►► Learn all the basics of Finger Drumming for FREE on → questforgroove.com ♡ Time Links ☆ 1:06 - Setup: The samples/sounds you need 1:52 - Setup: Pad layout 3:43 - Playing Instructions 7:35 - Two final tips 8:31 - End of the video party-jazz-jam
Thank you! I do my best. At the moment I dont release that many videos (because I'm focusing on the website courses as well) but I focus on making the ones I release as compact and as useful as possible!
Man this is amazing. Never thought such things could be played on a midi keyboard. I just ordered a controller today and signed up to your beginner course. Fijn weekend!
Your always making impressive and intelligent videos. Ive learned a lot from your content I really appreciate it. Keep up the greatness. And that jazz beat!!!!
Thanks! At the moment I'm focusing mainly on building some kickass educational material for my website questforgroove.com , but when that's done, its RUclips growth all the way!
Time links that help me practice each stage of this (brilliant!) tutorial, I use them to "loop" the parts for playing along: 3:52 4:08 4:23 4:49 5:31 6:30 6:40
Awesome! Full disclosure: I did play some jazz guitar for a few years a decade ago so I do have some of it in the back of my head. No drums though! :-)
I've been looking for a good method to make "real" drum patterns because I always use software step-sequencers and for my latest projects I want more "alive and real" drums. This video blew my mind! I think I'll give fingerdrumming a try, right now I don't want to spend money on a 16 pad so I'll try to do it on my keyboard MIDI controller (I'll use your exact same preset) to test how it sounds. Your channel is a gem, thanks a lot for what you're doing!
Hey thanks! I hope this will serve you well and if you ever want to go and buy a controller, right now a machine micro mk3 is a very good value for money device with some great pads!
Right! I think this way you can sort of get the basic jazz idiom in your music productions. If you want to take it next level and actually "jazz" my guess is just take lessons from a jazz drummer :-)
What a great than still simple explanation about jazz/swing rhythm! That's cool! And love the "waiting for the snobby comment" ahahah.. That's what usually happens with those "real" drummers.
Thanks! I tried making a 'course' that would take things a step further and somehow could not really improve on this video. This gives you almost immediate results with a relatively small amount of effort and all you can do from here is put in a lot of work, learning very complex hand independence things and then you will still lack the real dynamic range of a drum kit, so you basically end up sounding the same as when following the instructions of this video. It's just 15x more work :-)
I know the feeling. When you watch the result of 4 years of systematic, well thought out practice (plus 15 years of experience playing guitar and being a producer), what you see might be enjoyable but it might also seem like an unachievable thing for you. The truth is: it is not something you can not achieve. Another truth is: keeping up with systematic practice over the course of multiple years is hard. You could say it's as hard as staying in shape, not eating bad food, not going to bed too late all the time. All of those things are hard, but if you manage to get your shit together for a while you'll reap the rewards. One of my missions is to provide everyone who wants to give it a shot with the tools to do so. And obviously, if you just want to enjoy watching the vids or fun, that's fine as well! :-)
I don't really know... To get realistic sounding drums you will for sure need something like Addictive Drums Jazz Brushes kit. Everything else will not sound this way, which might be fine, but if you want something that resembles real jazz drums you need the software and use the pad controller in midi mode.
Are you a drummer man? Coz i am,, and that is a really great natural sounding groove you were playing there Very impressive,, seei g your playing pads and not a kit but srill.pulling off Took me by surprise i must say👍👍
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. I cannot play real drums, but I've been a musician (guitar player) for 15 years and been producing for like 8 years. That's basically when I got into the frustrating process of making things groove on recordings :-) so I've been obsessing over 'feel' for a long time even though I've never played real drums :-)
@@TheQuestforGroove yeah could tell.your a muso!! Its a tough job making samples sound like the real thing!! I never thought of approaching pads and samples in this way. Gives them a gind of natural life of THEIR own. As a drummer its so hard even behind an electronic kit to make a roll sound like a roll nad not a machine gun going off. So i will give credit where its due ,, well done👍
Yeah I would like to! I should contact them soon to ask. I also did an interview with them which they never published... so I'm also curious about that :-)
@@TheQuestforGroove im gonna send them email aswell asking for more. Your breakbeat series should be on there. When i see your name on there I thought sweet. But only one lesson.
Yeah technically I should get paid as well which has not yet happened, so I'm gonna go and figure some stuff out before I commit do doing more. But theres a big chance I will!
