If Jazz Had...Breakdowns?

This one was really fun! I hope you enjoy lol
Kristap's original video! • Kristaps Pucens - Rage
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[@kristapspucens]

You crushed it! 🔥 I made this song when I was obsessed with Tigran Hamasyan... Actually my view of time signature in this song was in eight notes. 5/8 3/8 5/8 4/8 3/8, but I was counting 5/8 TakiDidami 3/8 Takida 5/8 TakiDidami 4/8 Takidimi 3/8 Takida... of course there is 4/4 part and some changes in end part.

[@rkylebritt]

Zack: Hey Kristaps what time signature is this in? Kristaps: Yes. Killer stuff man!!

[@infinitydrumming]

As a fellow Tigran fan, I recognised what you were up to! Mock root is one of my all time favourite albums. Have you got a name for this track?

[@alexheadley7911]

Really cool composition!! He's right about the Dark Zelda vibes, and it's awesome

[@GillesLouisReneDeleuze]

I think he chined it

[@kristapspucens]

@@infinitydrumming Kristaps Pucens - Rage

[@ricosbizzareadventure7237]

anything can be 4/4 if you try hard enough

[@TillyP]

Counterpoint: Everything is in 1/8 and nothing is real

[@Johnbobon]

​@@TillyP 😮

[@oyc7946]

Everything is 4/4 if you stop counting like a nerd

[@austinsatterfield4981]

​@TillyP countercounterpoint: music can be divided by 1/1024 time and everything lines up

[@stefanfyhn4668]

​@@oyc7946good luck counting 7/8 in 4/4

[@MacroAggressor]

Bruh!!!!! I want an entire Jazz-core album now.

[@bastiaanstam9713]

Check out Tigran Hamasyan

[@MacroAggressor]

@@bastiaanstam9713 Nice. Just listened to the Berklee recording of Drip. Not quite the same feel as Zach's piece here, but I like it. Has similar vibes to Sungazer.

[@user-tu2dr3ny6x]

Check out Trioscapes. They only put out 2 albums but they were phenomenal. Bassist for prog metal band "Between the Buried and Me" formed that band, and it pretty much sounds like crazy complex prog metal but with sax and jazz flute and no vocals. The music in this video fits perfectly with the stuff they put out.

[@luissue6692]

ckeck out Kanaan

[@aidilmubarock5394]

Tigran Hamasyan entertain me, it's the closest to the song in the video, or The grid, out of the grid, just check his mockroot album

[@mattdrewdrums]

I love an aggressive, dark jazz sound.

[@sebastianschellhase738]

Any recommendations?

[@mattdrewdrums]

@sebastianschellhase738 I like the stuff Mike Mitchell and Greg Spero have done. Look into them.

[@mattdrewdrums]

@sebastianschellhase738 I would look into the stuff Mike Mitchell and Greg Spero have done. Mitchell is an insane jazz drummer whose playing is also heavily influenced by metal. Also, the stuff Matt Garstka has done outside of Animals as Leaders. More specifically, check out stuff he's done with Louis de Mieulle.

[@fatribz]

@@sebastianschellhase738 not the op, but this reminds me of the first track from 'The OC Jazz Collective - Chronology: A Jazz Tribute to Chrono Trigger' though this is more sharper edged

[@sebastianschellhase738]

@@mattdrewdrums thanks. I will dig into it.

[@alexanderheathen2628]

If these videos are easy for you to make, please make more of them. I love the process, your drummer, and the community participation.

[@jamescruz8678]

Ever since I heard the beat switch in The Comet is Coming's Tiny Desk performance of "Super Zodiac", I realized the world absolutely needs more jazz songs with hard-hitting breakdowns.

[@dandg1398]

w pfp

[@sirdo946]

Nice pfp bro

[@diacoal2433]

​@@sirdo946 Huh, it seems I've stumbled onto two fellow Tesseract enjoyers. I'm sorry I don't belong to the altered state pfp club

[@jamescruz8678]

@@diacoal2433 nah man I'm excited people have different opinions on which album they love best. Every one sounds distinct from each other.

