10 Must-Know Funk Beats That Cause Stank Face 

Hope you all have a KILLER time work on these beats! Btw, I'm available for online lessons and would love to work with you. For details: JeffRandallDrumming.com

As a musician “stank face” is the highest compliment you can receive from another musician

I know no one will read this, but; i remember my sophmore yr in hs i was at a house party, it was a quad kegger and some college kids brought their guitars and a drum kit and tried playing some live music. No one was feeling it for their tallent wasnt quite there. One of my close friends encouraged me to hop on the drums and give a demonstration. I had a few beers and got on. I laid a mild funk beat down hotting some.ghosy notes amd tripplets with the base, while i was playing i felt a tap on my shoulder with a random guy holding the mic giving me the "keep it going" hamd signal. Skinny white guy. He started rapping and it progressed into a hip hop/funk progrssive song. Everyone gathered around and the party went NUTS. Man, i was only 16 and shouldnt had been partying, but if i hadnt, i wouldnt have those memories. We created a vibe that was pure and ill never forget it. These beats are important to lesrn if youre lesrning drums. Funk/jazz beats are KING. Edit: i was also a self taught drummer. I started in 2nd grade and taught myself by listening to the music. I didnt know how to read music, and youtube wasnt quite a thing yet.

As someone who has a permanent stank face, I need to learn these chops so I’d have an excuse.

Solid enough of a video that I’m not even gonna cry over the jab at disco.

Loving the comedy infusion lately dude, makes learning from you even better than usual!

I love playing on 13 inch snares. Crispy baby, crispy.

808's, kicks, hi hats, percs, and some shifting snare. Hiphop and rap beats of today

when i looked at the sub coat i thought that there were like 200k. You deserve way more for how much time you spend on these!

I love it Jeff! Fantastic that you’ve been exploring a lot of funk lately. And you’re so good at it. The cool thing for beginners/intermediates, is funk sounds amazing, and it’s not ridiculously hard to play. I encourage all beginners/intermediate players to attempt Jeff’s funk lessons. You’ll be jamming away in no time, and having a blast on the drum set! 🥁

You’re a BEAST! It’s always impressive and inspiring to see someone SO completely dialed in - technique, timing, feel - just awesome.

Loving the funk! Great lessons as always, and superb playing!

As always: Awesome playing, awesome video, awesome sound, awesome quality! Great Beats! Thank you again, Jeff!

Thanks Jeff - your playing is so precise it's a joy to listen to. Those Zildjian K light hats sound amazing and that popping snare is perfect. My band plays a lot of soul and funk so I'll be using these beats for sure. Can't wait to stank it up!

Great lesson! I find it really amazing to see how much modern (pop-)punk drumming is influenced by funk drumming. Did not realize this until now :)

FUNKY AT ITS BEST !!!!!!! THANK YOU SSSSOOO MUCH JEFF RANDALL......

Awesome library of funky grooves. Thanks!!

Love IT!!! Thanks Bro🔥🔥🔥

Very nice! Thanks for breaking down the funk.

Great video bro thankyou so much

Thanks so much for this post...Funkified!

Killer Drum Lesson! Thx!

I wish there were more drummers and musicians in general like you out there, we need to bring back the funk!

Lot to chew on in this video, thanks Jeff!

You are my number one source for big band writing! Your grooves are being played in schools in Pennsylvania and West Virginia including West Virginia University right now!

Awesome video. I love the concept of stank face. We've all experienced it!

Incredible bass drum sound.

You the Man Dude!! Thank you Jeff!!

Love this video haha I sometimes get that face, funk is one of my favorite styles to play to

Great video as usual! Cheers from Brazil

Damn! That was cool, man! What a series of seriouis grooves! Gotta explore them all! Thank you for this video!

More like this please jeff! This is why I became a patron of yours. Love your vids man

Yo thx for these sick breaks bro

This is soooo good! I have material for 3 weeks to practice.

Jeff you are a natural teacher, entertainer, and really good drummer. I am enjoying your channel. I took up drums at age 60 (7 years ago) and just wish I had started when I was a kid. These make Great semi retirement brain activity exercises.

Nicely played sir! That 13 sakae snare rips!

Killer grooves. Thanks for the regular uploads

I play drums too! I love funk and hip hop beats mixed with rock and clumpy Tom fills. This is great for all of us. Going from loud rock to more acoustic music that still moves is what I’ve been about this year. Keep it up.

amazing, very helpful!

This kit sounds really sweet 😋

Syncopated beat sounds like amen break using hats. Great beats, appreciate the video!

I love the gogo bit❤❤

Always amazing !

Thanks a lot man, i love the syncopated beat at the end 👌👌👍

I came here for some Johnny Jenkins' I Walk On Guilded Splinters (as used on Loser by Beck), and I was not disappointed! @4:18

i highly recommend Sir Jeff Randalls approach on teaching drum lessons because its simple, straightforward and easy to understand.

Pocket beat is sounding great!!

Oh man - LOVE THIS - THANKS!!

These are great. Good job.

