That dragging the pocket thing was the first thing I loved when i heard Voodoo. I've thought for years that they simply knocked it back a few milliseconds with protools or some type of wave editor. To find out all these years later that Quest actually played it that way.....truly genius !!!!!!!!
Honestly, I think music for the last 20-odd years has been doing itself a huge disservice with the Pro-Tools and the click tracks. I get it - they make things so much easier. I've had to overdub on top of a non-clicktracked song, and it was hard - but not impossible - to adjust to the slight variations in tempo. But you can spend endless, endless hours just fixing the kick drum or whatever on Pro-Tools. And is the track the better for it? Isn't the humanity, the magic, lost? Voodoo pointed in another direction. You just have to bring in musicians the calibre of Pino P. and Questlove, and they'll make it work.
D'Angelo impact on rhythm is one most important in human History, such as Bach for scales temperation. I hope we will remember him as one of the greatest musician !
I love that "Voodoo" album, I still play it like it just came out. It's hard to drag a beat in any DAW, live drums are life. That's what they do in JAZZ.... it ain't new.
@@heckler73 could you clarify? without knowing you, your comment could be taken as a critique of mainsteam producers, or as a knock on the laid back, drunk feel of some of the artists in this video
@@heckler73 its called pushing the envelope, when you make something unconventional work, you are the innovator/genius now, not someone "that got away with it"
'96-'99 he tried to lose his timing...HAHAHA!!!!! Just how he comes across: the coolest guy on the planet!! Doesnt get upset and has a clearest pair of brains you could ever wish for!
Axel Baumgarten the actual voodoo album was recorded in 1998 and 1999 At the end of 1996 and in 1997 D'Angelo would just collaborate with other artists and do covers
ive watched this video a while ago and was pretty inspired, but im rewatching it now and i sense great anger in questlove reminiscing on this time lmao. count the sighs
"How did you make this sound so messed up?" Hillarious! I swear, this idea was started on a night high on grass - D'Angelo is well known for smoking one or the other. And this sense for draging fits just like a glove into the world of "highers".
At the last track of the album voodoo, at the end of the song Africa the whole album rewinds back to the beginning just like Kendrick Lamar's Damn album's last track Duckworth ❤🌹
Had the pleasure of opening for The Roots back in 96 in RVA! Questlove is cooler than a fan and made sure that I met DAngelo! At The Floor Zone! Mad Skillz was Black Thought hype man! Epic show! Nat Smith was there in the wings too!
The colorful sculpture of the Red Bull is made by Laser Cutting Shapes. 350 layers of paper were used to make this unbelievably complicated paper sculpture.
“Music is a Republic, the kinda free form that dictates, da blues lay down the law, while jazz disobeyed it ,while rocking roll tried to muscle in,the almighty funk jus played, it so go on D’Angelo say it ! “ that’s my contribution. So said Capt rugged
Interesting. From other interviews about this album, I've heard the drum performances were mostly even dragged out of time/back in Protools to create that feel, rather than performed that way.
If you're even a cursory fan of listening to music, you owe it to yourself to dive into D'Angelo's discography. He came out the gates swinging, 'Brown Sugar' is one of the strongest, most self-assured debut albums of all time, 'Voodoo' is a masterpiece in every conceivable way, and 'Black Messiah' accomplishes the impossible- nearly a decade and a half long hiatus and he still outputs a latter-year masterpiece, evolving the sound but still maintaining the essence of what makes him the genius that he is. You could confidently argue that he's 3 for 3, 3 masterpiece albums in their own right, with 'Voodoo' quite literally changing the trajectory of where one genre of music was heading.
