Just listened on a long car trip. My wife, who has ZERO interest in anything related to drumming, to prog, to fusion, or to funk, LOVED IT! She said she enjoyed listening to your voice, and she loved the drum imitations! Well done! (Meanwhile, I enjoyed the substance of it. Kudos to Grace, too!)
I love watching your technical videos. I'm not a drummer, so I don't really appreciate or understand all the techniques that go into drummers pulling off what is going on. You are a great teacher
Great video Andy. For a non drummer, I 'm always amazed (especially when someone dissects them like yourself ) how difficult they are to play really well and how easily when listening to music to overlook the dexterity and skill involved, as other instruments (guitar ,vocals) in a band which tend to be in the forefront get the most attention and glory.
Great video love the new band as well definitely looking forward to more! About the list... Toto were monster musicians and the effect of toto four in America in 1983 was huge. Many many hard rockers got into that album despite the different genre, one of the mind boggling things about it was the production so clean and beyond anything before and actually it would be quite a few years before that kind of sound became common. Was thinking about toto's opening salvo to the world which was hold the line in 1979. A straight ahead rocker but leveled up with style and pizzaz that let u know ya we rock but this is not a normal rock band. That weird hiccup thing Jeff procraro does in that track still trips me out 45 years later. And Steve lukather's solo starts in kind of a standard minor pentatonic style but then parts kind of switch into some modal variation which I absolutely love. Keep on Andy!
Love your drumming for non-drummers vids, we learn so much. I’d love to learn more about the odd time signatures in the Take Five recordings, and modal from a drummers perspective. I’d also love to see you interview Stewart Copeland. He’s quite active on UA-cam and seems like he’d be a blast to talk to. But you better strap yourself in for a wild ride because he might just be even zanier than you are! 😮🎉😂
i'm a non musician, but I've loved steward copeland's drumming from day one...just so innovative. He's doing a play and talk next year in Evesham, which is not too far away from where you are Andy.
Glad to see you giving props to the funky stuff. The drums on many funk and even early disco crossover stuff are incredibly important to the ability to move people (literally) and influential.
Oh my God!!! The guitar player actually using a pick for all his notes without deadening it with mind-bending overtones and pedals any sounds so tasty with playing with feeling and so so good. I never thought I would see the day again! Thank you Andy for giving this to us. I'm drowning in all the gold and silver of this return to great music! I also wanted to tell you that I grew up with and played with Fernando saunders in Detroit. I have some tales to tell including about Jeff Beck.
Great video! The band sounds wonderful and enjoyed the explanations on the other songs too! Can't wait to here more from the Andy Edwards You Tube Channel Band!!
I know just what you mean about the feel. I've never been a pro musician but I play guitar and played in some bands back in the day. Once, the group I was in found a fusion drummer, very technically proficient, conservatory educated, etc. We thought we'd scored because the rest of us were complete amateur rock/punk/alt guys. Thing is though, the guy had no swing. I felt bad judging him since he was more proficient and educated, but he couldn't make a simple rock beat swing to save his life. One of my favorite drum intros is from "Shoot" by Sonic Youth (I've always thought of it as "the go-go beat"), and Steve Shelley really makes that beat move. Our guy played it note for note, yet it sounded inert. Damndest thing.
Andy you did a fantastic job on all these grooves including Cissy Strut, but all other drummers should be advised that it’s MUCH easier to play Cissy Strut using two hands to handle the hi-hats. That’s how Ziggy did it on the original track and it also makes it easier to achieve the loose, greasy feel of the original.
Nice piece! About time somebody did a full presentation of great songs while focusing primarily on how the drum rhythms are put together and breaking them down for those who don't speak drum. Nice band too.
So great to see and hear your playing! Now you are the drummers Rick Beato. I’ve said before that I totally dig both of you, but so much of Beato is for guitarists. This is awesome Andy. I watched your “no more prog video”. You’re killing it man!