Yeah you can come close. I prefer 4x4 layouts but you can make it work. I made a song with the launchkey mini mk3 and did a video about it on this channel actually. With drums!
Hey Robert! Great video! Just bought the Maschine mk3 Mikro, and I would love to use this setup inside a DAW like Ableton, I guess in this video you are using the Addictive drums inside the maschine software... is it possible to use Maschine inside a DAW and use addictive drums inside maschine? how would u go about it? Thanks!
theres nothing in the native instruments add on packs or library that could substitute for using addicitve drums. could the brushes be sampled into maschine as a preset from addictive drums, so you can skip the middleman after the conversion
Yes I suppose you could do that. My guess is for it to sound authentic you'll still need something like addictive drums (or native instruments abbey road, closer to home) because those virtual drumkits have these algorithms that trigger different samples for different velocity layers and on top of that also trigger different samples randomly (round robin) for the same velocity layer so that no two hits sound exactly the same. Those tricks are all essential for making the drums sound real.
is there anyway to get jazz brushes in my mk3 without going all out and purchasing "the ultimate drum production studio. It runs standalone or as a plug-in in your music production software"
@@josepheno2807 try some other free ones there are some ok, but as TQG said make sure they have the "round robin" and multi sampled hits if you want the "humanization". The way to do it without any extra software is to manually program each of your pads (using any software sampler you have already) with slightly different samples of brushes (or assign the same sample to multiple pads with different effects on each pad or lower volume etc.) - this will be long but can result in the similar result (but you are limited to only what you pre programmed). Round robin is not possible to do "manually" but you can program it somehow if you are advanced in computers. You can, of course, build your own drum kits as you want them but it will need learning about midi control and velocity variations etc. - its the same choice as buying a VI violin or trying to create a Violin track from raw samples of different notes....
I think it's from the other Jazz kit (there is one with brushes and one with sticks). But I also like the ride from a lot of other kits like Black Oyster for example.
@@TheQuestforGroove OK, thanks very much. I was thinking of getting the Jazz sticks set then saw your vid and wondered whether some sticks hits were hidden away in the instrument choices as they often are in AD! I have Black Oyster funnily enough so I'll have a listen and maybe plump for the Brushes instead. Cheers.
You have to map the drums yourself, but with this program (Addictive Drums 2) and the maschine in midi mode you can simply press "midi learn" inside Addictive drums and then hit a pad and then the sound is mapped. So it's not hard to do.
⚠️ Wonderful lesson. I am a jazz keyboardist, and I am considering purchasing a Maschine MK3 in order to build my tracks on the studio, instead of learning how to play real drums. Of course I could play with the keyboard itself, but i think it's uncomfortable, and too much for the poor soft keys. These drum machines are way more strong for years to come. Although you played very nice a fast brush jazz, I'm wondering how could you play a ballad on brushes, because there's that circular movement on the brushes which is difficult to mimic on a pad, isn't it ? What do you think ? Can you demonstrate it ? Well at least the basics of jazz is possible to play on them, and acoustic jazz is one of the most difficult styles to play perfectly ( if it can ) on a drum machine. Thanks. 🙏👍❤️
A ballad seems hard. That slow swipe of brushes... I'm not sure about doing that with samples. Another thing I found over time with jazz and finger drumming is that it mostly works well for straightforward swing grooves. As soon as you need very subtle dynamics and stuff (which is a big part of jazz drumming as well) you get into trouble because of the limited dynamic range you have with pads. Pads are soft, medium, loud and that's sorta it. And for jazz that sometimes leads to non ideal outcomes. But for this type of swing it's completely fine to use pads!
Hey man how’s it going! I’ve just started getting into drum pads I’ve been thinking of getting a drum software. Any difference between addictive drums and say ez drummer? Thanks!
Yeah for sure. Maschine mikro mk3 is best value for money and the big maschine mk3 has the best pad sensitivity! YOu always need a computer to generate the sounds though, the devices themselves have no sound inside.
Thanks but I'm confused To buy mikro or mk3, becoz I am trying to buy for this big billion days can any one tell me the best website or any EMI options to buy mk3 🙏🏼🙏🏼
We are not far away from losing all the drum sets in clubs and maybe churches because they prefer quieter and quieter and quieter stage volume. And the drum VSTs are just getting better and better and better.
This is a jazz song from Epidemic sound. A website where you can get licensed music to use in your videos :-) I'm afraid I forgot the title... it might be somewhere on a backup disk but I can't find it right now :-( Maybe Shazam??
