Daniel Glass is my hero. It's safe to say that he's my favorite drummer by a large margin. I've been a guitarist all my life, but once I really found out who he was I started obsessing over the drums and rhythms more so than ever. So much that my wife went out and bought me a kit the day after Christmas. (I said I wanted absolutely nothing for Christmas, so she gave it to me the day after, and told me to deal with it. Wonderful wife.) I've been in studios and on the road pretty much since I was 13, and I had started to burn out. However that maniac has helped renew my passion in all things music. It's been too long since I've picked up a new instrument. I don't believe in being too late to start anything new, and certainly not if it's expanding my musical knowledge and experience.
Ringo is a Lefty and used as leading hand for the Toms. Maybe thats also a reason for him to change grip. From Wiki "I'm no good on the technical things ... I'm your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills ... because I'm really left-handed playing a right-handed kit. I can't roll around the drums because of that." Ringo says
Ringo Starr didn't play matched grip to get more power, man. He'd play matched grip because it was easier to play the drum set as a left handed person playing right handed on a right handed drum set. He was raised to do things right handed, because he was told doing things right handed was the proper thing to do.
This sounds pretty likely yes. Ringo also says that he plays his fills going up from floor tom to rack tom (e.g. "Come Together") for this exact reason.
What you said didn't make any sense. I'm a lefty that plays a righty kit. I can play traditional or matched grip. It's a matter of choice dude. I can get around the kit either way as many other drummers can. Matched grip is preferred by the large majority of rock drummers and traditional grip is preferred by the large majority of jazz drummers and marching band drummers.
The "Come Together" drum fill is not floor to rack. In fact, if you listen closely to a drum iso, the end of each fill goes all around the 3 toms, top to floor and bass drum (Hi, Daniel!)
The Beatles and Ringo introduced the Mersey Beat which was a stronger & more powerful back beat using rim shots instead of hitting the snare just in the middle. The use of the rim made it louder with a "cracK" sound to cut through the louder electric guitars and amps. His match grip was used because he didn't play traditional grIp and was not taught traditional grip.
One of the things you have to remember about Beatlemania , it was the year after the Kennedy hit , two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis ... The Beatles sounded so fresh and new ... and hopeful . I started high school in 1964 ... It was The Beatles v Elvis ... I saw A Hard Day's Night and girls were screaming in the theatre ... then the Stones v the Beatles ... then Subterranean Homesick Blues and the world changed
Good video, but just a few corrections: he played match grip before there were screaming girls. Also, it was a bit American-centric; the U.S. was the last place to catch on, they were huge everywhere else. Also, I would have gone into his approach to fills, which was very influential. But basically, great video! I love how you talk about Ludwig having to stay open three shifts a day to keep up with demand, I didn't know that!
Great series! It would be cool to see more of those old school (pre-big band era, especially double drumming and traps) drumsets being explored and played.
The thing is i played some snare before and idk, am a rightie but my left hand will tend to swing as funny, maybe somthing like ringo since he was in some kinda awkward position, as he had to play in a right hander's drum kit altho he was a leftie, and when i played snare and esp when during deep into the song, my weaker hand which is my left became all swishy and swashy, like as if i was cooking, according to my friends... for me, i did noticed it one day as i subconsiously tried to and it looked like my drumstick was like the car's front windshield wiper😅😅😅idk... hahah!
As it should be. I was self taught and played match grip, learned traditional grip later on and it was difficult. I am teaching my son and starting him on strictly traditional grip. It will be much easier for him to learn brush technique and he will be able to switch to match grip without a problem.
Awww this is the last episode? I loved this series, especially this one because it's one of my favorite eras in music. Rush and Neil Peart come along in a couple of years. The beginning of heavy metal would be cool to see though. Hopefully there will be more to come, at least up to the mid 80s and thrash metal. I learned so much from this, even how all the endorsements started since Ringo made Ludwig the top company, so many other drummers would do the same. Ringo made me fall in love with drums, but Phil Rudd is the drummer who made me buy a set.
jlarsena It doesn't have to be the last one - it's just the tip of the iceberg, actually. All of this info is based on my 3-hr documentary, The Century Project, which gives you a MUCH bigger picture about all this material in the same entertaining way. More info here: danielglass.co/daniel-glass-store/
Whenever The Beatles appeared on TV with a different guitar, sales of that guitar would skyrocket also. I can't imagine playing drums traditional grip. I don't know how they did it.