As an amateur who struggles at but I’m a good listener. I notice the imperfections in recordings, especially with feel. There are some old recordings with two guitarists and in the forefront is a shuffling blues or r and b electric and a second part back in the mix will be almost straight eight notes on a second guitar…AND…check out the difference in feel if you play a shuffle with two hands (a note per hand) on the hi-hat…playing both hands sounds and feels like Burundi drummers’ shuffle…AND…finally : I can’t get no satisfaction…which I almost got right for a request night at a Christmas gig and bottled out because it started to sound like disco because I was playing hi-hat and snare with the same hand ( because Watts doesn’t hit snare and hihat at same time) but it was wierd, I got the cowbell going, bassdrum but beck and forth snare and hihat was So Disco…the band asked me not to attempt it! The sense or feel body wise was also a little bit New Orleans. I recommend anybody doing that particular Stones cover to give it a go…and remember it doesn’t matter too much about the pattern on the cow bell because the one on the record sounds a bit stoned once the track gets underway!
I actually never realized how much wrist strength and posture affect drumming. I'm a little haunted by videos of Keith Moon playing with his hands like hooks, the wrists raised high. Love the "Beat" lessons from one who really gets rhythm. And your daughter's lovely scat singing reminds me of Donna Jean Godchaux's vocalizing with the Grateful Dead. (Cool your jets, Andy, this is meant as a compliment!)
Good call. I’d love a full breakdown of exactly what Keith Moon was doing - I’m not interested in whether he drove his rolls Royce into a swimming pool etc. I just want to understand how he developed his technique and what it meant to other drummers. Like Stewart Copeland he was a genre all to himself and helped define the band he was in.
I listened to this while redoing my entire guitar rig (that's much nicer than my ability to use it) here at home. Excellent and interesting video from start to finish 👏👏👏. All the info about timing was helpful. I've been a bad guitar player for 40 yrs now and drums have always been a bit of a mystery to me, but a little less so now. Thanks, Andy.
Nice one! Andy. An often overlooked aspect of early funk drumming is feathering the bass drum. The bass drum is often feathering quarter/eighth notes in between accents. Felt not heard. I think this adds to the overall "authentic" feel, in some contexts. The UA-cam Band is a brilliant idea!! Sounding great! Cheers.
Love it! The comment on clicks is spot on :D I've tried learning Cissy Strut too (as a wannabe drummer but really bassist), found someone on here that did it semi-open handed, can't remember exactly now, but sort of sweep-switching between open/closed. I still can't do it properly, but that really helped get close to the feel.
the drumming on the whole Time Out album is unbelievable, especially for '59. so much cool & interesting timings. beautiful. it's what got me into drumming & Jazz.
Good explanation on “ ticket to Ride… if I understand you , and it’s what I thought prior to watching this; it’s definitely the 1/4 triplet or 3 against 2…… For fun sometime you might get Paul Hindemith …” Elementary training for musicians and work the chapters. Action in time…
I think I learned from Stanton Moore that Cissy Strut was played with two hands on the hi hat. That made a huge difference to make it feel bouncy and floppy (for me)!
This is such a great video, I have to watch it for the 10th time. I especially appreciate Andy's perspective on what's really important in our musical worlds. Andy's warm words about Porcaro and his mentor Purdie (Porcaro as a young kid in the studio sitting behind the master. When Purdie took a break, a young Porcaro sat behind Purdie's kit and tried to repeat what Purdie had just played) saved Christmas for me. Thanks Andy from a non-musician. By the way, there is a connection between Porcaro and Zappa: Emil Richards/Joe Porcaro's Microtonal album from 68. Sounds like a combo of bad AI, Zappa and a soundtrack in 13/23., ua-cam.com/play/PLF3umHofWLnPPHkh94vX_ps7Rd26_kOxv.html&si=oNy0ggSDCEoQGgfo
Very interesting video! More like these - dissecting famous drum parts and how they express the idea of the song/the importance of feel. The latter because I never hear much on this from other musicians and it's critical. Also, speaking of that, the band sounds great! Killer guitar solo from that chap.
In my opinion, if you're not making mistakes, you're not learning. Like you. I get tired of seeing these perfect performances online that don't represent what it takes to be a musician. Some of my favorite musicians, in particular Robben Ford and John Scofield, have admitted in online interviews that they make mistakes all the time...... but in the end, it's not the hole you dig, it's how you climb out of it. On the other hand, I'm constantly digging for new ideas as my own playing tends to bore the living shit out of me.
