By far the best Bossa Nova lesson you could ask for on youtube. This is exactly how it was explained to me at my drum lesson today. and then it only took like 15 minutes to get consistently.
I love your pedagogy. Show the beat. Show what's being played on each limb. Show it together for memory. Build it up one at a time adding each part in. Awesome!
Excellent feel. That is the most important aspect of drumming and you did great. Nothing exists without great feel. This is a great demonstration...straight forward and underlines the real importance of drumming in the first place. Well done!
wow thank you. im a guitar/ tuba player and my good friend has a drum set he's always asking me to play on. now I have something to strive for. Great demonstration!
Hi Tim! Tks a lot for loading this up! Your relaxed style of explanation and the way you perform things at the set is cool! It helped me a lot to get into the Bossa Nova:-)! Cheers and keep it up!
cool lesson..i had to learn this on my own after 20yrs of playing , and all by freaking ear..but i've mastered it and i add and improvise a lot more with fills and rim shot patterns..super cool vid !
Actually Bossa Nova is as a mix of Jazz and Samba, rythim of samba in jazz instruments (drums and bass, are mostly responsable for bringing the feeling of samba), that's why it blends so well, the guitar basically "sing" the song for itself. In many ways it surged as a musical movement to "please" and do a positive propaganda of Brasil to the rest of the world, great compositors and musicians tough, I love it.
Dude I don't even play drums but I really enjoyed this video. Very educational and efficient! Coming from a bass player I must say that it's really awesome that you mention the importance of FINESSE! People that don't know how to play with dynamics can be very hard to play with. There's a time to beat it out, but there's a time to kick back and enjoy simplicity. In my opinion, it takes a lot more experience, and maturity to play with finesse than it does to play 128th notes all day. Keep rockin!
Thanks for the lesson Tim! One thing that helped me was to take a shortcut and convert the two-measure, 4/4 figure into one bar of 8/4. Then I got the feel of the figure down, and then re- counted it in two- 4/4 measures. Lame, I know but I'm a guitarist lol. Thanks for teaching me the bossa nova!!
FrameSticker just explained why There's more than one type of clave, one of them being the "Bossa Nova Clave" taught in this lesson By the way, thanks for these lessons, they're really great!
I totally agree with you on both comments: if you wanted to cover just the basics of Bossa, you did it amazingly accurate. However, if you're going to do more videos about Bossa, I reccomend you cover the points that I mentioned. By the way, I have listened to that record countless times and it is as amazing as you say. While one could play jus the bass & hi-hat part of the Bossa and it would sound great, the clave is an essential part of Bossa Nova, and I think you should teach it Thank you!.
Clave usually refers only to Afro-Cuban music and the alike, but the term has eventually made its way to Brazilian music. The cross-stick pattern that bossa nova uses is really just a son clave with the 2 note in the 2 part delayed by one eighth note.
man, i'm a brazilian drummer and I really love bossa nova..and you've got the way to play...really cool...I'm watching all your lessons and I just added you as a friend...you probably know some grat brazilian drummers but let me know if you want to know some more...and I know that you're a drummer, but look for an album called "ao vivo em minas", by Antonio Carlos Jobim...it's just piano and vocals, but it's a wonderful record. take care, thanks for the lessons.. nilo
Hey, thanks alot for this lesson! Very good breakdown of basic Bosa Nova for a beginner such as myself. Of course i'm not going to rely on this as the "bible of bosa nova" as some people are implying. I am using it as a valuable learning resource for a very novice drummer, as I'm sure it was meant to be. Big help, and thanks again!
Hey men, thanks a lot for this lessons, I had been playing rock all the tyme, but it's time to change directions. It will helt me a lot be a bossanova drummer, hehehe. Regards
Uhh, I started drumming in 1963. I !earned from the radio but had a pro drummer living down the street! He fixed my problems technically when I needed it. I learned take five, what I say, and girl from Ipanema by just listening and figuring the patterns out by ear!! Little did I know how important those patterns were. I started playing pro-ish at fourteen and I had a great foundation to fake!!!! Other songs?? South of the border with a cha cha, Tequila, and that tune in seven on Brubeck,s album. Paul Desmond??? Faking foundation??? The ability to make your drum set into a latin percussion group! All the great drummers did that!
