How to Comp for Jazz Drums

[@ChristianDoiron]

I never refer my students to drum videos on KZbin, but I am changing that rule and referring all of my students to your channel. Awesome channel man, keep it up!

[@8020drummer]

+Christian Doiron Wow man. High compliment! thanks!

[@Vanolo999]

Nate, you are just simply out of this world, this is more than sufficient for getting to another level. Thankyou for your hard work

[@LucasSpurrell]

Love this channel so much! Such great lessons.

[@8020drummer]

Thanks duuuuuude!

[@LucasSpurrell]

No, thank YOU! I've learned a lot and got some great ideas from your videos. You break down your lessons really well and simplify them enough for beginners but get deep enough for more advanced players. Keep it up!

[@Beauxdeauxfinglok]

Your channel is a breath of fresh air! Thanks for putting so much time into this. Your touch on the instrument is magnificent... even your little examples tend to really 'breathe'.

[@twelge15]

It helps to look at the figures written on screen for odd groupings. Nice playing! Good lesson!

[@nenissaK]

This channel is the best (one-man) jazz drum lesson channel on youtube

[@kevinkelly2718]

I'm pretty thrilled to have discovered your videos... pretty amazing. I found it looking to learn a simple trick, I've ended up watching like ten in the past two days. I think if I had no interest in playing drums Id still find the interesting as a music theory, or even just art appreciation exercise. Your intelligence and vocabulary is very impressive. Thanks! I don't know if I'll even get my left foot to work right but I'll still watch this stuff.

[@dogmart]

Bill Stewart is another good example of someone who frequently uses the left foot/hi-hat as its own voice. Great lesson!

[@dogmart]

+dogmart Oops! You mentioned Bill around 5:40. :)

[@massimoa2361]

Really high drunming stuff. Techique concepts practice. Very very good.

[@chillwavesynthetics8008]

I've also found it a lot easier to practice comping by easily adjusting to 8/4. This allows you to be more personal when improvising

[@LanceWillMakeIt]

Chillwave Synthetics how does that work?

[@dogmart]

The waltz beat: another great example, alongside Max Roach, of putting the hats on beats 2 and 3 is Blakey's performance on Lee Morgan's "Kozo's Waltz." That was the first ever jazz waltz I heard as a teen, and Blakey's 2 and 3 left-foot hi-hat is awesome and never shakes. Still powerful to listen to!

[@8020drummer]

Niiiiiiice

[@MrDsamuel]

Thank you for the lesson!! Love this channel.

[@slaneyaudio1948]

It's so important as a jazz drummer to keep the band in time. 2 and 4 on the hi-hat cuts through the noise in a big band situation. so they all can lock in to the rythym section.

[@gusleondrummer]

thanks bro!! its diamond!! it clears a lot for me about this subject. good vibes from Argentina, Buenos Aires

[@DennisYamaha1985]

Nate - Awesome job here - Great explanation of content and context! Great chops! Change NOTHING. Wonderful - Dennis

[@somefreelog]

Hello Nate, I am a big fan of your work, personally think your videos are the best among drum lessons. I was looking for the transcriptions of this lesson but they don't seem to be available anymore, could you put them back ? Thanks a lot for your work and your approach of drumming and learning.

[@joelvenault5090]

Very good stuff .... thanks a lot ! Hello from France Joel

[@MastanehNazarian]

I got a lot out of this as a composer. Thanks.

[@javiergc431]

More jazz videos please, great channel!!

[@christianordonez3846]

You're a genius ! Love these videos

[@Bearghoster]

Man, you always have such an interesting way of looking at and explaining this stuff. Love your point of view. Thank you! Can't wait to play with these ideas tomorrow.

[@danlhendl]

Dude I love your lessons I love your style it's a very different approach. I love it. I just don't have any money. Broker then the Ten Commandments but thank you very much I dig your subtilty and the player history and your style

[@co0kiedrummer]

Thanks man! this is awesome, dont stop.

[@bennymalone]

Thanks for the videos, I'm learning a lot.

[@highvibee]

Thank for showing up and I’m all in! Also excited about your courses at www.the8020drummer.com/ :)

[@oktnodez]

Awesome channel. Thanks for sharing!

[@neworleansbeats]

It's a really nice lesson and thanks I just want to pass along one simple word which is you getting in trouble when you're thinking too much and it's obvious from your demonstration where this occurs.... As soon as you say Riley

[@rezaghaffari9362]

great video, great explanation and good lesson.

[@tdrum21]

There a transcription of that last riff you play too? Good stuff here, thanks man!

[@tdrum21]

Possible to get a transcription of the last lick/variations you add in around 14:00ish or a description of the lick? Love that lick!

[@douglasbosso3560]

Really fresh here!

[@KarlLeipzig]

Thanks for the lesson! Could you do a video on how to play along to a Bass Solo in Jazz.

[@PianofanSUI]

+KarlLeipzig good idea! Would love to see that too

[@PianofanSUI]

Hey! Thank you for uploading those great videos! I find them interesting and learn from them! If I can give you an off-topic tip for making the videos: try to look more often / more steadily into the camera (I don't know if I could do that better myself, being rather a shy person), it'd make the video atmosphere more, how do I say this, "stable" or more comfortable to watch. I mean, we all like you, so there's nothing to be nervous! :P best wishes and a happy new year to you!

[@massimoarciulo411]

Good stuff! Thanks from Rome drumming!

