The Evolution Of Blast Beats & Grindcore - The Jazz Years 

Things that were a thing in jazz before metal; blast beats, bell rides, 7 string guitars, downtuning and double bass drumming

"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it." -Marty McFly, Godfather of Rock and Roll

I’m not surprised of the Jazz roots. I once saw Whitney Houston’s drummer do a proper gravity blast at a Jazz bar in Seattle.

Louis Bellson was also the father of double bass in drums, drawing up the idea for a double bass drum kit while still a kid in 1939.

Sam Woodyard. The godfather of blast beats. Respect.

For the 1950s and beyond, that was extreme for its time.

Somebody was tearing it up long before heavy metal became a thing. Doesn't matter what style or instrument.

it's amazing how some of these songs I had listened to through a more modern lens and never picked up on "oh hey, that's extremely modern and forward thinking of them." Emerson Lake and Palmer even had the freaking bell of the ride. I cannot believe how spot on that is.

I own a signed set of Louie Bellson drum sticks. Those guys are the DNA of drums. Jazz drumming from the mid 20th century will always be the gold standard. Oh, you earned my subscription by the research and editing you did. You're not just a hack rip off like 97% of YT.

Jazz is metal as fck

Listen to Coltrane's the father and the son and the holy ghost. The drumming is chaotic. Pure art

Popping in two years later to say that Tony Williams has several of the first recorded blastbeats that actually sound like blasts to contemporary metalheads. Check out the 1:40~ mark, and another build from the 3:00~ mark on “Vashkar” from Emergency! and I know there are examples of him doing this in some of the live releases with the Miles Davis quintet.

Ah yes protogrind

Black Sabbath … … my favorite jazz band !

2:20 Ouch! Nick Mason... I am Pink Floyd fan and it's amazing to listen him in this way🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

The drum breaks in "Wipe Out" were a must. A lot of the drum solos were influenced by it. thanks

Thats is where metal music actually came from. Jass n classic n blues. Those are the roots of it all.

When Carl Palmer did it, it had POWER!!!! 💪 Bill Ward is SO OG it’s ridiculous!!!! He sounds METAL ALL the time 💪

¡El blast beat siempre ha estado allí! Solo debían llegar oídos suficientemente podridos para apreciarlos

The first guy HAS to be Dave Lombardo's dad. That double kick....

Tony Williams is a big Omission from this

Carl Palmer is a monster

Dude, you made some NEAT RESEARCH

Someone should make a brutal riff to these jazz drums

Siempre encuentro algo nuevo del jazz que me impresiona, gracias.

What a video! Love me some blast beats.

Great vid dude!

I feel like this guy likes the Doors considering the amount of time they were given

Glad to see Sunny represented.

Acid jazz with emphasis on acid.

Buddy Rich did a very clean/fast blast beat in "West Side Story" throughout the 1960s ... usually one of the first fills in the song.

Nobody ever talks about Charles Lee Benante of SOD for some reason. It's one thing to have a chaotic drum solo and another to fit it in to a musical context so it holds emotion. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7hfaB4tjmLc.html&ab_channel=HistoryofRockMusic-Mostpowerfulrocksongs

You know... in hindsight I can definitely see blast beats being so common throughout music because it's such a great warm up routine. In some alternative universe playing octaves being synonymous with black metal 😂

Jazz players usually have crazy fast hands

The Doors definitely gives me chills, having watched Apocalypse Now

We also have a blast beat in the final moments of "The End" also by The Doors

ELP.... Awesome!!!

Talk about a “blast” from the past!

I think you should've included Tony Williams

The Doors - The End, in final section have a blastbeat!

