James Acaster shows off his impressive drumming skills | BBC Sounds
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2021
- James Acaster shows off his quite impressive drumming skills to drummers Adam Betts and Seb Rochford.
Taken from a BONUS episode of BBC Sounds' James Acaster's Perfect Sounds podcast. Comedian James Acaster is joined by professional drummers Adam Betts and Seb Rochford who brought along their drum kits to talk to James about the virtuosic drumming on Jon Bap's 'What Now? album. Whilst chatting James shows off some drum beats he's learnt from his time in a band.
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This is the most “I used to be really really good but it’s been a while” drums I’ve ever heard
A mate of mine who was an excellent drummer came to mine and hadn't played for a while and jumped on my kit and proceeded to play a few megadeth tracks with only one hand cos he didn't want to put his beer down and then claimed to be rusty. I was furious at him wasting his talent and not being in bands anymore.
I was just trying to find a way to capture that very feeling in words, when I saw this comment. You've nailed it.
No, any use to be decent drummer remembers how to drum. It's like riding a bike. This guy is not good
@@kcChicken123 Do you actually think skills just remain intact after 10 years of not training them?
@@kcChicken123 this is the most "I've never really been good at anything in my life" comment I've ever seen.
“OVER MY SHOULDER, OLDER AND OLDER!!!!”
"IS THAT A BOULDER???"
THAT’S WHAT A TOLD YAAAAAA
“I’M GETTING COLDER”
@@alyxi “... or is it a big rock?”
I came here looking for this comment and you did not disappoint!
The most impressive thing is that he didn't go straight into slow 4/4 rock beat played as loud as possible.
I would have definitely done that, just to show everyone that I did play drums at least once before.
Honestly. I tried to teach someone that, he couldn't do it at all. I told him precisely the drums, the order, the rhythm. I told him everything and he just didn't understand. I remember my first drum lesson, I did it in like a minute and my teacher was like, "You've not played before right?" Point is. Some people are just slow learners and if they like their little rock beat then leave em to it aha.
@@kaiatlas7244???
@@rikzz0r exactly. any drummer worth his salt will instantly hear how good or bad a player is when he plays that 4/4 ac/dc beat and how confidently he treats it. of course it won't tell it all but it does establish a good and solid baseline that comes only with a lot of playing experience. i could play the acdc beat after a couple of days drumming, yes. but it sucked. when i play it now it sounds worlds different with just the same notes and on top i can move in and out of it, embellish it, shift accents, even play some polyrhythm to it etc. etc.
@@kaiatlas7244 congratulations
Oh my god. Is that James Acaster from The Wow! Scenario?!
No it's James Acaster from the Capri Sun Quartet
@@RoyalRageQuit No it's James Acaster from Pindrop
@@rikzz0r No it's James Acaster from the New Hardcore Skiffle Movement.
@@MisterAppleEsq No it's James Acaster from Three Line Whip.
@@rikzz0r No it's James Acaster from Cecelia's short lived Flute, Didgeridoo and Congas three piece.
“I'm a percussionist myself”
He does have quite the repertoire...
@@Euan Well done!
lololol
I'd love to see pindrop, but only if Lloyd is still in the band
Hasn’t played for a long time but still has left foot independence, do chops and ghost notes!!
"do chops" :P
@@mralexnorton2281 "Oh yes, I'm something of a chopper myself"
@@rikzz0r did like 5 and a half chops the other day bro I swear
@@mralexnorton2281 I chipped when I should have chopped
I can't express how every time James does something great it makes me feel so proud and happy
If you play music yourself it's quite noticeable that he actually knows his shit but feels rusty and weird doing it live on radio without any music to play to.
@@tking3950 no. You can tell he knows more than just some 4/4 beat played too fast. Theres dynamics and interesting beats there, even went for the sidestick i noticed. Fair play to james
I would pay good money to watch the James Acaster band
Just a band of James Acasters?
@@DomenBremecXCVI Exactly!
"Over my shoulder" is a banger and I need a full version on Spotify
He is everything.
Is he blue?
@@jonasmartinsen3439 Sometimes. And we give him love and support even when he is feeling down.
