Use promo code MEINL to try 30 days free at JP’s online drum school, JPBouvetMethod.com - study dozens of courses that teach improvisation for all levels. “I have experienced such great leaps in my flow, improvisation and timing since I started taking your lessons...” (Alex. R - JPBouvetMethod.com student).
JPs teaching methods are pure gold. I've progressed faster with improv within a year, than I have in the past 10 years. Can't wait to dive into the next 4 episodes.
JPs Page is for me the #1 place on the internet to learn drumming on a deeper level. Been a student for years now on the page. Made me a good drummer :)
JP's website is gold. He is making me a happier, more articulate and more accomplished drummer. Such a generous mentor! Definitely worth taking the time to digest what he's sharing here. Thank you JP!
How many good players have experienced that "awe man" moment in the practice room, when everything feels dull and repetitive? These pattern permutations really bring me out of that rut and open up a new world that I wish I'd known about years ago. Planned chaos, instead of just winging it. Thanks JP for bringing this to the world. You have a special knack for teaching.
Sir...thank you very much...Without this, not only for economical, but personal reasons, I'd never have access to this type of information and knoledge...thank you.
This is masterful teaching. Showing a very clear path to mastery in such a logical and formulated way to practice. I’m an intermediate level drummer of about 35 ish years and I can see a clear way to get better. -Particularly better in the way that includes creativity and freedom-Thanks JP for sharing your your way. I’m gonna study this video for a few years now.:)
After almost 30years of playing I finally feel freedom and fluidity on drums thanks to JPBouvet Method. This is really the best method you can find anywhere nowadays. Have been subscribed to JP for less than a year and the progress and improvement is just massive. Thank you so much JP!
Yeah! The internal digestion of music discipline has been a long standing passion in my life. Yesterday a vibrant breakthrough in jam band experimental see what I can do now after wood shedding vocal skills in between sessions and WOA! The training in flute plus drums lately has really been infusing the rhythmic accuracy that translates to other instruments after doing stick and kit drills, and perception of the harmonic ladder of intervals that are the natural cosmic geometry of all matter. With that sensory idea in my mind my voice, trained in lots of quiet droning sessions so when I get into the band where the noise level is higher WOW the tones! My voice trained with drums has been able to be really sharp in hitting exact notes and training my inner sense of the harmonic ladder with flute lets my voice jump any octave, up to about 6, or maybe 8 or 9 with my inhale squeak range and land on whatever note I feel instinctively as my sense of the chord structure is visceral from my life up until now droning and toning and singing along with various things. Getting it drilled into my senses in the shed makes my input into band settings vibrant and powerful in the beauty level of cosmic geometry. Horns are one of the greatest harmonic training devices to humanity. Just look at Coltraine's Circle of Fifths and beyond. It's in your fingers on guitar and piano; it's in your face with horns. Then drums take the sense of coordination all the way to the feet where if all I do is vocalize and sing it's really easy for me to play around in the rhythm where it stays in accord with the band. The subdivisions and triplets and other ways of drums plus the harmonic senses developed mostly from horns, then applied to voice have led to my ability to tone my health with the harmonic vibrations of cosmic geometry. Sensing the harmonic ladder inside makes any and all intervals easy to reach landing pads in the dance of melody. I think all musicians should train drum skills, at least basic rudiments and all vocalists should play a horn. This would break us out of the vapid weaklings of humans with the robot having the most power in their mixes. If the whole band trains with metronomes drummers would have a much easier time, and wow, the musical power that would evolve.
I've been following JP's website for a couple years so far and first and straight into the point: it's totally worth and rewarding cause you'll learn a "easy" way to play simple patterns with a variety of changes, as you could see through this masterclass, and for sure it'll be stock deeply into your mind (and second) making you feel more freely and fluidly. Every lesson, old or new, on his page is a fresh content and something that I'll (and you can also) practice for years. Third and final but not least he is a careful and helpful teacher, completely approachable and super friendly. So don't hesitate and check it out !!!
You know JP is next level when he mutes the cymbals with his hands before he talks so you don't get that huge cymbal ring when the talking mic gets opened up like on every drum tutorial ever.
