right? Definitely takes me back...don't forget about the old Buddy Rich Memorial Scholarship concert VHS's....right? Vinnie, Peart, Smith, Smitty...his set was amazing. Remember Marvin Smitty Smith?....dang...
What a Master! No words... Thank you very very much for posting this Master Class! What a Blast! This last solo was ..... Hooooolly Molly! He's truly one of the bests! One of my all time favorites! Thank you Mr. Billy! You truly inspired me along the way! Gratitude Master! Cheers from Brazil! ❤️🙏🏾✨
El maestro en la batería estará homenajeado en el PanamáJazzFestival enero 2024. Billy es de nacionalidad panameña, nacido en Panamá, provincia de Colón. Y Danilo Perez con el PJF hace homenaje a unos de los mejores en la batería, Billy Cobhan. Desde mi pequeña y preciosa Panamá.
I'm fascinated by the drum cymbal sounds. Huge drums cranked way up, shallow dry snare sound heavy clang cymbals, tight dry bass drums. It's all a bit of a mess acoustically but Cobham is so freaking un human I watched the whole thing!
Todo lo que estas explicando, me lo trasmitiste, hace muchos años, los 80. No entiendo el ingles, pero se cada cosa que explicas... Has sido y lo sigues siendo... Mi hermano, parece que compartimos los mismo. Gracias !
@@MichaelRansom-z3d CLEARLY!!! I gotta say honestly though that Simon keeps getting better and better so much that it’s just ridiculous. He’s like a Billy copycat with that touch of British Metal thing like he secretly listens to a bit of Iron Maiden! 😂 He’s a master though and all of the greats that we grew up loving just keep getting better and at about 65 or 70 they’ll slow down just a little bit. When Gadd did that final tour with Chick in 2017 or 18 the footage of him in New York is just bonkers. He’s in his 70’s just blazing. And Vinnie, Steve, Dave, Erskine and Bozzio! Can’t forget Omar as well. So many beautiful players.
The Master Drumer Billy Coban advices simple common Sence to body posture to flow his sitting up right straight the spinal cord the back the balance of the body is the center core of bodies energy flow. If any one who practices yoga or Taichi will understand what energy flow & movement means 😅
Retired professional drummer here, 4+ decades into this game, he was a game changer for me in the very early eighties. Hearing his shit from Miles Davis, to Mahavishnu...man oh man. The fact that he played open handed, and had a non-sequential tom set-up, i.e. not highest to lowest which is most common. His cymbal set-up was unique, what he played, how and when he played it, and the whole 'four stick thing'...he seemed to me, at the time, he was an ambidextrous drum playing God! For me there is no 'best' drummer of all time, but imo he was the most 'unique' by far.
Respectfully, too much talking about what's really basic drumming. To my ears, what Billy was going for in his playing and never achieving, was what Virgil Donati has achieved in his playing. Humility works well for playing this inistrument, too as I see in Donati's playing and how he presents himself to the public.
