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Beautiful topic, advice and delivery! Thanks again for your words of wisdom, Kevin👏🏽 It’s such a fine line we drummers walk on being the “rhythmic bed” for the ensemble. It’s being the bus driver and making sure it’s a safe and fun journey. It’s what you don’t play that is often the “Beauty of the Beat!” Let us continue to strive for the Simplicity that our bandmates can build on!

Also, that four on the floor underneath just makes it all so spongy.

Did these guys even use the ride cymbal? It's mostly hi-hat and snare drum for their time-keeping. The ride cymbal doesn't really come in until the late 30s and Kenny Clarke and Max Roach.

There are no specific rules on how often to use this. In the end, it all depends on experience and personal taste. The language of music is an artificial language. We cannot express specific concepts to them, as in the usual language. But if we draw a parallel, then in the dialogue there is always a certain thesis (or "сall") - and an answer ("response"). When we answer, we decide for ourselves it will be consent or objection. Thus, in the drums it will be an allusion to a phrase or something completely different. (I hope my message is clear because I used google translate)

Your band sounds so good, Kevin! I love how you adapt your orchestration based on the soloist, the sounds you used for bass vs banjo vs brass for example, some super musical choices. From my humble spot, some very very good time (keeping) as well.

Fantastic version of a great number!

Sounds great Kevin!

Great video❤ what I loved about Gene Krupa the most, was his fluid style of playing. Some drummers go so wild with all their technique, that they are missing the soul that Gene Krupa put into his drumming.

Super avec surtout une fantastique assise rythmique à la batterie 🙌un grand merci et bonjour de Suisse 😀

Swinging Kevin!

Yeah Kevin!! Nice touch and keeping the great tradition alive of Papa Jo !

Swinging it nice on that subway set Kevin

Interestingly, today the same technique can be used in the opposite fashion: to sustain the sound. I use the technique and even with the finger forward. Didnt know it was a Krupa thing. Thanks for the video.

Another great video! I absolutely was an annoying drummer in my teens and early twenties haha

Great channel! I love your Jo jones vids! Thx a lot

I also was blown away when I saw that clip of Jo playing with Chuck Berry in that movie! Jo's on a great Jimmy Rushing album from the 50's called The Essential Jimmy Rushing (I believe it's a compilation of a couple of Vanguard LPs) and I believe Jo plays shuffles on one or two tracks on that album as well.

Less is more for sure

Nice video! I played in a trad jazz band in my late teens/early 20's (about 30+ years ago) and I noticed this quarter note feathering technique on some latter day Dixieland recordings (from the 70's and 80's) that my grandfather had given me, and I also witnessed some drummers doing it in live performance (at a Dixieland festival), so I incorporated it into my own playing at the time. It really helps create a solid and full-sounding time feel. I think I've also seen drummers (like Ray Bauduc) play the jazz ride pattern on the snare in unison with the ride, and that can sound great as well. Regarding a previous commenter's remark on Chapin: his book's focus on snare drum independence may have obscured this snare drum feathering technique, but in his book he does in fact discuss the technique of playing quarters on the snare, although mainly in the context of playing independent figures against it with the right hand ("solid left hand" he calls it). Chapin also mentions the style of playing a continuous shuffle with the left hand against the right hand ride pattern.

The snare sounds lot like an asma davul

I think Peter Erskine referred to option 4 as "Mickey Mousing", he got told off for doing it. Thanks for the reminder! I've played with some guys that have some go to phrases or quotes that they use often, it's unbearably tempting to do the annoying options 😅

I listen for spaces where one note can make a statement. Punctuation !

Thank you Kevin, that was great advice. I’m not in a jazz setting now, I’m in rock/pop, and I did something similar: soon as I had some coordination skills, I started doing hi hat barks and accents following the singer. Same thing there as what you talked about: repeating or following someone else becomes corny, and definitely is “too much”. I now try to much more just play time, and if I do something it’s more like an “OK” or “hey I hear you” type of responses. Never thought of it this clearly as you described it, thank you so much for this insight.

