Worship Drummer Reacts to "Outlier" by Snarky Puppy 

Love this tune, not just because it's in 3/4, but the main motif is a 5-bar phrase.

Thanks for covering this. Snarky has too many wonderful compositions to count, but keep up the pursuit! My new favorite is “Take It” from the Empire Central album. Old school funk with a guest keyboardist, Bernard Wright, who tragically lost his life not long after recording. 3 drummers on the album who share a drum solo at the end of the song. Amazing stuff.

That guy is @bobreynolds who has a really good RU-vid channel for the sax players out there. While it has probably been mentioned, Empire Central (their most recent album) is amazing. My favorite songs are Trinity and RL's, but all the songs are bangers. Oh, and if you want another Japanese female rock/metal band to check out, I highly suggest Gacharic Spin. They are extremely chaotic. Their song "I WIsh I" is great and the official live version has English language subs.

The members of the band said, after several days working with a drum machine of some sort, that they didn't think they were going to be able to do the show/recording in 2 days as planned, then Larnell showed up. He literally went from the taxi to his drum kit and started playing with the band for the first time. The band said, after about 10 minutes, that they all realized they were going to be okay. In the full show video early on Shaun Martin (the keyboard player to Cory Henry's right) makes a show of bringing a cash tip over to Larnell and putting it on his kit. I think he gets money from a few of the players.

The liquid that comes out of a "spit valve" of a brass instrument is not saliva, but just condensation from the player's breath.

So glad you did this song. One of my favorites. Bob Reynolds is the sax player. He has a RU-vid channel and tours with his group. He also has a mini documentary on the latest album SP released showing their rehearsals for the album. I don't know if you noticed, but right under the title of the songs Michael League gives the song credit to whomever comes up with the concept and majority of the idea for the song. Justin Stanton is the keyboardist in the red,blue,white stripe shirt. He will be the trumpet player for the solo in shofukan. After shofukan, it depends on if you want to go backwards in SP catalog or forward. Their catalog is huge and would take a long time. I would pick and choose forward and back. Bad kids to the back. The version that shows both original video and edited video. Then go backwards to the curtain. Then maybe bounce back and forth from family dinner vol. 1 and 2 then something from empire central and keep up that pattern? They truly have too much to choose from. My 2 snarky Puppy Spotify playlist have over 60 songs each 😅😅😊

I would love to see some Colin Stetson reactions. Specifically his live performances. Amazing musician.

Hmm not sure I heard this one before. In my understanding it's in 3 and stays consistent until the part at 5:07, I don't know what happens there (and later) 😂 Also there's a 5-bar cycle so in some sense it's a 15-beat pattern. The chords are C, Eb, D, Ab, Db (maybe none of them is minor?) For me the surprising chord is Ab, as the other chords just form a descending chromatic sequence back to C. Anyway, very cool song. For the next Snarky Puppy song, I guess Shofukan is fine from this session. And still waiting for you to react to Jinjer - Home Back 😁

love the shoulder notes in Bob's solo in this. Remember to spot that Justin Stanton, who you've only seen on keys so far, is the soloist in Shofukan ;-)

It doesn't sound like it, but the base motif and beat cycle of fifteen in 5 bars x 3 beat arrangement never changes. They certainly play with the APPARENT tempo at times, but it never actually shifts from that. They can split it up by doing 5 x 3 single note bars, 6x5 (or 3x10) half note bars, or 6x10 or 4x15 or 15x4 quarter note bars - all of which will produce different apparent time signatures - but all of which still fit neatly into a 15 beat cycle that has a base of 5 bars with 3 beats in each bar.

I can't remember where I saw it but Larnell Lewis mentioned in another video that he saw Bob Reynolds' headphones come off in the middle of his solo, so he improvised and extended the fill he was in the middle of to help fill the space left when Bob stopped playing. I love when bands and players can react to each other like that, it makes a performance so much more interesting.

"The tritone substitution can be performed by exchanging a dominant seventh chord for another dominant seventh chord which is a tritone away from it. For example, in the key of C major one can use D♭7 instead of G7 (D♭ is a tritone away from G)" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone_substitution

Very interesting reaction, improving an intriguing song. NICE! 👏 A great horn section is too rare. There isn't a 'dud' on "We Like It Here". Maybe leave "Jambone" (4m:50s) for last? It's a great, energetic, "world music" bop, with a _guitar_ solo for a change! 😀 After "Shofukan", maybe try "Tio Macaco" for a change of pace? It's light and joyous, featuring horns, percussion with a "Latin" sound. Best Wishes. ☮

The sax solo is Bob Reynolds. He has a youtube channel, and has done a deep dive on life in Snarky Puppy.

N-I-C-E

I like to just think of it as modal interchange, a b2 chord built from the Cm phrygian

if you want an additional rabbit hole, listen to Polyphia.

I forgot how amazing Larnell is on the drums for this song.

Hey Matt thanks for doing Outlier, I am one of those suggested it in the What about me video? Appreciate it and wish you all success with your channel.

I am so happy I've heard this song. Was hoping to listen again. So I will just find their grp on my own. Too good for talking through there music. My opinion. Bye..