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Nick Monticello
Приєднався 11 сер 2013
Nick Monticello is an experienced drummer and music instructor based in the Houston/Galveston area.
He taught lessons in College Station while attending university and continues to teach private lessons at American Music Academy (Bellaire, TX) and Pearland School of Music (Pearland, TX). He teaches all ages in drums and beginner piano.
Nick currently plays in three Houston/Galveston area music projects: Juvenoia, Harmony Honey, and Yay Hi. He can be contacted for lesson or performance inquiries at nsm82000@gmail.com
He taught lessons in College Station while attending university and continues to teach private lessons at American Music Academy (Bellaire, TX) and Pearland School of Music (Pearland, TX). He teaches all ages in drums and beginner piano.
Nick currently plays in three Houston/Galveston area music projects: Juvenoia, Harmony Honey, and Yay Hi. He can be contacted for lesson or performance inquiries at nsm82000@gmail.com
Paradiddle Ladder
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Fun exercise runs through single paradiddles, double paradiddles, and triple paradiddles. Accent pattern on first of each rudiment, followed by accent variations. Rudimental drum exercise.
Vic Firth sticks, Evans ReelFeel Practice Pad 12'', Gretsch and PDP drums, Zildjian cymbals, Remo heads
#drumlesson #drummer #drums #drumset #gretsch #music #musician #tutorial #jazz #drumcover #snaredrum
Fun exercise runs through single paradiddles, double paradiddles, and triple paradiddles. Accent pattern on first of each rudiment, followed by accent variations. Rudimental drum exercise.
Vic Firth sticks, Evans ReelFeel Practice Pad 12'', Gretsch and PDP drums, Zildjian cymbals, Remo heads
#drumlesson #drummer #drums #drumset #gretsch #music #musician #tutorial #jazz #drumcover #snaredrum
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Flam Drags, the Toughest Rudiment - PART 1 (Drum Lesson)
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nsm82000@gmail.com - Questions, Online/In-Person Lessons In my opinion, the Flam Drag is the most difficult rudiment to master. Made of a flam, accent/tap, and diddle stroke, it requires much control and technique to play well. In this two-part snare drum lesson series, I show some exercises and technical methods to help get this rudiment down. In Part 1 we go over: - The "Belt" Technique: an a...
The Double Stroke Practice Sequence - Four Exercises You Need to Build Technique - Drum Lesson
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For Skype or Zoom lessons: nsm82000@gmail.com PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1mDHpeFADhktW6QTjY-GJI8StE5nK0X8x/view?usp=sharing In this drum lesson I outline a useful sequence for developing double-strokes. It uses four exercises: Stone Killer, Double Beat/Triple Beat, Gallop, and Short-Short-Long. Practicing these in their logical sequence will be very helpful to those who have been trying to ge...
Blue Devils Flams at 125% Speed
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Just something for fun. I posted a video of Scott Johnson's Championship Lick as well the other day: ua-cam.com/video/xB7JbMOp5_U/v-deo.html I've been giving some online lessons recently and have been enjoying that, so if you'd like to schedule a lesson you can email me at nsm82000@gmail.com I recently posted a video on Tony Williams' jazz style, which you can find here: ua-cam.com/video/tUQ-6Q...
Scott Johnson's "Championship Lick"
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I uploaded this on a short a while back but wanted to make a video with the transcription alongside playing. Metronome 120 traditional grip, lot of rudiments: single strokes to double strokes, flam taps, flam accents, swiss army triplets, flam drags, paradiddle diddles. I've been giving some online lessons recently and have been enjoying that, so if you'd like to schedule a lesson you can email...
Gaddiments - "Flam Accents w/ Drags," Medium and Fast
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The flam drag is a very difficult rudiment in my opinion, the hardest on the PAS 40 Rudiments to master. I've recently started working on a drum lesson tutorial for how to practice and achieve a controlled, fast flam drag. I plan on posting that soon. In this brief video I play a flam drag exercise from Steve Gadd's drum book, "Gaddiments." I recently posted a video about practicing Tony Willia...
