"The New Breed" by Gary Chester explained!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I will explain how I practice using the New Breed method, including how to vocalize the parts and how to keep track of your progress. The book is a total game changer, and I hope this video helps explain how to best use it.
Had this book in my book shelf for 10 years, finally understand how to use it, thank you!
Awesome! Dust it off, and start off slow...it's awkward at first but then the benefits roll in.
Finally!!!! Someone explains this CORRECTLY!!!! Thanks for the video!
I purchased this book several years ago and ditched it because I never fully understood how to use it until I found your video, today I consider this the BEST DRUM BOOK EVER!
I'm so glad! Please keep me updated on your progress!
Thank you for making this video! I read through the introduction as well and was still confused on how to work through it properly
Hi Jessica, Thankful for Mike's video too! This may help as well and it is also a place you can post to ask the direct students of Gary's as well. Hope this also helps in any way. th-cam.com/play/PLsObJCQ2_Hb46uA4VQL-CHx8aRHBUryz6.html
One of my favorite books !! Thanks
Reading through the comments you can sense the appreciation for your taking the time to explain the importance of singing. At first I found singing challenging/frustrating until you start to hear the parts work together as one unit . . . Then it starts to “sing”.
This is exactly what i was looking for. Thank you Mike.
I'm so glad! Thanks for watching!
Love this book & Gary's playing. You & Karl Latham have the same backdrop in your clips.
Great video on how to use the book! I just got the book out this morning, gave it a go a few times over the years but this time I will try to stick to it!
Awesome description!!
Big thanks!!
Perfect video You are a great teacher and your enthusiasm for the book is contagious.
Great explanation. Thanks for this.
Glad it was helpful!
Just been rewatching the Back to Basics Weckl dvd. Definitely starting this one. It's time. Awesome explanation man!
It is time! Good luck!
Thanks Mike, it was helpful 🙏🥁🍺
A great explanation! I've been using New Breed 1 and New Breed 2 since they came out. Both are amazing.
Great to hear! I haven't looked into NB 2 yet...one day! What does 2 have?
super helpful man thank you!
So incredibly helpful! Thanks for taking the time to explain it so well.
Thank you for the video. I've had this book for 15 years and just crack it open today. Your video has really put me on what this book is to do for my playing. Thank you. You're very good at teaching.
Shon, Mikes video is so helpful! We are very thankful to him. This series was just launched the other day which may help too. Let us know if it does! th-cam.com/play/PLsObJCQ2_Hb46uA4VQL-CHx8aRHBUryz6.html
Thanks so much!
Thank you I just bought this book and you helped me understand it better
awesome thank you for explaining this!
My pleasure! Happy drumming :)
Thanks - clearly a great system & now I finally be able to use the otherwise impenetrable book.
Well done buddy I'll give it a try
I too studied with Gary for years leading up to his death. Great explanation and I appreciate your emphasis of the singing. It sets the book apart. I find today’s young adult students are too embarrassed to add the voice. Nonetheless, as you know, the awareness gained from Gary’s systems is applicable globally (so to speak) in your playing. Great tutorial !
Great video! appreciate it!
Having studied with Gary back in the 80's for 5 years I gotta say this is a very good explanation of Gary's systems. Just one thing to add Mike. Once you got a system under your belt Gary would make you go through that system reversing your hands. In other words if you were right handed you had to also play the system left handed. Your feet stayed the same though.
At what tempo do you have to play them systems in order to consider they're under your belt? Is it just at 60bpm or you have to pick it up to being fast to consider you can now reverse your hands?
@@Kostis_playsDrums Well by "under your belt" I don't necessarily mean fast as much as comfortable. You yourself would know when something feels nice when you're playing a rhythm. Some of these patterns feel better or sit better at fast tempos, some at slow tempos, some in between. The idea is to personalize these not generalize them. there's no BPM quota to make. When I was with Gary I never cranked any of these patterns I was very concerned about things landing in the correct place at the right time and with all limbs working relaxed so I could move accents around in the patterns and play a 2, 4 or 8 bar fills and come back to the pattern right in sync with the click track. That's "under your belt". The goal is not speed, it's about understanding the space between things in relation to the time. If you can comfortably do that you will be able to raise the click track to where you yourself normally play fast things.
@@macvoutie that is totally clear! thank you for your reply. BTW, I love the book.
@@Kostis_playsDrums Yes the book is great but when I was studying with Gary he hadn't finished the book (He did have the systems and we played those and they became the book) the books he used was Ralph Pace's "Variations of Drumming" and Al Humphrey's "Advanced Rock". The Pace book is also great to use for hand development.