IMO the king of keyboard drumming has to be Louis Andre - do check him out, especially his walkthrough video for Spitfire's Abe Laboriel drums VST. Having said that, Rob's QFG videos have inspired me to buy a Maschine Micro Mk3 (after many years of programming drums from a keyboard). It's opened up a whole new approach to drum programming, and I'm loving it! Keep up the amazing work, Rob!
Hi there I had a question for you. I want to connect a pedal to use as the kick drum and use my foot, I'm looking at either the iRig or the Korg padkontrol (white). Is there a way to do this? I'm trying to play metal
Hey Jeff, I tried to do this briefly during my first few months into fingerdrumming because master finger drummer David Haynes used a foot pedal for the opening and closing of the hihat. So I got myself a roland hihat pedals plugged it in the pad kontrol and nothing happened. I researched a bit, figured out that I probably needed some sort of midi translator that translates e-drum module kit pieces to midi and I found this: www.alesis.com/products/view/triggerio The thing is, I never tried it because by that time I ran out of money and decided to learn to play with just my hands. So, I cant really give you definitive advice on this, and I dont know if that Alesis thing works, but I think that's sort of the direction to look in.
@@TheQuestforGroove awesome response thank you. I just think it would feel more natural to set the pads up like how a real drum set is and use a kick pedal for bass. I can actually drum so it makes sense in my mind to set it up and use your foot how it is used on the real thing. In accordance for really fast Kick Drum left finger and foot alternating seems efficient.
Great vid! How do you get the latency short enough for comfortable precize drumming? is it up to a fast audio interface? I've only used US one with a laptop and latency there is still quite significant especially for intense drumming
Yeah a good interface with stable drivers, plugging as much of the devices in directly and not through a USB hub and a fast computer. My latency is inaudible. Its something like 4ms it something. On this page at the bottom is a list of my current gear: questforgroove.com/gear-recommendations/
I can confirm that that's not true. It depends on the plugin. A multiband compressor will introduce at least 20 ms of latency but a live drum plugin will not because low latency is important for it to function so they design it to have low or almost no latency.
This tutorial is amazing! I love your finger drumming. I just have a question, Is the accompany song being played with maschine or in a different device?
Thank you! The song is actually from epidemicsound.com. They have these nice RUclips subscriptions for unlimited use of their music.(they have a huge library) and every song can be downloaded as stems. So that's nice, I could just turn off the original drums and play along.
I have the Maschine Logo "burned in" in the left display...I have read that it is not a real burn-in but pixel memory, and since the MK3 doesn't have a pixel refresher, does anyone how to fix this? I have tried to swap between different windows, first load a song and then in this order Mixer > Browser > Mute, that supposed to work when believing some people, but it's sadly not the case... Please do not tell me to replace the display, because that is very difficult to do, and risky!
Wow, that sucks. How old is your device? I have not had an issue like this, nor have I ever heard anyone speak of it before. In a way, Native Instruments should ofcourse fix this for you, but one thing you can try is maybe reinstall the Maschine drivers on your system (if it's a windows machine). I did have an issue some time ago where the screen stayed black and uninytalling and reinstalling the drivers helped. Another thing might be to run a firmware update... maybe that will do something?
Thanks! I did find over time that another part of jazz playing, which requires a lot of dynamic range, still sounds a bit fake on the pads. At least when I do it. But this full steam ahead type of thing works very well and is not too hard to do!
It surprised me how good you made it sound, ive got the mpc one (probably the wrong choice for me) and struggle to get the dynamic control im looking for, I have better results playing samples using the Nord drum 2 pad and sticks. Would love to play finger style to your standard, great channel, keep up the good work!
@@petenance1292 Make sure you use Drum Software like addictive drums, with multiple velocity layers, round robin samples so no two hits sound the same. A standalone unit like the MPC live cannot do this (well) unfortunately. I would love a standalone box, but so far a laptop with Addictive drums is still my only viable option.
I’ve been a drummer for many years and have recently got into finger drumming (much less anti-social). I’m finding your channel to be an invaluable source of information and inspiration, thank you sir ✌️
Hey it seems you need a proper explanation about this. Jazz can be in any time signature and the main thing that causes confusion is playing "straight" or playing "swing". Traditional jazz usually is played in swing feel, but not always... so unfortunately there's no short answer to this question. Maybe look up the difference between "straight" and "swing" feel. That might help clear things up a bit.