This is a BASIC Bossa Nova lesson. A first step or introduction if you will, to the music. I just wanted to cover the very basics of this style of music in the 10 mins RUclips allows you for videos. However, should you listen to the CD that I mentioned, you will find that most of the bossa's on that record are played on the hi hat without any cross stick.
Thanks for bringing this up. 2:3 or 3:2 clave does not apply the same way to Brazilian music, or really at all. These traditional Clave's are found in Cuban or Afro-Cuban music. Brazilian music such as the Samba or the Bossa do have a different type of clave or more specifically a two sided rhythmic feel, it is just not the standard 2:3 or 3:2 Son or Rhumba Clave.
And I was taught to always keep in mind to not play the hi-hat at 1 2 3 4 at a bossa nova :( And this isn't the first bossa nova people learn. You should know that. I admire the fill though XD easy stuff and sounds awesome.
i am really desperate.... im trying really hard to get my hands and feet in the right rythm but im failing really hard every time. thats probably because i usually dont play this kind of music. i am very accustomed to hard rock and metal... these rythms are really easy for sure but they also stop me learning this beat because i want to hit the snare to 2 and 4 or the bass after the 2 1/2.... that coax me to despair...
A thing that's really distrubed my about your lesson is that you didn't even mention the terms 2-3. 3-2, clave or 2 & 4 on the hi-hat at all. Bossa is oftenly played on the ride cymbal (as you know because you played that at the beginning of the video). However, people who learn from this lesson will fail to properly play Bossa Nova - they'll learn to play a beat. But I bow to you for reminding of the dynamic level that the Bossa needs to be it. Thank you.
Just the best American lesson on Bossa Nova style... I'm from Brazil and he knows what he's doing... Smooth groove... GREAT !
By far the best Bossa Nova lesson you could ask for on youtube. This is exactly how it was explained to me at my drum lesson today. and then it only took like 15 minutes to get consistently.
you are a seriously good teacher, been playing drums 3 weeks and I picked that up in about 30 minutes :) THANK YOU
I love your pedagogy.
Show the beat.
Show what's being played on each limb.
Show it together for memory.
Build it up one at a time adding each part in.
Awesome!
Nice lesson, good technique. Good to point up the difference between the heavier rock style and the gentle touch the bossa demands.
Those cymbals you play have a nice shimmer. Mellow and glassy.
nice video man, uve got really good drum ethics, need more drummers like you
Excellent feel. That is the most important aspect of drumming and you did great. Nothing exists without great feel. This is a great demonstration...straight forward and underlines the real importance of drumming in the first place. Well done!
i learn love bossa and then learn bossa after listen to that record when i was in high school. a big part of my life..
Your cymbals are great, your sound is very good.
Thanks for this lesson.
wow thank you. im a guitar/ tuba player and my good friend has a drum set he's always asking me to play on. now I have something to strive for. Great demonstration!
Dude thanks for breaking it down. Halfway through the video I could already play it decently!
Hi Tim!
Tks a lot for loading this up! Your relaxed style of explanation and the way you perform things at the set is cool!
It helped me a lot to get into the Bossa Nova:-)!
Cheers and keep it up!
cool lesson..i had to learn this on my own after 20yrs of playing , and all by freaking ear..but i've mastered it and i add and improvise a lot more with fills and rim shot patterns..super cool vid !
Ur saving my life Tim, I'm Bossa ignorant & have a session da 31st & a lot of my bandleader's songs have bossa feel man. Peace & Blessings to u bro !
Actually Bossa Nova is as a mix of Jazz and Samba, rythim of samba in jazz instruments (drums and bass, are mostly responsable for bringing the feeling of samba), that's why it blends so well, the guitar basically "sing" the song for itself. In many ways it surged as a musical movement to "please" and do a positive propaganda of Brasil to the rest of the world, great compositors and musicians tough, I love it.
those are nice cymbals and it really helped that u played simple 4/4 beats
Dude I don't even play drums but I really enjoyed this video. Very educational and efficient! Coming from a bass player I must say that it's really awesome that you mention the importance of FINESSE! People that don't know how to play with dynamics can be very hard to play with. There's a time to beat it out, but there's a time to kick back and enjoy simplicity. In my opinion, it takes a lot more experience, and maturity to play with finesse than it does to play 128th notes all day. Keep rockin!
