Can we take a moment to appreciate the cinematography in these videos? The camerapeople are almost as phenomenal as the musicians, they capture all of these tiny details that add to the sensations of the music -- I honestly feel like I was there just by watching.
Thank you for your kind words. Shaun was a light in this world through his music and who he was as a person. We are so honored to have been able to call him a friend. Rest in peace Shaun
“We had a travel issue with one of our drummers the week of recording for the album We Like It Here in Holland. It looked like he wouldn’t make it, so we called a drummer from Canada named Larnell Lewis to see if he could come play at the last minute. He had done 2 or 3 gigs with us, but almost all of the material for the record was new. He agreed, got on a plane two days later, learned all of the music on the flight, and landed the day of the recording session. He knew the music better than we did. It was unbelievable. Then he joined the band as one of our three steady drummers.”
“We had a travel issue with one of our drummers the week of recording for the album We Like It Here in Holland. It looked like he wouldn’t make it, so we called a drummer from Canada named Larnell Lewis to see if he could come play at the last minute. He had done 2 or 3 gigs with us, but almost all of the material for the record was new. He agreed, got on a plane two days later, learned all of the music on the flight, and landed the day of the recording session. He knew the music better than we did. It was unbelievable. Then he joined the band as one of our three steady drummers.”
And groups like Snarky Puppy are a prime example of why music education is so important. School music programs reach out and embrace a population of kids that would otherwise find school very difficult. Band kids get bullied to within an inch of their lives and music is often their big escape and savior. I guarantee you that your average high school kid hasn't heard of Snarky Puppy... but that disenfranchised and bullied band geek has. To him or her, THIS is what they aspire to be. Believe me... I know. I WAS that kid. I am 50 now and the hurt still sits there... lingering away. Listening to this makes me feel strong and damned proud to have spent my entire life playing music. Back when I was a kid, it wasn't Snarky Puppy.. it was Pat Metheny, Spyro Gyra, Maynard Ferguson and many more. I cannot say on just how many levels I absolutely ADORE this collective of musicians.
@@writesmartcopy Freelancers 1987-1992, then spent the next two decades, writing, teaching and judging and then put my marching shoes back on in my late 40s with the Kidsgrove Scouts in the UK.
I knew it 😊 Sunrisers in the UK. 85 - 98 You marched with loads of my buddies who went to Kidsgrove after Sunrisers finished. Cookie, Tez, Matt Hall (and Jeanette), Nicky, Vicky and Pete on mello - loads of 'em 👍 Sunrisers uniform was modelled on Freelancers 👌
Totally agree with you. I am 60. Been a percussionist since the age of 7. Did elementary band, middle school, high school, college, 5 years of Drum and Bugle Corps from 81-85 with the Crossmen as a snare drummer. After college I went into the Marine Corps, spent 6 months at the Armed Forces School of Music then performed with the Parris Island Marine Band for 3.5 years. After that I was a band and orchestra director for 31 years. I just retired. Many of my students have gone on to college for a music degree. It's cool when they call or text and thank me for the time they had in band or orchestra. The best years of my life have been with drumsticks in my hands or a baton. I grew up listening to everyone. My mom was a music teacher and my dad was gigging all the time although not in the music profession. I wore out the Aja album, all the Spyro Gyra we had at the time, Gino Vanelli, E,W,F , Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears. The list goes on.... Long nights at the drumset with a stack of albums to play to. I've had the pleasure of meeting many of the musicians that I so honored through those years. Seeing many of them in recent years and being able to talk music with them is a real gift. All of this thanks to outstanding directors and instructors along the way and parents who gave up so much to give my siblings and I every opportunity. My father is an old man now with dementia and Alzheimer's but still hanging on. I have his Ludwig Champagne Sparkle drums in may basement sitting next to my Yamaha Maple Custom set. I cut my teeth on those old Ludwig's and I'll never part with them. My mom played marimba in college and I have her Deagan marimba in the basement waiting to be restored. So yea. Music rules.
Wait, there's more. People who practice music for a year or more have improved brains--the corpus callosum (the part that enables left and right hameispheres to communicated with each other) gets thicker and more robust. The hearing centers also increase. That's why band kids score higher GPAs than the other students, on average. Moreover, people who engage in a wider range of intellectual activities are generally more creative and less likely to suffer from age-related dementia. If you look into the lives of most Nobel winners in the sciences, 90% of them regularly engage in the arts (think Einstein and his violin, or Feynman and his bongos). There's no shortage of great scientists and innovators who credit the humanities for inspiring their work. As I used to tell my students, there is a reason that CERN Laboratories has an artist-in-residence, and it's not just to pimp out their large hadron particle collider.
