Product Description
Artist:
Brian Floody
Length:
Video 1 - 30:49, Video 2 - 27:52
Description:
This discounted bundle includes both videos 1 and 2 from Brian Floody's drum masterclass series.
Video 1: In part one (1 of 2) of this jazz drums masterclass, professional drummer Brian Floody teaches you a variety of jazz drumming techniques. Brian emphasizes the fundamentals of playing with brushes and sticks, time keeping, playing grooves, accompanying, playing in different feels and more.
Topics Covered: Playing ballads, playing with brushes, jazz timekeeping, using different brush “fan” sizes on the snare drum, playing medium-tempo swing with brushes, playing with the snares off, playing bossa nova grooves, playing rumba grooves, keeping time on the ride cymbal, developing a “big beat”, supporting and enhancing the music, using dynamics, playing behind soloists, marking phrases, keeping the listener engaged, etc.
Video 2: In part two (2 of 2) of this jazz drums masterclass, professional drummer Brian Floody teaches you a variety of jazz drumming techniques. Brian shows you how to play stylistically common and important grooves, how to blend your sound with other instruments, how to play with a bassist, how to use dynamics effectively and how to be musical within different contexts.
Topics Covered: The jazz shuffle, the blues shuffle, the shuffle beat with brushes, the conga beat, the boogaloo beat, musical dynamics, blending your sound with the other instruments, dynamic control exercises, the role of the bass drum, keeping time with the bass, feathering the bass drum, playing two-beat feel, the role of the hi-hat, emulating great drummers, learning from the classic jazz drummers, etc.
Video 1: In part one (1 of 2) of this jazz drums masterclass, professional drummer Brian Floody teaches you a variety of jazz drumming techniques. Brian emphasizes the fundamentals of playing with brushes and sticks, time keeping, playing grooves, accompanying, playing in different feels and more.
Topics Covered: Playing ballads, playing with brushes, jazz timekeeping, using different brush “fan” sizes on the snare drum, playing medium-tempo swing with brushes, playing with the snares off, playing bossa nova grooves, playing rumba grooves, keeping time on the ride cymbal, developing a “big beat”, supporting and enhancing the music, using dynamics, playing behind soloists, marking phrases, keeping the listener engaged, etc.
Video 2: In part two (2 of 2) of this jazz drums masterclass, professional drummer Brian Floody teaches you a variety of jazz drumming techniques. Brian shows you how to play stylistically common and important grooves, how to blend your sound with other instruments, how to play with a bassist, how to use dynamics effectively and how to be musical within different contexts.
Topics Covered: The jazz shuffle, the blues shuffle, the shuffle beat with brushes, the conga beat, the boogaloo beat, musical dynamics, blending your sound with the other instruments, dynamic control exercises, the role of the bass drum, keeping time with the bass, feathering the bass drum, playing two-beat feel, the role of the hi-hat, emulating great drummers, learning from the classic jazz drummers, etc.
