Cymbal Sounds of The Masters : Steve Gadd
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2018
- This educational video series will trace the cymbal selections of the great drummers from Gene, Max, Philly and Elvin, up to the present day with drummers such as Steve Gadd, Terri Lyne Carrington, Eric Harland, Bill Stewart, among many others. Throughout this evolution, you will find that the music drove the sound, and it still does.
Each episode will include a discussion of the music, sound, and process that went into making the choice come alive.
Join us as we take you on a cymbal sound journey that will honor the past, shape the present, and imagine the future.
EPISODE 2: Steve Gadd
when i was 19 (circa 1976) i sat front row center in a tiny club to see Steve with Stuff... even though he had a cinder block in his kick drum, it kept sliding away, so after one song he asked me to put my feet against it to keep it from sliding... (THAT's how tiny the joint was!)... all night i had my feet practically inside his kick drum... when the night was over he asked me to stick around... we chatted as he tore his kit down... he had to leave for a few moments and asked if i would hold on to his cymbal bag for safekeeping... later he invited me to his hotel room, where his then-wife was sleeping... she actually got out of bed, went to a nearby convenience store, and bought me some snacks and drinks... i stayed for an hour or more, incredulous that i was sharing this time with a hero... a night i'll never forget... Steve forgot, though... lol... I've talked to him since... (even played with him! i'm a bassist)... still my favorite drummer ever...
Cool story- thanks! :)
obvi•US : man that’s a nice story! End 70s Steve performed in Belgium for Yamaha. I wasn’t there but a friend who worked for Yamaha brought me Steve’s sticks. I even could smell his aftershave on those sticks. Unfortunately I don’t have the sticks anymore. But for me Steve influenced most of modern drumming together with Ringo. Grts from Belgium
Steve is a master of "underplaying" the cymbals. He doesn't drown out a whole frequency range with bashing and crashing.
I'm loving this series and will always hold Steve with the greatest esteem.
Steve Gadd have Played so Many Recording's with so Many Diverse Musician's it's Out if This World. He has Played Zildjian Cymbals for so Long. He's Going into the Zildjian Cymbal Family Hall Of Fame.
This is an amazing series. Please make a million of these!
We'll need more Masters
The Master of groove Mr. Steve Gadd! Groove on oh mighty man of the beat! 🎶🥁😎🦅 David Curtis
Doesn’t matter what cymbals he plays, only he can make them sound that way.
exactly wilkinsnl!!
Thanks, great video guys. Keep em' coming!
AMAZING human being and drummer.MASTER.
JUST AWESOME!
I like steve gadd because he’s the rock drummer among jazz drummers and the jazz drummer among rock drummers
Good comment...
Using orchestral cymbals in your drum kit..... and when I was doing that in the 8th grade they didn’t get it......right on Steve!
Love this series! Keep the tone! DC
Cool idea for a series.
🎶👌Very cool ... Thanks !
Wynton Kelly’s “Skatin” was playing in background for most of the video AND IVE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY THAT SONG IS SO OBSCURE
cool stuff !!
In the past, he has played with an old K ride and old K hi-hats. I mean K's that were made in Turkey.
Steve Gadd my Hero !!!
Well, I appreciate this interview but to my personal opinion Steve’s cymbals are still a mystery to me. One of the things what it makes difficult is that Steve’s taste changed in time. Please don’t see my comment as a bad thing because I have a huge respect for Stevie Gadd and I’m a fan for about 41 years. Since I saw Steve’s drumvideo “Up Close” I totally fel in love with the ride that Steve used their and I’m 99,99% sure that it’s a 18” EAK Prototype (Heavy) Ride (Early American K) which was not lathed al lot. Maybe the bottom side but not the Top side. I remember me being excited as a kid being a grown man behind a kit with the brand new Session cymbals and the first thing I noticed was the most important cymbals in recognising Steve’s cymbal sound was that the hi hats and ride had a brilliant finish and so they sounded: to fresh and clear, not a smokey, dry sound. I understood that Steve had a pair of very old K hats (old stamp could be from the transition “Constantinople Trademark to “made in Turkey”, more heavy than thin cymbals). One day Steve could’t use the top anymore because it had to much metal fatigue (as you can see in the Grover Washington concert, all his cymbals had cracks) so he combined the bottom as a top with other cymbals like a very old New Beat Top as a bottom: the effect: nice presence ride-ish sound on top, because of a thinner bottom a warm dry total sound and a open sjoep sound. Steve also like’s to feel the resistance of the metal also while playing. Further, I gave up hope to find me a copy of Steve’s prototype ride and named that on the Cymbalholic website where a guy said it all: “It’s not the arrow ... it’s the Indian”. And 100% right he was. I’ve seen Steve playing with his band during his 70’s tour and I never heard him play so good, tight timekeeper and a great positive human being. He’s from another planet! Thanks Steve. Zildjian: please throw out the brilliant finish in the Session cymbals series. The man is brilliant, not the finish of the cymbals where in people recognise Steve’s playing. Thanks.