D Quest and Dilla certainly did the work to push the glitch beat into that genre, but cats have been doing that shit for forever. I’m thinking primarily about New Orleans cats like Zig and James Booker, but even back from that, Fats Waller, Dexter Gordon, whoever. Working the time of a beat is part of the bizness
Looks like a Ludwig Supraphonic to me. 14" x 5" Chrome over aluminum, ten lugs, triple flange rims. Many drummers used this snare drum on TONS of records. Steve Gadd (Paul Simon, Steely Dan-everyone), Joe Morello (Brubeck-'"take 5", John Densmore (Doors), Mitch Mitchell (Hendrix), Hal Blaine (Studio Legend), Earl Palmer (Studio legend), Motown drummers Benny Benjamin, Uriel Jones and Richard 'pistol' Allen. Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown). John Bonham (Zeppelin) played the same drum in the 6 1/2 depth.
So what exactly is going on...is the snare pushed and the kick drug out? I know thats a gross oversimplification of this whole feel but is that funamentally what the rest is built on?
Come on now quest. Brothers been dragging the beat since lead belly. D would infuse the drag from the beat, right through his harmonic percussive insertions and exits (each layered vocal) with such nuance that made the best make sense. Also dragged the horns. This made the best drag sound perfectly positioned. Also keys. Which is actually a percussion instrument. You talk yourself up a bit my dude. You dope as hell but you didn’t make this up.
GRACE? Lol, you can have 'swag', but black people are the furthest thing from graceful. You're constantly claiming your God's gift to humanity, grace implies an understated humbleness, not going around in gold chains talking about how great you are. Enough of this WE WUZ KANGZ shit, get over yourself.
Cartoonist Jim Morton Speaking of lacking grace, your comment was borderline racist, my friend. I don't know how many black people you interact with but not every black person looks or acts like Migos or Flavor Flav. There is indeed a grace to how a strong black man or woman carries themself. You can have pride and grace at the same time. Just look at Aretha Franklin, or Nat King Cole, etc.
Dilla feel is cool and all, but performing it live means you have to pretty much wing it, because there's no logic behind it that's accessible to humans, definitely not for this guy at least. Every time he "demonstrated" the dilla feel he didn't play a single identical bar. The notes were all displaced by different amounts. If you can record one using a DAW and then loop it, then you'll get the real Dilla feel, but this live shit is quite unbearable imo, just a guy winging it. Doesn't sound very good unless you edit the shit out of it so that all the notes are displaced by the same fraction.
Watch the full lecture for a deep dive on drumming, Dilla and D’Angelo.
► ruclips.net/video/yCxVzCe2N1Y/видео.html
What an incredible time in music.
95-2000 was a crazy time in music . To be a fly on the wall during some of these sessions. Classics
You can hear from his drumming immediately the signature groove of D'Angelo tracks on the Voodoo...I LOVE IT!
I know I noticed that too! I knew there was something interesting about the rhythms on that album. Glad to see it explained here.
All from J dilla!! If u watch this interview 5 min before this he talks about how hearing dilla flipped his whole style.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE ALBUMS THAT CAME OUT IN NEO SOUL AND HIP HOP DURING THE TIME PERIOD HE DISCUSSES
Yesssss
Soulquarians......
man especially those months in Electric Lady with D'angelo, badu, common.. jeeze..
ruclips.net/video/E3UkN62x98k/видео.html
@@TLOFL That's cool but definitely need a full length doc with behind the scenes footage and interviews.
That dragging the pocket thing was the first thing I loved when i heard Voodoo. I've thought for years that they simply knocked it back a few milliseconds with protools or some type of wave editor. To find out all these years later that Quest actually played it that way.....truly genius !!!!!!!!
TheScunion russel elevado, the recording and mixing engeneer don't even use pro tools... everything is pure analog vibes and great musical talent.
TheScunion russel elevado, the recording and mixing engeneer don't even use pro tools... everything is pure analog vibes and great musical talent.
Honestly, I think music for the last 20-odd years has been doing itself a huge disservice with the Pro-Tools and the click tracks. I get it - they make things so much easier. I've had to overdub on top of a non-clicktracked song, and it was hard - but not impossible - to adjust to the slight variations in tempo. But you can spend endless, endless hours just fixing the kick drum or whatever on Pro-Tools. And is the track the better for it? Isn't the humanity, the magic, lost? Voodoo pointed in another direction. You just have to bring in musicians the calibre of Pino P. and Questlove, and they'll make it work.
