Jeff Porcaro Video is a great learning tool , from this video alone I have learned how to incorporate the different styles and time signatures he explains and applied them to all kinds of musical situations ......I am often asked to play the "Rosanna Intro" for students and everytime I hear something new about it ...Thank You Jeff for all you gave us and we will continue to pass it on to generations to come...R.I.P
unparalled musicality from this cat. he is sorely missed. played on so many great pop and groove hits of the day. his influence and supreme contributions to some of the best Hits in Music, still reverberate. he is golden.
@SideWays8Productions seems to me he did just the opposite. He said he created a hybrid beat from three different drumbeats by three different drummers. And he even named them. So what the hell are you talking about?
@instereovideos I know that, but he's acting like he's the first drummer to ever mix beats, especially from those drummers. It's not really what he's doing, it's more how he's saying it makes it sound that way.
I don't have a drum set, so let me get this straight. On my couch arm rest Hi-Hat, I play the first and third note of the triplet on each beat then ghost the socond note of each beat.Then I do what on my couch cushion snare, and what on my phone book kick drum? Man, playing furniture sucks, I give up.
One of the most difficult groove ever played...This is not only groove , this is music...Jeff's touch, sense of time and space, feel are incredible!! Nobody will ever play like this man...
You know, I like can play this groove til the cows come home - note for note and I still CANNOT sound like THAT. The world misses you Jeff, my band played last night, and we did Rosanna as usual. Always thinking of you when we play it. Drummers, this man is one of the best to ever picked up a pair of sticks. Listen and learn.....
It's one of the most unique Drum beat Pattern I heard on most of the songs through out the generations, that proves that his a genius at work, I love the way he feels in to the song that they composed with him while in Toto. RIP Jeff...
y think the same as @eaaeeeea , both should respect each other but some guitarrists just think that drumming is easy and it´s not, it´s just another instrument, so they don´t have to feel free to say they are above drummers, because they are not
@dockaiser yeah I'll give you that. it's not like jeff was lonely at the top, but to me there are really few drummers who perfected the groove like porcaro did. purdie might be another one, or gavin harrison.
@VentoRdrummeR I come from guitar playing, so I don't have this insight to the small details of playing drums.
He had this perfect laid back feeling and the mighty sound.
As a kinda riff orientated funk rock guitar player that I am Bonzo had this very appealing way of laying down a groove and accompanying during solos.
The ultimate groove drummer. Can't beat his grooves, the total pocket drummer. This is where feel and technique meet, he was tremendously human in his playing.
He talks as if everyone can do this!!! WHAT A TALENT HE WAS!! Try to copy this, and you are a very very good drumplayer!! Jeff was, and always will be, my hero!! RIP
I like the way Dennis plays it better so what? u need to relax and ROFL at your name.... im sure u know lots about music being a travis barker fan and all
No he said it right. Hi hat plays 1st & third partial of each triplet (as in a normal half time shuffle) then he ghosts the snare on each 2nd partial of the triplets. Snare then plays on 3rd 1/4 note of each bar. (as in usual place for snare backbeat in a half time shuffle). Hope that helps.
I admit that I was somewhat confused when I heard Jeff say this...it could be that he is grouping the pattern at a different point...I understand the notation as (with "g" as the grace note):
RRgRRgR(RL)gRRgRRgRRgR(RL)g
(as in a 4/4 signature, the snare first comes in on the 3rd beat, and then on the 4th beat in subsequent measures)
Jeff seems to be grouping it using RgR (the 1st R here is the 2nd R of the previous triplet, and the 2nd R here is the 1st R of the next triplet)...
@davss5 Since the time I wrote my previous comment, I have learned that my understanding of the triplet grouping (back then) was incorrect...Jeff was right, I was wrong...the correct notation is:
Fascinating, absolutely fascinating --- I'm not a drummer, though I'm otherwise quite musical, but it never ceases to amaze me how elaborate the percussive underpinnings of some pieces are. I knew that "Rosanna" went through a couple of changes of meter, but had no idea there was anything *this* complicated going on. All I can say is "Wow!" :-D Unbelieveable, that one person can "juggle" three patterns at once like JP and other kit-masters can!
guitar players ? i mean they should just stop people from picking up those things .... is like.... yes of course i know how to eat silly i also play the guitar lol
@BeatBay Actually, you forgot that music's fourth cornerstone is form and the fifth is dynamics. Drummer-musicians have to have that mapped out too. Since the drums can be the most dynamic instrument in an ensemble, form can be illustrated simply by dynamics. Even playing the very same notes with less or greater intensity on the same sound sources can be musical and can help shape a tune. Drums do too have melodic information, but not tonally speaking (according to tempered scales).
