Great Chops! As a drummer that has played for his entire life (my dad is a drummer and introduced me) you have to understand that a lot of personal practice time goes into chops and patterns, but even more time goes into finding out how those chops and patterns fit into a style or genre. To get really "good", you have to stay in that mode and really feel out the space available with in that genre. Once you understand what's there, you can really begin to embellish on that style and with in that genre. In other words, with Jay you are seeing a culmination of hours and hours of personal practice with playing techniques and patterns like linear and non linear patterns created from rudiments, and played with poly rhythmic displacement along the meter. Executed with in a particular genre...In this case, Gospel. You can watch the same thing happen on a really good speed metal drummer video as well. They will amaze you with these very specially honed techniques. He has obviously also spent many hours positioning this kit to do what he needs It to do so he can use the tool to execute those patterns to the best of his abilities. His cymbal choices reflect the same philosophy. Then there's the tuning...he's spot on. Nice tight snare so you can hear all of the strokes as intended. The intervals on the toms are exactly what a gospel band or audience would expect to hear...and that is the most important part...the audience. All that I have laid out here is really just a road map to that. The audience. He has mastered a craft that has a very specific listening/viewing audience and comes with very high performance expectations. So, find your voice with in the style you want to play, and really dig in.
Good stuff. Just would like him to fill in those empty spots where the music stops and definitely that change of song near the end, thats your time to shine. Either way, beastful!!!❤❤
May it ´s because i don´t listen to this kind of music..... but for me it is only a lot of extremly well played strokes....i don´t hear any Bassgroove i don´t hear any changes in the feeling of the song when the music stops, there is nothing that have catched my ears. i can´t remember any melody, groove or hook that i will carry for the rest of the day... For my as an fotografer and musican but even more as an music enthusiast, it is very important that everything in the big picture has a meaning or every note has a purpose and value. I have a lot of songs that i prais only because there is this one note one single stroke or tiny litle space that makes my stunning and wonder how the composer find out or knows where to plce those litle peace of ingeniousness.....Each aspect of the creation have to have its place and especialy space. any great painter or other artist have a deep understanding (intuition and feeling) and capebility to know what have to be thrown awy in order to fullfill the whole picture...
Never understood why other drummers put their crashes so close to each other, that when you hit it even softly, it'll hit the other. Maybe I'm alone in that opinion, but won't help your cymbal last longer, just sayin'... :)
