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I’ll keep this brief, so you can get to watching the video.
If you’re a channel fan, you probably know and love him: Brian Blade.
But more than even one drummer, the song he made famous, Jazz Crimes, has had an outsized influence on the drum ecosystem. And, due to happy and not-so-happy coincidences, it’s kind of become the bar by which modern drumming is judged.
In this video, we dispense with all the “judgment”, and other internet noise, and focus instead on what the song can tell us about our drumming, and how to learn from it.
I take the 3 primary challenges in turn:
The opening groove
The drum solo
The deceptively-difficult beginning to the organ solo
Each shows us in stark relief whether our timing, subdivision, sound-control, and idea-control are squared-away. As such, I call it a “mirror song”.
And now, friends, I’ll let you get to the video.
Hope you enjoy!