Nate werth does not get enough camera time! He is snarky puppy’s secret weapon. What an amazing percussionist! Especially at 5:21 both him and Larnell Lewis are playing 32nd notes in unison… crazyyy
@@JorisGriffioen this is amazing. This comment is 3 years old, your 3 months old reply was the first reply to this comment, and the latest reply before my comment is 3 weeks old. Damn...
got to be the single most frustrating thing abt the whole video. a killer drum-percussion dual solo(??)… & you barely see the drummer. nothing at all of the percussionist. j random ppl singing into microphones…
As great as all of this is, and I hesitate to point out any part as greater than another, bc the sum is just so phenomenal, I have to point out what is not shown on camera starting at 5:21. Both the incredible drummer AND the percussionist are playing 32nd notes in unison without breaking at all. That's just so impressive.
Well the bass also drives the beat so it's much easier to not miss a single hit. Also we cant see them at all points so if the percussionist happened to miss something but came back in on the next bass hit then it wouldnt be noticeable. My nightmare was my highschool marching band having to do 5 bass line split in 32nd notes with each bass only doing 2 32nd hits every time it was there turn, started at the 4th bass twice and ending on 2nd 1st time but second time it kept going to first and came all the way back down to 5th. It was hell.
“We had a travel issue with one of our drummers the week of recording for the album We Like It Here in Holland. It looked like he wouldn’t make it, so we called a drummer from Canada named Larnell Lewis to see if he could come play at the last minute. He had done 2 or 3 gigs with us, but almost all of the material for the record was new. He agreed, got on a plane two days later, learned all of the music on the flight, and landed the day of the recording session. He knew the music better than we did. It was unbelievable. Then he joined the band as one of our three steady drummers.”
Notable moments: 00:58 - Nate Werth hits all the things! 02:07 - Bill Laurance grooves to the music 02:56 - head move to match the music 04:17 - one of the string players comes back to Earth after that trumpet piece 05:21 - the joy on the face of the middle singer :) And obviously, throughout 00:00 - 6:52, the music!
@@clayjohnson2618 I suspect it was intentionally included in the arrangement but still it speaks to the attention to detail. Such a small thing but that bass fill is one of my fav parts
AddHazers Yes I love Reign of Kindo but Snarky is on a whole different level technically and musically. If they toured together with Lettuce and Soulive I would Kill to see those 4 bands on the bill.
@@billhargreaves7337 agreed, and this strange. The mix seems quite good to me, most other instruments are easy to hear, but for some reason I can't find the strings.
Facts tho! Nobody mentioned how big a role he played! Larnell is a monster but its physically impossible to make all those sounds at once with only 4 limbs.
My daughter's online History teacher plays this at the beginning of his class. We loved it and had to look it up. So here we are and I will be thanking him ❤
That little bridge after the trumpet solo at 4:10 before the keyboard bass kicks in might be one of the best things I've ever heard. It resolves so beautifully and makes me feel things
and since the basses on the keyboards give them space and don't play, you can see how they do an epic dance with their hands, the best part of the song
@@albertsuhett Justin is amazing on both! He actually writes a good bit of the tunes, but specifically on the solo here it is the awesome Jay Jennings!!!!
Robert O'halloran okay? I wasn't critcising or judging anyone I was just saying I find Michael League not only on the faces he pulls but because he's the one who writes and arranges most of snarky puppy's songs. Havent you ever seen him in interviews? He's absolutely in love with music
This fucking video... This fucking song... Makes my head explode every time I listen to it. The level of musicianship from everyone in the group is absolutely astounding. The flavor everyone adds with their parts and solos is so rich, on top of the already freaking cool as shit composition/arrangement. On every listen hear a new subtlety that one of the musicians has blended really well into the whole sound. Then, the experience is expertly captured by the recording engineer, and the many instrumental layers are somehow perfectly balanced by the mixing engineer. Just utterly talented people involved at every step of making this music.
This is an old comment, but I just wanted to give an example of one of those subtleties that took many listens to notice: 5:07 to 5:18, listen to the kick drum. Larnell Lewis is ridiculous.
I can never just watch this straight through because the guy at 2:56's head movements catch my attention EVERY. TIME. And then I have to rewind to watch it again. Like, the movement is so smooth, and then there's that robot-esque movement he does right before the camera cuts to the next scene... It's just so fascinating XD.
Just amazing. Kind of disappointed they didn't get the percussionist on camera during his solo. Maybe it wasn't a solo but you could hear him going nuts. 5:21.
California here and i go to dialysis three times a week. One of the technicians Darryl turned me unto this fantastic band, I bought the live double cd and have not stopped listening for a month. Time to buy more, Love this band!
Good for you! It's a blast of positive energy straight up your veins, for sure! I have times when I teeter on the brink of depression, Snarky Puppy (or Jacob Collier, also highly recommended!) always get me back from there.