Roy Beckerman, I believe that, in Elvis' heyday, people only noticed the star of the show. Girls would only look at Elvis, or Jerry Lee Lewis. Only a handful of people would look beyond the singer or the sax player. D J Fontana was essential to the sound of the classic Elvis recordings, but all eyes and ears were on the guy swinging his hips... That was another thing different that The Beatles brought: individual personalities, where all members of the band were known to the public, even if they didn't pay much attention to the instruments they played.
I really enjoyed this clip...I tried playing the drums but soon found out how uncoordinated I was...I envied people who could keep their legs and hands moving at the same time...I wasn't wired that way...I switched to piano and found that I could almost keep both hands going but not to whatever I was trying to play... my left hand could play by itself but not with my right hand...I relegated myself to just enjoying what I heard...I took a typing class in high school and found that the home row keys didn't make any sense to me... like my left side brain wasn't wired to my right side... If I held a hammer in my left hand my right side didn't know it was a hammer until I put the hammer in my right hand... really strange.
Can anyone explain me what are those two small rubbery things at the lower part of the front of the bass drum? I have always been intrigued by those, but never have been able to know what those are. Mutes for the bass drum? Support only?
@@randysemenak2439 There's at least one video clip ("Sounds Of The Loop") where Joe Morello of the Dave Brubeck Quartet has to fetch the bass drum back into position - not surprising when you see how he thrashes that pedal. Does it without missing a single beat, too.
+Floria Tosca Wrong. Black American bands were playing black music and when the Beatles came over and other British groups their music was more melodic, more lively and over all more likable. Thus the British invasion and both white and black American musicians saw a drop in their own record sales. It's called competition. The British bands were just better!
+Floria Tosca The white/black dynamic (as far as who was the "inventor," and who was the "imitator" of different music styles) has been a very hotly debated topic throughout the course of American Popular Music. The Beatles' first four albums are definitely loaded with straight up covers of American rockabilly, rhythm and blues, early rock, soul and vocal group artists. But I wouldn't say these were "stolen" as the Beatles didn't claim credit for writing them. In fact, these covers may have brought the original artists more attention through their popularity (although that's a debatable topic as well). With all that said, however, most of what we remember the Beatles for today is their original music (maybe "Twist and Shout" is a notable exception), which definitely had its own character and sound. My opinion (and it's just one).
The "Butter your bread" thing you saw Ringo do was an old jazz technique of keeping the beat steady. A kind of governor, the wider you swing the less time you have to go any faster. I still use it at times. Guys that know me will know that I'm trying to hold the tempo back.
Incredible Series! Big kudos to Daniel and all those who helped out ( especially Vic Firth of course ) Here's the playlist so far: playlist?list=PLZfbI09n0ih-gH4-M9Jm3c6r3DiCTcaIV&action_edit=1
Very insightful and informative! I've often wondered for years about the historical formation of the drum kit.And u answered all my questions. Loved it ...(wish D.J Fontana got a mention )
Exactly. D.J. Fontana (Elvis Presley's band) was the first mainstream player to play with a matched grip. Ringo gets the "credit" for matched grip because he had more exposure thanks to the popularity of The Beatles on television. Daniel states that Ringo used matched grip because "he needed to be louder" because of all of the screaming girls. Ringo used matched grip because his grandmother told him that left-handed people were "evil" and her left-handed grandson better learn to play the drums right-handed. Daniel also states that Ringo used a match grip because he used a small 20" bass drum. What?!?!?!?!? Matched grip or traditional grip has nothing to do with the volume of the bass drum. Then Daniel states that Ringo used matched grip so "he could really hit hard". Ringo did a lot of things....but hit hard was not one of them. Then Daniel states that using matched grip allowed Ringo to 'butter his bread' on the hi-hats. The choice of grip has no effect on how you play the hi-hats. as both matched grip and traditional grip use an overhand grip on the lead (hi-hat) hand.
This is why we shouldn’t be praising Ringo…he influenced thousands possibly millions to take the easy route with matched grip instead of taking on the more challenging grip. Traditional grip…
The thing is i played some snare before and idk, am a rightie but my left hand will tend to swing as funny, maybe somthing like ringo since he was in some kinda awkward position, as he had to play in a right hander's drum kit altho he was a leftie, and when i played snare and esp when during deep into the song, my weaker hand which is my left became all swishy and swashy, like as if i was cooking, according to my friends... for me, i did noticed it one day as i subconsiously tried to and it looked like my drumstick was like the car's front windshield wiper😅😅😅idk... hahah!