[@diacoal2433]

@@jamescruz8678 True, each one has its own thing going on. I don't think I could pick one absolute favourite though

[@ZeugmaP]

That was insanely cool ! It sounds like a Tigran Hamasyan song

[@bladez115z]

aaah thanks! i came here to see if anyone else would reference tigran hasyan, such an amazing composer

[@SoupDoesStuff]

Guys he said the thing

[@drummersnare6276]

Yeah almost exactly

[@armistice212]

This. Yes. Indubitably.

[@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer]

That was absolutely fkn wild. I could listen to music like this 24/7. Something about the drumming style that's at once so progressive but with Jazz foundations and cymbal tones and the style of saxophone (the best horn there is) brings so much energy but at the same time is so relaxing and helps me create and sustain a comfortable flow state as well as a rush of this strange nostalgia that's difficult to describe of things that feel so familiar to me but that I can't remember ever having experienced. Anyway, I'm probably nuts but that's some killer stuff.

[@ZackGrooves]

It's fascinating how music has the power to evoke nostalgia and stir emotions that are sometimes hard to put into words. You're definitely not nuts.

[@armansenson2864]

Listen to the album "Separate Realities" from Trioscapes. Definitely a similar vibe.

[@SheldonGreatJob]

you can listen to badbadnotgood most of the day?

[@brunohoo]

@@armansenson2864 awesome sound by these guys! Thanks for the reference!

[@NegoClau]

24/7 is a great tempo to come up with something... Ain't it?

[@oroque492]

"Thank You Scientist" style, basically. You're great, Zack!

[@wholewheat1]

commented the same thing before I saw yours. I saw them live as an opener and it was the happiest i've ever been to hear a band i never heard before

[@oroque492]

​@@wholewheat1 I'd love to see them, but i'm from Brazil, is almost impossible. A really good band.

[@JayFFAFAlesanaES]

​@@oroque492I saw them in 2017 on their first UK tour. Unfortunately some sound issues (particularly with the microphone) took place, BUT the vocalist was hilarious. He took my friends massive bar of Toblerone (An English chocolate) and sang into it instead and then came and moshed with us in the crowd. After that, we all chanted "One of Us" and the whole band did an improv to the chant. It was a shame, but also absolutely one of the best shows still. I got to chat to the electric violin player, Ben, after the show. He is just awesome!

[@Odinarcade00]

I haven’t listened to a lot but they are very good 👍

[@crewd00d]

It's closer to Clown Core, in my opinion.

[@BrianOfAteionas]

As a metalhead who dabbles in jazz and r&b this was absolutely amazing to me. Really loved it.

[@MrMcRobsen]

it has massive prog metal potential

[@linklink-_-6399]

This needs to be released i would listen to this non stop

[@VinceViglione]

Tigran Hamasyan. As soon as possible. His music is exactly what you are looking for. He blends Armenian folk influences, jazz, and prog metal with the piano as the primary instrument. His drummer is absolutely insane. Vardavar, Vortex (ft Tosin Abasi), Drip, and Shoger Jan are some tracks to get you started. One from a few different albums. He’s a god.

[@aknightslifeChannel]

It's like if Snarky puppy and zackgrooves got together to perform an epic piece. Great Job to everyone involved with this one!!!!

[@johndoemyco]

best comment

[@EliTurp]

I've never heard anything like that combo at the end...man what a great track!

[@cameroncorrosive925]

try the band TRAM its Tosin Abasi

[@thebearcollectivetbc]

it's actually insane watching your hands and feet move so independently of each other and creating such a free-flowing and masterful sounding drum groove. Awesome stuff

[@moor.j2948]

Please give someone the chance to lay down a bassline for this one! This is an absolute banger

[@thepamperedgoddess3279]

Agree

[@mikeandre7364]

Agreed

[@blasteffect19]

It gives me secret of the unknown from Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah mixed with some Tigran Hamasyan vibe which is absolutely gorgeous, really a treat to my ears, keep providing us with stuff like that, props to Kristaps for the original song he has a great musical taste.

[@SeanReeser]

Bro I never even stopped to think about the time signature while I was playing it 😂 I still don't know what it is.

[@Blackout_Films]

Ok ignore the amazing music and hilarious humor in this video for a sec, that is the stankiest most funky drum kit I've ever seen and I'm loving it?????

