Mick Harris explains the blast beat 

He works in the music department at a college

Can't forget the album that started it all, Scum

@@WhoisVinnie blasting faster than anyone had before probably worth a mention, yeah haha

Don't forget Scum

@@LifeGrindcore blasting faster than anyone had before probably worth a mention, yeah haha

Cause they’re just tippy-tapping.

Triggers

@@arsonne Yep, Mick hits HARD!! lol.

@@arsonne I challenge you to listen to Marduk... He's even faster than Mick

@@truthhurts79 no one cares about the speed. Groove isn’t speed.

Spot on mate.

the kick snare kick snare isn’t a d beat, it’s just a hardcore beat. the d beat has a different kick/cymbal pattern. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NHXOBT5al8E.html this guy goes over what the d beat is pretty well. mick uses a LOT of traditional d beats in napalm death though (especially in the B side of SCUM and from enslavement to obliteration).

Isn't the american skank beat exactly the same as what mick calls "The Chaos UK beat" but the time is kept on both the bass *and* the snare instead of only on the bass? Basically the kind of beat you hear in GBH.

Very well said. I always have loved Mick’s style and that he hits his drums really fucking hard and with passion. Just feels like a train about to derail!

He ain’t doing a sped up d beat, cuz that ain’t the d beat.

Saw ND ain Berkeley last week, still terrorizing. New guitarist is okay.

That 's sweet

He kept up with it because he had balls not like today's Grindcore band members wanting to play their mainly weak deathgrind b s.

I think it was more like the guitarists learned to keep up with him. There was no consistency to his playing really, which is part of what made it exciting.

The Terrorizer 87 demos did it for me

4 minute warning

What was in the water in Bristol back then?

Blast beats originated in jazz before hardcore

@@Gregbaltzer true but none of the hardcore and grindcore bands were influenced by jazz drummers. They just wanted to play as fast as they could.

Yep, Napalm first started out of the Crust/Anarko scene originally. One of the first gigs I attended was Napalm Death in Sept 1990 and the support was Cerebral Fix.

@@Rr0gu3_5uture I can definitely hear it in their early demos before Mick came into the band. They had a more Joy Division/Amebix kind of sound. So cool you got to see Napalm Death when Mick Harris was still in the band. I only managed to see Napalm Death for the first time in 2007 hahaha

@@tiadanama6236 Yeah, when I was a kid I was heavily into all those bands on Earache records. I saw Carcass and Godflesh a good few times around the start of the 90s. I think Godflesh were quite possibly the loudest band I've ever heard in my life, even louder than Motörhead. My ears were ringing for about three days afterwards, lol.

Lmao 🤣🤣 cool story...

Snare on the one I’m pretty sure is usually called a “hammer blast”, probably because of cannibal corpse

@@ryanblackman4119 a hammer blast is snare and bass synced. Mainly invented by Mike Smith of Suffo

Lol what? You have no idea what you’re talking about, except for fancy buzzwords you’ve heard other people use, right?

@@drumrocka bingo

@Trevor678 I think it is because it's fucking dumb to imply " When people played worse and with less efficiency, that was better ". I also don't like omega technical bands with sterile productions but implying that using a correct and not so exhausting technique to blast better and faster is worse than the primitive ways of doing it is stupid as hell.

Yep. and Carl Palmer on the first Atomic Rooster and ELP records

I just heard Attila for the first time ever, from 1970, a song with a like 9second section of blast beat, crazy shit!

Buddy Rich never did blast beats, they were one-handed rolls (and not even that fast). Sam Woodyard and Sunny Murray were the true pioneers of blast beat.

True I saw Buddy rich do it in a solo. But Mick has that thunderous angst behind it

That's s a very good questions, the oldest thing i can think of that resembles a blast beat Is From ELP's the barbarian.

@@lamecasuelas2 yeah it sounds like it!

Boys, I hate to take this into deeper and stranger waters but I've got a ton of LPS by free jazz, noise,experimental resident alien, Sun Ra from the late 50'- early 60's and there are MORE than a few songs that don't just have a blast beat pop up for a sorta fill or brief wild part but is the tempo of the whole song, the original Jazz Grind! One song that was a fave of my late girlfriends is this unbelievably ahead of its time track that is all about the blast beat. The horn section drones on into this unsettling buzz and humming and then the blast beat and sax and bass kick In in an instant and just rip your face off with John Zorn style sax torture and pure blast beat beauty then tight as any metal band they'd stop on a dime to the droning again and then you'd be on the edge of your seat waiting for the craziness to start jn again, which it does several times. It's straight up banger and they were doing this in the late 50's and it is brutal and uncompromising as hell and may be jazz but not your grandparents jazz. If fact, I'll venture that our boy Mick is a huge Sun Ra fan these days. I don't think for a second Sun Ra was an influence on him in N.D. but mos def in his awesome later projects that I still jam too. The original Napalm Death and the bands the founding members went on to do were all amazing.

@@davidgetman6387 wow interesting!

@@davidgetman6387 totally, sunny murray was a free jazz drummer mid 60s;. conintuall blast beats on his lps