Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials #79: Very Fast Swing

The second edition of the best-selling original Groove Essentials™ features a DVD with 53 brand new grooves and over 100 variations for intermediate to advanced players! Students will learn the difference between ghost and grace notes (while being encouraged to experiment with both in all six groove "families") as well as important "go-to" grooves, like the Train and Bo-Diddley beats. For more advanced players and professionals, GE 2.0 introduces the concepts of groove construction, interpretation and manipulation- training drummers to think like musicians in order to maximize their full potential.

[@GSA_Drums]

If only the kid in whiplash had gone to Mr.Igoe for his speed lessons. He needn't have bloody hands 😄

[@dannymotionless3417]

He was doing it correctly tho.

[@eternalreturnal]

@@dannymotionless3417 no way! that movie is garbage in how it represents jazz and drumming.

[@vaughanxaviermusic]

@@eternalreturnal totally agree lol

[@goseeaboutagirl]

I can’t stand that movie 😂

[@jamarathonpolygon7735]

@Kevin Feige More soul Than ANY of the modern drummers? Literally any drummer alive now? This is beyond ridiculous.

[@alexhunterjr.6344]

GREAT TEACHING! I studied with your dad around 1973 1974. What an improvement that was for me! thank you for this.

[@sappermade6012]

This saved my ASSSSSSS at a gig one night I’m a blues/rock drummer got a call $200 to fill in a gig w a swing jazz quad the guys were lighting fast. I found this video on the freakin way to the gig.....I got called a 2nd time to fill in before the quad spilt up. Fake it to make it !!!!!! Thx big T

[@LeakyJAZZ]

that flat ride is soo incredibly chill. It just calmly whispers when you hit it. I want it...

[@nickwilkinsmusic]

3:33 the lick

[@matt8912]

Nick Wilkins Music :o

[@darreldempaire687]

HE DID THE LICK

[@larrytate1657]

Tommy is one of the best drummers alive. He should get more attention in the drumming world I feel. Everyone is so hung up on certain guys and I feel like Tommy slips through the cracks, meanwhile when it comes to playing music he's on another level.

[@Pratt-zp5mr]

Check out his dad Sonny as well

[@agoo7581]

People don't talk about him much because he is notorious prick to everyone he meets. No one is denying his skills though.

[@guitarunt]

Man, i can listen to this kind of jazz all day. Still need to find more music with this Double time swing.

[@stuartdorsey1362]

The hardest part of fast swing for me is not the right hand, but keeping on time with the 2&4 on the hi hat.

[@larifari2467]

Ok

[@mikestevens5512]

Everything beat you practice, every fill, use your Hi hat with these exercises. Gradually it will Become second nature.

[@tiphaineluccy3795]

beautiful. Thanks a lot for sharing. I really like playing drums. :D

[@Pellow]

You say you can do that all day and not get tired, but at 1:51 you were yawning.

[@marcelszekowski315]

You say that it's a saying and joke but i dont get it

[@teedee8868]

😂

[@rishipoddar2559]

Hahahahaha

[@shawnhapney8784]

Top Tier. Whatever Tommy wants to perform? He does it effortlessly.

[@midnitemedia]

when u ask a jazz musician not to play the lick: 2:09

[@Yaboroqe]

WoW! That E drum at the end sounds very convincing in this fast swing atmosphere.

[@mikestevens5512]

This is a great great lesson from a true master!

[@xMTLKx]

I could watch this all day long

[@alanfurlong-drummer4419]

Thank you for a brilliant lesson

[@dvpowers]

great lighting on the video!

[@dominic8129]

Great tip man!! Thanks a ton

[@joekelner3520]

"training drummers to think like musicians" .... ouch that's a rough line to have in the description.

[@HouseJawn]

LMAO 😂

[@georgegeorgopoulos6014]

Legend!!

[@LanceCampeau]

Man.... that flat ride is super TASTY with hot sauce.

[@aryanoberoi7528]

goddamn what is that ride cymbal - its heavenly

[@kurtjohnson1042]

Looks like a k constantinople flat ride, probably a 22, they don't make it anymore.

[@ofdrumsandchords]

The average flat is 20. Nice sound but not powerful. Good for restaurants and little clubs, don't take it in the open if you are not amplified.

[@TheCymbalProject]

@Fusion72 Yup.... that is true

[@ofdrumsandchords]

If the sound is the musician, Tommy is something.

[@markwalkerdrums]

Yeah, Tommy!

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Yes Sir! That's how you get it done.

[@xMTLKx]

1:35 never have enough of this

[@sotender48]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!Great drummer!

[@JoeLackey]

It’s also worth noting that the less you move your arm, elbow, or wrist, the easier this will be for you. Keep things tight and together, and you’ll be okay.

