Great video love the new band as well definitely looking forward to more! About the list... Toto were monster musicians and the effect of toto four in America in 1983 was huge. Many many hard rockers got into that album despite the different genre, one of the mind boggling things about it was the production so clean and beyond anything before and actually it would be quite a few years before that kind of sound became common. Was thinking about toto's opening salvo to the world which was hold the line in 1979. A straight ahead rocker but leveled up with style and pizzaz that let u know ya we rock but this is not a normal rock band. That weird hiccup thing Jeff procraro does in that track still trips me out 45 years later. And Steve lukather's solo starts in kind of a standard minor pentatonic style but then parts kind of switch into some modal variation which I absolutely love. Keep on Andy!
Oh my God!!! The guitar player actually using a pick for all his notes without deadening it with mind-bending overtones and pedals any sounds so tasty with playing with feeling and so so good. I never thought I would see the day again! Thank you Andy for giving this to us. I'm drowning in all the gold and silver of this return to great music! I also wanted to tell you that I grew up with and played with Fernando saunders in Detroit. I have some tales to tell including about Jeff Beck.
i'm a non musician, but I've loved steward copeland's drumming from day one...just so innovative. He's doing a play and talk next year in Evesham, which is not too far away from where you are Andy.
Love your drumming for non-drummers vids, we learn so much. I’d love to learn more about the odd time signatures in the Take Five recordings, and modal from a drummers perspective. I’d also love to see you interview Stewart Copeland. He’s quite active on RUclips and seems like he’d be a blast to talk to. But you better strap yourself in for a wild ride because he might just be even zanier than you are! 😮🎉😂
Great video Andy. For a non drummer, I 'm always amazed (especially when someone dissects them like yourself ) how difficult they are to play really well and how easily when listening to music to overlook the dexterity and skill involved, as other instruments (guitar ,vocals) in a band which tend to be in the forefront get the most attention and glory.
Glad to see you giving props to the funky stuff. The drums on many funk and even early disco crossover stuff are incredibly important to the ability to move people (literally) and influential.
Andy you did a fantastic job on all these grooves including Cissy Strut, but all other drummers should be advised that it’s MUCH easier to play Cissy Strut using two hands to handle the hi-hats. That’s how Ziggy did it on the original track and it also makes it easier to achieve the loose, greasy feel of the original.
Talented daughter Some of this new AI Tech is incredible. What used to be available for "industry folks" is now 'ours' aswell. If you wanted to record an AI Michael Jackson ballad tommorrow, you can! You've got worldclass vocal tones just as guitar tones now. Creative dreams can be done now, that couldn't before. If you have the patience and talent. Talk about fun coincidence, i said blues will make a comeback. Just heard a new song by The Darkness 'I Hate Myself', and it was classic blues riffs, but just like i asked for a more modern approach not the same old guy blues and instead uptempo bluesy rock.
Great video! The band sounds wonderful and enjoyed the explanations on the other songs too! Can't wait to here more from the Andy Edwards You Tube Channel Band!!
Nice one! Andy. An often overlooked aspect of early funk drumming is feathering the bass drum. The bass drum is often feathering quarter/eighth notes in between accents. Felt not heard. I think this adds to the overall "authentic" feel, in some contexts. The RUclips Band is a brilliant idea!! Sounding great! Cheers.
I know just what you mean about the feel. I've never been a pro musician but I play guitar and played in some bands back in the day. Once, the group I was in found a fusion drummer, very technically proficient, conservatory educated, etc. We thought we'd scored because the rest of us were complete amateur rock/punk/alt guys. Thing is though, the guy had no swing. I felt bad judging him since he was more proficient and educated, but he couldn't make a simple rock beat swing to save his life. One of my favorite drum intros is from "Shoot" by Sonic Youth (I've always thought of it as "the go-go beat"), and Steve Shelley really makes that beat move. Our guy played it note for note, yet it sounded inert. Damndest thing.
