's very kind of you J Phifer. Glad my lessons help!
I knew this would be a curve ball , in only 3 views I am doing things that I could not , with ease ! This a very important game changer !
Your style can fit any style. Great display on Art Blakey, Max Roach, Bill Stewert, and master of brushes Greg Hutchinson is incredible!
Oh man, the funk thing not being swing... THANK YOU for saying that. Not that there can't be swing in funk, but they're two different things.
Thanks
Great lesson and very detailing description on how you perform all these excersises thank you a lot really.
You keep knocking it out of the park with these lessons Q! I've been doing this type of metronome practice since early last year and it has really helped me identify my weaknesses. I generally rushed a lot in the past but this kind of practice really made me more aware of my pulse and tempo. Thanks for showing how you get the click in the right place in your head before starting. Not many videos tell you how to go about doing that part yet it's crucial. Awesome and thanks!
I appreciate your kind words Neal. Glad you enjoyed the lesson my friend.
I would love it if all musicians had a metronome routine. I play free improv and the music itself is pretty squirrely by nature, but I feel like the freeness of it is about finding new territory at the fringes of music, not just making noise. Music is like a martial art to me, there is constant growth and increasing awareness of the subtleties that can really only happen with invested time. I'm always blown away by people that don't "study", lol. Maybe I'm a jerk, though! I get excited about what can happen with the entire band, not just my own playing. That's why I watch channels like this. 🥁
Right on!
I learn something every time you put out a video
Very happy to hear that Dimitri:)
Love this, Q! Thank you! Great exercises. Nothing like feeling those triplets land in the right place (or being convinced your metronome is broken when they don’t)
Absolutely Roc!
Thanks Quincy. This is a very valuable skill for all musicians to hone. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for this lesson, I'm working on being comfortable with playing live with a click/metronome. I needed this one for sure
Glad it was helpful!
Quincy, wow you just make playing these lessons so fun and relaxed! Excellent!
All about having fun for sure Graham:)
I've been practicing with the metronome off the beat for a few years (thanks to The 80/20 Drummer!).
It has improved my time more than anything in decades.
Thanks, Mr. Davis!
Awesome to hear!
Thank You Sir!👏Those are very useful exercises. One can also combine those excersises after learning them.
One cool exercise is a metric modulation thing I picked up from a Harry Miree video. It's basically a 3 against 4 feel, where you accent beats 1 and 3 around a nice medium tempo (115-ish) in 4/4 and you play it as a 3/4 by placing the click in your head as beats 1 and the and of 2 while you play a steady half time beat in 4/4 so it sounds a bit like a clave.
Tempo is a great metronome app because it allows you to accent or silence beats as well as try different subdivisions.
Awesome video once again Q! :)
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I’ll try it out.
Wow. Thanks! Had my grade 11 rhythm section do this. They got up to level 6!
Very impressive! Tell them to come to UNT:)
Thank you Quincy, these are all great. I was watching a Bill Stewart interview recently, he talks about using the metronome just to find a tempo, play for 10 minutes without it, then come back to see if the time moved. YIKES! Talk about eye opening..
Yes!! That's awesome too.
Excellent presentation Quincy on ☝️
Glad you enjoyed it Vic!
Thank you very much for the lesson sir. Love this challenge.
I will try my best ( this is very hard for me).
when my financial situation improves, the first thing i will do will be to book some private lessons with you. I could listen to you for hours, what a likeable person.
Thank you for all your time you Teaching us with so much Heart! Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland
Danke fur dein nett Werten mein freud:)
Oh My God…What an eye opener Quincy. A wise man once said, practice does not make perfect; Perfect practice makes perfect. Thanks to this presentation I am now in for a lot of perfect practice…Thank You!
Perfect! Thanks for watching:)
Amazing lesson, Q!
Thank you Pat!
Thank you very much, Quincy. I previously knew various ways to practice time with a metronome (some even "very hard"). But here you showed at a "difficult level" an excellent and important exercise - how to play with "up beat" before different quarter notes.
This is exactly the exercise that cures us from the tendency to gradually accelerate. After all, different drummers have this happening at different times. Someone can accelerate from the very beginning (from the second quarter note), and the other is able to play a couple of bar evenly and then begin to accelerate. Here we study to be real stable.
Absolutely Ivan! Thanks for watching.
Awesome video Quincy, gives me some ideas I’ve never thought of before. One situation I can think of where you swing but the metronome would not swing, would be a double time feel, like in some sections of “Blue Train”
Yeah that’s a good example Christian. Thanks!
Solid! Thanks Q.
Dandy!! Thanks big papi❤️
Making metronome practice fun! Thanks, Q :)
You bet Tom!
Great lesson! I love the idea of zooming in and out of where that click hits. Like having the click hit every 2 bars, or zooming in like how you are doing.
Awesome Chris. Thanks for watching!
Great, I loved it. I am very grateful for the luck of having videos like this in front of me.
Thank you and encouragement for everything you undertake.
A very warm greeting.
You're worth a lot Quincy.