Everyone knows Hal Blaine, but other US session drummers of great note are Gary Chester ('the Hal Blaine of the East Coast'), Eddie Hoh and Buddy Saltzman. The number of iconic songs these guys played on is amazing: Locomotion, Season of the Witch, Pretty Ballerina, Daydream Believer, I'm a Beliver. Famously on Dawn by the Four Seasons, Saltzman didn't touch a cymbal. Chester wrote a very important book on drumming, and some big names took lessons from him. Hoh was also a touring drummer (Mamas and Papas at Monterey, where he and Hal Blaine did a twin drum jam on the last song). Hoh was also the drummer on Super Sessions.
Bravo Andy !! Loved the top 10. The drums was the first instrument that I took a liking to but my school could only afford drum sticks so my lessons were confined to beating the top of a desk ! So sadly I lost interest. Loved the group. Can’t wait for future performances.
Dig it Andy! Loved the entire video and your comment that drummers should move the audience, swing. All those you highlighted here had that. Even Ringo which was why at least to me he didn’t fit on the page. Like Bonham too, the breathes in between, the feel. Can’t get the funk in black and white. Loved the music!! Look forward to the next song. And how great does that feel to have your daughter sharing in your love of music!? I forwarded this to an army brother (30+yrs ago now) who 16yr daughter play drums in an all female RnR band. Her favorite drummer is Bonham. She is also a black belt in karate. He is a bass player. She plays much better 😂
I often suggest to budding drummers to use Fool in the Rain as a gateway drug to Rosanna. My favorite to test a drummer’s feel is Chuck E’s in Love. Not really fair because it’s Gadd, but it gives me an idea of how they approach “easy” beats, and I wanna know if they are even gonna attempt “the fill”. I adore chops, but feel trumps chops by a chasm in my book. Great vid
Talented daughter Some of this new AI Tech is incredible. What used to be available for "industry folks" is now 'ours' aswell. If you wanted to record an AI Michael Jackson ballad tommorrow, you can! You've got worldclass vocal tones just as guitar tones now. Creative dreams can be done now, that couldn't before. If you have the patience and talent. Talk about fun coincidence, i said blues will make a comeback. Just heard a new song by The Darkness 'I Hate Myself', and it was classic blues riffs, but just like i asked for a more modern approach not the same old guy blues and instead uptempo bluesy rock.
Whenever mentioning Stewart Copeland, while he was with the Police, I think one is amiss to not mention specifically that his drum beats borrowed from reggae and ska. Stewart had the priceless vision, IMO, to impose the minimalist, inverted structures, based in reggae and ska, with punk energy, upon rock tunes written by a bass player with roots in jazz and R&B. One of the reasons I feel the Police were so great is that they blended so many genre elements into easily digestible (on the surface) and relatable but intelligent and psychologically complex songs.
Great performance at the end! All musicians got the spirit right. That's the reason "let it be" is one of my favorite solos as an guitarist. Technically quite easy but therefore you have to get the spirit you have to express it really and that relays on the right kind an the right amount of imperfection and rawness! If you play it "perfect" it sounds like crap 😅. Same thing like the drumming of "Ticket to ride" George Harrison and John Lennon, my favorite Guitar duo in that sense!
Wow! The Andy Edwards, UA-cam House Band. That is the best idea i have heard, in a long time. And you are the perfect person for pulling this off. Because you are a drummer. Who knows. You might even become an Icon. Complements Of The Iconoclastic Bastards Club.
Very, very nice and I totally agree live, unassisted playing that grooves is the absolute best. That's why I can't stop watching bands like Vulfpeck. Keep up the awesome work.
Hi Andy! I write for a music mgazine here in Spain. I interviewed your mate Tim Bowness last month, and I would love to do the same with you. Would it be possible?
Ill go much further on Stewart Copeland... as far as music over the last 40 years he is the single most influential musician alive today. If it has a hi hat, he is referenced and overall he changed the approach to space in a lot of music that reaches the public. My #1 musician I'd want to jam with too. Im definitely with you about giving people a sense of what musician interaction is really like.
I must admit that I listen to drums in music more since watching you, so you definitely added to my appreciation. Thanks.
Love the new direction. Always keeping it interesting!
Lovely. Wish I could’ve heard Grace’s voice more, but what I heard was pretty impressive long live the Andy Edwards UA-cam channel band.