I'm two years late, but: 1. this is an amazing tutorial, 2. your finger drumming is awesome and, 3. it sounds like you already listened to a bit of Charles Mingus hahaha Thank you
Haha, thanks Dilara! I was working on this jazz course for the QFG website and yesterday I had to admit to myself that this video is actually better than the whole course i was planning on making :-) Sometimes more is not always better. Have fun playing!
I don't think you can learn a sense of rhythm. Either you have it or not. These "step by step"channels are kind of stupid. It's not just a sense of rhythm. Even if you learned something from this guy, you haven't learn anything about the rythm.
Why do you think it is that way? Did you try and learn it yourself and it didn't work out or something? If you're saying that not everybody can become the most legendary drummer that ever lived, sure... I think its fair to say that that's true, but learning and improving your playing and your sense of time? I guarantee you that is possible. I've done it and helped others to do it as well. Many times. I think that many people don't realize it takes years rather than months or weeks to see some truly amazing growth. That's not the same as impossible. Hope you'll agree with me someday, doesn't have to be now.
@@TheQuestforGroove "Learning music" sounds like keeping track on someone steps. Press this or that and make it fast for RUclips audience. It is a technique that does not make a song. Far from it. I wish you make videos about stimulating creativity rather then just mastering finger balance. Although your testing videos are very helpful.
I don't think I'll abandon the youtube lessons, but I'll keep your point about stimulating creativity in mind. I have some ideas about videos in that 'sphere'.
@@TheQuestforGroove I don't think you should abandon youtube lessons. Far from it. Your lessons are precious. But there are too many technical tutorials on RUclips and no too much stimulating videos. I appreciate people's skills but in music I want to hear something nice instead of just amazing drumming fingers. Music.
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♡ Time Links ☆
1:06 - Setup: The samples/sounds you need
1:52 - Setup: Pad layout
3:43 - Playing Instructions
7:35 - Two final tips
8:31 - End of the video party-jazz-jam
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I’m a bit late to the party, but I’ve been loving the quality of your content and how easy you make it to find the relevant information!
Thank you! I do my best. At the moment I dont release that many videos (because I'm focusing on the website courses as well) but I focus on making the ones I release as compact and as useful as possible!
I had some doubts about jazz drums sounding decent when played on a controller, but you made them sound awesome.
Thnx, yeah you cannot make this work with just any kit. You need to be deliberate in the sounds you choose but then it'll work :-)
Man this is amazing. Never thought such things could be played on a midi keyboard. I just ordered a controller today and signed up to your beginner course. Fijn weekend!
Thanks man
You not only teach us finger drumming, but you crack the jazz drumming for us in a so clear way. Priceless.
That's actually pretty insane. Great job man!
this is one of the best fingerdrumming youtube to date!
Thank you! I'm working hard to make my website questforgroove.com a place where everyone can learn this!
@@TheQuestforGroove thats awesome brotha.
Your always making impressive and intelligent videos. Ive learned a lot from your content I really appreciate it. Keep up the greatness. And that jazz beat!!!!
Thank you, that means a lot! I'll keep em coming!
This is an AMAZING tutorial
I love this!!!!! I also have a melodica like that hehe
I love your channel. I hope you grow fast and big. U deserve it
Thanks! At the moment I'm focusing mainly on building some kickass educational material for my website questforgroove.com , but when that's done, its RUclips growth all the way!
your groove is insane wow
Time links that help me practice each stage of this (brilliant!) tutorial, I use them to "loop" the parts for playing along:
3:52
4:08
4:23
4:49
5:31
6:30
6:40
Thank you so much for these. RUclips marked this as spam somehow. I finally noticed it and unblocked the message. Thanks again!
Well imho you play pretty nice for a "non Jazzer". I play lots of Bebop and I liked it.
Awesome! Full disclosure: I did play some jazz guitar for a few years a decade ago so I do have some of it in the back of my head. No drums though! :-)
I've been looking for a good method to make "real" drum patterns because I always use software step-sequencers and for my latest projects I want more "alive and real" drums. This video blew my mind! I think I'll give fingerdrumming a try, right now I don't want to spend money on a 16 pad so I'll try to do it on my keyboard MIDI controller (I'll use your exact same preset) to test how it sounds.
Your channel is a gem, thanks a lot for what you're doing!
Hey thanks! I hope this will serve you well and if you ever want to go and buy a controller, right now a machine micro mk3 is a very good value for money device with some great pads!