I just wanted to add that this was an excellent series. Interesting and informative.
Daniel Glass is my hero. It's safe to say that he's my favorite drummer by a large margin. I've been a guitarist all my life, but once I really found out who he was I started obsessing over the drums and rhythms more so than ever. So much that my wife went out and bought me a kit the day after Christmas. (I said I wanted absolutely nothing for Christmas, so she gave it to me the day after, and told me to deal with it. Wonderful wife.) I've been in studios and on the road pretty much since I was 13, and I had started to burn out. However that maniac has helped renew my passion in all things music. It's been too long since I've picked up a new instrument. I don't believe in being too late to start anything new, and certainly not if it's expanding my musical knowledge and experience.
Great series, could not stop watching, very professional..
Ringo is a Lefty and used as leading hand for the Toms. Maybe thats also a reason for him to change grip.
From Wiki
"I'm no good on the technical things ... I'm your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills ... because I'm really left-handed playing a right-handed kit. I can't roll around the drums because of that." Ringo says
Ringo Starr didn't play matched grip to get more power, man. He'd play matched grip because it was easier to play the drum set as a left handed person playing right handed on a right handed drum set. He was raised to do things right handed, because he was told doing things right handed was the proper thing to do.
This sounds pretty likely yes. Ringo also says that he plays his fills going up from floor tom to rack tom (e.g. "Come Together") for this exact reason.
What you said didn't make any sense. I'm a lefty that plays a righty kit. I can play traditional or matched grip. It's a matter of choice dude. I can get around the kit either way as many other drummers can. Matched grip is preferred by the large majority of rock drummers and traditional grip is preferred by the large majority of jazz drummers and marching band drummers.
jeffrey gaudreault 😃😃
Kinda like Jimi Hendrix, although he was actually right handed, wrote with his right hand...
The "Come Together" drum fill is not floor to rack. In fact, if you listen closely to a drum iso, the end of each fill goes all around the 3 toms, top to floor and bass drum (Hi, Daniel!)
Great way to end off. Amazing series! Thank you!
The Beatles and Ringo introduced the Mersey Beat which was a stronger & more powerful back beat using rim shots instead of hitting the snare just in the middle. The use of the rim made it louder with a "cracK" sound to cut through the louder electric guitars and amps. His match grip was used because he didn't play traditional grIp and was not taught traditional grip.
Thanks!!! These vic firth and Daniel Glass videos are AMAZING!!!
One of the things you have to remember about Beatlemania , it was the year after the Kennedy hit , two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis ... The Beatles sounded so fresh and new ... and hopeful . I started high school in 1964 ... It was The Beatles v Elvis ... I saw A Hard Day's Night and girls were screaming in the theatre ... then the Stones v the Beatles ... then Subterranean Homesick Blues and the world changed
Good video, but just a few corrections: he played match grip before there were screaming girls. Also, it was a bit American-centric; the U.S. was the last place to catch on, they were huge everywhere else. Also, I would have gone into his approach to fills, which was very influential. But basically, great video! I love how you talk about Ludwig having to stay open three shifts a day to keep up with demand, I didn't know that!
Excellent, as usual. It's a pleasure to watch and listen to these stories. Thank you.
Great series! It would be cool to see more of those old school (pre-big band era, especially double drumming and traps) drumsets being explored and played.
This was an awesome show. Thanks!
Thanks for a great vide...Took me back to being 14 in 1964!!! We went so wild over the Beatles!!!! lol! great times....no group better.....
I'm 60 and I still want to be Ringo. (24-year-old Ringo preferably.)
I like that "buttering the bread" name haha. this is very cool!
The thing is i played some snare before and idk, am a rightie but my left hand will tend to swing as funny, maybe somthing like ringo since he was in some kinda awkward position, as he had to play in a right hander's drum kit altho he was a leftie, and when i played snare and esp when during deep into the song, my weaker hand which is my left became all swishy and swashy, like as if i was cooking, according to my friends... for me, i did noticed it one day as i subconsiously tried to and it looked like my drumstick was like the car's front windshield wiper😅😅😅idk... hahah!
great history series !!! big TX
Great series! I wish it had a couple more parts telling us about fusion music and drumming.
