The Evolution Of Blast Beats & Grindcore - The Jazz Years

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  • @2free2snakes
    @2free2snakes Рік тому +353

    Things that were a thing in jazz before metal; blast beats, bell rides, 7 string guitars, downtuning and double bass drumming

    • @onesyphorus
      @onesyphorus Рік тому +20

      yeah. and brazillians use 7 strings its a common thing there

    • @josueguillen2742
      @josueguillen2742 Рік тому +6

      So basicly metal.

    • @Chicky_Lumps
      @Chicky_Lumps Рік тому +14

      Acoustic metal

    • @annone3428
      @annone3428 Рік тому +13

      @@onesyphorusactually russians too, in oldschool romances

    • @onesyphorus
      @onesyphorus Рік тому

      oh yeah they used it a lot before that sergovia dude came along right? thats so cool, i've heard it was tuned like into a G chord or sumn? @@annone3428

  • @randallross420
    @randallross420 Рік тому +396

    "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
    -Marty McFly, Godfather of Rock and Roll

  • @xMIRAKx
    @xMIRAKx Рік тому +95

    I’m not surprised of the Jazz roots. I once saw Whitney Houston’s drummer do a proper gravity blast at a Jazz bar in Seattle.

    • @19tet
      @19tet 6 місяців тому +5

      ts musta been amazing lol

  • @breakfastplan4518
    @breakfastplan4518 3 роки тому +357

    Sam Woodyard. The godfather of blast beats. Respect.

    • @Nissardpertugiu
      @Nissardpertugiu Рік тому +16

      The guy is portraying Pete Sandoval in 1960

    • @EvansFanily
      @EvansFanily Рік тому +18

      Mofo could play for nile

    • @xmw-rat4558
      @xmw-rat4558 Рік тому +12

      ​@@EvansFanilymore like Last days of Humanity

    • @ashgonza92
      @ashgonza92 Рік тому +7

      ​@@xmw-rat4558you're not even exaggerating with that one chief

    • @bultronlagore4932
      @bultronlagore4932 Рік тому +2

      @@EvansFanilyif you think Nile is all blast beats then you know nothing about drumming my little non musician. Seriously doubt Sam knew how to do Heel-Toe or Swivel Foot Techniques plus the amount of time it takes to learn how to use those techniques correctly then comes the stamina challenge and being able to reach those very fast double bass speeds. So no little buddy, Sam could not play for Nile.

  • @SaltWaterDrums
    @SaltWaterDrums Рік тому +173

    Louis Bellson was also the father of double bass in drums, drawing up the idea for a double bass drum kit while still a kid in 1939.

    • @bartrosseau7481
      @bartrosseau7481 Рік тому +8

      wanting to have the patterns he learned as a tapdancer to his drumkit

    • @Chicky_Lumps
      @Chicky_Lumps Рік тому +3

      ​@@bartrosseau7481Man he basically started one of the greatest features of metal drumming.

  • @naswalt
    @naswalt Рік тому +41

    it's amazing how some of these songs I had listened to through a more modern lens and never picked up on "oh hey, that's extremely modern and forward thinking of them."
    Emerson Lake and Palmer even had the freaking bell of the ride. I cannot believe how spot on that is.

  • @putrescentvermin
    @putrescentvermin 2 роки тому +154

    For the 1950s and beyond, that was extreme for its time.

  • @michaelb.42112
    @michaelb.42112 Рік тому +138

    I own a signed set of Louie Bellson drum sticks. Those guys are the DNA of drums. Jazz drumming from the mid 20th century will always be the gold standard.
    Oh, you earned my subscription by the research and editing you did. You're not just a hack rip off like 97% of YT.

    • @bodomiller4275
      @bodomiller4275  Рік тому +18

      Thanks for your kind words! 🙏

    • @BomageMinimart
      @BomageMinimart Рік тому +4

      Same. It isn't often enough that I encounter others who understand that so much music that we think of as rock is really just jazz in different clothing, so to speak.

  • @rjc7289
    @rjc7289 Рік тому +59

    Somebody was tearing it up long before heavy metal became a thing. Doesn't matter what style or instrument.

