As a drummer who has played for almost 40 years I will tell you this is incredibly hard to do with the same feel. I could listen to this beat looped all day. Steve is sublime!
Years ago Steve, I use to thumb a ride to your house from Leroy. You gave me pointers. You and your mom treated me great. I will always remember you and your mother. Tks for the memory's 😅
Listen to the Steve Gadd band some time. At first I was bored with his background playing. Now I am amazed by it. Every strike of a drum or cymbal is absolutely full of meaning. he knows exactly what he is doing and the more you listen the more you appreciate his depth.
the steve gadd one is a good reminder of how important it is to rehearse slow and simple and to keep a steady time. take it easy! and thanx a lot for a lesson by one of the greats. cheers.alex
slickingdom Dude you are entirely too correct. I think everyone who sticks with any instrument for a long time goes through phases of feeding the ego monster rather than the music. Usually we gain something useful from those times but mostly what I gain is the comfort of new ways to express and use the basics. I’m never out of work and I enjoy the rep of a solid pocket drummer. Basics.
I am a professional bassist. This guy is one of the legends of them all. The second he plays it reaps with GROOVE man. Damn would I love to lay down just 2 and 4 with this guy.
There's a nice clip on YT of Steve Gadd & Bass player Willie Weeks playing "Going Down" with Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood. Talk about a stage full of Heavyweights!!
He's amazing. This lesson shows how much he communicates with his playing. He's not much of a talker, but, God, his playing is amazing. Especially when he goes off on tangents with those great fills. I love this guy's playing so much.
I could watch Steve just play quarters on the Hi Hat all day and be mesmerized, the soul of a groove is what it's all about! Keep Groovin' Steve! DC 🥁😎
Have followed Steve since the 70’s. Truly inspirational player. I’ve seen him live a bunch of times, but most memorable was a show in Pittsburgh in the early 80’s with Chuck Mangione… his solo was truly unbelievable. Mind blowing🥁👏👏👏🙏
Great video even for non drummers .. I like that Steve Gadd just play’s very simple pattern clearly for a long time .. that’s the route for many students to gain muscle memory ❤🙏🏽
Really great stuff... Fell in love with the 16th note Hi Hat Rhythm as a kid and have used it often for that shuffle feel which works in so many form of music from Jazz to Rock, Etc... It's great to see one of my All Time Drum Heros break it down just because I just love Steve Gadd "play/sound/performance/etc...". He had Timing and Rhythm which was what brought my love affair to drums and I haven't lost ever since. Great series, just subscribed... Looking forward to more. Thanks, Wolfy :)
Thank you so much for Great teaching. There is so little teaching on hihat patterns & grooves it makes this teaching so valued & important to drummers. Mr. Gadd's time is fantastic & his dynamics are nice & smooth around the kit which makes it flow very nice & steady. Thank you so much for the lesson.
This video probably has helped me more in starting on the drums than anything else!! This is just so tasteful and repetitively well explained and presented for a beginner. Plus Steve Gadd plays really well, of course
Some people say that Mr. Steve Gadd has played the same "licks" for 20 years. It matters not IMHO...it all about the feel and heart in which he plays....and he is still evolving. Knows how to use silence as music. ;)
What i like about this demo is that he plays the groove for a long while at a a good tempo so you can follow it and get comfy with it unlike other demo that only have a few bars then into show off mode so you cant follow the groove or they refer you to charts ok if you read really well so cheers for this one, from the master.
Why would anybody give Steve a thumbs down? When you even as much as 1/16th as he does by demand, then tell us what you are doing thats so superior to him here? Please.
