Stewart Copeland: Writing the "Spirits in the Material World" Drum Part

[@leafyleafyleaf]

Stewart has kept his child-like enthusiasm. And that’s a compliment. He refused to get ground down to a pulp.

[@MMulcair]

He reminds me of Rick's interview with Nuno Bettencourt. They're both still like 16 year olds who remain permanently in the "How lucky am I to be playing music?" phase.

[@ultraviolet9863]

i could listen to stewart copeland memories of those golden years all day long.

[@itneverwasme]

Beat me to it!

[@clayjones2370]

Stewart Copeland is one of my favorite humans. He's also an excellent drummer. This song always drives me crazy - the verse always sounds like you have the beat figured out. Then the chorus opens up and you realize you've been fooled. Awesome composition!

[@peterhopqk]

Omg i had exact the same thing when I heard this song for a while. The bass drum is not on the first beat until the chorus comes.

[@davidcahan]

You can see why they were notorious for in-fighting. He clearly has an opinion and has no trouble expressing it

[@demolandmusic]

agreed! he’s one of the most real “rock stars” very nice, very funny with just a smidge of ego haha

[@markbataitis4851]

Not only is Stewart one of the greatest ever at drumming but also, one of the most intelligent musicians you'll ever listen to.

[@johnathanwetherill456]

One of the best drummers to ever play in a band . Complete independence as if every limb was playing to a different song .

[@MarceloFernandes-on8rf]

Why on Earth there's no Stewart Copeland TV yet? The world needs it!

[@treystone1993]

Watch the full interview, great insights from Copeland. He's obviously brilliant but still so humble and down to Earth🌎.

[@terryIKE69]

Rick gets the best musicians AND storytellers, rolled in one. Could listen to Copeland all day. Have loved the Police since I was a pre-teen & their records are second to none. Top Shelf interview

[@tashi_kitty]

Another great interview, Rick! Stewart Copeland is such an entertaining guy and a phenomenal drummer. Thanks and keep doing what you’re doing!❤️

[@johncook30284]

Rick to Stewart Copeland, I do not do interviews. I have conversations

[@ikkenhisatsu7170]

"Spirits" is such a weird song to play. I can do it, but it's like the man said - it's all on a knife's edge. Every time I've played it, I felt like I'm walking a tightrope going to fall apart any second. GREAT tune! Copeland is so good and he has that rare knack of knowing just what works with the song.

[@Stretchwiz]

Drumeo and this today, it's amazing!

[@Vampier]

I was about to write the same

[@AVHtribute]

Another Legend!! Excellent stuff Rick🪖🥁✌

[@JohnGriffith-w2w]

Rick Beato is so disarming and easy going that the people being interviewed seem to let their guard down and they give the feeling that they have known Mr.B for a rather long time and they are like old friends! Good work Mr. Beato!

[@seanys]

What a wonderful communicator, Stewart is, and an even better drummer.

[@winstonllamas5163]

The theme to "The Equalizer" is incredible. The show itself was tremendous (Edward Woodward was phenomenal); the music he composed for that show stands the test of time.

[@Joe-mz6dc]

The drums in that song are superhuman.

[@Beckola44]

I really enjoyed this interview with Stewart Copeland. Thank you for the video Rick.

[@markedis5902]

The Casio VL tone was fantastic

[@JohnJohn-fz6nt]

A Bennigan's I worked at in the 80's had a mix tape that followed the sudden end of The Doors' TOUCH ME with a slight pause before starting SPIRITS IN THE MATERIAL WORLD. Sounded great somehow.

[@Oldmanrufus46]

I put them back to back on Spotify, and it does sound great! ✌️

[@billyidol2115]

I could literally listen to all of the early police over and over again. The way they have remastered and brought out the high-definition, it just makes Stuart and his sound just so much more killer way back when Neil Peart is on his way out the door with rush, I was pleading with the people in that van to go talk to Stewart copeland. I can't imagine the music that Rush would have been making when they finally did that last tour and then a couple years later Neil Peart dies. They could have had a great run well into their 70s. Instead they just quit and they're trying to make beer and stuff now I guess

[@justinhartnell6779]

Huh? Van?

