Mick Harris explains the blast beat
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Mick Harris, of Napalm Death fame, explains how he advanced the technique of the ‘Hardcore Punk’ drum beat into what is commonly known today as the ‘Blast Beat’.
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This is easily the most British video I've ever seen.
I love that Mick Harris is sitting in a fucking office chair.
He works in the music department at a college
I’ll never get tired of Mick telling us about the blast beat.. and I sure as hell will never get tired of hearing him play it!
From the snarling chaos of From Enslavement to Obliteration, to the pummeling precision of Harmony Corruption - Mick did it all so bloody well
Can't forget the album that started it all, Scum
@@WhoisVinnie blasting faster than anyone had before probably worth a mention, yeah haha
Don't forget Scum
@@LifeGrindcore blasting faster than anyone had before probably worth a mention, yeah haha
Your a fucken legend mate...you and Ken Owen inspired me to play drums early in my life (46 now) and yeah same bloody problem couldnt practice at home so was a bit rough but could keep a beat. Own my home now so actually getting back in to making a bit of old school death in the shed. Great video Mick. Cheers from New Zealand......
#NoSkankBollocks
I saw Napalm Death back in 1989 in Vienna with Pungent Stench.
Was fascinated by Micks drumming.
The Human Tornado fuckin RULES, man!
Mick is epic, ow yes its simple but somehow all those modern superfast drummers don't destroy it the way he did/does
Cause they’re just tippy-tapping.
Triggers
@@arsonne Yep, Mick hits HARD!! lol.
@@arsonne I challenge you to listen to Marduk... He's even faster than Mick
@@truthhurts79 no one cares about the speed. Groove isn’t speed.
This was gem at those years. We need different and extreme things and ND was in the middle of this.
We love ya Mick.
Practice or no practice.
It is THE original blast beat. Like he says in this video... it is the hardcore D-Beat and always was. The "Blasting", as Mick calls it, was that he played it about double time than a usual D-Beat and did the swap between ride and crash. This guy made it this specific way and it was THE sound of early Napalm Death. A lot of bands misconstrued it by syncing the bass, snare, trying to emulate it. But, if you listen to early Napalm Death, it sounds far far more raw and analog and bridged the Grindcore sound between Punk and Metal due to the punk influenced D-Beat being up paced and refitted to the newer ND playing style and song structures. The modernized, what Mick calls "American Skank" beat, is likely what some are referring to which is one repeated sync between the ride or hats, the double bass, and the snare all hitting on the same note, which does have a distinctive death metal sound that really does separate the common Death Metal monotone blast beat from Grindcore D-Blasting which Micky basically invented. It just sounds far more chaotic. Though, who can deny how cool Mike Smith's Blast beat sounds on Effigy of the Forgotten. Still, watching Mick on Live Corruption makes me very upset he ever left Napalm Death or at least didn't put together another grindcore band. Sigh..
Spot on mate.
the kick snare kick snare isn’t a d beat, it’s just a hardcore beat. the d beat has a different kick/cymbal pattern. ua-cam.com/video/NHXOBT5al8E/v-deo.html this guy goes over what the d beat is pretty well. mick uses a LOT of traditional d beats in napalm death though (especially in the B side of SCUM and from enslavement to obliteration).
Isn't the american skank beat exactly the same as what mick calls "The Chaos UK beat" but the time is kept on both the bass *and* the snare instead of only on the bass?
Basically the kind of beat you hear in GBH.
Very well said. I always have loved Mick’s style and that he hits his drums really fucking hard and with passion. Just feels like a train about to derail!
He ain’t doing a sped up d beat, cuz that ain’t the d beat.
Thanks for this, more than 30 years have passed and that feeling still reverb inside me when listening your gorgeous blast beat
Why do i feel like im in trouble? I just walked in
But is he chuffed?
fookin kicksnah kicksnah
Napalm Death-Live Corruption 1990👍
Just pure raw energy , i love it , mick still sound the same lol
To be fair, that's the first blast beat. Blast beats have evolved since then. There's multiple blasts now. Not hating at all. I love ND
Legendary drummer! As an American I don’t understand some of his British. American Skank Bullocks ….I’m going to have to google.
Napalm death changed my life. I take a big breath,scream my face off and blast away sir. Thank you for being a great drummer and writing amazing music that defined and created an entire genre.... no big deal just Lil Napalm.
I remember when me and mick used to get our hair cut at Shirley and Dave’s on the Stratford road. Top lad
Many people don't realise that the blast beats is originally a hardcore punk and grindcore beat. Some of the earliest examples is Asocial and G-Anx
Blast beats originated in jazz before hardcore
@@Gregbaltzer true but none of the hardcore and grindcore bands were influenced by jazz drummers. They just wanted to play as fast as they could.
