Great lesson! It lays out the swing pattern musically, and emotively. Walk the dog not only captures the pattern, it captures the mindset when playing the pattern in a welcoming manner. Bravo, Greg!
I really appreciated all the different camera angles. Very informative. That one of Greg's arm from the side surprised me with how still his arm actually was; so controlled while so relaxed.
Beautiful!! Hutch gave a perfectly simple explanation of conceptually playing the ride cymbal. . It's all attitude, feel, spacing, and most of all, SWING!! 🙏🏾🎶
Learning it as a Para Diddle Diddle triplet helped articulate it for me. RLR RLL. Right hand on the ride. Left hand ghosts on the snare. Para Diddle Diddle. R (L) RR (LL). Walk (ra)the Dog (diddle) RLR RLL
Listening to your video took me back to my teens. Specifically playing one of the first song I learned, “I Hear A Symphony” by the Supremes … that song walks the dog all day long! Lol Thanks for the memory! 😎👍🏻
If you listen to the album "Live at the Loa" by Ray Brown Trio, you'll hear someone shouting "walk that dog!!!" to Jeff Hamilton throughout the album. Wonder if that was Ray Brown or Gene Harris shouting that?
I picked up a trick from the great Billy Cobham the five stroke roll is "walk the dog" as far as the right hand is concerned (left) if your a lefty, the five stroke is a very handy tool around the kit many thanks Greg
Okay, just before this video from Greg I watched a video from Peter Erskine, exactly on the same topic. And there Peter emphasises that he does not play the jazz ride pattern as "a three-note grouping". So, forget 'walk-the-dog', forget 'spang-a-lane'. And here we have Greg, teaching just that. I am convinced by Peter on this one. The walk-the-dog doesn't actually teach us the rythmic structure of a swung eighth note bar. The actual bar is: 'walk, walk-the-dog, walk-the', which in proper counting corresponds to, 1, 2, and3, 4, and. The off-beat notes (last notes of the triplet) of 1 and 3 are silent, but they can be played. Walk-the-dog doesn't give that rythmic awareness of what you actually playing. Greg in demonstrating the technique actually starts from 2, leaving the note 1 out, so he plays 2 and3, 4 and1. And that's exactly the problem with walk-the-dog. Peter advises to start with even quarter notes and then add the off-beats as pick-up notes leading to the next quarter note. Start even but you can acent 2 and 4, or the offbeat notes, Elvin Jones style. So, forget walk-the-dog. I am suprised why Greg teaches that, being a fantastic drummer.
Interesting observation. I agree it doesn't really demonstrate rhythmic structure very well but I feel like the point of this clip is more about demonstrating how it should feel.
I always recognized that drumming is a form of language and how you “pronounce”, “tell the story” via instrument is all what it is about. It’s like reciting a poem. You can tell it flat, or you can have listeners follow you. But I never linked specific patterns to specific phrases. Thank You Greg. This is huge lesson
Love this video ~ my drum teacher taught me this when I was a teen who wanted to play like Phil Rudd .. my teacher was a Charlie Watts / Steve Gadd / Dave Weckl fan and thankfully taught me foundations .. Ian Oddy ~ thank you ~ I’m a big fan of Jazz at this stage in my life .. 🙏🏼🎶🇦🇺 🥁
Immediately connecting with the walk the dog phrase. I was never really taught this phonetically, it was always the specific rhythm of the thing, or listening to examples. At most, maybe we heard a "tang, tanga tang" Very interesting stuff!!!!!
Hey Gregg I've been playing Jazz and Swing for 65 years and your explanation mirrors exactly the way I was taught to "ride". You make it uncomplicated and get right to the point without six paragraphs of chatter and explanation. There are Rock drummers out there trying to learn Jazz and if they watched your vid they could get started on the ride in five minutes whereas many are relying on charts. Charts are fine but these fine folks have to realize that Jazz is a feeling that instruction books in many cases make the swing stilted. Great stuff
Great comment. I'm a rock drummer and indeed this lesson was very helpfull...but since my right hand swings really well the "walk the dog" feeling, is the left hand that we rockers suffer more..the comping.stuff.... the left hand charts and patterns that Greg uses here, is what really got me further in jazz playing.
