This is an excellent cover. However, I've seen Dino Danelli in concert three times and he doesn't do the tom parts like this. He uses the bass drum instead while twirling the left stick between snare beats. During the pause, he threw his right hand stick into the air, caught it and finished the song without missing a beat. Best showman ever. This version is much easier, gets pretty much the same sound and is my favorite way to play it. I'm 72 years old. My warranty is expiring and I will take all the easy roads I can.
I got to hang out with The Rascals one evening in the mid 60s when they came to the local record store in ENY Brooklyn NY. Thanks for viewing my cover.
The rhythm of the music just pulls one to play those two 8th notes on the upper tom on beat 4, it's a struggle not to play it. I think that just because a certain pattern is on a recording that it doesn't necessarily mean it is the only way a song can be played or even if it's the best choice. That said, Dino was a very big influence on my drumming and I got to meet him & the Rascals in a local record store in my neighborhood in Brooklyn NY back in 1966. Thanks again for watching & commenting.
I am 61 yoa,I vividly recall the recording & hearing/seeing live,back in the day. You have it right my friend,ignore the critics & the "wannbes"! Thanx for keepin; it alive!
Well thank you, appreciate you taking time to check out the cover and comment. Some things I played here didn't come off too smoothly as playing edrums can be challenging, but it was close enough. Keep rockin'.
Yes You did nail it. I grew up with that song. I love the visual of how you shot the video, and to those musicians who think that any other drummer, singer , guitarist, etc has to do anything note for note copying another artist I say the most important aspect is the feeling and spirit of the song. Nail that down and people will feel that and respond.
That's ok if Dino didn't play it this way, I like playing it this way. Sometimes a cover tune has a little bit of the expression that is unique to the one covering it. All well known covers never sound like that which is being covered. Then there are those covers that are exact replicas, which I have many, however, this one is not, and what I played works for the song & any band I've ever played it with. Thanks for checking out the video and taking time to comment.
And Dino tended to not play exactly like the record anyway. It would interfere with twirling his sticks. 😄 But TH-cam covers should probably be trying to approximate the record, not Dino's live performance.
Nice work! I am working on this one for a remote recording with my band, the Clay Hills Band. Those "double stops" (unison eighth notes) are brutal at 99bpm!! Good stuff!
Hey Joe, thanks for viewing the cover video. Yea that “unison-handed” fills are challenging. Ringo was very good at it on some of those Beatles tunes where he employed it. Good luck with copping the drumming on this song.
Hey Larry, thanks for checking out the cover. If you dig seeing/hearing more Rascals songs that I covered on drums, following are the links, thanks: A Girl Like You th-cam.com/video/aPK-nNEygwU/w-d-xo.html Come On Up th-cam.com/video/vC3erLgfMlE/w-d-xo.html You Better Run th-cam.com/video/r8K8-X6-_zw/w-d-xo.html
Great job, Sal. My band had a great reunion recently after 25 years and seeing you play this confirmed that I was playing it mainly right and I went to school on your fills. Thanks much. So much fun to play music again.
Aw, that's sweet, thanks Raymond. I'm always glad to learn that my videos serve other drummers. Thanks so much for sharing, and you know it, that music is fun, and keep drumming!!!
Thank you. There are some folks who are just hypercritical by nature, one; and two, do not understand or have the experience to know that there are many ways to interpret the rhythm of a song through playing the drums. Also, just because something played is on a recording, it's necessarily not the right or only way to play it. Thanks for checking it out and for your encouragement.
Thank. What's interesting is that I use the twirl so often in my playing and I learned how to do it from watching Dino doing it, but for some reason I didn't do it on this cover.
Hey Sal and fellow drummers. I've loved this song from day one and, through the years I finally figured out that, on the record, Dino's bass drum , in 8th notes, was right in sync with Gene's guitar rhythm. Played like this....bass on the one beat....snare on 2...bass on the AND THREE...snare on 4, bass AND 5 snare 6...bass AND OF 6 and AND OF 7..snare on 8 bass on AND OF 8....REPEAT. This under the quarter note ride cymbal really drives the groove. Played any other way and there's conflict in the rhythm section. Dino, like many people, had a tendency to embellish his groove AND fills during the life of the Rascals. And Sal, you're right, there's many ways to approach covering a groove. When talking about "Come On Up" with his conversations with Liberty DeVitto ( a must see) Dino himself says "Good Luck with playing that groove", cuz the pattern changes....Jazz players, where Dino came from, really interpreted an arrangement differently because much of it was based on SPONTANIETY. Keep on groovin' !!
