I have played drums for fifty years now, and I admire a lot of drummers. But few inspire me like Steve Gadd. His relaxed, yet precise playing is truly amazing and it actually makes me feel relaxed when I hear him play, which doesn’t happen often with me. Mr. Gadd is a treasure to the drumming world. Definitely one of a kind!
it comes thru in the playing. the body is important. i don't care for guitarists who sit still with no strap when they play. they're struggling against their bodies and are not emoting. emotion comes from 'e' of 'motion' which comes from the body and 'the face'. the best players move when they play, make the face, and don't play while they're sitting, so they'dance' when they make music. i've experimented with this, and it's true. also, if you're an instrumentalist, nothing beats singing your ideas. the mind is quicker than the fingers, but if your fingers are well trained, they can capture those ideas as you sing them. just don't be a dumbass like keith jarrett and record those sounds, unless you have a really good voice.
It's so inspiring to see someone as accomplished as Steve to still be so willing to learn and try new things. Thank you Steve and I wish you many more years of sharing your music with us!
@@nelsneesman8712 "So why he plays same solos and chops since 50 years?" Probably because he didn't met you to teach him. Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge and wisdom with us mortals. Thank you for exposing fake musicians. World is so much better place with you.
@@nelsneesman8712those solos are what the audience who hears the #1 hits he played on expect to hear because they know those tunes so well. He’s there to serve the music and the artist he supported in that studio session. It’s not a “Steve Gadd gig”, it’s a Paul Simon, Steely Dan, James Taylor, or Eric Clapton gig. Check him out live in a jazz setting, and you’ll hear new, spontaneous, different and mind-blowing stuff every night.
This is an amazing story! Especially , because of the sticks he is using here. I first met Steve in Orlando FL. When he was playing a venu with Chick, & Stanley C. many years ago. A return to Return for Forever Gig ? I paid extra for the (Meet & Greet) to meet Steve before there performance. So, I was first in line , waiting at the door to open for me to meet him. Strangly ? there was only two other people waiting also. The door opens, Whala!! out walks Steve first. He asked me where was every else was to meet him? Not sue I said, I was the only drummer, because of poor prees about him playing this venue.? I introduced myself to him in amazement ! He was very nice. I asked him , if could sign one of my drum sticks. Ready ? As I handed him one of the new rubber style round ended sticks , I bought for myself to practice with. He asked me where did I get such an unique stick like this? He had never seen one like this before. The same similar style he's using here in your video. I said at the local music store near by. He asked me if I could get him a pair ? I said for sure Steve. I said I'll be back quickly. Then he said OK, I'll tell the stage guards to let you come back stage after the show. So, I was in shock ! Then quickly I was driving to local SA music store to buy him 2 pairs of these same sticks. It felt like I was in a some bizare dream? When I arrived, and went to buy the sticks for him, I told the manager / employee of the drum department who these were for. The guy said What ? He didn't know anything about this gig? So, after , I drove back quickly to the gig before they started. I waited till after the show , walked up to the stage front , told the guard who I was , and he escorted me back stage. Steve was waiting for me. I handed him the new two pair of the round rubber ended type sticks. He replied, you bought two pairs? Yes Steve, here. He was so appreciative! We talk a little, then he asked me if I'd like to sit behind his kit on stage. Great,! I said . He even let me play on his kit for a few minutes. I still thought I was in some sort of a sureal dream. So, he thanked me again for the new sticks, we took some pictures together, and exchanged emails. I said goodbye , it was a honor to meet you. Thank you again for you time, and kindness with me ! So , here he is in your video interview, talking a little about, and using these same type of stick all because of our meeting each other years ago. Wow! What a incredibly, and wonderful memory. 😊 Thank you so much for your interview Rick. You're always so Great too. G
The first time I heard Steve Gadd play drums back in the 70’s ,I said he has the BEST FEEL I’ve ever heard from a drummer,he’s one of a kind,and when he plays his signature grooves ,only he can make the feel come across like it should sound 👏👏👏👍👌❤️
This is fascinating, because in my mind Steve has been displacing otherwise-familiar rhythms (especially paradiddles and their variants) since the mid-70's, along with Cobham and Colaiuta and a few other players that married crazy technical precision with a sweet feel. But in his mind, it's new to him. So it goes!