    • @beeemm2578
      @beeemm2578 5 місяців тому +4

      That's a profoundly true statement. Folks have been expressing anger, aggression, basically any type of foul human emotion through music since forever. Metal made it popular.

  • @Sterlingforsyth
    @Sterlingforsyth Рік тому +33

    Jazz is metal as fck

  • @royasaifi5653
    @royasaifi5653 Рік тому +20

    Thats is where metal music actually came from. Jass n classic n blues. Those are the roots of it all.

  • @pinguchan1
    @pinguchan1 Рік тому +48

    Popping in two years later to say that Tony Williams has several of the first recorded blastbeats that actually sound like blasts to contemporary metalheads. Check out the 1:40~ mark, and another build from the 3:00~ mark on “Vashkar” from Emergency! and I know there are examples of him doing this in some of the live releases with the Miles Davis quintet.

    • @nylesfrench3568
      @nylesfrench3568 Рік тому +2

      ❤❤❤❤ One of my favorites

    • @Mustlord_Guitar_Ambient
      @Mustlord_Guitar_Ambient Рік тому +1

      Here's another good one from the 1960s: 1:30 into Tom Jones & The Senators - What'd I Say (The Beat Room, 5th Oct 1964).

    • @febririyan7776
      @febririyan7776 Рік тому +1

      1:42 hammer smashed face

  • @Super221278
    @Super221278 Рік тому +30

    Listen to Coltrane's the father and the son and the holy ghost. The drumming is chaotic. Pure art

    • @MinidouxButReal
      @MinidouxButReal 20 днів тому

      I've never picked up a blast beat while listening to that one before. Maybe I haven't been paying enough attention. There's two drummers on it, after all. Lots to focus on.

  • @anders9556
    @anders9556 Рік тому +7

    Someone should make a brutal riff to these jazz drums

  • @jebroe860
    @jebroe860 Рік тому +6

    The drum breaks in
    "Wipe Out" were a must.
    A lot of the drum solos were influenced by it. thanks

  • @morganneher8643
    @morganneher8643 Рік тому +4

    When Carl Palmer did it, it had POWER!!!! 💪
    Bill Ward is SO OG it’s ridiculous!!!! He sounds METAL ALL the time 💪

  • @lihns
    @lihns Рік тому +43

    Black Sabbath … … my favorite jazz band !

    • @bodomiller4275
      @bodomiller4275  Рік тому +6

      Right about that, my fault..!

    • @CursedInEternity92
      @CursedInEternity92 Рік тому +7

      They knew how to play some jazz acctually, iommi and butler for sure

    • @marcrogers1051
      @marcrogers1051 Рік тому +10

      The thing about heavy bands in the early 70's is that they have influences from jazz, blues, psychedelia, rock, classical...

    • @breakfreak3181
      @breakfreak3181 Рік тому +8

      Bill Ward was heavily influenced by jazz

    • @mrmoo1413
      @mrmoo1413 Рік тому +4

      Sabbath absolutely swings

  • @lordfizzz
    @lordfizzz Рік тому +41

    Ah yes protogrind

  • @ronaldothomejunior3702
    @ronaldothomejunior3702 Рік тому +12

    2:20 Ouch! Nick Mason... I am Pink Floyd fan and it's amazing to listen him in this way🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @perimetroprimitivo5734
    @perimetroprimitivo5734 Рік тому +23

    ¡El blast beat siempre ha estado allí! Solo debían llegar oídos suficientemente podridos para apreciarlos

    • @netzerx
      @netzerx Рік тому +1

      Jaja, hay blast en las sinfonías de Bach y Beethoven .

    • @rodrigofalln
      @rodrigofalln Рік тому

      @@netzerx en cuales

  • @lucasgoudie1851
    @lucasgoudie1851 Рік тому +7

    Tony Williams is a big
    Omission from this

  • @stephensevenpounder5447
    @stephensevenpounder5447 Рік тому +7

    The first guy HAS to be Dave Lombardo's dad. That double kick....