Mojo Groove Right on Mojo Groove, thanks for sharing. I'm not very pleased with this cover, it was uncomfortable playing this on an ekit, but that's the way it goes. Thanks for checking it out. Keep on drumming!!!
No Problem. I just thought that you were presenting this as a sort of tutorial on how Dino played it. You do a great job and that is how I played it many years ago and how a lot of people play it now. I think that there were times when Dino did put that double tom beat in when they played live.
This song came out when I was in the Navy and I've always felt the drummer was quite the showman, although not in the Appice class. Two "requests," if I may: "Tin Soldier" by The Small Faces, and "You Keep Me Hangin' On" a la Vanilla Fudge. Thanks. I truly enjoy seeing/hearing your talent
Thank you. Good to hear from Argentina. I did a radio interview with Imaginemos from Buenos Aires. It's here on my channel too as well as their channel.
Conkyjoe You'll find that info on my channel under "About me". Also see the description above for what I triggered. I don't use an amp. Thank you for viewing the cover.
Sorry this is the way that everyone plays it but if you listen to the original recording you'll hear that Dino doesn't play the 4+ on the tom. He plays the 2 and 4 on the snare drum for most of the song. He does play that 4+ on the tom in a bit of the organ solo but not very much. Take a look at the Ed Sullivan Show with them playing it live. You'll see that his left hand almost never goes to the tom.
Hey Sal. I'm a 68 year old who's played drums professionally since I was 15 and learning Dino Danelli grooves and licks. You did a great job covering "Good Lovin'." Ignore those cheap criticisms. I guarantee, if you ask them to do a better job and You Tube it, you'll never hear from them again. I became a jazz drummer later on, but I never forgot Dino's brilliance. That style of drumming went out of style, probably because so few could master it. Come the mid-70s, they were putting tape on drum heads, cutting holes in the front head of the bass drum (we never used the expression "kick drum)" And pushing the beat, as Dino did, became unpopular, too. Everything had to be almost behind the beat, the tom fills had to be the dumpy-dump licks any fool could play, and flash went out the window. Yeah, there was Mitch Mitchell, John Bonham, and Ginger Baker--great drummers all. But Dino, who apprenticed at the Metropole Cafe under the likes of Gene Krupa and Sonny Payne, had a singular beauty to his playing I haven't heard in pop music since. Good playing. Ignore the critics.
Thanks. Wow, how cool that you're family with Eddie. I covered 2 other Rascals tunes, You Better Run and A Girl Like You, check them out if you haven't, they're on my channel. Hey turn Eddie on to my covers. Thanks for checking it out.
Great song, but I hope you'll take a few comments of criticism. First your the right hand pattern you are playing on the ride cymbal is NOT what Dino is doing, (live or on the record). You are playing a basic 4 beats per measure and Dino is playing a syncopated beat throughout on the ride. Secondly, Your bass drum is playing a (once again) 4 beats per measure. Dino however is filling in almost mimicking the same pattern as Gene's guitar strumming. If you can get yourself a copy of this on vinyl 45 record and play it on 33 1/3 speed and tweek the tone controls, these two patterns both the ride cymbal and the bass drum will come through very clearly. Keep up the good work.
+Gary Cost Hey thanks for the critique and for checking out the cover. I've got the vinyl but not the turntable. Anyway, once I cover these tunes, most likely I will never play it again unless I'm hired to drum on a gig where the band is covering the song. Thanks for your encouragement.
It’s a real mystery to me as to why I didn’t twirl my sticks on this cover because it’s something I do very often and first learned it from seeing Dino do it in the 60s. Thank you for viewing my cover.
@@rhythmantic saw the Young Rascals at a place called The Barge on Long Island back in the day, and Dino would twirl with his right hand behind his floor tom. You could only see it if you were off to the side of the stage. Simply so damned cool!
