My soloing has sucked for years Gabriel. However, i've always measured a drummer by his solo technique, soloing is so freaking cool bro. Make it plain bro.
Thank you so much! I haven't posted in a while because I'm doing some work on the house and it's taking a lot of time and energy but I will be back soon.
30 years, this exercise kinda reminds me of a "Paradiddle Funk" lesson in modern drummer from years back (paradiddle sticking on hat and snare with samba kick under)...thanks for the lesson!
That's a good one! ...a classic for sure. I remember back in the 80's reading an article in a magazine that took the more "paradiddle like" variations, dropped one eighth note off of the pattern, and orchestrated that pattern (now in 7/8) between kick, snare and hi-hats, to create a linear drum groove. It blew my mind
Slaine here from Va.Bch. Great lesson on this subject. Am a beginner drummer and I own a few snares all 14" but various depht raging from 4", 5" & 6.5" . I use Evans heads of different types so as to have multiple sound choices. Something I began to do is to tune my snares by tunning the head first then the resonant after as to not having the beaterhead pull on the resonant and getting it out of tune when tune high. Continue the great job, ill be watching for ur next video.
Ned from Spain stopping by again Gabe.Nice and straight forward lesson on something a lot of drummers need to know. My preference for many many years are Remo White coated Emperor for the top of all my drums, a clear or smokey gray Ambassador on the snare, white coated Ambassadors for the resos on the toms, same for the bass drum. Even though I'm happy with my vintage wood Ludwigs and a Slingerland snare, I used to have a Ludwig Acrolite, now I wish I still did . Take care Gabe.
I use the same heads as Ned from Spain, with one exception: I use a coated Powerstroke 3 batter on the bass drum. Gabriel, thanks for the video - your drums always sound fantastic. Cheers!
Hey sir can you make a vid about your grip(marching style)? I noticed that your hands/grip are super efficient. Maximizing power while conserving energy❤
The most complex thing about developing chops and hands for me so far has got to be the application of orchestration. I tend to learn chops as like, almost a drum trick rather than an overarching mastery of a concept that I can then apply in different scenarios. I do have those things in other regards, now I guess it's just a matter of drilling as many variations of the fills I know as possible until I develop the familiarity with the different voicings I have available and what I can do with them.
Something you can do with this exercise is put a kick in every time there is a rest, and move the hands around the toms to find some combinations that sound cool. Sometimes doing something a little "off the wall" like that can stimulate creativity if you are bored with your current orchestration routines.
I do have my favorite Jazz drummers and legendary Jazz moments, although in my life I have very rarely had the opportunity to play it. A great one is this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nkJoTY0GE8M.html
@@DrumTipTuesdaynice. I'm a left-handed...open-handed player. My influences are Peart and Mangini. However, I enjoy many styles and types of music. Here's one of my favorites. I can watch this man over and over, and see and hear something, different every time. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FZQnmv_Hbio.htmlsi=hGFeJO0HECHifTpe
Ned from Spain here again Gabe. Nice playing, great hands, I'm loving both the sound of your kit, cymbals and the recording levels. Some sweet execution of the patterns and combinations. A criticism which is more a matter of taste is that when you switch to that tasty groove keep adding rolls and intensity. Opening it up with a freer sense of time and work it into the final section of the solo. Very impressive playing nonetheless and more than I am able to do. Bravo Gabe and again for taking the risk of showing your process and growth.
I am a long long time music listener and an absolute beginner in drumming, so please take what I write for whatever it's worth. Here is my listening experience: I really enjoyed how you turned the rock groove you start at 7:01 into a solo. I wished it was longer where you put more fills around the backbeat and eventually turning it into one long fill/solo. I also loved the clave like beat you start at 8:16. It is playful and fun, again I wished you stayed more with that idea (cross stick part) too. If I could play the way you play I would try to add creative empty space, tension, and giving the solo breathing room. Again as my experience I wanted to hear more cymbals (not as time keeping on the ride but for example as emphasis and punctuation on crash). Reading what I wrote I think I am describing an intermediate level drummer . My intention here is not to give feedback but hear about your creative process, if you care to share. Thank you for this discussion and thank you for the lessons you upload!
Thank you for your contribution to this feed and your polite and constructive critique. I do struggle a bit with being comfortable in staying with an idea long enough to develop it. Also, what you said about cymbal accents, I think about the excitement of good drum solos and they always seem to have several points at which there is a series of loud cymbal accents and then sudden silence. Thanks for reminding me. Good Stuff!
You're definitely past where I can offer any constructive criticism! I loved watching the ideas hatch and then seeing the wheels turning as you work with the ideas and develop them using dynamic contrast, rhythmic contrast, employing all sorts of techniques. I've never seen anyone do a perfect solo - it doesn't exist and shouldn't be something anyone strives for - I enjoyed your self expression and that is all that matters. I'm adding this video to a playlist of videos that I watch to inspire me in my own efforts at unaccompanied soloing. Cheers, Gabriel!
I did have that video on this channel for a while but eventually put that video and all videos like it in the members area of DrumTipTuesday.com I put one out there about once a week in a section called "Practice Journal" that contains the things that I work on in my personal practice. I've done this for the people who want to study more with me and so I reserve some things for them. Thank you for following me here on RU-vid.
This is how I've always played, but tbh I think "unnatural" sticking often is just better, if harder. Like the 3-note pattern you were playing (RLR RLR RLR RLR), the pattern's tempo is fundamentally limited by the speed at which you can play singles with one hand (in this case the right hand is playing straight singles the whole pattern). If you play it "unnaturally" (RLR LRL RLR LRL) the max speed you can play it is far, far higher (pretty much the limit is how fast you can play _doubles_ with one hand). I think like you said this is useful mainly for drumline just cause of the visual aspect and so it's easy to teach everyone the same sticking. Plus if you're playing slower stuff it's arguably just easier.
Thank you you for paying attention to the video, giving it thought and contributing a constructive comment. This is the kind of thing I want in the comment section. I hope mare people who see this video contribute to this thread.
OOOps! I just noticed that in the written examples, variation three is noted incorrectly. But I do say and play it right, it is always RL L RL L RL L RL L
This is very useful, but only when you're playing in 5/4. If you want to play in 4/4 and play 5/4 over it you'd have to remember the melody and be able to reverse it, or do the quintuplets. Or so i believe. Master of polyrhythm is actually Mistress Camille Bigeault . Even wrote a book on the subject called The Polyrhythm Odyssey. And of course Virgil Donatti.
@@DrumTipTuesday Not a problem. Have you found this one in your search 👉 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JaxoTv_z5ks.htmlsi=3VHBByZRrgSE0wvI. ?? 😘My favourite so far. 🧐 Also, another name occurred to me, Tesseract (Jay Postones) , have you heard of them? Very practical and sneaky use of polymeter. Plini, Gavin Harrison... Peace..
I asked him that in his first lesson on this. Its called a Xymox drum pad. Its cool, isnt it ? I'am getting one too. The stix are called vic firth M-Dawg. Thanks Gabriel, who looks and sounds just like a young Nickolas Cage !
Maestro Gabriel: en mi caso, el problema con la clase anterior, no fue para nada la falta de un ejemplo visual que pudiera usted haber agregado, sino la falta de una práctica pausada y atenta de mi parte, enfocada más bien al análisis de "lo de fondo" (al "¿qué?") antes de pasar al "¿cómo?". Fue muy satisfactorio ver éste video y "sentir" que lo iba entendiendo a cada segundo. Muchas gracias 🙏🥁MAESTRO🥁🙏 por toda su ayuda y generosa entrega como siempre. Saludos desde Chile🇨🇱.
