History of the Drumset - Part 11, 1948 - Rhythm & Blues

[@benjaminkip9143]

You sir are not only valuable for drumming history but for music history in general. Your knowledge and passion for both drumming and music is enthusiastic and inspiring. Keep up man. Cheers!

[@volkerding]

Man I am really enjoying this series! Can't wait for the rest!

[@DanielGlassDrums]

volkerdrum Thanks! These videos are just the tip of the iceberg. If you're interested in a 3-hr DVD that gets into drum set evolution in a much, much deeper way, check out the DVD"The Century Project." You can view the trailer and order here: danielglass.com/merchandise/

[@dibach70]

Really digging this series! Nice job!

[@beatlesrgear]

Daniel, Leo Fender released the Fender electric bass guitar to the public in November, 1951. However, it was quite rare that you saw and electric bass being used until the mid '50's. I think it's because all of the bass players were so used to the doghouse bass that they sort of resisted switching over; plus the tone of the two basses is noticeably different. I play both drums and bass, and I have learned to make my Fender Jazz bass sound very close to a doghouse bass. It's not spot on, but close enough to sound decent in a jazz/bebop/rockabilly song. Plus, it costs a lot less, weighs a lot less, and takes less energy to play.

[@brianchisnell1548]

My '48 Radio Kings will be with me 'til the end. FiberSkins work well. Love the forties. Great job Daniel!

[@productofbelgium]

Great videos and great educator ! Thanks !

[@uncensoredsean2889]

Amazing

[@adibass]

Very interesting !!!!

[@fetis26]

I want MORE!

[@FoundMinistries]

Does anyone know the name of the piano player at 1:12 of this video?

[@sharpiemcsharp]

Bob Mosley

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

Hi, the comments about bebop vs. swing are exaggerated: it was normal and routine for boppers to heavily admire swing musicians such as Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, and Lester Young, whose ideas they were expanding on because of their inspiration, not "reacting" to.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

For instance, from 1953: John McLennan: Then, whom do you feel were the really important persons, besides yourself, who evidently were dissatisfied with music as it was, and started to experiment? Charlie Parker: Well, let me make a correction here, please. It wasn't that we were dissatisfied with it, it was just that another conception came along, and this was just the way we thought it should go....

[@DanielGlassDrums]

Understood - the musicians themselves were just doing their thing and did not see it as being particularly controversial. Also, this is Parker talking in 1953, when bop had already been established for several years. Here are some other quotes from the 1940s that show the different ways bebop was perceived: “Bebop is a music of revolt: a revolt against big bands, arrangers, vertical harmonies, soggy rhythms, non-playing orchestra leaders, Tin Pan Alley-against commercialized music in general.” - critic Ross Russell, 1948 Bebop players “like to wear berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, and talk about their ‘interesting new sounds,’” while their “rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace and content as their music.” "How Deaf Can You Get?" Time (May 17, 1948) “How to use notes differently. That’s it. Just how to use notes differently.” -bebop pianist Thelonius Monk, c. 1965 “What bebop amounts to: hot jazz overheated with overdone lyrics full of bawdiness, references to narcotics and doubletalk.” -Time, 1946 “This is the sort of bad taste and ill-advised fanaticism that has thrown innumerable impressionable young musicians out of stride.” Review of Charlie Parker, Downbeat (April 22, 1946) “[Bebop musicians] want to carve everyone else because they’re full of malice, and all they want to do is show you up, and any old way will do as long as it’s different from the way you played it before. So you get all them weird chords which don’t mean nothing, and first people get curious about it just because it’s new, but soon they get tired of it because it’s really no good and you got no melody to remember and no beat to dance to. So they’re all poor again and nobody is working, and that’s what that modern malice done for you.” -Louis Armstrong, 1948 “I don’t want you playing that Chinese music in my band!” -Cab Calloway, c. 1955 “Everytime a cop hits a Negro with his Billy club, that old club says, ‘BOP! BOP!…BE-BOP!…MOP!…BOP!…That’s what Bop is. Them young colored kids who started it, they know what bop is.” -Langston Hughes, 1949 “We didn’t go out and make speeches or say, ‘Let’s play eight bars of protest.’ We just played our music and let it go at that. The music proclaimed our identity; it make every statement we truly wanted to make.” -bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, 1979

[@DanielGlassDrums]

Another article about bop's evolution: www.scaruffi.com/history/jazz8.html

[@markbahouth2713]

@@thebrazilianatlantis165 i am surprised by the derogatory ( to slander ) statements by Louis Armstrong directed towards Be Bop musicians and there music . seems out of character because i treasure that amazing man a musical genius in all respects and a gentle kind person towards others. oh well ... musicians can be very opinionated and there musical critics of course can be super critical. hell thats how they make a living. paid to be critical.

[@MikeHoltackers]

finally :D

[@brettghansen]

They didn't have plastic heads until 1958 so how could drummers really lay in as this video says @ 7min into the film and play at high volumes without tearing the calf head?

[@DanielGlassDrums]

Hey brettghansen, thanks for the comment. Yes, you are correct that plastic heads started showing up in the late '50s, but many drummers still used calf well into the '60s. In fact, many drummers resisted switching over for a long time, because the sound of calf was so much better. The first drummers who really made the switch to plastic exclusively were military and marching drummers who had to play outdoors so much. Calf is actually quite durable, it was used by all the hard hitting pioneers who created styles like R&B, rockabilly and rock'n'roll. That said, plastic eventually won over for its durability, and was certainly the default head by the late '60s, when rock got MUCH heavier.

[@brianchisnell1548]

Calf were hard to keep tuned. That's why bass drums and floor toms had T rods.

[@shootsbraw]

watching a leftie play is AGONIZING...

[@DeanMk1]

LOL! works for me...FINALLY a drumset I can play on! =D

[@liammcooper]

"Hi, I listen to King Crimson and hate left handed drummers" Shouldn't you be playing dungeons and dragons somewhere?

[@beatlesrgear]

@@liammcooper Oy, I love King Crimson, and I play left handed. KC had a fantastic drummer. But, I know what you mean about shootsbraw. All of that right handed didling about has warped his mind. lol!

[@beatlesrgear]

Left handed is how they are supposed to be played. Didn't you watch Gene Krupa? Trying to play right handed will wreck your mind and make you a juvenile delinquent!

[@alessandromabaquiao6391]

what is the title of the song?

[@brucebrooker3633]

POP that shuffle ! Play it right brother.

[@TheMegaPaintballer]

nice face hahaha