Up until a couple years ago, I hadn’t heard of Snarky Puppy or Shofukan. My daughter’s high school marching band plays it as part of their stand tunes during football games. It gets stuck in my head every football season. Love it. This video is awesome- love watching a group of talented musicians who are obviously thoroughly enjoying themselves!
They don't :) In these videos the audience, the studio techs, the photograpers, everybody is in the groove, grinning with genuine pleasure and moving with it. After the music ends, there's a respectful silence and then unfettered applause - and a standing ovation for Cory Henry after Lingus. Quite the most engaged and responsive audience of any Snarky Puppy video that I've seen.
I've watched this video many times ,lots of praise in the comments, for the drums ,organ playing etc. I'd like to give a big thanks ,to the truely remarkable ,brass players ❤
so on my 1800th listening of this....... man the fucking mix is just .... awesome. Every detail, every cymbal, every intonation, beautiful mixed and balanced in stereo.
Having listened to this song for at least 8 years now, my favorite part is Nate's percussion. His lines are so intentional and adds such a nice feel and texture to the whole arrangement. He fills such a unique niche in the ensemble and he does it so tastefully.
At 5:22 they sing "pa pa paaaa pa pa pa". After the last song played at Tortona, Italy, at the end of the concert,, the public sung that piece and the band started playing Shofukan! That was epic!
Jerry Polon Well you know jazz, most of the younger folk don't have the attention span to listen to this kind of music. The 70s, for the most part, were the end of deep music.
I know of a lot of bands that have had a very musical vision from the last twenty or thirty years. That doesn't mean they have been popular although one or two have been. How about you tell me what is worthy.
2:20 I love the way Larnell has to wait (what seems like) an age to bring the stick down on the snared cymbal. When he does though, it is right on the button!
No joke, I thought the camera work focused way to much on the guitarists and trumpetists singing, rather than give Larnell and Nate their spots when they were hammering 32nd notes for 8 bars straight.
this is shofukan cool
Hahaha
LIAM jones lol Well played. And the girl at 0:36 is shofukan hot
U have aids
love u baby
Zilliath you have aids
I think it would be so cool if Snarky Puppy scored a film.
It would be freaking awesome.
+Anonymous Guy The start of it sounds like the start of a bond theme!
Anonymous Guy Assassin's Creed soundtrack
Heck yea!
Or if a film scored them :)
What an elegant trumpet solo. Not over stated. Beautiful tone.
You must be a real musician
Right out of Herb's horn!
@@hopeirakoze1678 i found the guitarist lol
That was a perfect way to describe it.
@@hopeirakoze1678 hi Hope! nice to see you here. and this is a great trumpet solo, i like the player
that drummer is a straight savage son
Yes I can immediately hear when it's him on one of the Snarky songs.
Kick drum from 5:05 to 5:20... ridiculous. Took me until the 6th or so listen to notice that gem.
x3i4n Level: black
hardest shit ive heard so far :O
Larnell Lewis is a master.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the cinematography in these videos? The camerapeople are almost as phenomenal as the musicians, they capture all of these tiny details that add to the sensations of the music -- I honestly feel like I was there just by watching.
That's Andy LaViolette for you. He has done tonnes over other videos for GroundUp now
SP is know today in all entire world because of their clips and their nice video edit. And also because of the big nice sound. It's music porn.
Tho not a glimpse of the percussionist from 2:18 onwards...Check 5:22!
Seriously, the video is what stands out to you? It's alright, but in no universe a comparison to the music
Yeah, it's good, but not showing the tasty bass lick at 5:55, and showing us the back instead is a criminal offense at least.
Goddamn, the mixing engineer did his job perfectly, every single instrument is heard so clearly
he's the real MVP
#kevinduranttear
Exceptionally well done audio mix. Kudos, invisible person.
Indeed
What about the strings?
@@sebastiannolte1201 Agreed, strings vanish in the mix
it's good to be alive when music like this exsists
yes sir
no sir
Maybe.
Do we have to do this now?
depends on the definition of being alive
So sad to have have learned that Shaun Martin passed away yesterday. A legend that will truly be missed, rest in paradise
whaaat no
@@Benjilabu That is terrible news! He was so young.
Thank you for your kind words. Shaun was a light in this world through his music and who he was as a person. We are so honored to have been able to call him a friend. Rest in peace Shaun
5:22 *Drummer's literally ripping a hole in space-time* Lets cut to everyone group chanting into their mics haha neat
Such an underrated comment uwu
They all wanted their own screen time xD
"ripping a hole in space-time" Yup, that's about the only way to describe it. I gonna use your time marker to go play it back again a few times.
