Gavin Harrison just posted your lesson to his facebook page, calling it a 'very nicefully done lesson' :) I love it when the musicians in focus appreciate a youtubers playing and they get recognition! Congrats.
I was literally thinking to myself as I was watching this that I think that Gavin himself (master of masters) would be impressed with Austin and his ability to not only transcribe and teach extremely difficult pieces, but then to be able to turn around and actually play it with skill, precision and feel......... Outstanding!
This is utterly amazing. 1) You really did a great job in the transcription. 2) You really did a WONDERFUL job at actually playing it. 3) I have tried to get this part right several times, so thanks for the video, I'm gonna try again following your advices. 4) I think this is the best video out there of a drummer playing a Gavin Harrison's composition, besides Gavin himself. 5) Gavin Harrison shared and appreciated your video. What else? Really awesome.
Careful , he might get touchy about it, haha. Recently on facebook Pridgen got pissed at a drummer on another youtube channel for doing a lesson on a lick he played. It was a pretty ridiculous reaction really.
Austen; we all want to thank you for sharing 'the learning of the art form of the drums'. It is so appreciated that you are keeping us 'in the loop' as to what is 'happening' and 'current' on the scene. Equally as important, is providing a wide variety of different styles and drummers to come to our attention and be inspired by. You may be studying the 'greats', but for what it is worth, someone needs to tell you that 'you' are a 'great' man for making the effort of 'bringing to the light', the endless study of drumming for those of us that are under no illusions; that we all will 'never stop learning'. More power to you. Massive Respect
It all made more sense to me once I realized that the third bar, with an odd number, makes the bell of cymbal notes switch from on and off and on the beat to off and on and off the beat This means you have to play the 19 bar phrase twice to get back to start. I was listening at first, and didn't get it. then I saw that on screen and my life got easier. Now I love, absolutely love this tune, but I only play in a concert band. We do have plenty of set parts, which I share with a stronger player, but I will probably Never need to know this kinda stuff nor do I ever expect to play this kinda stuff. I watched this, get it, and can't play it anyways, but thank you for the great music and the great explaination,
I miss the MD fest DVDs, the 2008 one really got me into Derek Roddy and Gavin. I wish they'd start doing them again. Great lesson btw dude, I've been using overrides since I worked my way through Gavin's books a few years back and this is a really clear explanation of the concept.
Hey Austin i'd like to thank you for 'Study the great' videos! They are very usefoul for new inspiration and new concepts! Thanks a lot. Regards from Italy :-) Elvin
Excellent lesson and your performance was outstanding. Back in the day I used to think that great drummers were like Nick Menza. Then I discovered drummers like Gavin Harrison and he is in a league of his own. Easily my favorite.
Damn that was awesome stuff! I've tried this part of the song a few times but never got the dotted eights going. This will definitely help me practicing it.
Love the dotted 8th on the right hand, I've doing it for a while against basic rock grooves, it makes even a simple one like poum - tchak - poum poum tchak - sounds very complex. I would recommand learning the dotted 8th feel against a 4/4 beat (so you get a 6/4) before going into weird time signature. For the ghost notes, I love to play the 2 sixteeth between the ride hits. It becomes then a great coordination and control exercice.
+iopklmification The easiest way to learn displacement of dotted 8ths is something I saw juan carlito mendoza play. It was 16th note paradiddles alternating between the bass drum and snare and dotted 8ths on the ride. Honestly, it was hard at first but it's so much easier now with practice
Very nicely done man, excellent episode. I absolutely love this Study The Greats series, it's teaching me a lot and it's really fascinating. Thanks so much!
Dude your kicking ass with your S.T.G the greats series. Great production, presentation, playing, awesome quality all around. PS: You waited a little longer for da ...uMmnn!!!! ...had me on tha edge there for a second.
Yess! Finally a Gavin Harrison study the greats video.Great job as always Austin.Super fan on Insta.I loveee Gavin harrison.Maybe in the future they should study you.
Dude, you are just a master at transcription and performance. While I could play this with minimal effort, you are just fricken the master at analyzing and explaining drum parts!!!!!!!!!!!!. My hat is off to you!
Nice, reminds me of a tune Bruford did off his early album where he played in 7 and played and open HH on the 'and' of the first measure (disco-like) and the second measure would automatically be 'on' the beat. Try it. Easy but cool.
really tight compound time signiture lesson man. those dots are right on the money. you should do Dana hawkins sweat'n or Chris Dave melody 1 break beat section.
not sure where people are supposed to submit entries, but you should check out the groove from shinjuku strut from omar hakim's video "let it flow". not an overly complicated pattern but man is it a dope groove !
If you haven't heard it already, Periphery has a whole song called MK Ultra that's overriding a regular 4/4 feel. It's where I learned the concept from!
Austin you're a great drummer. A really great drummer. I don't think there are many people who, being honest, would disagree with this. You must mess up though at times doing your demo's and i think it would be great if you posted a blooper reel. ;)
Hey Austin, Thank you for this wealth of breakdowns, proving just how important transcription is! There is such a myriad of instruction and drum videos now on youtube, its hard to filter. Do have any recommendations of any "modern youtube educators" that we can check out. Love to hear about who's out there that you dig! looking forward to some of dat Dennis ; )
Well, the main players in the game I would say are Drumeo, Mike Johnston, OrlandoDrummer, etc... and they're all great. If you want some legit fusion tutorials definitely check out Steve Holmes. He's got some really helpful lessons on his channel. I dunno, I follow a lot of different people but I guess those are the first ones that come to mind...
people always told me Gavin Harrison was great but I never looked into his work. Definitely going to check out his stuff now. Can you suggest some other drummers who dominate odd time?
+backspace3111 Most of the top fusion and prog drummers can own any time signature. Vinnie Colaiuta, Virgil Donati, and Danny Carey are a few that immediately come to mind...
I love your video series. I have always wanted to learn how to play Mudvaynes Dig. I was wondering if you could break down the double bass pattern to that song........
Great series. I dont know if you'll do metal stuff in this series, but it would be awesome to see thomas haake in meshuggah's bleed. I couldnt play that song to save my life lol
Hey man awesome videos, been checking out a bunch of them, worked on the epic steve gadd lick today. Thanks so much for putting all this work in to give us these videos! How long does it usually take you to make a video like this?
+twistedm16 For sure, a lot of the time is dedicated to practicing it because this stuff is super advanced so it's not like I can just sit down and play it immediately haha. So I'll work with it for a few days til it starts to feel okay then I have to script out the easiest way to explain it without rambling on. Then to film and edit it takes at least a full day if not 2 sometimes. Kinda crazy but that's what it takes for me to get these things done!