He’s showing us drummers what it takes to become better. It isn’t always sexy and it can be boring. Of course watching him isn’t boring, but you get it.
phenomenal...I especially like the sticking with the 3 consecutive lefts that he started with and that you notated in the beginning. I never used it specifically... (but I will now). Thank you Rob, I didn't know that you were 'Drum Guru"...but I'm not surprised (I was at NTSU ion 78, and studied at DC-NYC in the mid to late 80s). I'm 54 this year and still improving, and I have a long list of people to thank for that, but YOU, Paul S., and of course Steve are at the top of that list :-)
Hey Rob very happy to see this cool lesson and I told Ricky Kravitz don't buy a restaurant and sell Drummers Collective it's going to be a gold mine once it's not on 42nd street any longer÷!! I was so right! I was the first student at dci and you Rob and Paul gave me a lesson but I taught Paul and you more than you showed me and I never forgot that you and Paul said we don't want to charge you after I sort of blew your minds but you had to charge me the 19 bucks for the lesson, and you Rob were telling me all about how much you love liberty from Billy Joel and I agreed! Some of my fondest year's with studying at the collective longer than anyone in your schools history...12 year's with some very famous drummers and I studied with Kim for a decade and we spoke 1 month before he sadly passed on.....Devastated me,we were going to get together and I wanted him to hear what I'm playing 35 years after he heard me last! !! P.S you've aged like fine wine and thanks for all the memories! !!!
Great video, nice to be able to learn from such a great drummer like Steve Gadd. He is one of the very top drummers of all time and I have always really loved his deep pocket , solid groove playing. More Please!!
The sticking notation on the screen confused me, then when he was playing, I couldn't work out the relevance of the flam on the 2 and 4, as opposed to a single stroke. As soon as he explained and demonstrated the difference between playing at as the standard RLRL RLRL it immediately all fell into place. What a difference it makes to the groove and feel. The man's amazing!
I believe he played this groove on the Al Jarreau song "Easy". It sounds much more complicated than he makes it look. Of course the song had a much faster tempo. I finally settled to playing variations of paradiddles, but was convinced he must have over dubbed the ride. Now I see why it sounded like that! Then again, I could be way off and he may have played a completely different groove. When I grow up, I hope basic rudiments are so ingrained within me that I can play instinctively like Steve does. When he takes time to think what he has played, reveals how deeply rooted they are in him.
I hear you! I loved learning rudiments and playing them spread out all over the kit! Things like that were what I called my category of "digging into the drums". Then there was the playing on top keeping ride beats going category of practise focus. They do get ingrained inside a drummer. Rudiments contain things, stickings, that that will come out naturally when a drummer starts playing live with other musicians. Especially creating drumming for new original music. I remember realizing, ah yeah, I see where that thing I played came from! All the things that come out in playing, had to first be put in. Ha, sometimes there is a great big surprise when things have combined inside and they come out!
Great start to the series.Of course who other than Steve gadd. The lesson is clear and concise,camera angles are excellent. A++...to borrow a quote...I'll be back...:-)
Really cool groove! It's like hihat, snare, bass and ride are played by different people and then mixed live, so that it would sound nice. I couldn't spot how the swinging was done, but on his hitting the ride I see that it takes lots of efforts, especially during the live session.
Remo Drum skins, i use them, there great Skin's never break, also on i never hit that hard, and Pro Tone Drum Skin's, are good 2, i like drum's all together they rock the nation.
Three of my favorite Steve Gadd recordings are: 1) Lenore- From the Chick Corea album 'The Leprechaun', 2) Aja- title cut from Steely Dans' Aja album and 3) Spain- from the late Al Jarreau album 'This Time'. If you can find the time, listen to those three tunes, and you get to hear how spectacular, gifted, and blessed Steve Gadd truly is!
Oh yeah! Steve's playing on that Chic Corea album changed my life! It brought me to a halt and a reevaluation of my life as a drummer! I kept going, until injuries took me out.
He’s a master teacher. He doesn’t talk too much. A lot of guys do way too much explanation and way too many parentheticals in the conversation. Steve is right to the point.
He's ever so slightly swinging it, like in brazilian music. Also when he says flam, he means flam. The hi hat of 2 and 4 land on the beat in true metronome fashion, and the snare lags behind slightly.
Well he even says he's doing it, but it is most easily noticed when he is doing the entire sticking on the snare. If he were doing unison strokes, it would sound very choked.
