Drum geek sick chops youtube thread

No jam block, no credibility.

re: neil peart, i don't know, i mean dude can play of course but he sounded kinda high school on the chart, and rockish at times on the solo.

no, she has a book?

The piano player. Rebeca Mauleón. She wrote The Salsa Guidebook for Piano & Ensemble. Check it out.

Peart does not swing.

I don't completely begrudge him for it - there are very few drummers who can both rock and swing - I think it's just the nature of developing the wrist/hand technique for one vs. the other.

It's the way you think about music.

i mean dude can play of course but he sounded kinda high school on the chart, and rockish at times on the solo.

Peart does not swing.

both OTM

It's the way you think about music.
Yeah, and if you think about jazz and listen to jazz you should probably be able to figure out how to swing a little bit.

http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/fred_armisen_vs_jens

this has lol potential!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg92KHc_Xw4

Ignacio w/ Dizzy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2qvID9Gs4

Ignacio & Airto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acFeeIpvXew&feature=related

Francisco Mela
http://youtube.com/watch?v=47m3wWel0Lc

Drummer trades fours with vocalist-pretending-to-be-a-drummer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXRppejlsMk

El Negro takes a solo while Giovanni Hidalgo has a sip of water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1KWG7a9ll0&feature=related

Richie Flores
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIQI86RiE9s

Guy way upthread doing Super Mario Bros music...wtf where is gnarly BOWSER CASTLE MUSIC.

Cristian Rivera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Io30ZzM2x4

Ken did you go see Sam Yahel Trio at Jazz Standard? B/C that was how I first heard of Mela, although I didn't actually go to the gig, just watched some Youtube clips.

Nice, that last clip made me look up a bunch of sick Conrad Herwig/Brian Lynch shit.

No, Hurting, I don't know from Sam Yahel, I just heard about Francisco M on another list, and then saw he was playing at Cachaça, so I went and checked him out. Maybe you should come with me one Sunday to see Chris Washburne at Smoke one Sunday, which is where I assume that last clip is from.

If you're in town, you can come too, Jordan, and compare notes with Chris about being a student of Richard Davis.

Still meaning to find a good Patato clip to post. I think there a few with him and Tito Puente, who is in every other clip on this thread.

Oh, nice! Wish I could go, but I probably won't be back in NYC for awhile. :(

It's every Sunday. They'll probably be playing next time you are around. .

That Steve Gadd/Giovanni Hidalgo clip...the hands and feet thing...so wonderful.

Got a gig in New Haven Sunday night. Ivy League poon.

Are you quoting one of your bandmates in an attempt to sound more like one of the boys?

Ha, in a sense. "Ivy League poon" is in fact a running band joke.

Now that I think of it, last time I saw Cristian Rivera and Chris Washburne they were playing with the Bobby Sanabria Big Band that Haikunym is always raving about on the salsa thread on the other board. Bobby gave Cristian the nod to take a solo and he was on fire. He kept on soloing and looking over at Bobby as if to say, "I'm in the groove, boss, I ain't gonna stop until you tell me the stop." Finally Bobby gave the signal and the rest of the band kicked back in.

This other guy in the next clip I happened to see the other day and I wasn't too into it. His band wasn't really locking in, and his own playing was kind of wanky. But see for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe15md7VFQQ. I wanted to stop around minute seven.

OK, I found a pretty good video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-_r1EvJ6q4&feature=related with the late, great Patato featuring Nicky Marrero on timbales.

To continue w/the latin theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_34oDF6ZIs

(Jim Branly, sent to me by a friend)

Frankie Dunlop - maybe my favorite overlooked drummer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbXK-Q1jsy0&feature=related

Such feel, such a sound, such fluidity of playing

More:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgJ1XAm1UNs&feature=related

More?

female drummers on the loose! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IbWsJTnXuU

aaron spears (usher's drummer): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCtiuGR-p44

sick pandeiro playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTL7OSvOoo

gospel chops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8AR3cQOv4s

more thomas pridgen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_cnhaPgZ04

herlin riley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfInj1JHGRE

on a more of-this-world tip, my man shannon powell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2wJqO2_Xk

gerald hayward w mary j: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7millwbJ7s

matt wilson playing an ironic drum solo: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WOUTxn84JWM

STEVIE WONDER DRUM SOLO: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4SCZv7786KY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdcIztH5RAQ

Spanky on drums yo!

Sorry for being so British but what is a Shed? Is it where gospel groups practice or something?

shed = woodshed = old term for where you practice. "shedding" = practicing.

ahhh thanks jordan

i take it everyone has seen the joey baron at its best youtube. if not...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fWYWEaDpUNc

i hadn't seen that, thanks!

Only tangentially related but last week Greg saunier ended the deerhoof set by playing with his hands for the last 5 minutes or so. It looked very painful - he was thwapping the crap out of the kit

If I had to guess, what we call extended technique today is probably as old as the original vaudeville trap kits.

Yeah agreed, it was just deployed in more of a show biz entertainment capacity rather than serious free music sounds. Watching the likes of Papa Jo Jones & Sonny Payne it feels very playful and not beholden to the conventions of the drum kit (which is a truly ridiculous instrument anyway).

One of the purposes of the drum kit was to do live sound fx, so that called for all kinds of stuff beyond what we think of as standard playing today