Fair play! He’s obviously very rusty but you can tell he used to be actually pretty damn good
Not surprised he's nervous, Adam Betts and Seb Rochford are both incredible drummers! Anyone would be intimidated.
didnt even realise hes sat with the three trapped tigers drummer lol
I can feel the love he used to have for the drums, actually really surprising and fun to see
That drumming makes me want to scream into a mic while wearing a dress.
And flip the audience off
And flip the audience off
@@ArnyWar Maybe even come running up through the crowd
what did we tell you Cliff
I’m sorry. I don’t know what came over me. It won’t happen again.
If only we could clone James and have one comedian James and one drummer James! He's an incredibly talented dude!
I can definitely see him doing a stand up set with a drum set being the main prop center stage - a long winded seemingly unconnected joke with a connecting punchline and drum solos in between to set the scene, sombre and frantic. Combine two of his passions and create a show/piece of art - a comedy version of whiplash of the sorts.
I think it would be more Acaster to have a drumkit as the main prop center stage that he never touches throughout the entire performance and doesn't acknowledge.
Yeah, no.
I like how Demetri Martin uses guitar in his comedy acts
What would be hilarious if he played a gig with a kit on stage and didn't acknowledge or look at it or touch it once and at the end just leaves.
@@garethmiller8932 Just saw this after basically typing the same thing.
Those beats were crazy funky. Please james. Get back to the drums! So cool! I love Acaster.
this was way better than i ever thought it was gonna be, i would pay good money to see him play live
hopefully he goes on tour as Temps soon!
He's a metal head as well...he did an article in 2016 about best albums of the year and he picked Car Bomb 🤟😎🤟
He's a bit of an everything head lmao
He listened to everything that year haha
James has amazing taste
I saw Car bomb a few years ago opening for Gojira. They're not my style but they are impressive musicians and had shitloads of energy. I had a listen to them on youtube later on and quite enjoyed it, but they're somewhat inaccessible when the first time you hear them is live.
Not just car bomb but he also mentioned nails and street sects (who are one of the best power electronics bands going)
The 12/8 groove at the end was mint
Knowing James also plays the drums makes me love him even more 🤣
I'd love to get to play some Drum Duets with James. When I listened to this bonus episode of the podcast I was wishing I could see a video of Adam and Seb's little drum duet. I probably had the same type of smiling face that James had during it.
that's a well mixed drum set!
He's got some pretty decent groove! Impressive
You've brought together my two favourite people
Naturally funny and a sick drummer. He's got it all
Flip, he has not played properly in ten years and you can hear the Purdie beats come out nevertheless... whoa!
He's a good lad
He's not for everyone.
@@TheCloverBeanFTW "He's not for everyone" is something his dad tweeted about him and it's become and in joke among Acaster fans
Muscle memory innit
The goodest
There was a video of The Wow Scenario on youtube, shows James Acaster drumming and singing in the band. The dude is definitely not a typical 4/4 rock drummer.
Oh man, Adam Betts in Three Trapped Tigers is so good. Great band.
So good!
ADAM BETTS. Best drummer I EVER seen EVER.
Holy shit is that adam betts!? Hes so damn good
This is so great
just heard the referenced on season 2 ep 2 of hypothetical so I googled James Acaster drums. Well done! I'm teaching my sone to play drums(7) and I'll tease him with "look what james can do"
"I've only played once or twice in the last 10 years"
*Proceeds to play really cool drum riff*
He’s so talented I love him
I always wondered if he was any good, cos being in bands and being a good drummer are not always connected. Turns out he was definitely pretty good. If he'd auditioned for many of my bands in the early 2000s he'd have got the job for sure.
The man has real good feel.
Seb Roachford is the drummer here, absolutely phenomenal dude
james!
That second beat is niiiice
Just expecting his band member to run into shot wearing a dress
thanks james very cool
Showing signs of quality, if he'd kept it up he'd be superb but...he's now a superb comedian :D Wonderful :D
That's what I was thinking, I am mostly a bassplayer so I've listened to a lot of drummers and from this I feel he could be very good if he had the time to work on it.
@@Thabassmon breaking: man who can play drums could improve with practice
@@PutonyourSundayBests you're right it does seem I'm implying the obvious. So okay for someone who hasn't played for a while, he has a light touch, ghost notes on the snare, playing with complexity and exhibiting contrasting dynamics. You can tell that he had composed actual parts for the tunes in his last band. not play typical 8th note pattern here, fill here, 8th note pattern again, fill 2 here etc.