I always wondered was that on purpose of were they fucked up while recording. Either way, beautiful music to my ears.
Andrew James well said sir, musicianship needs to look back to the old days
Questlove is the walking living Smithsonian of music culture. ✊🏾
my favorite record ever. 18 yrs on and I still play it at least 3x a week. It's like vitamins for my ears.
Coming from a family of drummers this video clearly shows. Why Quest is the most experienced drummer in the world and by far the best!
Voodoo is one of my favourite albums of all time!
Mine too!!! Real art!! No gimmicks!!
`Listen 2it alot ! :D
I agree,it's one of my favorite albums too
Fuckin eh.
Ole-Mo, You surprised me , frankly
EVERY drummer needs to watch this. Very courageous work, pushing the boundaries.
D'Angelo impact on rhythm is one most important in human History, such as Bach for scales temperation. I hope we will remember him as one of the greatest musician !
Dilla was the one that inspired D'Angelo
D'Angelo is awesome! But talking of impact on rhythm, I think that James Brown is the God... I mean, he is "the harder working man in show-business"!
@@BossDrSample it literally says in the video that’s not the case
@@BossDrSample they both sort of had the idea, dilla just refined it super hard
Voodoo is top 10 albums of all time and D'Angelo is a top 5 artist.
@Joseph quality not quantity
@Joseph In 3 Decades. Crazy🙏🏾😩🔥
Gotta say "Voodoo" is one of my all time favorite albums ever. Definitely top 5 of all time!!!!!
Just amazing how Dilla till this days inspire so many..... heaven's gift fosho
This guy is a Legend! This shows how D was just light years ahead! Feel the music not follow status quo!
Is it just me, or are the Roots this generation's funk brothers. They are so amazing.
Just blew my mind dude holy fuck yes
No it’s not you I agree
This is such a great story, Quest and D'Angelo are true artists
Dude, the Roots influence on american music period can not be understated.
After Voodoo, all R&B/Soul/Gospel drummers started playing behind the beat. It was both a good and bad thing.
Any notable songs?
I love that "Voodoo" album, I still play it like it just came out.
It's hard to drag a beat in any DAW, live drums are life. That's what they do in JAZZ.... it ain't new.
Spanish Joint has possibly the best groove ever.
Ethan Flynn Agreed.
Ethan Flynn Hell yea! love that jam
+Ethan Flynn I Agree also!!!
+Ethan Flynn word bro
+Ethan Flynn Word
The lesson is: just because you can quantize doesn't mean you should.
There's another lesson: Some people have shitty natural rhythm...and they got away with it.
@@heckler73 ??????
@@bv6377 Come back in another year, and it might make sense. 🧐😉
@@heckler73 could you clarify? without knowing you, your comment could be taken as a critique of mainsteam producers, or as a knock on the laid back, drunk feel of some of the artists in this video
@@heckler73 its called pushing the envelope, when you make something unconventional work, you are the innovator/genius now, not someone "that got away with it"
Dennis Chambers talks about this when touring with George Clinton. George told him to play the 2&4 behind the pocket "thats where the funk is."
Use the force
'96-'99 he tried to lose his timing...HAHAHA!!!!!
Just how he comes across: the coolest guy on the planet!! Doesnt get upset and has a clearest pair of brains you could ever wish for!
Axel Baumgarten the actual voodoo album was recorded in 1998 and 1999
At the end of 1996 and in 1997 D'Angelo would just collaborate with other artists and do covers
ive watched this video a while ago and was pretty inspired, but im rewatching it now and i sense great anger in questlove reminiscing on this time lmao. count the sighs
Devil’s pie 🥧 sooooo good. It’s got the dilla rub with the drums in best way possible. Love playing that song on drums.
Dj Premier & D'angelo produced Devil's Pie
"How did you make this sound so messed up?" Hillarious!
I swear, this idea was started on a night high on grass - D'Angelo is well known for smoking one or the other. And this sense for draging fits just like a glove into the world of "highers".
