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Hey, you made my day! Thanks for the (as always) clear and enthusiastic instructions as well as for the background information about the origin of the pattern. Greetings Marcel
Mr. Barnes, this is awesome! Your entire channel is awesome! I am learning so much from your always enthusiastic and thourough teachings! Especially the concept of going sloooooow, has made huge impact on my drumming, which I mainly do for meditational and fun purposes, but also on the other instruments I play, and is even spilling into areas of my life that has nothing to do with music! I have found great success in taking out parts of a part, looping them, for instance just the first 2 kicks of the one featured in this video, as the 1 eh and AH trips me up, and that really helps. Thank you so much - you have by far the best drum channel on the entire tube! 😍
Ahhh haaa! Was just looking into this beat based on your recommendation from recent hip hop groove vid. Did a UA-cam search and who should pop up...? Thanks so much Mike for your concise explanation.
Follow me on Strava if you like: www.strava.com/athletes/mikebarnesdrums Don't train at the gym, but train at home most mornings and run outside most days. Night and day difference from when I didn't regularly train - helpful for playing but probably even more so for the realities of being a working musician - lugging gear, late nights, stamina etc. Cornerstone part of life.
Good job - yeah classic from '87 - original sampled used.. recording by US band the Soul Searchers 'Ashley's Roachclip' .. 1974 - ua-cam.com/video/md9veYbl7wI/v-deo.html (break at 3:30)
That's the one - though here I'm specifically talking about what the drummer plays in Rakim's "Tiny Desk Concert" video - ua-cam.com/video/iU0_cYjm8HE/v-deo.html at 3:10 - it's slightly different from the Soul Searchers sample/Eric B and Rakim original, as this is the version Marcel wanted to learn. Thanks for watching!
In my current state i would need a double bass pedal to play that. I can play that hi hat groove in 16th notes at 80 bpm though so no issues there, Its just my foot. Cyclist who does not really walk anywwhere so i think it may have to do with under used and under developed leg muscles. I sure hope so. Been drumming 5 months and the foot is way better than at the start. At the start my leg just started twitching and going into spasms all on its own when playing. There was no way i was able to do 16th notes on the bass drum back then. Now i can but just not sustained. The genius of love beat for example, i can do it for short stints. Not the whole thing.
You've been playing for 5 months man! It's takes years to develop at solid foot technique (I'm 30 years in and just getting started). Nothing to do the current state of your leg muscles, everything to do with the fact that building reliable physical skill on the drums takes years! Well done on a great start to your drumming, now keep going, keep working and you'll get better and better. I'd put this groove at around the Grade 4 or 5 level, so probably at LEAST 2/3 years in before a drummer was playing it reliably on average IMO. Cheers! And thanks for watching.
Notation and practice-alongs on the channel members’ page, here: www.buymeacoffee.com/mikebarnesdrums/rakim-paid-in-full-tiny-desk-concert-groove-notation-practice-alongs
Support this channel: Buy a coffee/become a channel member here: www.buymeacoffee.com/mikebarnesdrums
Hey, you made my day! Thanks for the (as always) clear and enthusiastic instructions as well as for the background information about the origin of the pattern. Greetings Marcel
Nice and groovey. And not difficult.Thankyou
Mr. Barnes, this is awesome! Your entire channel is awesome! I am learning so much from your always enthusiastic and thourough teachings! Especially the concept of going sloooooow, has made huge impact on my drumming, which I mainly do for meditational and fun purposes, but also on the other instruments I play, and is even spilling into areas of my life that has nothing to do with music! I have found great success in taking out parts of a part, looping them, for instance just the first 2 kicks of the one featured in this video, as the 1 eh and AH trips me up, and that really helps.
Thank you so much - you have by far the best drum channel on the entire tube! 😍
appreciate your work!
Sounds great and super clearly explained! Still a bit tough for me now but that's inspiring !
Ahhh haaa! Was just looking into this beat based on your recommendation from recent hip hop groove vid. Did a UA-cam search and who should pop up...? Thanks so much Mike for your concise explanation.
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Eric B. & Rakim from around, maybe '85. It's one of my favorites.
87 original mix 88 extended mix with the Ofra Haza samples used in Colors soundtrack.
As well as drumming, how many times a week do you train at the gym Mike? And does it have a measurable improvement on your playing?
Follow me on Strava if you like: www.strava.com/athletes/mikebarnesdrums
Don't train at the gym, but train at home most mornings and run outside most days. Night and day difference from when I didn't regularly train - helpful for playing but probably even more so for the realities of being a working musician - lugging gear, late nights, stamina etc. Cornerstone part of life.
Good job - yeah classic from '87 - original sampled used.. recording by US band the Soul Searchers 'Ashley's Roachclip' .. 1974 - ua-cam.com/video/md9veYbl7wI/v-deo.html (break at 3:30)
That's the one - though here I'm specifically talking about what the drummer plays in Rakim's "Tiny Desk Concert" video - ua-cam.com/video/iU0_cYjm8HE/v-deo.html at 3:10 - it's slightly different from the Soul Searchers sample/Eric B and Rakim original, as this is the version Marcel wanted to learn. Thanks for watching!
In my current state i would need a double bass pedal to play that. I can play that hi hat groove in 16th notes at 80 bpm though so no issues there, Its just my foot. Cyclist who does not really walk anywwhere so i think it may have to do with under used and under developed leg muscles. I sure hope so. Been drumming 5 months and the foot is way better than at the start. At the start my leg just started twitching and going into spasms all on its own when playing. There was no way i was able to do 16th notes on the bass drum back then. Now i can but just not sustained. The genius of love beat for example, i can do it for short stints. Not the whole thing.
You've been playing for 5 months man! It's takes years to develop at solid foot technique (I'm 30 years in and just getting started). Nothing to do the current state of your leg muscles, everything to do with the fact that building reliable physical skill on the drums takes years! Well done on a great start to your drumming, now keep going, keep working and you'll get better and better. I'd put this groove at around the Grade 4 or 5 level, so probably at LEAST 2/3 years in before a drummer was playing it reliably on average IMO. Cheers! And thanks for watching.