[@brokl26]

I just watched Copeland on Drumeo. I love it all.

[@MPHHarzy]

Up and down with Stewart Love Copeland & The Police

[@eng912]

Live on Drumeo, now Rick's channel...🎉 what a day! ❤thank you Mr Copeland

[@barryledgister4496]

I saw that Drumeo thing in the Steve Hoffman Music Forum, who often discuss Rick...have to start a thread on this interview...

[@robertashmen9321]

Absolutely an amazing track for every reason Stewart mentions. I've fought with feeling this groove since it was released as a drummer. Absolutely brilliant! And now I know how it was born!!!!!

[@bluefish4999]

Yeah and that bass line is something else in the verse, simple, but not easy, Spirits is my favorite Police song, I remember when that album first came out I was 10, man take me back to the 80s!

[@robertashmen9321]

@@bluefish4999 I was a little older, but only a few years. 👍

[@robertashmen9321]

I love you, Rick! And Stewart, too!!!

[@ivansindicic5960]

Nice ambient for guests , i like the change . 👍🏻

[@terrykathforever]

Like always a great interview 👍

[@joeb6245]

Brilliant interview Rick

[@Serai3]

I f**king love Klark Kent. Those were some great songs. "Away From Home" still makes me laugh because it sounds exactly like my brother when he moved into his first place.

[@matthewwallace1374]

the gig in Germany was that Stuart, Sting, and Andy played on an Eberhard Schroner album...

[@brucecall1595]

There has to be an invisible sun.

[@RRPerez]

It gives its heat to everyone.

[@corycanavan5794]

Just watched Stewart on Drumeo he’s awesome as he’s so plain and straight no mucking about and I recall the full interview here . Very informative always entertaining

[@artguti1551]

One, Two, Rap-bam-bot-tal-am... Love it!

[@sharonpaulsen5884]

Cool clip! Now I have to go listen to vintage Police again! ❤

[@kenthonea5533]

One of my favorite songs

[@macsnafu]

I had a Casio MT-68 early on, and you bet I explored everything it could do and used what I found interesting about it, I especially relied on the drum beats, since I wasn't a drummer, but you could come up with interesting stuff with the arppegio feature. Later I had a Casio CTK-650, and it had some great sounds on it.

[@peterhadfield9840]

Love listening to Stewart!

[@ianrickey208]

Rick, love your content, your Beato book, your passion, your insights, all the music theory, support for largely unknown artists, most of the interviews, the rooms of your studio (I'm still trying to ID all the guitar amps...), and almost everything else. I don't get why interview snippets are selected for Beato 2 when they fit oh-so-naturally in Beato 1. Lil' help?

[@CallousCoder]

As a kid born in 73, I always found the POLICE sounding “very unusual” in a pleasant sense. Luckily my neighbour’s kids were older so 6/7 year old me got mix tapes they’d make for me with Bowie and POLICE. Those were two rather unusual sounds that I loved.

[@LucasSouza-tu3nl]

Olá Rick , seria possível uma explicação sua sobre a grande musica do A-ha theres a never forever thing , grande abraço !!!! Seu trabalho é de mais !!!!

[@PeterSokol-bl5vz]

I still have my Casio VL-1….got it for Christmas in 79 when they came out…used it live in my band running through a Memory Man…a Boss Chorus and Tremelo pedal….it was a huge sound…loved them and use it to this day run through a guitar synthesizer..and still compose on it.

[@huggeebear]

Stewart and Adam Savage sit down to have a conversation...I'd watch the f** outta that!

[@danielmelo7146]

Nice!

[@cjustintoekes2285]

When are you interviewing Alex Lifeson?

[@rareform6747]

Seen this months ago .. was good

[@ikkehierrro]

Tory Slusher is a fav finger drummer and guitarist. Up to date and all.

