★ Africa (TOTO) ★ FREE Full-Song Drum Lesson | How To Play Drums (Jeff Porcaro)

[@estradacommusica2413]

Very good my friend 👋👋👋

[@Ramshackled17]

I like the way you give options to play the parts. I read that Jeff and a percussionist sat in front of each other and jammed to this groove. than they picked a favorite part and made a loop.

[@DrumsTheWord]

Thanks for the insight, mate! Fascinating stuff. Jeff is a legend!

[@ThatMindfields]

BRC Yes, and the percussionist is no other than legendary Lenny Castro

[@DrumsTheWord]

Really? Cool!!

[@Ramshackled17]

www.DrumsTheWord.com Thank you for the great videos! Jeff told that story about Africa in a modern drummer magazine, If I can recall.

[@kenthemanmcmillan8965]

@@ThatMindfields yes and Jeff's dad Joe played the marimba on this too.

[@johnfrank3372]

Excellent tutorial - you had me going from not knowing anything about playing it, to getting the versus completely memorized in one evening. Well done! I cant wait to be able to nail the fills :)

[@DrumsTheWord]

Glad I could help, John. Those drum fills are so much fun to play!

[@gingetaylor4489]

Brave choice of song. Epic. To quote the 'Art of Drumming ' programme. 'Drummers have been fascinated with the Pecaro shuffle on Rosanne for 40 years' 'Africa' is just as challanging. Well done, glad to see it 'warts and all' including mistakes. Most instructors dont.

[@DrumsTheWord]

Thank you, Ginge. I really appreciate your support!

[@MystrNykstr]

Great job!

[@trumlund]

Great lesson(s)! Although, you can hear clearly that he's playing 8th-notes on the ride in the choruses and I believe in the verses, also in the music video he's playing eightnotes (putting in 16-notes also) :)

[@arulla8436]

thank you you helped me so much I love those fill ins

[@225rip]

Great thanks

[@somethinginmind2151]

I thought this beat is just a simple beat before I started to learn drums. I hope it's not too late to learn Heheh. I love Toto. Jeff Porcaro inspires me to learn.

[@trfcmikey7751]

brilliant full free lesson once again

[@DrumsTheWord]

Glad I could help you out :)

[@ds7c]

Great job! I would love to have a breakdown of the 3rd drum-fill that Jeff did live (after the key-board solo), like at the 1990 Paris concert!

[@DrumsTheWord]

Yeah, I thought that fill was really cool as well!

[@DrGargani]

excellent way to break it down! extremely helpful for me...I am not a drummer, but simulate them with my sequencer, you made it simple to understand...thank you!

[@Miguel7456lmkuutti]

Nice analysis! Couldn't really hear what the right hand was doing in the verses on the album, as you pointed out, so this answers that nicely. :)

[@DrumsTheWord]

Glad I could help!

[@FLAMANGO12123]

My teacher play today and for the accents on the snare 2 and 4 he uses him shot, sounds nice

[@fartbruhpoop17.5]

Good video mate! Could I know what drum set you use?

[@DrumsTheWord]

Thanks. It's a Roland.

[@williep3426]

Thnx for the vid. Only weird to see the bass and hihat changed around.

[@pryce4267]

Very good video. What drums are you using please

[@איציקצוריאל]

Thanks my friend so intresting

[@zecabortoto9591]

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[@CarterSkillicornDrums]

the youtube drummer you mentioned at around 5.12, I have to hazard a guess as to who it is. colm downling?

[@DrumsTheWord]

Eh? I'm talking about how Jeff plays if live. There is a video of him with TOTO on stage paying Africa back in the day.

[@CarterSkillicornDrums]

ohh my mistake you said something about a person doing it on youtube and I instantly thought of colm because his cover is the best on youtube! i will 100% be learning this though rob so cheers for the lesson!

[@TheOnlyPigWhoCanFly]

Awesome!

[@DrumsTheWord]

Thanks, Matt!

[@alexpattle96]

Great video Rob :)

[@DrumsTheWord]

Thank you, Alex.

[@alexpattle96]

No problem :)

[@wadesullivan6771]

could you do ottis redding( these arms of mine?) That would be awesome

[@DrumsTheWord]

Please come over to my Facebook Page if you want to make any song suggestions...thanks for your interest! facebook.com/drumstheword/

[@mrSpatcat]

Great job. Can we get These Chains next?

[@DrumsTheWord]

Thanks, and please feel free to make any song suggestions over on my Facebook page.... facebook.com/drumstheword

[@mrSpatcat]

www.DrumsTheWord.com Done. 😀

[@Nathj04]

Hey Rob, could you do Hard Times by Paramore?

[@DrumsTheWord]

Please come across to my Facebook page if you want to make any song suggestions. I tend to ask for suggestions on a regular basis... facebook.com/drumstheword/

[@njdrummer7120]

one thing you left out is you need MORE COWBELL.....always more cowbell..even if there is no cowbell...but awesome lesson...thank you

[@DrumsTheWord]

Haha! You're welcome! :)

[@alejandrolopez2994]

It's Harry Potter drumming!!! wow

[@ziggyjonesjnr3328]

Alejandro Lopez lol

[@rickstav9024]

With dual wands.....

[@clay6324]

Can you play ,run to you,

[@DrumsTheWord]

Please make any song suggestions over on my Facebook page.... facebook.com/drumstheword

[@zacharywilliams2]

First... btw great tutorial

[@DrumsTheWord]

Thanks :)