How to Fast Swing like Tony Williams: Drum Lesson
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These are a few exercises that helped me develop my fast swing. In this jazz drum lesson I talk about: - How to get the right hand ride pattern faster - How to practice comping patterns with the fast ride pattern Another video on my channel is a cover of a transcription of "Four" from a Miles Davis live album, with the great Tony Williams on drums. The exercises I go over in this video were ind...
Fastest Tommy Igoe Lifetime Warmup (Advanced) - 210bpm @TommyIgoeMusic
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This is my favorite warmup sequence that I've been using for years. In this video I attempt to play it at 210bpm. @TommyIgoeMusic Products used: Vater 5B Drumstricks, Evans ReelFeel 12'' Practice Pad, Tommy Igoe's "Great Hands for a Lifetime" Lifetime Warmup Advanced. See my most popular video here, where I explore a traditional grip technique a la Buddy Rich and Tommy Igoe: ua-cam.com/video/HH...
"Kulee Baba" - Steely Dan Drum Cover
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This is a lost track from the Gaucho sessions, with Bernard Purdie on drums. #drumlesson #drumlessons #steelydan #drummer #drummer #music #musician #zildjian #vicfirth #gretsch #jazz #drumcover
Double-Flam Drag Grid for Snare Drum
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Sticks: Roger Carter Corpsmaster Signature Snare Sticks Pad: Evans ReelFeel 12'' #drumlesson #drumlessons #drummer #drums #music #musician #vicfirth #bluecoats #bluedevils #snare
"Flam Paradiddle Variations" Snare Exercise
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PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1_8CgVa3PwdZ7yn4tsCXhV9AJvCz6emM8/view?usp=sharing This is a short but demanding exercise that goes from triplet flam accents to a 4-against-3 flam-paradiddle, with ensuing variations such as cheeses and extra flams. something something blue devils dci bluecoats scv drumline Check out my two recent videos! Five Unknown Jeff Porcaro Drum Beats: ua-cam.com/video/...
A smooth half-time shuffle
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Performing "Valerie" with the Houston-based party band Harmony Honey (Jacob Vasquez and Rhiannon Peterson). #drummer #drums #gretsch #jazz #music #musician #zildjian #guitar #vicfirth #drumcover #livemusic #coversong #coverband
Traditional Grip Push/Pull Technique for Blazing Single-Strokes
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A tutorial on the right hand push/pull: ua-cam.com/video/a5QWegGRrKg/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared In this tutorial, I go through 1) the traditional grip push/pull motion, 2) application to single-strokes for speed, and 3) some exercises and examples to develop the technique. A similar traditional grip technique has been used by Buddy Rich, Tommy Igoe, and Greyson Nekrutman. This video was made in r...
The Most Advanced Bernard Purdie drum beat (sheets at 0:08) --- GHOST NOTES GALORE
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The Most Advanced Bernard Purdie drum beat (sheets at 0:08) GHOST NOTES GALORE
Juvenoia plays/covers "Georgy Porgy" @ Leon's Lounge in Houston, TX
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Juvenoia plays/covers "Georgy Porgy" @ Leon's Lounge in Houston, TX
"TNT" by AC/DC - Harmony Honey cover at King's Bierhaus League City
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"TNT" by AC/DC - Harmony Honey cover at King's Bierhaus League City
"Georgy Porgy" by Toto (Jeff Porcaro) drum cover - Nick Monticello
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"Georgy Porgy" by Toto (Jeff Porcaro) drum cover - Nick Monticello
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Great!!!
Great!!!
Supercool done!!!
Awesome.. traditional grip.. excellent.. great chops..
Thank you, Gary
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Good lesson man ...good explications
I’m glad you added a picture of a belt when explaining the “belt” technique because I was unsure what a belt looks like. Thank
As usual very calm, direct and well explained. Thank you for your diligence and content Nick. Greatly appreciated.
Crazy chops, my man!
This is gold! One of the best videos on technique.
Thanks . Tommy’s dvd book changed everything for me .
Bro, thanks! I always wondered how he played that lick but was too lazy to figure it out myself. He does it at the beginning of Moonbird.
