Free Drum Lessons: A Look at the Grooves of Bill Bruford
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2012
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Learn Drums Live presents a free drum lesson that looks at three drum grooves from the influential drummer Bill Bruford, both from his days with the band Yes and King Crimson. All grooves come with transcriptions and are played at different tempos for optimum learning. Enjoy!! Please support the continued creation of these videos by donating to Venmo @drumsanytime. Thank you!
Watch closely if you're here Alan White, but you've been playing the meter to Heart of the Sunrise completely wrong for about, oh...45 years.
Interesting observation, Sir!
White has been playing EVERYTHING wrong for 45 years!
@@rogercrain3131 White is a solid drummer. A great fit for Yes. He hasn't been playing anything WRONG, he's been playing everything DIFFERENTLY
@@jaspergillgannon4991 no no, White plays a lot of Bruford parts wrong. I love Alan, Awaken is my favourite Yessong, but White was never gonna be the same as Bruford. The drummer in ARW plays Bruford's parts very well. White did not. His "interpretations" of Bruford's parts were simplified to the point where it sounds like he's playing in the wrong time signature.
@@jaspergillgannon4991 You can't expect Alan White to play like Bill Bruford which is a very original and special drummer. I am a big fan of Bill Bruford and so for Alan White. It wouldn't be interesting if everybody where playing the same. You can't expect get yourself known for, without a signature. But when Bruford did Genesis is style wasn't as a good fit as Chester Thompson's. What about his renditions of older material of King Crimson played by Michael Giles? The same with UK, different drumming with Terry Bozzio and Thompson both played with Frank Zappa which is known to have had the cream of musicians with albums like Hot rats, The Grand Wazoo and onwards. The important thing is to adapt your style and way of playing to the original material. To this extent hats off to what Alan White achieved while recording "Relayer", a tour de force. He was drumming previously with acts like John Lennon and Joe Cocker, which has nothing to do with Yes. When he joined the group, they gave themselves three months of try out because of very big difference in styles. Bill Bruford had to give half of his royalties to Alan White because he quitted abruptly at the end of sessions for "Close to the edge" to join King Crimson. In less than a week Yes had a show booked in Dallas on July 30th '72. Alan had three days to learn a complete show from three Yes albums that you can hear in the box set Progeny, the world tour leg portion of Yessongs in North America in '72. The original film and live triple vinyl album was recorded in December a few months later at the Rainbow Theatre in London.
More Bruford please!!! Great job here brother.
Thanks Pete! I love his playing as well, and will get around to another look at some Bruford grooves soon. ML.
Chapeau Chapeau Chapeau!!!!! Greetings from germany Christoph 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Greetings from the USA, Christoph, and thanks for watching and the nice comment!
Thanks for this. Three of a perfect pair groove is great.
not many surpass Bruford in Fusion drumming...love the grooves
***** I always loved Bruford's approach to drumming, super creative! Thanks for the comment.
Michael Shrieve
I'm a huge Bill Bruford fan, and I wish I could play his grooves as well as you can, my friend.
Hi Manuel. I am a huge Bill Bruford fan as well. I would highly recommend his autobiography, which can be found on Amazon. It's a great read! Take care. ML
Nice job from a bro' lefty drummer.
Thank you Sir!
Nice! Small correction, though. According to Bill's own transcription in "When in Doubt, Roll!," the time signature for "Heart of the Sunrise" is 6/8, not 3/4.
+Christopher Trionfo You are correct Sir! I saw that after I had already done the video, not realizing that there was already a transcription. Thanks! ML
Super tight chops, thanks for the video!
Marco Patino Hi Marco, thanks for watching and the comment! ML
Man very precise and concise, 👍.
Thank you!
Great work. I'd really love to hear the bass drum more. iPad speakers don't even carry it at all. Thanks. Would also enjoy your take on what Bruford does on the squiggly part between the main riff. 5/8 time? (Heart of the sunrise.)
Many thanks!
Carlos Edit Many Welcomes! Take care, ML
I love the sound quality , over all great video thanks heaps
Thank You! ML
Good drummer, good vid.
Thank you Sir!
Coooo-welll! Such simple ideas. Please do one on Heart of the Sunrise... and other Yes songs.
Thanks Keith! Time permitting, I will do those songs. Thanks for watching~!
I have the same snare drum. DW is great. Awesome vid by the way!
They really are great! Thanks for stopping by and the comment.
wow cool a lefty like me! thanks for taking time for sharing tips
you are unbelievable... I've been playing drums for 2 years, by myself. you have teached me a lot of things! can I ask you just one thing? are you left handed who plays in a right set like me, or just an ambidestrous? because in others video you play with the right set: here you play with the left set... that's unbelievable!
What timing is the last groove in?
Very coll
Thanks!
Unfortunataly i don´t own a paypal card. I don´tt even own ANY credit card. I wish i could donate, as soon as I get one i´ll sure donate.
+paulo silva Thanks Paulo, I appreciate it! ML
it is very sad this video show Bill playng as a lefty... take care because young drummers
could be disturbed . Bruford is right hand side...
+johan salusse Hi Johan, Actually it is being played right handed and I am right handed. It just looks like that b/c of the way the camera is...you aren't the first person to think that. Thanks for stopping by, ML
I don't mean to argue and I don't really care; left or right handed, what does it matter? But your drum set up looks exactly to me like how my left-handed drummer's is... I thought if you're right handed you have the bass drum on your right foot and hi hat at left? I'm not a drummer btw, so idk.