Cool technique on the mounted tom!

[Jim]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAFcx231_W4

[Ludwig-dude]

Oh ya....that technique is as old as the sun to jazzers.......Joe Morello used to do that a lot in the Brubeck days I'm told. Probably goes back even further.....pre-swing era, maybe even pre-jazz days......

Walking

[Jim]

My drum teacher recommended Jeff Hamilton as a good modern jazz drummer to study. I like it!

Working out of the Gary Chester book for coordination.

Keep on Pl

[mcjnic]

Working out of the Gary Chester book for coordination.


I worked out of the Dagwood Bumstead book for coordination. I think you may have put me onto the genesis of my technique issues. Thanks!

[Ludwig-dude]

I worked out of the Dagwood Bumstead book for coordination. I think you may have put me onto the genesis of my technique issues. Thanks!

Genesis technique? Ohhhhh....ya I like Phil Collins too....Falling DoLaughing H

[Jim]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQnzmK9XJRE

[mcjnic]

Great job, JIM. Nice! This is the movie that I referenced a while back when mentioning that old drum kit in another thread. I have all of the Blondie movies on DVD. They are a hoot to watch. My wife and I enjoy them ... though, not as much as Ma and Pa Kettle. Arthur Lake was perfect as Dagwood. He cracks me up at times with just a simple, "huh?".

[510]

He's playing a bit of the melody of a standard tune called "Things Aint What They Used To Be". They are playing a twelve bar blues, so Hamilton starts his solo by quoting the above named tune. It too, is a well known twelve bar blues in Jazz also.

Nice drum pitch control!!!

P.S. I think Duke Ellington's son Mercer wrote "Things Ain't What They Used To Be" and the Ellington band played it often. So, Hamilton is quoting Ellington.

[kevins]

Jeff Hamilton was on drums in a Diana Krall show I saw on TV not long ago.
Lots of it was brush work, and whatever cymbals he was using were so thin they wobbled when he glanced at them.

[jonnistix]

Now that's what you call working around the kit!

[O-Lugs]

Jeff Hamilton is awesome. Great technique!

[Jazzbird]

Jeff is awesome, but I was really surprised by Dagwood! ThanksCool Dude

[tada---da---da--da--daaaa]

Great link! Jeff Hamilton: great drummer. Loved his solo and how he worked off the head, especially stretching and staggering the theme round the drums, very cool.