Gadd - zooks!
It’s an afternoon with the Gadd - fly.
You know what they say: thank…
Puns aside, the Gaddfather has been front-of-mind since the beginning of the year, when I started looking into the Boogada.
One doesn’t simply disregard the Aja solo in considering that tradition. So I’d had it - and the Manhattan School of Music Clinic where Gadd explains the vocabulary - seared into my brain.
And, what-do-you-know, I started hearing “Gadd-esque” things in my head while walking down the street. Doing the dishes.
I’d chafe to get back to the studio so I could see if what I was hearing would really work on the drums. So, I decided to make you, the good people of the internet, a video on it.
Far from force-feeding myself some Gadd licks I could regurgitate, this is a video I couldn’t not make, given how much Gadd vocabulary is bubbling up emergently in my playing.
Anyway, hope you enjoy!
Oh - and grab your transcription here.
I Said Good Day 😜