It seems much more exaggerated on the snare. He does not exaggerate it like that on the HH. Just saying. I've used this method for years without the glam, at least I never noticed a glam.
uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ǝʇoɹ ǝuop ᴉ zlol First of all, kudos on your username! Very unique. Secondly, there’s no flam on the music that’s provided. I think it’s more of a double stop, which is just the right and left hands hitting a drum at the same time with no grace note, unlike a flam. He uses a flam when explaining the part on the snare drum but when playing the part I don’t think he uses a flam. Explaining it one way and then playing it another way could be very confusing to a beginner drummer. If you play it as written then there’s no flam.
@@drewper73 No, really there is a flam. The idea is that normally when the hat and snare notes are played simultaneously the sound of the one or the other is masked slightly and you get a bit of a drop out. Doing it this way means that neither masks the other, the hat remains clear and on its own, I think for recording especially this is brilliant. Written down of course there would be no flam as the flam, albeit a very slight/fast one is only there to get this result. But you're totally right, it isn't clear at all, especially not to a beginner.
So many ignorant fools on here criticising how he talks, how he plays. None of you succeed in exposing Gadd for any shortcoming. You do however unintentionally but effectively draw attention to your lack of insight and embarrass yourselves.
As a drummer who has played for almost 40 years I will tell you this is incredibly hard to do with the same feel. I could listen to this beat looped all day. Steve is sublime!
Years ago Steve, I use to thumb a ride to your house from Leroy. You gave me pointers. You and your mom treated me great.
I will always remember you and your mother.
Tks for the memory's 😅
Steve Gadd sends me to a higher level. Every strike of the drum is a lesson in itself. His drumming speaks truth.
It seems like he sent himself to a higher level before this recording lol
Listen to the Steve Gadd band some time. At first I was bored with his background playing. Now I am amazed by it. Every strike of a drum or cymbal is absolutely full of meaning. he knows exactly what he is doing and the more you listen the more you appreciate his depth.
the steve gadd one is a good reminder of how important it is to rehearse slow and simple and to keep a steady time. take it easy! and thanx a lot for a lesson by one of the greats. cheers.alex
Steve has gotten so much mileage off of that groove with it's variations!! Never underestimate simplicity!! It's what keeps us working!!
slickingdom
Dude you are entirely too correct. I think everyone who sticks with any instrument for a long time goes through phases of feeding the ego monster rather than the music. Usually we gain something useful from those times but mostly what I gain is the comfort of new ways to express and use the basics. I’m never out of work and I enjoy the rep of a solid pocket drummer. Basics.
What can I say? Thank you! Steve's stuff is so elegant, and fun to play. Magnificent! He is definitely the drum guru
I am a professional bassist. This guy is one of the legends of them all. The second he plays it reaps with GROOVE man. Damn would I love to lay down just 2 and 4 with this guy.
He don't do 2 and 4.
He does 32 and 64.
As a drummer Gadd is one of the greats. His stuff with Steely Dan is Legendary
There's a nice clip on YT of Steve Gadd & Bass player Willie Weeks playing "Going Down" with Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood. Talk about a stage full of Heavyweights!!
He's amazing. This lesson shows how much he communicates with his playing. He's not much of a talker, but, God, his playing is amazing. Especially when he goes off on tangents with those great fills. I love this guy's playing so much.
I could watch Steve just play quarters on the Hi Hat all day and be mesmerized, the soul of a groove is what it's all about! Keep Groovin' Steve! DC 🥁😎
Steve Gadd is a great example of someone who plays the music! Nothing fancy, just play the music! Great video Drum Guru. More of Steve Gadd!!
Fabulous lesson to work out! My favorite drummer of all time for a teacher.