@@macvoutie I have heard about Ralph's book, but couldn't find it anywhere.
Thank you so much Mike for that explanation. I've had that book on my shelf and haven't been able to go through it because I couldn't understand the instructions.
Glad it was helpful! It was showed to me this way my a private teacher, and thought I'd share the love!
Thank you. Simple and clear.
I started to study drumming in a semi-pro manner so I got me a teacher to help me learn the basics and he introduced me to this book. Although there are a lot of tecniques to cover in the months to come, I'm constantly looking for ways to practice and study or how to use the books I already own. Thank you for this video, you made it look easier and shed a light on the proper way to practice. Thank you, I'll make sure to share your video!
Thanks so much, glad it was helpful!
Saludos desde Argentina!
You did more than a fantastic job demonstrating that. Thank You. I WILL BE ORDERING MY BOOK AND DOING JUST LIKE YOU SAID.
🙏 🙏 AMEN 🙏 🙏
Fantastic! Please keep me updated with your progress and be sure to write down your practice! Super important!
@@mikemckeedrummer I just got the book. And I just re watched the video. Ya, I was doing it all wrong for like a week. Ha Ha.
My drum tutor has just introduced me to this book. It should certainly improve my independence & coordination.
He suggested I watch some of the TH-cam clips on it, which is how I found this. Thanks for a great vid. You've got another subscriber :)
This video of Mike McKee's helped push me over the edge, in a great way, to finally release Gary's new video series! Thank you, Mike! Over the years and continuing there are more emails than I can keep up with requesting NB teachers they can study with and videos from those who studied with Gary. In this way everyone can experience the study as intended with the NB's many moving parts and purposes showing how it was originally taught w/ strength on the development of the drummer. After years I was able to release the series just the other day! So to you, Mike... thank you for kicking my ass into gear! I am so proud of this creation and thrilled to be able to offer looks into the depth of what is offered from these systems and the teachings living very large in each and every one of us! Two videos released on the series and more to come. Thank you for making THIS video here, Mike! I shared your video on facebook in May and it was really received well! I am thankful you are an innovator, saw a hole and filled it! You rock. Here is the link to subscribe and watch to anyone intrerested! th-cam.com/play/PLsObJCQ2_Hb46uA4VQL-CHx8aRHBUryz6.html
It will also open up musicality like you never imagined....Please stick with it!
Hey! Wow..I like the singing section. Nice addition,the individual gets a complete workout. Up to this point I was only singing quarter notes. Thanks.
It's such a workout...the "&'s" are my favorite :)
Thank you a lot, this is great for my studies!
So glad to hear that!
Great breakdown thank you man - been looking for an explanation for ages too!
Sure thing! Happy drumming :)
I’ve just purchased the book and even though I’ve read the introductions I wondered how I would put it all together and like all classic drum books looks like I’ll be at this for many years! Great exploring thanks
Digging that 9:30 Club shirt!
Well done Mike, thank you!
Thank you
This is gold! Thanks for sharing your approach!
Thank you so much!
Great breakdown!
Excellent looking forward to getting into the systems hopefully I can pass some of the book on👍
Interesting. I'm not new to singing and drumming, but now I understand the concept of what I saw beforehand. An old drum mentor of mine, he and I never got the chance to go through this. But I know I would have fun with this. Singing and drumming--there's nothing like it. I learned it when studying The Art of Bop Drumming by John Riley.
How you explained it here Mike was exceptional. I wonder. Could this be emulated just on the drum pad? I tend to air drum when not around a kit and lack access to a kit for practice purposes right now.
Great video. It's definitely a game changer.
Really helpful thx
Thanks Man !
Thank you, it was very clear!
excellent
Great explanation, thank you!
Two quick questions:
1) why not just use the ride for RH in the example you show, in absence of a 2nd HH?
2) do you ever speed up past 60bpm?
Understand how brilliant this book is . But knowing i could spend a lifetime just on this book, how fo i fit all the other drumming bibles in ? Namely : stick control by stone
Accents and rebounds by stone
Syncopation by reed
And now new breed 😮
It can actually have the opposite effect and make one feel daunted by it all 😢
Any tips ? Please 🙏
Awesome.
Hey Mike, great breakdown, I have gone through this book a couple times in the last 20 years or so and I like the additional singing steps.
It seems my biggest issue has been when to proceed,.. I can say I have spent almost a year or so first time I worked through it and feeling comfortable with the systems and melodies but not knowing when to move on to next system, as in other method books what is a good formula to know when you milked it long enough. I feel almost unproductive as you know you could spend a lot of time fine tuning but not progressing spinning wheels. Hopefully this makes sense.