I met Mr. Gadd one year, at NAMM-it was a private party that Zildjian threw for him, maybe 25 people in a hotel suite. I took a chance and approached him, saying ‘Mr. Gadd…when I watch you play, I can’t believe we play the same instrument!’ He chuckled and clapped my shoulder, saying ‘I’m sure you’re a fine drummer, son’. Made my year. Chatted a bit after that and he couldn’t have been sweeter or more accessible. Plus, I think he’s a viper-his eyes were VERY red😂
I had the honour to work with him on a recording session and it was everything I could have dreamed of: a true master who lives and breathes music, putting all his talent and technique in function of the artist and the music. The moment he started playing and showed us his idea, the magic happened ( feel free to check his playing on 'reckless heart' by CAPPAERT, the song we offered him to play on besides a few others ). I've never heard anybody play drums as gracefully and musically as he does.
ack. he's good, but there are countless guys above him. Gadd, Erskine, Bruford, Weckl, Griffin, Peart, Rich, all the Jones's, esp. Elvin, VanHalen, Moon, Gary Husband, and so on. He's definitely great, no doubt, but not in the top ten... and i dig metallica. @@krioni86sa
then again, that's your preference. preferences aren't gospel, including mine. you be you. i hope you check the drummers i mention if you're not familiar. esp. bruford solo albums like 'one of a kind', which i believe is essential for any drummer; it's impeccable. also gary husband's playing on 'iou', by allan holdsworth is essential if you jazz.. alex vh is especially amazing , on vh1, II and 'women and children first' (romeo delight, yeahA). rayford griffin is theultimate timekeeper, as evinced by his work with jean luc ponty, 'gift of time' and 'individual choice'. gadd is also unparalleled if you listen to most of al dimeola's 'casino' and 'splendido hotel ' albums. the former being another impeccable fusion album. @@krioni86sa
Such a brilliant artist!! Gadd has inspired me as a musician/drummer my whole life!! HE inspires us to keep growing... NEVER settling on your current level. ... Keep reaching! YESsssssssss! Thank you Mr. Gadd!!!
Displacement. Such a simple but powerful concept. Another is taking a phrase and substracking a note or adding a bass drum before or after the phrase to lenghten or shorten it. Best to all of you ❤
This was a great full interview. The broader lesson from this clip to me is how endless musical possibilities are, and how no matter how advanced you are there are always new challenges to explore.
This talk by Steve Gadd may sound boring to many viewers, but this process he describes, of reviewing basics, in practice, body, and in one's ear, mind, has produced amazing material from musicians. I've come from some young experience in playing drums, then cello in elementary school through high school. I learned some popular music and records from older siblings - loving Rolling Stones, then Jeff Beck, Bowie, Wendy Carlos, Beatles, Sly & Family Stone. In 1980 I started to hear about Philip Glass. I soon started to listen. I couldn't get my head around what he was doing with the seeming "simple" arpeggio sounding compositions. My interest grew. I slowly learned the difference between my intuitive level of grasping music and the distance from my mental grasp of theory. I only learned recently that Glass wanted to get back to practicing music performance skills on piano, and decided to compose some etudes for developing his own skills. Those etudes clearly motivated positive experience and response from himself and others, and became bases for entire new compositions. That's how I explain the few facts I learned about Glass' composition, to myself anyway. Gadd, and many great players and composers seem to keep sharing these similar stories - I guess they help explain why elder musicians encourage "practicing" of younger musicians. I'm starting to grasp the "why".
Never played the drums, yet found this description of a master continuing to explore fascinating, and transcendent of his genre. If someone is bored, they aren't paying attention!
I won tickets to see Eric Clapton on his ‘94 Blues Only tour and Steve was his drummer. Phenomenal show as you’d expect. I spent most of the show with my head down and eyes closed, just Listening and Focusing on the Music and Steve of course. It was a pretty basic lighting show so no screens, no crazy effects anywhere, just a tremendous atmosphere with amazing musicians doing what they do best. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
I like drumming and percussion. What first got me intrigued by drumming was hearing the Paul Simon song, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, in the mid 1970s. Amazing drumming from Steve Gadd. Also, the Paul Simon song, Late In The Evening, shows how brilliant Steve Gadd is as a drummer. I was fortunate enough to see James Taylor live in 2016, and Steve Gadd was drumming for him. Cheers!
Those two songs to me are the gold standard of popular music drumming. I remember as a young kid I would hear "Late In The Evening" on the radio and I was moved to grab a pencil and bang along with the cymbal after the vocal part of the song ends and play along as well as a young kid who knew nothing about drums could.
Saw Steve with Clapton. There was a 3 beat rest in a song, on the 4th beat all he did was a& on the snare, and nailed it on the 1 with the bass drum. It was magic! So simple, but crazy impactful. Steve is one humble dude.
so many players are obsessed with speed and technique for techniques sake but Gadd just has all the technique with sublime taste and feel for the music.
One of my favorite drummers. Best drum video IMHO is Steve, Vinnie and Dave, at the Buddy Rich Memorial. Love Flams, diddles, singles, doubles, and triples. And all on different beats.
It is fantastic that new layers of your art will be revealed for a lifetime of learning! So many artists found new and surprising things during lockdowns for COVID.