Have followed Steve since the 70’s. Truly inspirational player. I’ve seen him live a bunch of times, but most memorable was a show in Pittsburgh in the early 80’s with Chuck Mangione… his solo was truly unbelievable. Mind blowing🥁👏👏👏🙏
Great video even for non drummers .. I like that Steve Gadd just play’s very simple pattern clearly for a long time .. that’s the route for many students to gain muscle memory ❤🙏🏽
Really great stuff... Fell in love with the 16th note Hi Hat Rhythm as a kid and have used it often for that shuffle feel which works in so many form of music from Jazz to Rock, Etc... It's great to see one of my All Time Drum Heros break it down just because I just love Steve Gadd "play/sound/performance/etc...". He had Timing and Rhythm which was what brought my love affair to drums and I haven't lost ever since. Great series, just subscribed... Looking forward to more.
Thanks,
Wolfy :)
It seems to be easy, but Steve grooves like hell and nobody can do it as musically as him.
Thank you so much for Great teaching. There is so little teaching on hihat patterns & grooves it makes this teaching so valued & important to drummers. Mr. Gadd's time is fantastic & his dynamics are nice & smooth around the kit which makes it flow very nice & steady. Thank you so much for the lesson.
This is so simple and beautiful. Thank you for providing this.
Wow, this was incredibly helpful. Couldn't figure this out on my own, thanks for this awesome vid!
Steve Gadd makes drumming seem easy. I practice hard and seek to one day be spot on. These tutorials are helpful and inspirational. Brock Garrison NYC
Such a rudimental master, combined with excellent taste and creativity.
I'll tell you what to do....
Make as many video of Steve Gadd as you can.
True Drum Master.
King of 32nd note grooves.
Thanks from Brasil ! Great lesson for all the drummers that love groove .
This video probably has helped me more in starting on the drums than anything else!!
This is just so tasteful and repetitively well explained and presented for a beginner. Plus Steve Gadd plays really well, of course
Steve is a beautiful musician
Feelings comes first with a lot of techniques behind it and thats where the art is .
Love the sympathetic snare buzz from the high tom!
absolutely amazing, such a big difference in the groove between this and a normal 16th notes hi -hat pattern without the unisons...
he is the man,always knows what is the drummers role,thanks norm.
That was very nice to see this variation. It these little things that contribute to smooth soulful playing. Darryl johnson Panco
Outstanding!! Beautiful demo of a simple concept explained perfectly! Not to mention, the gorgeous Gadd grooves!! Thank you!
Some people say that Mr. Steve Gadd has played the same "licks" for 20 years.
It matters not IMHO...it all about the feel and heart in which he plays....and he is still evolving. Knows how to use silence as music.
;)
Thank you for the time to show us the technique. My favorite tune you played is still Humpty Dumpty with Chick and Eddie Gomez
What i like about this demo is that he plays the groove for a long while at a a good tempo so you can follow it and get comfy with it unlike other demo that only have a few bars then into show off mode so you cant follow the groove or they refer you to charts ok if you read really well so cheers for this one, from the master.
Why would anybody give Steve a thumbs down? When you even as much as 1/16th as he does by demand, then tell us what you are doing thats so superior to him here? Please.
Great lesson, very clear explanation - Steve is a dancer on those drums!
Love that concept of adding the note on 2 + 4 with the left hand . makes It feel really good and more round with an extra lil tilt
He never seems to speak so well but the Gaddster has a groove so sublime as to make a brave man weep.x
I always get a New York 1970s vibe whenever I see Mr. Gadd
He’s showing us drummers what it takes to become better. It isn’t always sexy and it can be boring. Of course watching him isn’t boring, but you get it.
Such a simple idea, but is adds SOOO much!!!
Thanks.. i never thougt in closing the gap Like this. Useful 👍
phenomenal...I especially like the sticking with the 3 consecutive lefts that he started with and that you notated in the beginning. I never used it specifically... (but I will now). Thank you Rob, I didn't know that you were 'Drum Guru"...but I'm not surprised (I was at NTSU ion 78, and studied at DC-NYC in the mid to late 80s). I'm 54 this year and still improving, and I have a long list of people to thank for that, but YOU, Paul S., and of course Steve are at the top of that list :-)
if you heard records in the 1970's and up you heard steve gadd. Indeed the master. i love all of it.