Thank you far all the tips, I have a giant jam on saturday and I'm the only drummer,there will be tons of hungry musicians from bassists to trumpets and I'll be sure to get the creative juice flowing with this 😊
If you're reading the comments while playing this video, thinking: 39 minutes video?! Only part 1 out of 5?! Getting good at your instrument takes time, focus and consistency. I'm telling you from experience having lessons for one year now with JP: if you have the patience to listen to what JP is teaching and don't rush through the material, you'll get better and better in playing drums in a rewarding and healthy way! And there's a community of around 500 other drummers that encourage each other, which is amazing. It's affordable: a month subscription is cheaper than most 30 minutes lesson with drum teachers and you can check it out and pause and repeat your lesson whenever you want! From very beginner to very advanced. It's a goldmine for drummers in 2024 that seriously wants to get good in playing drums! :)
Always loved the blend of language in math in drumming. JP if you read this have you ever thought about the distribution of these vocabulary subsets between drummers. For example without orchestration the combination of A A’ and B over 4 beats is 81 different combinations. If we mapped those patterns each drummer would have their own normal distribution of patterns they like to play. As we keep adding variables this will become even more pronounced. Any thought or input on managing this aspect to broaden out the distribution space?
Part 2 went up today on our YT channel. Parts 3-5 will go up on our YT channel as well soon. Also, just in case you are not already a student of JP's...Use promo code MEINL to try 30 days free at JP’s online drum school, JPBouvetMethod.com - study dozens of courses that teach improvisation for all levels.
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I am not sure why so many struggle with impovisational drumming. I am also not sure you can really teach it. I also not sure if what you are teaching is true improvisational drumming. You basically teach patters to build a drummers vocabulary and how to very that pattern around the drum set. I do not really think this is teaching imorov. For me improv is playing whatever I feel like playing at any given time. If doing this to music it has to obviously fit the music. A lot of the time if I am improvisational playing I do not know what I am going to play before I play it. Sure I may consciously do patterns I want to practice or learn, but for the most part I do not know what I will play before I play it. You may be a good drum teacher from what I have seen and others have commented on but... What you are teaching in this lesson will eventually make you a better improvisational drummer perhaps, but it just seems you are teaching different patters and how to turn them into other patters around the drum set. Rearranging patters on the fly or not isn't really improvisational playing. It is hard to explain, but improvisational drumming means I am just playing without really thinking about it. I am not putting much though if any as to what I am playing. I feel it I just play it. Sure it helps to have a large vocabulary to pull from to do this, but I felt all you really did was help build vocabulary that in the long run will make you a better drummer and give you more to pull from when you improvise but doesn't teach improve. Once a drummer has a decent vocabulary and is a bit more advanced drummer from a beginner then improvisational drumming will become more natural. In my opinion the best way to learn and practice improvisational drumming once you have built up your vocabulary, is to just put on random drumless tunes of all kinds and just play to them. Doing thus you will have to cone up with grooves, fills, and patterns on the fly since you do not know the music or original drumming.
I totally agree with you. You're just a few steps ahead of this video! The patterns and melodic strategies are a means to an end, with the ultimate goal to not think of them in particular, but just think musical ideas, melodies, phrases, and concepts, and let the patterns fill themselves in, exactly like you described. You also described how building your underlying vocabulary enables you to say more when you just let it flow. That's exactly the point where I'm entering in this video. What I find with most students is that what holds them back is a lack of underlying control over the patterns--rearranging them and manipulating them on the fly. Without that underlying ability to 1) create a variety of melodies and 2) rearrange patterns on the fly, one generally gets stuck, no matter how much they try to let things flow. As one does fairly-uncreative development of technical vocabulary, and practices rearranging it on the fly, it gives them more vocabulary to be creative with, with the ultimate goal, again, like you said, of just opening the faucet and letting it flow (we'll talk about that in part 5). Fun to chat with you on this. Sounds like we're thinking quite similarly about this actually.
Use promo code MEINL to try 30 days free at JP’s online drum school, JPBouvetMethod.com - study dozens of courses that teach improvisation for all levels.
“I have experienced such great leaps in my flow, improvisation and timing since I started taking your lessons...” (Alex. R - JPBouvetMethod.com student).
JPs teaching methods are pure gold. I've progressed faster with improv within a year, than I have in the past 10 years. Can't wait to dive into the next 4 episodes.
JPs Page is for me the #1 place on the internet to learn drumming on a deeper level. Been a student for years now on the page. Made me a good drummer :)
JP's website is gold. He is making me a happier, more articulate and more accomplished drummer. Such a generous mentor! Definitely worth taking the time to digest what he's sharing here. Thank you JP!
JP Bouvet has become one of my favourite drummers and educators over the past few years!
The greatest teacher and drummer on this Planet (possibly whole Universe).
How many good players have experienced that "awe man" moment in the practice room, when everything feels dull and repetitive? These pattern permutations really bring me out of that rut and open up a new world that I wish I'd known about years ago. Planned chaos, instead of just winging it. Thanks JP for bringing this to the world. You have a special knack for teaching.