I listened to this while redoing my entire guitar rig (that's much nicer than my ability to use it) here at home. Excellent and interesting video from start to finish 👏👏👏. All the info about timing was helpful. I've been a bad guitar player for 40 yrs now and drums have always been a bit of a mystery to me, but a little less so now. Thanks, Andy.
Dig it Andy! Loved the entire video and your comment that drummers should move the audience, swing. All those you highlighted here had that. Even Ringo which was why at least to me he didn’t fit on the page. Like Bonham too, the breathes in between, the feel. Can’t get the funk in black and white. Loved the music!! Look forward to the next song. And how great does that feel to have your daughter sharing in your love of music!? I forwarded this to an army brother (30+yrs ago now) who 16yr daughter play drums in an all female RnR band. Her favorite drummer is Bonham. She is also a black belt in karate. He is a bass player. She plays much better 😂
Love it! The comment on clicks is spot on :D I've tried learning Cissy Strut too (as a wannabe drummer but really bassist), found someone on here that did it semi-open handed, can't remember exactly now, but sort of sweep-switching between open/closed. I still can't do it properly, but that really helped get close to the feel.
Ill go much further on Stewart Copeland... as far as music over the last 40 years he is the single most influential musician alive today. If it has a hi hat, he is referenced and overall he changed the approach to space in a lot of music that reaches the public. My #1 musician I'd want to jam with too. Im definitely with you about giving people a sense of what musician interaction is really like.
I think I learned from Stanton Moore that Cissy Strut was played with two hands on the hi hat. That made a huge difference to make it feel bouncy and floppy (for me)!
Bravo Andy !! Loved the top 10. The drums was the first instrument that I took a liking to but my school could only afford drum sticks so my lessons were confined to beating the top of a desk ! So sadly I lost interest. Loved the group. Can’t wait for future performances.
I often suggest to budding drummers to use Fool in the Rain as a gateway drug to Rosanna. My favorite to test a drummer’s feel is Chuck E’s in Love. Not really fair because it’s Gadd, but it gives me an idea of how they approach “easy” beats, and I wanna know if they are even gonna attempt “the fill”. I adore chops, but feel trumps chops by a chasm in my book. Great vid
Great stuff Andy. No doubt you get plenty of suggestions for "Top Tens". Well here's mine - The top 10 James Brown funk tracks. I know you'll do it justice!
We need some Robert plant top tens! Of course nothing disrespectful to the legend but maybe top ten solo tracks, top ten funnest songs you played on tour, top ten hairstyles maybe lol?
Very interesting video! More like these - dissecting famous drum parts and how they express the idea of the song/the importance of feel. The latter because I never hear much on this from other musicians and it's critical. Also, speaking of that, the band sounds great! Killer guitar solo from that chap.
Andy...always have heard Paul came up with Ticket beat and taught it to Ringo. Sure you noticed in the studio version where Ringo loses the pattern but stays in time obviously. Webb in ATL (44 yrs on the drums)
Everyone knows Hal Blaine, but other US session drummers of great note are Gary Chester ('the Hal Blaine of the East Coast'), Eddie Hoh and Buddy Saltzman. The number of iconic songs these guys played on is amazing: Locomotion, Season of the Witch, Pretty Ballerina, Daydream Believer, I'm a Beliver. Famously on Dawn by the Four Seasons, Saltzman didn't touch a cymbal. Chester wrote a very important book on drumming, and some big names took lessons from him. Hoh was also a touring drummer (Mamas and Papas at Monterey, where he and Hal Blaine did a twin drum jam on the last song). Hoh was also the drummer on Super Sessions.
Very, very nice and I totally agree live, unassisted playing that grooves is the absolute best. That's why I can't stop watching bands like Vulfpeck. Keep up the awesome work.
This New Orleanian is very happy to see the Meters in there. I've always loved how some of those slow-and-lazy beats can have such momentum. Changing gears completely, what about "Vital Transformation"?
Great discussion, Andy! I could say something about all of those drum parts, but I don't play, so who cares? I agree with you on Stewart Copeland - very innovative. Joe Morello is a boss! I can't tell you how much I agree with your final point. I friggin' hate computerized, quantized music....
