Josh Foster (SWV Medley) Black Music Honors 2023”

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[@lastonewon]

This level of discipline, professionalism and skill is The reason why the gigs wont run out, quality high level playing, nothing over the top, but then reminds you he can get down when he's ready !!!😂

[@bramleypeterse8996]

Yeah man he Remind me allot about Marvin Fred Hammond drummer

[@jaidonhayes2876]

facts

[@loranzameadows1433]

His pocket and tempo with clicks are perfect

[@pputnam100]

This is what the pros hear in their headphones at gigs like this?? Wow, I had no idea.

[@Xformat01]

Not the true geniuses. Alto saxophonist like Steve Coleman and all of his world-class musicians......... they don't do anything like this. His great drummers were Marvin Smitty Smith, Oliver Gene Lake junior, and Sean Rickman. Absolute genius drumming studs

[@trvrsln]

^ uh… no. I’ve been blessed to meet some top musicians in my life through connections and I can guarantee most do this now. Especially if they’re doing something like tv recordings. Only reason they wouldn’t is if nobody had in ears.

[@mattmiranda3427]

Solid well versed musicians, know how to play to a click track and know how to play without one

[@rialandjones6182]

I don’t know many performers who don’t have a click track in their ears. That’s how all the musicians stay on beat without a conductor

[@ronfleming5488]

It depends on the kind of gig, but typically for pop or R&B artists, it's pretty common.

[@joseivanmartireyes4646]

key bass player was killing it to!

[@kurtpatterson1296]

Any video that gets and supports young Gospel drummers to stop overplaying the music is great!😎

[@dmd5060]

What do you know about “overplaying”?

[@kurtpatterson1296]

​@dmd5060 A lot,been playing the drumset for 52 years...

[@chrisbarnet3946]

That is a style of drumming!! Only drummers that can’t feel where 1 is say this. While I understand what you are saying; this comment is still baseless!!

[@dmd5060]

@@kurtpatterson1296 fair enough, but these fills and chops have their place nd there’s those of us who just love them nd also love all the other styles of music… everything has its place bro

[@carloshughes9741]

He was one of the gospel chops dudes... He figured it out...but if you oG like me, we always played Pocket

[@brotherjohnsmusic9491]

IMAGINE BEING 8 YEARS OLD AND able to watch this and learn,,, just crazy

[@chainsour]

There are so many possibilities but there's also brawl stars. 🤷

[@FVMMOdin]

18k views?????? Folks is sleepin! This is peak instrumentalism and I enjoyed every second of it. Sent this through to my drum teacher too and told him this is my end goal. U are a inspiration just by doing what u do! Keep at it and thank u for sharing the knowledge!!!

[@coreyltaylor81]

Yo, Josh! I love it. Y'all was locked. Sounded great. And I love the cues in the in ears. That was dope.

[@ericreeves5893]

I had to listen to this 3 times back to back! He is a monster! Very poised and disciplined. His transitions were clean to death!!

[@travisrichmond905]

Great video man! Very locked in... The bass line a 6:48 tho SHEESH!

[@DennisRyan27]

for all the people bashing click tracks y’all just don’t understand. Grooving to a click takes tons of practice and is essentially industry standard now. These songs were probably made to a click so you’re getting a perfect rendition. The light shows sync up to the metronome as well. Did you hear how tight that was? Why wouldn’t you want to play to one…

[@BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul]

I would still like to be this tight without a click track. I feel one loses some dynamics being in a kinda straight jacket. However, I think it also depends on the type of gig at hand. This timed TV/Award show probably necessitates it. I'd be totally distracted by the voice I'm hearing here, heck, even the Google Maps voice distracts my driving 😀

[@fj3571]

Its clear a lot of these commenters dont know much about this side of music, the genre or the industry

[@CarltonWhite3]

Josh, the discipline, patience, placements, playing the patterns and everything else is amazing bro! Can hear how well studied you are. Keep inspiring Brodie 💪🏾

[@Theglove0297]

You blazed like always G! 6:48 key bass was insane! 🤣👏🏾👏🏾🫡

[@jaystacks4285]

This set was crazy

[@therookiesplaybook]

Me assuming drummers had perfect time and knew the song by heart

[@0xAgenT]

😂😂😂😂 Must have been tough finding this out😂😂😂

[@stubborn_otter]

Love the mapping aspect. Music tech has certainly evolved. This has been a wonderful lesson.