Great series! been following from some time and always share this with my students. Keep it up Daniel and cheers from Tel Aviv :)
Great vid. Mr. Glass has done a phenomenal job with this project, bravo!!
My drum teacher, way back in the day, absolutely forbade the use of matched grip. Later in life I've used both grips.
As it should be. I was self taught and played match grip, learned traditional grip later on and it was difficult. I am teaching my son and starting him on strictly traditional grip. It will be much easier for him to learn brush technique and he will be able to switch to match grip without a problem.
Educating and entertaining!
Yep! Amazing, really liked the vid ! Music is the prime human invention isn't it? I'm so thankful to be a musician!
Awww this is the last episode? I loved this series, especially this one because it's one of my favorite eras in music. Rush and Neil Peart come along in a couple of years. The beginning of heavy metal would be cool to see though. Hopefully there will be more to come, at least up to the mid 80s and thrash metal. I learned so much from this, even how all the endorsements started since Ringo made Ludwig the top company, so many other drummers would do the same. Ringo made me fall in love with drums, but Phil Rudd is the drummer who made me buy a set.
jlarsena It doesn't have to be the last one - it's just the tip of the iceberg, actually. All of this info is based on my 3-hr documentary, The Century Project, which gives you a MUCH bigger picture about all this material in the same entertaining way. More info here: danielglass.co/daniel-glass-store/
Daniel Glass Awesome, thank you so much.
Enjoyed seeing all the left handed kits. Likely yours?
great. thanks Daniel!
Whenever The Beatles appeared on TV with a different guitar, sales of that guitar would skyrocket also. I can't imagine playing drums traditional grip. I don't know how they did it.
It's actually pretty easy once you understand the proper way to grip the stick and rotate the wrist.
Elvis’s drummer, DJ Fontana played match grip, long before Ringo became famous.
Ringo played match grip, long before all the screaming girls.
Roy Beckerman, I believe that, in Elvis' heyday, people only noticed the star of the show. Girls would only look at Elvis, or Jerry Lee Lewis. Only a handful of people would look beyond the singer or the sax player. D J Fontana was essential to the sound of the classic Elvis recordings, but all eyes and ears were on the guy swinging his hips... That was another thing different that The Beatles brought: individual personalities, where all members of the band were known to the public, even if they didn't pay much attention to the instruments they played.
that was excellent thanks
Can I fast-paced "galloping beat" work with the traditional grip? hahaha! I'd love to try that sometime
I really enjoyed this clip...I tried playing the drums but soon found out how uncoordinated I was...I envied people who could keep their legs and hands moving at the same time...I wasn't wired that way...I switched to piano and found that I could almost keep both hands going but not to whatever I was trying to play... my left hand could play by itself but not with my right hand...I relegated myself to just enjoying what I heard...I took a typing class in high school and found that the home row keys didn't make any sense to me... like my left side brain wasn't wired to my right side... If I held a hammer in my left hand my right side didn't know it was a hammer until I put the hammer in my right hand... really strange.
You need practice😊😊👍👍
nice
Ringo was left-handed, it created his style and beat . . . . .
Can anyone explain me what are those two small rubbery things at the lower part of the front of the bass drum? I have always been intrigued by those, but never have been able to know what those are. Mutes for the bass drum? Support only?
@@randysemenak2439 There's at least one video clip ("Sounds Of The Loop") where Joe Morello of the Dave Brubeck Quartet has to fetch the bass drum back into position - not surprising when you see how he thrashes that pedal. Does it without missing a single beat, too.
Baby boom
Hi Danny.
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Anybody know what kind of trumpet mute is @7:27?
Looks like a plunger mute.
It’s so weird to think that the match grip was never the default grip. I can’t imagine playing my drums with the traditional grip!
I somehow do it all the time, quite comfortable actually.
What song from titles? I forgot)
Richard Blackpool hey pachuco
No mention that Ringo played rightie but is a leftie!
The Blastbeats!! Oh..the beatles..guess they did something for drums too haha.
How do Americans distinguish between Beatles and Beadles in conversation?
+James Griffiths we don't
My family is American and they never watched or cared about the Beatles....then again we are black.
you are talking about white music stollen from the real music,the black music,you know what i mean?
