Four Steve Gadd Licks You Need To Know!
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
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YourInverted Paradiddle is known as Gadds Flutter Lick on UA-cam a great drummer Jeff WALD Demonstrates this in detail. But Young Man I am very impressed with your talent I 68 years old playing since I was 4 years old. But Professionally over 53 years the only reason I'm saying this is at your age I only wish I had your talent Your amazing. I wish for you all the blessings in the world I would love to hear you in a Smokin Jazz Funk band You are killer.
Very well laid out lesson. Thank you for de-mystifying these Gadd licks so well!
Thank you so much!
I love that triplet lick starting with the bass drum. And I like how you added the clip from Clapton where he was shaking Gadd off because he was playing the outro fill of the solo too soon. Awesome.
Thanks! I love that clip, Gadd absolutely owned that moment
I love the 'can you use it in a sentence?' element of these videos. Very informative, thank you!
This is simply great. I knew some of the licks before, but you explain them very well and I did learn something new. Straight to the core-teaching and "no bull".
Thank you!
Nice work. Most of these licks I had to learn by painstakingly slowing the recording down and figuring them out, so you did a great service for drummers. I also like the sound of your kit and cymbals. I had no idea it was possible to get such a great sound using CS Black Dots on the toms, but it's working for you. Thanks.
I watched the Steve Gadd VCR tape release when it came out 40 years ago where he showed how to play a samba, 50 ways, etc...Your video breaks his style down very well. And that is one nice kit from top to bottom!
Yes I love that tape, so many gems on it. Thank you Gadd was essentially my biggest influence on the kit and I continue to learn from him
Thank you so much for sharing buddy!! Never stop playing drums. Never stop playing music and from me to you, keep your chops up!! Always 🥁🙃
Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed the video John
Enjoyed your Four Steve Gladd Licks . Thanks for breaking the grooves down, Great drumming skills, and teaching
You're very welcome, I love teaching so I'm just happy that people are finding the video helpful
Great demonstration bro!!👍🥁
Lots of work buddy! Great tutorial🙏
Great stuff Ben, thanks for sharing !
Thank you!
Thanks so much for the cool breakdown of the Gadd stuff.
You are very welcome!
I just found your channel and your instructions are fantastic, really good stuff. And man, what a gorgeous setup you've got there!
Thank you so much!
Wowwwwwwwwwww, excelente trabajo, gracias por tu tiempo y atención.
Saludos desde México
Awesome!
Awesome job. Loved it and learned something!
Thank you! I am glad to hear that!
Great lesson and that's some crazy drumming! Keep it up
Thank you!
Great lesson. Wish I could find a teacher like you locally. What fun that would be? Thanks for the post!!!
Thank you! Well I do Zoom lessons, backbaydrumming@gmail.com for more info
Just what I've been looking for. Your kit sounds great too :)
Awesome 👏🏻 😎 I’m glad it helped!
best sounding DW, great lesson.
Just subscribed. Working on this one. will do more thanks
Really really great stuff man
Fantastic lesson my dude! This REALLY helped 👌
Thank you! Glad it helped!
excellent lesson. congratulations!
Thank you for watching!
Skills. Nice dude
Wow great lesson
Great lesson
Tiger Tobi thank you!🤘🏻
Nice Chops, to be able for pulling off the licks!👍👍
Thank you!
Solid, simple stuff...played relaxed and in a pocket...sweet.
great video
Accurate teacher, killer drummer!
Lorenzo Fiumana Thank you!
I'm not even a drummer and enjoyed this. what an excellent presentation. PS do you hire out :)
THanks for sharing this.
Absolutely! Thanks for watching!
Impressive lick combo at end of video, too. Hope to see you demonstrate some of Keith Carlock’s double paradiddle diddles. Two beats on the bass drum then RL toms to snare RR LL if you would please. Thanks!
Yes i love that lick, I really enjoy how Elvin would use that lick in solos.
Very nice!
Love your Gaddisms. So Gladster for the Gaddster. Time to party on the patio with Gaddyo, Daddyo! Steve is the best!
Yes! Love it! Thank you for the support
Thanks sir, like gadd stated in ModernDrummer in'81 i beleive, he was influenced by john bonham( led zeppelin) i could never understand his solos- like a double stroke roll things are deliberate then they start rolling.. i get lost quick, thanks for accelerating slowly and deaccelerating slowly... have a stupendous 2023..
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Thank you for the nice lesson😃👍
You are so very welcome!
nicee...thanks!
Excellent lesson! Just an observation, as the 2 are my favorite pcet style, creative drummers. Although they sound very different, Gadd, and Bonham has somewhat similar styles, especially with that L hand lead, and dexterity.
Yes! Vinnie is the same as well. So many great chops that lead with the left hand. They’ve all been inspirations for myself to actually practice things leading with my left hand. You get so much more out of the same patterns and rudiments!
Great stuff bro! Subbed
Merci les partition cool
Great!
Tarcísio Louzada 🤘🏻🤘🏻
thanks!
ONEMANPARTY np 🤘🏻
help me understand please ....the SG Inverted lick 3 shows ONE note on the kick notation, but I swear im hearing TWO?
That intro made me sub
Yes! Thanks for the sub
New sub dude. Well done!
he also pretty much invented the style of disco drumming on the song ‘the hustle’ from 1975
Yea he really had the best disco feel of all time
Kit sounds good
Thank you!!