[@Itspnutt2001]

That chord 0:59 😮‍💨😮‍💨

[@j_allen0217]

That sub Derrieux does @3:58 is so nicely placed ✊🏽💯

[@spalding1968]

click tracks have saved many musicians live !!!

[@fjammusic]

Great Josh!! Really locked and cool dynamics and everything Bro!!! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🔥🔥✔️🙏🏽

[@Erniepotts]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TacoCrisma]

Josh - can you do a rundown of your backtrack rig and how you incorporate roland hybrid triggers into your setup? In other vids it looks like you’re triggering off of an spdsx. Would love to know your process in creating the clicks with queues too. I have a way of doing it but it’s a pain, I speech generate each prompt and load the wavs into my DAW on top of the click source, very time consuming for each song. Always willing to learn from others! Amazing pocket as always.

[@juanh1093]

I feel you on this. I do drum and queue tracks and it's very time consuming. Especially if you have a lot of songs

[@westonjordan6374]

4:06 when you had to fix your ear monitor and still hit the HH lick w one hand was CLEAN

[@ramonkey2939]

Great playing Top Notch Musicianship is always appreciated 🎉

[@jamalsangster]

Man even the click alone is groovy 😂.

[@djamary]

🤣 the click or the voice of the girl ???

[@gratitudeattitude589]

Respect and thanks for sharing

[@ndianau]

Woah, this is excellence, the A-league! What kind of engineering preserved this sound on KZbin, sounds so good on my Apple Beats Pro.

[@michaelblandofficial1922]

Yessir!!! That's how you do it, bro!! I'm a fan-

[@gooddays559]

Love the click great for jam with ❤️🙏

[@Gracefully_Driven2Drums]

solid bro !!!!

[@365cell]

The placement is 🔥🔥🔥

[@diversekcox]

this video is so helpful and inspiring. Keep it uploading and working man 🙏🏽

[@lescoursduvaljoli2010]

Stylé musical ultra en place technique bref excellent

[@ClashesYt]

Dang the volume in this big rich church is nice

[@toddmaek5436]

Lol

[@dpshotit]

Nah bro this was hard🔥🔥🔥

[@junebugsmithington]

This is so dope!!

[@iengineer_247]

Sheeshhhhh

[@christianboutot]

Wow once the first bar is beginning it is amazing ...what a groove ❤❤❤

[@bbj7383]

Can't imagine how difficult this is... but I suppose with anything it's a learned skill. Fortunately for me the blues players I play with go all over the map and there is no way we could stay on the rails. They're all old school and like their music to breath. Now that's another skill set... hearding cats... oh you doing another solo?!! Ok well there goes my charts hahahaha

[@TwanTheScientist]

Gift, Skill, and Talent!!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@bateromarioayala9552]

Muy bueno.... Me gusta el filing... ❤❤🎸🎹🎷🎤🎼🎶🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

[@chrisgundersen1117]

I also played to an inter metronome Dr. beats this is so helpful. Thank you.

[@Kyaonfiyaa]

Had me locked in from the time y’all came in🔥🔥

[@donelllawrence7298]

Amazing work

[@zislec]

Absolutely fire 🔥

[@funkyvent]

💪🏿🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ThePacbaby270]

Pocket! Love it!

[@PorkPie89]

🔥 I’m not trying to be at the awards but I am certainly trying to play like this at home 🤣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@CHOPSTAR_R]

Yessir 🥁🔥🔥

[@treesmoka81]

I love this!!!!

[@antgeeze7129]

😖🤯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥💯

[@jul1an77]

man great playing!!!

[@JeremySmith-sx9oe]

good drummer.

[@colinbradford2671]

Great to hear it from the drummer/metronome aspect - unique

[@ianwillis5292]

Goddamn. What hats are those? Beautiful sounds

[@PhillipSlaymaker-n1p]

Great rehearsal nice practice

[@drvictoria07]

Finally

[@CarlosTorres-fo3zz]

Duuuuuuuro🔥

[@jerometremble4770]

J F is Smooth like Butter

[@hebrewprincess9687]

Very good! Can you do a tutorial please 🙏🏾

[@SteveBurksMusic]

Rock-solid. I wonder what program/app he’s running. I would think something like Boss DB-90 but nah that’s hardware. Something laptop-based, band-wide?