+Floria Tosca Wrong. Black American bands were playing black music and when the Beatles came over and other British groups their music was more melodic, more lively and over all more likable. Thus the British invasion and both white and black American musicians saw a drop in their own record sales. It's called competition. The British bands were just better!
+Floria Tosca The white/black dynamic (as far as who was the "inventor," and who was the "imitator" of different music styles) has been a very hotly debated topic throughout the course of American Popular Music. The Beatles' first four albums are definitely loaded with straight up covers of American rockabilly, rhythm and blues, early rock, soul and vocal group artists. But I wouldn't say these were "stolen" as the Beatles didn't claim credit for writing them. In fact, these covers may have brought the original artists more attention through their popularity (although that's a debatable topic as well).
With all that said, however, most of what we remember the Beatles for today is their original music (maybe "Twist and Shout" is a notable exception), which definitely had its own character and sound. My opinion (and it's just one).
Daniel Glass Excellent points. The man knows his music!
Oh, he we go again... blah blah blah
Loved you at the Castel St Angelo......
Whats all this rubbish fit to do with Ringo.
The "Butter your bread" thing you saw Ringo do was an old jazz technique of keeping the beat steady. A kind of governor, the wider you swing the less time you have to go any faster. I still use it at times. Guys that know me will know that I'm trying to hold the tempo back.
Great insight! Thanks!
And RIngo did play on the back of the beat for effect, to hold tempo down and as part of his thing for swing
So Ringo's contribution to the history of the drumset was that he played matched grip??.....no sir
Incredible Series!
Big kudos to Daniel and all those who helped out ( especially Vic Firth of course )
Here's the playlist so far: playlist?list=PLZfbI09n0ih-gH4-M9Jm3c6r3DiCTcaIV&action_edit=1
6:27 - Incredibly overlooked lick.
Very insightful and informative! I've often wondered for years about the historical formation of the drum kit.And u answered all my questions.
Loved it ...(wish D.J Fontana got a mention )
Exactly. D.J. Fontana (Elvis Presley's band) was the first mainstream player to play with a matched grip. Ringo gets the "credit" for matched grip because he had more exposure thanks to the popularity of The Beatles on television.
Daniel states that Ringo used matched grip because "he needed to be louder" because of all of the screaming girls. Ringo used matched grip because his grandmother told him that left-handed people were "evil" and her left-handed grandson better learn to play the drums right-handed.
Daniel also states that Ringo used a match grip because he used a small 20" bass drum. What?!?!?!?!? Matched grip or traditional grip has nothing to do with the volume of the bass drum.
Then Daniel states that Ringo used matched grip so "he could really hit hard". Ringo did a lot of things....but hit hard was not one of them.
Then Daniel states that using matched grip allowed Ringo to 'butter his bread' on the hi-hats. The choice of grip has no effect on how you play the hi-hats. as both matched grip and traditional grip use an overhand grip on the lead (hi-hat) hand.
Thank you! Someone finally explaining the source of the traditional grip - point being the grip is no reflection on the drummer's skills.
This is why we shouldn’t be praising Ringo…he influenced thousands possibly millions to take the easy route with matched grip instead of taking on the more challenging grip. Traditional grip…
ELVIS DRUMMER, DJ FONTANA, PLAYED MATCHED GRIP, BEFORE THE BEATLES BECAME FAMOUS.
HE PLAYED GRETSCH IN THE 50s.
Ringo with the shoulder roll is the most Ringo thing
Elvis’s drummer, DJ Fontana, often played match grip, before Ringo.
But nobody before had the same kind of influence on young drummers.
Would loved to have seen you on a vintage 60s Ludwig for this segment, for authenticity and atmosphere..
And yet every now and then you'd have a Stewart Copeland...
Copeland learned his drumming from some unique sources.
The thing is i played some snare before and idk, am a rightie but my left hand will tend to swing as funny, maybe somthing like ringo since he was in some kinda awkward position, as he had to play in a right hander's drum kit altho he was a leftie, and when i played snare and esp when during deep into the song, my weaker hand which is my left became all swishy and swashy, like as if i was cooking, according to my friends... for me, i did noticed it one day as i subconsiously tried to and it looked like my drumstick was like the car's front windshield wiper😅😅😅idk... hahah!
Why not start out with some great drum riffs? TLDW
Thank you for making this series, it was very informative!
You'd think he would talk about how Led Zeppelin changed the music world