[@barnabyaprobert5159]

I wish that my memory was as good as Stewart's!

[@jamwayofaiken-augustarockb7643]

My favorite Police tune!

[@stevealexander7772]

Sting and Stewart both interviewed on a guitarist's channel. Where is Andy???

[@davidsmith433]

Looks like Rick got to visit the Sacred Grove, how cool is that?

[@poplifemedia]

Just subscribed to this channel as well!

[@michaelmcdonald3275]

Joe Jackson said he used a little casio to come up with songs.... like it was a portable band...

[@steveperelli3602]

I love don’t stand so close to me

[@viperphoenix...]

Stewart was smacking those drums hard

[@DiegoRooks]

Stuart is awesome

[@stewartstafford]

I have nothing but respect for Stewart Copeland, probably because he has the correct spelling of Stewart in his name as I do (I refuse to recognise Stuarts, we've tolerated these people enough and I'm sick of baristas in Starbucks automatically assuming my name is spelled Stu and not Stew).

[@umyes5246]

Energy ⚡ 🥁

[@ugocdf7706]

That's just him and I can relate

[@Bryan-js2is]

I know Copeland not because of the Police, because of the Spyro the Dragon soundtrack he wrote. I grew up with this music. Listen to ''Town square'' from the Spyro soundtrack, you can really feel his style.

[@Oldmanrufus46]

Stewart and Sean Kinney would be my ideal drummer blunt rotation

[@TJ-id6ee]

Haha I love this guy. ❤

[@joesmith4443]

Really easy to flip the beat if you’re not careful playing the offbeats

[@tendraftsdeep]

No, I got that keyboard he's talking about. Still works. No AI in that

[@albertdale5101]

Spirits is possibly the finest work The Police ever did...on the shoulders of giant works!

[@patrickgilligan6313]

Sting is the King of Sing along melodies

[@colinshaw4592]

I swear I hear that opening fill rhythmically differently than he demonstrated it in this video. Lol But who am I to challenge Mr Copeland? Maybe I'm hearing the pickup note in the wrong place. I dunno.

[@robingunnarsson6412]

This guy should have his own reality show.

[@9876yhfdhhf]

All I got is the gift of this song. Written in the key of Devo. Pass that dip. Give the Pabst a sip. Step on a snack. Take your Hummus back. When a problem comes along. You'll eat crickets. Before the cream is all long gone. You'll eat crickets. When everything is going wrong. You'll eat crickets. Now cricket! In a shake! Whip it up! Fishing bait! Go for it! Eat its head! Try to digest it! It's not so great! To cricket! Cricket good! When the end times come around. You must cricket. You will never visit town. Unless you cricket. No one gets a say. Until they cricket. I say cricket. Cricket good. I say cricket. Cricket good. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.

[@steveperelli3602]

What did I mean by that? OK I’ll explain because I have an adapter for one of them it’s a Casio it has a tuner and it doesn’t work so I need to get one so it works and I have a Yamaha. You don’t have have to worry about it because you don’t have to tune it. what does Kevin Cronan say you can’t tune a fish, but you can tune a piano you know why you don’t have to worry about tuning it because it’s already tuned ha ha ha

[@deco-edesiojairwittkowski8883]

genius.. eternal stewart

[@jiminycrint]

Hilarious description of the sound check….

[@leocomerford]

IIRC that’s basically how Moroder wrote “I Feel Love”, too.

[@andronouts]

And damon albarn said that gorillaz song clint Eastwood...get the basic sample from old casio keyboard too....

[@cjo2012]

Although his snare shots remind me of Alan White, overall, I have to say he is Neil Peart's heir apparent.

[@joshtaylor4583]

Rolling Stone magazine selected [Purple Rain] as the Number-1 Movie Soundtrack. NOW Rick has to talk about Prince! 😇😀😃😄

[@tonymason6686]

This damn song. I can NOT hear it correctly no matter how I try. My mind refuses to think anything except "The keyboard is the downbeat". Everyone once in a while I "get it" in the 3rd verse but it slips away once I pay any attention to the keys.