Best bossa nova lesson on youtube!
I love the way you teach just great
Thanks for the lesson Tim!
One thing that helped me was to take a shortcut and convert the two-measure, 4/4 figure into one bar of 8/4. Then I got the feel of the figure down, and then re- counted it in two- 4/4 measures.
Lame, I know but I'm a guitarist lol.
Thanks for teaching me the bossa nova!!
FrameSticker just explained why
There's more than one type of clave, one of them being the "Bossa Nova Clave" taught in this lesson
By the way, thanks for these lessons, they're really great!
I totally agree with you on both comments: if you wanted to cover just the basics of Bossa, you did it amazingly accurate. However, if you're going to do more videos about Bossa, I reccomend you cover the points that I mentioned.
By the way, I have listened to that record countless times and it is as amazing as you say. While one could play jus the bass & hi-hat part of the Bossa and it would sound great, the clave is an essential part of Bossa Nova, and I think you should teach it
Thank you!.
man... you helped me so much to learn the rhythm of bossa nova on my cajon!
THANK YOU MAN!
Great teacher ! and Goot coach !
Awesome Tim! I love your lessons.
i like how you build it up, that's a pretty neat idea.
The record is Getz/Gilberto. Amazing record. Check it out when you get a chance.
just bought the cd , best €15 ive ever spent , thanks
Clave usually refers only to Afro-Cuban music and the alike, but the term has eventually made its way to Brazilian music. The cross-stick pattern that bossa nova uses is really just a son clave with the 2 note in the 2 part delayed by one eighth note.
man, i'm a brazilian drummer and I really love bossa nova..and you've got the way to play...really cool...I'm watching all your lessons and I just added you as a friend...you probably know some grat brazilian drummers but let me know if you want to know some more...and I know that you're a drummer, but look for an album called "ao vivo em minas", by Antonio Carlos Jobim...it's just piano and vocals, but it's a wonderful record.
take care, thanks for the lessons..
nilo
How do you play being 3 inches from the wall?
Hey, thanks alot for this lesson! Very good breakdown of basic Bosa Nova for a beginner such as myself. Of course i'm not going to rely on this as the "bible of bosa nova" as some people are implying. I am using it as a valuable learning resource for a very novice drummer, as I'm sure it was meant to be. Big help, and thanks again!
Thank you very much Tim!
very interesting lesson
Thanks for this great lesson. I understand it clearly now.
Hey men, thanks a lot for this lessons, I had been playing rock all the tyme, but it's time to change directions.
It will helt me a lot be a bossanova drummer, hehehe.
Regards
Thanks for the lesson,very well done.
One of my favorite teachers on youtue!
Very fine lesson sir !!! Thanks
Great lesson, glad I found this video, thanks!
Uhh, I started drumming in 1963. I !earned from the radio but had a pro drummer living down the street! He fixed my problems technically when I needed it. I learned take five, what I say, and girl from Ipanema by just listening and figuring the patterns out by ear!! Little did I know how important those patterns were. I started playing pro-ish at fourteen and I had a great foundation to fake!!!! Other songs?? South of the border with a cha cha, Tequila, and that tune in seven on Brubeck,s album. Paul Desmond??? Faking foundation??? The ability to make your drum set into a latin percussion group! All the great drummers did that!
Just some time stamps for myself
Base: 1:28
Full thing 4:40
thanks man! its going to help me for a song we are playing!!!
my brother taught me this! nice fills also i like how you change it up and stuff :D
I love it!! You will not be disappointed.
nice video. i'll check out the others later for sure.
Great sound on the cymbals, man
awesome lesson, thank you.
