Programming on daw with samples and quantization has quite a different feel to it than a musician who knows their instrument inside out, and create sounds no VST can.
its so crazy the way he approximates aphex twin/squarepusher-esque snare rushes with those one handed rolls and just overall computerized chopped up feel. this dude is amazing.
I love the fact that probably 90% of those people don't listen to drum n bass but when it's played on drums, everyone gathers around. This man is a legend
you know why that is? Because all music is live better, people "get" music way faster when heard live, i was at a festival recently, and black midi played, and some of the people i went with i showed them black midi on spotify once , and they said it sounded like shit, but live everyone was vibing to the music, even the guys who said it sounded like shit, and now they even listen to it on the regular. Black midi, battles and lightning bolt played at the festival Studio recordings never do justice to the live performances, which is cool because music you enjoy as a recording is gonna be 100 times better when heard live.
@@MrSkinkarde No, really, if you listen real closely you can hear that there's more there. Underneath all the cymbals and snares there's a little whisper, and what it's saying is, "shut up"
I think one of the most interesting phenomena that have come out of electronic music is how its concepts have been adapted by musicians playing "real" instruments. Like how bass players have started creating a tone that sounds more and more like a synth bass. I love that music today is a blend of electronic and not electronic, that the line gets blurred.
@@Noniksleft Yes. A veritable merry-go-round of the real imitating the fake imitating the real. Its nice to see electronic beats affecting the influences of drummers more and more because I remember back in the 90's it was a rare thing. And in regards to Amen Brother - thankyou Gary Coleman!
Agreed. Its nice to see younger generations influenced by EDM and older electronic music and use that as a template to make interesting sounds with their instruments - even without effects to interesting results. Bands like GoGo Penguin and Esbjorn Svensson Trio come to mind.
All those people out there worrying that we've plateaued as a species, or that people will be replaced by machines, meanwhile there's übermenschen like this dude that push the boundaries and transcend the narrow bands of ability to which we confine ourselves.
This is like ambidextrous drumming right here - you can't tell which hand is his stronger hand, he's mastered the speed and patterns evenly between hands and even switches his grip on the fly, this man is a god.
@@AntonAdelson ofc playing as well as jojo isnt easy but if you master the sticks rebound its quite easy to get some jungle style stuff flowing, it was the first style of drumming i learned because i loved jungle sm
Only many times these scenes feature computer accelerated drum loops, and this is his actual playing. Which is actually an interesting opening to hear about his he developed this technique.
the most talented people have put in the hours to cultivate it well, and part of that journey is always knowing how little you know. a kind of humility is built into greatness.
Love it how he's pitched up the bass and snares to mimic a sped up sample in an old school sampler. Always wondered why other drummers never did this 🤔
Saw a video in which Jojo Mayer said that he hasn't practiced (rudiments, specific regiments, etc.) in over 20 years. He simply plays. Looks for new sounds and plays as though he's playing to music.
WhiteyPlaysMighty Yeah you can totally feel that he's just letting music flow out of him. It's organic because it's just his natural expression I think.
That hihat work is flawless. Sounds so good. Brings joy to me like no other. Technical but musical. Other great drummers loose me when they get too technical with solos (my problem). Jojo is all over the place but I never get lost. Am I making sense?
Lots of live bands play this style. A lot of the originators did live sets back in the day... I don't know why it is so rare to see this style live but it has always been done live by some bands. Roni Size with Reprazent did two hour-and-a-half long sets of this style of music when I saw them live back in the 1990s. That drummer and the drummer from Reverend Horton Heat (also 2 long sets of fast music) sure got a work out during their sets.
Yep, I can play this....but only the 10 second part that starts at 2:33 LOL Man, he is killing it. Kid in background looks like Corey Feldman circa 1990. Very nice improvisational use of the available gear at 4:11 That's badass.
wtf are you talking about? the title literally says D&B JUNGLE DRUMMING. like it's in all caps like I spelled it. cmon man stop trying to start shit for no reason
@@elliott1121 the title originally said house drumming instead of D&B. you would know this if only you scrolled a bit through the comments and saw that there's at least 5 other people complaining about the same thing. seems like you're the one "trying to start shit for no reason"
House is used by a lot of people as the general term for electronic dance music.I use Techno as the general term since that was used as a general term long before there was a specific type of cold-feeling German electronic dance music that is called Techno. To sum up: Techno and House can be used as very general terms and were used as such before they became used as more specific genres anyways.
I would bet they are probably fatigued by all the music and noise around them. I visited once a music convention and you get so much overflow of your senses for hours that you simply have not the energy to be excited anymore
No words.These are the perfect beats,and rhythms that went through your mind on real LSD 25 when crossing a long bridge with yellow,white,black,and silver colors all moving,and keeping perfect time, rhythm,and precise musical composition..This can also be heard in many of Frank Zappa's song's,on Over Night Sensations.Percussion is always filled with unmolested primal fulfillment , which is the desire of all mankind,and earthly need.Just an opinion of a bar room(dummer) drummer. The man is an automatically inspiration to any,and all drummers. ☮️🙏🎼🥁🎼.
*this guy needs to tour with Aphex Twin!* his intelligent dance music is the absolute best match for this caliber of drumming. it's like he's got ESP plugged straight into Richard D James' mixing board! *
Whilst seconding everyone else who’s acknowledging how amazing this is, something that interests me is how rhythmically engaged his whole body is, and in different ways with different rhythms or modes of playing. Most people nod their head: quite often his head is stationary but he’s nodding everything else…
@@Artificer2113 I beg to disagree. The breaks are very similar but the one used in Powerpuff girls theme is a reproduction of Clyde Stubblefield break firstly used in James Brown- Funky drummer by a Scottish band called Bis. Common misconception. I've heard people attributing Amen brother to the origins of a lot of hip hop songs as well when the break commonly used in hip hop is from the song 'A new day' from Skull snaps.
It's nice to still see an occasional drummer who actually knows how to hold his sticks properly and who knows match grip is and always will be a secondary grip, and not the prime grip.
Technical master. One of my favorite drummers playing one of my favorite genres. He makes it look so easy. Keep in mind all the samples dj's and producers use to make breakbeat/dnb were originally cuts of real drummers, so he's not mimicking a computer, he's reclaiming drumming from computers.
Siiiiiiick. Memories of those sweaty dnb and jungle rooms. The tiny ones. The house Kats always had main stage.. but we... WE preferred to sweat it away in the side stages
I keep looking for an extra arm at around 02:13 into the video, but I didn't see one pop out. He's still playing with just two. Unbelievable...Love the modified Bossa Nova beat he mixed in there whenever he needed to Give his forearms a quick break. 😄👍
I think the break is for the audience. Drummers on this level can go for a long time cranking beats ceaselessly. Look at death and black metal bands, 60min of intense drumming at least. Machines the people are.
I'm worried that he might struggle with In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins? Seriously, he's playing at the stellar level of a gifted musician. Bravo JOJO.