The point most people miss about Billy is his musicality and how he can do what amounts to way over playing yet some how the groove really works and is very musical with the particular song , vital transformation by the Mahavishnu Orchestra would be a good one to check out, you also have to remember broke the mold when he came along , Virgil is outstanding for Shure but he's very much a product of many giants like Cobham who broke ground and came before
@@s1sters118 Your opinion is respected. My opinion, as a professional drummer for 63 years (12 to 75), comes from many years of studiying the drumming greats, including B.C. When he came on the scene, I went for everything he recorded and felt he was "it" on the scene in his time. Since then Donati showed up with his uncanny, indescribable technique and style. I always liked drummer Peter Erskine's remark about Virgil's drumming. He said, "Virgil? Who knows what he's doing !" I believe what makes Virgil's drumming over the top compared to other drummers, is that he is a composer and plays keyboards. That abillity certainly would help with ideas soloing on a drum set. Virgil's physical ability, too is monsterous! His doubles on his bass drum pedals while intricately playing speedy singles on the toms around the set is marvelous ! To my ears, Cobham never had Donati's technical ability, nor style of his own grooves - especially in odd time signatures - in his original compositions in the jazz fusion genre. If you'd like, here is an example of Donati's top drawer soloing abilities: ruclips.net/video/4C0ZxfB__M4/видео.html (watch from the beginning)
@@JeffHogue-em6zx no one is questioning he has a monster technique but now put up a clip of him playing on someone's album rather than a solo , in that settings he doesn't do anything that's vastly different from any of those speed metal guys , there's nothing that makes you go "that's Virgil" like you can hear with a lot of the greats ...,.. someone will always come along with a better technique, you only have to look at some of the new crop of speed metal guys or the young lions from the gospel world but very few of them make an impact on the musical world like a Gadd or Tony Williams or people like BC has
Uses the words me and I a lot. He has huge talent but I feel watching this he lacks the ability or inclination to really disclose anything he's doing. I met him in London around 2018 at one of his shows and openly thanked him for some great musical moments. He looked at me like you would look at a dog turd on your shoe. Oh well.
30 years already.. where'd the time go. this is the only reason i've kept a working vhs
right? Definitely takes me back...don't forget about the old Buddy Rich Memorial Scholarship concert VHS's....right? Vinnie, Peart, Smith, Smitty...his set was amazing. Remember Marvin Smitty Smith?....dang...
Notable.
Maestro.
What a Master! No words... Thank you very very much for posting this Master Class! What a Blast! This last solo was ..... Hooooolly Molly! He's truly one of the bests! One of my all time favorites! Thank you Mr. Billy! You truly inspired me along the way! Gratitude Master! Cheers from Brazil! ❤️🙏🏾✨
The best drum Player for ever
Amen
Thanks so much for posting this video! Billy Cobham has always been such an influence on me!
Wow, the full video--thanks for uploading this masterpiece!
The perfect drummer.
El maestro en la batería estará homenajeado en el PanamáJazzFestival enero 2024. Billy es de nacionalidad panameña, nacido en Panamá, provincia de Colón. Y Danilo Perez con el PJF hace homenaje a unos de los mejores en la batería, Billy Cobhan.
Desde mi pequeña y preciosa Panamá.
Never heard him talk before, you can tell by the way he speaks he contains beautiful multitudes of art and science inside
I can fly and I'm telling you how to do it 😂😂😂😂❤️👍
Maybe the greatest innovator for Drumsetplaying! Always a big pleasure to listen to him!
Best timing to keep it all together
Very knowledgeable
I'm fascinated by the drum cymbal sounds. Huge drums cranked way up, shallow dry snare sound heavy clang cymbals, tight dry bass drums. It's all a bit of a mess acoustically but Cobham is so freaking un human I watched the whole thing!
Todo lo que estas explicando, me lo trasmitiste, hace muchos años, los 80. No entiendo el ingles, pero se cada cosa que explicas...
Has sido y lo sigues siendo... Mi hermano, parece que compartimos los mismo.
Gracias !
Not a great video in terms of practical educational content, but still a valuable (and pretty rare) insight into Billy's thinking.
Agreed
Thank you for uploading this!!!
Ahh, that short period when he was using Mapex.
He's like Simon Phillips, in that both of their kits always sound soooooo good.
Yeah, but Simon got his open hand technique and playing from Billy…. So, Simons like BILLY!!!!
@@williamperri3437 and not just open hand playing, but the playing style in general.
@@MichaelRansom-z3d CLEARLY!!! I gotta say honestly though that Simon keeps getting better and better so much that it’s just ridiculous. He’s like a Billy copycat with that touch of British Metal thing like he secretly listens to a bit of Iron Maiden! 😂 He’s a master though and all of the greats that we grew up loving just keep getting better and at about 65 or 70 they’ll slow down just a little bit. When Gadd did that final tour with Chick in 2017 or 18 the footage of him in New York is just bonkers. He’s in his 70’s just blazing. And Vinnie, Steve, Dave, Erskine and Bozzio! Can’t forget Omar as well. So many beautiful players.