Really great demo . Thanks
Pure talent. I cannot wait to get an MK3 and jam along!
Yeah! You can learn this too for sure!
Listen jazz is so complex that for the novice what you taught is all they need to know for this scope good job.keep it up
Right! I think this way you can sort of get the basic jazz idiom in your music productions. If you want to take it next level and actually "jazz" my guess is just take lessons from a jazz drummer :-)
What a great than still simple explanation about jazz/swing rhythm! That's cool!
And love the "waiting for the snobby comment" ahahah.. That's what usually happens with those "real" drummers.
Awesome playing! Thanks for the video!
this video is phenomenal
Thanks! I tried making a 'course' that would take things a step further and somehow could not really improve on this video. This gives you almost immediate results with a relatively small amount of effort and all you can do from here is put in a lot of work, learning very complex hand independence things and then you will still lack the real dynamic range of a drum kit, so you basically end up sounding the same as when following the instructions of this video. It's just 15x more work :-)
I love your videos! Thank you so much for what you are doing
Hey I love making this content for y'all and it's very nice to read things like this!
I don’t think I can ever play like you do but I’m happy enough just watching you hit the pads haha
I know the feeling. When you watch the result of 4 years of systematic, well thought out practice (plus 15 years of experience playing guitar and being a producer), what you see might be enjoyable but it might also seem like an unachievable thing for you.
The truth is: it is not something you can not achieve. Another truth is: keeping up with systematic practice over the course of multiple years is hard. You could say it's as hard as staying in shape, not eating bad food, not going to bed too late all the time. All of those things are hard, but if you manage to get your shit together for a while you'll reap the rewards.
One of my missions is to provide everyone who wants to give it a shot with the tools to do so.
And obviously, if you just want to enjoy watching the vids or fun, that's fine as well! :-)
Great video!
Thanks man!
Great! Good job..I really like these rimshots.
You're simply amazing and so talented. This sounds exactly as having a Jazz drummer live
Thank you!
Awesome video...I LIKE!!!
Great lesson!!!! Thanks!!!!
good drum
Nice to following
Thanks for sharing! Do you think that this could also be made in Song mode in Maschine or any other approach (not live)? New to this field ...
I don't really know... To get realistic sounding drums you will for sure need something like Addictive Drums Jazz Brushes kit. Everything else will not sound this way, which might be fine, but if you want something that resembles real jazz drums you need the software and use the pad controller in midi mode.
This is really great. Thanks!
Are you a drummer man?
Coz i am,, and that is a really great natural sounding groove you were playing there
Very impressive,, seei g your playing pads and not a kit but srill.pulling off
Took me by surprise i must say👍👍
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. I cannot play real drums, but I've been a musician (guitar player) for 15 years and been producing for like 8 years. That's basically when I got into the frustrating process of making things groove on recordings :-) so I've been obsessing over 'feel' for a long time even though I've never played real drums :-)
@@TheQuestforGroove yeah could tell.your a muso!!
Its a tough job making samples sound like the real thing!!
I never thought of approaching pads and samples in this way.
Gives them a gind of natural life of THEIR own.
As a drummer its so hard even behind an electronic kit to make a roll sound like a roll nad not a machine gun going off.
So i will give credit where its due ,, well done👍
@@darranhanlon8709 thanks! Appreciate that a lot, made my day! :-)
this is so cool!!!!
you know when you said "drum pad and jazz" in the same sentence in your sensitivity video .. I was in disbelief :D .. nice
Haha thanks, always nice to surprise someone :-)
@@TheQuestforGroove 👍
Hello Rob mate, I see you had a lesson on Melodics. Are you planning on doing any more of them?
Yeah I would like to! I should contact them soon to ask. I also did an interview with them which they never published... so I'm also curious about that :-)
@@TheQuestforGroove im gonna send them email aswell asking for more. Your breakbeat series should be on there. When i see your name on there I thought sweet. But only one lesson.
Yeah technically I should get paid as well which has not yet happened, so I'm gonna go and figure some stuff out before I commit do doing more. But theres a big chance I will!
great jazz tutorial sir! i was wondering have u ever done a tutorial on trap beat? Thanks!
I haven't yet but it's on my list!
Awesome! Im a fan! Im waiting on it. (^^)
Thanks for the video!
Do you think it's possible to play this on a launchkey mini MK3 or something similar?