@@MrWahooknows Yea I heard the Barge was where they began. Even though I was born and raised in B’klyn NYC during that time, I never got to see them perform. But I did get to meet them all in person when they came to my neighborhood at the local record shop in ENY Brooklyn
That's a good idea, I don't know why I've never thought of that - I'll have to give it some thought because of where my computer and workstation is located. What you stated in the last part of your comment - having one's back to an entrance, is a principle of Fung Shei. BTW: that instrument you play, is it that axe that Future Man from Bela Fleck's group plays?
God raises up people and equips them to do certain jobs, and I'm thankful for people like yourself who serve in that way.
This is an excellent cover. However, I've seen Dino Danelli in concert three times and he doesn't do the tom parts like this. He uses the bass drum instead while twirling the left stick between snare beats. During the pause, he threw his right hand stick into the air, caught it and finished the song without missing a beat. Best showman ever.
This version is much easier, gets pretty much the same sound and is my favorite way to play it. I'm 72 years old. My warranty is expiring and I will take all the easy roads I can.
I got to hang out with The Rascals one evening in the mid 60s when they came to the local record store in ENY Brooklyn NY. Thanks for viewing my cover.
Me too sir. As a beginner, this will help me a lot. Dino seemed to have it coming at one from every angle. I’m 70, feeling it too.
This song makes me wanna jump around my room dancing!
I keep listening to this over and over. It's just so cool! Thanks for posting!
The rhythm of the music just pulls one to play those two 8th notes on the upper tom on beat 4, it's a struggle not to play it. I think that just because a certain pattern is on a recording that it doesn't necessarily mean it is the only way a song can be played or even if it's the best choice. That said, Dino was a very big influence on my drumming and I got to meet him & the Rascals in a local record store in my neighborhood in Brooklyn NY back in 1966. Thanks again for watching & commenting.
I am 61 yoa,I vividly recall the recording & hearing/seeing live,back in the day. You have it right my friend,ignore the critics & the "wannbes"! Thanx for keepin; it alive!
Yes,nailed it!!
Well thank you, appreciate you taking time to check out the cover and comment. Some things I played here didn't come off too smoothly as playing edrums can be challenging, but it was close enough. Keep rockin'.
Yes You did nail it. I grew up with that song. I love the visual of how you shot the video, and to those musicians who think that any other drummer, singer , guitarist, etc has to do anything note for note copying another artist I say the most important aspect is the feeling and spirit of the song. Nail that down and people will feel that and respond.
Yep, you know it man!! I did have a bit of a struggle playing those unison-handed fills. Thanks for watching.
Excellent drum cover!
That's ok if Dino didn't play it this way, I like playing it this way. Sometimes a cover tune has a little bit of the expression that is unique to the one covering it. All well known covers never sound like that which is being covered. Then there are those covers that are exact replicas, which I have many, however, this one is not, and what I played works for the song & any band I've ever played it with. Thanks for checking out the video and taking time to comment.
And Dino tended to not play exactly like the record anyway. It would interfere with twirling his sticks. 😄
But TH-cam covers should probably be trying to approximate the record, not Dino's live performance.
Nice work! I am working on this one for a remote recording with my band, the Clay Hills Band. Those "double stops" (unison eighth notes) are brutal at 99bpm!! Good stuff!
Hey Joe, thanks for viewing the cover video. Yea that “unison-handed” fills are challenging. Ringo was very good at it on some of those Beatles tunes where he employed it. Good luck with copping the drumming on this song.
I never thought I would hear a Rascals drum cover. Once again Sal you haven't let me down. Nice work. Thanks for all of it.
Hey Larry, thanks for checking out the cover. If you dig seeing/hearing more Rascals songs that I covered on drums, following are the links, thanks:
A Girl Like You
th-cam.com/video/aPK-nNEygwU/w-d-xo.html
Come On Up
th-cam.com/video/vC3erLgfMlE/w-d-xo.html
You Better Run
th-cam.com/video/r8K8-X6-_zw/w-d-xo.html
Another great drum cover, when ever I need to learn a song, I look for your covers, Great job, thanks Sal
+joe orciani Thank you Joe, that's nice to know. Keep drumming!
Great job, Sal. My band had a great reunion recently after 25 years and seeing you play this confirmed that I was playing it mainly right and I went to school on your fills. Thanks much. So much fun to play music again.