That girl got some soul in her voice!❤
Just listened on a long car trip. My wife, who has ZERO interest in anything related to drumming, to prog, to fusion, or to funk, LOVED IT! She said she enjoyed listening to your voice, and she loved the drum imitations! Well done! (Meanwhile, I enjoyed the substance of it. Kudos to Grace, too!)
Andy, You’re a closet Beatboxer! What a delight!
Master beatboxer, you heard his War Pigs?
I love watching your technical videos. I'm not a drummer, so I don't really appreciate or understand all the techniques that go into drummers pulling off what is going on. You are a great teacher
Brilliant playing and singing. You nailed it. Thanks.
Fabulous stuff, and what a way to end the video! Looking forward to hearing more from the band Andy.
Great video Andy. For a non drummer, I 'm always amazed (especially when someone dissects them like yourself ) how difficult they are to play really well and how easily when listening to music to overlook the dexterity and skill involved, as other instruments (guitar ,vocals) in a band which tend to be in the forefront get the most attention and glory.
Great video love the new band as well definitely looking forward to more! About the list... Toto were monster musicians and the effect of toto four in America in 1983 was huge. Many many hard rockers got into that album despite the different genre, one of the mind boggling things about it was the production so clean and beyond anything before and actually it would be quite a few years before that kind of sound became common. Was thinking about toto's opening salvo to the world which was hold the line in 1979. A straight ahead rocker but leveled up with style and pizzaz that let u know ya we rock but this is not a normal rock band. That weird hiccup thing Jeff procraro does in that track still trips me out 45 years later. And Steve lukather's solo starts in kind of a standard minor pentatonic style but then parts kind of switch into some modal variation which I absolutely love. Keep on Andy!
Love your drumming for non-drummers vids, we learn so much. I’d love to learn more about the odd time signatures in the Take Five recordings, and modal from a drummers perspective. I’d also love to see you interview Stewart Copeland. He’s quite active on UA-cam and seems like he’d be a blast to talk to. But you better strap yourself in for a wild ride because he might just be even zanier than you are! 😮🎉😂
Nite Sprinte is one of my favorite fusion songs, Anthony Jackson's tone on that is incredible too!
i'm a non musician, but I've loved steward copeland's drumming from day one...just so innovative. He's doing a play and talk next year in Evesham, which is not too far away from where you are Andy.
Love it Andy. Your enthusiasm and honesty are infectious!
Andy, one of the challenges of playing the famous Steve Gadd beat “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover”, is playing it soft and quietly.
Aye. Very understated drum track on that.
Almost lounge jazz levels of softly . . .
Glad to see you giving props to the funky stuff. The drums on many funk and even early disco crossover stuff are incredibly important to the ability to move people (literally) and influential.
Oh my God!!! The guitar player actually using a pick for all his notes without deadening it with mind-bending overtones and pedals any sounds so tasty with playing with feeling and so so good. I never thought I would see the day again! Thank you Andy for giving this to us. I'm drowning in all the gold and silver of this return to great music! I also wanted to tell you that I grew up with and played with Fernando saunders in Detroit. I have some tales to tell including about Jeff Beck.
Great video! The band sounds wonderful and enjoyed the explanations on the other songs too! Can't wait to here more from the Andy Edwards You Tube Channel Band!!
Cool series of videos lately Andy. You're like a Wizard revealing all the secrets of musical alchemy.
I know just what you mean about the feel. I've never been a pro musician but I play guitar and played in some bands back in the day. Once, the group I was in found a fusion drummer, very technically proficient, conservatory educated, etc. We thought we'd scored because the rest of us were complete amateur rock/punk/alt guys. Thing is though, the guy had no swing. I felt bad judging him since he was more proficient and educated, but he couldn't make a simple rock beat swing to save his life. One of my favorite drum intros is from "Shoot" by Sonic Youth (I've always thought of it as "the go-go beat"), and Steve Shelley really makes that beat move. Our guy played it note for note, yet it sounded inert. Damndest thing.
Andy you did a fantastic job on all these grooves including Cissy Strut, but all other drummers should be advised that it’s MUCH easier to play Cissy Strut using two hands to handle the hi-hats. That’s how Ziggy did it on the original track and it also makes it easier to achieve the loose, greasy feel of the original.
Love, love LOVE Grace’s cool jazzy vocals. You go baby girl!
That was fun at the end! Good stuff :D
Nice piece! About time somebody did a full presentation of great songs while focusing primarily on how the drum rhythms are put together and breaking them down for those who don't speak drum. Nice band too.