Congratulations
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
You are so welcome brother brother Joe!
Quincy, I've been playing drums my entire life and I only wish I would have had a mentor/coach, like yourself, when I was a kid! You're such a badass and I really appreciate how you breakdown your lessons and you are truly a blessing to all drummers!
I sincerely appreciate your words Michael. Cheers!
great vibe in this! thanks for the great info
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
This is absolutely GREAT!!! Can't wait to get home & take the challenge!
Hope you're enjoying it as much as I have been!
Another top drawer lesson from the guv’nor…thank you, Quincy!😎
The guv'nor. I could get used to that:) I appreciate you Mikey!
This one was just amazing friend. Thanks for sharing it 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it Omar!
Also something that helps me with these exercises is to “ audiate “ the sound of a rhythm section - For example , on upbeat 8ths, I hear in my mind a reggae guitar part.
That's super helpful to me as well. Thanks for sharing!
Interesting!
Brilliant way of getting feel with the metronome in fact making playing with the metronome fun.A really useful tool.Its going to really help me with some really challenging ideas my new band are throwing at me.... Thanks for your wonderful teaching as always Quincy 👌🥁
Rock on Pete!
Bravo!
Grazie!
Thanks so much for this. I'm going to give this a shot and see how far I can get before the wheels fall off of the track. Probably won't be too long! This is a great lesson and will give me a great way to work on my timing.
Have fun Roland!
@@drumqtips Haha... I've been working on it and getting there, but when you flip the metronome pulse on the "ah", I get lost. My brain just stops working and I can't hear it or feel it (yet). Amazing that not only can you do it effortlessly, but that you carry on a conversation at the same time.
Great lesson! Thx!
My pleasure!
Amazing lesson :) cant wait to try it
Hope you enjoy it Ewa!
Cool thing about these exercises, you can do them anywhere- taping on you your knees while waiting at the airport for example.
Exactly!!
Awesome lesson, thank you Quincy!
My pleasure!
GREAT LESSON
I DO THIS DISPLACEMENT OR DROP BEAT LESSON WITH THE ENTIRE DRUM LINE.
THEY HATE THIS LESSON!!!
BUT THEY HAVE FUN
Oh nice!! I'd love to hear that.
Great lesson as usual! Sadly, the metronome is my best friend.
Sorry to hear that. My condolences. LOL!!
Amazing exercices! Worked on almost all of them already and I can tell that it's a tough workout for the feeling and the groove!
I will try level 2 and 3 with 2 or 1 partials per mesure as I never did that!
Btw I also do the level 1 "step 4, 5 and 6": 1 beat per 2, 4 or 8 mesures, normally I place it on the 4 of the 1st measure. (Got it from Jochen Rückert videos).
Thank you as always!!!
You're on your game brother Gonell:) I will check out Jochen's application for sure. Always good to hear you man!
That's practicing macro time, Joel! Great way to internalize hearing the longer phrase. One thing, though? Why do you put the click on the 4th beat of the 1st measure? Might be cool to place the click on the 4th beat of the 2nd, 4th, or 8th measure. Or the 3rd beat of every 2nd, 4th, or 8th measure. That way, you are playing towards a target with your phrases. That's actually how Jochen taught it in that time feel video, good fine, btw! Just an idea. Drummers and bassists have the best metronome exercises. Everyone else has to take note. As a guitarist, I know that I do :)
@@pickinstone you're damn right! Placing the metronome on the 4th beat of the 4th measure (or 2nd or 8th)!!! That's the real deal!!! 🙏🙏🙏
I also do another practice with the metronome. I set it on 10 - 20, and either get a beat every 2th measure, or a beat every 4th measure. The last one would mean tempo 160 with a beat every 4 measure. I'm gonna practice the hard and damn hard you showed here. Thankyou.
That's awesome. I'll try that way out. Thanks for sharing!
let's goooo :) thanks for another Q-tip. BTW. I've got question, would you recommend some classic bebop albums to listing and learn from the greats? Just few, to be able to get really deep into that
Greetings
Let's go BOOM!!! Check out Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker and also Wynton Kelly's Kelly at Midnight 9 (Philly Joe on drums). Those are two of my all time favorite albums! Thanks for watching as always my man👊🏾
@@drumqtips thank you for your great work you do for all of us (drummers) and thanks for albums. I know what to do tonight :) greetings !
Hi Quincy! Please make your intros longer! That sounded so good!! Now to the lesson! Thank you as always for doing this! BTW Smalls is coming up this month right? Rita
Noted but I'm shy Ms. Rita. lol!! But I'll play a little longer for you:) I'm playing Smalls next in May.
@@drumqtips I was trying to find that video of you doing New Orleans 2nd line snare drum solo. Maybe it's gone? That was so good! Maybe down the road you could do another lesson on that. I love that stuff and you played it perfect! By the way this solo from 2012 was wonderful! Rita th-cam.com/video/T1Sib4JNH10/w-d-xo.html
Hi Sir, would just like to ask the brand and diameter of the ride cymbal you are using. Thank you very much for teaching us how to use metronome in different ways...