I'm 48, I wish I had your lessons available when I was 15! You're method of learning improv is second to none
Sir...thank you very much...Without this, not only for economical, but personal reasons, I'd never have access to this type of information and knoledge...thank you.
This is masterful teaching. Showing a very clear path to mastery in such a logical and formulated way to practice. I’m an intermediate level drummer of about 35 ish years and I can see a clear way to get better. -Particularly better in the way that includes creativity and freedom-Thanks JP for sharing your your way. I’m gonna study this video for a few years now.:)
After almost 30years of playing I finally feel freedom and fluidity on drums thanks to JPBouvet Method. This is really the best method you can find anywhere nowadays. Have been subscribed to JP for less than a year and the progress and improvement is just massive. Thank you so much JP!
Yeah! The internal digestion of music discipline has been a long standing passion in my life. Yesterday a vibrant breakthrough in jam band experimental see what I can do now after wood shedding vocal skills in between sessions and WOA! The training in flute plus drums lately has really been infusing the rhythmic accuracy that translates to other instruments after doing stick and kit drills, and perception of the harmonic ladder of intervals that are the natural cosmic geometry of all matter. With that sensory idea in my mind my voice, trained in lots of quiet droning sessions so when I get into the band where the noise level is higher WOW the tones! My voice trained with drums has been able to be really sharp in hitting exact notes and training my inner sense of the harmonic ladder with flute lets my voice jump any octave, up to about 6, or maybe 8 or 9 with my inhale squeak range and land on whatever note I feel instinctively as my sense of the chord structure is visceral from my life up until now droning and toning and singing along with various things. Getting it drilled into my senses in the shed makes my input into band settings vibrant and powerful in the beauty level of cosmic geometry. Horns are one of the greatest harmonic training devices to humanity. Just look at Coltraine's Circle of Fifths and beyond. It's in your fingers on guitar and piano; it's in your face with horns. Then drums take the sense of coordination all the way to the feet where if all I do is vocalize and sing it's really easy for me to play around in the rhythm where it stays in accord with the band. The subdivisions and triplets and other ways of drums plus the harmonic senses developed mostly from horns, then applied to voice have led to my ability to tone my health with the harmonic vibrations of cosmic geometry. Sensing the harmonic ladder inside makes any and all intervals easy to reach landing pads in the dance of melody. I think all musicians should train drum skills, at least basic rudiments and all vocalists should play a horn. This would break us out of the vapid weaklings of humans with the robot having the most power in their mixes. If the whole band trains with metronomes drummers would have a much easier time, and wow, the musical power that would evolve.
An excellent lesson, thanks so much!
I've been following JP's website for a couple years so far and first and straight into the point: it's totally worth and rewarding cause you'll learn a "easy" way to play simple patterns with a variety of changes, as you could see through this masterclass, and for sure it'll be stock deeply into your mind (and second) making you feel more freely and fluidly. Every lesson, old or new, on his page is a fresh content and something that I'll (and you can also) practice for years.
Third and final but not least he is a careful and helpful teacher, completely approachable and super friendly.
So don't hesitate and check it out !!!
pretty masterful argument for joining his website.
Very useful, thank you for your class. Meinl puts out some of the best drum videos.
🙏
I love you JP
All the things i working on....and its so good with jp..easy real step by step. ❤🎉
Thanks, Jay-Pizzle Boo-vit. You're the man!
Very cool ideas for practicing improvisation
Golden stuff. JP's fantastic at educating 🤘
just great! thanks
This is such a good stuff! I still need to study the 16 invisible rhythms so this was a great reminder for that too. Thank you JP! 😊
Jp is the best! 🎉
You know JP is next level when he mutes the cymbals with his hands before he talks so you don't get that huge cymbal ring when the talking mic gets opened up like on every drum tutorial ever.
THANK YOU ‼for that ‼🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆
Thank you far all the tips, I have a giant jam on saturday and I'm the only drummer,there will be tons of hungry musicians from bassists to trumpets and I'll be sure to get the creative juice flowing with this 😊
This is great stuff. Would any of these patterns and exercises be in a pdf format for reference when I practice them? Thanks so much!
JP 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
9:39 AABB
9:51 BBAA
10:04 ABBA
10:30 MILESTONE 1 : Any A, B
11:18 EXAMPLE
11:37 VARIATION on A
12:10 - GHOST
13:11 A (A) B (B)
13:55 MILESTONE 2: 3 blocks
14:50 Randomize ( 👀 →mind) skill
14:50 VARIATION on B ( VOICE )
14:55 EXAMPLE
21:16 EXAMPLE (+SUBSETS)
23:20 6 stroke Roll 'sticking'
VARIATION: ACCENT L
24:18 AABB
24:28 BBAA
24:37 ABBA
25:40 ABCA
26:14 ACAB
26:49 EXAMPLE
25:15 ARRANGE
If you're reading the comments while playing this video, thinking: 39 minutes video?! Only part 1 out of 5?!
