Worship Drummer Reacts to "What About Me?" by Snarky Puppy
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Man I’m here for any Larnell you feel like reacting to! Especially his Zildjian Live performance!
his and kaz rodriguez's performances there were EPIC
I'd recommend “Trinity” on their latest album Empire Central, a live session like this one, except this time they had 3 drummers + 3 percussionists on set :O
how about Shofukan next?? i almost said it's one of my favorites but it's really hard choosing lol
either way i absolutely love it!!!
also, fun fact about it (from memory reading about it like a year ago, so please excuse any errors), one of the main melodies (i think it was the opening melody but not quite sure) in the song apparently came into Michael League's head when he was vacationing at a farm or something called Shofukan and was trying to call for a rooster that had ran off somewhere, and as he was calling its name (dont remember what it was) that melody just sort of naturally came out, and then he wrote it down and used it to make the super-rough demo the band used to compose the whole thing together IN THE STUDIO, just DAYS before recording it. apparently the entire album was composed, practised, performed and recorded in just about a week!!!
LOVE more Snarky Puppy! One of my personal favorites of this session is Shofukan, Larnell also goes all in in the end of that one.
Would love for you to cover that one!
Much love to you ❤
lol, glad you found this vid. next one is OUTLIER lol...crazy groove in the middle of the song, and sax solo was awesome!
Thanks for this great reaction. I agree with many that you should react to Outlier, chemistry between Larnell and saxophonist Bob Reynolds is a thing of beauty.
He learned all but two songs for that album during a 7,5 hour flight from Canada to Amsterdam, not two days. Many of the others in the band learned the songs over the course of a few days because Michael League was still writing the songs during their rehearsal. Crazy!
Larnell says it himself in the beginning of the video "Larnell Lewis Hears A Song Once And Plays It Perfectly" on the Drumeo channel. That's another video you should check out by the way.
It is also mentioned in the official DVD documentary of the recording, which is now available on CZcams.
Edit: Also, by the way, you should look at the excerpts video for this song too. You can see a few excerpts from the different sets of takes that they did for this song. And it starts with I think the second set, where apparently Michael League counted too fast when counting in the song, and Larnell took it as a challenge and played the whole song at that speed. I would like to see that complete take actually, it seems bonkers.
If you go to Bob Reynolds channel (one of the sax players) he has a whole breakdown of how a week of Snarky Puppy putting together a session goes. What they get from League (or others, while he "writes" most of the songs they don't all come from him) is VERY basic and the different sections get together to hammer out their parts, then they work together, then sections, then together. They "learn" around 4 songs a day each day for 4 days, then tighten them up for a day, then they play one of their "shows" like this for a couple days. So, when they get there they have a framework they are nowhere near complete compositions and everyone has a chance to contribute, then when they perform it it is expected that there will be some improvisation particularly in the sections that highlight a player or a section.
It's pretty amazing to me that League created Snarky Puppy because he was supposedly not considered good enough to get into any of the school ensembles at North Texas U.
@@Scoots1994 it's a very jazz way of doing things -- you learn the very basics (melody, chord changes, bridge/verse structure) then expand from there.
@@kevinrusch3627 Yep. I've heard several times that Miles Davis' records were never practiced, they just showed up and played. That said I assume there were many takes and only the best get on the record. Seems like it's a bit of a high wire act.
It'd be interesting to see you react to Snarky Puppy featuring Knower. A very interesting drummer/singer duo on that one.
Watch the documentary about the making of We Like It Here
The City Lights Solo (Song Larnell wrote for his own project). The drum solo is so extremely tasteful. So very iconic!
I couldn't agree more, a masterclass of it's own class.
Thank you for this.
Please do Outlier by Snarky Puppy still. Not many reactors have done it and I think it's one of the great ones.
Props to Mark Lettieri💎
Nate Werth us tge percussionist. Also a member if the funk fusion band Ghost-Note with Robert "Sput" Searight, the person that Larnell was called in to sit in for. Ghost-Note is a blast as well. Anything from the latest album, "Mustard n' Onions" would give you a good taste.
Nate werth is OG, a very great percussionist, every time I listened to the spaces he fills it blows my mind, it's unreal. This is the guy that will make you go "Oh my goodness" the flavour he adds, out of this world" Mercelo Woloski as well, their combination especially in Quater Master record, is too good, in fact, out of this world.
To see percussionist Nate Worth featured, find an early SP track called “Alma”
On it
@@teckreactions czcams.com/video/tozA8OT4YIA/video.htmlsi=_R0ap4MFvyaEkK8V
This one
My theory is that metric modulation became "a thing" for drummers, because of two things
1: This solo, and more specifically the part where Larnell literally does it
2: Matt Gartska... Just everything he does
Hey man, Larnell is a f*cking beast. You should react to Neo Funk by Anthony Brancati with Larnell on drum. You ll like it i think !