This is truly solid advice and more drummers should hear it. Besides, your nonpolished no-BS style is refreshing (no "do this, do that, like, subscribe, pay me more"). Thanks!

Helpful. Yes. I do think that “just” playing time would not be interesting enough, yet I know that I’ve heard that done and it worked.

Nice Kevin. I should point out you are missing the section about not tuning drums on brunch gigs.

Great version all round and Kevin you really know how to address this music. Drums sound perfect for this style to.

thanks for this. Love your playing and these types of videos. As a horn player I definitely agree with these points. I especially liked that last part about focusing on playing with a good feel. I would always prefer a drummer with a really good feel who doesn’t comp as much, compared to a drummer who interjects a lot.

Absolutely essential for every instrumentalist on the bandstand! Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together. This is what it means to remain in service to the music.

Great video ! I love the practical advice and philosophy

Great video, with lots of excellent advice. Over the years, when people asked me how they could improve their playing (no matter the instrument), I always stressed that listening to the greats (and great recordings of the past) was the single most important aid in becoming a better player. These days it's so easy to find great music to study on youtube, and there's no excuse not to. Keep up the good work, my friend!

THANK YOU. Very meaningful, and you don't have to play drums to be enriched by this.

My word, what sound advice, from someone who knows and really cares!

Thank you so much Kevin, your perfectly correct, something I feel is over looked!

Your tips and tutorial videos are most helpful and well constructed. Thank you very much!

That's right! really well thought through and explained. thank you!

This made so much sense when you explained and demonstrated it. You made it very clear. I know it takes courage to do this type of a private exercise publicly. Thanks for being so vulnerable in sharing this Kevin. I tried it and it really helped me. This works for any instrument I think (even singing).

Come to think of it I’ve seen really old big band charts (swing era) and this was written out, as in BD & SD feathering. Of course I thought it was whack in my youth, likened in my mind to school concert-band kit parts that could not possibly have been penned by actual drummers…

I loved how Krupa could disappear in the mix it was amazing

Reading more, I see apparently that the spitfire could be had in either size, so my error, forgive me. When Barrett got this drum I have, he walked in, and walked out of the factory with the drum under his arm free, this was said to be a prototype, and the Tone Muffler is blanked. Barrett hated Mufflers. I don't think Barrett much liked this drum, because it had very little evidence of use-play when I got it in trade for a mint Big R Dynasonic I had as my Spitfire upon acquisition was in mint condition with original very lightly used Heads on board. Many of my Snares, and like this Spitfire usually wear a Remo Diplomat M5 Coated Batter Head, Dip Snare Head. One day I might experiment with some different heads. Thank you for your video, I enjoyed it!

Excellent, More overheads so we can see what your doing,

Hi Kevin, loved it, and I think the band was loving too!, thanks for your encouragement and offers of help, my drumming is improving although nowhere near your standards!, but I can get jazz type sound out of them now thanks to you!, cheers from across the pond!

Great job Kevin !!!

Cool cat Kevin !!! Good stuff man !

Wish I was there!!!!

Top draw drumming of the finest quality!

Not aware the Spitfire was made in anything else but 6.5"x14"? Yes, I;m aware, 12 lugs. I have one of Barrett's prototypes. Mint. Part with it? Sure, you have $5.5K? LOL Even then, I couldn't part with it. It is a testy Snare to tune, even with a Drum Dial

Sounds great Kevin !

Regarding the "not quite all the way to the rim" cross stick thing: The first drummer I ever saw do it was Danny Barcelona with Louis Armstrong. You can see it on two of the live versions of Basin Street Blues from 1959 as well as in the studio footage from the I Ain't Got Nobody recording session from the same year. He may also be doing it on the live in Australia version of BSB, but the camera angle doesn't get a good view of it.

Another great tip!! Im going to try this one for sure

Thank you for your honest sharing, it helps a lot😌