I actually never realized how much wrist strength and posture affect drumming. I'm a little haunted by videos of Keith Moon playing with his hands like hooks, the wrists raised high. Love the "Beat" lessons from one who really gets rhythm. And your daughter's lovely scat singing reminds me of Donna Jean Godchaux's vocalizing with the Grateful Dead. (Cool your jets, Andy, this is meant as a compliment!)
This is such a great video, I have to watch it for the 10th time. I especially appreciate Andy's perspective on what's really important in our musical worlds. Andy's warm words about Porcaro and his mentor Purdie (Porcaro as a young kid in the studio sitting behind the master. When Purdie took a break, a young Porcaro sat behind Purdie's kit and tried to repeat what Purdie had just played) saved Christmas for me. Thanks Andy from a non-musician. By the way, there is a connection between Porcaro and Zappa: Emil Richards/Joe Porcaro's Microtonal album from 68. Sounds like a combo of bad AI, Zappa and a soundtrack in 13/23., ruclips.net/p/PLF3umHofWLnPPHkh94vX_ps7Rd26_kOxv&si=oNy0ggSDCEoQGgfo
Wow! The Andy Edwards, RUclips House Band. That is the best idea i have heard, in a long time. And you are the perfect person for pulling this off. Because you are a drummer. Who knows. You might even become an Icon. Complements Of The Iconoclastic Bastards Club.
I was really tapping foot at the end of superstition. All four band members were great. I was probably tapping on the one, so I'll need some more lessons. Keep the videos coming, Andy.
Love the new direction. Always keeping it interesting!
Andy, You’re a closet Beatboxer! What a delight!
Master beatboxer, you heard his War Pigs?
I must admit that I listen to drums in music more since watching you, so you definitely added to my appreciation. Thanks.
That girl got some soul in her voice!❤
Great video love the new band as well definitely looking forward to more! About the list... Toto were monster musicians and the effect of toto four in America in 1983 was huge. Many many hard rockers got into that album despite the different genre, one of the mind boggling things about it was the production so clean and beyond anything before and actually it would be quite a few years before that kind of sound became common. Was thinking about toto's opening salvo to the world which was hold the line in 1979. A straight ahead rocker but leveled up with style and pizzaz that let u know ya we rock but this is not a normal rock band. That weird hiccup thing Jeff procraro does in that track still trips me out 45 years later. And Steve lukather's solo starts in kind of a standard minor pentatonic style but then parts kind of switch into some modal variation which I absolutely love. Keep on Andy!
Oh my God!!! The guitar player actually using a pick for all his notes without deadening it with mind-bending overtones and pedals any sounds so tasty with playing with feeling and so so good. I never thought I would see the day again! Thank you Andy for giving this to us. I'm drowning in all the gold and silver of this return to great music! I also wanted to tell you that I grew up with and played with Fernando saunders in Detroit. I have some tales to tell including about Jeff Beck.
i'm a non musician, but I've loved steward copeland's drumming from day one...just so innovative. He's doing a play and talk next year in Evesham, which is not too far away from where you are Andy.
Fabulous stuff, and what a way to end the video! Looking forward to hearing more from the band Andy.
Brilliant playing and singing. You nailed it. Thanks.
Nite Sprinte is one of my favorite fusion songs, Anthony Jackson's tone on that is incredible too!
Love, love LOVE Grace’s cool jazzy vocals. You go baby girl!
Love your drumming for non-drummers vids, we learn so much. I’d love to learn more about the odd time signatures in the Take Five recordings, and modal from a drummers perspective. I’d also love to see you interview Stewart Copeland. He’s quite active on RUclips and seems like he’d be a blast to talk to. But you better strap yourself in for a wild ride because he might just be even zanier than you are! 😮🎉😂
Great video Andy. For a non drummer, I 'm always amazed (especially when someone dissects them like yourself ) how difficult they are to play really well and how easily when listening to music to overlook the dexterity and skill involved, as other instruments (guitar ,vocals) in a band which tend to be in the forefront get the most attention and glory.