[@robbyboy03]

Hey Tommy. I do love your work. Please tell me what is your ride cymbal. I love it as a jazz ride. Cheers my friend

[@jcamilot6482]

Where can I find all the videos of every groove?

[@teedee8868]

Monster Chops !!!

[@Garbrel80]

Damn. This guy slays. Didn't he play for Blood Sweat & Tears once upon a time?

[@domenicocolaianni1990]

Amazing. Track name?

[@blujay9191]

Great stuff. It sounds like my first order of business is to at least get my RH quarter notes up to that speed first.

[@mikestevens5512]

You will get there. Once you get there the Hard part is the drop your left just before The before the pattern on the ride

[@alainpinsotes4844]

does anyone possibly have a transcription starting at 3:24? I think i have the muscle memory i just need a transcription and my life will be complete

[@mahavishnustravinskij]

What kind of jazz would the first example classify as?

[@RADSQUID123]

Bebop!

[@mharbaugh]

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[@Simon-iy7mt]

Its a type of jazz known as jazzy.

[@EnriqueCruz-zs4zq]

I feel the electric drum is like .01 seconds delayed, but feel it, lliked much more the first play on real drums, much more in sync and alive

[@bdd9268]

Thank you julian casablancas

[@janetremsing6988]

👍🙂‼️🥳

[@pumpkin1982]

Consummate professional. I’m not sure what that style of 70’s rock/R&B is specifically, but he’s got it all over Shawn Pelton from SNL. It’s like New York soul rock fusion. Whatever SNL plays.

[@earthorigins3509]

With the hi-hat going a mile a minute, doesn't your left foot get tired at all?? Or do you stop the hi-hat and just use the ride, snare and bass?

[@ivanpetrov4206]

As I understand, the full secret in that to learn a little variants сliche of coordination for successfully imitation. For a start, do try to playing and concentrating on a movement left-foot (or right, if you lefthander) on a hi-hat. Thus you should play a wide movement (quarter) on "upbeat", not swing or move leg from side to side all eight notes.

[@ezequiasdossantos2816]

name of the song he plays

[@gw8278]

Yes, relax. His main point of course. What he doesn't talk about is stick/finger/bounce control and the 5000 hrs of reps to get to that point. It's almost disingenuous to make a simplified point like this when there's a boat load of honest work to get to those tempos. But to relax is an opposing mindset, as he says.

[@kirjian]

He's also not explicitly talking to beginners. With more experienced players, sometimes the key to playing better is a different perspective, a new approach, so that all the practice you *already* put in comes together nicely

[@JoaquinCorreaDrums]

He also doesn't mention that at first you should just isolate the right hand, then slowly add the foot hi hat and finally the comping on snare and bass drum. It's totally disingenuous the way he tackled the topic. In fact one could say he avoid it completely.

[@ElBoyoElectronico]

Haha, my biggest problem with fast swing is not my hand technique, it is that I am unable to count that fast. My brain is too slow

[@noaht7000]

1:46 is ripe for meme making

[@davidmartin6959]

no quite my tempo

[@zal8424]

Imagine bass player if they play with this speed

[@tommywu7940]

Mr. Igoe sounds like a Jedi Master when he lectures

[@batacoPANTERAabbott]

Unless you are Steve Smith.

[@TheTechAndScience]

Salomon Bataco us mere mortals cannot compare to he who is Steve Smith

[@batacoPANTERAabbott]

Cinnamon Life Cereal not ever!

[@batacoPANTERAabbott]

Cinnamon Life Cereal but tommy Igoe Is one hell of a drummer too tho.

[@TheTechAndScience]

Salomon Bataco agreed

[@ranmadog72000]

Tommy, can you play a little more faster, please?

[@fran__co]

Ok how the fuck

[@yoyoz333]

its not exactly swing if you're not playing a triplet feel

[@jamarathonpolygon7735]

Swing can be different from a triplet feel, certainly at fast tempos but also at any tempo. The skip note can be placed almost anywhere between straight eighths and straight sixteenths as long as you are consistent in that feeling.

[@gw8278]

Ok relax, breath, RELAX! And shed your 5000+ hours to refine your Moeller/finger control to make this goal. Something he must assume you know, right?

[@ididyermom3273]

Drummers have the most physically demanding jobs so DON'T give us a hard time, OR ELSE!!

[@robertoetojo5861]

Great piano player sounds like Herbie Hancock

[@waranghira]

Sure he can yawn doing it, but how does a normal person do that

[@CatrinaDaimonLee]

This is not authentic because 1) you do not pronounce 'jazz' as 'jeeazz' like all the greats do, and b)your hands are not bleeding. Ha.