Detroit's Percussionist Mastermind Joshua Jones | Uncharted: Power of Dreams
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Joshua Jones from Detroit, Michigan is the "perfect storm" of natural talent. Jones got an early start playing the drums, understands how hard it is to get a job as a percussionist, and has an unyielding dedication to perfect his skills. Those four elements collide in this episode of Uncharted and capture him on the precipice of landing a job in one of the most exclusive artistic clubs in the world.
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I've met this guy and took classes with him and he's truly one of the nicest people I've ever met on top of being an insane musician.
Where can I get in contact with him? And where did he go to college?
Being a percussionist:
Before joining orchestra: Intense, tiring practice across multiple instruments for years.
Being in an orchestra: Counting bar rests until you have 1 bass-drum note.
Requirements for being a percussionist:
1. Have a truck to carry your massive instruments around with you.
2. Have unlimited money. (You need lots of money to buy instruments your boss needs in the piece)
3. Sit around and do nothing.
Jk you need to PRACTICE. I don't play percussion, but I have problems with counting quadruplets, quintuplets, and sextuplets all in one piece. Messes with my mind a bit. And that's not all there is to percussion. Damn, percussion is hard.
Joshua Jones is probably practicing right now. The 24-year-old aspiring percussionist and Chicago native - with an almost obsessive attitude toward getting better at his craft - has spent years filling any downtime he can find with stick control exercises. It’s the kind of devotion that has no off switch...Except maybe UA-cam.
+UPROXX Yeah, but what are his commenting chops like?
I was actually just about to practice my stick control as well...
Josh is one of my biggest percussion idols in my life, he is incredible teacher and like person more incredible, it’s just one of the kind. He influenced my kind of playing for better and keep doing that. thanks Josh for be so awesome.
Rappers need to step up their practice game too.
...They do practice. A lot.
Peter Henderson no they don't
depends on the rapper
Real talk
Caleb not everyone can rap. it comes easier for some than others.
couldnt watch past 42 seconds, had to get out of the computer and practice
Henrique Lisboa 42 seconds + the time to post this comment *
Very few are so sure of what they want to do that they are able to commit completely to their craft.
"I can hear the electricity in the walls"
**CoOl mAn. I caN SmeLL ColORs**
Rock & Rollin' Nolan tf are you talking about? There's nothing wrong with what he said
No, there isn't anything wrong with what he said. I was just making a really cheap joke about how that's kind of what an insane person MIGHT say. Now, I know he isn't insane but just really, really, talented... Like I said, it was a really cheap joke.
Oh my bad, thought you were mocking what he said
Actually, some people can "smell" colors; or hear in colors, or smell sounds. It is an actual medical condition called synesthesia - look it up...
Yep. I know about synesthesia. Like I said I was just making a cheap joke. :P
this guy is so cool and dedicated
This is so inspiring and I’m glad he achieved his dream🏆
If anyone is wondering the name of the piece towards the end, it's Kinah by Leonard Slatkin
From a fellow South Side of Chicago-man, God bless you and keep trying! Don't get discouraged!
~Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: Make a loud noise, rejoice and sing praise.~
You are a Champion. Let go and flow. The world is yours!
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Dedication, devotion, diligence. Josh has it all and more.
Now, were you rushing or were you dragging!?
+Steambrom Exactly!
Does this have to be a comment on every percussion video?
no. stahp.
Steambrom this is how you let every percussionist know you are a none musician who knows nothing about music so you have to quote something other likes you do all the time because you don’t know what to say.
Not my FUCKING TEMPO!
you are a talented and wonderful young man, great things ahead for you. I wish the very best for you - keep up the good work and keep following your heart. So glad to have had the opportunity to meet you.
I wish Joshua every success.
I wish him the very best! Go brother! :)
Flight Of The Bumblebee. Awesome.
You know, you see a lot of videos and it's always the same thing. Someone has a big dream and supposedly no shot, but works at it and achieves their dream and it's all very cliche nowadays, but this video is one of the few videos I've watched in the last few years that actually inspires me to go out and do something. It might just be because I enjoy percussion and the other videos out there don't appeal to my interests, or maybe because of how interesting of an approach this video takes to showing the lifestyle of someone like Joshua. Either way I am really happy for him and I hope Joshua makes it out there because as we all know, technology is destroying fine arts and with synthesizers, even movies are beginning to stop hiring actual people to play an instrument so if you want to make a career in music, you have to make it in a professional orchestra, or settle as a music teacher. So go Joshua! Make the musical community proud!
Wow, Josh's study "grind" is special.
Congrats Josh I wish you success in your future endeavors.
I'm a percussionist too. But all I do is hit quarter notes on a bass drum and an occasional roll on a snare drum
Lol thats cute
high school, but yeah, same idea
Same!
I play triangle and crash all the time lul
Bass drum and snare? that's cute.
The usual Flight of the Bublebee in piano is divided (not equally) between 10 fingers.
His at 0:57 is only done between 2 (hands). @___@
waranghira 🤣
Mad respect.
3:57 dude is playing George Gershwin's An American in Paris. One of my favorite composers, second to Tchaikovsky 🙄
This guy is ALREADY a success. It's only going to get better!
Tom Teasley 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
What an inspiration
PERCUSSION IS LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This man is my biggest inspiration
see why old heads get mad at mumble rappers, they put in no effort
1:00 twoset has entered the chat
Way to go Joshua!!!
Percussionists woooo!
The best
Welcome to Calgary, Josh!
awesome
00:55 Isn't this part of the vibraphone run for the blue devils 217 show?
Ben Koetting Flight of the Bumblebee is a pretty famous piece
Good luck Joshua!
Beautiful
This always shows up on my recommended and I always think draymond green when I see the thumbnail
I wanna hear you jam with Jacob Collier.
