I saw drum seminar in n.y .c. at Cooper Union. Gregg bisonette and two others displayed their dedicated practice secrets. And, as a drummer , I was more inspired.However,, I never had two basses and I proceeded in the 7o's to do the rh. R.foot alternates with my 24" Ludwig bass & two floors : a 16 ". & 18". Tuned properly , I got the. Simulated sound of two basses. Since 1978 , added another bass drum. Thank you. Gregg. For motivating drummers and treat the skill as any athlete intent on mastering!
Frist time I have seen Greg !! A true drummer with a lot of charisma , talented , and energy , like the Energizing Bunny . He has developed so many Fantastic drum licks !! I love his drum solos & Chop's !!
Gregg is massively underrated and it’s a shame he’s never on a top 10 list! My brother Ty took lessons from Mark Craney when Mark was in the Woodland Hills Drum Club with Gregg and Myron Grumbacher.
A friend of mine was in LA a couple of weeks ago and scheduled a drum lesson with Gregg. He said that Gregg was the nicest guy. Gregg videos the whole lesson for you to take with you for reference. My friend, who's a great drummer in his own right, walked out of there with lessons and homework that he said will take months to master.
Greg demonstrates this lesson with a great and positive attitude. I really enjoyed hearing what he demonstrated and what he had to say. Thank you Greg!
It's official, UA-cam is listening to me practise! I was doing this for ages yesterday and now I see this randomly pop up... Really difficult to get this to space evenly and sound clean though, Gregg you smashed it!
I'm a believer in the "take it slow" mantra. If you can play it slow and get the feel of the chop you'll eventually play it fast. Not so the other way around. There's a lot of fills I could play fast but when I tried to slow them down, couldn't do it. Once I did get them slow and understood all the parts to them I could play them better. My opinion.
When I lived in la I took (I think) three lessons with him and it was some of the best money I ever spent. Dude kicked my ass in every lesson 😂. This was about a decade ago.
Try this take your right hand if right handed out grip in middle of the stick so there is equal length on butt and tip now lay hand on floor Tom and rotate your wrist so you hit head with each side of stick build speed it sounds like a sloppy single strike roll leaving your left hand and both feet independent to build on whatever you want to add. You can sound like a whole percussion band. You can also do this on a cymbal or with your left hand on any surface that’s big enough in diameter. I also have a cymbal above floor Tom you can hit Tom with one or both hands and lift up your strokes to hit cymbal too. Give these a try
"RH, LF LH, RF" I've been teaching that for years as a way to utilize both sides of your brain. I would also have them start with their weak hand, so if you are a right hander you would play it: "LH, RF RH, LF", and vice versa for a left hander. I would also teach them to practice it off the set as well because "sometimes you may not have access to a drum set to practice on." 👍🏾😉
I had this idea in my head for a while. I should've known that an "original idea" in my head that is that good was thought up by someone else who's been drumming before I was even born lol
When he's doing the right hand left foot left hand right foot it just looks and sounds like he's doing straight ahead double bass and playing single open rolls right left right left and it sounds like they're not super clean that's what it sounds like. Kind of weird. But I must say on the Eat em and smile record his drum sound and the playing was badass I had the cassette LOL and played it's Non-Stop from Baltimore to California in an 84' vette! Chevette
I heard alex rudinger playing this beat, couldnt figure it out for the life of me...tried playing the beat initially right right left left but obviously through practicing realized alternating was the correct way to play it, like arm swing and walking
PASIC could have not been the first time Gregg Bissonette saw Vinnie Colaiuta do that since Vinnie did that at Buddy Rich Memorial Concert on his transition solo between "Big Swing Face" & "Ya Gotta Try" in October 1989 where Gregg was also there. I personally don't see Vinnie do this lick as much now since Dave Weckl does the same lick on his solos
So the basic concept is single stroke rolls on hands and feet. Then cross sticking hands and feet with single stroke rolls. You can do a lot with just single stroke rolls.
Guy gets a double bass pedal for Christmas and he uses it in the middle Honkeytonk woman. Funniest thing today. This is Ringo's Drummer. We are seeing people doing Poly rhythms, nothing is impossible, but it's good he broke down the times it took that way, You think he just gets it first try and if You don't you suck. It took him a week and it's his version of it with the triplets not Vinnie's 1234 which he can not do with ease.
at 6:20 he said " Thank you Abbotsville " haha I think he meant to say Abbotsford ( where Drumeo is filmed ), but it was still funny. Love Gregg, awesome lesson.