Hey rich, it is a great breakdown! If you wanted to check out more a new video series was just released on Gary's youtube channel I thought you may want to check out after reading what you wrote - and all so valid. Maybe it helps? Cheers th-cam.com/play/PLsObJCQ2_Hb46uA4VQL-CHx8aRHBUryz6.html
Thanks for the help!
Great vid! When you say it took you 13:00 to complete, is that the same system with all the different vocalisations?
Thanks! It takes about 13: 00 for one system page with the different vocalisations. There around around 30 pages per system. Hope this helps!
WOW, I cannot thank you enough for this. I have been completely lost with this book for a week now. Nowhere in this book does it say to play the melody with the limb not used in the system? Either that or I missed it completely. I read the whole introduction a few times and was still lost as to which hand to take off the hi hat and hit the snare with on system 1 and melody 1-a but now I see I should be plying the bass drum. I guess with the very 1st one I am only using 2 hands I really do not do anything with the left foot?
Thanks so much! So full disclosure my teacher showed me how to use it, and was in the same boat re: the intro...it’s not super clear without a video or person explaining it. The e/ah and the & counts are more or less a custom addition to the program, not sure if it’s new breed cannon or not.
I love your full disclosure, Mike, and really well done! This may help too, motodrummer and can likely answer all new breed cannons, too :) The system's a bitch but worth every stick throw. Hope this can help? th-cam.com/play/PLsObJCQ2_Hb46uA4VQL-CHx8aRHBUryz6.html
@motodrummer I’m glad you can understand it now. If you look at each one of the systems, the limb that is supposed to play the melody (from the melody pages) is indicated. Just thought I would let you know. Happy drumming!
Great explanation Mike. I'm always curious to research how students and myself either get aid from singing/counting out loud or if it's actually just making things harder. Were you always into counting out loud when you started playing drums? I also believe that counting numbers versus producing a random sound can aleady be very different in difficulty (even if it's just for the quarter notes). As I'm Dutch I will never smoothly pronounce '1 e and a ' for instance. In Dutch you count ''1tenete 2tenete 3tenete 4tenete''
Fascinating stuff happening in a drummers brain...
Thanks Daniel! I NEVER sang or anything while playing. Teachers were always telling me to count out loud, but I never did :) What are the Dutch vocalizings for those subdivisions? A while back someone told me that singing drummers (Don Henley, Phil Collins) always had the best feel and time, since they were not only steering the ship of the groove but also leading the melody...and in pop music, melody ALWAYS is the true leader :)
Thanks man great teacher the man.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Very thorough explanation.
I’ve been working through this book for a couple months now and I’m on system three. I have not been doing the singing part but I’m going to come back and include the singing now.
When you are doing the singing, are you also playing the melody with the right foot on the bass drum at the same time?
Yes! That makes me so happy...the vocalizing will really help solidify the groove...REALLY getting to "know" all the subdivisions. The voice is the 5th limb!
@@mikemckeedrummer amazing concepts!
I’m going to “borrow” your key and work on that lol.
Thanks for the lesson and inspiration! You made a great video!
New Breed is in my top three books! (I can’t decide in which order). I also like Master Studies by Joe Morello and 4 Way Coordination by Marv Dahlgren & Elliot Fine.
@@mikemckeedrummerupdate: I’ve worked through all of the systems with the singing parts.
I’ve just started the advanced systems and boy are they tough!
I’m gonna keep pressing on!
2nd update: I’ve just started on the “Composite Systems” section.
This book is incredible!
Mike Master. Maestro (spanish)
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Excellent video! But what is the point of the singing? I don't have this book.
I always treated that like an open high hat, but I like this version too. It makes some dynamic differences. His drum set was completely bilateral.
Yeah, it's hard to fit two of everything in a corner...my studio isn't exactly the Ark! I think that replacing HH2 with the rim of the Floor Tom is fine, and actually is quite practical in studio/live settings.
quick question...why would you say you don't have 2 pairs of hi-hats, and why do you play the right hand on the rim and not on the snare head? it's only the left hand on the hi-hat... am i missing something? 🤔🤔🤔
I play the alternate HH part on the rim...just because it's not a HH, doesn't mean you can't treat the rim like one!