+bret dorton Aja. Nuff sed.
the groove of steve gadd is something unique, I love it
Hey Rob very happy to see this cool lesson and I told Ricky Kravitz don't buy a restaurant and sell Drummers Collective it's going to be a gold mine once it's not on 42nd street any longer÷!! I was so right! I was the first student at dci and you Rob and Paul gave me a lesson but I taught Paul and you more than you showed me and I never forgot that you and Paul said we don't want to charge you after I sort of blew your minds but you had to charge me the 19 bucks for the lesson, and you Rob were telling me all about how much you love liberty from Billy Joel and I agreed! Some of my fondest year's with studying at the collective longer than anyone in your schools history...12 year's with some very famous drummers and I studied with Kim for a decade and we spoke 1 month before he sadly passed on.....Devastated me,we were going to get together and I wanted him to hear what I'm playing 35 years after he heard me last! !! P.S you've aged like fine wine and thanks for all the memories! !!!
Love the teachings of sticking rather than licks.
Ton of music in his groove. Thank you!
Ooooh this is the very groove on Al Jarreau's song, "My Old Friend"! I love it!
Great video, nice to be able to learn from such a great drummer like Steve Gadd. He is one of the very top drummers of all time and I have always really loved his deep pocket , solid groove playing. More Please!!
Steve Gadd's advice is clear and to the point. Thanks!
i love steve gadd. calm and wise human
good to see brother steve is still doing his thing
It is impossible to play this groove without genuine signature Steve Gadd drumsticks by Vic Firth.
He's amazing !
The sticking notation on the screen confused me, then when he was playing, I couldn't work out the relevance of the flam on the 2 and 4, as opposed to a single stroke. As soon as he explained and demonstrated the difference between playing at as the standard RLRL RLRL it immediately all fell into place. What a difference it makes to the groove and feel. The man's amazing!
Everything that Steve Gadd plays is the grooviest thing that you'll hear in your life.
I believe he played this groove on the Al Jarreau song "Easy". It sounds much more complicated than he makes it look. Of course the song had a much faster tempo. I finally settled to playing variations of paradiddles, but was convinced he must have over dubbed the ride. Now I see why it sounded like that!
Then again, I could be way off and he may have played a completely different groove.
When I grow up, I hope basic rudiments are so ingrained within me that I can play instinctively like Steve does. When he takes time to think what he has played, reveals how deeply rooted they are in him.
There's no way to know for sure unless you watch it live.
You might be right thou.
I hear you! I loved learning rudiments and playing them spread out all over the kit! Things like that were what I called my category of "digging into the drums". Then there was the playing on top keeping ride beats going category of practise focus. They do get ingrained inside a drummer. Rudiments contain things, stickings, that that will come out naturally when a drummer starts playing live with other musicians. Especially creating drumming for new original music. I remember realizing, ah yeah, I see where that thing I played came from! All the things that come out in playing, had to first be put in. Ha, sometimes there is a great big surprise when things have combined inside and they come out!
That pattern with the Ride at 5:45 is so damn tasty! 👍💯
A perfect exercise along with the others Steve shares with us.
Great start to the series.Of course who other than Steve gadd. The lesson is clear and concise,camera angles are excellent. A++...to borrow a quote...I'll be back...:-)
One of the greatest drummer in the world Steve Gadd
My God, he teaches and great as he plays!!!
30 years lay off from my kit. Thanks to my all time fav- this helps.
What an amazing drummer
A good example of why rudiments are so important. When you know them well you can do anything.
Wow steve gadd. A true master!!
a great addition to any drummers repertoire...go gadd
Really cool groove! It's like hihat, snare, bass and ride are played by different people and then mixed live, so that it would sound nice. I couldn't spot how the swinging was done, but on his hitting the ride I see that it takes lots of efforts, especially during the live session.
Shoulda had a ride on his left to make it easier.
amazing drummer - thank you for the insights
What can you do?
