@@alfaholic3 That would be Zep ! ' The Ocean' !? & on the same album " D'you wanna take it away John? ..... if you like. yeah.. then launches headlong into 'The Crunge' weird funk !
Because the timing is all in his head.. He uses like grunts and noises to keep timing. And it works. He's always back there bebopping to himself and this is why he is always in perfect time. And he has the ability to keep in running in his head.
When Mr Purdie wakes in the morning he sits up and stretches his arms then swings his legs out of bed. As soon as his foot makes contact with the floor this groove starts playing.......
0:45 bap bap bap (space) The space he leaves before the 1 of the next measure there is masterful. So many people leave this out, they think you gotta lead up to a new verse or whatever with sound, but the absence of sound is often much more powerful. If you can't figure out what fill to use in a spot, consider leaving more space. Empty space is not a bad thing, use it.
Well said. (PP) 'play the rest as you do the note'. Don't recall where I heard/read that. It shifted my perception as a young bass player significantly. Does the term rest leave many with the impression that the silence isn't as much a part of the music?
@@thedood9403 I think people just don't think about it. Only the really good teachers seem to mention that the end of a note is as important in rhythm as the beginning.
End's the war by winning it, but in a way that causes the world to question whether it was the right course of action, due to the ungodly devastation which it caused. Generation's raised without parents in the shadow of the event which continues to rattle and divide people years later.
Met bernard two nights ago. He was playing a gig at a venue I was at for a wedding. Stayed and hung out with us all night after. Really cool, humble dude and his playing was fantastic as always. Was awesome.
@@giovanna722 Just go and read some interview with him, there are so many stories. There were those signs he would put on his drum kit etc. BTW you don't have to be humble to be great. Like Jaco Pastorius said: it ain't bragging if you can back it up.
Anyone else absolutely taken away by that transition at 1:50, You can feel him build you up and then bring ya right back down just to tease ya a bit ;) My God watching this man jam is nothing short of an addiction ♡♡
A couple visited their doctor because they weren't able to have children. The doctor played this video for them. They're now the parents of 15 healthy children.
I had the pleasure of taking about a 2 hr. private lesson with this GIANT of a drummer at a now defunct venue RICKS CafeAMERICANA in Chicago in the HOLIDAY INN on LAKE SHORE DRIVE he was performing with THEE DIZZY GILLESPIE on New Years Eve . What a gentleman we bumped into each other as we were checking into the hotel I don't know who was nicer the Dizz or Bernard he came to our table and talked , thats when I asked how long he was in town for, I drove to the club a few days later and it was MAGIC I played HOME AT LAST for him off of STEELY DAN "S AJA album, check that one out if you want to hear what the definition of groove is. Not many people know this but he recorded tracks for the Beatles, as we all know he was Aretha Franklin's heart beat, as well as the late great HANK CRAWFORD on alto sax. May he live on forever!! Wayne Wojnarowski
It's great to see somebody who has played for years still love playing just like it was the first day they got their first kit. You can tell Bernard truly loves the music he creates and does so for that same love.
Quel plaisir de sentir toute la joie du partage musical qui émane de cet homme, un rire et un sourire contagieux, une attitude qui vous donne envie de continuer! merci
Huge HUGE thumbs up on that comment!! My taste in drummers, approach to playing the kit, and the sound I wanted completely changed when I discovered players like Purdie, Steve Jordan, Clyde Stubblefield, Charlie Watts, just to name a few....Playing in the pocket, focusing more on the groove,and making it feel good. It's a shame that there is still a great majority of drummers and musicians in general who are only impressed by technical chops.
Love that Purdie! Simple grooves from the soul that are sweet and he essentially built it all from listening to the trains rolling across the tracks where he grew up making a rhythm with their wheels riding on the rails. He never forces it but just lets it create itself into a beautiful funk swagger! He and that skilled brother on the bass were locked in nicely!
I had scoliosis but this groove fixed it and pulled the dent out of my car door. FUNK HEALS THE SICK AND MAKES THE BLIND SEE GET A PRESCRIPTION FROM DR. PRETTY PURDIE
OMG ALL THIS TIME WATCHING DRUMMERS AND YET TO FIND MY KIND UNTIL RIGHT NOW...JOHN BONHAM DEFINITELY WAS INFLUENCED BEHIND PLAYERS LIKE MY MAN HERE THANK YOU FOR POSTING
LELAND LEE i think you got that twisted. "“Sometimes on trips to Drum City, the Birmingham city-centre shop owned by BBC Light Jazz Orchestra drummer Mike Evans, I’d bump into Bonham, along with other fine drummers - offshoots of the cosmopolitan hordes who’d chosen Birmingham as home. Some visits turned into mini-clinics. I’d watch Mike do his ’Purdie.’ I think he turned everyone on to Bernard Purdie, whose hi-hat work was incomparable. Bonham would sit in and funk out, his bass drum playing that language everyone seemed to be speaking but still not applying as well as he did."
WOW....THEN MY APOLOGIES....AND MUCH RESPECT TO BONZO HE WAS THE ONE AND ONLY REASON I WANTED TO PLAY....OH I BET HE DID "FUNK OUT" NO DOUBT WHEN I FIRST HEARD BONHAM I WAS BLOWEN AWAY BY THE WAY HE PUT FUNK INTO PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING HE PLAYED YES?
@@Practical_impracticalities video annotations were removed about 2 years ago, which deleted all of them, and explains this comment making no sence haha
My Girlfriend recently asked me who I want to sound like as a drummer.. I showed her Bernard Purdie.. she said.. "you can already do everything he can do.." My reply was.. but I don't sound like that.