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Advertisement for Zildjian cymbals... and at 2:45 you can see him playing a crash that is cracked in a crescent shape through the middle. What an endorsement of quality hahaha.
"Zildjian cymbals, cracks since 1623"😂
Steve Gadd looks sick!
MR.STEVE PLAYS CYMBALS LIKE SWANS GLIDING IN A LAKE
Dude this video is incredible. To see people describing so passionately the difference that cymbals make in music shows that sometimes non-players know what's up better than we do. Gadd's the king.
legend
I play K lights if you wondered.. haha, just kidding. Thanks for the Video, really cool!
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what e legend.
So, it all makes me wonder about the K Sessions. How close they are from Steve's original sound? I mean, what hi-hat combination inspired him to create the K Sessions hats?
freddie freeloader in the background, heard bill evans on piano somewhere in the middle after the vid of his solo
Steve Gadd the 🐐
again.. today in 2019 when GADD play.. it's God drummer !!
Tony Williams and Philly Jo Jones pleaaaseee!!!!
Steve Gadd looks so smol here
I play a K Constantinople top with a New Beat bottom.
The top has a dark wash and the brighter, higher-pitched, heavier bottom gives it more volume especially when played with the foot pedal. The full pair of K Constantinople was too quiet and dark.
Theyre scared to release the Bill Stewart episode because of the outrage those Complex Drys will cause
I am not a drummer and I don't know about different cymbals, but to me Steve Gadd is the most colourful drummer, although he uses small drumsets.
who dislikes this ????? COME ON !!!
Not sure the whole "lowering of Zildjian standards" was the right thought - I think that Gadd simply gets more with less.
Agreed,seemed like a douche bag comment to make about Gadd's taste.
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I'm looking for josh dun lol
Wait.. so we aren't going to hear any of his cymbals in the interview?
Kinda what I was wondering, too. WTF?
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He looks sick, poor Steve:(
in love of (drums) God
Steve (God) Gadd ☝☺
Hi
Steve looks sick, lost a lot of weight. I hope he's ok.
Transcribed the solo at 2:07, because why not. :D Here's the note:
www.noteflight.com/scores/view/291f878939b253fb6dcc9e7de02b51da98b5b11d
😂👏👏👏👍
Point of video.
K customs have the best sound, designed by Steve Gadd.
Is he sick?
I thought I was odd for putting a bottom Hi hat for 30 yrs on top. The top hihat was beat up soi switched it. Go figure
While hearing all the yak, yak, yak was fine, how about actually HEARING the cymbals? Yes, he hit them during a performance, but all the horns drowned them out.
Steve nowadays always resorts to that same tired triplet pattern at 7.53.He has become SO predictable in his old age. He's a national treasure though for his drumming contributions.
At 7:53 those are not triplets, they're 16th notes. He doesn't start playing triplets until 8:01.
man,steve so skinny! :(
teamsleepnine yeah he doesn’t look healthy
He's doing great. Just saw him 3 weeks ago.
Dark crashes better for jazz n blues..rock needs bright..this video really gave no insight
''lower our standards..'', listen, you don't play. He does. This is why Zildjian is getting left behind by drummers that don't just play rock, because companies like bosphorus and Diril make cymbals that 'give' and are a quarter of the price. I play for a living and I know the old A cymbals and K cymbals are really sought after, I have a few, but the new stuff unfortunately my colleagues and myself won't go near them. I had a conversation with a very well known drummer recently who said that he was sponsored by you but on the gig, used a couple of Bosphorus rides. Up your game, gentlemen. You've become a company for rock drummers, stop relying on your name, your rides are appalling. No give, bearly crashable, don't open up. You think Brian Blade would just pull something off the shelf from your company? Nope.
This post production is cheesey as hell and annoying.