  • @ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it
    @ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it Місяць тому +2

    0:24 EA LORD OF DEPTHS

  • @jameswayne8256
    @jameswayne8256 Рік тому +10

    If [insert any musical innovation] exists, jazz did it first.

    • @MuffinMan1278
      @MuffinMan1278 9 місяців тому +1

      ....Which Jazz artist did guttural vocals?

    • @sireffortlessgarbage7922
      @sireffortlessgarbage7922 4 місяці тому

      Lord Worm’s first earthly incarnation before he was reincarnated as Cryptopsy’s vocalist

  • @TheCallousDankboy
    @TheCallousDankboy 2 роки тому +32

    I feel like this guy likes the Doors considering the amount of time they were given

    • @bodomiller4275
      @bodomiller4275  2 роки тому +16

      True! But seriously, I really didnt look at the clock while making the edit/cuts, so it’s more a coincidence.

  • @eugeniosimoes7078
    @eugeniosimoes7078 Рік тому +35

    Carl Palmer is a monster

    • @robgrano6814
      @robgrano6814 Рік тому +8

      Don't know if it's true or not, but I read that he was the only rock drummer that Buddy Rich thought was good.

    • @marcusianguzman6240
      @marcusianguzman6240 Рік тому +5

      ​​@@robgrano6814 truth Buddy's favorite rock drummer was Carl Palmer.. he also said after he was gone that Carl would be the best...

    • @BrianOfAteionas
      @BrianOfAteionas Рік тому

      And, it's the only clip in this video where the blast was used musically and as an actual beat.

  • @Purdenden
    @Purdenden Рік тому

    Dude, you made some NEAT RESEARCH

  • @CharlieWielowski
    @CharlieWielowski Рік тому +16

    The Doors definitely gives me chills, having watched Apocalypse Now

    • @rocketsalad
      @rocketsalad Рік тому +2

      Morrison was an insufferable lunkhead goon, but Manzarek, Krieger, and Densmore were a band of unimpeachable skill and unquestionable talent. Peak musicianship.

  • @NirwisayaRecords
    @NirwisayaRecords Рік тому +7

    And yes.. Metal music has roots in jazz

  • @fiftyonsix
    @fiftyonsix 11 місяців тому +1

    Look into ‘Flower Punk’ by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. First fully blast song?

  • @a.a.1253
    @a.a.1253 Рік тому +7

    Glad to see Sunny represented.

  • @careful...Icarus
    @careful...Icarus Рік тому +5

    Acid jazz with emphasis on acid.

  • @Mustlord_Guitar_Ambient
    @Mustlord_Guitar_Ambient Рік тому +1

    Give this one a try, it's a great example from the 1960s: 1:30 into Tom Jones & The Senators - What'd I Say (The Beat Room, 5th Oct 1964).

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore Рік тому +4

    You know... in hindsight I can definitely see blast beats being so common throughout music because it's such a great warm up routine. In some alternative universe playing octaves being synonymous with black metal 😂

  • @19tet
    @19tet 6 місяців тому +1

    1:32 is so funny to me cos it makes sense in context but just realising oh yeah ofc its blastbeatish too

  • @histatimaniples
    @histatimaniples Рік тому +1

    Jazz was just classical music players messing around

  • @robotron17
    @robotron17 Рік тому +3

    Buddy Rich did a very clean/fast blast beat in "West Side Story" throughout the 1960s ... usually one of the first fills in the song.

  • @domicdom2483
    @domicdom2483 6 місяців тому +2

    Very first true grindcore songs with speed blasts includes screams and high pitched growls(United Mutation), warning its brutal-- MEAT PUPPETS- Hair 1981- ua-cam.com/video/rL86Ur7fhMs/v-deo.htmlsi=SiH80G0vsqROE4Va / MEAT PUPPETS Foreign Lawns 1981- ua-cam.com/video/utCl9ubiEmM/v-deo.htmlsi=xmCllJrSUzcPgEKn / UNITED MUTATION- Combat Boots 1982- ua-cam.com/video/ihi9cDaDAx0/v-deo.htmlsi=zPVfHWZGdGodqBWA

  • @jagajazzin
    @jagajazzin 12 днів тому

    I got the Complete Jack Johnson Sessions boxset from Miles Davis in 2004 and I remember some insane drumming by Billy Cobham on a track that sounded like straight thrashin' but I don't remember which track! I'll have to dig it out and go through the 40+ songs sometime

  • @edwardthegreat3954
    @edwardthegreat3954 Рік тому +4

    That one in Emerson lake and palmer is the more accurate form. Is already one hand on the ride and another one on the snare. Is the nearest on the list at traditional blastbeat.