Enjoyed the ending, make sure the PayPal gets to Grace !
stop the simping, there are other players in the band too!
Love it Andy. Your enthusiasm and honesty are infectious!
Really digging' the Andy Edwards RUclips Band!
Reverend Edward’s Fucking Big Band ….
Waiting for the album dude , and BTW your gal is dynamite !!,, Hope she supports the baggies haha
Glad to see you giving props to the funky stuff. The drums on many funk and even early disco crossover stuff are incredibly important to the ability to move people (literally) and influential.
Andy, one of the challenges of playing the famous Steve Gadd beat “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover”, is playing it soft and quietly.
Andy you did a fantastic job on all these grooves including Cissy Strut, but all other drummers should be advised that it’s MUCH easier to play Cissy Strut using two hands to handle the hi-hats. That’s how Ziggy did it on the original track and it also makes it easier to achieve the loose, greasy feel of the original.
Superb Andy .. Grace is killing it 😊.. great vocals …
Talented daughter Some of this new AI Tech is incredible. What used to be available for "industry folks" is now 'ours' aswell. If you wanted to record an AI Michael Jackson ballad tommorrow, you can! You've got worldclass vocal tones just as guitar tones now. Creative dreams can be done now, that couldn't before. If you have the patience and talent. Talk about fun coincidence, i said blues will make a comeback. Just heard a new song by The Darkness 'I Hate Myself', and it was classic blues riffs, but just like i asked for a more modern approach not the same old guy blues and instead uptempo bluesy rock.
Brilliant video, Andy - very educational - and I LOVE Grace's singing - she's really got "it"...
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Thanks!
Welcome!
This was great 👍 Quite interesting and entertaining ✌️
Great job explaining the difficulty of Toto's fast half-time shuffle. Jeff is smiling
Great video! The band sounds wonderful and enjoyed the explanations on the other songs too! Can't wait to here more from the Andy Edwards You Tube Channel Band!!
That was fun at the end! Good stuff :D
Nice one! Andy. An often overlooked aspect of early funk drumming is feathering the bass drum. The bass drum is often feathering quarter/eighth notes in between accents. Felt not heard. I think this adds to the overall "authentic" feel, in some contexts. The RUclips Band is a brilliant idea!! Sounding great! Cheers.
I know just what you mean about the feel. I've never been a pro musician but I play guitar and played in some bands back in the day. Once, the group I was in found a fusion drummer, very technically proficient, conservatory educated, etc. We thought we'd scored because the rest of us were complete amateur rock/punk/alt guys. Thing is though, the guy had no swing. I felt bad judging him since he was more proficient and educated, but he couldn't make a simple rock beat swing to save his life. One of my favorite drum intros is from "Shoot" by Sonic Youth (I've always thought of it as "the go-go beat"), and Steve Shelley really makes that beat move. Our guy played it note for note, yet it sounded inert. Damndest thing.
Strong finish on Superstition! Great call and response between guitar and vocal. Nice funky rhythm section too.
Probably your best video. Actually definitely!
Wow, thanks!
Superb, fantastic new formula!
Great video!
Very happy to hear of the Funk direction and sweetly fitting that a drummer should lead the charge against sequenced-sounding music.
Cool series of videos lately Andy. You're like a Wizard revealing all the secrets of musical alchemy.
Andy, you're the best. Never stop being you.
I listened to this while redoing my entire guitar rig (that's much nicer than my ability to use it) here at home. Excellent and interesting video from start to finish 👏👏👏. All the info about timing was helpful. I've been a bad guitar player for 40 yrs now and drums have always been a bit of a mystery to me, but a little less so now. Thanks, Andy.
Absolutely fantastic video!
What a great video! Learned a lot Andy!!
Great job, Andy
Dig it Andy! Loved the entire video and your comment that drummers should move the audience, swing. All those you highlighted here had that. Even Ringo which was why at least to me he didn’t fit on the page. Like Bonham too, the breathes in between, the feel. Can’t get the funk in black and white.