Anthony Lee Phillips that would be lit!
"Don't You Know", for real
Dang. I need to practice.
6:45 how is his voice like that?
good luck Joshua!
The ling ling of percussion
First in foremost, Josh, congratulations. You are phenomenal. Second, Josh, or anyone else, what is the clapping exercise at the beginning of the video? If you could point me in the right direction for more information on that, I’d be very grateful. Thank you!
Michael Johns hey, it’s an exercise jojo Mayer came up with. I honestly haven’t done it in a while lol
chops for days
brotha there's a lot of musical paths. Don't get locked down in this idea you gotta fight for one of those openings.
Was that an American in Paris??
cool
Percussion is just hitting things but hitting them correctly
-me the percussionist
This is the physical manifestation of OCD
theberryofawsomeness yup
theberryofawsomeness and what an excellent way to make use of it.
When he said “I can hear electricity” I thought ASD
Calgary Philharmonic
*well that escalated*
I Don’t necessarily agree with his consensus that every second you’re not practicing you’re wasting time this is Patently not true!
You’re forgetting that the muscles in your arms, hands, wrists and fingers need to have a period of rest between the practice. So that they can reset them selves so that they can how can I say this: the muscles, tendons, and ligaments, all need to be able to adjust, and to reset them selves to the previous practice periods, actual practicing triggers, the development and the-rest periods, between the actual practicing triggers the development of the muscles of the arm, hands and fingers, etc. I have been playing drums for the last 65 years and about 30 years ago. I finally became hip to the fact that taking one day off a week and not touching even a single drumstick or even thinking about DRUMS or PERCUSSION my mind, and my body could reprogram them selves reset themselves so that when I resumed practice on the next day, my chops due to the rest of the previous day were automatically conditioned and relaxed enough from the day of rest to go onto the next level of development. This is a physiological fact! By practicing every second of every day, all you’re going to get is eventually carpal tunnel syndrome, stiff and overworked chops, and maybe a touch of bursitis and arthritis as well, but to each his own what can I tell you?!
Of course it’s true when you’re actually practicing and or performing, you should be throwing 111% of your existence into it but then those periods of rest in between the “playing”
You should just let it all go just release it all and when you come back the next day or the next session, you’ll be refreshed mentally as well as physiologically that’s a fact and you can dispute it all you want but it’s still a physiological fact make of it what you will
Hey gina
Spencer Perilloux Hey spencer
The closest person to Ling Ling
Adrian Frederic omg xD
DO DCI
michi in the background?
Same story from high school 😂
Me
that was all a fucking ad goddamit
this guy is actually ling ling
Max Mikkelsen xD Im honoured xD
Slipknot's new member?
WHAT IS THAT DRUM AT 3:01!?!?!
PLBIV yup
i believe thats the old black swamp space tone
Does anyone know why the first thing he does each morning is clap 800 hundred times?
theclash435 helps activate and build the muscles required to drum and play instruments at faster speeds with more control
Ethan Pierce That’s amazing
theclash435 its a warm up I got from a drumset player, Jojo Mayer
Yo your practicing is inspiring. I'm mainly a saxophonist but taking some percussion lessons, and just started the mallet instruments. Very fun stuff
did you end up getting a gig?
18 hours a day and he doesnt want to try out for DCI.. smh
stanfoo he's too old, that would be awesome though
Ethan Pierce oh yeah, didnt even think about that lol
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. DCI doesn't deserve him.
stanfoo duuddee he would be soooo gooodd
I wouldn't say being in DCI is the pinaccle of being a percussionist.First of all you're basically paying to play,you're not getting paid for it,you learn shit habits that fuck you up.
Did he get in?
Noah Russell that's what she said
Chris Lugo really. Be mature for at least a minute
Noah Russell I did win a principal percussion job in Calgary Philharmonic :)
Joshua Jones Congratulations man!
Joshua Jones Congratulations!!
Ken Thompkins plays trombone, not trumpet
Brendan K they fixed it in a separate video
report
Were you Russian or were you dragon !?
I would love to get together with this guy. I can see it now. We could put a hell of a band together. We can be powerful just the two of us. This guy is fantastic.
I must become better
My question is what makes him a "Mastermind", he just sounds like any other percussionist.
Also "OmG iS thAt FliGht oF tHe BumbLeBeE!!!!"
Dedication to the craft. Absolute Dedication and Love for what he does.
I never liked playing in the orchestra., way too much counting and not enough playing.
Clayton Brown that’s why we have jazz big band 😁 it’s awesome, I just left from playing at one tonight, even got a solo
I don't really get that clapping exercise-- it's not exercising the muscles you use for drumming- radial ulnar action is the normal drumming movement rotating the lower arm- for larger movement the shoulders are involved and for smaller movement the fingers of course- but that fast patting action is not really used in drumming and in fact may be not so great for the muscles--- I wonder who recommends this stuff??
well sure it does. it's working your extensors. you don't really wanna finger/squeeze bottle your strokes on the keyboard. and the clapping would be analogous to playing double stops with the goal of being symmetrical. just try it for a month and see what it does for you. couldn't hurt and could only help.
?? Well it sure does what-? what does it sure does-?- again these are not the muscles used for drumming- and your assertion that this can't hurt anything is not a position well taken or thought out.
you don't use your extensors? okay. you probably can't find middle c on the marimba either. sheesh. so negative and ignorant.
M. M. It works your fingers, which is important for things such as the finger technique for snare
sawyer sendelbach But it doesn't work the fingers at all--- it's working the wrists- and in the wrong direction- it's not radial-ulnar movement which is the suggested movement for drumming through the wrists--- it's more like the movement people use when working on their computers which as you should know does harm, repetitive motion injury is common so through an exercise like this you can injure yourself more quickly--- no thanks.