You can see the film crew RUSH over there near the end of it, they realized they fucked up during lol
I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂
the way the percussionist and drummer complement each other at 5:20 is literally ridiculous, i love it
“We had a travel issue with one of our drummers the week of recording for the album We Like It Here in Holland. It looked like he wouldn’t make it, so we called a drummer from Canada named Larnell Lewis to see if he could come play at the last minute. He had done 2 or 3 gigs with us, but almost all of the material for the record was new. He agreed, got on a plane two days later, learned all of the music on the flight, and landed the day of the recording session. He knew the music better than we did. It was unbelievable. Then he joined the band as one of our three steady drummers.”
@@niemand262 Hot damn, I was thinking he was the drummer for a while ! Crazy !
insane
Aye I'm 420 likes. ^.^ lol
Larnell lewis (the drummer) is a beast. Literally learned most of the songs on this album except for two on the 7 hr flight to the recording studio
“We had a travel issue with one of our drummers the week of recording for the album We Like It Here in Holland. It looked like he wouldn’t make it, so we called a drummer from Canada named Larnell Lewis to see if he could come play at the last minute. He had done 2 or 3 gigs with us, but almost all of the material for the record was new. He agreed, got on a plane two days later, learned all of the music on the flight, and landed the day of the recording session. He knew the music better than we did. It was unbelievable. Then he joined the band as one of our three steady drummers.”
They are all beasts
@@niemand262 If you understand the skeleton, the rest of the body makes sense.
@@niemand262 holy fuck
@@joshuaflip1nice spelling, and no, he did not write this song. in the description of this video you can see that michael league wrote it
And groups like Snarky Puppy are a prime example of why music education is so important. School music programs reach out and embrace a population of kids that would otherwise find school very difficult. Band kids get bullied to within an inch of their lives and music is often their big escape and savior. I guarantee you that your average high school kid hasn't heard of Snarky Puppy... but that disenfranchised and bullied band geek has. To him or her, THIS is what they aspire to be. Believe me... I know. I WAS that kid. I am 50 now and the hurt still sits there... lingering away. Listening to this makes me feel strong and damned proud to have spent my entire life playing music. Back when I was a kid, it wasn't Snarky Puppy.. it was Pat Metheny, Spyro Gyra, Maynard Ferguson and many more. I cannot say on just how many levels I absolutely ADORE this collective of musicians.
You sound like a guy who went on to drum corps :-)
@@writesmartcopy Freelancers 1987-1992, then spent the next two decades, writing, teaching and judging and then put my marching shoes back on in my late 40s with the Kidsgrove Scouts in the UK.
I knew it 😊
Sunrisers in the UK. 85 - 98
You marched with loads of my buddies who went to Kidsgrove after Sunrisers finished.
Cookie, Tez, Matt Hall (and Jeanette), Nicky, Vicky and Pete on mello - loads of 'em 👍
Sunrisers uniform was modelled on Freelancers 👌
Totally agree with you. I am 60. Been a percussionist since the age of 7. Did elementary band, middle school, high school, college, 5 years of Drum and Bugle Corps from 81-85 with the Crossmen as a snare drummer. After college I went into the Marine Corps, spent 6 months at the Armed Forces School of Music then performed with the Parris Island Marine Band for 3.5 years. After that I was a band and orchestra director for 31 years. I just retired. Many of my students have gone on to college for a music degree. It's cool when they call or text and thank me for the time they had in band or orchestra. The best years of my life have been with drumsticks in my hands or a baton. I grew up listening to everyone. My mom was a music teacher and my dad was gigging all the time although not in the music profession. I wore out the Aja album, all the Spyro Gyra we had at the time, Gino Vanelli, E,W,F , Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears. The list goes on.... Long nights at the drumset with a stack of albums to play to. I've had the pleasure of meeting many of the musicians that I so honored through those years. Seeing many of them in recent years and being able to talk music with them is a real gift. All of this thanks to outstanding directors and instructors along the way and parents who gave up so much to give my siblings and I every opportunity. My father is an old man now with dementia and Alzheimer's but still hanging on. I have his Ludwig Champagne Sparkle drums in may basement sitting next to my Yamaha Maple Custom set. I cut my teeth on those old Ludwig's and I'll never part with them. My mom played marimba in college and I have her Deagan marimba in the basement waiting to be restored. So yea. Music rules.
Wait, there's more.
People who practice music for a year or more have improved brains--the corpus callosum (the part that enables left and right hameispheres to communicated with each other) gets thicker and more robust. The hearing centers also increase. That's why band kids score higher GPAs than the other students, on average.
Moreover, people who engage in a wider range of intellectual activities are generally more creative and less likely to suffer from age-related dementia. If you look into the lives of most Nobel winners in the sciences, 90% of them regularly engage in the arts (think Einstein and his violin, or Feynman and his bongos). There's no shortage of great scientists and innovators who credit the humanities for inspiring their work. As I used to tell my students, there is a reason that CERN Laboratories has an artist-in-residence, and it's not just to pimp out their large hadron particle collider.
