How To Play Jazz Drums - The Basics
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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I'm a bedroom guitarist and play Blues and Jazz, but need better backing tracks. Thanks to having kids and they love the drums, I learn from you, then teach them, and then I can do my 1 hour solos over it. Thank you for being clear and concise.
Been a rock drummer for 2 years but been getting into jazz lately thanks for the help definitely subscribed!
Awesome Andrus, the jazz will help you rock playing, and vice versa!
Something that should be mentioned is that you can play all of this and it still might not swing. Even with quarter notes, you've got to feel that swing. That's #1. If it doesn't swing, it's not going to work. Listen to records to feel what swing is, then come back to this video.
You're totally right, listening and playing along to records is how you really internalize the swing feel (or any feel). This video is for people who are brand new and who might not even know any records, so its ok if it "isn't swinging" for now :)
It dont mean a thing if you aint got that swing! dowop dowop dowop.
@@gowensbach2998that cat on the toilet be like:
You can't teach feel but you can learn it. ♫♪♫
Good lesson!
The Istanbul cymbals sound so earthy and warm. A very well presented lesson.
I love the cymbals but I never understood the term, "earthy" when it applies to sound or food. "Dirty"?
Just started drumming. I wanna learn jazz.
personally, i play the trumpet and i want to start learning the drums so i can make music. this has helped me a lot in understanding the different sounds of the drums. ty man!
@@vstauffenberg5966 🤝
My goal is convert all the trumpet players to the best instrument… 😄
Thanks! This was a helpful video. I appreciate the slow and progressive pace of your instructions
Walk the dog walk the dog walk the dog walk the dog. a triplet based jazz ride feels different from a 16th note ride. the third way to learn the ride is listen, listen, listen and develop your own feel.
Perfect intro to jazz!
I started in rock in the 60's and almost immediately switched to jazz.
In my opinion, all good jazz drummers can play rock but not all rock drummers can play jazz.
As a fellow rock drummer, I completely agree with your opinion
Thanks for the kind words! Ginger Baker is a great example of someone that was steeped in the jazz thing but played rock music!
Also, Jon Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Danny Seraphine (CTA), Dino Danelli (Young Rascals), Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience) and many others! @@thebetterdrummer
@@boomerguy9935 eric clapton
@@greenflagracing7067 Eric Clapton played guitar. I've seen him play with Cream and with Blind Faith. The drummer for both bands was Ginger Baker.
I can play blast beats and double bass quite fast but controlling the volume on the bass drum while also playing the ride pattern and hitting that hi-hat on 2 and 4 is incredibly difficult
You can do it! Isolate each limb and *slowly* put it all together. You'll have it soon
For me is the exact opposite
thats what practicing loud gets ya
Fantastic stuff, Zac - need to share this with my music educator friends!
Thank you Dr. Wally! Similarly, I need to share your content with my friends (and my dad who is picking up the saxophone again)!
I have been playing drums for a very long time and I have found that I had gotten a wee bit rusty. Your videos are really helpful. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the kind words Peter, and glad you got some value from them!!
Thank you very much, sir! I am starting to write my first jazz piece, but I am lost regarding drumming... mostly. Your video has given me a good start, AND THANK YOU FOR SHOWING THE WRTTEN MUSIC PORTION (It seems like very few music instructors in videos realize how important it is to show the notation of what they are playing since not everyone can transliterate from just hearing, especially new-comers.).
I need a working melody and harmony for my jazz piece, but this helps with the drums, so thanks!
Glad I could help!!! Keep workin on it all :)
This is awesome, thank you! Also the drumset sounds really nice however you set up the microphones!
Perfectly explained, bravo 👏
Glad it was helpful!
Good lesson.
Hope you learned something Rolo!
Thank you 🙏
Best introduction ever. Suscribed. ❤
Thanks Tonilee!!! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Absolutely amazing my friend! Hope to become a better drummer now that I've found this channel!!