Thank you , great video
Thanks for putting the effort in! I’m struggling with getting my strokes clean and have gone back to basics, this vid has given me some great stuff to practice.
excellent video, i've never seen those comping techniques before. incredibly grateful that you've immortalized your knowledge here. to clarify- are you using entirely wrist technique all the way throughout the tempo ranges? is there any conservative finger use, or are they simply for control?
The fingers are mostly for control. I find that I'm able to play the fast threes even if I take my middle, index, and pinky off the stick (although it becomes slightly less controlled). It doesn't matter so much the specifics of how much wrist vs. fingers to use -- what's most important is that you try to make the third stroke the loudest, or slightly crescendo through each stroke. Really fast tempos (300bpm) do require some finger, but no matter what specific finger or wrist technique you use, the main idea for practice is the crescendo/overcompensation idea.
thanks so much
thank you for making this!!
Great lesson thanks
Incredible awesome chops amazing playing.....
I lm getting a ton of mileage out of this video. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!
Brilliant lesson
Nick just joined your channel I need a special request for you to show me please show me a buddy rich exercise written out slow to fast I need some sort of buddy rich drill to work on please dedicate it to boom
What kind of Buddy Rich exercise?
@@nickmonticello nick a buddy rich exercise written out slow to fast for letting me to increase my left stick and to depend on syncopated accents using single stroke rolls
great lesson! I'll incorporate it in my routine to better develop my double strokes.
great lesson, helps a lot!
Amazing. Now, turn that into money.
Unbelievable! You demonstrate how proper hand control can achieve rhythmic complexity. Interlimb coordination in pursuit of rhythmic and musical innovation. This is complex and dense work. But the result a march score that is exciting and inspiring. I've begun practicing more finesse in my control of my sticks with more involved limb inter dependency. The resulting solo from this talented gent is a showcase of rich snare solo work while having all the integrity of any more basic and wholesome drum solo work. Some lay persons might see show off, I see maturity and evolution not a style. Show off is the stick tricks and the phrases written to facilitate such visual work. Here though we have only the audible and it's clear to any a musical ear that this is musical maturity at its finest
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Yo man ive been wanting to do a video all about down and to the left for a long time... I think it's an amazing display of playing on every part of the groove within a song....back on it, right on it, and playing on top of the groove. Such an underrated album, I like it better than silk degrees honestly. Yo check out the newest Jeff video I've seen ever playng with clarence Carter at age 19, with a young hungate and paich on organ. Cheers brother huge Jeff fan here as well and have been checking youtube since it's existance... In the beginning it felt like Xmas every couple days cus there would be some new deep dive I hadnt heard before. I love the entire Janne Schaeffer record with the entire porcaro fam rhythm section. Check it if you haven't I'm sure you have. Your drum sound sick, then she walked away is incredible.
Your drums sound sick bro
Thank you very much for this. After taking a 15 year hiatus. Relearning drums, beginning with jazz. And this has been a huge help.
Mike McIntosh typa handspeed. now i wanna play
It seemed slow, can you do it faster?
I can try
@@nickmonticello I meant that as a joke. You were plenty fast enough. Did you write the music yourself, I would like to try reading it myself.
Would love to get the pdf
I got the sheets from this video: I got the sheets from this video: ua-cam.com/video/1iRKDwVYbvY/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
John lennon is insanely cracked at his rudiments!
looks fun, is there a pdf?
I got the sheets from this video: ua-cam.com/video/1iRKDwVYbvY/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Wtf
Nice job
his hands are surgeon-level precise
thats insane
Dude what 😭 And I can barely play a good flam in the first place
practice then
@@ale_isodd Wow thanks sherlock
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Ur crazy bro
Is that right hand traditional!?
If you assume he's playing the music he wrote on screen then it would have to be a mirrored video. Way more likely than playing an exercise off the left with a right -handed traditional lol
Look at his shirt. 🤔
Wow
Bro your actually nuts
For the rest of your life: YOU + ARE = YOU'RE .
How can I learn to do this?
You almost look like Brandon Toews from drumeo 😂
The flams sounded❤❤😮
Thank you bro 🙏
B. O. D. G. N. O. N. C
Can tell you played marching snare. Love seeing the technique and practice concepts applied to drumset.