Check out the description Eric 👍🏻
My pleasure Eric!
Thank you M Q to make the metronome less my ennemy 😄 Please let me know if you use metronome in headphones or speakers when you practice with it ? what reference of metronome do you use ?
Thank you master ✌
I use the met in headphones AND in speakers. I change it up Maleky:)
@@drumqtips thank you ! So you use met in both headphones and speakers depending on the volume that you want to use when you practice ? Thank you !
I don't know about you, but this is the easy stuff.
Easy for some, hard for others:)
Excellent lesson Professor Q! I just have one comment and question. Isn't it everyone's responsibility in the band to know where "1" is? Especially in the jazz context i always felt it was a cop out by the other musicians if they rely totally on the drummer to "keep the time." Im not saying the drummer should be going off at a whim in a tune, but if it's appropriate and in good taste to "step out" a bit i need to feel confident that they won't fall apart. Especially relating to tading 4s 8s or whatever. To expect otherwise seems to me to retrict a drummers creativity. Just as it's important for them to expect us as drummers to know song form and basic tennents of melody and harmony it's important for them to know, participate and "feel" the time as well. Is that wrong? Thnx🥁✌
I totally agree with you, however, if we don't practice with the idea of taking full responsibility for the time, we could easily get bulldozed by musicians we play with who don't have good time. But when we get to play in a situation where everyone is really taking responsibility for the time AND groove, FREEDOM and MAGIC! You know what I mean? Thanks for your thoughts BG.
@@drumqtips for sure Q. practicing with that mindset is great advice! Thnx
I have an even more difficult exercise than that!!! Play every exercise from the video but make the metronome skip one beat. Then make it play for two beats stop for two beats. Then 4/4, 8/8, 12/12 for the blues form, 32/32 for the aaba form etc. That's a extremely difficult exercise specially when the gap gets bigger
Oh cool! I will try that. Thanks for sharing John.
muy bueno Quincy ,pero me gustaria que tuvieran subtitulos porque no entiendo que dises no hablo ingles me pierdo muchas cosas gracias igual siempre algo aprendo de como tocar jazz ,que es la mejor musica del mundo saludos
Gracias for watching Fernando!
Homework for me and for being yourself
Using the metronome in different way's will help you improve alot better.
What metronome app gives the ability to put pulse on any beat. All I’ve used and using don’t have that capability.
Ooops… Looks like my metronome pro can do this. ✌️
@@rondeangelis7384 Quincy is doing the offset himself. The metronome is playing at the same rate, but he hears the click as an offbeat and starts playing in between metronome clicks to put the metronome on a different pulse. Also look up 'Benny Greb Time Awareness Using of the Click' on TH-cam, he talks about it a little more and provides a demonstration moving the pulse around without stopping the metronome.
Side note: I am working on a metronome app (it'll be free) that will help with this kind of pulse shifting, but it's not quite ready yet unfortunately.
Thanks to both of you for watching. Metronome practice will set you free! Best of luck with the metronome app. I look forward to checking it out!
@@drumqtips Thank you for making such amazing tutorials. And I'd love for you to check out the metronome app when it's ready. :)
Love your positive message - but imitate? Noooooooo! Please beginners/intermediate and all level players, do NOT imitate. Maybe a small child drummer needs to imitate. A young adult or adult player takes inspiration-even plays exactly what great drummers do (in your own way), then RECREATE. Debatable, it’s a deep subject, but important to my heart. Thanks for all the goodness though, Quincy!
Thanks for the comment Greg but yes, imitate. All of the Masters of music and even the innovators at one point imitated their idols. For example, Tony Williams talks about how he learned everything that Max roach and Art Blakey played on albums. John Coltrane wanted to sound just like Charlie Parker (on alto) and Lester Young before he became “John Coltrane”. Miles Davis learned everything Dizzy Gillespie play before getting to his own sound. These are our innovators of music and yet they too went through an imitation phase. It’s just a part of the path to greatness that is proven. Now of course if you’re not trying to sound great, then you can do whatever you want. Remember this is just a phase. At some point we have to move on and try and innovate and create something for ourself.
Great conversation topic! Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins turned my young brain onto this decades ago and it really helped. In the 90s so many of my crew were focused on being "new" and ignoring where all the music has came from. We all wanted to discard the current sounds and blaze new territory, but I learned that we are a combination of our influences. I used to not see how my hip hop or grunge experiences, or even my grandparents AM kitchen radio, are part of my sound today. Diving DEEPER into my influences, and combining that with practicing the fundamentals ad nauseam contributes to new ground in my improvisation. So imitation perhaps as practice, but not as pursuit.
Ha, it really isn't easy talking and doing all that stuff 😂🙏
You're right! I'm getting better at it because of these lessons but I got a ways to go. LOL!
2e or not 2e ,, that is the question … I know , I should be shunned for that joke . Sorry
All dad jokes welcome brother Mark:) You should be rewarded for that one🤣🤣