Martí! Thank you my friend! I’m sure I could be a better drummer from studying you!!!
just heard my dad and his friends jam out in the garage and got inspired… i’m no good at drums and this is so difficult but I really wanna try!! Thanks for making this vid
Keep up at it bro. One time I'll give you that I got from my dad is to play slow. To play something fast, you have to know how to play it slow. Playing slow also helps with clarity and making sure that you're playing the notes equally spaced. You practice with a metronome and slowly progress faster. That's one formula that every great drummer does
Nobody is stage worthy overnight. Keep it up, My daughter 11 started at Music Go Round and Guitar Center, for free on a weekly basis. It went from just banging on everything when she was 5 to a full kit at home now, and she plays classic rock. I play guitar, and when she was young we would visit those two stores weekly. I have normal guitars 800~1500 guitars, but from time to time I like to demo different guitars. The staff knew us, and let her rock out and said let her do it, because someone needs to demo those drums, and she could be a famous drummer one day. I slowly acquired a kit, piece by piece, how I could afford it. I play Jazz and Blues on guitar, but sometimes I want a real backing track, so here I am to learn.
This is a great lesson!
Thanks so much! I think so too ;)
Thanks, sir! Beatdown Brown calls that the spang-a-lang. Love the lesson!
Thank you! Yes, spang-a-lang is another great way to say it. Beatdown Brown is the man!
@@thebetterdrummer Yeah...Rob is a good guy! Cheers.
wow, thank you!! you are so great at explaining!
Thank you! I’ve been teaching for 8 years now, so I’d hope I’d be ok at it 😄
I'm a newbie on drums, just started a couple months ago.
The basic jazz fill pattern in swing 4/4 - generally - is this - a snare strike (accented usually) on the second half of 3rd beat, and on the next measure, a bass drum stinger on the first "1" of the next measure - accented usually also. On that bass drum stinger, you can keep the "ride cymbal" on 1 together with it without "blasting" the ride.
That's what I am thinking of the basic jazz drum fill.
But don't go crazy like Buddy Rich and just simply "blast beats" in jazz without feeling with the other jazz musicians feel with you -unless these musicians know what you are doing. Otherwise, they may be upset with you and you may be kicked off the jazz jam - or the jazz combo. Be sure you get seasoned in jazz drumming basics before you go drum-crazy.
This is great
Thanks B Tang!!!
"So I can feed my...Guinea Pigs" Holy shit that had me in stitches man! haha! But actually, thanks for great lesson man it was actually extremely helpful!
Lol, glad I could make some people laugh, and teach some drums at the same time!
I’m a marching person and the hardest part for me is being gentle with my playing
Relax and rebound, those are the keys!
Great job subscribed. You explained something I had trouble with how to count swing pattern in triplets. Using that to add snare in the right place helped me a lot.
Hey Marcia! I'm glad you learned something from the video! I'm super pumped for your new knowledge. Glad I could help!!
Thank you for this. Subscribed:)
Awesome, thank you!! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Awesome video !!
Thanks Paul!
Thank you sir
Glad you enjoyed it!
What hi hat cymbals in the intro are they there so nice
Walk the dog
Gotta walk that dog every day!!!
I like smack the hog cause smack is 1 letter longer than walk which allows the swing to activate
Thx!
You got it Joshua!! Faithful commenter!
Ive mostly been wanting to get the feet and snare part in. I get the swing pattern on the cymbals but I can never get it down after a measure with snare and kick drum and sure the hi hat 😂😂
You'll get it! Just keep practicing, and (it stinks but...) go slowly!
1000th view I think 🎉 keep it up buddy ❤
Ricky!!! Thank you very much man, your support is greatly appreciated ❤️
3:00 did disco get 4 on the floor from jazz?
What ride do u use? Also amazing drumming!
Hey Felix! In this video, I'm using the Istanbul Agop 22" Traditional Jazz Ride. Its one of my favorites I've ever owned! istanbulcymbals.com/products/903/22quot-traditional-jazz-ride.html
As a metal drummer this is absolutely difficult to do!!!!!
As a jazz drummer, playing metal is hard to do!!!!
Cool video
Thanks!! Hope you learned something!!
Im having such a hard time i really find it hard to hit the skip beat woth the rest of the kit
Thats the hardest part... keep practicing and you'll get it!
Ayo wow
Ayo, thanks!
Is this Mambo?
How about the snare sir?
Go watch my video about called "How To Play Jazz Drums - Comping" to learn all about how/when to play the snare drum!
You do absolutely nothing with your left hand on the snare and toms until you can do that in your sleep. Lol. That’s what I’m working on now. Ooof.
The guineas need food guys ❤
They're starving :'(
Bruh. What do I do with my left-hand??
The fact that you answered your own question on my "comping" video is absolutely incredible and made me literally laugh out loud 🤣
Thanks 👍