This was so helpful and so educational. I feel like I can communicate everything he said to my students and improve their overall playing but most importantly, their feel. Thank you!
So I was totally tracking this right uo to the 4:30 min mark... where you say "I walked the dog." Where where does "I" come from, it it the comp on the snare? It seems like beat one on the first full measure starts with dog? I assume that beat 1 is "Dog" then walk the dog is 2 a-3, 4 a-1? Can anyone help clarify this?
I think the most important lesson of this that is not explained is that THE/DOG is a double that he is playing as a down wrist stroke followed by an up finger stroke. (learn this from double stroke rolls)
Great lesson, the explanations and the vibes are so cool and easy. I have one question , from Walk the dog, you may think that Walk is the first note of the bar, yet when you play it, with notes, it seems that Dog is the first note of the bar!
great technique and extremely well executed. i'm not a jazz player and don't really aspire to be, but this is good for understanding the concept. i would only say that there is nothing whatsoever to do with 'in' when referring to a fulcrum. the fulcrum is the pivot point about which the stick rotates. somewhere near the area between your thumb and index finger.
As a keyboard player who creates jazz sequences, I found that a realistic swing feel is produced when I quantize to eighth note triplets. But fake books note them as straight simple eighth notes, assuming the player will swing it.
Vic's really letting some bent ones get through( jk:) The playing, drums and cymbals are like a velvet river and Paiste sure has hit it out of the park with that Masters ride, smooth as butter.
I thought it was played as a dotted eighth note, on sheet music, or as you say "walk the dog". The grip is the way you play it. I play it with back of hand is level.
Can anyone describe what kind of video and audio set up would be used to make a video like this? Like specific gear? I want to use it to take zoom lessons with the best audiovisual options. Thanks!
Honestly...that was the greatest "human" lesson I've ever seen via my phone. It felt like I was in the room with Greg. Thank you so much for this
no need for quotation but if it were necessary you would close them after 'lesson'. Anyway, I agree with you; feels like an old-school DVD lesson.
I guess it's subjective lol I hope you don't take me as a dick
Yes, this was an amazing seminar for all musicians, dancers and teachers. I would like to hear his ideas on right hand stick holds.
I like how he says one too you know what to do
"Walk The Dog" I just learned, is a upgrade for me from "Spang A Lang." Thanks and Blessings Greg!
Great lesson! It lays out the swing pattern musically, and emotively. Walk the dog not only captures the pattern, it captures the mindset when playing the pattern in a welcoming manner. Bravo, Greg!
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I really appreciated all the different camera angles. Very informative. That one of Greg's arm from the side surprised me with how still his arm actually was; so controlled while so relaxed.
Beautiful!! Hutch gave a perfectly simple explanation of conceptually playing the ride cymbal. . It's all attitude, feel, spacing, and most of all, SWING!! 🙏🏾🎶
I love jazz. Play piano and alto sax but love the technical lessons of other instruments. You get a holistic feel.
Marvelous drummer and teacher!
Fantastic lessons!
I "walked the dog" and now I have to pick up the........
👍👍
Learning it as a Para Diddle Diddle triplet helped articulate it for me. RLR RLL. Right hand on the ride. Left hand ghosts on the snare.
Para Diddle Diddle.
R (L) RR (LL).
Walk (ra)the Dog (diddle)
RLR RLL
Greg Hutchinson is anOutstanding instructor
This guy makes a student excited about learning.....he's a natural.
I walked a lot of dogs today
Probably the best lesson I found about this. So simple and clear, thank you so much Greg and everyone involved with the channel.
Outstanding lesson. Simple and informative. Thank you.
Listening to your video took me back to my teens. Specifically playing one of the first song I learned, “I Hear A Symphony” by the Supremes … that song walks the dog all day long! Lol Thanks for the memory! 😎👍🏻
What a beautiful ride cymbal
If you listen to the album "Live at the Loa" by Ray Brown Trio, you'll hear someone shouting "walk that dog!!!" to Jeff Hamilton throughout the album. Wonder if that was Ray Brown or Gene Harris shouting that?
