Appreciate that, my man! Glad you’re enjoying the brush work. Join the Q/munity! It's a supportive group of drummers sharing music, ideas, and having fun Zoom sessions. Check it out: www.skool.com/jazzdrumming/about
I am so excited about what you are sharing. I want to be a world class jazz drummer by the time I'm 100, I can do this. I still have 27 years to make it happen. I appreciate all of your help and wonderful lessons. All the Best 😊
What i love about you mate is your passion for teaching. Great drummer with a great personality. You make me want to practice...thank you Quincy from Australia ❤
THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN! The best brushes lesson around. I remember asking you about brush comping/fluency about a year ago and you responded! Thank you so much for getting round to it, this is exactly what I need to develop my brush playing to the next stage!🙏🙏🙏
I love brushes. Years ago I played small jazz combo gigs with all brushes. I had to wing it and did ok on my own. I'm playing in a big band and we have two charts that require brushes. This lesson is gold.
These are all great patterns! Thanks for putting these together for us. I like to create funk & hip-hop patterns with brushes, where my hands sweep left-to-right across the head, in opposite directions (one above & one below) - RH = 1 &, LH = e a.
Ed Thigpen on Corcovado - Oscar Peterson Trio ("Swing - anova"), Have you meet miss Jones till he switches to sticks Kenny Washington on Mean Streets (Tommy Flanagan Trio) Louis Hayes on Barry Harris live at the Jazz Workshop (Curtain Call) Lewis Nash on Broadway (Diana Krall) Vernell Fournier on Live at the Pershing (Ahmad Jamal) (all tracks) Kenny Clarke on Thelonius Monk's Ellington Record (all tracks) Kendrick Scott on Gretchen Parlato's Within Me (Not sure if these are brushes or rods) Mel Lewis - on "Off the cuff" (till minute 1:22) and this one: ruclips.net/video/qanIx2N6SQ8/видео.html Roy Haynes on "Pannonica" with Chick Corea Paul Motian with Bill Evans on Gloria's Step and Waltz for Debby Tootie Heath on Booby Timmons Trio live in Person (Autumn leaves) Tony Williams start on Oliloqui Valley on Herbie Hancock's Empyrean Isles Elvin Jones on Coltrane meets Johnny Hartman ETC ETC But the baddest of them all is: Bobby Durham on Triste with Oscar Peterson Trio
Oh, I especially love the Samba groove. It sounds so light and yet driving already without the feet. Great stuff! What I struggle with the most in my brush playing is comping while playing patterns. I don't want to fall into the trap of learning a bunch of patterns and then that's all I can play. It feels like I'm in a cage I can't break out of sometimes. The difficulty for me comes in at adding accents and smooth transitions to other phrases and stickings. And I haven't found a teacher yet that really moves beyond teaching patterns they like and use for different situations. Maybe you can make a video about your approach to that?
I have used a few of these over the years, but I wish I had more opportunities to utilize these types of skills more often. The groups I get to play with now are usually playing louder electric jazz/fusion. I love that stuff too, but would like some more chances to play some traditional jazz as well. Great lesson as always thanks! FP
Really nice video lesson! I love playing brushes. I practice clockwise, I think there are some advantages (finger flick, fast feather) but on gigs I find myself playing counter clockwise…seems like I have a better feel counter clockwise…weird.
This is gold! Thanks so much! I personally learned to sweep clockwise but I see so many of the greats actually sweep counter clockwise. Do you have a preference on sweeping in either direction? Thanks in advance
I love playing ith brushes! Studied with Alan Dawson from 1980-82, used to do his Ritual with brushes! Question, I am much more comfortable going clockwise in my left hand with my sweep. Does it matter whether you go clockwise or counter clockwise with pattern #1? If so, how come?
That’s awesome you studied with Alan Dawson! For Pattern #1, clockwise or counterclockwise is fine-it’s all about what feels natural. Many prefer counterclockwise for phrasing, but if clockwise works for you, go for it! Keep experimenting!
Im gonna get a new pair of brushes soon. My current pair of heritage brushes are all bent out of shape from years of gigs. I see you’re using a pair of heritage brushes, but what do you think about other types? I tried a pair of Steve Gad brushes (with a kink in all of the wires) and they were pretty cool. It was a long time ago so im gonna see if i can try them out in person again before i make a purchase but i thought id ask you about your thoughts on types of brushes Edit: the use case is for jazz, btw. Combo playing
For jazz combo playing, I personally like Regal Tip and Vater's basic rubber handle brushes with thin wires, similar to the VF Heritage brush. While thicker ply wires can be great for other styles, I find that thinner wires really swing and have the right feel for jazz. Those Steve Gadd brushes are cool, but if you're looking for that classic jazz sound, I’d stick with the thinner gauge. Cheers!