Fuck, this is actually incredible information… thank you so much
Cool video I'm thinking about getting this just wanted to mention that pedal sounds like it needs some work LOL
I don’t understand
A Gadd'ism! I love it!! haha
Came here from the facebook group man, absolutely awesome video, I didn't know how cool his stuff was. I only knew the name.
Yes! Yea Gadd has soo many cool patterns, I've been studying his stuff for years and I still find new gems
@@backbaydrummingcom it's always when you least expect it while watching a live performance or something eh?! Virgil Donati is like that, makes me want to sell my kit and take up basket weaving🤣
@@MartinBellamyMBDrums Donati is a wizard, he's one of the few drummers who will really lose me in his complexity. Like some of the time I have no idea what he's doing
Can you imagine being in a club and remembering seeing Vinnie Kelly Steve Smith watching Steve gadd playing in the band stuff🤯
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Great lesson buddy !
Amit Dado thank you!
The thing I love about Gadd is he really only has a handful of licks and he gets a TON of mileage out of them. The ones you’ve included here along with his Mozambique groove and the KLR (phrased as 16ths or 32nd instead of triplets) is basically what he uses exclusively. Of course he has all that rudimental vocabulary too, but he uses that differently than his licks. If you listen to the solos in Aja or pretty much any other solo he does, the inverted doubles, the ratamcue, the Mozambique, the hand foot triplets and the KLR as 16ths show every up time. But it always sounds fresh and interesting. And Gadd is basically the ONLY drummer I want to hear solo in a pop/groove setting. His solos are like songs: they have form, pocket and a climax. Not just a blur of licks that goes on for too long like many drummers with Uber chops (I’m looking at you Eric Moore 😂).
Yea I have similiar feelings about Gadd and Elvin Jones. They have great solos but It's the groove, phrasing and comping in ensembles that I keep listening for. They're drummers that I wanna listen to for an hour, not brief clips of chops.
Genial!
Thank you!
Dude you're the GoADDt
Thank you bro!
It appears I play my triplet fills the same way as Mr Gadd. With the bass drum on the 1 beat. Noice. Great video, by the way.
Yea I love the way that sounds on the toms, thank you!
Your HH sounds amazing. Mind if I ask....?
They are Meinl extra dry medium 14” 🤘🏻🤘🏻
We all know Steve Gadd does 50 ways but I heard Leo Sayer "You make me feel like Dancing" and I heard a drum lick and I was thinking that sounded like 50 ways and sure enough GADD was the drummer on Leo's Song!!!! Do not say Ahhhhh Duhhhhh I was proud of myself....HAHAHA!!!!!
1:30.... cool fill at 1:42....
Thank you!
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great job, why don't you smile ?
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Lesson 1 use remo drum heads.
I actually use all three of the major brands in most of my stuff because I’m super indecisive and have no real reason to be brand loyal at this point. I used Evans on the snare remo on the toms batters and resos and kick batter. And then Evan’s again on the kick reso. But I’ve frequently used Aquarian heads as well many times.
Lick #3, I remember thinking that one up on my own back in 1987.
Difference was, when I played it, it sounded like crap. 😂 Totally abandoned it.
Tales from the Beginning Years.
Thats funny. I've had a similair moment with Dennis Chambers. He played it alot better but it was great to diesct why and to try and learn from his excution of a very similar concept.
I like how you made the video. I would encourage you to listen back to your video and notice how many times you start a new thought with the word “so”. Try to be a little bit more dynamic in your word choice and it will make you a better public speaker.
Yea i have anxiety and it often manifests itself when im doing public speaking in repeating words and phrases, especially in the beginning of ideas. this video is also 5 years old and id like to think im better at not doing that but in reality i have good days and bad days with this.
Be encouraged, you have so much to offer! I wish I could take lessons from you!
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Gadd only has 4 licks
Gadd’s not really a chops guy but the cat can play. His Chick Corea playing is probably his most cutting edge stuff, listen to “Humpty Dumpty” or “Lenore”.
I can somewhat see where you’re coming from because his drum solos do tend to be very repetitive. So many of them start with that Mozambique groove he does or his version of Crazy Army. But Gadd himself would tell you that being the best soloist isn’t his biggest priority. He really focuses on being the best ensemble player possible with an infectious groove.
To me it’s like saying that Elvin wasn’t great because he didn’t play a lot of super fast tunes like “Cherokee” or “Lover”.
@backbaydrummingcom thanks. I'll take a listen to those tracks. I've probably heard them before, but I always feel like everyone oversells gadd, which makes me take the contrary position. My first drum instructor told me gadd is the only drummer I ever need to listen to, and I'm still trying to figure that out 20 years later.
@@jessebillson He's a good drummer to study but I definitely don't agree with your first drum teacher. One of the problems with Gadd is that his phrases are so recognizable, that its hard to use them without sounding like an imitation.
@@jessebillson He's a good drummer to study but I definitely don't agree with your first drum teacher. One of the problems with Gadd is that his phrases are so recognizable, that its hard to use them without sounding like an imitation.
@@backbaydrummingcom yeah that's a really good point.
wtf 's up with the camera man. very annoying.
This video is several years old so I honestly don't really remember alot about the filming. I did have a friend help me with the filming so idk if thats you're refering or the editing. I'm open to criticism so I'm genuinely curious.
Why nobody's nicknamed Gadd's little ratamacue lick the "Gaddamacue" is beyond me.
Hahaha damn should’ve thought of that