I picked up a trick from the great Billy Cobham the five stroke roll is "walk the dog" as far as the right hand is concerned (left) if your a lefty, the five stroke is a very handy tool around the kit many thanks Greg
This lesson kicks ass but damn, your ride is the stuff of dreams. Thank you and have an awesome day, man.
Ahhhh...those Paiste Masters look beautiful
Okay, just before this video from Greg I watched a video from Peter Erskine, exactly on the same topic. And there Peter emphasises that he does not play the jazz ride pattern as "a three-note grouping". So, forget 'walk-the-dog', forget 'spang-a-lane'. And here we have Greg, teaching just that. I am convinced by Peter on this one. The walk-the-dog doesn't actually teach us the rythmic structure of a swung eighth note bar. The actual bar is: 'walk, walk-the-dog, walk-the', which in proper counting corresponds to, 1, 2, and3, 4, and. The off-beat notes (last notes of the triplet) of 1 and 3 are silent, but they can be played. Walk-the-dog doesn't give that rythmic awareness of what you actually playing. Greg in demonstrating the technique actually starts from 2, leaving the note 1 out, so he plays 2 and3, 4 and1. And that's exactly the problem with walk-the-dog. Peter advises to start with even quarter notes and then add the off-beats as pick-up notes leading to the next quarter note. Start even but you can acent 2 and 4, or the offbeat notes, Elvin Jones style. So, forget walk-the-dog. I am suprised why Greg teaches that, being a fantastic drummer.
Interesting observation. I agree it doesn't really demonstrate rhythmic structure very well but I feel like the point of this clip is more about demonstrating how it should feel.
I always recognized that drumming is a form of language and how you “pronounce”, “tell the story” via instrument is all what it is about. It’s like reciting a poem. You can tell it flat, or you can have listeners follow you.
But I never linked specific patterns to specific phrases. Thank You Greg. This is huge lesson
Excellent video, and easy to follow. Thank you for this.
Love this video ~ my drum teacher taught me this when I was a teen who wanted to play like Phil Rudd ..
my teacher was a Charlie Watts / Steve Gadd / Dave Weckl fan and thankfully taught me foundations ..
Ian Oddy ~ thank you ~ I’m a big fan of Jazz at this stage in my life ..
🙏🏼🎶🇦🇺 🥁
Great lesson. I find myself retaining several of the concepts weeks later, sitting at the kit!
This is great, thank you Greg Hutchinson and Open Studio!
maybe the best explanation I've heard, and I've heard a bunch!
Immediately connecting with the walk the dog phrase.
I was never really taught this phonetically, it was always the specific rhythm of the thing, or listening to examples.
At most, maybe we heard a "tang, tanga tang"
Very interesting stuff!!!!!
Or spang-a-lang
Thanks Greg and Open Studio!
Hey Gregg
I've been playing Jazz and Swing for 65 years and your explanation mirrors exactly the way I was taught to "ride". You make it uncomplicated and get right to the point without six paragraphs of chatter and explanation. There are Rock drummers out there trying to learn Jazz and if they watched your vid they could get started on the ride in five minutes whereas many are relying on charts. Charts are fine but these fine folks have to realize that Jazz is a feeling that instruction books in many cases make the swing stilted. Great stuff
Great comment. I'm a rock drummer and indeed this lesson was very helpfull...but since my right hand swings really well the "walk the dog" feeling, is the left hand that we rockers suffer more..the comping.stuff.... the left hand charts and patterns that Greg uses here, is what really got me further in jazz playing.
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Ah hah.. a convert to Jazz from pure Rock.. lovely. Actually the great Rockers play great Jazz/Swing.. see RUclips
Cheers
Wonderful. Thank you
This was so helpful and so educational. I feel like I can communicate everything he said to my students and improve their overall playing but most importantly, their feel. Thank you!
I got so into this that I forgot to literally walk my dog...
Thank you for the lesson! From a beginner drummer here!
One of my favourite drummers -- and what a teacher. Love it
a good lesson and a good teacher , thanks from texas.
So I was totally tracking this right uo to the 4:30 min mark... where you say "I walked the dog." Where where does "I" come from, it it the comp on the snare? It seems like beat one on the first full measure starts with dog? I assume that beat 1 is "Dog" then walk the dog is 2 a-3, 4 a-1?