I get the idea. What are the advantages of inverting hands and feet like this though? Does it even change the sound or improve speed? Why not LH/LF/RH/RF? Is it even perceptible from outside which hand/foot sequence is been played?
Is this lick really that great? Was doing this on a single pedal by 9th grade and no one taught it to me.....A LOT of drummers used this technique and variations of it for decades. Most drummers I knew did a variation of this technique especially when it comes to playing metal, and made super easy by using a double kick setup or double pedal. It kinda comes natural after a few years, no one has to point it out or teach it to you, you'll just stumble on it one day. Dave Lombardo comes to mind as one of the masters of this technique.....among a few others.
Omg.. I began practice this a while ago and intuitively: I too went with the triplet feel: it really helped!!.. But then I stopped practicing it.. Still not great at it.. Guess I'll be more "patient" then!
@@StarkestryP yeah, the drummer of that other group Brandon Fields played with for a while was really great too: David Garibaldi. Greg Bissonette's style was like a fine mix between Simon Phillips, Billy Cobham, Dave Weckl, Buddy Rich & Tony Williams. I especially hear a lot of these drummers in this drumsolo: ua-cam.com/video/R_WEI9FuNfE/v-deo.html
@@StarkestryP mine too. I used to set up Gregg's drums at TBP when he played with Brandon, Luke, Garfield and John Pena in the early 90's. Great shows.
Its pointless to do Rh lf lh rf like that when the end result sounds the same just doing it any way you want. Meaning why complicate it? Its single strokes either way you play it.
Ur name says it all. One of the most in demand L.A. studio drummers people, with a huge discography in many different styles. You don't want to learn anything from him, cause a Dik said so. HAHAHAHAHA!! That's funny.
Gregg is an absolute chops and musical monster. And most importantly, seems like a dude that would be just amazing to have or beer or 10 with.
I can confirm. Champion.
I saw drum seminar in n.y .c. at Cooper Union. Gregg bisonette and two others displayed their dedicated practice secrets. And, as a drummer , I was more inspired.However,, I never had two basses and I proceeded in the 7o's to do the rh. R.foot alternates with my 24" Ludwig bass & two floors : a 16 ". & 18". Tuned properly , I got the. Simulated sound of two basses. Since 1978 , added another bass drum. Thank you. Gregg. For motivating drummers and treat the skill as any athlete intent on mastering!
Alcoholism babby!
Frist time I have seen Greg !! A true drummer with a lot of charisma , talented , and energy , like the Energizing Bunny . He has developed so many Fantastic drum licks !! I love his drum solos & Chop's !!
Gregg is massively underrated and it’s a shame he’s never on a top 10 list! My brother Ty took lessons from Mark Craney when Mark was in the Woodland Hills Drum Club with Gregg and Myron Grumbacher.
Was there at Mancini's many times.
I did a clinic run with Gregg about 12 years ago and he showed me this ..... I'm still trying to nail it 😂... Thanks Gregg.
A friend of mine was in LA a couple of weeks ago and scheduled a drum lesson with Gregg. He said that Gregg was the nicest guy. Gregg videos the whole lesson for you to take with you for reference. My friend, who's a great drummer in his own right, walked out of there with lessons and homework that he said will take months to master.
Greg demonstrates this lesson with a great and positive attitude. I really enjoyed hearing what he demonstrated and what he had to say. Thank you Greg!
Gregg demonstrates life with a great and positive attitude.
Gregg is awesome ! Full of energy and good spirit! One of my new favorite drummers!
Covered a lot of ground and with plenty of precision. Nice guy too! Funny, creative and imaginative.
This guy is a great teacher! Plus I believe he has two brains that function independently of each other!
I laughed so hard at the honky tonk demonstration. Everyone's heard that guy. Don't be that guy lol
Gregg is in my top 5 drummers list
You can tell the kind of guy you'd love to have as your drum teacher.
My favorite for 30+ years. And a friend for just as long. Super nice, funny guy and a great drummer.
It's official, UA-cam is listening to me practise! I was doing this for ages yesterday and now I see this randomly pop up... Really difficult to get this to space evenly and sound clean though, Gregg you smashed it!
I love how he is tells a story about his story while telling his story.
Wonderful, absolutely wonderful! 👍
I'm a believer in the "take it slow" mantra. If you can play it slow and get the feel of the chop you'll eventually play it fast. Not so the other way around. There's a lot of fills I could play fast but when I tried to slow them down, couldn't do it. Once I did get them slow and understood all the parts to them I could play them better. My opinion.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. That's what I was always told about practicing guitar. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
We so blessed to have these great Giants still with us
I wish I could study with Gregg. I really relate to how he explains things.