*Normal people watching this:* 2:56
*Musicians watching this:* 0:44
*Me throughout the whole video:* 3:12
these comments are giving me life
@@Jakenm-qq6de I’m so glad😂❣️
HA
Hahaha nice. Gave me a chuckle 🤣
Michael League is super expressive , its funny how he is making faces to the soloist all the time
most underrated thing on this video is the shape of the nose at 1:32. such great curvature.
He was actually the designer of the Concorde!
Wowwww..this comment has made my entire 2020 😂😂😂
I saw that
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought that.
Just a little mad that I couldn’t really listen until I saw the nose bc this comment.
The Cellist's facial expressions is my favourite thing about this video 💕
Who is she?
@@justinteal3893 Sussane Rosmolen
I'm glad someone else noticed... felt like she was looking right at me. Pretty sure we're gonna get married now.
Oh, she's the only one who made me forget what I heard for a second. Totally in love...
She's the main character
I just noticed that those people at 6:22 are applauding in a 4:3 polyrhythm!
HeXe DeZee just pass some butter to them godammit
I saw them live on Thursday and they had the audience clap in a 3/4 polyrhythm because it was in one of the songs
how do u even pay attention to a detail like that holy shit.
pass the god damn butter indeed!!!!!
lmfao
Theres always one guy that claps louder than the others. And then theres ppl like me, who clap polyrythms to that becuse why not.
1:26 "-hmm. A hint of strawberry, if I'm not mistaken?"
hahah underratd comment
Can't do that with my instrument.
Comment win.
THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT
AAHHAHAHHHAHHAHH
Nate werth does not get enough camera time! He is snarky puppy’s secret weapon. What an amazing percussionist! Especially at 5:21 both him and Larnell Lewis are playing 32nd notes in unison… crazyyy
Oh yeah.
Kind of a crime that they don't have the cameras on them for that segment
*16th notes*
Truly agree mate
I believe he marched snare for the drum corps SCV (Santa Clara Vanguard)
Michael Leagues job description:
1. Play bass
2. Constantly make faces at soloist
Hahahah
Reminds me of a drummer friend of mine. I have yet to see a picture of him playing without him making a weird face.
You missed out on composing these gems😍
@@JorisGriffioen this is amazing. This comment is 3 years old, your 3 months old reply was the first reply to this comment, and the latest reply before my comment is 3 weeks old. Damn...
@@theramatube and I just drank 3 glasses of water
Man as awesome as this is, not getting a single shot for Nate during the unwrapping of the universe in 5:20 is just plain criminal.
got to be the single most frustrating thing abt the whole video. a killer drum-percussion dual solo(??)… & you barely see the drummer. nothing at all of the percussionist. j random ppl singing into microphones…
@@josephrohrbach1588damn u dont gotta call them random😂 they ain't the camera person lol
There's not enough hype about that trumpet solo.
Dude, it literally takes you into another world while listening to it
Further, I suggest that "Thin Air" would be a sick name for a jazz trumpet album
It’s special indeed but it’s real power is based in it’s framing by such an adept band.
Fantastic trumpet!!!!
i hereby voice my appreciation for otherworldly trumpet solo. Such tone. Miles would approve.
"We Like It Here" is 10 years old. And still so fresh, Snarky Puppy is so amazing.
Holy cow that bass fill at 5:55
2:56 This guy looks like he's enjoying the music while getting an interesting business proposal from a Colombian drug lord.
Very underrated comment
I'm dead 😂
This is something that I have no idea about but I 100% agree
The fact that he is a ginger makes it funnier
LoL 😆😆😆
As great as all of this is, and I hesitate to point out any part as greater than another, bc the sum is just so phenomenal, I have to point out what is not shown on camera starting at 5:21. Both the incredible drummer AND the percussionist are playing 32nd notes in unison without breaking at all. That's just so impressive.
It's just glorious. And it drives nonstop right into the big explosion.
Well the bass also drives the beat so it's much easier to not miss a single hit. Also we cant see them at all points so if the percussionist happened to miss something but came back in on the next bass hit then it wouldnt be noticeable. My nightmare was my highschool marching band having to do 5 bass line split in 32nd notes with each bass only doing 2 32nd hits every time it was there turn, started at the 4th bass twice and ending on 2nd 1st time but second time it kept going to first and came all the way back down to 5th. It was hell.
Larnell starts it all at about 4:36 with the incredible hi hat work
Yeah that was pretty awesome
“We had a travel issue with one of our drummers the week of recording for the album We Like It Here in Holland. It looked like he wouldn’t make it, so we called a drummer from Canada named Larnell Lewis to see if he could come play at the last minute. He had done 2 or 3 gigs with us, but almost all of the material for the record was new. He agreed, got on a plane two days later, learned all of the music on the flight, and landed the day of the recording session. He knew the music better than we did. It was unbelievable. Then he joined the band as one of our three steady drummers.”