Loved the music!! Look forward to the next song. And how great does that feel to have your daughter sharing in your love of music!?
I forwarded this to an army brother (30+yrs ago now) who 16yr daughter play drums in an all female RnR band. Her favorite drummer is Bonham. She is also a black belt in karate. He is a bass player. She plays much better 😂
Love your version of Superstition! Grace has a very soulful voice! I hope to see more.
Love it! The comment on clicks is spot on :D
I've tried learning Cissy Strut too (as a wannabe drummer but really bassist), found someone on here that did it semi-open handed, can't remember exactly now, but sort of sweep-switching between open/closed. I still can't do it properly, but that really helped get close to the feel.
As a non-drummer, I thoroughly enjoyed this video - Thank you, Andy!
Brilliant
Very interesting and entertaining!!
Ill go much further on Stewart Copeland... as far as music over the last 40 years he is the single most influential musician alive today. If it has a hi hat, he is referenced and overall he changed the approach to space in a lot of music that reaches the public. My #1 musician I'd want to jam with too. Im definitely with you about giving people a sense of what musician interaction is really like.
I think I learned from Stanton Moore that Cissy Strut was played with two hands on the hi hat. That made a huge difference to make it feel bouncy and floppy (for me)!
Thanks Andy, for this great insight to drumming and rhythms.
Bravo Andy !!
Loved the top 10. The drums was the first instrument that I took a liking to but my school could only afford drum sticks so my lessons were confined to beating the top of a desk ! So sadly I lost interest.
Loved the group. Can’t wait for future performances.
Wow!
You're chops on "Rosanna" were fantastic!
Edit: Also especially on Funky Drummer.
Honestly they were all fantastic!
Nice session at the end of the video !
Excellent Video Andy.
Deep Purple Burn. Paice is on fire
Andy has left the building. Thanks for the show!
Great video! As a drummer, I eat this stuff up! WOW MAN... That is the most beat-up drum throne I have ever seen!
Brilliant video, mate! It is indeed all about the feel!
Andy and band! There were moments I got chills. That is my measuring stick for music that impacts me deeply. Thank you all!
@Andy Edwards
the Gadd copy/coverage was fantastically good - a tribute, to play it that well.
I often suggest to budding drummers to use Fool in the Rain as a gateway drug to Rosanna. My favorite to test a drummer’s feel is Chuck E’s in Love. Not really fair because it’s Gadd, but it gives me an idea of how they approach “easy” beats, and I wanna know if they are even gonna attempt “the fill”. I adore chops, but feel trumps chops by a chasm in my book.
Great vid
I like those breaks within the Rosanna groove
Great sounds, bandmates!
And that skittering drumbeat from Can's Vitamin C still haunts my grooves, for fave beats.
Great playing !! your drums sound great .you should do a drum tuning video ...Happy Holidays Stay well
Great video Bernard ALSO helped out Ringo and the Beatles and some tunes FWIW
Super Fun listen,......and I'm not a drummer!
Yesss this is cool!!
Amazing explaination thank you
Great drumming performance Andy. You nailed them
Love this Andy! I've always felt the Yardbirds in 1963 originated the straight eighth feel turning Rock and Roll into Rock.
Great stuff Andy. No doubt you get plenty of suggestions for "Top Tens". Well here's mine - The top 10 James Brown funk tracks. I know you'll do it justice!
We need some Robert plant top tens! Of course nothing disrespectful to the legend but maybe top ten solo tracks, top ten funnest songs you played on tour, top ten hairstyles maybe lol?
Very interesting video! More like these - dissecting famous drum parts and how they express the idea of the song/the importance of feel. The latter because I never hear much on this from other musicians and it's critical. Also, speaking of that, the band sounds great! Killer guitar solo from that chap.
Loved the end jam too!
Andy...always have heard Paul came up with Ticket beat and taught it to Ringo. Sure you noticed in the studio version where Ringo loses the pattern but stays in time obviously.