Yeah you can come close. I prefer 4x4 layouts but you can make it work. I made a song with the launchkey mini mk3 and did a video about it on this channel actually. With drums!
Tu es un génie!
Merci!
just fuc...ng amazing!
Very nice
いいですね〜 nice!
You're the homie!
Hey Robert! Great video! Just bought the Maschine mk3 Mikro, and I would love to use this setup inside a DAW like Ableton, I guess in this video you are using the Addictive drums inside the maschine software... is it possible to use Maschine inside a DAW and use addictive drums inside maschine? how would u go about it? Thanks!
Yes! Made a video about that >> ruclips.net/video/1AQMPAXj9f8/видео.html
theres nothing in the native instruments add on packs or library that could substitute for using addicitve drums.
could the brushes be sampled into maschine as a preset from addictive drums, so you can skip the middleman after the conversion
Yes I suppose you could do that. My guess is for it to sound authentic you'll still need something like addictive drums (or native instruments abbey road, closer to home) because those virtual drumkits have these algorithms that trigger different samples for different velocity layers and on top of that also trigger different samples randomly (round robin) for the same velocity layer so that no two hits sound exactly the same.
Those tricks are all essential for making the drums sound real.
is there anyway to get jazz brushes in my mk3 without going all out and purchasing "the ultimate drum production studio. It runs standalone or as a plug-in in your music production software"
@@josepheno2807 try some other free ones there are some ok, but as TQG said make sure they have the "round robin" and multi sampled hits if you want the "humanization". The way to do it without any extra software is to manually program each of your pads (using any software sampler you have already) with slightly different samples of brushes (or assign the same sample to multiple pads with different effects on each pad or lower volume etc.) - this will be long but can result in the similar result (but you are limited to only what you pre programmed). Round robin is not possible to do "manually" but you can program it somehow if you are advanced in computers. You can, of course, build your own drum kits as you want them but it will need learning about midi control and velocity variations etc. - its the same choice as buying a VI violin or trying to create a Violin track from raw samples of different notes....
Is the ride with stick from a completely different AD set?
I think it's from the other Jazz kit (there is one with brushes and one with sticks). But I also like the ride from a lot of other kits like Black Oyster for example.
@@TheQuestforGroove OK, thanks very much. I was thinking of getting the Jazz sticks set then saw your vid and wondered whether some sticks hits were hidden away in the instrument choices as they often are in AD! I have Black Oyster funnily enough so I'll have a listen and maybe plump for the Brushes instead. Cheers.
Great vid. Did you midi map beforehand or did the drums automatically map to machine?
You have to map the drums yourself, but with this program (Addictive Drums 2) and the maschine in midi mode you can simply press "midi learn" inside Addictive drums and then hit a pad and then the sound is mapped. So it's not hard to do.
⚠️ Wonderful lesson. I am a jazz keyboardist, and I am considering purchasing a Maschine MK3 in order to build my tracks on the studio, instead of learning how to play real drums. Of course I could play with the keyboard itself, but i think it's uncomfortable, and too much for the poor soft keys. These drum machines are way more strong for years to come. Although you played very nice a fast brush jazz, I'm wondering how could you play a ballad on brushes, because there's that circular movement on the brushes which is difficult to mimic on a pad, isn't it ? What do you think ? Can you demonstrate it ? Well at least the basics of jazz is possible to play on them, and acoustic jazz is one of the most difficult styles to play perfectly ( if it can ) on a drum machine. Thanks. 🙏👍❤️
A ballad seems hard. That slow swipe of brushes... I'm not sure about doing that with samples. Another thing I found over time with jazz and finger drumming is that it mostly works well for straightforward swing grooves. As soon as you need very subtle dynamics and stuff (which is a big part of jazz drumming as well) you get into trouble because of the limited dynamic range you have with pads. Pads are soft, medium, loud and that's sorta it. And for jazz that sometimes leads to non ideal outcomes. But for this type of swing it's completely fine to use pads!
Thank you very much!! 😍
You're welcome, I hope it helps you!
The Quest for Groove I have been watching this video over and over again!!
Hey man how’s it going! I’ve just started getting into drum pads I’ve been thinking of getting a drum software. Any difference between addictive drums and say ez drummer? Thanks!
With ez drummer its a little harder to map the sounds. No midi learn!
this is amazing! can you do this on the mikro mk 3?
Yeah, no problem!
@@TheQuestforGroove ohh cool!! i was worried, coz i only have the budget for the mikro mk3. hahahaha
thanks!