If you follow the concepts Steve talked about in this video, you'll see massive improvement and quick. Just make sure you really get into it. One or two hour sessions, all kinds of different rudiments. This isn't even practice to me anymore, it's fun and I just love it!
this is insulting with a little more thought put into it but I get the sentiment you were going for! Glad you're getting better like the best of us all!
@@mewsick5093 it’s not insulting at all, dipshit. If a MASTER of the instrument can still make improvements, then there hope for me. How TF is that insulting? Now stfu.
3:05 “Technically the same, but…. MENTALLY!” The summary of Gaddiments right there. I had the same impression right out the gate to ruin my day. Besides being a great book, it’s a beautiful book with hand notes, cream paper and… fold outs! My teacher and John Beck were good friends back in the day so many of use Western NY drummers had the similar flavor, but Steve took it to the next level.
Steve Gadd is arguably the greatest drummer that ever lived. The breath of his oeuvre is far and wide. Some of the most influential and revered pop/rock albums of all time with unique one of a kind grooves like "50 Ways" or "Late In the Evening" by Paul Simon, mind blowing fills like Steely Dan's "Aja" and virtuoso all around playing like anything he did with Chick Corea and Al Di Meola. Not to mention his never ending contribution to so many unforgettable songs by so many artists. His resume is second to none. Different genres, different styles, one towering musician.
Furthering the argument..... three of the guys that are always talked about in the greatest-drummers-ever conversation -- Buddy, Peart and Bonham -- would all have told you that they were Gadd fans. Buddy said at some point that he really liked and respected Gadd because he could hang with Chick.
What a great interview! I love that Steve talked about sticking with inverted paradiddles - I discovered the same thing during Covid marathon practice sessions.
We're all students of our instruments, I'm working on the Virgil thing with single paradiddle on one side and double on the other.. It's crazy what else comes along in each individual journey.
Steve Gadd, the master. Displacement. I remember seeing the whole video of Steve when you posted this originally watching the short again my head hurts because I can’t get my mind around what he’s doing. I understand the concept. I’ve been a drummer most of my life but I could never say OK start on one and a half and do the same thing , I can’t play as original rudiment anyway. Like I said, the master and Rick, you probably played drums better than I do.
I'm noticing more and more that this kind of thing is what works to orchestrate my motor neural situation to make me near normal as a whole the best without any bad side effects. ❤
Good deal, man! Without knowing what was happening physiologically/emotionally, I’ve known my whole life as a musician (now going on nearly 60 years!), that this is air, water, and food for me!
@@michaelfoxbrass That is true for me lifelong as well. Music has really gotten me through every hard thing in the middle of no where, from babyhood on up. Especially in isolated situations but so much more from just surviving, to thriving making music with company. :)
Still learning and burning. I need to check out the Gadiments booklet. I left my socks behind the couch. Another form of "displacement" but not so much my socks but more so with my brain. Drum on Steve.
There’s a video on UA-cam where Anthony Jackson gives a speech about Steve at an award ceremony, and he has lofty and authentic praise for Steve’s musical mind. He’s definitely one of the most electrifying drummers I’ve ever listened to.
Took me over 2 weeks to get through the first page of Gaddiments. 😂 Learning an excercise is one thing but starting it on the and of 1 is a whole different ball game.
This is something… he’s talking about “displacement”. I started playing paradiddles playing the “diddle” 1st! It adds a completely different feeling/dynamic. He is so cool!!!!
2:29 "YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?" freaking love gadd. my final drum solo at the Navy School of Music (Tri-Military School of Music, long ago) was named "Ya Know what i mean?!" in honor of Gadd 😆
Thank you for making it possible for us to get into all these musical prodigies' approaches to art. It's a real privilege. I had already subscribed to your main channel and have just subscribed to this one. Cheers from Türkiye!!
in 1981, being Dutch and a profesional drummer (just starting my pro career then) , I was invited to visit the Yamaha stand in the Frankfurter Messe in Germany. Steve Gadd did a clinic, as an endorser for Yamaha. Of course I knew him, but he was usually playing with or for bands that I wasn't that interested in, except for Paul Simon, who is a real hero for me. So I sat almost front row and Gadd started to play an easy 4/4 beat, slowly adding very small alterations, but wasn't showing off. And I really started wondering what happened there. I mean, I also have two arms and two legs, I was a pretty good drummer according to many musicians I played with at the time, but somehow there was something going on on that stage. The feel he displayed was amazing. I've watch in awe the whole say 20 minutes and when I left the large booth I was a believer..... 😊 And now, in this interview, again he keeps amazing me!!!!
David Garibaldi also covers this concept a bit in his Future Sounds book. He calls them permutations. Lots of good exercises.Someone mentioned about Gadd doing Garibaldi 😊. It's neat to see that someone as accomplished as Gadd still has the humility to look for fresh ways to approach his playing.