[@sweetspotdrummer]

Great for that drummer. But after 1 minute the click and instructions would drive me nuts. Programmed music has its place. I just want to play creatively with my internal timing.

[@ajdrums8075]

Depends on the gig. I would be grateful on a gig like this to have such a metronome and programmed changes

[@sweetspotdrummer]

@@ajdrums8075 Understood. But do you ever play without the "metronome and programmed changes"?

[@ajdrums8075]

@sweetspotdrummer Usually yes, jazz gigs mostly but have a propensity to push sometimes

[@StealthSwith19136]

Problem is, with these paid gigs, you play to the arrangement. This is the status quo for pros. Its not just the drummer, its the other bandmates, singers etc. This is a production set. Much of what you see on your favorite award shows. Its not about the musicians, its about the music. Think about it. 90% of these 90s songs are.. guess what? programmed in nature. Now if you took an EWF song and layered programmed sounds overtop, we'd have a problem.

[@sweetspotdrummer]

@@StealthSwith19136 I get the point. Sort of like providing the music for a broadway show: everything has to sync up to the movement of the dancers etc. Being a pro means, it is set work whereas jamming is just fun.

[@awwim9865]

Wow playing to a drum machine.

[@marvelletyson6581]

So pocket!

[@tjcole9174]

Very clean!!👌🏽 question for the old heads though, are you all insinuating that using chops means you're out of the pocket???

[@AkiraIkuma]

Listen to the main vocals at all through earphones during a live show? Only clicks and band sounds?

[@anarhuseynov29]

Who singing from 5minute and what the song ?

[@flavio8624]

Weak

[@ScatteredBrilliancy]

Her name is Shelea. She’s dope, check her out.

[@mrpreacherman8262]

Where can I get that voice metronome? This is too dope

[@blueavadis22]

What you do if your shit crashes and you didn’t memorized everything? Don’t get me wrong, I love this click stuff, is very helpful.

[@DennisRyan27]

I’ve had crashes lol you just keep going ! I’m sure he and everyone else knows the parts this is just a guide and especially helpful with tempo changes

[@joshuaedo07]

lol, these guys can play this exact setlist without the cues and click just the same as with click and cues

[@francislilian2297]

what metronom do you use with voice pls? thanks for you video

[@jaminbritton4861]

What are those crashes?

[@JessM.93]

POCKET

[@reginaldorodrigues111]

Show Man drumer top com click top

[@justintaylor1099]

🔒

[@justinfranklin6932]

Coi Leary

[@Beziondrums]

what hi hats are those? good stuff!

[@juanh1093]

I think those are crash cymbals converted into hats

[@Iwabas]

Heartbeat Percussion studio series hihats

[@jalensmith5793]

What’s the first song of the set

[@KelvinVivian-q2r]

Thomas Mark White George White Eric

[@aldobmusic]

Playing a session

[@tyraedmonson9677]

🧼🧼🧼🧼

[@torominimal5231]

リッキーかと思った

[@billstewart1747]

AReal Kit, not some silly little 4 pc thingy!! Do it bro!! 👍

[@rdbridge9376]

$$$$$$$$

[@Coreykeyboardist]

whos on keys?

[@ronaldofilgueira9937]

These are not musicians...are machines without natural clock and no one sense of timing...

[@edennard1]

@ronaldofilgueira9937 Well I disagree.. It’s that this is what these types of applications these new generation of musicians use.. Hey I’m from the old school of performing and we had no click tracks but these kids are good and it didn’t appear that it took away from the band’s performance.. I didn’t hear any wrong notes being played.. however much respect to you and your opinion. Coming from a current and way back in the day musician.. peace and love 🙏🏾🤘🏾

[@StealthSwith19136]

@@edennard1@ronaldofilgueira9937 Im a drummer in my late 20s. While i agree that everyone is entitled to their opinion, this is an example of how some people focus on the wrong aspects of a given situation. Rather than knocking the advancement of production and arrangement techniques/tools, one should critique the actual playing. This is literally the embodiment of playing the right way. Not overplaying, keeping the groove and not distracting the audience's focus on the music. Filling in only during transitions. We should be focused on that. Not what technology has given us in order to hone our craft.