I strongly recommend checking out Snarky Puppy doing “Something” featuring Lalah Hathaway - she sings harmonics with herself
You might like Tio Macaco from this same album--your guy Nate Werth (the auxiliary percussionist) gets a couple of extra guys playing along with him and it's so, so much fun
Must see:
Larnells incredible solo session on Zildjian live... Easy to find on YT... Another level of drumming 😉
Larnell. nuff said.
The really interesting part is that Larnell learned the songs on the flight from the USA to Europe landing the day they started recording.
@@sanfordgfogg He flew in from Toronto, Canada (where he's from) right after recording with the Toronto Mass Choir.
Alright! I've been waiting on this one!
It is documented on Snarky's channel that the drummer learned it on the flight.
you probably missed it this time, with the opening keys player (Rhodes?) on Lingus and Sleeper playing horn, but please make note of him in Shofukan next time around ;-)
The keyboardist who was playing the melody at the end, and who did the solo in Lingus is Cory Henry. He also plays the drums.
There's another video on CZcams of him pranking Michael League by getting off his keyboards and going on the drums while playing at a gig.
Here's a part of the interview of the We Like It Here documentary where they talk about not having a drummer right until the morning of the first day: czcams.com/video/5p5sEewsYNM/video.html
I put snares on my first floor tom because of larnell. Changed my game
I just realized you are a Steelers fan! Should be an interesting season.
It should!
The stuff about Larnell learning this is on the documentary of We Like It Here
Sucks for you because they're just finishing up a tour. Either they didn't come close enough to me, or it conflicted woth another concert I had lined up.
There isn't a weak song on "We Like It Here", so do them all!! 👍👍 _"Tio Macaco"_ is lighter and joyous, for a change.
@ei96byod gets most of the facts correct (including references you can verify), *_except_* Larnell didn't _learn_ existing drum parts, he *_COMPOSED_* the drum parts for all but two songs on the famous 7½ transatlantic flight. Please consider reacting to _Larnell Lewis Hears A Song Once And Plays It Perfectly_ czcams.com/video/vIW72VXMPHo/video.html it's fascinating, and also explains some of the transatlantic flight.
Maybe consider _Zildjian Live! - Larnell Lewis_ czcams.com/video/Jd1X5JWaGgQ/video.html which includes Snarky Puppy musicians.
_Larnell Lewis Hears "Enter Sandman" For The First Time_ czcams.com/video/Zd_UcjMusUA/video.html is a hoot.
The easiest piece of evidence that Larnell _composed_ the drum part is in _Larnell Lewis Hears A Song Once And Plays It Perfectly_ (see above). There Larnell composed the drums for the music, which had no drum part, and he explains in that video that's what he did for "We Like It Here". Larnell calls it "learning the song", which is what he needs to do (it's impractical to compose the drums until he's learned the song). However, perfectly reasonably, many people infer from Larnell saying he "learned the songs" on the flight, that the songs had a drum part, but that's not true.
The "We Like It Here" documentary gives more evidence that Larnell composed the drum parts, especially Nate Werth and Larnell himself.
Best Wishes. ☮
These guys are just so next level, it's just... *sigh*
When I saw you dropped a new Snarky Puppy reaction I literally jump for joy out of my chair. I have been searching for new SP reactions literally every day since your last reaction.
Snarky Puppy brings tears to my eyes because they are so good.
Stay with this album, I would go to shofukan and outlier next. Outlier has an amazing Sax Duet with Bob Reynolds and Larnell that even the keyboards, Cory Henry and Shaun Martin can't hold back their excitement.
Jambone, kite, tio Macaco and you'll be done with that album.
To get an idea about Larnell arriving the day of the recording, there is a we like it here documentary. Larnell knew a few of the songs already but I believe it was 6 songs he learned on the plane ride over. He's talked about it in an interview.
Great thing is after this album you can go backward and see some of their awesomeness with curtain, bad kids to the back, family dinner vol. 1 and 2. Culch Vulcha, are all great albums before you even get to Empire Central which dropped two years ago that won a Grammy. That album is 16 songs and not a single song misses. Welcome to a very deep rabbit hole.. lol
You definitely need to check out Larnell Lewis take on Drumeo's challenge to learn songs as quick as possible, in which larnell hears the featured song couple of times, makes notes and does a perfect take without even needing to hear the drums. In that video he also expains the flight thing.
Larnell became number one when Peart died
Not sure I agree, but he's great.
Guitarist Mark Lettieri
Nope, that was Bob Lanzetti
For the guitar solo that was Bob Lanzetti. Mark was standing next to him on his left.
Matt one from out of the blue and to carry on the Jazz feel try "5 kids from indonesia play jazz fusion" "SKETSA" (Karimata) in Virtual Concert DI ATAS RATA-RATA 2020. it will not disappoint you
Snarky puppy ft Jacob Collier Dont you know.
have they played together...??
@@windmill9998 czcams.com/video/eqY3FaZmh-Y/video.htmlsi=gSUQWmjmHTQBqm8X
@@windmill9998 sure have. will come straight up in a CZcams search. Appears I can't post the link.
czcams.com/video/vIW72VXMPHo/video.html
He says how he learned the music on the flight in this video
Great content btw!