Louie Bellson already played with double bass drums. I'm shocked 😮

Really interesting to hear blasts used in a song / musical way outside of a drum solo as early as 1970

F-ing awesome

This man even did a whole dance move for you during

Sunny Murray is clearly the first time where it was played in the form that it is the most familiar to us - alternating 16th notes between the kick, snare, and cymbal, rather than the tom surface, as heard in the recordings before. Also, don't know if you've covered these, but in the late 60s and early 70s, some early blast examples, in the context of rock music (then punk, metal, etc): Cream - Sunshine of Your Love (@ 4:02) Blast - Damned Flame (@ 1:46)

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Thanks 🤘🏼

And yes.. Metal music has roots in jazz

That one in Emerson lake and palmer is the more accurate form. Is already one hand on the ride and another one on the snare. Is the nearest on the list at traditional blastbeat.

After hearing the ELP track, I put on Yezda Urfa's Sacred Baboon album, which then reminded me of Righteous Pigs.

Crippled society: the womb of blast beats

Love's "7 and 7 Is" has some ferocious drumming from Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer.

I was about to say Louie was playing a roll then just matching his feet with his hands. Usually in jazz a blast beat was more used in transitions technically a blast beat is a 8th note played at 120 bpms which the basic ride pattern of the jazz shuffle is 120 bpms

Some jazz requires a metal mentality for sure.

Agree with this

You forgot Fireball, first proto speed metal song.

waow !

The Doors sounded like they were attempting minimalist music, rather than blast beats. 😂

5:26 beautiful

This was so fuckin interesting

Have you heard the proto metal etc pre Sabbath? Some scary stuff

Coletrane's Interstellar Space. Rasheed Ali on drums.

Give this one a try, it's a great example from the 1960s: 1:30 into Tom Jones & The Senators - What'd I Say (The Beat Room, 5th Oct 1964).

That Emerson, Lake and Palmer song SLAPPED lol

Look into ‘Flower Punk’ by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. First fully blast song?

Jazz was just classical music players messing around

Jazzcore 🤟😎

Sam Woodyard Is incredible drum man Rip❤

Woodyard*

Wow, whodathunk that later musicians were influenced by earlier ones

It's weird why modern drummers don't strive to this kind of perfection

Todo se trata de los queridos rudimentos 🎉🎉🎉

3:35 almost started to sound like wont get fooled again

Carl Palmer... So fucking Great

These guys are all good, and super fast, but they aren't playing blast beats. These played here are just fast drum solos. Generally, any beat has hands and feet repeatedly playing the same sequence of notes, as blast beats do, but fast during the course of a measure, a break, or even a whole song. Moving quickly around the toms and smashing cymbals randomly are only solos or breaks or fills. Bill Ward does give us good example of a good blast.

01:35 John Zorn's Painkiller o.O

Nick Mason straight up single foot trad-blasting lmao

Most of the stuff are not actually blasts, but extended fills...

I would like to mention that the drummer of Pantera probably the first to blast beat as it would be played in it's genre

What are the doors doing there ??? What about budy rich?? Thus is I complete .

first one sounds so much like meander by textures (well, the other way around)

ELP 4 LIFE

Fuck Dude!! I was, oh, shit that's really fucking fast!!! Until I noticed that I had set the speed at 2x, LOL.

Where is Mr Baker?

Nick Mason does not get enough respect.

george suranovich on august by love 1969 should have been on here

What is the Albert Ayler song featured here named?

Ringo Starr played blast beat for a few seconds in Helter Skelter at around 2:00 back in 1968.

Who’s the drummer before Pink Floyd’s clip

Professor explicando a prova Eu com duas canetas que achei no chão:

If [insert any musical innovation] exists, jazz did it first.

i don't think what you're talking about is complex enough to have an evolution, just prior coincidences

How did you miss Ginger Baker?!?

1:31 what record is this please

1:29 death jazz

Sam Woodward for Origin 2024

Is there a difference between a trash can ending and blast beats?

Here's Carl blasting at the Isle of Wight ru-vid.comUgkxJCBKTaMtiyEO4fOsC56tPndrtNLUwG2K

And Buddy Rich?

you missed Billy Cobham