Will there ever be another Steve Gadd? I highly doubt it! I saw the long interview and it made me an even bigger Gadd fan. Some drummers just know how to get the job done. Gadd is always looking for the OTHER ways to get the same job done. Ringo is a completely different type of talent. He also would play "other choices" and not always the obvious ones. He had a formula though, and Steve Gadd seems to always be coming up with new formulas! There are and have been many great drummers out there. Steve Gadd is a legend that stands with any and all of them.
Watching this made me feel really good about how I practice. I started doing things like displacing stickings and accents, all kinds of permutations, after I saw Matt Garstka doing stuff like that. I just love the results, I can play things cleanly and at speeds I couldn't begin to dream of just weeks ago. You should really give it a try, this kind of practice has become one of my favorite parts of drumming. If it's good enough for Gadd & Garstka, I belive it's good enough for us mere mortals. 😄 PS. Any guitarists or bassists here who have an idea how translate this concept to their instruments?
i literally just started practicing rudiments recently after drumming for like 3 years, and all these displacement ideas started coming into my head and now here i am watching Steve Gadd talking about the same stuff. whats a coincidence
As someone with a lifelong interest in drumming and drummers, Steve Gadd has been one of my heroes. I've taken lessons and dabbled, and quit out of frustration, but always want to try again. Can someone please explain displacement to me? From just viewing this, I don't understand.
You are changing the timing of the strikes. Or changing the placement of the strikes see him do paras with started or ending with the didil. The double note on front or in back like changing accents does similar things. What he is experiencing is that once you get older you don’t have the same stamina so you take shorter less physical approaches doubled are easier then singles. Take a para diddil diddle and change around the accents when you can build some speed each para sounds different yet similar and can create a completely different feel. Try playing a para diddil with one hand on high hat the other on snare now change the accents open hh at different times start with straight 4/4 bsss best then do double beats two quarter notes rudiments are the basis the framework of all drumming and are very flexible. Hope this helps
Full Interview Here: ua-cam.com/video/j8762lBtu9A/v-deo.htmlsi=sq3wUn9GtpxdPnPe
I have played drums for fifty years now, and I admire a lot of drummers. But few inspire me like Steve Gadd. His relaxed, yet precise playing is truly amazing and it actually makes me feel relaxed when I hear him play, which doesn’t happen often with me. Mr. Gadd is a treasure to the drumming world. Definitely one of a kind!
A small drum snob?
Yes, he is relaxing, what is it?
I been playing for a long time also. He's the best to me
That's enough paradiddles for me today on the table
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His hands are so relaxed as he plays. Killer example
it comes thru in the playing. the body is important. i don't care for guitarists who sit still with no strap when they play. they're struggling against their bodies and are not emoting. emotion comes from 'e' of 'motion' which comes from the body and 'the face'. the best players move when they play, make the face, and don't play while they're sitting, so they'dance' when they make music. i've experimented with this, and it's true. also, if you're an instrumentalist, nothing beats singing your ideas. the mind is quicker than the fingers, but if your fingers are well trained, they can capture those ideas as you sing them. just don't be a dumbass like keith jarrett and record those sounds, unless you have a really good voice.
yeah i can't stop looking at his hands. incredible how relaxed they are and how fast his strokes are
Noticed that right away too, such a legend.
If non-drummers knew how hard some of these rudiments are, they'd be as blown away as drummers. Steve is one of the all-time greats.
It's so inspiring to see someone as accomplished as Steve to still be so willing to learn and try new things.
Thank you Steve and I wish you many more years of sharing your music with us!
So why he plays same solos and chops since 50 years?
@@nelsneesman8712 "So why he plays same solos and chops since 50 years?"
Probably because he didn't met you to teach him.
Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge and wisdom with us mortals.
Thank you for exposing fake musicians. World is so much better place with you.
@@nelsneesman8712those solos are what the audience who hears the #1 hits he played on expect to hear because they know those tunes so well. He’s there to serve the music and the artist he supported in that studio session. It’s not a “Steve Gadd gig”, it’s a Paul Simon, Steely Dan, James Taylor, or Eric Clapton gig.
Check him out live in a jazz setting, and you’ll hear new, spontaneous, different and mind-blowing stuff every night.
@@Chowda41exactly. Because he RESPECTS the music and the art. And he CAN’T just “phone it in” or rest on his old skills and still do that!
Too right, people should be inspired and HUMBLE!
Such an elegant technique combined with a curious mind. That's why he is the Maestro!
Bloody hell you could pay a fortune for that kind of knowledge - this is GOLD DUST!
