Jeff "Tain" Watts Bebop Phrase

Week 50 of a series I'm calling "52 Licks." 1 new jazz phrase for each week.
Only a few left! I'm a huge fan of Jeff "Tain" Watts so I was excited to get to this part of the "Magnificent 7" book. Here's a hip phrase that is based in some classic bebop vocabulary but is cleverly revoiced and disguised as only "Tain" can.
Here's a link to the book: dusanmilenkovic...
PDF coming soon (i.e. when I get back from the Holiday Craziness)
Good Luck!
Justin

[@breadboy2712]

I really like your playing, and the 52 licks series is awesome... an approachable breakdown with a bit of jazz history in each one. I check them out daily, and this has been one of my favorites... the Elvin diddle too. Thank you

[@mikepostdrums]

I'm getting so much value out of these videos, and you seem like the most humble guy on Earth. Thanks so much!

[@JazzDrummersResource]

Thanks, Mike! So glad you're getting something out of them.

[@theillestdrummer7822]

Wow, You have helped me accelerate a few months ahead. Keep up the good work

[@tdrum21]

Great lick. Look forward to the PDF coming!

[@graffmanify]

Justin, I would love to see a video of you performing someday. Please post one sometime! Then we can hear all of the awesome licks in action. :)

[@JazzDrummersResource]

Here's a playlist I have pinned to my channel's home page.
ruclips.net/p/PLG_2MMOYD0lsVxuRgJtCPYj-XJtjzkH6y
I need to update it, but here's the old one for now.

[@graffmanify]

JazzDrummersResource thanks so much! you sound great! love the precision and restraint. if you ever play in Toronto let me know :)

[@JazzDrummersResource]

Will do! And thanks for the compliments!

[@torindavies1176]

Saw Jeff Tain Watts at birdland with Dave Holland in the Kevin Ewbanks quartet last week, amazing

[@JazzDrummersResource]

I bet that was a great show!

[@robertosilveira2384]

GREAT lesson 👏👏👏

[@wagnersantana_]

Congractulation... very nice class.

[@Bob-nu3xe]

gold ! many thanks

[@MikaelNitscheDrums]

3:28 for Game of Thrones theme

[@egyptianminor]

Nice Channel. I love Jazz, I play guitar, but listening to and learning from great drummers/great drumming is essential to any musician.

[@harrisonmyers1572]

I don't think I'd even heard of Jeff "Tain" Watts before this video. Still, that's a great phrase.

[@peterkaufmann4855]

OH SHIT! Justin! ha!

[@gerardogonzalez6117]

Nice,thanks!

[@td-12kx53]

Cool 😎

[@pazenmaz]

Classic

[@A.ChristopherJohnson]

Bop Jazz 4 Life !!!

[@egyptianminor]

Pardon my ignorance , but his phrase reminds me a bit of some of what Ian Paice plays on Deep Purple's live version of 'Highway Star', off " Made in Japan".

[@harrisonmyers1572]

Ian, much like his contemporaries Ginger Baker and John Bonham, grew up on jazz drummers. It's more obvious in Ginger than it is in the other rock drummers of the time.

[@egyptianminor]

Harrison Myers Yeah, I knew Paice grew up on Jazz, I was talking about those particular motifs in the phrase..don't know if any drummer would agree.

[@XxXRonirXxX]

That Game of Thrones theme on 3:28... :')

[@thomasnichol4138]

3:19 "Right, right, left, right, right, left, right, right. Right?"

[@JazzDrummersResource]

Yes. It's pretty amazing how often I say "left" but play "right" (or vice versa....)

[@andthensome512]

Please do a Mitch Mitchel phrase. Maybe something from If 6 Was 9.

[@fatheroftheclyde]

This is a jazz channel.

[@lorenzmuller3542]

No John Riley?? Uh that's interesting...

[@DMarc-lh7cd]

Can't really hear the video good! But great lick

[@augustomarchand]

What's happened with you hair Mr. Kiefer Sutherland?

[@JazzDrummersResource]

Roy Haynes told me I'd swing harder if I had his hair cut.

[@GiovanniLC]

HOW MEANINGLESS IS THIS

[@fatheroftheclyde]

Dude... Did you watch the video at all? It's excellent.