Getting good at your instrument takes time, focus and consistency. I'm telling you from experience having lessons for one year now with JP: if you have the patience to listen to what JP is teaching and don't rush through the material, you'll get better and better in playing drums in a rewarding and healthy way! And there's a community of around 500 other drummers that encourage each other, which is amazing. It's affordable: a month subscription is cheaper than most 30 minutes lesson with drum teachers and you can check it out and pause and repeat your lesson whenever you want! From very beginner to very advanced. It's a goldmine for drummers in 2024 that seriously wants to get good in playing drums! :)
Always loved the blend of language in math in drumming. JP if you read this have you ever thought about the distribution of these vocabulary subsets between drummers. For example without orchestration the combination of A A’ and B over 4 beats is 81 different combinations. If we mapped those patterns each drummer would have their own normal distribution of patterns they like to play. As we keep adding variables this will become even more pronounced. Any thought or input on managing this aspect to broaden out the distribution space?
This was fantastic! Are parts 2-5 going to be uploaded on RUclips or on JP’s site?
Part 2 went up today on our YT channel. Parts 3-5 will go up on our YT channel as well soon. Also, just in case you are not already a student of JP's...Use promo code MEINL to try 30 days free at JP’s online drum school, JPBouvetMethod.com - study dozens of courses that teach improvisation for all levels.
“Demystifying Improvisation” sounds like it could be tech death song name
bro if I could play this, soloing would be easy :D
What's that thing he puts on the hi hat called?
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I am not sure why so many struggle with impovisational drumming. I am also not sure you can really teach it. I also not sure if what you are teaching is true improvisational drumming. You basically teach patters to build a drummers vocabulary and how to very that pattern around the drum set. I do not really think this is teaching imorov. For me improv is playing whatever I feel like playing at any given time. If doing this to music it has to obviously fit the music. A lot of the time if I am improvisational playing I do not know what I am going to play before I play it. Sure I may consciously do patterns I want to practice or learn, but for the most part I do not know what I will play before I play it. You may be a good drum teacher from what I have seen and others have commented on but... What you are teaching in this lesson will eventually make you a better improvisational drummer perhaps, but it just seems you are teaching different patters and how to turn them into other patters around the drum set. Rearranging patters on the fly or not isn't really improvisational playing. It is hard to explain, but improvisational drumming means I am just playing without really thinking about it. I am not putting much though if any as to what I am playing. I feel it I just play it. Sure it helps to have a large vocabulary to pull from to do this, but I felt all you really did was help build vocabulary that in the long run will make you a better drummer and give you more to pull from when you improvise but doesn't teach improve. Once a drummer has a decent vocabulary and is a bit more advanced drummer from a beginner then improvisational drumming will become more natural. In my opinion the best way to learn and practice improvisational drumming once you have built up your vocabulary, is to just put on random drumless tunes of all kinds and just play to them. Doing thus you will have to cone up with grooves, fills, and patterns on the fly since you do not know the music or original drumming.
bro it’s part 1 of 5 let’s stop drawing conclusions about what he’s talking about
I totally agree with you. You're just a few steps ahead of this video! The patterns and melodic strategies are a means to an end, with the ultimate goal to not think of them in particular, but just think musical ideas, melodies, phrases, and concepts, and let the patterns fill themselves in, exactly like you described. You also described how building your underlying vocabulary enables you to say more when you just let it flow. That's exactly the point where I'm entering in this video. What I find with most students is that what holds them back is a lack of underlying control over the patterns--rearranging them and manipulating them on the fly. Without that underlying ability to 1) create a variety of melodies and 2) rearrange patterns on the fly, one generally gets stuck, no matter how much they try to let things flow. As one does fairly-uncreative development of technical vocabulary, and practices rearranging it on the fly, it gives them more vocabulary to be creative with, with the ultimate goal, again, like you said, of just opening the faucet and letting it flow (we'll talk about that in part 5). Fun to chat with you on this. Sounds like we're thinking quite similarly about this actually.
What you describe yourself doing is exactly the goal of what JP is teaching here, you just conceptualise it differently.
JP is a great teacher and all but honestly the constant talking kills me at times. I like to speed up these videos
You mean the part where he's teaching and passing on his wisdom and experience?
@@meinlcymbals yeah that part, I will sometimes speed it up a bit. Very wise information though 🙏🏻