Pro Drummer Teaches You how to play FUNKY DRUMMER 

Stanton, you’re great at breaking the beats down so even my “wonder Drummer” 8 year old sponge of a natural can understand them. Boy he makes this old dog of a drummer jealous…

This video was EXTREMELY helpful! I love how you broke it down and built it back up. It took me about 4 days to be able to play it at 80bpm. Sounds good. Next challenge: getting to 98bpm. Thanks again!

Thank you, Stanton!

This is a fantastic breakdown of the beat and as a drum teacher I realky appreciate the detail put into describing the construction of it. Excellent job by an amazing drummer!

Thank you for a great lesson. As a left hander playing right handed. I'm have a hell of a time getting my right hand any faster than 83 bpm. But I'm not giving up.

Thanks Stanton!!! I've been working on the five funk beats you should know for 6 months now, and its super rewarding to get Funky Drummer sounding somewhat right. This lesson is right up my alley, and a real eye opener after learning to play straight rock.

This was very helpful, teaching it step by step made me understand the beat

Love playing funk. I remember a drum book my teacher wanted me to learn called the Funky Primer.

Not only do you have to be a drummer on a certain level too play this groove and it's a lot of fun when you can this also took some talent and knowledge to put this lesson together and transcript everything nice job Stanton I really enjoyed this one.👋🤘🙏

So smooth

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with such detail and patience Stanton! Best funky drummer lesson I've seen. You're a groove beast. Cheers from Argentina

Thank you so much Stanton for breaking down this Funky Drummer groove. I'm having a blast with it!!!! 🥁🤘👍😊

Me and Lil John Robert’s were just going over Funky Drummer and other James Brown songs. This video helped me out! Thanks Stanton!

Thank you,thank you,thank you.

This is really hot stuff! Thank you so much, sir.

How you break down the steps really helped! Thank youuu. I can’t believe I am starting to get this

Stanton you are my groove hero

Love the details on shoops on this

This is a perfect lesson. Just vlListening to F drummer then trying to play it was previously so frustrating because even once you’re on top of the R hand speed it still didn’t feel right, almost like I was being a foolish amateur musician, missing something really obvious just to finish if off your explanation and instruction was immaculate. Thank you.

A very professional video .

Excellent and fantastic Stanton 👏👏🥁🥁🥁🥁

Love this, thanks Stanton, a very valuable lesson!

What an incredible lesson 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Breaking down some classic beats - this is a great format man. I enjoy yer style in this one. I'll check out some more. Great job. Pretty good length - no longer.

Very nice presentation…killing it once again !

Great lesson - cant wait to start this!

Love these videos. Thank you kind sir

great lesson, I'm 50 and just starting to play, I hope I'll be able to get my funky drummer on soon!

Favorite groove right now. Thanks for breaking it down. Sometimes easier to see the music written out than play than by ear. Hope you and the band(s) can get up to New England sometime soon.

Você é muito citado aqui em Pernambuco-BRASIL. Quando estudei no conservatório Pernambuco de música meus professores falaram muito de você para nós estudamos. Obrigado.

This is probably my favorite SMDA lesson but I think I've said that for a few dozens of lessons 😂😂😂 Anyway, the one handed 16th note grooves is one of my favorite stuff to play and this whole lesson (not just that Funky Drummer demonstration) is just EPIC!! Can't wait for the next chapter/lesson on this!! 😁

Some can play. Some can teach. A few can do both. Being a Louisiana boy myself I always get great ideas from you. Thanks so much for sharing in such a thoughtful and effective way. I love stealing your licks! Now. Back to the woodshed.

This was great !

great lesson, ty

Wow! Amazing lesson my friend!

Excellent breakdown. It's a master class on why I should come back in a year because it ain't happening today. lol

Thank you Stanton I've been looking for a nice tutorial for this groove because I want to learn it, speed it upand chop it in order to create some breakcore-ish rythms

Very nice, thanks

Thanks, great lesson.

You get the extra pops and clicks in and the bottom in the kick, comfortable tempo and good clean sound. A loop of your groove works for me. All the utube drum loops have either not the groove, can only adjust tempo some, or a trash can sound...thanks for the good groove and sound.

Incredible tutorial! Thanks for putting this out here :)

Thank you

Fantastic!!

Oh man, this is awesome. Thank you!

I don't even play drums but this is interesting to watch! I love this drum break.

Love Clive’s funky beats and thanks for the great demonstration of ur ne of his beats

The Groove Inside...

Well..thanks for sharing🥁👍

Great. Well presented as always. Rgds peter Australia

Spot on, but it's be great to hear a snare that sounds the way Clyde Stubblefield played it... It had a certain sound i never heard anywhere else

Master of economy of motion to play it for the duration 👍

super nice breakdown, trying to master the funky drummer + push pull technique - very hard

Definitely helps

You are the only person besides myself who actually play this correctly!🤟🏿

Clyde was so smooth!

"... let them happen." Stanton ... that Sounds a bit like Bob " we don't make mistakes, we have happy accidents" Ross 😂😂😂

Awesome funk lesson Stanton! Nice job of breaking this iconic groove down. I find it difficult to keep my sixteenths going steady when I play the ghost notes on the snare. I’m going to try these out the way you play them. Slow them down, then build up the speed.

Thanks, now I slap my thighs like A BOSS

Back around 2011, I was playing with Breakestra (Mile's Tackett's LA based funk band). He and I spent hours after practice one day, trying to figure how the hi hat truly worked on the recording. Miles was convinced it wasn't an open hi hat played on those upbeat 16th notes. On the recording the hats should is pretty prominent, but it doesn't sound like a "stick" sound. I deduced that the hi hat sound was actually a HH foot pedal "chick," like Steve Gadd does on "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." I would substitute a foot pedal "chick" for a stick tap on those upbeat 16ths, and it sounded great (y'all should try it, even if it's wrong). A bassist friend (Thanks, Paul Reyes) gave me a book: The Funkmasters: The Great James Brown Rhythm Sections 1960-1973, it even it had hi hats opening on those 16ths...with taps on the cymbal. This has been the great grail search for a few of us. We know we can trust your input on this, Stanton, but have you ever seen Clyde interviewed about this (or seen any video that shows him playing it)? Haha, I gotta finish writing a student's solo this morning, and can't go down THAT rabbit hole, but I am gonna start looking for Clyde's explanation! Thanks for the video!

Thanks! BTW the end of video has a drum break from Kashmere?

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Stanton,when you are ghost stroking with your left is your right hand moving in an upward motion? Thanks.

dude anyone ever tell you you sound like Steve-o? lol nice vid

Am I wrong for trying everything at a default 100bpm? If I practice slower I always ALWAYS rev up once I get flowing and get faster and now I'm off the metronome and falter. Man was dropping back to an 80 bpm beat relaxing and easy though!! No Fret Fills!! I had AGES to recover!

Pull outs are hard

What's the Tony Deitch hammer? Any relation to Adam Deitch?

I’ve found it’s easier to just play the snare part first add 1/8 note hh keep playing over then add the other stuff

I find that groove very challenging... Always give up too early on this.😅

Pull outs are challenging lol tell that to my 10 kids

SMDA!

POOOOOOOFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🥴

everyone always brings up funky drummer.. has no one ever heard "kissing my love"? James Gadson gets no love..