He is not doing what I see a lot of people do when they haven't played for a while, hit too hard, choking the sound of the drums, really unstable time etc.
Those are the things that I noticed, sorry if I distilled it down to sound really basic, but not everyone (regardless how much practice they do) will sound good. The best potential musicians are those that exhibit subtlety.
So true. His timing seemed good when he started remembering the beats. I thought he might be a bit fluid but seems solid. Would love to hear more of him drumming if he had time to shed and get back into it for sure
Now it all makes sense.
"Gonna be here all day re-teaching myself the drums again"
Proceeds playing some very well-taught drums
he would fit really well in Black Country, New Road
I clicked because adam betts. Stayed because of the sick beats
hell yeah
anyone else notice nate smith at the end
yessir caught me off guard
I wanna see him play more anyone have any vids??
No one was expecting him to be this good
He can drum!
Where is the rest of the video?
what song is playing in the end of the clip?
That was actually a nice groove, kinda sad he didn't continue or try to play a basic 4/4 just to shake some of the rust off
It's cooler he didn't go straight for a 4/4
@@DC-zz1vv yeah his grove was nice but he looked super rusty. When I haven't played for a few days the first thing I do is play like a stone by audio slave. Loosens me up nicely. Any basic beat you can play for a half a minute and get warmed up quite nicely
Truly surprising, in a good way.
Where’s Lloyd?
Hands down the best comments section ive read in awhile. All you hardcore Acaster/springleaf fans
It's not jazz. It's JAZZ! ;)
Now I want a Capri Sun
So did BBC sounds remix What I do by Nate Smith in the outro, or did they just copy it?
MY MAN ADAM BETTS
Rainn Wilson just chilling
What’s the full thing?
1:07 is giving my vibes of Toxicity by SOAD…
0:20 Is that Hope You Look Good on the Dancefloor?!
wait he's so good-
Cool that they uploaded Whiplash to UA-cam
You know my man loves his Bernard Purdie
I'm going to watch the episode and if there isn't loads of Adam Betts I'll be very disappointed
that 1:06 beat tho
Wow he’s fairly good
There's a cabbage in the bass drum, James.
What ride is that? I'm being serious when I say that it sounds just like I want a ride to sound!
He'so hot I can't
Shame about the stuttering tho
@@michaelscofield6721 ???
Did you know that his old girlfriend ran off with mr bean? Shits fucked up.
@@kumquatmagoo Id normally doubt shit like this but not for him
Pretty boy indeed 🥰
Temps out now
he seems to have a jazz type background?
Comedy is all about timing.
But most importantly:
Timing.
Too soon.
1:07 do you know the notation for that. It sounded pretty cool
jazz drummers amiright
James still got then ghost notes down
How can you play such complex rhythms yet have no basic knowledge or memory.. impressive??
Muscle memory
This is not good drumming.
@space egg The video title emphasizes the phrase "impressive drumming skills". They are not impressive drumming skills. As a longtime drummer, I can tell you this is very much the end of the story. There's really no point to polluting the world with more expectation of mediocrity, so let's quit the bullshit.
@@Dave-lr2wo dave, I'm sorry that no one cares about your drumming.
@@dave9547 I trust Ur opinion over the other Dave as you have Dinosaur in your name
Was expecting him to go into a basic 4/4 groove, instead went right into something complicated
I reckon that anyone who learns an instrument but doesn't keep it up will still maintain what they had learned, but won't get any better if they don't improve. So while James might struggle to remember some of what he knew, he was obviously a decent drummer before he stopped doing it regularly, but it just hasn't got any better. Nevertheless, he remembered what he did learn
All good comedians have comic timing as well as musical timing.
Sebs hair.. where is it?
"Very basic stuff once or twice in the past 10 years" says a guy who drummed on a full-length album released in 2016
Whats the album?
SEB ROCHFORD!!
Betts
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Whilst I’ll never do anything than applaud anyone who plays an instrument please remember that impressive is a very subjective term.
Better than his comedy
😜
As if he couldn’t get anymore attractive 😩
Its a good thing hes funny
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