Notable moments:
00:58 - Nate Werth hits all the things!
02:07 - Bill Laurance grooves to the music
02:56 - head move to match the music
04:17 - one of the string players comes back to Earth after that trumpet piece
05:21 - the joy on the face of the middle singer :)
And obviously, throughout 00:00 - 6:52, the music!
Mesingel Empericae You forgot one of the most notable moments : Michael League tearing through everything with that bass run @ 5:55
0:58 the guy on the back though looks like he's been grounded
i guess, Nate had to rescue himself because of bad timing:-)
1:28 the way he looks at his sax lolll
5:22 The destruction of the space-fabric from that drummer.
That transition at 2:25 is supremely sexy. The bass line, the minimal drums, the suave trumpet solo. My goodness. It's perfection.
Word
this!!
I love how Shaun and Cory stop and do that dance at 5:55 - 6:02 to let Michael's(?) little run shine through ^.^
TheKynosaur ah I never noticed that before, awesome. Man you can listen to this everyday and catch something new and amazing.
Dude yeah they didn't want to clash it was good listening!
Love this.
@@clayjohnson2618 I suspect it was intentionally included in the arrangement but still it speaks to the attention to detail. Such a small thing but that bass fill is one of my fav parts
Probably my favorite part from the whole thing. That run is amazing.
Bunch of great musicians making great music!
Hey Reign of Kindo is a wonderful band of great musicians too! just thought i'd share
AddHazers Yes I love Reign of Kindo but Snarky is on a whole different level technically and musically.
If they toured together with Lettuce and Soulive I would Kill to see those 4 bands on the bill.
Eddie Grant going to see lettuce in october
I just love what Candyrat does
Andy fam
This chello girl steals my heart every time.
Who is she?
@@justinteal3893 She is Susanne Rosmolen, listed in the credits above and has a few vids on youtube. Check out her music, she is very talented!!
What a pity you can’t hear the strings in this mix.
Yup! And she's married to Yannick, the guy on violin
@@billhargreaves7337 agreed, and this strange. The mix seems quite good to me, most other instruments are easy to hear, but for some reason I can't find the strings.
This comment section is just a bunch of musicians nerding out and I’m here for it
Lol thank you lmfaooo 😭
That trumpet solo goes straight to my bones. Just riveting.
ikr! Literally inspired me to start playing trumpet. I'm about 3 months in and fucking loving it.
The percussionist killed it. Him and Larnell were incredible.
That drummer is such a beast, his groove is unbelievable
Damn the cameras gave Nate Werth no love here. He KILLED it on aux. percussion.
Facts tho! Nobody mentioned how big a role he played! Larnell is a monster but its physically impossible to make all those sounds at once with only 4 limbs.
Yeah. They literally never showed him and the contributions he makes to the sound cannot be duplicated
My daughter's online History teacher plays this at the beginning of his class. We loved it and had to look it up. So here we are and I will be thanking him ❤
That little bridge after the trumpet solo at 4:10 before the keyboard bass kicks in might be one of the best things I've ever heard. It resolves so beautifully and makes me feel things
without fail, I draw the deepest, most satisfying breath at that part. every time.
5:55 sickest bass run ever
Absolutely filthy... Glad someone else caught it
that bass fill is better than sex im telling you
This and the one from What About Me are amazing.
And completely logical. Inescapable. I LOVE it when a part is played THAT strong.
Fucking Michael League man...
6:00 I love how these guys are just perfectly in sync grooving and then join in at the same time it’s such a vibe
just awesome
Bruh, stark, dass du die mucke hörst 👌🏿😎
You are AWESOME 😘👊🤪
0:35 Introducing magical creature
0:43 Magical creature with attitude
4:17 Magical creature making hearts melt
I see what you did there.
She was lovely!
04:37 Magical creature rocks out your soul.
It's fucking awesome how into the groove and feel she is. Proper passionate musician moments there.
Name of magical creature: Susanne Rosmolen.
Weird as hell bro she's mid
What I would give to be in the room during this recording...that groove is so got damn filthy it makes me wanna cry...
Michael's over the bar phrase at 5:55 kills me every single time. love it when he does that in his improv
and since the basses on the keyboards give them space and don't play, you can see how they do an epic dance with their hands, the best part of the song
Wonderful to see there are young musicians still dedicated to their craft in a world where the pretenders get all the praise.
exactly dude ur right...
Thanks Colin, you are so right. :)
That trumpet solo is literally my favorite trumpet solo. Easily one of the best of the decade.