😂 I love it dude 😂

Just found you, Jeff, your channel is FIRE 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🧨🎆

Great, Jeff!

You nailed the funk out of this subject. I am a funk drummer at heart. I agree that the 16th note is one of the hardest to keep smooth and in the pocket. "When I'm kissin' My Love by Bill Withers and Cold Blood both do a nice job with the 16th. By the way, I've opened for Cold Blood a couple times.

Thats absolutly great!!

Thanks!

Nice beats, definitely inspired the Stank Face! I love a good funky groove, having grown up with Parliament Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire, Larry Grahm and Grahm Central Station, and a host of other funk greats. A couple of these were less familiar to me, but most of them I play already and I agree they are great beats. :-) Thank you for sharing.

Stank Face - awesome!!!

Wonderful playing and so damn funky you really put the time in to nail those beats. What I would love to see is the fills/phrasing and stickings you use to go with this types of grooves perhaps you could do a series on that? A bit like you did in the beginning of the video when you were playing that swung groove and then adding those little swing fills in that keep the momentum of the groove going!

Very very cool!! :-)

Awesome video! Thanks!

If you’re a drummer and have a hard living situation right now don’t ever give up this passion. We are a dying breed. We are the salt of the earth, we are the backbone, and will forever be. Hope everyone finds joy within this instrument just like I did 18 years ago. I’ll never stop. What we learn is never ending. Great video bud, you’re a funny dude with the sauce that’s boss. Hope you have a good one as well.

Playing funk gives me what I affectionately call: "chicken neck"

You've got a new follower for your channel.

❤love this dude's videos as a person who wants to learn the drums he's content is really beginner friendly

Yes ...also known as mean mugging...denotes a primal , positive affirmation of fkn awesomeness!!

Thank you for this sir, Jeff. Continue to inspire people like me. God bless

As a beginner I love listening to drum grooves, please cook something up for us to listen to only 🙏🙏😖😖

This is freakin hilarious 😆

Sick concentration on that dookay

Really love the beats Jeff, all of them! Not sure it's because I haven't been playing that much lately or some are these are quite difficult but I must admit I'm struggling with my independance. Gonna work on these till there perfect. Thanks man!

Wonderful video! Great feel and groove? What snare are you using? Tremendous sound! Keep up the great content and work!

Thank you!

I literally have never thought about the “Stank Face” but I do that every time in in the pocket

When i heard that intro beat i instantly got that stank face, that was on my face for entire video. The only difference is speed in which my head was bobbing. Great stuff

The Swung Pocket Beat sounds like something I hear on a lot of Rhcp songs! I like it!

Flavor Kid !!!

Excellent playing and style! These patterns are inspiring me in my drum programming.. By the way, I'm proud to say I DON'T HATE DISCO! 😊. I started my musical journey as a drummer, but I have been a guitar player for 50 of my 63 years of life. Thanks, very much

Man I love you drumming channel, you always motivate me to practice, i learnt some pretty cool fills and grooves from your channel👊

Randall , love u bro , so so tremendo xx bro

Play them funky beats White Boy!! Stank Face activated!!! LOL Nice work and explanations!

i played one of these in a small school funk group i played with yesterday and got stank face from a teacher. very proud to have made a teacher stanked 😂

the rhythm on ur first sentence "you gotta love - funk - drumming" is v funky lol

So much for "not permanent". My face is now cramped up. Thanks a lot Jeff.

Lol, that very first beat I played back n the day I picked up on from Clyde Stubblefield ( James Brown's drummer). I'm feeling u on these funk beats bro., right up my alley.

Ive had stank pants before. Its exactly what you think and its not related to music at all, but it can be, and thats a crowning achievement

Plenty of stank on my face, listening to your playing. Thanks!

Very cool video ! Just one thing about your version of the go-go beat: the essence of gogo music is the 3-2 clave. You have to have that clave (as bd, bd, bd - bd, snare) for it to be gogo music.

This guy's good.

Just came across your channel. Love your playing 🥁👍I'd like to know what hats you use ?

8:57 Bro started speaking on the beat!! 😂😂🔥🔥🔥

Thanks Teacher

@jeffrandallmusic what is the drum beat playing over the intro? Love that one

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I love how your snare strokes are so consistent in volume and sound. Things like these seperate the boys from the men.

stank face is to music, as laughing is to comedy; that is to say, it is a leftover instinctual reaction to stimuli from centuries ago, similarly laughing is the "we are safe" noise humans used to make after we we startled or threatened.

Starting to learn drum. All of those hihat patterns, i noticed it in a Jeff's Porcaro's playing too. I guess every person with the name Jeff has the pocket. ☺️

Love the sound of that snare, what type of snare would it happen to be?

A cool lesson again I haven't yet practiced hertas enough 😂 Well I will practice these beats with hertas!

nice Video !!! Can you please tell me which effects in your DAW you youse on your drums ?? Pleeaasss !!!!!

Love the nawleens groove,for a good example see theme to treme,HBO show...and re: syncopated, highly highly recommend Medeski Martin and Wood