Yep, Napalm first started out of the Crust/Anarko scene originally. One of the first gigs I attended was Napalm Death in Sept 1990 and the support was Cerebral Fix.
@@Rr0gu3_5uture I can definitely hear it in their early demos before Mick came into the band. They had a more Joy Division/Amebix kind of sound. So cool you got to see Napalm Death when Mick Harris was still in the band. I only managed to see Napalm Death for the first time in 2007 hahaha
@@tiadanama6236 Yeah, when I was a kid I was heavily into all those bands on Earache records. I saw Carcass and Godflesh a good few times around the start of the 90s. I think Godflesh were quite possibly the loudest band I've ever heard in my life, even louder than Motörhead. My ears were ringing for about three days afterwards, lol.
From Enslavement is one of the greatest drumming performances ever put down on record.
The Terrorizer 87 demos did it for me
You can see Buddy Rich do it in his solos and other old jazz cats. But it really had no musicality to it until grindcore death metal etc. Which gave it its own finesse.
Yep. and Carl Palmer on the first Atomic Rooster and ELP records
I just heard Attila for the first time ever, from 1970, a song with a like 9second section of blast beat, crazy shit!
Buddy Rich never did blast beats, they were one-handed rolls (and not even that fast). Sam Woodyard and Sunny Murray were the true pioneers of blast beat.
Jesus Mick you were far from shit! 💪🏆🏆🍻
I called that beat "bettina" - because the drummer in my first punk band was a girl named Bettina and this beat was her favourite beat - so I asked all my later drummers if they could do a "bettina" for me. With time, there were variants like the "turbo-bettina" (widely known as "blast beat") and the "reverse bettina" (snare on the one, bass drum on the two).
Lmao 🤣🤣 cool story...
Snare on the one I’m pretty sure is usually called a “hammer blast”, probably because of cannibal corpse
@@ryanblackman4119 a hammer blast is snare and bass synced. Mainly invented by Mike Smith of Suffo
What an absolute gem of a video! Thank you. I've seen ND three times and have a ticket to see them again next year. An unmissable band. In 200 years they will be teaching this stuff in universities.
Saw ND ain Berkeley last week, still terrorizing. New guitarist is okay.
That 's sweet
Gosh what a legendary musician. Saw him first on a 1989 bbc arena documentary about heavy metal. Apparently he is part of a college now. Amazing, not sure that all the students realise the calibre of musician they are privileged to be in the presence of. This guy was part of a generation of musicians that created and launched a multi million dollar music genre/niche into the mainstream, that is huge worldwide. They say giants are found in small places. This guy was and still is a phenomenon.
WTF!!! and you telling me now?? It took me 5 years of drum lessons, 3 drum kits and 1463 drumsticks to learn... And now you are showing me it is that simple ..
weird how he rags on american drum beats when dri and repulsion used blasts before napalm death ever did
He’s no Duncan Redmonds🤣💩.
Mick's humility is nice, but nobody plays this beat like him. When he steps on the gas pedal, it's like a shot of pure adrenaline. More videos please!
Pretty chuff
Hearing Mick back in the late 80's was extrodinary! How the hell did he keep up with all that "insane chaotic distorted riff playing" that was going on? If I had an All Star band, Mick for sure would be my drummer! Much respect....
He kept up with it because he had balls not like today's Grindcore band members wanting to play their mainly weak deathgrind b s.
I think it was more like the guitarists learned to keep up with him. There was no consistency to his playing really, which is part of what made it exciting.
Historical footage! thanks
This was Groundbreaking stuff back then. No doubt a Pioneer of that Era.
Love Scorn too mate..Cheers
Essential listening ... Chaos UK - Short Sharp Shock, Disorder - Under The Scalpel Blade, Larm - Campaign For Musical Destruction ... 3 gems from 1984!
4 minute warning
What was in the water in Bristol back then?
Mickey Is the best one 2 do it
Chaotic Discord!!! Are Students Safe!
Love the honesty… but that’s kinda the joy of raw music. He was shit but he was good enough to forge a destiny for a whole genre.
"THAT'S WHY I WAS SHIET"
World's best drum teacher 😂😂.
Mick IS the blast BEAT, and for me Napalm has never been the same. These cookie cutter drummers today need to revert back to the music and produce some violence!!!!
Back when drummers played with their arms and legs instead of their wrists and toes (triggers).
Mick was fun to watch!
Lol what?
You have no idea what you’re talking about, except for fancy buzzwords you’ve heard other people use, right?