[@sportsguy23]

You guys need to do a full recording of this. That was so sick.

[@TeiuAl]

Duuude, this video was definitely worth the wait. I love the sax lead and the drums part is awesome as always. I want more. Common man, just one more hit

[@rebelliousfineart8202]

The saxophone guy went real phrygian with the melody. He knew the assignment and he taught the assignment how to djent.

[@mixikpixi6123]

Duude, thats sick, please release this song

[@tylerkellylefty42]

You gotta look at Trioscapes! Especially their song Blast Off. It's some epic jazz fusion metal shenannigans.

[@mastertonberry9224]

Definitely seconding this rec, also make sure to check out Nova Collective - Dancing Machines (or literally anything with Dan Briggs really) and Thank You Scientist - Rube Goldberg Variations!

[@cjlc93]

0:47 could be a Tigran Hamasyan song, especially because of the beatboxing at the beginning

[@augustindrummer2919]

Yessss !

[@hurrianko]

That's exactly what I came here to say!

[@hurrianko]

The ending reminds me a lot of the ending of Entertain Me

[@DeejayRach0]

this is copy paste Tigran

[@johnsongobbler]

the guy who made the song said he was obsesed with tigran hamasyan at the moment

[@laurenzdeppisch7749]

the whole thing feels very snarky puppy - i love it

[@BlackstoneJ]

This is straight up Prog! Love it . If you enjoy stuff like this you should really check out Joshua de la Victorias solo project "Victoria" and his collabs with Joseph Anijar. They also formed a band called Portraits that's prog /prog metal. My favorite tracks from Victoria would be Kepler and Iris, his collab song with Joseph called "traveller" , and the whole Portraits EP is dope.

[@sfwhiteside]

Man! That gives me Tigran Hamasyan vibes. The song “The Grid”.

[@k-bo2738]

Let me tell right now that all jazz is in 4 and has breakdowns when i get ahold of it

[@DrunkWizard40]

Nice! Sounds like a Cameron Graves song haha

[@Sandro234]

This guy's a great musician and his facial expressions when deciphering this song and making the accompaniment was absolutely hilarious!

[@boyna13]

Wow, your saxo friend did amazing job on the track! And you as well!

[@jonathanjoseph350]

Excited to see Everything yes in Toronto! Youre super creative and precise 🔥

[@RADZADproductions]

Bro just essentially made a new Thank You Scientist song (also can we please get an Everything Yes Djazz Album)

[@jifix6425]

Glad I'm not the only one that can't be bothered to change the windows 11 background

[@ZackGrooves]

Finally. Someone gets it

[@JediMobius]

Utterly nails the ending groove with pure $ precise percussive punctuation, and says "idk, somethin like that" 🤣

[@JediMobius]

Oh, and I'd say 1st groove for the front half of the phrase into 2nd groove from there.

[@jeremy_buck_]

naa that quick ad was jokes 2:30 bro said "ok turn around"😂

[@joshd561]

has to be the coolest jazz song I've ever listened to

[@jasonthedrummer]

Legitimately amazing.

[@maruxarn]

I'm just saying...clown core!

[@ChristianSpivey]

😂

[@thursday177]

True

[@EdwardGordington]

oh my god this was amazing you both killed it, it has such a Nintendo vibe to it even the sax reminds me of some of the soundtracks on the latest Mario kart 8, it just sounds so badass!

[@caioandrade2899]

thank you scientist

[@Skeleton_Dork]

Just listen to Automatic Blue by Thank You Scientist. The ending is metal as hell

[@xMTLKx]

Man this the most insanest insaneful insane insanity I've ever heard

[@alexislozano233]

Drums on fire, sax on fire, Tigran obsession and Dark Zelda vibes... Pure Rage! 🤘🔥

[@ophirhaddad]

That's a fantastic song right there at the end and Im waiting for a complete version in the streaming platforms, thanks

[@UnityRojo]

gives me some heavy David Bowie Blackstar vibes

[@user-ec3tb9xe6p]

When I heard the flanging appear on the drum transition, I hit the subscribe thing without a second thought. Fab work!

