Hi Rick! I just discovered you on YT and am now subscribed. I'm the drummer of a community band up here in New England and we are performing a Benny Goodman medley in our summer repertoire which requires a bit of brushwork. I'm getting some ideas from watching your advanced brush technique videos but in a 35 piece band playing out of doors, without mic'ing, whatever I do with brushes just gets lost outside. I tend to play the brushes with as much snap as I can and with no quarter note circular patterns as the selection calls for. Is there something you would play differently due to the venue location? I am curious what kind of brushes you use. My favorite are some very old and beat up Calato non-retractable wood handled brushes. Great grip and balance. Thank you for your no-nonsense informative videos! You are a great teacher!
Wonderful technique and very well demonstrated. I saw a lot of things that I’m going to experiment with! Thank you to that Rick. Which brushes are you using?
Wiktor Kabat It’s a great pad for brush playing. I find it a little too hard and stiff for sticks, but that’s all the more impetus to learn to keep your hands relaxed - it doesn’t feel good when you don’t. I did have to get a pair of the nylon-tip version of my favorite stick, because the coating on the head is so durable that it very quickly wears down the bead of the stick, like sandpaper! A pair I had with round beads now had acorn-shaped beads. So I use that pad only with brushes, or with the nylon tipped sticks. But that durable coating makes for great-sounding and long-lasting brush pad. What’s also cool is you can use it by itself on a snare stand, or if you set it on top a snare drum you can still hear the snares.
@@rickdior Great pads, invented by my teacher Henry Adler in New York, and he produced them himself, I believe, through the 1950s-70s. Not sure when the patent was picked up by Sabian.
Superb lesson! You are by far one of the best jazz teachers on youtube! keep up the good work!~
This is absolutely one of the top drum channels! Awesome!
Thank you Dimitrious Kosmidis for posting this on FB. Very cool.
Brilliant teaching ❤
Hi Rick! I just discovered you on YT and am now subscribed. I'm the drummer of a community band up here in New England and we are performing a Benny Goodman medley in our summer repertoire which requires a bit of brushwork. I'm getting some ideas from watching your advanced brush technique videos but in a 35 piece band playing out of doors, without mic'ing, whatever I do with brushes just gets lost outside. I tend to play the brushes with as much snap as I can and with no quarter note circular patterns as the selection calls for. Is there something you would play differently due to the venue location? I am curious what kind of brushes you use. My favorite are some very old and beat up Calato non-retractable wood handled brushes. Great grip and balance.
Thank you for your no-nonsense informative videos! You are a great teacher!
As good a lesson as you can find! Including all the heavies!
Truly a wonderful lesson, subscribed. Thank you for your knowledge and skill
Thanks and Blessings Rick!
Great Lesson ..........as Always . Thank YOU !!
This is phenomenal!
Utterly superb.
Wonderful technique and very well demonstrated. I saw a lot of things that I’m going to experiment with! Thank you to that Rick. Which brushes are you using?
Hi
Those are the Regal Tip class brushes
Thanks
rickdior do you know which ones? Because I have the Jeff Hamilton signature brushes and I’m not too happy with them. Your seem a little more bendable
Just the standard black classic retractable that have been around forever. The gauge of the wire is thinner than the Hamilton's
@@rickdior Thanks Rick! So I guess thats the 583R then. I will order a pair right away ;-)
Gosh!you are incredible
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How and where can i get this amazing practice pad?
Hi
That's a Sabian Quiet Tone Drum Mute.
rickdior thanks!
Wiktor Kabat It’s a great pad for brush playing. I find it a little too hard and stiff for sticks, but that’s all the more impetus to learn to keep your hands relaxed - it doesn’t feel good when you don’t. I did have to get a pair of the nylon-tip version of my favorite stick, because the coating on the head is so durable that it very quickly wears down the bead of the stick, like sandpaper! A pair I had with round beads now had acorn-shaped beads. So I use that pad only with brushes, or with the nylon tipped sticks. But that durable coating makes for great-sounding and long-lasting brush pad. What’s also cool is you can use it by itself on a snare stand, or if you set it on top a snare drum you can still hear the snares.
@@rickdior Great pads, invented by my teacher Henry Adler in New York, and he produced them himself, I believe, through the 1950s-70s. Not sure when the patent was picked up by Sabian.