Do you feel like you can get the same motion/sound with the left hand using matched grip? The feel/ path of the brush is different for me. But I have a harder time doing 4/5 stroke ruffs in trad grip so I usually use matched
I definitely get a different sound and feel with match. Not to mention, it feels awkward for me. But I know it’s possible to get a good sound and feel with match. It’s just a matter of practice. Thanks Davie!
Much respect to you sir for keeping at it. It’s hard to say how Long it will take for you to get fast without knowing how fast you are now. However try not to focus on speed and instead think about control and good tone.
Hi Q ! I am Baba from Nicaragua... Many jazette drum kits like mine come with a 13' snare drum. Am i wrong or i always see jazzmen playing brushes on a 14'. So my question is ...a13' isn't it a bit too small to play confortably sweep paterns ? Thank you
Quincy, you're one of the baddest cats ever, ever. I could watch and listen to you all day-- and I have. keep it up, brother.
Appreciate that, my man! Glad you’re enjoying the brush work. Join the Q/munity! It's a supportive group of drummers sharing music, ideas, and having fun Zoom sessions. Check it out: www.skool.com/jazzdrumming/about
I am so excited about what you are sharing. I want to be a world class jazz drummer by the time I'm 100, I can do this. I still have 27 years to make it happen. I appreciate all of your help and wonderful lessons. All the Best 😊
Haha, you've got this, Martie! With 27 years to go, the jazz scene better watch out!!! Love it!
Q, your channel is pure gold. Thank you for everything you give us! 🙏
I’m so glad you enjoy the channel, my man Ryan!
you're the GOAT jazz drumming teacher Q! can't wait to get all these under my hands
You’re too kind!
This is sooooooo great! Thanks for making another great video Q! My favorite brush album is Elvin Jones on Overseas:)
I love that one too! That’s GD👊🏾
In My Opinion, This Is The Best Brush Instructional Video On RUclips. Thanks Quincy For More Eye Opening Content 👏👏👏
Yeah this is great, Anthony Stanislavski is also great too imo!
I appreciate that very much Joe!
I love the simplicity in the patterns. It amounts to eloquence. Thanks Q!
I appreciate that Scottie! I definitely gravitate towards simple and meaningful over the other stuff.
Well done Quincy ! A very interresting and helpfull lesson for a french 62 years old player ! Thanks a lot !
Right on Pascal!
Love brushes great great lesson❤
Who says brush playing is not beautiful and 🫵🏻don’t need how to learn to play brushes. 👏👏. Fantastic lesson Quincy 🙏
That’s right, Ron. You tell them my man! Thanks for the watch🙏🏾
Man what a great brush lesson Quincy. Love your brush technique, its so smooth and fluid. Lastly your flick technique is so sweet! Bravo!! 👏
Right on my man! Thanks for your kind words.
What i love about you mate is your passion for teaching. Great drummer with a great personality. You make me want to practice...thank you Quincy from Australia ❤
Thanks for the nice words. Let's have a beer in Australia some time mate! I guess I gotta get plans to go there first:)
@@drumqtips great idea! Let me know when you're coming 👍
Thanks for the truly helpful and practical lesson! I wanted to see more on how to add accents while those patterns are played.
I think I go into that a bit more in other brush videos I've made. Thanks for watching!
Marvellous stuff and really, really helpful…thanks for another timely and useful post, Quincy!😎
Glad it was helpful (and timely:) Mikey!
Thanks for posting this fun & interesting drum lesson video
I appreciate you checking it out!
Simply a great lesson,thank you Quincy!
Great lessons ❤
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks so much for these lesson. Looks like you put them in order of complexity which changes mood and sound.
Glad you like them! Yes, I tried to put them in an order that makes sense. Have fun learning them Todd!
THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN! The best brushes lesson around. I remember asking you about brush comping/fluency about a year ago and you responded! Thank you so much for getting round to it, this is exactly what I need to develop my brush playing to the next stage!🙏🙏🙏
You are so welcome! Happy to hear from you again. Happy brushing!