So great to see and hear your playing! Now you are the drummers Rick Beato. I’ve said before that I totally dig both of you, but so much of Beato is for guitarists. This is awesome Andy. I watched your “no more prog video”. You’re killing it man!
Excellent and very interesting. Love and agree with your thoughts at the end.
This was great 👍 Quite interesting and entertaining ✌️
As an amateur who struggles at but I’m a good listener. I notice the imperfections in recordings, especially with feel. There are some old recordings with two guitarists and in the forefront is a shuffling blues or r and b electric and a second part back in the mix will be almost straight eight notes on a second guitar…AND…check out the difference in feel if you play a shuffle with two hands (a note per hand) on the hi-hat…playing both hands sounds and feels like Burundi drummers’ shuffle…AND…finally : I can’t get no satisfaction…which I almost got right for a request night at a Christmas gig and bottled out because it started to sound like disco because I was playing hi-hat and snare with the same hand ( because Watts doesn’t hit snare and hihat at same time) but it was wierd, I got the cowbell going, bassdrum but beck and forth snare and hihat was So Disco…the band asked me not to attempt it! The sense or feel body wise was also a little bit New Orleans. I recommend anybody doing that particular Stones cover to give it a go…and remember it doesn’t matter too much about the pattern on the cow bell because the one on the record sounds a bit stoned once the track gets underway!
I actually never realized how much wrist strength and posture affect drumming. I'm a little haunted by videos of Keith Moon playing with his hands like hooks, the wrists raised high. Love the "Beat" lessons from one who really gets rhythm. And your daughter's lovely scat singing reminds me of Donna Jean Godchaux's vocalizing with the Grateful Dead. (Cool your jets, Andy, this is meant as a compliment!)
A much more proficient version of that, it must be said.
Good call. I’d love a full breakdown of exactly what Keith Moon was doing - I’m not interested in whether he drove his rolls Royce into a swimming pool etc. I just want to understand how he developed his technique and what it meant to other drummers. Like Stewart Copeland he was a genre all to himself and helped define the band he was in.
Fantastic video very instructive - I’ll check your library for more breakdowns of specific tracks.
Great job explaining the difficulty of Toto's fast half-time shuffle. Jeff is smiling
I listened to this while redoing my entire guitar rig (that's much nicer than my ability to use it) here at home. Excellent and interesting video from start to finish 👏👏👏. All the info about timing was helpful. I've been a bad guitar player for 40 yrs now and drums have always been a bit of a mystery to me, but a little less so now. Thanks, Andy.
Nice one! Andy. An often overlooked aspect of early funk drumming is feathering the bass drum. The bass drum is often feathering quarter/eighth notes in between accents. Felt not heard. I think this adds to the overall "authentic" feel, in some contexts. The UA-cam Band is a brilliant idea!! Sounding great! Cheers.
Brilliant video, Andy - very educational - and I LOVE Grace's singing - she's really got "it"...
☝️😎
Really digging' the Andy Edwards UA-cam Band!
Reverend Edward’s Fucking Big Band ….
Thanks!
Welcome!
Absolutely fantastic video!
What a great video! Learned a lot Andy!!
Strong finish on Superstition! Great call and response between guitar and vocal. Nice funky rhythm section too.
Love it! The comment on clicks is spot on :D
I've tried learning Cissy Strut too (as a wannabe drummer but really bassist), found someone on here that did it semi-open handed, can't remember exactly now, but sort of sweep-switching between open/closed. I still can't do it properly, but that really helped get close to the feel.
Andy, you're the best. Never stop being you.
Waiting for the album dude , and BTW your gal is dynamite !!,, Hope she supports the baggies haha
Superb, fantastic new formula!
What a wonderful post, 🙌 and your band sounds really sweet. Gels so well, 🔥, pure talent all round.
Like deployed 👍
Probably your best video. Actually definitely!
Wow, thanks!
the drumming on the whole Time Out album is unbelievable, especially for '59. so much cool & interesting timings. beautiful. it's what got me into drumming & Jazz.
Enjoyed the ending, make sure the PayPal gets to Grace !
stop the simping, there are other players in the band too!
Its about Drums and drummers......you must be a real sharp band mate.
