5 Steps to Play Funk Beats Like Clyde Stubblefield And Nate Smith 

Clyde Stubblefield's legacy is so huge, and never talked about enough.

Here I am learning sixteenth note grooves with Nate and what do I hear? The funky drummer beat blaring through a television commercial. It's everywhere! ❤

Always a sign of a good teacher when they can quantify, or step-by-step how to feel. Good lesson!

A Questlove for many decades!!! He kills these grooves

You missed a stage: adding accents with the hi-hat foot *without* activating the open-hat sound.

This channel is a goldmine, thanks so much!!!

definitely, one of his very good lessons for beginners like me

Billy Martin thank you

Here for the quick Billy Martin and Dave King shoutouts

"The Evil Nate Smith" That's funny!

Thank you for introducing me to Adam Deitch. I just watch the rest of the zildjian performance and man! What a blast 😊 I love the way you made the paradiddle funk into it’s own funky rhythm not just a variation.

oh gosh drop catch, so hard, practice practice, ah. Thank you for the lesson.

Practical and concise as always. I’m sad to say that I bowed out of the coaching course in module 10. I may return but am having so much trouble with the improv! Am currently crafting my own work outs using “80/20 drummer” principles though and it’s been awesome. The course has definitely solidified my functional playing and real time awareness and put me on the right track for sure.

Great tips in this one!

Nice stuff, I will try this!

this is great! I played along on a practice pad and it made any flams incredibly obvious lol.

Since you mentioned Adam Deitch, please do an interview with him!

Thanks Nate, a ton of really high value advice in this video. Awesome.

Beeeeeen waiting on a deeper dive on this one. Thanks Nate 🙏🏽 🙏🏽

My man!! Fantastic. Super helpful. Thank you.

This is without doubt my all-time favourite of all your videos - so helpful and detailed. I just watched a documentary last night about Jabo Starks and Clyde Stubblefield - two in fact! - and am absolutely thrilled to get this kind of breakdown, so that I'm not reduced to just guessing and fumbling at playing this stuff. Thank you! ❤

Excellent lesson!

You’re the man dawg🔪🥁

Great lesson. Thank you.🔥😁🔥

Idk som of my thoughts on this. Maybe sbdy likes it. Idont completely agree when u say at 2:35 that what u should notice is playing clean and everything lineing up. I mean its right but when someone tries to talk about funk beats what matters the most is how the masters are feeling it. So in my opinion the secret is to notice the body moevements when they play, the godly feel is even visible when they are listening to musix and not playing just dancing to it, u can SEE their lock in the pocket. Pocket to me means nothing else than being locked up in your little dance that u do with ur shoulders and torso and that matters even more than what u doing with ur head because head can be bopping but its still not the main body, the body matters. Dancers dont dance with their head only. I see many ppl do this when they tryna be funky or even more when they tryna do „dilla” shit - movin ur head but not hips and torso and shoulders a little. the groove is stable and feels good when you feel the beat in your chest and hips first. But really how u dance or more move to music is everything in my opinion. At least its my observation from seeing ghostnote/mono/h0wdy/RBJ live

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question for you Nate! On your Hutch interview, he said that you need to learn jazz before going to straight ahead stuff like this. But isn't this way easier? Even comping, it's gotta be easier to comp hands and feet against 16th's on the HH vs the syncopated ride and feathering and the left foot?

What about drags as a three stoke (triplet on the snare) with the kick? Is it still 32d? Been doing the 32d as shown, but started adding an extra note… what (if anything) is it noted as?

NAAHHH THE TRUE AND ONLY TWO THAT DESERVE ARE TITLE IS 1) CLYDE STUBBLEFIELD 2) JOHN "JABO" STARKS THE REST CAN TRY BUT AIN'T GOT THAT REAL TRUE FUNKY FEEL I HOLD THE UP AND MOST RESPECT FOR BOTH OF THEM EVEN SOO MORE THAT I HAVE THE SONG OF ( JAMES BROWN ~ FUNKY DRUMMER ) I HAVE THE " MUSIC NOTES AND WORDS FUNKY DRUMMER " ( TATTOOED ) FROM MY WRIST UP TO THE ELBOW WRAPPING AROUND MY FOREARM 🎼🎼🎼🎼 FUNKY DRUMMER 🎼🎼🎼🎼

What’s the movie scene at 14:33?

Hey Nate. I once heard you refer to yourself as "the other Nate Smith", and have to say I like it much more than the Evil Nate... Now, thinking about it, you should probably refer to yourself as The younger Nate Smith. Vs The wiser Nate. Anyway. Rock on!

My name's Nate, but most people just call me.... Nate.👍😗

Speed it up and its dnb too!

Nate Jones…

First! 🥁👍

Questlove anyone