@@drumrocka bingo
@Trevor678 I think it is because it's fucking dumb to imply " When people played worse and with less efficiency, that was better ". I also don't like omega technical bands with sterile productions but implying that using a correct and not so exhausting technique to blast better and faster is worse than the primitive ways of doing it is stupid as hell.
napalm death Mick Harris? oh shit
Its not important what he will explain ... he says DISORDER ... thats the big.-) , thtas enough
💀QUE TIEMPOS AQUELLOS 🤘🏻🎶
"Did I invent the blast beat? Naaahhhh. I just named it "blast beat".
Interesting that in another video he says that he CREATED blast beat :)
Jazz drummers were doing it in the 50s and 60s.
True I saw Buddy rich do it in a solo.
But Mick has that thunderous angst behind it
Also known as a polka beat😮
Wow second time watch and got Baldrick vibe , no disrespect intended
love the way this guy talks
Chuffed
Mick the tornado drummer 🥁
Legend
Legend !!!!!
Lol My man is sitting in an office chair
The man's a genius
chuffed
i feel like i understand less now
After hearing Mick talk I feel all is as it should be. Fucking champion.
i just leart a new language wtf
Mick you're amazing.
Ele socava a bateria num show live balançando sua cabeça sem parar com cabelo comprido amarrado lembro muito disso aquele show foi numa espécie de igreja o lugar era idêntico a uma church esse show foi brutal cê loco cachoeira 🥁💀🤟🤘⛪
Based
Legendary Mick! 💪💪💪
Simple IS better. Cheers.
Whirlwind
Humppa beat but faster.
God has spoken 🤘😎🤘
I love the British
Sorry..... it's just not the same without the head jarring back and forth at 100mph and the hair flying like it's in a tornado.
1:25 great Ben Kingsley impression!
Pure class
Mick fukkkkkkin Harris!!!!
*that* snare bit during the breakdown on "scum" though. So lovely, effective yet simple. So Mick.
1 minute 40 into the song...queue it up!
Alice in chains "we die young" had a similar section. Id bet it was influenced by ND
That´s how it´s done!
who played the first blast beat on record in history?
That's s a very good questions, the oldest thing i can think of that resembles a blast beat Is From ELP's the barbarian.
@@lamecasuelas2 yeah it sounds like it!
Boys, I hate to take this into deeper and stranger waters but I've got a ton of LPS by free jazz, noise,experimental resident alien, Sun Ra from the late 50'- early 60's and there are MORE than a few songs that don't just have a blast beat pop up for a sorta fill or brief wild part but is the tempo of the whole song, the original Jazz Grind! One song that was a fave of my late girlfriends is this unbelievably ahead of its time track that is all about the blast beat. The horn section drones on into this unsettling buzz and humming and then the blast beat and sax and bass kick In in an instant and just rip your face off with John Zorn style sax torture and pure blast beat beauty then tight as any metal band they'd stop on a dime to the droning again and then you'd be on the edge of your seat waiting for the craziness to start jn again, which it does several times. It's straight up banger and they were doing this in the late 50's and it is brutal and uncompromising as hell and may be jazz but not your grandparents jazz. If fact, I'll venture that our boy Mick is a huge Sun Ra fan these days. I don't think for a second Sun Ra was an influence on him in N.D. but mos def in his awesome later projects that I still jam too. The original Napalm Death and the bands the founding members went on to do were all amazing.
@@davidgetman6387 wow interesting!
@@davidgetman6387 totally, sunny murray was a free jazz drummer mid 60s;. conintuall blast beats on his lps
Thank you for your time and energy. 🤘 "Access Denied!!!!"...
Na queria ser negativo no comentário, + as bandas que a gente curte estão todos de cabelos grisalhos e praticamente todos já com seus 60 anos e 70 anos e a gente que acompanha as trajetória de várias bandas já estamos ficando velhos também + a vida é assim não somos imortais então é curtir a cada segundo a vida porque ela é passageira 🤘💀🎵🔊🎶🥁🎶🎤😎🤟👍👊👏🎸🇧🇷👌👨🦳🤑
Ah putain j'adore.
The accent, the humor and the point u're making.
I like it a lot. Merci.
This man is a sound production genius..... well, usually. Was this recorded inside a potato with a potato in the year of the potato? Sorry mate. Couldn't resist.
Change that so the cymbal is with the snare instead of the kick, that's the beat for New Day Rising by Hüsker Dü.
Lol.
Brilliant!
Cheers mick from new zealand grind core 😈 nz after birth
very cud! is the copper still 3 doors up? 3 doors down? 6 coppers!
Just love you man)) your n1 of all drummers))
Hardcore beat - easiest in tha fucken bewk.
Mucho me hiciste disfrutar con N.D. amigo
Na na na na na na na no no no no no no NO
ready to charge like a rhino
That's not a bllast beat tho is it?
we used to call that beat Dv chuk
Fucking love ya micky
Love this guy ❤ ✌️
Not none of that American bollox fellas
I love this man