When I lived in la I took (I think) three lessons with him and it was some of the best money I ever spent. Dude kicked my ass in every lesson 😂. This was about a decade ago.
Ed soph
Can`t think of any drummer who has mastered all the drumming styles in the way that Gregg has.
Vinnie ...
Danny Carey
Simon
He is wonderful
Gadd.
This is classic...Great explanation and Vin story! The guy who gets the double pedal for Christmas comment...You're FIRED! HAHAHAHA
You are funny, but is wonderful 👍
After like 5 years or so of practicing this almost every day I'm still in his "day 2". Not even joking.
Best tutorial ever simple explanation difficult to play thanks for showing us nobodies !!
Greg is amazing…. Saw him in 1985 with Maynard Ferguson Palm Harbor FL. …. fan ever since!!!
Love it!! Gotta get this down… thank you Gregg!
Gracias Gregg, excelentes consejos sobre la tenacidad y por mostrarnos estos rudimentos. Un aplauso!!!
From David Lee Roth to Dad Jokes.
I always enjoy Gregg’s videos.
Vinnie Colaiuta's favorite drummer WAS buddy rich until he heard 'Ego' by Tony Williams. Of course--Of course.
I've got one word for you Dylan Elise Greatest Drummer Alive Today have a great day
What a humble and great guy.
Terrific stuff, Greg..! Bravo! 👏🏻
Try this take your right hand if right handed out grip in middle of the stick so there is equal length on butt and tip now lay hand on floor Tom and rotate your wrist so you hit head with each side of stick build speed it sounds like a sloppy single strike roll leaving your left hand and both feet independent to build on whatever you want to add. You can sound like a whole percussion band. You can also do this on a cymbal or with your left hand on any surface that’s big enough in diameter. I also have a cymbal above floor Tom you can hit Tom with one or both hands and lift up your strokes to hit cymbal too. Give these a try
"RH, LF
LH, RF"
I've been teaching that for years as a way to utilize both sides of your brain.
I would also have them start with their weak hand, so if you are a right hander you would play it:
"LH, RF
RH, LF", and vice versa for a left hander.
I would also teach them to practice it off the set as well because "sometimes you may not have access to a drum set to practice on." 👍🏾😉
blasting on toms is a new sick thing! :D
I had this idea in my head for a while. I should've known that an "original idea" in my head that is that good was thought up by someone else who's been drumming before I was even born lol
When he's doing the right hand left foot left hand right foot it just looks and sounds like he's doing straight ahead double bass and playing single open rolls right left right left and it sounds like they're not super clean that's what it sounds like. Kind of weird. But I must say on the Eat em and smile record his drum sound and the playing was badass I had the cassette LOL and played it's Non-Stop from Baltimore to California in an 84' vette! Chevette
He looks like Borris Johnson's intelligent older brother that actually has their sh!t together
Brilliant!
Ha! This guy is super entertaining.
I've actually been messing with this lately.
Good times.
So easy for modern drummers
I heard alex rudinger playing this beat, couldnt figure it out for the life of me...tried playing the beat initially right right left left but obviously through practicing realized alternating was the correct way to play it, like arm swing and walking
PASIC could have not been the first time Gregg Bissonette saw Vinnie Colaiuta do that since Vinnie did that at Buddy Rich Memorial Concert on his transition solo between "Big Swing Face" & "Ya Gotta Try" in October 1989 where Gregg was also there. I personally don't see Vinnie do this lick as much now since Dave Weckl does the same lick on his solos
As soon as he explained it that way(triplet) I could do it!
I miss Greg's mullet from the 90s
What a great Character that BiSSO guy. 😆✌️♥️🥁
So the basic concept is single stroke rolls on hands and feet. Then cross sticking hands and feet with single stroke rolls. You can do a lot with just single stroke rolls.
Guy gets a double bass pedal for Christmas and he uses it in the middle Honkeytonk woman. Funniest thing today.
This is Ringo's Drummer.
We are seeing people doing Poly rhythms, nothing is impossible, but it's good he broke down the times it took that way, You think he just gets it first try and if You don't you suck. It took him a week and it's his version of it with the triplets not Vinnie's 1234 which he can not do with ease.
Sounds like a Harley Davidson ☺️
"A concussion at the Russian percussion discussion".
Dude, I thought Condoleezza was a type of rice.
I❤Gregg Bissonette
Love Gregg's videos. Great explanations without s whole lot of extra yap,yap, yap.
Greg: legend!
I see Greg at the NAMM show & tell him Coupe says hi😅
You're Fired 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Always musical, that's Gregg.