This is an amazing story! Especially , because of the sticks he is using here. I first met Steve in Orlando FL. When he was playing a venu with Chick, & Stanley C. many years ago. A return to Return for Forever Gig ? I paid extra for the (Meet & Greet) to meet Steve
before there performance. So, I was first in line , waiting at the door to open for me to meet him. Strangly ? there was only two other people waiting also. The door opens, Whala!! out walks Steve first. He asked me where was every else was to meet him? Not sue I said, I was the only drummer, because of poor prees about him playing this venue.? I introduced myself to him in amazement ! He was very nice. I asked him , if could sign one of my drum sticks. Ready ? As I handed him one of the new rubber style round ended sticks , I bought for myself to practice with. He asked me where did I get such an unique stick like this? He had never seen one like this before. The same similar style he's using here in your video. I said at the local music store near by. He asked me if I could get him a pair ? I said for sure Steve. I said I'll be back quickly. Then he said OK, I'll tell the stage guards to let you come back stage after the show. So, I was in shock ! Then quickly I was driving to local SA music store to buy him 2 pairs of these same sticks. It felt like I was in a some bizare dream? When I arrived, and went to buy the sticks for him, I told the manager / employee of the drum department who these were for. The guy said What ? He didn't know anything about this gig? So, after , I drove back quickly to the gig before they started.
I waited till after the show , walked up to the stage front , told the guard who I was , and he escorted me back stage. Steve was waiting for me. I handed him the new two pair of the round rubber ended type sticks. He replied, you bought two pairs? Yes Steve, here. He was so appreciative! We talk a little, then he asked me if I'd like to sit behind his kit on stage. Great,! I said . He even let me play on his kit for a few minutes. I still thought I was in some sort of a sureal dream. So, he thanked me again for the new sticks, we took some pictures together, and exchanged emails. I said goodbye , it was a honor to meet you. Thank you again for you time, and kindness with me ! So , here he is in your video interview, talking a little about, and using these same type of stick all because of our meeting each other years ago. Wow! What a incredibly, and wonderful memory. 😊 Thank you so much for your interview Rick. You're always so Great too. G
The first time I heard Steve Gadd play drums back in the 70’s ,I said he has the BEST FEEL I’ve ever heard from a drummer,he’s one of a kind,and when he plays his signature grooves ,only he can make the feel come across like it should sound 👏👏👏👍👌❤️
So true! 🤝♥️
His technique is IMMACULATE
This is fascinating, because in my mind Steve has been displacing otherwise-familiar rhythms (especially paradiddles and their variants) since the mid-70's, along with Cobham and Colaiuta and a few other players that married crazy technical precision with a sweet feel. But in his mind, it's new to him. So it goes!
I met Mr. Gadd one year, at NAMM-it was a private party that Zildjian threw for him, maybe 25 people in a hotel suite. I took a chance and approached him, saying ‘Mr. Gadd…when I watch you play, I can’t believe we play the same instrument!’ He chuckled and clapped my shoulder, saying ‘I’m sure you’re a fine drummer, son’. Made my year.
Chatted a bit after that and he couldn’t have been sweeter or more accessible. Plus, I think he’s a viper-his eyes were VERY red😂
You know that man is a viper for sure!😂
What do you mean viper?
A master of rudimental drumming, combined with wonderful creativity we've heard on so many popular songs.
I had the honour to work with him on a recording session and it was everything I could have dreamed of: a true master who lives and breathes music, putting all his talent and technique in function of the artist and the music. The moment he started playing and showed us his idea, the magic happened ( feel free to check his playing on 'reckless heart' by CAPPAERT, the song we offered him to play on besides a few others ). I've never heard anybody play drums as gracefully and musically as he does.
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I can’t believe there is something new for Gadd! 🤯 Mind blown.
Steve and Rick - 2 lovely people
Gadd is the absolute GOAT!
I agree. The man is a legend
Lars Ulrich is one the drummers of all time!
ack. he's good, but there are countless guys above him. Gadd, Erskine, Bruford, Weckl, Griffin, Peart, Rich, all the Jones's, esp. Elvin, VanHalen, Moon, Gary Husband, and so on. He's definitely great, no doubt, but not in the top ten... and i dig metallica. @@krioni86sa
then again, that's your preference. preferences aren't gospel, including mine. you be you. i hope you check the drummers i mention if you're not familiar. esp. bruford solo albums like 'one of a kind', which i believe is essential for any drummer; it's impeccable. also gary husband's playing on 'iou', by allan holdsworth is essential if you jazz.. alex vh is especially amazing , on vh1, II and 'women and children first' (romeo delight, yeahA). rayford griffin is theultimate timekeeper, as evinced by his work with jean luc ponty, 'gift of time' and 'individual choice'. gadd is also unparalleled if you listen to most of al dimeola's 'casino' and 'splendido hotel ' albums. the former being another impeccable fusion album. @@krioni86sa
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Such a brilliant artist!! Gadd has inspired me as a musician/drummer my whole life!! HE inspires us to keep growing... NEVER settling on your current level. ... Keep reaching! YESsssssssss! Thank you Mr. Gadd!!!