[@sapinva]

Yeah, that upbeat thing has always been a bit challenging for me. Police took it to extremes.

[@henne2k]

As a fellow drummer: I don’t understand the question… 😅 it’s just off beats. What’s the problem?

[@AlexanderStenerud1975]

They had the cops writing songs for them?

[@Kayavod]

I checked, I'm subsbribed, LOL.

[@uwefechner6982]

Funny guy !!❤

[@waskerbasket9601]

His brother probably had access to early AI.

[@splashesin8]

😊

[@steveperelli3602]

Don’t stand don’t stand so close to me sting The Police Stuart Copeland Andy Summers Gordon Summers they are called the police 👮‍♂️

[@narq5099]

Stewart is exhausting... But always interesting.

[@The_R-n-I_Guy]

Clark Kent huh? I've gotta hear this

[@jonchilds1637]

I love Stewart but... anyone else seeing Doc Brown??!!

[@eschaef71]

Our bass player in a band called "1-800" was also a photographer and met Stewart at a show he was shooting...(help me out, early 90's?) and after the show , mentioned he was also in a band. Stewart said, "What's the name of your band?" Our guy said "1-800". Stewart said, "That's good!! Unresolved, but still good."

[@spanqueluv9er]

@eschaef71 That never happened.🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤡👎

[@eschaef71]

@@spanqueluv9er it sure did.

[@bjornholzapfel9102]

He doesn't like saying "his" name, right?

[@chrisspencer5042]

He’s hilarious

[@wobblynoggin]

That’s not AI. It was programmed into the Casio.

[@lrcb40]

I can tell, Rick, how much you enjoyed this interview! I suspect it may have needed a few takes, due to you being cracked up!

[@3030drummer]

Stewart Copeland’s dad (who was in the CIA) said that no one would believe why The Police were actually created. Klark Kent reveals a bit more of the puzzle. “It’s a BIG CLUB, and you ain’t in it.” - George Carlin

[@mancuniancandidatem]

What did Klark Kent say? Are there some lyrics or an interview that spill the beans? I know the CIA connection helped when they had their gear impounded in Egypt. I always wondered about that connection of Stewart's dad.

[@AnnZeeK]

"The five percent nation of CasioTone..."

[@bryede]

Love Stewart, but I cringe when I hear "AI." I mean, he was simply inspired by a rhythm preset.

[@SentimentalHogwash]

Not only is he an incredible drummer, but he also has no clue what AI is.

[@r.plante2916]

The transition from the verse bassline to the chorus bassline is very counterintuitive.

[@spanqueluv9er]

No it isn’t.🤡

[@Jay-wk9xj]

Love stewart but he doesn't understand what AI actually is... Real musicians utilize electronic samples to orchestrate - and in many cases perform in real time - to create something NEW. He even says Sting didnt use the actual sample he was just inspired by it.. AI on the other hand cuts amd pastes random samples to ape someones existing work... its incapable of real creativity - it merely learns how to mimic. HUGE difference.

[@TDC5]

love his playing but he reminds me of bill walton. everything is the most grandiose story ever. they just try way too hard to sell their story and it ends up coming across as exaggerated and ridiculous. the meat of the story is enough. just convey it and leave all the over-the-top theatrics out of it.

[@ugocdf7706]

That's just him and his energy....and I can relate

[@Neal_Schier]

Swears as much as Dave Grohl... but who am I to say? I struggle with the language and so I need someone who describes the thoughts clearly as I have a hard time figuring out what is behind the invectives.

[@leafyleafyleaf]

It is not invective in his case. It’s like putting words in bold font. For emphasis.

[@Neal_Schier]

@@leafyleafyleaf That's fair. It is just something that I have not yet quite mastered so my brain and ear are a bit disconnected when I hear such manners of expression.

[@ugocdf7706]

That's just him and his energy....and I can relate!