Houu dude! thank you so much, i couldn't get that rythm down until i watched this damn video, So grateful with you bro!!!!! Big hug from argentina!!
awesome samba, uh, bossa nova grooves!
lol seriously though, this is really helpful. good stuff.
good lesson..i like your teaching..
Great video. By the way, most people I know refer to rim clicks as cross-sticks.
really good lesson!
Wow it really works in a song i play in jazz band
great video!!!!
yes you can!
it took me a long time, but one day it just fkn clicked!
practice practice practice!
:)
tim481.. this was very helpful! thanks so much!!
ok so i can play the bossa nova pretty well, i'm just having a problem with fills. do you have any video's that can help me?
ey man nice drum set, whats the album you recomended? sorry my english..
EXCELENTE EXPLICACIÓN!
hey thanks bud! that was very informative!
No hair combing LMFAO! Nice lesson, i dig it.
really helps a lot, thank you!
cool!.. really enjoyed it!
great great teacher
This is a BASIC Bossa Nova lesson. A first step or introduction if you will, to the music. I just wanted to cover the very basics of this style of music in the 10 mins RUclips allows you for videos. However, should you listen to the CD that I mentioned, you will find that most of the bossa's on that record are played on the hi hat without any cross stick.
what kind of ride is the one on your left?
i can only tell its a sabian vault..
Do you know is this the beat used in Cannonball Adderly's "Jive Samba" ?
simply great
Thats nice man! I fucking love jazz playing on the drums, and I really wanna get to play like that
Thanks for bringing this up. 2:3 or 3:2 clave does not apply the same way to Brazilian music, or really at all. These traditional Clave's are found in Cuban or Afro-Cuban music. Brazilian music such as the Samba or the Bossa do have a different type of clave or more specifically a two sided rhythmic feel, it is just not the standard 2:3 or 3:2 Son or Rhumba Clave.
Berry cool guy!
thank you tim
what was the record he recomended? i really wanna listen to that, but im not exactly sure what he said...
thank You
And I was taught to always keep in mind to not play the hi-hat at 1 2 3 4 at a bossa nova :( And this isn't the first bossa nova people learn. You should know that.
I admire the fill though XD easy stuff and sounds awesome.
how do you like that kit? I am in the process of buying it...
cool lesson, have not to learn that anymore, just was interesseted
your ok after the parts sounds sometimes like donkey kong :D
good job !
spiritoso and bravo!!
You have really great feel, especially your left hand. Check out my interpretation of a bossa nova if you wanna.
good vibe man.
youre also a very good drummer
oh i'ts great...u r brilliat man...
@ElJazz93 genius, good lesson too! see you
i get seriously confused. seems like everyone tells the bossa nova differently. the left hand is playing a 3:2 clave right?
rumba yes
thanks dude, it works :D
I think he means play reverse. Like if your right handed play the hi hat with your left hand instead of right, and snare with your right.
i am really desperate.... im trying really hard to get my hands and feet in the right rythm but im failing really hard every time. thats probably because i usually dont play this kind of music. i am very accustomed to hard rock and metal... these rythms are really easy for sure but they also stop me learning this beat because i want to hit the snare to 2 and 4 or the bass after the 2 1/2.... that coax me to despair...
cool! I subscribe!
thank you!! :D
Yeah !
Cool guy. For the grace of god. 😀
A thing that's really distrubed my about your lesson is that you didn't even mention the terms 2-3. 3-2, clave or 2 & 4 on the hi-hat at all. Bossa is oftenly played on the ride cymbal (as you know because you played that at the beginning of the video). However, people who learn from this lesson will fail to properly play Bossa Nova - they'll learn to play a beat.
But I bow to you for reminding of the dynamic level that the Bossa needs to be it. Thank you.
I just cant get it.So frustrating. I would love to see you play it really slowly whilst counting out the beat. Please?
stan getz joao gilberto tom jobim
"girl from ipanema" album
no notations ?
@PiwaiGee it took me 5 minutes! :D
@PiwaiGee the fact that you were willing to spend 6 hours learning it means you shouldnt give up
Omg I'm a drummer and my name is Tim xP
favourite part: 7:30 - 7:43
5:09 lol!