Chad Wackerman - Odd-Time Signatures: A Musical Approach (Part 1 of 3)

Learn how to approach odd-time signatures with Chad Wackerman! In this new Drum Channel course, he teaches you his method for playing and creating odd-time vocabulary and patterns by applying 2's & 3's. Watch the full course 👉 drmch.nl/3yo4KXk
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In addition to being a first-call studio drummer and world-renowned educator, Chad Wackerman has amassed a remarkable body of work including a seven-year association with Frank Zappa. He has recorded albums and toured with artists as diverse as James Taylor, Barbara Streisand, Steve Vai, Alan Holdsworth, Andy Summers, Albert Lee, Pasqua/Holdsworth/Haslip/Wackerman Group, Carl Verheyen, David Garfield, and many more.
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In this new Drum Channel course, Chad teaches you his method for playing and creating odd-time vocabulary. Watch the full course here👉 drmch.nl/3yo4KXk

[@JoaquinCorreaDrums]

Chad is the man! One of the best drummers in the world, sadly he does not get the credit he deserves.

[@jonasandezekiel1109]

Yes he does.

[@VintageBoxingTM]

He does from us. Love hearing him and Porcaro. They’re my guys.

[@australiantruckspotting8883]

Quite an appropriate surname for a drummer

[@thetilteddrummer4654]

I took some lessons with Chad back in the day in L.A. Nicest guy ever and a fantastic player, world class!!

[@JA-io8nx]

One of the best drummers on the planet, a pros pro and a gentleman

[@topangachronic9463]

Greatest drummer name ever!

[@joeldrummer23]

That set sounds amazing

[@Frankybroadcast]

Great video. I learned odd time signatures long ago, but I still love to hear multiple explanations and points of view from different highly celebrated musicians like Chad.

[@SuperDrdirty]

What a beautiful masterclass by a master of the instrument. Thank you Mr.Wackerman and Drum channel. Your playing on Watermelon in Easterhay live with Zappa is one of my favorite songs to listen to.

[@matthewpaluch777]

😎👍💗🇺🇸🥁🎼 CHAD!!! 😎👍💗🇨🇭🔥🎼🔊)) PAISTE!!!

[@CharlesBeauregard]

AKG C414 on toms ! Nice.

[@michaelmalodrums9674]

Great stuff 👌🏻

[@Ben-Jamminalot]

Absolutely perfectly taught.

[@BobSchoepenjr]

Yes make us dream becoming unusual time signatures specialists…😊

[@parrattdiddle]

Just love Chad. So real. LOT of info even in that short lesson. Thankyou I learned so much.

[@mr.olega.andreev3000]

These cymbals sounds AMAZING!!!

[@casanovafrankenstein8538]

Paiste...the best

[@gadymarcus5297]

magnifico.

[@jonashellborg8320]

Very nice lesson! Cool angle to think first about the 2 vs 3 pattern, to find locations for snare and bass accents. I recently found this way of thinking about grooves, to give a feel of both say 5 and 4, if you’re in 5/4. Vs just playing a 4/4 groove and adding one hi hat or crash at the end.

[@peterpaluska7745]

Wow, great to see YOU here, Mr. Jonas Hellborg, one of the greatest bassists and musicians of our time, coming from old Sverige! I love your record with Tony Williams and the Soldier String Quartet. I listen to it often. So haunting. A masterpiece.

[@jonashellborg8320]

@@peterpaluska7745 Hey - I’m not that Jonas, I’m another Jonas that so happens to also play music. I agree, that Jonas is amazing!

[@peterpaluska7745]

Oh haha! Got it. Cool!

[@greenman-3332]

The feel and groove on Mr Wackerman is otherwordly

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love your work!!

[@perry2592]

Oh man... thank you!

[@2112CO]

Makes it look easy

[@matthewwoolhouse3829]

The drums and his playing sound so good. Explanations were also great.

[@antonribkin5319]

Barbara Streisand / Allan Holdsworth

[@hasan_bahramian]

🌹 🤘👍

[@enijize1234]

I just realised his name is also his description

[@enijize1234]

Dude has lived up to both of his names

[@geevee7823]

Steady OTS's are doable, but switching between them is another thing. How to address that?

[@BlackWhirlies]

Fab stuff. I saw Chad play with FZ 3 times, but I have never heard him speak before!

[@Tochudin]

Anyone knows what model is that sweet sounding China cymbal?

[@stanls265]

I had no idea that Chad's eyes were different colors!

[@matthewherd]

Thanks for this, much appreciated

[@policeluber6720]

Did he change his last name ? My name is Johnny Crash Trash

[@davidbeddoe6670]

Welcome to Skinwacker Ranch

[@giulianosfichi1507]

Wonderful educator.

[@handyboen]

Thanks Chad 🙏🙏

[@DavidOakesMusic]

Does he have two different coloured eyes? Or is his pupil perma dilated like Bowie ?

[@sosimple3585]

They're different ... because Chad sees straight time with one and odd time with the other. He has the omni vision for all round precision.

[@spothra8862]

was just wondering the same thing, they look different

[@jc3drums916]

Years ago, he was performing at NAMM with Allan Holdsworth. In the middle of a tune, his stick snapped and a splinter flew into his eye. Somehow, he finished the tune before he was rushed to the hospital. Thankfully, his family found a specialist who was able to save his eye.

[@BobSchoepenjr]

I hate people who noticed things I didn’t 😂

[@presterjack9764]

The title of this video, "Odd-Time Signatures" is incorrect. It's just "Odd Time Signatures", or it could possibly be "Odd Time-Signatures", which would be unusual but not wrong. "Odd-Time Signatures" makes "Odd-Time" into one word and "Signatures" into another, as if you were signing your name at an unusual hour of the day. "Time Signatures" is one word on its own. We would call it a lexicalized phrase. So it could be hyphenated, but usually isn't. And we are talking about time signatures which are odd, hence "Odd Time-Signatures"

[@BobSchoepenjr]

I get it although I m Dutch speaking…

[@smokesreefer9417]

he's kinda weird but... I.. think? kinda.. I.. get it!?! lemme watch 3 more times. 👍👍👍

[@bishopoftroy]

Just put all the parts at once, it`s of no use to treat a lesson over one month that one can miss the other parts because yt suggestion algorithms plus there is already too much material online. I mean, i understand you have to put content constantly but if this chanel is to help drummers you should consider this more.

[@tribejudahjudah6289]

This man look like he's drained and doesn't have any energy whatsoever he's just tapping the drums which sounds horrible

[@craigyoung3124]

Chad has always been quiet and very reserved. Frank Zappa goes from a crazy wildman Bozzio to quiet machine-like cyborg Chad. I grew up with the Wackermans and played drums along Chad in middle school. Chad's father taught in the Seal Beach school district McGaugh elementary. I played drums with both Chad and John Jon from 2nd grade to 8th grade. Chad was the exact same guy in grade school. Except his hair graying a bit. His wife, mother and his father all have died in the last 5 years. It's been tough for him I'm sure... Funny to think Chad used to come to my birthday parties when we were in grade school. Fun times

[@bornr2797]

I cant stand that counting shit...just play by feel...

[@DrJ-hx7wv]

Yeah, all that rhythm and musical notation, what a drag.

[@metalpuppet5798]

That works in a tune with like 2 or 3 time signatures (and even there sometimes it doesnt work). Once shit gets complicated you have to count. Even in 4/4

[@mancuniancandidatem]

Imagine if he had said that at his Frank Zappa audition.