[@UnhingedFridge]

Man, that jam at the end took me straight to Shubh Saran feels. Kickass job.

[@lambdaman3228]

Who is that? Are you thinking many people watching this video will know who that is?

[@UnhingedFridge]

@@lambdaman3228 It's a comment about another musician who has made me feel a similar way, not trying to garner likes. Kinda like how comments used to work on the Internet.

[@lambdaman3228]

I could name drop some obscure musicians too, but I won't because virtually nobody reading these comments would have any idea who it was. Kinda like how things used to and continue to work in real life @@UnhingedFridge

[@UnhingedFridge]

@@lambdaman3228 Ah, yeah, but then you stay in a closeted nutshell and don't learn a damn thing. Touch some damn grass kid, because this channel was completely obscure to me until this video, yet you seem to have some sort of fucking agenda.

[@UnhingedFridge]

@@lambdaman3228 Ayo, your about page on here says "Trolling you since 1969." Just, assuming you forgot you weren't on main, I heard of Shubh through Adam Neely and I hadn't heard of this channel we're commenting on until the date of my comment. If everyone on the internet was as worthless as you, nobody would be sharing ideas or neat musicians they like, and every channel would have no uploads just like yours.

[@beatlebum7057]

This was dope as hell! When you brought in the sax, it reminded me a lot of the band Marbin.

[@xEMOANHATARON]

Absolutely crazy how Punx has pervaded everything… As I’m previously watching Converge (2001) lives. I think about this often, always have. I love the scene I’m in. We won. X

[@waitingspace]

This is the best Mars Volta video on KZbin.

[@appuser]

I love this Tigran Hamasyan, Tosin Abassi, Victoria-esque nonsense so much... there's just not enough of it out there

[@mikedrimba3529]

When you said email at the start it really reminded me of homestarrunner so thanks for the wave of nice nostalgia!

[@bontea5545]

You nailed it in the best way Zack, cd quality version of this much appreciated. Will buy it

[@andreyyoung5928]

Genius , I’m shaking my head

[@ohhimark7298]

this felt super thomas pridgen-era mars volta, i dig it

[@johng92]

Damn dude your kit was built for CHOPS. Sounds soooo NICE. From the cymbal selection to the tuning of the heads. Good shtuff.

[@jonatanmartini4517]

THIS WAS BRUUUUUTAL i loved it so much omg

[@cloudoftime]

Dude, this slaps so hard.

[@shibbibidy]

Fucking love this, incredible collab.

[@TPJN777]

Strong Ronald Shannon Jackson meets Thomas Pridgen feels on a lot of your skin slappin here!!

[@Barleh]

Dude with the drums, and when the saxes came in, i was mad vibin. Props to whoever wrote the song

[@GwanYTB]

Damn, besides the deathcore video, this one of the heaviest song that Zack have played. (Just my opinion though) That could be from Tigran Hamasyan honestly. Also, that Temporal Stack seems REALLY tight!

[@iamscythed]

This gives off a little bit of Univers Zero. Fantastic work.

[@augustindrummer2919]

When I saw the title, I immediatly thought of tigran hamasyan . He is an Amazing jazz pianist and you can definitly hear some djent I mean, for example listen to his song "out of the grid" Have a good day

[@greglmao6185]

This is really like what animals as leaders does sometimes

[@sangramos]

That ad had me rolling 🤣

[@jakefarmsteak]

This is heavy as fuck! Need a full Djazz album lol

[@patrickmcgahon9335]

This honestly reminds me of the Band, “Thank you Scientist” where they used a mix of jazz, samba and metal using multiple guitars and bass, horn ensemble, vocals and a string ensemble throughout their songs. They did this while also using various time signatures that they would hop between to create unique groove sections or unifying sections. The songs sounds amazing though great job on it!!

[@elliothetzer9685]

Total Thank You Scientist vibes through some that. Great job man!!!

[@devili7y585]

Groove idea 2 was fine af !!