  • @GenZ_Guitarist
    @GenZ_Guitarist 3 місяці тому

    I can literally hear some brutal 7 string riff being played for the second one 😂

  • @ExecutionSommaire
    @ExecutionSommaire Рік тому +7

    Jazz players usually have crazy fast hands

  • @LondonBlakk
    @LondonBlakk Рік тому +3

    Nick Mason does not get enough respect.

  • @leblon712
    @leblon712 Рік тому +2

    ELP.... Awesome!!!

  • @carlosmagnodealmeida9500
    @carlosmagnodealmeida9500 Рік тому +3

    We also have a blast beat in the final moments of "The End" also by The Doors

  • @srj_br
    @srj_br Рік тому +1

    The Doors - The End, in final section have a blastbeat!

  • @holeofsin
    @holeofsin Рік тому

    What a video! Love me some blast beats.

  • @1313sleepwalker666
    @1313sleepwalker666 Рік тому

    Siempre encuentro algo nuevo del jazz que me impresiona, gracias.

  • @emergentform1188
    @emergentform1188 Рік тому

    Great vid dude!

  • @marks.3303
    @marks.3303 Рік тому +2

    Love's "7 and 7 Is" has some ferocious drumming from Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer.

    • @kelechi_77
      @kelechi_77 6 місяців тому

      also 1523 blair by outcasts

  • @mattvdh
    @mattvdh Рік тому +26

    Nobody ever talks about Charles Lee Benante of SOD for some reason. It's one thing to have a chaotic drum solo and another to fit it in to a musical context so it holds emotion.
    ua-cam.com/video/7hfaB4tjmLc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=HistoryofRockMusic-Mostpowerfulrocksongs

    • @bodomiller4275
      @bodomiller4275  Рік тому +5

      Here you go (at 11:30 in the 80s Video):
      ua-cam.com/video/gc3ZxDNq744/v-deo.html
      Cheers mate!

    • @simonr9870
      @simonr9870 Рік тому +2

      No worries on my end Charlie will always be one of the best metal drummers ever.

  • @benjaminkip9143
    @benjaminkip9143 Рік тому +1

    Crippled society: the womb of blast beats

  • @AlexBlades-dh5tb
    @AlexBlades-dh5tb 9 місяців тому

    Talk about a “blast” from the past!

  • @evangrimminck2248
    @evangrimminck2248 Рік тому

    Some jazz requires a metal mentality for sure.

  • @992ras
    @992ras Рік тому

    I was about to say Louie was playing a roll then just matching his feet with his hands. Usually in jazz a blast beat was more used in transitions technically a blast beat is a 8th note played at 120 bpms which the basic ride pattern of the jazz shuffle is 120 bpms

  • @larvalangel
    @larvalangel Рік тому +1

    After hearing the ELP track, I put on Yezda Urfa's Sacred Baboon album, which then reminded me of Righteous Pigs.

  • @Caosjam
    @Caosjam 7 місяців тому

    I need more videos with an investigative quality as found in this video, congratulations, your research is very deep 🤘🙌💪🪖👍

  • @BrianOfAteionas
    @BrianOfAteionas Рік тому

    Really interesting to hear blasts used in a song / musical way outside of a drum solo as early as 1970

