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I just learned that I can’t play like Larnell.

I'm and 'older' self taught drummer. Now after 10 years of heel up/matched grip playing I am transitioning to heel down/traditional grip. Wish I'd kept at it years ago since jazz drumming is my idiom. Keep learning and trying new things to keep it fun and challenging I guess..

Legend

This video is brilliant! I’ve currently going thru his book ‘The Art of Bop Drumming” .. absolutely great inspiration! 👍🥁

feel so good.

Great video:) I learnt a lot of coordination skills based on John's books along withn a lot of other concept books. But I would recommend to listen to a lot of bigband music Duke and Count B. Because if you listen to a good piano players left hand or a guitarist syncopated combing style it would somehow relate to the horns and brass of a big band. And then you just need to have a fast responds time to make your comping sound together with the pianoplayer´s left hand as a condensed bigbiand. - Thereby taking the secrets out of comping and what to play:)

How does he somehow make a simple 4 rock beat sound so characteristic

After this eye couldn't put my left eye ball back to the left and the right to the right😅😅😅😅😅😅

Who´s transcribed this?

I was playing with match grip back in the day, and my left hand was just not comfortable. It was off. When I switched to trad grip I was way more comfortable, and it was a very smooth transition honestly. Since then I have only been using trad grip.

What at gem

Wonderful as always. John Riley maximum respect for transmitting all this knowledge and for such kind and fluid communication.

This was my favorite performance this season, bar none. Larnell is a GOD on the kit

wonderful teaching. Drumming is music.

Bro

I started playing in 1961. Playing traditional grip was definitely seen as the hallmark of a schooled drummer.

I can do the stick toss with no problem 😂

JD Beck inspired me to stop learning drums.

great interview. Prof. DV from Berklee.

Am I rhe first one noticing that the snare drum can't be heard?😂

It always comes down to the music. Well said John!

Why does he flare the cymbals out after he crashes.

That pocket....oh my!

Fantastic ! Scott reminds me of Guy Lefèvre, my snare drum teacher when I took drum lessons from Emmanuel Bourseault in Paris in 1979. (Moktar Samba had been one of his students... and what a student !) Guy had published his own method of "Superior Technique for The Snare Drum" that year, and was "Drum Major" of Paris Air Force Band. Guy was very different physically from Scott, but his rigor, his incredible technique and his mastery of the instrument were almost identical....

Be careful everyone - this transcription is pretty inaccurate in certain parts.

thanks for that!

What model is the left cymbal? The right is a 22" K-Con.

Sadly the PDFs are no longer available.

Aw, man, I was really enjoying that until all the crazy fill sh*t.

Marcus Gilmore is nuts man. So good

I note no one has attempted to transcribe the Thomas Pridgen one lol...

The drummer that made me want to learn drumms! My hero!

John, I'm of the opinion that the Charleston rhythm was taken from Afro Cuban rhythms, specifically the Baio samba pattern. What are your thoughts on that? Great video and I love teaching\working out of The Art of Bop and Beyond Bop!

I love this John

PLEASE No sound When He's playing the Snare

Love John Riley. Loved his old columns in Moderm Drummer.

Unfortunately the link to the full description doesn't work anymore. Would it be possible to reupload it? :)

His every word is truly backed by a lifetime of music and study, this man is always an inspiration!

God they were so fucking clean in 22. I can’t wait to be a apart of the bloopit this summer it’s gonna be fire🔥🔥🔥

YES!!! I hear so many pro jazz drummers doing this sort of convo between the snare and hat, and I've always wondered what was going on. Now I see!!!

the man is a stone-cold killer...never ONCE dropped the beat, not one instance of frustration or confusion. you can tell he's done this for hours and hours and hours. such a simple exercise, but so difficult!

who had the balls to write it down?

John Riley is not only an extraordinary drummer and musician but a superb educator as well. He's done so much for the drum community.

This is an absolute killer. Great workout by Julie that really challenges the brain just as much as the hands. However The speed, the timing and independence, the only having music on screen for the first rep, this is not a level 1 workout imo.

Reminds me of Skater dude Nintendo 🙂

Is this Mac DeMarco - "Two Shrimps"?

I was only able to download the level 1 pdf. I can't get level 2 or level 3 to download. Please help me.

3 snares with a crash sitting on one of them…? No toms. His timing is spot on… doing whatever the hell that was…How? This is mind blowing shit. What planet is this kid even from?

Wonderful insight into recording/performing processes. Thank you. C'mon drummers...Where are your comments?? This is great!

It’s a crazy wow…😮