I love brushes. Years ago I played small jazz combo gigs with all brushes. I had to wing it and did ok on my own.
I'm playing in a big band and we have two charts that require brushes. This lesson is gold.
These are all great patterns! Thanks for putting these together for us. I like to create funk & hip-hop patterns with brushes, where my hands sweep left-to-right across the head, in opposite directions (one above & one below) - RH = 1 &, LH = e a.
That’s awesome! Nothing like the cool but nuanced sound of funky brushes. Cheers!
Tell me some of your favorite brush albums or tracks!
VIDEO TIME STAMPS
00:00 - Playing Introduction
00:19 - Lesson Introduction
02:19 - Let’s gooooooooooooo!
02:35 - Brush Pattern #1 - Sweep Time
04:24 - Brush Pattern #2 - Classic Jazz Brush Pattern
07:06 - Brush Pattern #3 - Two Feel
09:31 - Brush Pattern #4 - Sweep Swing w/ Taps
11:43 - Brush Pattern #5 - Up Tempo
14:05 - Brush Pattern #5 - Ballad
16:46 - Brush Pattern #7 - Waltz Time (sweeps only)
19:46 - Brush Pattern #8 - Waltz Time (with taps)
21:21 - Brush Pattern #9 - Waltz Time (with 3/4 ride)
23:40 - Brush Pattern #10 - Bossa Nova
25:42 - Brush Pattern #11 - Samba
28:42 - Closing RemarQs
Ed Thigpen on Corcovado - Oscar Peterson Trio ("Swing - anova"), Have you meet miss Jones till he switches to sticks
Kenny Washington on Mean Streets (Tommy Flanagan Trio)
Louis Hayes on Barry Harris live at the Jazz Workshop (Curtain Call)
Lewis Nash on Broadway (Diana Krall)
Vernell Fournier on Live at the Pershing (Ahmad Jamal) (all tracks)
Kenny Clarke on Thelonius Monk's Ellington Record (all tracks)
Kendrick Scott on Gretchen Parlato's Within Me (Not sure if these are brushes or rods)
Mel Lewis - on "Off the cuff" (till minute 1:22) and this one: ruclips.net/video/qanIx2N6SQ8/видео.html
Roy Haynes on "Pannonica" with Chick Corea
Paul Motian with Bill Evans on Gloria's Step and Waltz for Debby
Tootie Heath on Booby Timmons Trio live in Person (Autumn leaves)
Tony Williams start on Oliloqui Valley on Herbie Hancock's Empyrean Isles
Elvin Jones on Coltrane meets Johnny Hartman
ETC ETC
But the baddest of them all is:
Bobby Durham on Triste with Oscar Peterson Trio
Hi it`s me , Bernie from Germany ;-)
This is what I was looking for. A basic brushes tutorial. Thanks a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
these are some great tools! i’ve been struggling to find variety in my brush work, so this video is very helpful for me right now!
Glad this lesson is helpful to you. Have fun Willy!
This is pure GOLD, thanks Q! 👏
Glad you enjoyed it Roberto!
Wooouuw magnífica lección de patrones con escobillas (brushes) muchas gracias, soy José Luis, desde España te sigo hace tiempo, Bravo!!
Nice one mate 👍
Thanks for the visit Markie!
Great video as always, I hope you reach 50K before the end of the year, you deserve it ☺
A GIFT!
Oh, I especially love the Samba groove. It sounds so light and yet driving already without the feet. Great stuff! What I struggle with the most in my brush playing is comping while playing patterns. I don't want to fall into the trap of learning a bunch of patterns and then that's all I can play. It feels like I'm in a cage I can't break out of sometimes. The difficulty for me comes in at adding accents and smooth transitions to other phrases and stickings. And I haven't found a teacher yet that really moves beyond teaching patterns they like and use for different situations. Maybe you can make a video about your approach to that?
I understand your struggle. Maybe have a look at my other brush videos. I think you might find those helpful. Cheers!
LOVE this lesson!!! Superb information on playing 3/4 in 6.🙂
Thanks brother T🚗
Soo great! Thanks a lot!!
You're very welcome!
bless you for doing all these lessons
My pleasure Kevin!
Very useful lesson!..
Glad to hear that!
Thank you Q - very nice and sweepy :D Love these sweeps. My brushplaying is founded in Ed Thigpen's "Sound of Brushes" - but this is gold for me!