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I had that video on VHS years ago and I'm trying to find that on DVD
What year was this instructional video released?
1991
Thank you Thank you.Ever Grateful 🙏🙏
thats a big boy drum set right there! lol
The Master Drumer Billy Coban advices simple common Sence to body posture to flow his sitting up right straight the spinal cord the back the balance of the body is the center core of bodies energy flow. If any one who practices yoga or Taichi will understand what energy flow & movement means 😅
Thanks for posting this! 😎
Retired professional drummer here, 4+ decades into this game, he was a game changer for me in the very early eighties. Hearing his shit from Miles Davis, to Mahavishnu...man oh man. The fact that he played open handed, and had a non-sequential tom set-up, i.e. not highest to lowest which is most common. His cymbal set-up was unique, what he played, how and when he played it, and the whole 'four stick thing'...he seemed to me, at the time, he was an ambidextrous drum playing God! For me there is no 'best' drummer of all time, but imo he was the most 'unique' by far.
I was eight, when he was touring with this shit.... ruclips.net/video/-TaaCkjoITQ/видео.htmlsi=XowT_DnnN8olGqtO
Muito bom ...espetacular
Respectfully, too much talking about what's really basic drumming. To my ears, what Billy was going for in his playing and never achieving, was what Virgil Donati has achieved in his playing. Humility works well for playing this inistrument, too as I see in Donati's playing and how he presents himself to the public.
The point most people miss about Billy is his musicality and how he can do what amounts to way over playing yet some how the groove really works and is very musical with the particular song , vital transformation by the Mahavishnu Orchestra would be a good one to check out, you also have to remember broke the mold when he came along , Virgil is outstanding for Shure but he's very much a product of many giants like Cobham who broke ground and came before
@@s1sters118 Your opinion is respected. My opinion, as a professional drummer for 63 years (12 to 75), comes from many years of studiying the drumming greats, including B.C. When he came on the scene, I went for everything he recorded and felt he was "it" on the scene in his time. Since then Donati showed up with his uncanny, indescribable technique and style. I always liked drummer Peter Erskine's remark about Virgil's drumming. He said, "Virgil? Who knows what he's doing !" I believe what makes Virgil's drumming over the top compared to other drummers, is that he is a composer and plays keyboards. That abillity certainly would help with ideas soloing on a drum set. Virgil's physical ability, too is monsterous! His doubles on his bass drum pedals while intricately playing speedy singles on the toms around the set is marvelous ! To my ears, Cobham never had Donati's technical ability, nor style of his own grooves - especially in odd time signatures - in his original compositions in the jazz fusion genre. If you'd like, here is an example of Donati's top drawer soloing abilities:
ruclips.net/video/4C0ZxfB__M4/видео.html (watch from the beginning)
@@JeffHogue-em6zx no one is questioning he has a monster technique but now put up a clip of him playing on someone's album rather than a solo , in that settings he doesn't do anything that's vastly different from any of those speed metal guys , there's nothing that makes you go "that's Virgil" like you can hear with a lot of the greats ...,.. someone will always come along with a better technique, you only have to look at some of the new crop of speed metal guys or the young lions from the gospel world but very few of them make an impact on the musical world like a Gadd or Tony Williams or people like BC has
Live Music Must LIve
Uses the words me and I a lot. He has huge talent but I feel watching this he lacks the ability or inclination to really disclose anything he's doing. I met him in London around 2018 at one of his shows and openly thanked him for some great musical moments. He looked at me like you would look at a dog turd on your shoe. Oh well.
7 minutes in I her alot of they, them, and u. Seems the bad experience years ago scarred you for life.
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