THAT TRUMPET SOLO.......... WOW
@@R1ff07 Justin Stanton. He plays keys and trumpet
Albert Suhett I’ve been dying to know his name!
@@albertsuhett Justin is amazing on both! He actually writes a good bit of the tunes, but specifically on the solo here it is the awesome Jay Jennings!!!!
Who dat man?
the madman pushes his valves down halfway and fuckin pitch bends on a trumpet
Nate Werth is the most passionate musician I've seen in a while
Michael league seems alot more passionate imo
Robert O'halloran okay? I wasn't critcising or judging anyone I was just saying I find Michael League not only on the faces he pulls but because he's the one who writes and arranges most of snarky puppy's songs. Havent you ever seen him in interviews? He's absolutely in love with music
How is that the more you hear this piece, the better she is ? Greetings from France.
This fucking video... This fucking song... Makes my head explode every time I listen to it. The level of musicianship from everyone in the group is absolutely astounding. The flavor everyone adds with their parts and solos is so rich, on top of the already freaking cool as shit composition/arrangement. On every listen hear a new subtlety that one of the musicians has blended really well into the whole sound. Then, the experience is expertly captured by the recording engineer, and the many instrumental layers are somehow perfectly balanced by the mixing engineer. Just utterly talented people involved at every step of making this music.
evesira Humans are evolving, indeed. What you hear and see is evidence.
evesira Word!
***** couldn't agree more
This is an old comment, but I just wanted to give an example of one of those subtleties that took many listens to notice:
5:07 to 5:18, listen to the kick drum. Larnell Lewis is ridiculous.
Vincent Rubinetti, I am with you definitely.
I can never just watch this straight through because the guy at 2:56's head movements catch my attention EVERY. TIME. And then I have to rewind to watch it again. Like, the movement is so smooth, and then there's that robot-esque movement he does right before the camera cuts to the next scene... It's just so fascinating XD.
+Hirosashii Just watched it like 5 times, thanks for that.
+Jeremy Cays Haha that's funny to read; thanks guys!
+DrummerDaan Wait is that you? :D
5:55 It brings me great joy, the brief moment when Cory and Shaun dance during their short rest.
My high school jazz band got to play with Justin Stanton, one of the coolest experiences of my life
Whoever is in charge of the mixing in this is insanely talented. TO be able to hear every detail with such clarity is mind-blowing.
Such a good time.
Thanks all of U out there.
From France we love U.
Peace
The drummer totally killed it.
It's always cool to see the chemistry between the musicians.
5:55 damn the bassman killed it
You mean the composer? :)
@@sealofapproval3163 Da Man!
The bassman wrote it
Michael League on bass and composer. 👏❤
Just amazing. Kind of disappointed they didn't get the percussionist on camera during his solo. Maybe it wasn't a solo but you could hear him going nuts. 5:21.
There's another song where he has a solo this song was more of a trumpet solo (3 years to late I know)
@@shockingbunny2122 which song?
Sick trumpet solo!
I agree with you man. Pretty rad this solo is.
Everyone's on fire especially that Drummer !
I love the Snarky comment sections on TH-cam, it's like a family reunion lol! Hey cousins!
That trumpet solo! So much feel, soul and heart!
California here and i go to dialysis three times a week. One of the technicians Darryl turned me unto this fantastic band, I bought the live double cd and have not stopped listening for a month. Time to buy more, Love this band!
Good for you! It's a blast of positive energy straight up your veins, for sure! I have times when I teeter on the brink of depression, Snarky Puppy (or Jacob Collier, also highly recommended!) always get me back from there.
God, I feel like I could write a whole novel around this song. There are so many different voices. So much character. Even three acts.
Everyone: A large band with no conductor can never work live.
Snarky Puppy: Hold our dozen sixpacks of beer.
The seatbelts
Also to a lesser extent BOTAR (non orchestra version) and Streetlight Manifesto.
So basically jazz bands
Oh theres a conductor all right. He's the one wearing the white Adidas shirt and red headphones.
lmfao
In a jazz band the bassist is essentially the conductor. In this case Michael League is literally the bandleader too
This track is unbelievable. Every single line of every musician is a carefully crafted piece of art. I love it. You are awesome.
Human potential put on display here! These people are the on the crest of the wave! Represent for the human species! We’ve got this beauty in us ❤
Up until a couple years ago, I hadn’t heard of Snarky Puppy or Shofukan. My daughter’s high school marching band plays it as part of their stand tunes during football games. It gets stuck in my head every football season. Love it. This video is awesome- love watching a group of talented musicians who are obviously thoroughly enjoying themselves!
I used to play it for marching band in the stands too! :D
I made the choice to watch one Larnell Lewis drum video and it lead me down the rabbit hole of some of the freshest music I've listened to in a while.