He got the gift very early on in life, and he had spent his entire life trying to teach and show the gift he has. Such a great human being
He also studied music as a whole and sang plus drumming in military bands.
Displacement. Such a simple but powerful concept. Another is taking a phrase and substracking a note or adding a bass drum before or after the phrase to lenghten or shorten it. Best to all of you ❤
I don't think I've ever tried that as a concept for practice. Thank you, I'll try that!
Very cool.. also applying rudiments around the kit; which can really change the shape of the sound they make.
Dude is genius. Pure genius.
You actually spoke to Steve Gadd. Nice. A true super hero.
This was a great full interview. The broader lesson from this clip to me is how endless musical possibilities are, and how no matter how advanced you are there are always new challenges to explore.
This talk by Steve Gadd may sound boring to many viewers, but this process he describes, of reviewing basics, in practice, body, and in one's ear, mind, has produced amazing material from musicians.
I've come from some young experience in playing drums, then cello in elementary school through high school. I learned some popular music and records from older siblings - loving Rolling Stones, then Jeff Beck, Bowie, Wendy Carlos, Beatles, Sly & Family Stone. In 1980 I started to hear about Philip Glass. I soon started to listen. I couldn't get my head around what he was doing with the seeming "simple" arpeggio sounding compositions.
My interest grew. I slowly learned the difference between my intuitive level of grasping music and the distance from my mental grasp of theory. I only learned recently that Glass wanted to get back to practicing music performance skills on piano, and decided to compose some etudes for developing his own skills. Those etudes clearly motivated positive experience and response from himself and others, and became bases for entire new compositions.
That's how I explain the few facts I learned about Glass' composition, to myself anyway. Gadd, and many great players and composers seem to keep sharing these similar stories - I guess they help explain why elder musicians encourage "practicing" of younger musicians. I'm starting to grasp the "why".
Never played the drums, yet found this description of a master continuing to explore fascinating, and transcendent of his genre. If someone is bored, they aren't paying attention!
Why?
@@iamkerok👍👍 You said it pal! Stop clicking and typing and LISTEN to what the man said!
I won tickets to see Eric Clapton on his ‘94 Blues Only tour and Steve was his drummer. Phenomenal show as you’d expect. I spent most of the show with my head down and eyes closed, just Listening and Focusing on the Music and Steve of course. It was a pretty basic lighting show so no screens, no crazy effects anywhere, just a tremendous atmosphere with amazing musicians doing what they do best. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
Utterly transfixing and fascinating. The displacement discussion is very inspiring.
I like drumming and percussion. What first got me intrigued by drumming was hearing the Paul Simon song, 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, in the mid 1970s. Amazing drumming from Steve Gadd. Also, the Paul Simon song, Late In The Evening, shows how brilliant Steve Gadd is as a drummer. I was fortunate enough to see James Taylor live in 2016, and Steve Gadd was drumming for him. Cheers!
❤ seen him twice with James and once with Clapton
Those two songs to me are the gold standard of popular music drumming. I remember as a young kid I would hear "Late In The Evening" on the radio and I was moved to grab a pencil and bang along with the cymbal after the vocal part of the song ends and play along as well as a young kid who knew nothing about drums could.
Saw Steve with Clapton. There was a 3 beat rest in a song, on the 4th beat all he did was a& on the snare, and nailed it on the 1 with the bass drum. It was magic! So simple, but crazy impactful.
Steve is one humble dude.
so many players are obsessed with speed and technique for techniques sake but Gadd just has all the technique with sublime taste and feel for the music.
MOAR GADD!! Can’t believe you got him! Such an enlightening interview!!!
I love this man so much. What a magnificent human being.
+1.. Mr. Steve Gadd ... A gentlemans gentleman drummer extraordinaire. .. Toured like an airline pilot.
The Groove Master! Top of the tops Dr. Steve Gadd. RESPECT! Thank You Rick
One of my favorite drummers.
Best drum video IMHO is Steve, Vinnie and Dave, at the Buddy Rich Memorial.
Love Flams, diddles, singles, doubles, and triples. And all on different beats.
That is one epic drum battle, to say the least. Like a heavyweight fight.
His hands are so beautiful and even. Steve is the god because of consistency and groove.
This is what defines gifted talent from technique!
thank you Rick! thank you Steve !!! touches many souls 🙏
The grid, baby. Absolute gold.
It is fantastic that new layers of your art will be revealed for a lifetime of learning! So many artists found new and surprising things during lockdowns for COVID.
If Steve Gadd can improve over time, I guess there's hope for me!
