VIRGIL DONATI "10 SECONDS TO MERCURY" DOUBLE BASS FILLS THAT DOMINATE! Drum Lesson//DDA

[@morgenthaler]

Virgil's webmaster here. Great job, Jeff - and cool channel, keep up the good work! 🥁 ❤

[@JeffBowders]

Thank you, I greatly appreciate that! And you keep up the good work too! 🙌

[@karlfagerstrom]

This is so sick and informative!

[@JeffBowders]

You got it, Karl! 👊

[@guitartutorhk6506]

Hi Jeff! Saw u play a few times during your paul gilbert days! One was at guitar center LA for a PG clinic in 2009 and i came up to you and shoke your hands and said "good show man!" , you totally rocked the show and like your drum work on racer X with pg! Hope you are doing well and hope to see u play live somwday!

[@JeffBowders]

Thank you very much! I remember that gig at GC. Lot's of crazy covers we probably jammed on for way too long. Ha! Hopefully see you at another one in the future. Thanks for stopping by!

[@hazardeur]

god damned, i knew i heard that name somewhere. no idea this was the guy haha.

[@mikeb598]

Love Virgil!! Met him twice. Super nice guy. I have a number of his albums with Derek Sherinian/Planet X, Semantic Saturation, Nili Brosh, Kiko Loureiro, Agah Bahari, Bunny Brunel, CAB (featuring Tony on guitar), Devils Slingshot (again w/Tony) Soul Sirkus (2 versions; 1 w/Virgil the other with Deen C.) and Beyond Turbines.

[@JeffBowders]

Mike, I feel our CD collections would be quite similar!

[@mikeb598]

@@JeffBowders I wouldn't be surprised.

[@HoldenMcG]

To quote you from another video, because it's such an important piece of advice... "If you're not counting, you're guessing."

[@JeffBowders]

Absolutely! Especially with this fill. Counting is essential when you're playing phrases and orchestrations that are a bit "outside" the norm. Thanks for the reminder!

[@flanger001]

This is a hard-ass fill dude. Nice work.

[@JeffBowders]

It's a "fun" one!

[@flamtrap]

I-N-T-E-N-S-E!!

[@JeffBowders]

Just like the circus fire! Sorry, it's one of those punny days.

[@MatthiasFrommann]

great lessons, as always 😊 in was wondering what metronome app to you use in the background..?

[@JeffBowders]

Thank you, Matthias! That would be the champion of all metronome apps-PolyNome. 🏆

[@mikeb598]

Check out (and maybe a great fill to break down) Brandon Fields "Aggressive Tranquility off his album, The Other Side of the Story w/Gregg Bissonette on drums. The fill done at 1:38 is one on the smoothest coolest double bass fills recorded IMO. Not super hard but smooth and just about perfect.

[@JeffBowders]

Of course you would suggest a fill from Master Bissonette! Love this whole album and this fill in particular. I will absolutely to a breakdown of it. Thanks, Mike!

[@mikeb598]

@@JeffBowders Nice. It is a great smooth almost effortless fill.

[@JeffBowders]

@@mikeb598 Just like everything Gregg plays!

[@mikeb598]

@@JeffBowders pretty much sums him up.

[@mancuniancandidatem]

There was a transcription in Modern Drummer back in 1988 with that drum break. There were a couple of examples off that Brandon Fields album provided on a floppy 45. I ended up buying the vinyl. It's a great fusion record. I ended up stealing some of those licks and still use them today.

[@nigeldarrah4573]

Dude I want those shoes! Where can I get a pair?

[@JeffBowders]

From the green shoe store, of course!

[@DrumThruDriveIn]

RAD!

[@Slave1969]

I love this fill from Virgil starting at 1:50. Could you plese do a breakdown of this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3ivmGZ7ftGogtk

[@JeffBowders]

Amazing! I'll put this on this list. Thank you!

[@shaderbytes]

16th note triplet less common than 8th note triplets? in fills on the drums? cough cough .. gospel chops ;)

[@JeffBowders]

Haha! Yes, definitely a lot of 16th Note Triplets happening in that world. But we do learn and count and feel less notes per beat than we typically do with more.

[@smokesreefer9417]

Umm... Your foot cam makes it look like you have Rickets😮😮😢😢 maybe no fish eye lens on the feet next time. Just saying .

[@cheezruff]

Really cool fill. Great breakdown and demo! Virgil fan from way back here, I never knew this CD existed! There are so many incredible double bass grooves and figures in his discography. Gotta mention 2 songs: Apocolypse 1470 BC from Derek Sherinian and Dragon Bones from Serious Young Insects. Some wacky double kick figures that seem very Meshuggah-inspired.

[@JeffBowders]

Yeah, it's a great album. Marco Minnemann also plays a few tracks on it as well. I couldn't agree more that first Sherinian album and Serious Young Insects were game-changing albums for sure! A new double bass standard was set.