Can anyone help clarify this?
Bam. Presentation by a great instructor. Thank you. A+ teaching.
This guy splains it in great detail for beginners
AMMA SPLAINITOYA!
Excellent lesson. Using phrases to time beats and fills is a powerful tool. In India, they teach the beats as chants.
Good too see you again online Greg!
Beautiful!
breathes and dances
Perfect lesson. Thank you! Love the left hand too. The way you break up the comping pattern under the ride pattern. Gotta work on that!
This ride sounds amaizing
Thanks man from Athens Greece 🇬🇷
I think the most important lesson of this that is not explained is that THE/DOG is a double that he is playing as a down wrist stroke followed by an up finger stroke. (learn this from double stroke rolls)
I enjoyed your video. Great presentation!
Listen to that ride cymbal on Henry Mancini's Pink Panther theme. That's a great lesson in how to swing!
Greg, thank you. So good, so generous with your teaching. 👍
These Open Studio lessons are great.
the best beginning o
f a video ever :D
So many great lessons going on here. Thanks
Great lesson man thank you
you are a great teacher
Best lesson ever!
Thanks
Incredible teacher
Great lesson! Thank you very much!🙏
Excellent, thanks Greg. 🙏!
Goodness me, this is beautiful.
Great lesson, the explanations and the vibes are so cool and easy.
I have one question , from Walk the dog, you may think that Walk is the first note of the bar, yet when you play it, with notes, it seems that Dog is the first note of the bar!
Thank you!
Thank you for your teaching
Fantastic lesson, 🙏
Sooo much easier the spang-a-lang, thank you!🙏🏻
Keanan is off doing stuff, Kel has found jazz. Good on you.
Great vid! Thank you.
Really well done and easily explained.
Such an uderated lesson.❤❤❤
Vibe was soo good, I almost heard a ghost bass there in the background
Thank you ! Great lesson!
that ride cymbal is godly
Great lesson
Africans have a deep spiritual wisdom that makes concepts so real
What drumsticks was he using? I know they’re Vic Firth.
Great lesson!
great technique and extremely well executed. i'm not a jazz player and don't really aspire to be, but this is good for understanding the concept. i would only say that there is nothing whatsoever to do with 'in' when referring to a fulcrum. the fulcrum is the pivot point about which the stick rotates. somewhere near the area between your thumb and index finger.
he does not even touch on wrist and finger technique though
Very nice! I need to find a bass instructor like Greg.
"Walk-dog" pronounced as long as possible. Only add the "the" - the bump - occasionally.
Amazing and valuable video, thank you 😊 🙏
Or as my old tutor- Red Carter ( deceased)and who taught phonetically, in Liverpool taught me- brush, paint-a-brush paint-a brush, paint-a brush
That is fantastic!
I can't unhear it lol
Thats why i like jazz, i can ride all day long
nice man!...good teacher..
Thank You Greg
I like that, it is right.
To go alongside in movement to be affable to dance ❤
you are an amazing instructor, thank you
As a keyboard player who creates jazz sequences, I found that a realistic swing feel is produced when I quantize to eighth note triplets. But fake books note them as straight simple eighth notes, assuming the player will swing it.
Very nice Greg. Thank you.
Vic's really letting some bent ones get through( jk:) The playing, drums and cymbals are like a velvet river and Paiste sure has hit it out of the park with that Masters ride, smooth as butter.
I thought it was played as a dotted eighth note, on sheet music, or as you say "walk the dog". The grip is the way you play it. I play it with back of hand is level.
Excellent!
Which part of the beat does the "walk" represent is it the quarter note? As in 1 the dog 2 the dog 3 the dog 4 the dog?
Stellar. I've just subscribed. Cheers!
This is brilliant!
Swingin like Max, dude!
Thanx, Greg🌹🌹🌹😎
Excelent tips.
What type and weight is your main ride? Great vid!
Can anyone describe what kind of video and audio set up would be used to make a video like this? Like specific gear? I want to use it to take zoom lessons with the best audiovisual options. Thanks!
I like this guy.