  • @modev4163
    @modev4163 Рік тому

    This man even did a whole dance move for you during

  • @StephanBuchin
    @StephanBuchin Рік тому +4

    Louie Bellson already played with double bass drums. I'm shocked 😮

  • @laabsenceofcol8079
    @laabsenceofcol8079 Рік тому +1

    Have you heard the proto metal etc pre Sabbath? Some scary stuff

  • @WhoisVinnie
    @WhoisVinnie 3 роки тому +5

    WOOOOWOWOOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW

  • @repairdepartment5918
    @repairdepartment5918 Рік тому +1

    F-ing awesome

  • @mikereseigh
    @mikereseigh 10 місяців тому +1

    Agree with this

  • @dirtydoge756
    @dirtydoge756 Рік тому +6

    That Emerson, Lake and Palmer song SLAPPED lol

    • @rocketsalad
      @rocketsalad Рік тому

      ELP was fundamentally incapable of ever not GOING HARD AF 💯, dig in to their catalog (welcome to your new obsession, btw 😅) and you’ll see 🙌

  • @megaluke007
    @megaluke007 7 місяців тому

    We will dominaaaaaate!

  • @WhoisVinnie
    @WhoisVinnie 3 роки тому +16

    I think you should've included Tony Williams

  • @gareginasatryan6761
    @gareginasatryan6761 11 місяців тому +1

    Who’s the drummer before Pink Floyd’s clip

  • @kaikaivilu
    @kaikaivilu Рік тому +3

    You forgot Fireball, first proto speed metal song.

  • @marcopulidori2194
    @marcopulidori2194 Рік тому

    Sam Woodyard Is incredible drum man
    Rip❤

  • @thedream-workdoesnotthink4512

    Coletrane's Interstellar Space. Rasheed Ali on drums.

  • @JohnnyCake6759
    @JohnnyCake6759 Рік тому +1

    What is the Albert Ayler song featured here named?

    • @bodomiller4275
      @bodomiller4275  Рік тому +2

      I think it was a variation of the song „ghost“

    • @JohnnyCake6759
      @JohnnyCake6759 Рік тому

      @@bodomiller4275Thank you. I ended up finding the originally recording. Here it is, for everyone interested. ua-cam.com/video/nuCxMd8SfNE/v-deo.html

  • @adamcruz3172
    @adamcruz3172 Рік тому

    I would like to mention that the drummer of Pantera probably the first to blast beat as it would be played in it's genre

    • @bodomiller4275
      @bodomiller4275  Рік тому

      In which song?

    • @adamcruz3172
      @adamcruz3172 Рік тому

      @@bodomiller4275 I'm actually going to go back in time further. And have to say Charlie Benante had influenced the blast beats into the genre of metal, and not what punk music was doing

    • @robertoricci3393
      @robertoricci3393 Рік тому +1

      ​@@adamcruz3172Blast beat as we know it today has its roots in punk drumming. Even Benante stated he didn't invent it and gives the credit to the early 80's hardcore bands.

    • @adamcruz3172
      @adamcruz3172 Рік тому

      @@robertoricci3393 I think we're on the same page

  • @Gordo804
    @Gordo804 Рік тому +1

    1:31 what record is this please

    • @bodomiller4275
      @bodomiller4275  Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/qPslczm0V_Y/v-deo.htmlsi=0xiSAdFSkH9KB8te
      Must be a variation of the ghost recordings

  • @fhgdfh3219
    @fhgdfh3219 Рік тому

    Carl Palmer... So fucking Great

  • @stephanerancourt7188
    @stephanerancourt7188 Рік тому +1

    What are the doors doing there ??? What about budy rich?? Thus is I complete .

  • @drhall343
    @drhall343 Рік тому +2

    The Doors sounded like they were attempting minimalist music, rather than blast beats. 😂

    • @linusfotograf
      @linusfotograf Рік тому +4

      Yeah, I heard no blasting

    • @rocketsalad
      @rocketsalad Рік тому +2

      More of a traditional psych rock freakout jam imho, and may I add it’s a v good one at that. Some things just never go out of style 🤘

  • @ComboNinja06
    @ComboNinja06 Місяць тому

    who knew jays ghost could blast beats

  • @terryoster9699
    @terryoster9699 Рік тому +1

    Where is Mr Baker?