Can I still buy it 2021 for live performance in church maschine Mk3
Please some body tell me 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yeah for sure. Maschine mikro mk3 is best value for money and the big maschine mk3 has the best pad sensitivity! YOu always need a computer to generate the sounds though, the devices themselves have no sound inside.
Thanks but I'm confused
To buy mikro or mk3, becoz I am trying to buy for this big billion days can any one tell me the best website or any EMI options to buy mk3 🙏🏼🙏🏼
We are not far away from losing all the drum sets in clubs and maybe churches because they prefer quieter and quieter and quieter stage volume.
And the drum VSTs are just getting better and better and better.
Yeah volume is a huge issue always. I remember so many gigs where it was so loud I felt I was playing underwater.
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which song the introduction? i love this song
This is a jazz song from Epidemic sound. A website where you can get licensed music to use in your videos :-) I'm afraid I forgot the title... it might be somewhere on a backup disk but I can't find it right now :-(
Maybe Shazam??
@@TheQuestforGroove Suits by Chelsea May
Ah right! Nice!
Can this also be done on the Roland MC-101?
You'd have to mess around with the layout a bit but you can probably make this work!
This is so amazing!! Would it work on a midi keyboard by any chance? 😅
It should! I've seen some serious keyboar drummers out there. I personally could not tell you how to do it though,
IMO the king of keyboard drumming has to be Louis Andre - do check him out, especially his walkthrough video for Spitfire's Abe Laboriel drums VST. Having said that, Rob's QFG videos have inspired me to buy a Maschine Micro Mk3 (after many years of programming drums from a keyboard). It's opened up a whole new approach to drum programming, and I'm loving it! Keep up the amazing work, Rob!
Hi there I had a question for you. I want to connect a pedal to use as the kick drum and use my foot, I'm looking at either the iRig or the Korg padkontrol (white). Is there a way to do this? I'm trying to play metal
Hey Jeff, I tried to do this briefly during my first few months into fingerdrumming because master finger drummer David Haynes used a foot pedal for the opening and closing of the hihat.
So I got myself a roland hihat pedals plugged it in the pad kontrol and nothing happened.
I researched a bit, figured out that I probably needed some sort of midi translator that translates e-drum module kit pieces to midi and I found this:
www.alesis.com/products/view/triggerio
The thing is, I never tried it because by that time I ran out of money and decided to learn to play with just my hands.
So, I cant really give you definitive advice on this, and I dont know if that Alesis thing works, but I think that's sort of the direction to look in.
@@TheQuestforGroove awesome response thank you. I just think it would feel more natural to set the pads up like how a real drum set is and use a kick pedal for bass. I can actually drum so it makes sense in my mind to set it up and use your foot how it is used on the real thing. In accordance for really fast Kick Drum left finger and foot alternating seems efficient.
Great vid! How do you get the latency short enough for comfortable precize drumming? is it up to a fast audio interface? I've only used US one with a laptop and latency there is still quite significant especially for intense drumming
Yeah a good interface with stable drivers, plugging as much of the devices in directly and not through a USB hub and a fast computer.
My latency is inaudible. Its something like 4ms it something.
On this page at the bottom is a list of my current gear:
questforgroove.com/gear-recommendations/
@@TheQuestforGroove Thank you for your reply!! *I've heard that vst plug-ins have inherent
I can confirm that that's not true. It depends on the plugin. A multiband compressor will introduce at least 20 ms of latency but a live drum plugin will not because low latency is important for it to function so they design it to have low or almost no latency.
@@TheQuestforGroove Thanks, I 100% agree with that
This tutorial is amazing! I love your finger drumming. I just have a question, Is the accompany song being played with maschine or in a different device?
Thank you! The song is actually from epidemicsound.com.
They have these nice RUclips subscriptions for unlimited use of their music.(they have a huge library) and every song can be downloaded as stems. So that's nice, I could just turn off the original drums and play along.
I have the Maschine Logo "burned in" in the left display...I have read that it is not a real burn-in but pixel memory, and since the MK3 doesn't have a pixel refresher, does anyone how to fix this? I have tried to swap between different windows, first load a song and then in this order Mixer > Browser > Mute, that supposed to work when believing some people, but it's sadly not the case... Please do not tell me to replace the display, because that is very difficult to do, and risky!