Wynton is still improving too - so there’s also hope for this trumpet player!
If you follow the concepts Steve talked about in this video, you'll see massive improvement and quick. Just make sure you really get into it. One or two hour sessions, all kinds of different rudiments. This isn't even practice to me anymore, it's fun and I just love it!
this is insulting with a little more thought put into it but I get the sentiment you were going for! Glad you're getting better like the best of us all!
@@mewsick5093 it’s not insulting at all, dipshit. If a MASTER of the instrument can still make improvements, then there hope for me. How TF is that insulting? Now stfu.
Steve Gadd Is So Fucking Good
3:05 “Technically the same, but…. MENTALLY!” The summary of Gaddiments right there. I had the same impression right out the gate to ruin my day.
Besides being a great book, it’s a beautiful book with hand notes, cream paper and… fold outs!
My teacher and John Beck were good friends back in the day so many of use Western NY drummers had the similar flavor, but Steve took it to the next level.
Steve Gadd is arguably the greatest drummer that ever lived. The breath of his oeuvre is far and wide. Some of the most influential and revered pop/rock albums of all time with unique one of a kind grooves like "50 Ways" or "Late In the Evening" by Paul Simon, mind blowing fills like Steely Dan's "Aja" and virtuoso all around playing like anything he did with Chick Corea and Al Di Meola. Not to mention his never ending contribution to so many unforgettable songs by so many artists. His resume is second to none. Different genres, different styles, one towering musician.
Furthering the argument..... three of the guys that are always talked about in the greatest-drummers-ever conversation -- Buddy, Peart and Bonham -- would all have told you that they were Gadd fans. Buddy said at some point that he really liked and respected Gadd because he could hang with Chick.
Gadd is ONE of the greatest drummer that ever lived but in my opinion NOT the greatest. Though it is difficult to determine the greatest at anything.
Still total badass. Awesome Rick
Steve has all the chops of the great jazz legends.
Hands down my greatest influence growing up!
I’m a drummer and I’ve studied audio engineer and I love Rick’s channels. Subscribed. 🎉
Holy shit, he got old. I last saw him on the cover of Modern Drummer magazine in 1985 when I was 15 years old. Holy shit, I got old.
beats the alternative
No beat is the way
Steve Gadd became my favorite drummer after I tried his sticks. They feel good.
I subscribed Rick. Because you asked and it's one of the few ways to pay you back for all the fun you provide us.
What a great interview! I love that Steve talked about sticking with inverted paradiddles - I discovered the same thing during Covid marathon practice sessions.
Gadd the groove master, such imagination and feel!
We're all students of our instruments, I'm working on the Virgil thing with single paradiddle on one side and double on the other.. It's crazy what else comes along in each individual journey.
Met Steve when he came to the UK, great drummer, nice guy
Steve Gadd, the master. Displacement. I remember seeing the whole video of Steve when you posted this originally watching the short again my head hurts because I can’t get my mind around what he’s doing. I understand the concept. I’ve been a drummer most of my life but I could never say OK start on one and a half and do the same thing , I can’t play as original rudiment anyway. Like I said, the master and Rick, you probably played drums better than I do.
Haha! Rick! I was laughing as well. So relaxed and smooth.
I'm noticing more and more that this kind of thing is what works to orchestrate my motor neural situation to make me near normal as a whole the best without any bad side effects. ❤
Good deal, man! Without knowing what was happening physiologically/emotionally, I’ve known my whole life as a musician (now going on nearly 60 years!), that this is air, water, and food for me!
@@michaelfoxbrass That is true for me lifelong as well. Music has really gotten me through every hard thing in the middle of no where, from babyhood on up. Especially in isolated situations but so much more from just surviving, to thriving
making music with company. :)
Still learning and burning. I need to check out the Gadiments booklet.
I left my socks behind the couch. Another form of "displacement" but not so much my socks but more so with my brain. Drum on Steve.
Living proof showing drumming keeps you young and agile. Steve Gadd for life
Thank you for inspiring. The Gadd interview was awesome and helpful. The displacement theory is WOW. Thank you
One of the best drummers ever!
There’s a video on UA-cam where Anthony Jackson gives a speech about Steve at an award ceremony, and he has lofty and authentic praise for Steve’s musical mind. He’s definitely one of the most electrifying drummers I’ve ever listened to.
Took me over 2 weeks to get through the first page of Gaddiments. 😂
Learning an excercise is one thing but starting it on the and of 1 is a whole different ball game.
you can hear his breathing with headphones and it is the best thing ive heard in a video
He's soooo good!!
I try to work on being more relaxed when i play
Steve Gadd is just awesome, period.
This is something… he’s talking about “displacement”. I started playing paradiddles playing the “diddle” 1st! It adds a completely different feeling/dynamic. He is so cool!!!!