This album was cut to tape, and the take was the take. So beautiful.
We knew them before they were famous amir the drummer now they’re really famous good for them very happy for them
Hey guys, Questlove's in the house?
You're nowhere...
+Phil Lucio im everywhere...
im really fuckin fat
Oh haiii
Questlove...you're not in the house......
Someone Something wwwwoooosssshhhh
At the last track of the album voodoo, at the end of the song Africa the whole album rewinds back to the beginning just like Kendrick Lamar's Damn album's last track Duckworth ❤🌹
Quest. My G.
#musicianswilllaughatme
D'Angelo was so amazing he didn't make sense 😂😂😂
is
It wasn't that he didn't make sense, it was that he was that far ahead of the curve than his contemporaries.
Creativity
That's genius for ya.
Totally understand why Femi is a fan of this drummer man, amazing lesson.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
Quest Love..
The Style InFormant...
Best Friend To The Appropriator..
Questlove ......i love yo man .....big fan ...drummer of 25 years ...from
Saskatoon
Toontown has some easy hoes. Used to roll into town and get laid within an hour. Hidden gem.
Had the pleasure of opening for The Roots back in 96 in RVA! Questlove is cooler than a fan and made sure that I met DAngelo! At The Floor Zone! Mad Skillz was Black Thought hype man! Epic show! Nat Smith was there in the wings too!
Voodoo is one of the greatest soul r&b albums of all times. It’s a masterpiece
A golden era of soul music
The life of a musician seems so exciting
Perfect @4:46
The voodoo album is one of my favorite 👏🏽💯💯
Love me some Questlove
The colorful sculpture of the Red Bull is made by Laser Cutting Shapes. 350 layers of paper were used to make this unbelievably complicated paper sculpture.
I noticed that the beats were dragging behind. It all just seemed to kinda work in a weird way
the holes in the redbull logo is making my Trypophobia act up
wow! amazing drummer!
When he touched those drums first time I heard chicken grease. Legendary
“Music is a Republic, the kinda free form that dictates, da blues lay down the law, while jazz disobeyed it ,while rocking roll tried to muscle in,the almighty funk jus played, it so go on D’Angelo say it ! “ that’s my contribution. So said Capt rugged
Had no idea he was on the jawn makes sense now
So dope
MasterClass....
Voodoo! A great album!
D'angelo and JB reinvented the off beat track and funk/soul was never the same.
Interesting. From other interviews about this album, I've heard the drum performances were mostly even dragged out of time/back in Protools to create that feel, rather than performed that way.
Questlove is Genius
I would love to just hear Quest love talk longer the better..he'd be perfect for a podcast....even just a couple episodes
I believe he has one.
He has a podcast where he talks to musicians about music in depth. (also some actors, comedians, etc). Called “Questlove Supreme”. In. Depth.
If you're even a cursory fan of listening to music, you owe it to yourself to dive into D'Angelo's discography. He came out the gates swinging, 'Brown Sugar' is one of the strongest, most self-assured debut albums of all time, 'Voodoo' is a masterpiece in every conceivable way, and 'Black Messiah' accomplishes the impossible- nearly a decade and a half long hiatus and he still outputs a latter-year masterpiece, evolving the sound but still maintaining the essence of what makes him the genius that he is. You could confidently argue that he's 3 for 3, 3 masterpiece albums in their own right, with 'Voodoo' quite literally changing the trajectory of where one genre of music was heading.
Awesomazing!
That red bull sign is giving me trypophobia
I hear that man
Same my man same
same here man. and never google "trypophobia"
@@davidrajkumar4896 scared the shit out of me
That shit isn’t that bad. It reminded me of soda fizz more than anything.
i love the set up for the shoot
D'angelo was already a fantastic "artist" but now he's a musician.
The fuck you saying bro lol
He was a musician first Lmao
Informative
noooo. He did dat shit!!!! big ups to D
what is adam neely doing in the lower left corner of the video ?
dude in the back @ 3:12 looks so bored. Pay respect to the talented ones.