Wow, that sucks. How old is your device? I have not had an issue like this, nor have I ever heard anyone speak of it before. In a way, Native Instruments should ofcourse fix this for you, but one thing you can try is maybe reinstall the Maschine drivers on your system (if it's a windows machine). I did have an issue some time ago where the screen stayed black and uninytalling and reinstalling the drivers helped. Another thing might be to run a firmware update... maybe that will do something?
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Thanks! I did find over time that another part of jazz playing, which requires a lot of dynamic range, still sounds a bit fake on the pads. At least when I do it. But this full steam ahead type of thing works very well and is not too hard to do!
It surprised me how good you made it sound, ive got the mpc one (probably the wrong choice for me) and struggle to get the dynamic control im looking for, I have better results playing samples using the Nord drum 2 pad and sticks. Would love to play finger style to your standard, great channel, keep up the good work!
@@petenance1292 Make sure you use Drum Software like addictive drums, with multiple velocity layers, round robin samples so no two hits sound the same. A standalone unit like the MPC live cannot do this (well) unfortunately. I would love a standalone box, but so far a laptop with Addictive drums is still my only viable option.
@@TheQuestforGroove will do, thanks for the advice.
Excellent stuff sir! Consider me subscribed, peace ✌️
Consider me happy to welcome you aboard sir!
I’ve been a drummer for many years and have recently got into finger drumming (much less anti-social). I’m finding your channel to be an invaluable source of information and inspiration, thank you sir ✌️
@@chitlun thank you so much! Enjoy the videos and send me an email if you have questions or suggestions!
What the FCUK!............ impressed, totally!
Thanks :-)
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Hey so this is jazz in 4/4 i thought that jazz is like 6/8 ? I dont know much about counting beats in jazz :/
Hey it seems you need a proper explanation about this. Jazz can be in any time signature and the main thing that causes confusion is playing "straight" or playing "swing". Traditional jazz usually is played in swing feel, but not always... so unfortunately there's no short answer to this question. Maybe look up the difference between "straight" and "swing" feel. That might help clear things up a bit.
@@TheQuestforGroove wow thank you for the response .
These addictive drums 2 are so expensive man. It would be nice, if you've recommended also some cheaper version for people just messing around.
I can recommend Steven Slate Drums free edition!
Those were not around at the time this video was made.
No brushes though...
@@TheQuestforGroove Thanks! I'm going to check them out :)
I'm two years late, but:
1. this is an amazing tutorial,
2. your finger drumming is awesome and,
3. it sounds like you already listened to a bit of Charles Mingus hahaha
Thank you
Haha, thanks Dilara! I was working on this jazz course for the QFG website and yesterday I had to admit to myself that this video is actually better than the whole course i was planning on making :-) Sometimes more is not always better. Have fun playing!
@@TheQuestforGroove :))) can’t wait to see more tutorials! I am definitely getting a Maschine now!
But can you play snake jazz?
haha, no that's only for true masters of the universe.
Woowie
not quite my tempo 👌
Jazz ballad!
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Excellent, you are very talented and, cute.
Are you single.
I don't think you can learn a sense of rhythm. Either you have it or not.
These "step by step"channels are kind of stupid.
It's not just a sense of rhythm. Even if you learned something from this guy, you haven't learn anything about the rythm.
Why do you think it is that way? Did you try and learn it yourself and it didn't work out or something? If you're saying that not everybody can become the most legendary drummer that ever lived, sure... I think its fair to say that that's true, but learning and improving your playing and your sense of time? I guarantee you that is possible. I've done it and helped others to do it as well. Many times. I think that many people don't realize it takes years rather than months or weeks to see some truly amazing growth. That's not the same as impossible. Hope you'll agree with me someday, doesn't have to be now.
@@TheQuestforGroove
"Learning music" sounds like keeping track on someone steps. Press this or that and make it fast for RUclips audience.
It is a technique that does not make a song. Far from it. I wish you make videos about stimulating creativity rather then just mastering finger balance. Although your testing videos are very helpful.
I don't think I'll abandon the youtube lessons, but I'll keep your point about stimulating creativity in mind. I have some ideas about videos in that 'sphere'.
@@TheQuestforGroove
I don't think you should abandon youtube lessons. Far from it. Your lessons are precious. But there are too many technical tutorials on RUclips and no too much stimulating videos. I appreciate people's skills but in music I want to hear something nice instead of just amazing drumming fingers. Music.
Velocities, jazz, swing, bass, drums, guitar...lets rolling. Make it live. No loops. Can you actualy play instruments? I bet you can.