  • @whileistaysecluded
    @whileistaysecluded 10 місяців тому

    3:35 almost started to sound like wont get fooled again

  • @brain.in.a.body.
    @brain.in.a.body. Рік тому +1

    This was so fuckin interesting

  • @adamhopkins6058
    @adamhopkins6058 Рік тому +16

    It's weird why modern drummers don't strive to this kind of perfection

    • @Autistaccato
      @Autistaccato Рік тому +8

      blame pop music culture.

    • @marcus2239
      @marcus2239 Рік тому +4

      Underground.
      I think the new Signs of the Swarm album Amongst the low and empty
      Is a drummer's album.

    • @mmestari
      @mmestari Рік тому +7

      What are you talking about? There's lots of drummers alive today that far better than any shown in this video.

    • @marcus2239
      @marcus2239 Рік тому +6

      @@mmestari well you have to have roots also. These drummers mentioned paved the way for drummers today and if it weren't for the pioneer drummers striving to be awesome and creative we wouldn't have all the Great drummers of today.

    • @snapperboat25
      @snapperboat25 Рік тому +12

      Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. You don’t get out much do you? The technical prowess of modern drumming is through the roof to say the least. I am 63 and been playing since the age of 9. In my prime I couldn’t touch the skill level of Nekrutmann and his modern colleagues.

  • @postmortemritual
    @postmortemritual Рік тому +2

    01:35 John Zorn's Painkiller o.O

  • @nadiasantos7843
    @nadiasantos7843 Місяць тому

    Concertesa influenciou o baterias do metal nacional krisiun

  • @richardrenner4875
    @richardrenner4875 Рік тому +4

    These guys are all good, and super fast, but they aren't playing blast beats. These played here are just fast drum solos. Generally, any beat has hands and feet repeatedly playing the same sequence of notes, as blast beats do, but fast during the course of a measure, a break, or even a whole song. Moving quickly around the toms and smashing cymbals randomly are only solos or breaks or fills. Bill Ward does give us good example of a good blast.

    • @ВениаминКузнецов-ы2м
      @ВениаминКузнецов-ы2м Рік тому

      1:00 но вот эта техника игры, очень похожа на современную технику игры blast beats.А так вы правы,в этом видео нету blast beats.

    • @NoNono-o3h
      @NoNono-o3h Рік тому +2

      "acshually 🤓"

  • @mattnobrega6621
    @mattnobrega6621 Рік тому

    Jazzcore 🤟😎

  • @VFella
    @VFella Рік тому +1

    Fuck Dude!! I was, oh, shit that's really fucking fast!!! Until I noticed that I had set the speed at 2x, LOL.

  • @markomarkovic5729
    @markomarkovic5729 Рік тому +1

    Ringo Starr played blast beat for a few seconds in Helter Skelter at around 2:00 back in 1968.

  • @MaulBlast
    @MaulBlast Рік тому

    Thanks 🤘🏼

  • @ERYKJACKNIFE
    @ERYKJACKNIFE Рік тому +1

    Billy cobham. 😉

  • @nitroanilinmusic
    @nitroanilinmusic Рік тому

    first one sounds so much like meander by textures
    (well, the other way around)

  • @valeriocruciani
    @valeriocruciani Рік тому +1

    And Buddy Rich?

  • @ryadachaibou8098
    @ryadachaibou8098 Рік тому +1

    5:26 beautiful

  • @willyman74
    @willyman74 Рік тому

    Todo se trata de los queridos rudimentos 🎉🎉🎉

  • @ghostsquirrel8739
    @ghostsquirrel8739 Рік тому

    How did you miss Ginger Baker?!?

  • @19tet
    @19tet 5 місяців тому

    2:46 sounds like something dilla would chop 😂

  • @Tarik_Molotov
    @Tarik_Molotov Рік тому

    Professor explicando a prova
    Eu com duas canetas que achei no chão:

  • @t3hgir
    @t3hgir Рік тому

    Nick Mason straight up single foot trad-blasting lmao

  • @WhoisVinnie
    @WhoisVinnie 3 роки тому +8

    Woodyard*

  • @grindcoeur.cedreek
    @grindcoeur.cedreek 10 місяців тому

    waow !