Webb in ATL (44 yrs on the drums)
Everyone knows Hal Blaine, but other US session drummers of great note are Gary Chester ('the Hal Blaine of the East Coast'), Eddie Hoh and Buddy Saltzman. The number of iconic songs these guys played on is amazing: Locomotion, Season of the Witch, Pretty Ballerina, Daydream Believer, I'm a Beliver. Famously on Dawn by the Four Seasons, Saltzman didn't touch a cymbal. Chester wrote a very important book on drumming, and some big names took lessons from him. Hoh was also a touring drummer (Mamas and Papas at Monterey, where he and Hal Blaine did a twin drum jam on the last song). Hoh was also the drummer on Super Sessions.
This video is pure entertainment. Its great seeing a talented man "going for the one" as Yes did.
The ending was more like Carmen Appice!! Good job, a "hybrid"!!
Thank you.
Enjoyable watch and some great playing. Always found the drum part to Sting's Seven Days by Vinnie Colaiuta a tricky sod!
I recall seeing a relatively recent live video of Zig playing "Cissy Strut," and he plays the hi hat with both hands alternating.
Joe Morello is my no1 drummer! An absolute god.
All the drums by Topper Headon of The Clash playing on Sandinista album are fantastic. So many different styles, executed perfectly
Another cool episode Andy.
I enjoyed it.
Great stuff Andy, your daughter (and the band) sounds great! Let us know when you tour the states! lol!
Very, very nice and I totally agree live, unassisted playing that grooves is the absolute best. That's why I can't stop watching bands like Vulfpeck. Keep up the awesome work.
Another great video Andy,thanks😊
Awesome video have a great weekend Andy ❤😊
Hey Andy, The cissy strut beat is played two handed on the hihat. You can see zigaboo playing it live. A real treat! Cheers!
Awesome!
Great stuff. Must be special playing at this level with your child.
This New Orleanian is very happy to see the Meters in there. I've always loved how some of those slow-and-lazy beats can have such momentum. Changing gears completely, what about "Vital Transformation"?
Great discussion, Andy! I could say something about all of those drum parts, but I don't play, so who cares? I agree with you on Stewart Copeland - very innovative. Joe Morello is a boss! I can't tell you how much I agree with your final point. I friggin' hate computerized, quantized music....
I actually never realized how much wrist strength and posture affect drumming. I'm a little haunted by videos of Keith Moon playing with his hands like hooks, the wrists raised high. Love the "Beat" lessons from one who really gets rhythm. And your daughter's lovely scat singing reminds me of Donna Jean Godchaux's vocalizing with the Grateful Dead. (Cool your jets, Andy, this is meant as a compliment!)
A much more proficient version of that, it must be said.
The vocalisations were grand.
This is such a great video, I have to watch it for the 10th time.
I especially appreciate Andy's perspective on what's really important in our musical worlds.
Andy's warm words about Porcaro and his mentor Purdie (Porcaro as a young kid in the studio sitting behind the master. When Purdie took a break, a young Porcaro sat behind Purdie's kit and tried to repeat what Purdie had just played) saved Christmas for me.
Thanks Andy from a non-musician.
By the way, there is a connection between Porcaro and Zappa: Emil Richards/Joe Porcaro's Microtonal album from 68. Sounds like a combo of bad AI, Zappa and a soundtrack in 13/23., ruclips.net/p/PLF3umHofWLnPPHkh94vX_ps7Rd26_kOxv&si=oNy0ggSDCEoQGgfo
As I drummer,really enjoyed this 😊
Wow! The Andy Edwards, RUclips House Band. That is the best idea i have heard, in a long time.
And you are the perfect person for pulling this off.
Because you are a drummer.
Who knows.
You might even become an Icon.
Complements Of The
Iconoclastic Bastards Club.
I was really tapping foot at the end of superstition. All four band members were great. I was probably tapping on the one, so I'll need some more lessons.
Keep the videos coming, Andy.
what a superb video! and I'm only up to Rosanna shuffle!
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