Slick vocals from Grace. Talent runs in the family. 😊😊😊😊😊
Good explanation on “ ticket to
Ride… if I understand you , and it’s what I thought prior to watching this; it’s definitely the 1/4 triplet or 3 against 2……
For fun sometime you might get Paul Hindemith …” Elementary training for musicians and work the chapters. Action in time…
I think I learned from Stanton Moore that Cissy Strut was played with two hands on the hi hat. That made a huge difference to make it feel bouncy and floppy (for me)!
Superb Andy .. Grace is killing it 😊.. great vocals …
This is such a great video, I have to watch it for the 10th time.
I especially appreciate Andy's perspective on what's really important in our musical worlds.
Andy's warm words about Porcaro and his mentor Purdie (Porcaro as a young kid in the studio sitting behind the master. When Purdie took a break, a young Porcaro sat behind Purdie's kit and tried to repeat what Purdie had just played) saved Christmas for me.
Thanks Andy from a non-musician.
By the way, there is a connection between Porcaro and Zappa: Emil Richards/Joe Porcaro's Microtonal album from 68. Sounds like a combo of bad AI, Zappa and a soundtrack in 13/23., ua-cam.com/play/PLF3umHofWLnPPHkh94vX_ps7Rd26_kOxv.html&si=oNy0ggSDCEoQGgfo
Perfect start, Andy! 💪
As a non-drummer, I thoroughly enjoyed this video - Thank you, Andy!
Andy and band! There were moments I got chills. That is my measuring stick for music that impacts me deeply. Thank you all!
Andy has left the building. Thanks for the show!
Very interesting video! More like these - dissecting famous drum parts and how they express the idea of the song/the importance of feel. The latter because I never hear much on this from other musicians and it's critical. Also, speaking of that, the band sounds great! Killer guitar solo from that chap.
Very happy to hear of the Funk direction and sweetly fitting that a drummer should lead the charge against sequenced-sounding music.
Thanks Andy, for this great insight to drumming and rhythms.
Love your version of Superstition! Grace has a very soulful voice! I hope to see more.
Great sounds, bandmates!
And that skittering drumbeat from Can's Vitamin C still haunts my grooves, for fave beats.
Joe Morello is my no1 drummer! An absolute god.
Great video! As a drummer, I eat this stuff up! WOW MAN... That is the most beat-up drum throne I have ever seen!
Great FD is hard . Those 16 ths & the ghost notes , especially before the 4 & making it groove
In my opinion, if you're not making mistakes, you're not learning. Like you. I get tired of seeing these perfect performances online that don't represent what it takes to be a musician. Some of my favorite musicians, in particular Robben Ford and John Scofield, have admitted in online interviews that they make mistakes all the time...... but in the end, it's not the hole you dig, it's how you climb out of it.
On the other hand, I'm constantly digging for new ideas as my own playing tends to bore the living shit out of me.
Everyone knows Hal Blaine, but other US session drummers of great note are Gary Chester ('the Hal Blaine of the East Coast'), Eddie Hoh and Buddy Saltzman. The number of iconic songs these guys played on is amazing: Locomotion, Season of the Witch, Pretty Ballerina, Daydream Believer, I'm a Beliver. Famously on Dawn by the Four Seasons, Saltzman didn't touch a cymbal. Chester wrote a very important book on drumming, and some big names took lessons from him. Hoh was also a touring drummer (Mamas and Papas at Monterey, where he and Hal Blaine did a twin drum jam on the last song). Hoh was also the drummer on Super Sessions.
Loved this one. We used to talk about, 50 ways to leave your lover a lot
Excellent Video Andy.
Great playing !! your drums sound great .you should do a drum tuning video ...Happy Holidays Stay well
Bravo Andy !!
Loved the top 10. The drums was the first instrument that I took a liking to but my school could only afford drum sticks so my lessons were confined to beating the top of a desk ! So sadly I lost interest.
Loved the group. Can’t wait for future performances.
Dig it Andy! Loved the entire video and your comment that drummers should move the audience, swing. All those you highlighted here had that. Even Ringo which was why at least to me he didn’t fit on the page. Like Bonham too, the breathes in between, the feel. Can’t get the funk in black and white.
Loved the music!! Look forward to the next song. And how great does that feel to have your daughter sharing in your love of music!?