TY I loved it, I am in the last wave of Gary's students and was studying with Gary when he transitioned. I think everyone realized there aren’t drummers who studied with Gary directly breaking it down/ thanks for releasing yours and also alerting us there aren’t any! More to come from other students VIA Katrina (Gary’s daughter), we remain family to her. If there is anything specific you or anyone else would like to see or hear about for our Gary Chester Family of drummers to address, shoot an email to Garychesterthedrummer@gmail.com. This IS a system that greatly benefits having a teacher and a mentor if you can find it, as we had, so you know it’s normal to want to throw your sticks at the wall lol. THE TRUE WAY TO BEGIN A PRACTICE WITH THE NEW BREED BY GARY CHESTER IS TO PRACTICE 6 times a week for 2 HOURS A DAY AND TO GO INTO UNDERSTANDING THIS SYSTEM IS A LIFESTYLE NOT A QUICK FIX . IT WILL DELIVER TO YOU A RELATIONSHIP TO BEING A DRUMMER, YOUR KIT AND TO TIME THAT THEN CREATES A VERSATILITY VERY FEW DRUMMERS HAVE. THE NEW BREED IS PART YODA "USE THE FORCE LUKE" AND PART TAPPING YOU INTO YOUR NATURAL QUARTER NOTE. I STUDIED WITH GARY AFTER WINNING 2ND PLACE IN THE CARMINE APPICE NATIONAL DRUM BATTLE IN 1983 (7000 DRUMMERS PARTICIPATED) AND I COULD NOT BUY A REAL GIG. STUDYING WITH GARY WAS LIKE LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE! YOU HAVE TO STAY WITH IT, DON'T MOVE ON FROM A PAGE UNTIL YOU CAN GROOVE THE EXERCISE YOU ARE ON IN AN AMBIDEXTROUS MANNER SINGING ALL PARTS AND THE CLICK. IT WAS SO FAR BEYOND A DRUM BOOK OR DRUM LESSONS, IT WAS LIFE LESSONS. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS SHOOT ME A MESSAGE!
Wow what a story Karl!
Beautiful stated, Karl, and he is correct! Your video alerted me to an idea I had that is now happening so thank you! It is a little difficult to breakdown what happened when studying with my father, at least to the fullest and with words. However, I pulled together some of the students who will record what they feel is their example, be it technical, personal, and even the emotionality that being a drummer and a musician harvests when meeting your edge - which the new breed and my father def cultivated in even me as a student - not on a kit but with my voice, in the business and def as Karl said...in life for us all and as his kid. Thanks again for making this video! - Katrina Chester (check us out on facebook.com/GaryChesterTheDrummer)
What actually is the process .. suppose i play system 1. Do i have to play all the melodies with it (from I-A to V-B) using all those keys? Then repeat the same process with system 2 and so on?
Aakash Koli yup! Essentially play all of the page (melody) using system 1, singing all 6 variations (quarter notes full page, melody full page, snare hits full page, etc). Then stay with system 1 until page 23. Then move to system 2, rinse repeat. Each page takes me around 20 min to complete with few mistakes.
Awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
What is the purpose of the singing part of this method?
To understand how the author wants you to practice his material just study his instructions
I just started (back) with this book. It's not easy..... but I am sticking with it.
My question is, have you set up your kit as Gary suggested?
It's not easy, but so worth it. I don't have the kit as suggested, but I use the rim of the floor tom for HH2, etc. All the limbs are used correctly, but I do need to supplement the kit since I don't have a fully symmetrical rig :)
@@mikemckeedrummer I am 56, I remember when this book came out...I would practise 10 minutes quit and go on to something else....Big mistake....So.... I come from that train of thought better late than never....A plus side of covid, I am doing an hour a day and I am now creating some of my own systems! This book to me is one of the best books ever!
One of Gary's students says to also count the rests....I am not there yet but i WILL GET THERE!
WOAH! I love that idea...music is a combination of sound and silence. Counting the rests can only help!
I have to respectfully disagree, sir. Playing on the rim of the snare isn't described in the system. I think what Gary was looking for was the "open hi-hat" sound when the hats opened up at the same time the left hand was striking it. That's the way I was taught, anyway. I could be wrong. But thank you for sharing!
P.S. I was taught by a guy who was a student of Gary Chester. Just sayin'.
Damnnn
I realiz
book is harder than me dec 1st
“Simple enough.” 😂😂😅😬😭
I do love this however,I would never use this for drum students,this is a great way to lose a students ambition and drive,oh by the easy 930 club rules best sound there,I use syncopation book,it has a more straight forward way of teach8ng and learning
Oh yeah, it's not for beginners...BUT I have some advanced students that use this during those plateau moments