Yep
The synchronization at 4:36 is so satisfying
I can't get enough of that groove they hit at 4:35 and keep flowing. Love this band.
How can so many of these spectators sit still? This is friggin' JAMMIN'!
They don't :) In these videos the audience, the studio techs, the photograpers, everybody is in the groove, grinning with genuine pleasure and moving with it. After the music ends, there's a respectful silence and then unfettered applause - and a standing ovation for Cory Henry after Lingus. Quite the most engaged and responsive audience of any Snarky Puppy video that I've seen.
Man, that 'cellist could melt steel beams!
...right!
that's what bush said on September 12, 2001
Nate Werth's work on this piece is mesmerizing.
I've watched this video many times ,lots of praise in the comments, for the drums ,organ playing etc.
I'd like to give a big thanks ,to the truely remarkable ,brass players ❤
That cellist is stealing my heart
This is one of those rare videos that’s just so good I wanna cry watching it.
That percussionist is killin it!
I can safely say that I like it here
We like it here
@@jwaj great comment
@@dorianvaughn4241 you too brother
Larnell Lewis is one of the best drummers ever.
so on my 1800th listening of this....... man the fucking mix is just .... awesome. Every detail, every cymbal, every intonation, beautiful mixed and balanced in stereo.
Doctor: You have 6:52 minutes to live
Me:
best backing track channel on youtube brotha! keep em coming! you helped me a great deal! do you have a patreon?
Elevated Jam Tracks cool!
you have cool backing tracks, maybe do some jazzy, funky, fusioney stuff too as backing track though?
This would be some sick music to die to
.. and then TH-cam plays you two ads back to back
dude, that bass player is always rocking the fuck out, fucking goals dude
+Rice Curry love the undertale profile pic btw
Having listened to this song for at least 8 years now, my favorite part is Nate's percussion. His lines are so intentional and adds such a nice feel and texture to the whole arrangement. He fills such a unique niche in the ensemble and he does it so tastefully.
0:44 that look from Susanne. She's so confident.
Who is she?
@Richard Harrold convincing.
@@justinteal3893 the cellist one.
2:02
The tempo shifting so smooth with a great sounds of guitar
the drumming is insane, the perfect timing, and speed... unbelievable
At 5:22 they sing "pa pa paaaa pa pa pa". After the last song played at Tortona, Italy, at the end of the concert,, the public sung that piece and the band started playing Shofukan! That was epic!
Watched them live yesterday, best concert I've ever been to
You were not alone, it was Awesome :-P
Jan Vandendriessche You were there too? :)
Flagey Bxl?
Jan Vandendriessche Yup :)
I went to their concert in San Francisco. And!!!! I haven't stopped listening! Savages!! 1/26/2025 These folks "together" are legends
S tier ensemble.
These musicians are elite.
And as a lifelong drummer, I think larnell Lewis is incredible. Absolutely brilliant
0:45 :Best expression ever, "Wow, that fits! Nailed it"
i am agree
Hi agree I'm dad
Vrotdugi Dortigan I just found your comment 3 years later and it made me laugh so much I genuinely cried. Thank you so much
@@williambristow2795 i'm glad you liked it !
TIMELESS…unreal musicianship and cinematography
find yourself someone who looks at you like this guy looks at his sax 1:27
haha
Lmao! That made my night!
@@Cha0sRising90 So you did find someone who looks at you that way? XD
@rbaleksandar nope, I found several saxes, though! ^_^
It's nice to see young people grasping music like this.
and not young at all too... I'm 75 and going crazy listening to this!
Jerry Polon
Well you know jazz, most of the younger folk don't have the attention span to listen to this kind of music. The 70s, for the most part, were the end of deep music.
You haven't been listening to music since the late 1970s then apparently.
I know of a lot of bands that have had a very musical vision from the last twenty or thirty years. That doesn't mean they have been popular although one or two have been.
How about you tell me what is worthy.
I'm just commenting on your statement that deep music ended long ago, which is kind of naive in my opinion.
Loved discovering this band about 10 years ago… also love that cello player in the red, she is just gorgeous
I really wish they gave Larnell more screen time, that man is a phenomenal musician.
2:20 I love the way Larnell has to wait (what seems like) an age to bring the stick down on the snared cymbal. When he does though, it is right on the button!
Actually hits it at 2:27 but well worth the wait!
It's been 8 years and we still wait for "Shofukan - Nate's Cut!". Come on man, it's a sin not to show his outstanding performance.
No joke, I thought the camera work focused way to much on the guitarists and trumpetists singing, rather than give Larnell and Nate their spots when they were hammering 32nd notes for 8 bars straight.
I think one of the camera guys had a crush on the cello player.
One sympathizes.
I have a crush on the Cello player!
@@christianlaber1439 Agreeeeed
Yeah, that resonates with me too ❤