I appreciate that as always, my man. And I also wore out that Ed Thigpen video. Great stuff by a master brush player. Stay well, my friend!
Great video!!!
Thanks Seebs! Hope all is well in the City!
Yesss! Thanks for this! LETS GO!!!!!
Let's go brother Gary!!!
I have used a few of these over the years, but I wish I had more opportunities to utilize these types of skills more often. The groups I get to play with now are usually playing louder electric jazz/fusion. I love that stuff too, but would like some more chances to play some traditional jazz as well. Great lesson as always thanks! FP
Thanks for sharing Frankie P. I hope you get more chances to play straight ahead too. Always good to hear from you!
This was great, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Bravo man, unbelievable
Thanks as always Super Mario!
Really nice video lesson! I love playing brushes. I practice clockwise, I think there are some advantages (finger flick, fast feather) but on gigs I find myself playing counter clockwise…seems like I have a better feel counter clockwise…weird.
Thanks for sharing! Glad you liked the video:)
This is gold! Thanks so much! I personally learned to sweep clockwise but I see so many of the greats actually sweep counter clockwise.
Do you have a preference on sweeping in either direction? Thanks in advance
Glad you enjoyed it! I prefer the sound of counter clockwise but do what you prefer and can make sound the best.
I love playing ith brushes! Studied with Alan Dawson from 1980-82, used to do his Ritual with brushes! Question, I am much more comfortable going clockwise in my left hand with my sweep. Does it matter whether you go clockwise or counter clockwise with pattern #1? If so, how come?
That’s awesome you studied with Alan Dawson! For Pattern #1, clockwise or counterclockwise is fine-it’s all about what feels natural. Many prefer counterclockwise for phrasing, but if clockwise works for you, go for it! Keep experimenting!
Im gonna get a new pair of brushes soon. My current pair of heritage brushes are all bent out of shape from years of gigs. I see you’re using a pair of heritage brushes, but what do you think about other types? I tried a pair of Steve Gad brushes (with a kink in all of the wires) and they were pretty cool. It was a long time ago so im gonna see if i can try them out in person again before i make a purchase but i thought id ask you about your thoughts on types of brushes
Edit: the use case is for jazz, btw. Combo playing
For jazz combo playing, I personally like Regal Tip and Vater's basic rubber handle brushes with thin wires, similar to the VF Heritage brush. While thicker ply wires can be great for other styles, I find that thinner wires really swing and have the right feel for jazz. Those Steve Gadd brushes are cool, but if you're looking for that classic jazz sound, I’d stick with the thinner gauge. Cheers!
Do you feel like you can get the same motion/sound with the left hand using matched grip? The feel/ path of the brush is different for me. But I have a harder time doing 4/5 stroke ruffs in trad grip so I usually use matched
I definitely get a different sound and feel with match. Not to mention, it feels awkward for me. But I know it’s possible to get a good sound and feel with match. It’s just a matter of practice. Thanks Davie!
Quincy, I'm 77 and would to know how long I can expect to get resonably fast. Working on timing with a click daily. Thank you.
Much respect to you sir for keeping at it. It’s hard to say how Long it will take for you to get fast without knowing how fast you are now. However try not to focus on speed and instead think about control and good tone.
yes sir, ty.
Hi your Vids are Great !!! Where do you live ?
Glad you like them. I'm in Texas.
@@drumqtips I thought you were teaching in Manitoba Canada ...
How long did take you to play singles and doubles so blazingly fast?
I still can't. lol!
Hi Q !
I am Baba from Nicaragua...
Many jazette drum kits like mine come with a 13' snare drum. Am i wrong or i always see jazzmen playing brushes on a 14'. So my question is ...a13' isn't it a bit too small to play confortably sweep paterns ?
Thank you
My drum and many other jazz drummers snare drum is 14”. But you can play jazz brushes on a 13” for sure.
Yeeeehaaaa 🔥❤️🥁
Thanks!
Why did you say it's free pdf??? In your site,nothing is free!!! ...(?=!)...
It IS free. You should be able to download the PDF for free. Let me know if it didn’t work.
@drumqtips no,sorry,I try several times,I can't!!! That's why I sent this comment... Greetings from Greece... but,I like your video lesson...
@@icefire282 You have to enter an amount of 0, and then you should be able to download it.
Grande maestro bellissimo amo il Jazz ….grazie.💪😉
My pleasure!