2:29 "YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?" freaking love gadd.
my final drum solo at the Navy School of Music (Tri-Military School of Music, long ago) was named "Ya Know what i mean?!" in honor of Gadd 😆
Goodness gracious…those hands are just magnificent
"He didn't show off like that on the run through!" 😂
Thank you for making it possible for us to get into all these musical prodigies' approaches to art. It's a real privilege. I had already subscribed to your main channel and have just subscribed to this one. Cheers from Türkiye!!
Drummers love to share. True that. ❤️
The epitome of smooth and cool in drumming.
Master class. When genius is real. Simplicity within complexity
Always inspired watching Steve!
in 1981, being Dutch and a profesional drummer (just starting my pro career then) , I was invited to visit the Yamaha stand in the Frankfurter Messe in Germany.
Steve Gadd did a clinic, as an endorser for Yamaha. Of course I knew him, but he was usually playing with or for bands that I wasn't that interested in, except for Paul Simon, who is a real hero for me.
So I sat almost front row and Gadd started to play an easy 4/4 beat, slowly adding very small alterations, but wasn't showing off. And I really started wondering what happened there. I mean, I also have two arms and two legs, I was a pretty good drummer according to many musicians I played with at the time, but somehow there was something going on on that stage. The feel he displayed was amazing. I've watch in awe the whole say 20 minutes and when I left the large booth I was a believer..... 😊
And now, in this interview, again he keeps amazing me!!!!
In Gadd we trust
wOOOOw...these were amazing lessons!! Thank you!! 💖
He makes me want to practice even more!
1:45 Steve Gadd understood something new about drumming during covid 2020!!
You can never learn it all in a lifetime, GET TO WORK!!! :)
Subscribed on both, great content as always..
David Garibaldi also covers this concept a bit in his Future Sounds book. He calls them permutations. Lots of good exercises.Someone mentioned about Gadd doing Garibaldi 😊. It's neat to see that someone as accomplished as Gadd still has the humility to look for fresh ways to approach his playing.
THE GOAT
One of the greatest for sure!!
GADD ROCKS! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Will there ever be another Steve Gadd? I highly doubt it! I saw the long interview and it made me an even bigger Gadd fan. Some drummers just know how to get the job done. Gadd is always looking for the OTHER ways to get the same job done. Ringo is a completely different type of talent. He also would play "other choices" and not always the obvious ones. He had a formula though, and Steve Gadd seems to always be coming up with new formulas! There are and have been many great drummers out there. Steve Gadd is a legend that stands with any and all of them.
Didnt realize Rick Beato has two channels till now. By bad. Ive liked this and subscribed. Awesome content!
This is why Sicily sounds so amazing ❤️
Watching this made me feel really good about how I practice. I started doing things like displacing stickings and accents, all kinds of permutations, after I saw Matt Garstka doing stuff like that. I just love the results, I can play things cleanly and at speeds I couldn't begin to dream of just weeks ago. You should really give it a try, this kind of practice has become one of my favorite parts of drumming. If it's good enough for Gadd & Garstka, I belive it's good enough for us mere mortals. 😄
PS. Any guitarists or bassists here who have an idea how translate this concept to their instruments?
The displacement concept exists in Tabla with the name “Laggi”. Remarkable stuff to open the mind on a groove :)
Thank you 😊
Rick is so cool. When asked by Gadd whether he’s a drummer he just says “I’m not a drummer, no.” I would immediately list everything that I am.
This was so special to see. Please get Billy Cobham onto the show also. 🙏
Reminds me of one of the Joel Rothman books I used to practice with.
…there’s a SG sighting, at the beginning in the Take It Away video by SPM!
DEAR MASTER!!!
i literally just started practicing rudiments recently after drumming for like 3 years, and all these displacement ideas started coming into my head and now here i am watching Steve Gadd talking about the same stuff. whats a coincidence
Gridding! Gridding is great practice; grid some book reports and you’ll understand how difficult it is
So damned cool!
As someone with a lifelong interest in drumming and drummers, Steve Gadd has been one of my heroes. I've taken lessons and dabbled, and quit out of frustration, but always want to try again. Can someone please explain displacement to me? From just viewing this, I don't understand.
You are changing the timing of the strikes. Or changing the placement of the strikes see him do paras with started or ending with the didil. The double note on front or in back like changing accents does similar things. What he is experiencing is that once you get older you don’t have the same stamina so you take shorter less physical approaches doubled are easier then singles. Take a para diddil diddle and change around the accents when you can build some speed each para sounds different yet similar and can create a completely different feel. Try playing a para diddil with one hand on high hat the other on snare now change the accents open hh at different times start with straight 4/4 bsss best then do double beats two quarter notes rudiments are the basis the framework of all drumming and are very flexible. Hope this helps