Aw, that's sweet, thanks Raymond. I'm always glad to learn that my videos serve other drummers. Thanks so much for sharing, and you know it, that music is fun, and keep drumming!!!
Well done! Good cover.
nice light smooth cover
Absolutely awesome! Thank you!!
You nailed it, brother! How I wish you played in my band!!!!!!
This is really good Sal. I loved it!
Thank you Roman.
Still a LOT of fun to watch. I've watched this demo many times as well as "Come On Up". Love the beat in that song too.
Awesome! Great job! :D
very cool!
Yes, that's my name. Glad to know you heard the interview, thanks.
It was excellent,I don't understand the few who are a bit critical of it. Rock on !
very nice! great job!
Hella clean👈😎
Thanks for checking it out. Dino Danelli - RIP.
Great!!!!!
Great Job. Very Helpful, Thanks
Glad it helped. Thanks for checking it ou.
Thank you. There are some folks who are just hypercritical by nature, one; and two, do not understand or have the experience to know that there are many ways to interpret the rhythm of a song through playing the drums. Also, just because something played is on a recording, it's necessarily not the right or only way to play it. Thanks for checking it out and for your encouragement.
Thank. What's interesting is that I use the twirl so often in my playing and I learned how to do it from watching Dino doing it, but for some reason I didn't do it on this cover.
Amen, my friend, very well stated, that's the truth and the way it is.
Nice!
Hey Sal and fellow drummers. I've loved this song from day one and, through the years I finally figured out that, on the record, Dino's bass drum , in 8th notes, was right in sync with Gene's guitar rhythm. Played like this....bass on the one beat....snare on 2...bass on the AND THREE...snare on 4, bass AND 5 snare 6...bass AND OF 6 and AND OF 7..snare on 8 bass on AND OF 8....REPEAT. This under the quarter note ride cymbal really drives the groove. Played any other way and there's conflict in the rhythm section. Dino, like many people, had a tendency to embellish his groove AND fills during the life of the Rascals. And Sal, you're right, there's many ways to approach covering a groove. When talking about "Come On Up" with his conversations with Liberty DeVitto ( a must see) Dino himself says "Good Luck with playing that groove", cuz the pattern changes....Jazz players, where Dino came from, really interpreted an arrangement differently because much of it was based on SPONTANIETY. Keep on groovin' !!
Mojo Groove Right on Mojo Groove, thanks for sharing. I'm not very pleased with this cover, it was uncomfortable playing this on an ekit, but that's the way it goes. Thanks for checking it out. Keep on drumming!!!
rhythmantic - Sal D'Amato I hear you on the electronic drums. They sound great but playing them is just plain uncomfortable for me as well.
Mojo Groove I thought this was in 4/4?
motodrummer Yes it is 4/4 and it's played in a two bar pattern.
ahhh I was trying to write out mojo's post and the 5 6 7 8 was throwing me off.
No Problem. I just thought that you were presenting this as a sort of tutorial on how Dino played it. You do a great job and that is how I played it many years ago and how a lot of people play it now. I think that there were times when Dino did put that double tom beat in when they played live.
GREAT WORK!!!
Thank you.
Not familiar with that video, but gosh what a profession you work in.
You nailed it!!.....
This song came out when I was in the Navy and I've always felt the drummer was quite the showman, although not in the Appice class. Two "requests," if I may: "Tin Soldier" by The Small Faces, and "You Keep Me Hangin' On" a la Vanilla Fudge. Thanks. I truly enjoy seeing/hearing your talent
Thank you.
Thank you. Good to hear from Argentina. I did a radio interview with Imaginemos from Buenos Aires. It's here on my channel too as well as their channel.
good Job!
Yes Sir!
Thanks
Thank you, I really appreciate you viewing these covers.
Thanks for your fine comments. I do want to cover You Keep Me Hangin' On from the Fudge.
yup!
Will do!
That looks very hard! Brilliant stuff though, just missing the drum stick twirl!
Thanks, yea that's odd I didn't as I do that most of the time and it was from Dino that I first learned it, oh well, that's the way it goes.
Sal, what model Roland set is that you’re playing? I gotta have it. What amp?
Conkyjoe
You'll find that info on my channel under "About me". Also see the description above for what I triggered. I don't use an amp.