@Jellybeantiger well these guitar players obviously havn't tried playing samba or doing gospel chops. or just doing a simple groove and make it sound as groovy as jeff porcaro is doing.
What does it matter how he died? If it were coke or not is not the point of this video!! Its for people who love the music and love to learn new patterns or see how old ones are achieved!! The guy was a legend and it was tragic enough that he died so young!!
Not so. He had a reaction to some pesticide he was using in the garden. I had always read that it was coke, and no doubt he and others used coke. But it was not a coke-related death. The cardiac problem stemmed from his exposure to the pesticide. Bad enough the poor guy died young, so don't repeat stuff you're not sure of.
@nitedrive Like most great musicians that die young, Jeff died of substance abuse. The pesticide story was just something presented by his family to make things more socially acceptable. The article was in the LA Times. Check it out for yourself , just check the reference in the wikipedia, it has a link to the article.
He still was one of the top, if not THE top, studio drummer in the 80's and early 90's. Substance abuse is the number one killer of musicans.
I'm a guitarist and I've been playing in bands for years. I normally take the piss out of drummers but this really underlies what an art form drumming is.
I've always believed that a band is ONLY as good as its drummer
The first drum video lesson I saw was from Jeff. I didn't have a clue to what it was going on. Them I learn that he passed away. Awesome drummer!!!Rip
He was one of the BEST. He was taught by his dad Joe Porcaro who still teaches and write drum books. Joe has recorded with just about everyone. Check out his web page. Google his name!
And somewhere in a Modern Drummer article, Jamieson relates a story that he attempted to teach Jeff to drive a 3-speed stick-a mustang.
Jeff made him take the car back and find them an automatic trnasmission. (They were on a recording date in Florida in '81 I think...). Jamieson's quote, "just prooves that for all his coordination, that was just one thing he could not do." (i.e. drive a stick...). This clip from the DVD STILL floors me. Master Craftsman, indeed. He was brilliant.
Okay, going wierd here, but here's a perfect example of Coleridges' distinction between the primary and secondary imagination: for you literature majors, primary imagination is understanding the creative genius of our past masters; secondary imagination is taking this understanding and making and giving it a new twist. Jeff took what he understood of Bonham and Diddley and made it into somethings of his own. Way to go Jeff, R.I.P
O.K.,Jeff explains the well known Rosanna groove but why do I get the feeling that he is keeping a little secret about that groove shield in his mind? Maybe a milion drummers in this world know how to do the shuffle-incl. monsters like Simon Phillips-but no one does it like him.(Carlos Vega really got close).So there must be something else.
i KNEW porcaro at least half-copped that from "fool in the rain," (yeah, i know "DUH!") but it's niceto hear him say so. i imagine he was a very cool guy and a HELL of a teacher.
The key that Jeff was a musical giant and thus a technical giant on drums. Jim Chapin once said -- some of the best drummers really can't play the drums well but plays superlative anyways. Essentially, you may not even read music but creates a really good sound! JP was a musician not just a drummer which you really can hear.
I'm sure it's all been said before but this is awesome. I teach drums and I often see kids with amazing feet and rubbish hands. I'm gonna make this compulsory playing for my students who think quick feet is the most important thing. As most of you know - it's the groove man, it's the groove - fast or slow - heavy, jazzy or even country - it's the groove. Peace to Jeff Porcaro
A true genius at his craft. Jeff Pocaro is the true standard for grooving in the pocket drumming. His legacy is and will always be long remembered. Rest in Peace Jeff. You are up there providing the groove for many of the greats dearly departed.
I'm a guitarist. I always picked this intro as magical. I just assumed it was really basic but awesome (kind of like the drum equivalent of an AC/DC guitar riff). Now I realise it wasn't some random act of awesomeness. Jeff Porcaro is an absolute genious. Bravo!
The coolest thing about this groove is, its a good fill for different styles of music and play it as a displacement. Love it!!! We will miss this guy!!!