Make more videos with Steve Gadd just freestylin and talking about drums. Classic. Great. Unique. Precious. Inspiring.
The best drummer
What a groove master!
Remo Drum skins, i use them, there great Skin's never break, also on i never hit that hard, and Pro Tone Drum Skin's, are good 2, i like drum's all together they rock the nation.
just listening to this groove...I came up with a melody.
Such a MUSICIAN.
Three of my favorite Steve Gadd recordings are: 1) Lenore- From the Chick Corea album 'The Leprechaun', 2) Aja- title cut from Steely Dans' Aja album and 3) Spain- from the late Al Jarreau album 'This Time'. If you can find the time, listen to those three tunes, and you get to hear how spectacular, gifted, and blessed Steve Gadd truly is!
Anything that he played with stuff is awesome as well.
Oh yeah! Steve's playing on that Chic Corea album changed my life! It brought me to a halt and a reevaluation of my life as a drummer! I kept going, until injuries took me out.
Steve is a national treasure but every decent drummer should be able to do this.
Incredible lesson! Thanks
NICE! Love this - thank you!
SOME PEOPLE TALKING TRASH ABOUT STEVE GADD...... FUCKING LOL
Thanks! I can’t do the one handed Jeff P groove, Steve lights it up. Thanks Mr Gadd
Great groove
I did this on my own but I'm glad its used by the great Steve Gadd
He’s a master teacher. He doesn’t talk too much. A lot of guys do way too much explanation and way too many parentheticals in the conversation. Steve is right to the point.
Thank you so much for allowing me to learn from The BEST!!!
Great lesson thank Steve
nice little trick from the legend! THANKS!
Thank you Steve
GADD'S THE MAN!! PERIOD
Thanks for the video! Fun to watch! 👍
still love steve's work!!
The simplicity of playing a groove is like taking a walk through a park.
He's ever so slightly swinging it, like in brazilian music. Also when he says flam, he means flam. The hi hat of 2 and 4 land on the beat in true metronome fashion, and the snare lags behind slightly.
I'm not hearing the slight lag on the snare.
Well he even says he's doing it, but it is most easily noticed when he is doing the entire sticking on the snare. If he were doing unison strokes, it would sound very choked.
It seems much more exaggerated on the snare. He does not exaggerate it like that on the HH. Just saying. I've used this method for years without the glam, at least I never noticed a glam.
uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ǝʇoɹ ǝuop ᴉ zlol First of all, kudos on your username! Very unique. Secondly, there’s no flam on the music that’s provided. I think it’s more of a double stop, which is just the right and left hands hitting a drum at the same time with no grace note, unlike a flam. He uses a flam when explaining the part on the snare drum but when playing the part I don’t think he uses a flam. Explaining it one way and then playing it another way could be very confusing to a beginner drummer. If you play it as written then there’s no flam.
@@drewper73 No, really there is a flam. The idea is that normally when the hat and snare notes are played simultaneously the sound of the one or the other is masked slightly and you get a bit of a drop out. Doing it this way means that neither masks the other, the hat remains clear and on its own, I think for recording especially this is brilliant. Written down of course there would be no flam as the flam, albeit a very slight/fast one is only there to get this result. But you're totally right, it isn't clear at all, especially not to a beginner.
Ladies & Gentlemen George Clooney On The Drums 😉 love Steve’s Style
this is so great! thanks!
Very happy I subscribed! NEATO!
Classic Gadd--simple ain't easy!
Love it so smooth
Great, thanks for that video!!!
The man is a metronome.
So many ignorant fools on here criticising how he talks, how he plays. None of you succeed in exposing Gadd for any shortcoming. You do however unintentionally but effectively draw attention to your lack of insight and embarrass yourselves.
Right on. Those who can't, lecture....and usually don't know what they're talking about.
Rightly so. Couldn't have been said better.
tom bryson lots of people even are ignorant that Walter Röhrl never played as a professional drummer. That‘s a pity.