+LexyAAA maybe he was so overwhelmed by the talented ones that he couldn't move and was just in shock and couldn't breathe. and such
D Quest and Dilla certainly did the work to push the glitch beat into that genre, but cats have been doing that shit for forever. I’m thinking primarily about New Orleans cats like Zig and James Booker, but even back from that, Fats Waller, Dexter Gordon, whoever. Working the time of a beat is part of the bizness
Where can i hear more from this interview?
Diego Saresu red bull music academy channel has the full interview ❤
4:47 J Dilla- Body Movin
Anyone knows what's the snare on this video?
Looks like a Ludwig Supraphonic to me. 14" x 5" Chrome over aluminum, ten lugs, triple flange rims. Many drummers used this snare drum on TONS of records. Steve Gadd (Paul Simon, Steely Dan-everyone), Joe Morello (Brubeck-'"take 5", John Densmore (Doors), Mitch Mitchell (Hendrix), Hal Blaine (Studio Legend), Earl Palmer (Studio legend), Motown drummers Benny Benjamin, Uriel Jones and Richard 'pistol' Allen. Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown). John Bonham (Zeppelin) played the same drum in the 6 1/2 depth.
ruffdrag Thanks amigo
Looks like a Fisher Price mini-snare set to me. But could be a Ludwig thing I guess 😒
So what exactly is going on...is the snare pushed and the kick drug out? I know thats a gross oversimplification of this whole feel but is that funamentally what the rest is built on?
Is he playing his signature set on this?
“Use the force man”
Lol
Majical!
Why did they call the album voodoo?
4:29 !!!
This was 9 years ago and Hamden
That's a Chris Daddy Dave concept feel and tempo manipulation
2:48
Bob Power you there? (Yeah)
the holes on the logos just makes me cringe
Come on now quest. Brothers been dragging the beat since lead belly. D would infuse the drag from the beat, right through his harmonic percussive insertions and exits (each layered vocal) with such nuance that made the best make sense. Also dragged the horns. This made the best drag sound perfectly positioned. Also keys. Which is actually a percussion instrument. You talk yourself up a bit my dude. You dope as hell but you didn’t make this up.
why does questlove say 'its not like d'angelo knew dilla' when dilla produced a bunch for d'angelo... lol
He means BEFORE they met...
Quest voice sounds like Dave Grohl's.
That shit came from Battle Cat...
arguably
Brad Rheinberger
look at all the black man fans below you would think of all this imitation & flattery black men would be more loved and respected
ABSOLUTELY
GRACE? Lol, you can have 'swag', but black people are the furthest thing from graceful. You're constantly claiming your God's gift to humanity, grace implies an understated humbleness, not going around in gold chains talking about how great you are. Enough of this WE WUZ KANGZ shit, get over yourself.
Cartoonist Jim Morton Speaking of lacking grace, your comment was borderline racist, my friend. I don't know how many black people you interact with but not every black person looks or acts like Migos or Flavor Flav. There is indeed a grace to how a strong black man or woman carries themself. You can have pride and grace at the same time. Just look at Aretha Franklin, or Nat King Cole, etc.
Chicken grease anyone?
Why isn't Jagermaester also not making a bid to take over the world?
♒♒♒
Fist!👊
Adam Neely anyone?
BASS
Dilla feel is cool and all, but performing it live means you have to pretty much wing it, because there's no logic behind it that's accessible to humans, definitely not for this guy at least. Every time he "demonstrated" the dilla feel he didn't play a single identical bar. The notes were all displaced by different amounts. If you can record one using a DAW and then loop it, then you'll get the real Dilla feel, but this live shit is quite unbearable imo, just a guy winging it. Doesn't sound very good unless you edit the shit out of it so that all the notes are displaced by the same fraction.
He sounds like my young niece picking up the drumsticks for the first time. Am I missing something here?
How do you never see Star Wars
Questlove was my man until he said he'd never seen Star Wars. I lost him in the force......
I hate that Red Bull cheese thing in the background