Almost took his place with Maynard...lol Love Gregs Playing.
First drummer I heard this pattern from is Derek Roddy
Someone send this to Matt Garstka
at 6:20 he said " Thank you Abbotsville " haha I think he meant to say Abbotsford ( where Drumeo is filmed ), but it was still funny. Love Gregg, awesome lesson.
Thank you
Playing this feels like running down hill almost falling over
Modern drummer the issue around 2000 to 2002 third hand concept issue with Charlie watts on the cover
The ol’ “fill of the century”
6:34
Literally all social media drummers 🤣
I get the idea. What are the advantages of inverting hands and feet like this though? Does it even change the sound or improve speed? Why not LH/LF/RH/RF? Is it even perceptible from outside which hand/foot sequence is been played?
Patience, grasshopper!☝🏼
Honky tonk women
Good ideay
I should try it sometime
Cool man
I love Greg.
Vell done !! 🍺 😎 👍
My favorite part is that Gregg didn’t subscribe to the traditional grip nonsense.
Man I've been doing that for 20 years it's nothing new
did he say it was something new?? he didn't. Just an idea not alot of drummers do.
Gregg says there’s bagga bagga bagga….there’s also blutton blutton blutton (Phil Collins)
🤔
So, four-limb rolls is how Igor Cavalera does the outro to “Desperate Cry.”
Is this lick really that great?
Was doing this on a single pedal by 9th grade and no one taught it to me.....A LOT of drummers used this technique and variations of it for decades. Most drummers I knew did a variation of this technique especially when it comes to playing metal, and made super easy by using a double kick setup or double pedal. It kinda comes natural after a few years, no one has to point it out or teach it to you, you'll just stumble on it one day. Dave Lombardo comes to mind as one of the masters of this technique.....among a few others.
In Dominican we called tacu tacu
Eternal monster
Omg.. I began practice this a while ago and intuitively: I too went with the triplet feel: it really helped!!.. But then I stopped practicing it.. Still not great at it.. Guess I'll be more "patient" then!
Patient is the key to success
@@obasishadrackchibuike2774 haha
Indeed!
Double pedal in honky tonk woman you’re fired! ROTFL
Why does this Gregg always sound like he has a sore throat???
I thought that was Boris Johnson on the drums
Nope,
Isn't that well done and amusing explanation?
LOL
RH LK LH RK is actually easier than RH RK LH LK
6:15 jajajaja
This guys bulgoose
What fucking drug is Bissonette
on today????
Sorry,Sr.Virgil Donatti
He's a great drummer. He can't tune his drums. Very sad.
his drums sound fine. I have played his drums at his place and they always sound great.
@@MikeB-oo9bj it's subjective. Im just being ornery.
@@karllager2214 that's true. Simon Phillips drums sound different that Alex Van Halen's so there ya go.
While great for coordination, it just NEVER appealed to me musically... Not even as a climactic finishing-move. Sorry.
The great Greg Bissonette in the 80's with Brandon Fields:
ua-cam.com/video/5LOLA51rq0c/v-deo.html
One of my favorite LPs from that era...Used to catch Brandon at the Baked Potato in North Hollywood quite a bit.
That album also introduced me to Robben Ford, by the way. Blew me away as an 18 year-old kid!
@@StarkestryP yeah, the drummer of that other group Brandon Fields played with for a while was really great too: David Garibaldi.
Greg Bissonette's style was like a fine mix between Simon Phillips, Billy Cobham, Dave Weckl, Buddy Rich & Tony Williams.
I especially hear a lot of these drummers in this drumsolo:
ua-cam.com/video/R_WEI9FuNfE/v-deo.html
@@ModernLove100 Awesome, thanks for sharing!
@@StarkestryP mine too. I used to set up Gregg's drums at TBP when he played with Brandon, Luke, Garfield and John Pena in the early 90's. Great shows.
Awesome drummer,but speaks like he's always out of breath....somebody look into that...?
What the hell is up with Greg’s hair?? It’s fuckin distracting!!
Dont know why he love it that way
Not exactly…clean, though.
So basically blast beats
He looks like the German version of Carl Palmer
Easy stuff....
Why not learn to do it both ways?
Its pointless to do Rh lf lh rf like that when the end result sounds the same just doing it any way you want. Meaning why complicate it? Its single strokes either way you play it.
This is Polkka people.
No.. he's annoying. There's much better people to learn from.
Ur name says it all. One of the most in demand L.A. studio drummers people, with a huge discography in many different styles. You don't want to learn anything from him, cause a Dik said so. HAHAHAHAHA!! That's funny.
@@MikeB-oo9bj ok.