[@drumemilian]

Yeeeeeees new video

[@jonathanrice-exec11]

Playing drums for years, I used to blend jazz songs with random drumming styles all the time. It's so fun

[@tycannon384]

You deserve sooooo many more followers. I adore the variation in all your videos. Thanks for sharing your talents with the world! 🌎

[@LeeroyJanky]

That intro gave me a major flashback to when the Sean J Kennedy Quartet visited my high school. My high school had a great jazz program and we've had fairly big names come in for our annual night of jazz concert. In 2007, we had the Sean J Kennedy Quartet right around when they released an album called Queen Anne's Revenge. I still listen to it from time to time. I just remember being a young kid and mostly listening to your usual suspects like Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Then this group comes in and hits us with music that goes as hard as the Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt soundtrack, but 8 years earlier.

[@proto35]

that was so much fire, I was worried for my life.

[@SimonBrisbane]

Sign the stix, I buy the stix! Better yet, get your bro to sign one of them too - yaasssss! BTW love those snare hit-boxes. They're like BOOM! HEADSHOT!

[@brandonleesmith1989]

Dude...this is incredible

[@ryanjabell]

There's a whole genre of bands dedicated to the title. A good start is thank you scientist

[@seanoneil6054]

Was playing some of the Portnoy drumeo videos for my little boys (9 and 6) only the little guy was into Portnoy... I thought hmm lemme check out Zack, they both LOVED this video, wish I could send a clip of them laughing their ass off to this, props to you man. So just gotta say you are better than Portnoy, according to my lil homies 🤗

[@ZackGrooves]

That’s so wholesome 😭 tell the little homies I said hi!

[@seanoneil6054]

​@@ZackGrooves the oldest is making a big claim that he's going to try to watch all of your videos now.. his initial reaction was just giggles and then sayin "he's real?!" I said buddy you watched a video of him playing of course he's real lmao. They have my old drum set, and I let them play with my current drum set sometimes now, in the process of building the drum room though so they can't play this second but I think they will be pretty inspired in the next few weeks when I'm done. Thanks for the response G, seems you have had an impact on two little drummers in Ohio, and myself included, I gotta get that room finished for them asap

[@FickleWid]

unicorn kazumi watanabe at around the late 3 minute mark has the nastiest breakdown in jazz i have ever heard

[@karlblanck7269]

Man that absolutely SLAPPED. I’d buy a whole album of this type of shit. Honestly, this RIPPED.

[@BenOnuMuDiyorum]

It sounded like a jazz cover of a Dream Theatre song 🧡

[@jakobwest4811]

Bro I made the nastiest stank face to that final take. And I don’t think there’s any higher honor than that

[@crooshflow1685]

Beyond dope!

[@john.theband2360]

Bro the breakdown with the sax trilling riff was straight up gross omg... And if you haven't heard the band T.R.A.M. you should definitely cause this reminded me heavy of them. Amazing stuff dude.

[@liquidyeti]

That breakdown is filthy!!! I was stank facing the whole way through.

[@McSuperUber1]

Fuck me, something about it is hitting my death metal happy place, good shit!

[@rodo2220]

"dark zelda" is such a spot-on description lol

[@diecast4556]

Wow!! Jazz core magic!!❤

[@joaogameiro1257]

That was amazing. Inspiring!

[@isaacyoder4137]

Have you heard of Trioscapes? A 3 piece jazz combo with a jazz sax player and progressive metal bass and drum players. It's literally just heavy jazz.

[@Citizen0fUtopia]

ZAKKKKKK I WANNA SEE YOU IN THE NEXT EDITION OF JARED DINES' MUSICIAN MANSION SOOOOOO BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDD!!!!!! that would be too funny to handle ...

[@BrilliantBenGaming]

I'm going to need an entire album of this style - holy sheet that slaps

[@manuthrashead]

Check Thank You Scientist

[@haha2161]

this entire thing kinda reminded me of Ciśnienie a lot especially their newest album Zwierzakom

[@jonathanmellqvist2]

4:45 I'm feeling both together. First 4 bars of idea #2 and then 4 bars of idea #1. I think the second one builds up to the first one

[@itsfonk]

Djezz has been born 🙌

[@user-gv9nz5pf4r]

I want that song in my playlist

[@sembalo1776]

this is so video gamey i love it

[@markreynolds4176]

The Mars Volta vibes!