Thank you for viewing the cover.
Thanks Joe and be sure to check out my "Hey Joe" cover :D
Great job! Still should have thrown in at least one "Dino" stick twirl.
Sorry this is the way that everyone plays it but if you listen to the original recording you'll hear that Dino doesn't play the 4+ on the tom. He plays the 2 and 4 on the snare drum for most of the song. He does play that 4+ on the tom in a bit of the organ solo but not very much. Take a look at the Ed Sullivan Show with them playing it live. You'll see that his left hand almost never goes to the tom.
Hey Sal. I'm a 68 year old who's played drums professionally since I was 15 and learning Dino Danelli grooves and licks. You did a great job covering "Good Lovin'." Ignore those cheap criticisms. I guarantee, if you ask them to do a better job and You Tube it, you'll never hear from them again. I became a jazz drummer later on, but I never forgot Dino's brilliance. That style of drumming went out of style, probably because so few could master it. Come the mid-70s, they were putting tape on drum heads, cutting holes in the front head of the bass drum (we never used the expression "kick drum)" And pushing the beat, as Dino did, became unpopular, too. Everything had to be almost behind the beat, the tom fills had to be the dumpy-dump licks any fool could play, and flash went out the window. Yeah, there was Mitch Mitchell, John Bonham, and Ginger Baker--great drummers all. But Dino, who apprenticed at the Metropole Cafe under the likes of Gene Krupa and Sonny Payne, had a singular beauty to his playing I haven't heard in pop music since. Good playing. Ignore the critics.
Thanks. Wow, how cool that you're family with Eddie. I covered 2 other Rascals tunes, You Better Run and A Girl Like You, check them out if you haven't, they're on my channel. Hey turn Eddie on to my covers. Thanks for checking it out.
Great song, but I hope you'll take a few comments of criticism. First your the right hand pattern you are playing on the ride cymbal is NOT what Dino is doing, (live or on the record). You are playing a basic 4 beats per measure and Dino is playing a syncopated beat throughout on the ride. Secondly, Your bass drum is playing a (once again) 4 beats per measure. Dino however is filling in almost mimicking the same pattern as Gene's guitar strumming. If you can get yourself a copy of this on vinyl 45 record and play it on 33 1/3 speed and tweek the tone controls, these two patterns both the ride cymbal and the bass drum will come through very clearly. Keep up the good work.
+Gary Cost Hey thanks for the critique and for checking out the cover. I've got the vinyl but not the turntable. Anyway, once I cover these tunes, most likely I will never play it again unless I'm hired to drum on a gig where the band is covering the song. Thanks for your encouragement.
Hi Gary, it looks like Dino is playing 4 beats per measure on the ride if you watch the Ed Sullivan appearance...
Gotta learn to twirl your sticks like Dino....one of the flashiest under rated drummers....you are a great drummer though.
It’s a real mystery to me as to why I didn’t twirl my sticks on this cover because it’s something I do very often and first learned it from seeing Dino do it in the 60s.
Thank you for viewing my cover.
You forgot to twirl the drum sticks.
The interesting thing is I learned to twirl the sticks from watching Dino. I just didn’t do it in this cover.
Song also covered by the Grateful Dead...haha.
C'mon! Where are the twirls?
Yea I forgot to twirl the sticks like Dino. I’ve been doing that for decades but forgot about it in this cover.
@@rhythmantic saw the Young Rascals at a place called The Barge on Long Island back in the day, and Dino would twirl with his right hand behind his floor tom. You could only see it if you were off to the side of the stage. Simply so damned cool!
@@MrWahooknows
Yea I heard the Barge was where they began. Even though I was born and raised in B’klyn NYC during that time, I never got to see them perform. But I did get to meet them all in person when they came to my neighborhood at the local record shop in ENY Brooklyn
Turn your kit around man, Don't play to the wall. Its much nicer NOT to have your back to everyone else.
That's a good idea, I don't know why I've never thought of that - I'll have to give it some thought because of where my computer and workstation is located. What you stated in the last part of your comment - having one's back to an entrance, is a principle of Fung Shei. BTW: that instrument you play, is it that axe that Future Man from Bela Fleck's group plays?
It's depressing. You'll play better facing out.
Yea, pretty lame rendition too.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks