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- Tame Impala's Kevin Parker sits down with Pitchfork to talk about some of his favorite drum sounds. From John Bonham's thunderous claps on Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times," to Portishead's "Holy Grail" drum feel, Kevin explains what makes these drums so influential to his own sound.
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Okay now I want him to talk about synths
big same
😁😁
Or guitars
BIG SAME
That would be too powerful
Dude, no way, my favorite member of Tame Impala!
lmaoooo
I wish Paula could've showed up. Oh well were lucky we even got Tim
LMAOOOO
@@theblackupgrade It's a joke, I think they know
Nahh, I loved the former Kevin on drums, but this is also okay.
He would be the coolest music teacher
thought the same thing
Your so right!
Actually, every music artist reaching the pillars of success should be "forced" to do at least a bit of teaching throughout their life. Maybe where they grew up. Just as a way of giving back to the community, since we all have been throwing our millions at them
@@udkc if you want to skip ahead of waiting for that to happen you can just analyze his songs yourself and learn a lot. Maybe not all his production secrets and private flairs but that's not going to teach you the mindset to do that stuff yourself anyways, or why his music is so good in the first place
Currents probably generates the same income on Spotify in one year than a teacher does in 20
Did you just assume his gender??? 🤣
I hope Tame Impala never kicks him out of the band. He’s responsible for some of my favorite Tame Impala sounds.
guys guys i think this guy doesn’t know it’s just one guy 🤯
@@julianoliver3006 ummm clearly you haven't seen the music video for "Why Won’t They Talk To Me", there's at least 6 of them
@@RADZIO895 for live play.
@@ProdAdape they were in the official music video tho
@@RADZIO895 strange joke.
Kevin's passion and appreciation of music is so evident here. He's explaining each song as a student and not a teacher. Really refreshing
The best teachers are perennial students
I believe i agree with you, but I don't think I really know what you mean by "talking like a teacher" vs "talking like a student". Is informative speech not just informative speech?
@@aidenwoulffe3704 I think it's the fact he doesn't act like he knows it all inside and out like many teachers do. He's spreading his knowledge but also explaining what he doesn't understand and showing that he's still always learning himself
If Kevin Parker in the 3 Idiots movie, he is the Amir Khan.
Didn’t even notice the double kick on “Good Times Bad Times” till he pointed it out, great explanations
I’m surprised he didn’t play a new version of Borderline
the drums are so good in that
lmao
lol
HAHAHA
HAHAHAHA
The drums in Mind Mischief are so eccentric. Love that one--mostly just a fill repeated over and over.
same, one of his best songs
and a complicated fill at that!
id say that song has some of the best drum fills ever.
A lot of rolls also
When I hear Mind Mischief I hear a passionate emulation of Lennon-McCartney 1967.
This is one of the most informative, illuminating and interesting interviews of a musician that I’ve ever listened to.
Oh yeah Illuminati I mean illuminated
@@Mfiore588 Yes, son, I meant to tell you, through a comment on CZcams. How’s it going?
Check out thundercat’s interview, you might appreciate it too!
@@fielflameno5831 Thanks for the tip, Fiel! I will most definitely look for it. Cheers!
You can tell he has spent alot of time listening, analyzing, thinking about, recording, reading, etc. these tracks. It's the only way to gain this depth of knowledge.
Honestly I don't recall watching an interview with him where he sounds so into it, it's almost weird. Now I just want him to talk about producing, pedals, mixing etc. instead of all the redundant questions
Agreed. He looked/sounded excited throughout this interview. All the other ones he seemed bored
@@gomezbr1 I think it's cause he actually gets to talk about the technique of the music here rather then having to talk on a more surface level to cater to a larger audience like BBC or somethin'
Because the music and the production is all he spends his time thinking about, so tapping into that is tapping into who he is. Asking about anything else, you might as well be asking what he had for lunch.
Listen to his rick rubin interview
I don't know man...I think more questions about his upbringing and how he got into music would be great 😈
I can literally listen to this guy talk about music all day.
for real
He truly has the passion for it.
Same here
Honestly
Check out his Ruck Rubin interview!
You can tell Kevin is a great drummer by how he can imitate bonhams quick bass drum double kick hits with his mouth 3:15
This is an underrated comment
My old drum teacher, Jeffrey Nearpass RIP, told me "If you can sing it, you can play it."
I do that all the time now cool thing
How funny. I thought the same thing!
I literally watch this video for that part
His album Innerspeaker has such amazing drums. Every song hits the spot. SO TIGHT
Yeah I know right, especially Alter Ego has a unique pattern
Solitude is bliss oh my god
yep. Kevin & Jay played some amazing drums on that album.
“It was good enough for Rihanna apparently”
such a great flex lol
Oh my God, bruh. Didn't she make that song without even asking him?
@@ULTRAVISTA. No she asked
@@ethanpawelczyk1510 I was never sure. I always thought she just jacked the instrumental
@@ethanpawelczyk1510 Kevin didn't find out until it released
$10,000 reference speakers behind him....but listening to his iphone.
lol he also says "it's like breakbeat before there were break beats" love kevin but bro have you ever heard of james brown
@@zapata9617 he’s referring to the repetitive nature of the music sounding electronic. Not just extracting the drum beat and looping/sampling it. If you hear a James Brown track you can hear how it’s sampled and used but it doesn’t sound like a breakbeat. It’s a funk song. The silver apples track sounds like it could be a contemporary electronic song. I don’t think he was trying to claim they were the first drums to play like that but rather so consistent and repetitive. And he’s completely right it’s a quality of the song.
@@freelance_commie Thanks, the reason I thought he was referring to breakbeats is because the drum track does sound like it could be a sampled breakbeat. The breakbeat is a drum break in a funk song. Because it is isolated they ended up being sampled a lot. The beat he is showing does sound like it could be a breakbeat that was sampled so that's where all the confusion is, because it seems like he is saying it was pre-breakbeats
@francis bk $10* speakers LOL Parts for the iphone x are $370 and probably 90% of that is the battery and LCD
@@zapata9617 You don't think speaker manufacters make profit over part cost? That's what manufacturing is about
I saw Tame Impala play last night in Brooklyn, Kevin and his crew were AMAZING, the visuals in the show were insane
i was theyre too it was magical!
Oh nice!! You’re right, it WAS🤩
@@lh1125 hes literally just amazing i really think he deserves a superbowl halftime show he would kill it
i saw him in pittsburgh and have never felt better
same i saw him in asheville last tuesday it was so great
"Drumming is the most fun when u dont know what your doing"
I'm gonna have a blast
protect ears
It's true, you have no limits when you're not following any rules! Of course, it takes years of practice to get "good" though. With any instrument.
Best thing to come out of the Covid era is Kev doing more interviews about him as a drummer. It’s always been my favorite part about ol’ Tame Empanada.
I love an Empanada when it's Tame
I love empanadas but not de pino, only napolitana
Oh, man, I love empanadas.
Kevin is killing it during Quarantine
Aguanten las empanadas
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Kevin this animated before
Director: Kevin act like you actually care
Kevin: 😴😐
Director: 🤔😡🔫
Kevin: 😁
well i wouldn't be surprised if he's a little high here... lol
Nah he just loves music haha
Or maybe he is high as ballz.
It's what happens when you don't have to worry about bills or boring jobs anymore.
He's like a brand new person here.
“Boom bada-bah tss baduh tss baduh tss baduh bah boom boom.” That’s my fav part of Good Times Bad Times too.
He literally plays drums with his mouth
I bet there's a word for that
He plays drums with his brain 🧠 the mouth is just a way to express the sound he's thinking of haha
Since when autotune is playing the drums?
@Lefty Two Guns oh yes i thought he was speaking about his "singing"
If you can sing it, you can play it.
Very cool Kevin...appreciate yuh
walter?
Very cool Kurt...appreciate yuh
thank you bandstand for your opinion
lol
WHY ARE YOU UNDER EVERY VIDEO I WATCH
Now I want Kevin to do a Masterclass
This needs to be turned into a series, please. It’s so enlightening. I could hear him talk about freaking harmonicas for days.
Nobody:
Kevin Parker: **Shazams his own song**
He’s just built different
@@shapeovertime6364 different breeeeeed
ShapeOverTime hi
@@clanculariusmortem5687 Hey There
Pretty sure he was just playing his song on his phone. The song was edited over in the video
Kevin's drumming on "Innerspeaker" is some of the best I have heard on any record. He really knew how to roll around the kit with some great fills on that record.
I agree, Innerspeaker has the best and most instrument playing all around. He has slowly morphed more into a sample producer, which is still just as cool and good!
@@TsarCzar9 fr man if Currents didn't exist Innerspeaker would still prolly be my fav album by Tame. Yet Currents wouldn't have existed without Innerspeaker. Also I loved TSR ♥️
@@Bellavista26 and the drums on the slow rush are crazy good
@@milanklaui5158 good but not as good as Innerspeaker and Lonerism
Mind Mischief, Endors Toi, Apocalypse, Nothing that has happened so far.... :o
his drum sound on It Might Be Time is one of my all-time favorites already
Top 2 favorite song for me. Of all. Just…🙏🏼
Yes, and I love the Supertramp keyboard sound in that one too.
Ok but the drums on "Lost in Yesterday" are just immaculate man. You gotta give yourself some credit for those Kevin. They're so perfectly saturated, compressed, and crispy while also so delicately sprinkled with the phaser and it just 😩🙌
This is my first time hearing this guy talk, and he seems like such a chill dude. Like an average guy, one of your friends. I don't now, the way people have been over mistifying his music made me expect some music snob, but it's just s guy who loves music. He's cool.
Nah it's just Tame Impala fans who are music snobs. One being me.
That's Acid Jesus right there, mate
Tame Impala is good, but nothing new. I don't know why people are snobby about it.
Yeah he’s just a regular dude. and whats so crazy, is he’s good. He really is VERY good. But he gets deified by people and that is almost never warranted.
@@Demention94 thats exactly how i feel
I thought that this video was cool hearing all these different drum sounds. Then he picked a Portishead song and it was taken to another level of cool.
Can’t forget Queens Of The Stone Age too!
Shame he got the drummer wrong for the portishead track though ey
nah it has always been another level of cool regardless of his take on it
@@louislanfear9403 yeah idek the name of the guy who plays the drums I just know what he looks like bald n lanky
Tame Impala, Portishead and Queens of the Stone Age in the same video. Definitely worth the click!
this man doesn’t know how much i appreciate him
“Some drum parts make me dream”. I absolutely agree and that’s the best way to put it.
Kevin's one of the most humble musicians I've seen in a long time
That's why "It might be" time drums are so sick
When he was talking about drums sounding reliable, that was the first song that popped in my head!
When "It Might Be Time" first dropped as a single, Kevin posted on his instagram saying it took him a whole year to perfect the drums on that song lmao
His music is quantized and rigid. Great drum sounds are pretty useless if they aren't played with soulfulness,
@Ethan DeMille It's not obvious to me. Quantization is a choice. Good musicians don't need to quantize.
@Ethan DeMille Yeah well Tame Impala uses it when it's not appropriate. Click tracks too. I just find it interesting that a guy who makes music with drum machines posts a video fawning over classic drum tracks. If you want that sound do it like they did it. Find yourself a good drummer who plays with feeling, get a good vintage sounding kit, turn off the click tracks and press record. czcams.com/video/orJggsV9JHM/video.html
love how in every single one of those songs he mentioned you can almost hear the heavy influence each one of those songs has had into tame impalas sounds, it just sounds orgnanic like you can feel the influence of the song on all his music.
it is a good love to have, btw if you like tame impala you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Grumpy Days, it gives me early tame impala vibes and is a cool new funky indie track
Definitely. He makes it his own while representing his most appreciated influences. Masterful
The drum sounds in Radiohead's In Rainbows are my favorite thing about that record, and it's my favorite record :)
mmmm yesss, immediately I think of the drums on weird fishes. One of the best songs ever
The instrumental climax of Jigsaw Falling Into Place will never not be eargasmic
if in rainbows is your favorite record you need to listen to more music
@@youtubesucks1111 edgy
@@youtubesucks1111 man just let people like what they like
I've always felt like the drums in his songs stood out more prominently than other instruments (synths, guitars). Like in Innerspeaker/Lonerism, the drums sound out of this world, especially when mixed with that Lennon-esque voice.
that's compression baby
Yes, wow I jam so hard to the drums in Alter Ego, WWYMUYM, I mean basically every song in both of those albums! Kevin was crazy phenomenal with those two albums! Truly psychedelic.
Perhaps many people don't know, but Kevin first was a drummer, then a guitar player o keyboard player.
Love this guy
yeah Kevin sort of had the Dave Grohl story, he drummed for Pond, and then went off on his own later. But drums have always been his core
Well now he's a one man rock band.
Hearing Kevin talk about queens of the stone age was a highlight of my week
“Drumming is more fun when you don’t know what you’re doing”
That’s the drum quote of the century
Kevin truly is an inspiration to modern music!
too stuck in the past for that
He mentioned Portishead and Elvin Jones in the same interview...mad respect ✊🏾
*Has thousands of dollars in sound equipment
Kevin: gimme dat phone
Ironically, my favorite drum sound is every song on Lonerism
The secret to that amazing drum sound on that Queens of the Stone Age record is the producer Eric Valentine. He is the absolute king of drum sounds. My favorite example of his signature “punch in the gut” drum sound is Can’t Stop by Maroon 5. He knows how to get the drums to explode out of the speakers without taking it too far. What’s awesome is Eric even has his own CZcams channel where he explains in detail how he gets his sounds. I highly recommend watching his channel to anyone interested in music production.
can't stop is great, underrated Valentine prod. Let's ask him to deconstruct it for us !!
Maroon 5? Queens of The Stoneage? cringe buddy
@@bonnellie2008 okay, so what?
@@bonnellie2008 Such a short sighted comment.
Because they recorded the drums without cymbals then recorded with cymbals so the drums would stand out and be louder. So simple and effective
Because Kevin plays guitar and sings in live settings, I think people are quick to forget that drums are his first instrument.
Mudmen by Pink Floyd and Weird Fishes by Radiohead, and actually Kevin's drumming on "One More Hour" are probably my top three drum sounds ever.
nick mason is one of the most underrated drummers
Airbag by Radiohead too
ah man the weird fishes drums are so good
It was actually Gene Trautmann who came up with the drums for Go With The Flow, and I believe it's him who's playing in the recording. He also played on Millionaire, but the rest of the songs are played by Grohl.
Having both a science and a music background, I really appreciated how he brought physics into the drum sounds @ 9:30 discussing the waveforms. "Oh, so that's why the sound sounds the way it does!"
as a drummer i'm very honored that kevin did this
i could listen to him talk about drums for hours. wish he hopped on the kit.
I love these kinds of interviews where Kevin goes into the technicalities. It makes you take a glimpse of his genius mind and how the creative process is done in his head
As a guitar player, percussion to me is the most important and fundamental part of music. If you you don’t have a good drum beat in the back ain’t no asses gonna be shakin.
He's one of the best pop drummers of these times. He's sound is so unique. Having him in the studio playing and mixing the drums must be the must cool thing ever. Thanks for this content, is just gold
His drums on the 070 Shake "Guilty Conscience" remix are AMAZING. You can totally hear a lot of the elements he mentioned here like compression, saturation, and crazy drum fills.
I agree
Currents drum sound is a modern day masterpiece
💯💯
the SNARE!!!
Noup, Lonerisim is
Nangs is my fav one
opino lo mismo y lonerism no se queda atrar tambien es genial
Me putting all of these songs on spotify: 👁👄👁📝
legend
whats the playlist name?
Dang Kevin bold of you to put st. anger as the greatest drum sound of all time.
hate it or not, works for the album
*TUNG*
For those who go to the comments immediately...you’ve ruined many lives. Well done.
🤣
Finally. Finally people are interviewing Kevin about his instruments and all. So interesting
Such a humble guy, amazing talent, great ear. This was brilliant to watch.
The way he sounds out drum grooves through onomatopoeia makes me feel less crazy than I am, because as a drummer, that's the kind of sounds going off in my head all the time.
Just for the record that’s Clive Deamer on the portishead track, he plays on most of the tracks on that record. He’s an incredible drummer with amazing technique and feel and that makes up for a lot of the drum sound on that record. It’s one of the reasons Radiohead took him on
The photo they used for Steven Drozd is actually Kliph Scurlock. Just thought everyone should know.
True
... And the song he should of chosen was Slow nerve action
@@zenstars1148 YES! I was just thinking that!
This is the video I have been waiting for since lonerism
This is exactly what I thought when I saw this thumbnail
Still waiting for him to come back to the innerspraker and lonerism psych rock. Not that the new stuff isn’t good, but really? Those two records are still in my rotation.
@@evilClive21 glad to see that someone shares my thoughts, i kinda felt like i was the only one who wanted him to go back to rock
@@amaurylannes I'm with you as well. I don't rate Currents or The Slow Rush highly in regards of his other albums.
@@FishFullOfFeathers currents still had that psychedelic vibe, but I agree, he should try a psychedelic rock album next time
Bill Bruford’s ‘Red’ snare is impeccable
Got a huge studio setup with midrange speakers behind him, but still listens to the songs on the phone.
this makes sense. Kevin is really good at making drums sound incredible, that’s been one of the real highlights of his music over the years.
This is the most excited I’ve seen Kevin be. You can really tell how happy he is talking about the music that influences him, his eyes basically glimmer. This was fun to watch and even informative.
I have no idea how to play the drums, but I enjoyed every minute watching him talking about drums with so much excitement.
I’ve never paid much attention to the drums, and now I’m listening all my favourite music again with a new set of ears.
Amazing.
Id love to see a "Kevin Tells us about his favourite guitar riffs" video.
mans needs to write a music production bible
Trade secrets
@Jack D'Ripa Ever heard of lonerism
@@bipbong2906 🅱️onerism?
I could watch a whole hour of Kevin just talking about his favorite drumming songs
6:57 of course he can make THAT realistic of a cymbal sound.
As a drummer whose biggest musical idol is Kevin, this is *amazing* .
I love how self-depricating he is about his drum sound. Drums are one of the main reasons I love Tame Impala. You are doing something right Kev!
This guy will never know how his music saved my life.
🙌
Me too bud me too
He does know man. ❤
What? Come on now get a grip
@@michaelbuettner1487 oh brOTHer, this guy STIINKSS
Your detailed love for drums and music in general truly inspires me.
did not realize Kevin was so articulate and developed so much!
wdy mean?
@@Queeentrasputo he was able to explain things in an easy to understand way. also wasn't aware he developed all the music for Tame Impala
@@vangelisrow ummmmm he is tame impala
He's definitely chirpier than usual in this one, guess it's because of the drums. 🙌🏼
All your songs are more than good enough. Thank you for existing, Kev. ❤️
Maybe replace the M with a G
@@foiledits lol, maybe you're right. He's certainly way too reserved for a famous musician. Probably bc he's an introvert, I know what it's like.
This is so great. It is so awesome to listen to an artist who is a real student of their genre talk about their influences in such detail.
You can tell he has poured hours into trying to perfect his drums because he really analyzes everything down to the most minute details
The drums on New Person are what specifically sold me on Tame Impala's sound
yaaaas QoTSA, would be interesting if he produced their next record.
OMG i didn’t know i needed this but now i need this
It’s more possible than you think given the mutual connection with Mark Ronson 🤔
Mark Ronson's turn out bad though. It might not be his fault but still
@@corda93bgi agree wasn't enough bass, too trebly. the live versions rocked though.
You'd be able to hear the drums and bass that way! ayoo
I had goosebumps quite a lot throughout this incredible interview drum thing. Wow. This was incredible. Thank you for this!
Everything about this including the graphics is so well done.
I always loved the drums in Beck's Chemtrails; it's really cool to see someone like Kevin talk about it.
You guys are legendary to finally have kevin do this.
Glad to hear him mention Dave Friedman...he is an amazing producer and engineer but back in his day he was always SUCH an amazing bassplayer...very very creative!
Loved this video. I love the drums in “Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Can Control”, they sound like beach waves crashing.
Such an extraordinary song
Yeaaas that's def my fav Tame Impala drumming
“When you feel like you can’t rely on the drums your like “I’ll probably just go sit down”” hahahahahh
Kevin Parker has the most impressive drum sound, and rhythm patterns, I've ever heard. His effort really shows
Always loved the drums. Didn't have the patience to go deep, but hearing Kevin inspires me to learn more about the rhythms of his and others songs. Keeping the beat and harmony.
I got introduced to your music with Half Full Glass of Wine way way way back and to this day its still my fave drum beat ever
Such a good session. Kevin is such a great musician. Pitchfork, more of these please!
I heard that Portishead song for the first time a couple months ago and I've been obsessed with it. Seeing Kevin Parker appreciate it makes me feel validated lol
What a great guy, so down to earth and real person. I feel I could talk to him for hours. One of my favorite musicians of this decade too
such an amazing interview, so many songs/albums I've never heard or haven't heard in years
he's so talented, im sure he could be a famous artist one day
He already is lmfao he headlines Coachella every year lmfao
Yes. He should start a band
@@_jeronimobraga should make it with just him in it though, don’t see why he needs anyone else
Haha funny
original joke
I strongly feel that he got Bonham’s influence in his song Mind Mischief. Beautiful drumming.
Nice interview, thanks Pitchfork and Kevin for such a good conversation
Kevin and Grimes are my favorite nerds💙