[@tdrum21]

Can we get a transcription of that last tidbit lick/variations? Love that lick. Would be great!

[@sauravghosh597]

Nate, firstly thank you so much for this and many other lesson videos that have helped me get an insight. This lesson in particular has demystified the question of how to use my left foot as an individual voice in a jazz context. A lot of independence and coordination to go but I do have a better idea now. Any chance you can share a transcription for the fancy fill idea at the end of the video? :) Warm regards from India.

[@TDrumma3]

"Five-iola"... lol I love it

[@PatrickManzecchi]

...nice bass drum sound, great tone.

[@brentdrummer5177]

Very good

[@jaumepp1975]

Great channel!!! Many thx!!!

[@everettdea]

Billy Higgins is badass stick slinger.

[@TheDriftkingm]

please dont stop uploading videos !

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

cool stuff!! like it!!

[@bateriayguitarra5032]

Chendol Drums?Very good teacher!

[@swan4163]

Try to get Deantoni Parks and Ari Hoenig on your show please! That'd be 💣!

[@joshcalef4974]

Love the videos, Nate. I'm a jazz drummer out in Chicago. Can you give listening recommendations where we can catch Max doing a lot of odd meters? Thanks! Josh

[@gabrielbarcohen]

Max's album "Jazz in 3/4 Time" is a good starting point

[@8020drummer]

+Gabriel Barcohen YES

[@seanr6102]

This is an old question, but Garvey’s ghost on percussion bittersweet is very nice.

[@pickinstone]

If I came over with my guitar and amp, could we do a lesson on macro and micro time, polys, and metric mods at your place in the near future? Let me know. I live in NYC and would rather lessons in person, especially for what I want to do with the lessons and applying them to jazz guitar and guitar in general.

[@8020drummer]

Hit me up! 8020drummer@gmail :)

[@bonzomio]

First off, thanks for putting these videos together. It appears that most, if not all the cats (dudes) in the comment section, are hip to what you are doing, saying and teaching. Me....I get lost. I'm a newcomer to jazz and these concepts and ideology tend to go over my head, perhaps because of the swift pace (at least for me). I sort of get it, but realize I need a lot of help and work. I did take a few lessons studying out of the Ted Reed book, but I am not steeped in drum education. Any suggestions on learning and ingraining simple limb independence and odd time signature phrasing?. Thanks and good work.

[@magohipnosis]

John Riley's art of bop drumming is great for all the basics. Studying time signatures on your own is great too, for that you have tons of material available online.

[@corradomanganaro7150]

La trascrizione??? grazie mille

[@imlokiano4414]

I just noticed that you use that weird Dave Weckl traditional grip, don't get me wrong I think it's really cool and hip even. But how did you fall into that development..? There's all sort of weird history with that.

[@benfox8709]

I’m struggling to understand the whole phrase thing what makes it a five beat phrase is it playing five beats over 4/4? Like a polyrhythm kind of?

[@mybiggrin]

Thank you for your insights. Very useful. Please use a pop filter on your mic though hahah

[@deshieldsdeer]

wow I just noticed the Mel lewis autograph

[@jeanjaille4225]

whats your snare dude ?

[@benjaminjacome]

Which sticks do you use?

[@JohnSmith-fy9bk]

Is that the Mel Lewis signature ride

[@joelc99]

Hey Nate, what settings do you use on your Zoom H2?

[@randrade89]

Awesome vid man! Question: what's your mic setup?

[@8020drummer]

+Roberto Andrade hey Roberto I use a Q3HD in sound only mode in front of the kick, then put some of the sound the vocal mic captures (a zoom h2) into the mix. I wouldn't say it's great compared to real drum mics and a real audio interface, but it does the trick...

[@randrade89]

+The 80/20 Drummer thanks for the quick reply! It definitely does the trick. Plus you don't need a mixer or cables.

[@josteinv.jordet257]

His name is Nate?!!!!!!!

[@tdrum21]

Is there a way to get the last lick transcribed or s break down of it?

[@corradomanganaro7150]

PDF??

[@ns81]

http:/the8020drummer.com/lessons/jazz-comp

[@odaydrums]

nice!

[@kalebean97]

How can I study with you? I go to school in NYC.

[@heyseanie]

Email me at 8020drummer [at] gmail [dot] com - We'll see if we can hook an in-person lesson up! ;)

[@ThommasThompson]

who was the drummer he mentioned that sounded like con-E-K? Google just gives me results relating to K Constantinople.....could be worse

[@JazzCat601]

+ThommasThompson It was Connie Kay from Modern Jazz Quartet.

[@mikestix78]

Same sticker B. Carter throws on his snare...hmmm.. #youngswangers

[@neworleansbeats]

Melody.... Your comping against or eith the melody. How you want to break that and down in terms of your arthur mc numbers is up to you but if you have the melody in your head you won't need to worry about that too much

[@buckdich1]

You didn't explain the last lick at all. Please break stuff like that down

[@lvvry1855]

Wish you'd explain what the heck you're doing: what's the basic metre? How are you counting the 5,7, etc. over this? I don't know what the hell you're doing.

[@thalidomide1]

who does your tat every week?

[@8020drummer]

;)

[@corradomanganaro7150]

P

[@JustinCromer]

this video is the shit

[@rodionstadion2944]

Нихуя не понятно, что он говорит?

[@tchakeemn]

I would love to just hear him play without the lesson

[@uzibab]

c'est bon, mais ce serait bien de parler moins vite - merci-