[@victorbowen5119]

Back in the day we did not need this to play the arrangements we listened to the to the voices and the hold ensemble one band one sound. They cheat.

[@StealthSwith19136]

Its not cheating, its called technology. Things are done differently in modern day and thats okay. It doesnt limit these guys abilities. Instead of dismissing it, learn it and understand it. Im a network engineer and if i didnt keep up with new technology, my knowledge base would be outdated. A new guy will come in with new and better tools and take my job. Apply this mindset in everything you do. Life is about continuous learning.

[@hendrir]

Terrible!! Don't limit the musicians expression with a click and voice commands. This drummer certainly doesn't need any external rhythmic support. He's good on his own.

[@StealthSwith19136]

Its his preference! lol. This is literally his own in-ear feed. When youre playing professionally (especially someone else's music), you play exactly how its arranged. Obviously there are live arrangement differences from the record but you ask Cameo if you could add quarter note hats on Candy and see if they like it. The backing is to keep everyone in-sync and within arrangement, Nothing wrong with that. its a security blanket. It has become standard for the pros and either you adapt or be a passionate starving musician. There's too much talent/competition out here to give up your opportunity because you want to play something your way.

[@mikomai3754]

You’re an accompaniment, not the artist. They’re paid to play the arrangement as it is, with some fills as they see fit. It helps to keep everyone in time. You can’t show up to someone else’s show and play their music how you want. He’s playing for multiple artists at this gig, without the click track he would’ve messed up somewhere. The dancers, the artist, the lighting and the whole production is based on time.

[@hendrir]

@@mikomai3754 What's the added value of live musicians then?

[@joshuaedo07]

@@hendrirthe fact that you actually have live instruments playing a somewhat rearranged live rendition of the record is the advantage here.

[@Michael.Hankins]

Can't drummers keep time anymore that they need this thing in their ear. Terrible. All that skill and has to play like a robot for a live function.

[@StealthSwith19136]

Its not about keeping time. Its all about production and playing on one accord. If you know anything about these guys, theyre well versed in their instrument, believe me. The fundamentals are there. 'playing like a robot' is what gets you paid. And if i need to used a click and queue to make sure I'm on time/within arrangement, I will.

[@mikomai3754]

@@StealthSwith19136 Thank you❤

[@XOBAND-sm4jr]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@clearkut8746]

Wow! My head is blown by Josh on this one, his timing & discipline to not to over play but to drum clinically, almost surgically is very impressive. What I found insightful was all the audio cues in the phones

[@EWHITE111111]

Autant prendre une bonne boîte à rythme et un mec qui fait de la figuration. Aucune place pour la créativité. Même les sons sont sans âme. Bref pitoyable

[@jota3845]

Wow, what a skill set you have! Thanks for giving us an insider view of a voice prompted click track. Never knew how this was done! Inspirational and exciting!

[@fasholaabiola]

U came prepared ❤❤❤😊😊🫠🫠🫠🫠

[@saintrose275]

It’s truly levels. Y’all snapped 💯

[@GeraldRoss-l4w]

One of the best in the game 🎯

[@pariwatwatthammasiri7099]

Best 7.18 minutes ever thanks youtube algorithm for this video i really love the vibes and also how you play its incredible 🍸

[@jarrahdrum]

wicked, thank you, subscribed

[@anarhuseynov29]

Excellent 👍

[@Jroc33]

I had my stank face on the whole time watching this!!!

[@strauqq1]

Im confused here. So im basically listening to a loud metronome playback?

[@StealthSwith19136]

You're hearing essentially what the drummer is hearing. He uploaded his in-ear audio as the audio for this video. Each musician (and usually singers as well) has a feed sent by an audio engineer thats playing back to their in-ears consisting of what they prefer to hear. Its essential because in a room with thousands of people singing/screaming, loud instruments etc, you wouldn't be able to hear a thing. All will usually have the backing track with the accompanying of a click and queues (keeping them in time and within arrangement). For example, Josh seems to have the backing with click and queues but also cut out the vocals so he can focus on the music. Whereas the singers may cut out the drums or ask the audio engineer to lower the volume of the drums/other instruments so they can hear themselves sing. Im not a professional but ive been drumming for a while and this is the jist of the concept.

[@strauqq1]

@@StealthSwith19136 Makes sense. Thanks