I forwarded this to an army brother (30+yrs ago now) who 16yr daughter play drums in an all female RnR band. Her favorite drummer is Bonham. She is also a black belt in karate. He is a bass player. She plays much better 😂
Love this Andy! I've always felt the Yardbirds in 1963 originated the straight eighth feel turning Rock and Roll into Rock.
Andy, the Human Cajon, hahaha, awesome video, greetings from Rio!
Great drumming performance Andy. You nailed them
Great video!
I so agree with you about over quantised music. Feel is king and you can't beat really good musicians playing live.
Good gig btw
All the drums by Topper Headon of The Clash playing on Sandinista album are fantastic. So many different styles, executed perfectly
I often suggest to budding drummers to use Fool in the Rain as a gateway drug to Rosanna. My favorite to test a drummer’s feel is Chuck E’s in Love. Not really fair because it’s Gadd, but it gives me an idea of how they approach “easy” beats, and I wanna know if they are even gonna attempt “the fill”. I adore chops, but feel trumps chops by a chasm in my book.
Great vid
Great stuff Andy, your daughter (and the band) sounds great! Let us know when you tour the states! lol!
Brilliant video, mate! It is indeed all about the feel!
Wonderful, thank you!
Very interesting and entertaining!!
I like those breaks within the Rosanna groove
Talented daughter Some of this new AI Tech is incredible. What used to be available for "industry folks" is now 'ours' aswell. If you wanted to record an AI Michael Jackson ballad tommorrow, you can! You've got worldclass vocal tones just as guitar tones now. Creative dreams can be done now, that couldn't before. If you have the patience and talent. Talk about fun coincidence, i said blues will make a comeback. Just heard a new song by The Darkness 'I Hate Myself', and it was classic blues riffs, but just like i asked for a more modern approach not the same old guy blues and instead uptempo bluesy rock.
This video is pure entertainment. Its great seeing a talented man "going for the one" as Yes did.
Whenever mentioning Stewart Copeland, while he was with the Police, I think one is amiss to not mention specifically that his drum beats borrowed from reggae and ska. Stewart had the priceless vision, IMO, to impose the minimalist, inverted structures, based in reggae and ska, with punk energy, upon rock tunes written by a bass player with roots in jazz and R&B. One of the reasons I feel the Police were so great is that they blended so many genre elements into easily digestible (on the surface) and relatable but intelligent and psychologically complex songs.
Humanity is rescued! Real humans playing music. AI eat your “heart” out…
Great job, Andy
Wow!
You're chops on "Rosanna" were fantastic!
Edit: Also especially on Funky Drummer.
Honestly they were all fantastic!
I recall seeing a relatively recent live video of Zig playing "Cissy Strut," and he plays the hi hat with both hands alternating.
Great performance at the end! All musicians got the spirit right. That's the reason "let it be" is one of my favorite solos as an guitarist. Technically quite easy but therefore you have to get the spirit you have to express it really and that relays on the right kind an the right amount of imperfection and rawness! If you play it "perfect" it sounds like crap 😅. Same thing like the drumming of "Ticket to ride" George Harrison and John Lennon, my favorite Guitar duo in that sense!
Wow! The Andy Edwards, UA-cam House Band. That is the best idea i have heard, in a long time.
And you are the perfect person for pulling this off.
Because you are a drummer.
Who knows.
You might even become an Icon.
Complements Of The
Iconoclastic Bastards Club.
Thank you.
Very, very nice and I totally agree live, unassisted playing that grooves is the absolute best. That's why I can't stop watching bands like Vulfpeck. Keep up the awesome work.
Love the bass sound!!!
Hi Andy! I write for a music mgazine here in Spain. I interviewed your mate Tim Bowness last month, and I would love to do the same with you. Would it be possible?
@Andy Edwards
the Gadd copy/coverage was fantastically good - a tribute, to play it that well.
Enjoyable watch and some great playing. Always found the drum part to Sting's Seven Days by Vinnie Colaiuta a tricky sod!
Nice session at the end of the video !
Ill go much further on Stewart Copeland... as far as music over the last 40 years he is the single most influential musician alive today. If it has a hi hat, he is referenced and overall he changed the approach to space in a lot of music that reaches the public. My #1 musician I'd want to jam with too. Im definitely with you about giving people a sense of what musician interaction is really like.