That's the sad thing about Toto's American legacy. Not just Toto...but all the people they worked with. All the funk players, blue eyed soul and rock musicians who depended on them and Jeff in particular. Its just pop tunes to the avg listener. To musicians its to be imitated. What's sad is they look dated because they just plugged into what was going on. I'd love to know what Jeff would have come up with now. Tho "Toto" still of course exists...just that formula...we sadly will never know.
The snare is awsome!! Anybody know what kinda snare that might be??
drrythm69 1 month ago
at 0:41 the last two bass drum beats are wrong!!!
TheItalianoMafiosi 1 month ago
Jeff Porcaro Video is a great learning tool , from this video alone I have learned how to incorporate the different styles and time signatures he explains and applied them to all kinds of musical situations ......I am often asked to play the "Rosanna Intro" for students and everytime I hear something new about it ...Thank You Jeff for all you gave us and we will continue to pass it on to generations to come...R.I.P
Garzzilla69 1 month ago
unparalled musicality from this cat. he is sorely missed. played on so many great pop and groove hits of the day. his influence and supreme contributions to some of the best Hits in Music, still reverberate. he is golden.
drumdude46 2 months ago
Rest in peace, Jeff Porcaro.
landyachtfan79 3 months ago
his interpretation of the john bonham shuffle sounds fucking class
faaarrrh 3 months ago
EVERYDAY HE'S SHUFFLIN!
lesterdude999 4 months ago
Gosh, this guy is straight up talented...so laid back and his drums sound unbelievable!
losingsighthxc 5 months ago
Amazing drummer, amazing beat....just don't like how he acts like he invented his beats.
SideWays8Productions 6 months ago
@SideWays8Productions - he didnt? He acknoweldged Purdy, Bonzo, and Bo Didley??
xwinglover 5 months ago
@SideWays8Productions seems to me he did just the opposite. He said he created a hybrid beat from three different drumbeats by three different drummers. And he even named them. So what the hell are you talking about?
instereovideos 5 months ago
@instereovideos I know that, but he's acting like he's the first drummer to ever mix beats, especially from those drummers. It's not really what he's doing, it's more how he's saying it makes it sound that way.
SideWays8Productions 5 months ago
@SideWays8Productions disagree.
instereovideos 5 months ago
@SideWays8Productions he didnt say that...this guy is sweet...hope he is not dead,i heard he was.
bluefukingreene 5 months ago
that bass drums sounds orgasmic
konejo197666 6 months ago
I don't have a drum set, so let me get this straight. On my couch arm rest Hi-Hat, I play the first and third note of the triplet on each beat then ghost the socond note of each beat.Then I do what on my couch cushion snare, and what on my phone book kick drum? Man, playing furniture sucks, I give up.
FartFilledBalloons 6 months ago
I watched this video because Gavin Harrison said that Jeff Porcaro is one of his favourite drummers.
ilhadi 7 months ago
highly proficient
KONAMAN100 8 months ago
One of the most difficult groove ever played...This is not only groove , this is music...Jeff's touch, sense of time and space, feel are incredible!! Nobody will ever play like this man...
afirpus 8 months ago
You know, I like can play this groove til the cows come home - note for note and I still CANNOT sound like THAT. The world misses you Jeff, my band played last night, and we did Rosanna as usual. Always thinking of you when we play it. Drummers, this man is one of the best to ever picked up a pair of sticks. Listen and learn.....
drumr72 8 months ago 2
Absolute Genuis of a drummer so sad your no longer here with us. God Bless Jeff Parcaro
jonorocko1 9 months ago
now this was a genius
randytd260807 9 months ago
foreever jeff porcaro...........
TheNickdrummer 9 months ago
Wow thanks for posting this Video, Jeff is still teaching from the beyond
joeydeleste 10 months ago
Jeff Porcaro the master :) R.I.P.
Bryan62601 10 months ago
Its kinda easy you just need to practice to get it better duuuuhhh
Bryan62601 10 months ago
so that makes it look so easy, if it is harder then!!!!.....MASTER!!!
jurasikthrash 10 months ago
What a stud this guy was. Started playing big time sessions at about age 17 (?!?!) Unbelievable talent.
Thanks for posting this.
hibob418 10 months ago
Jeff is awesome. And guitarists will always slog on drummers, it's an ego thing I think. Drummers are more communal.
hifiver100 11 months ago
damn cool
jsheehan100 11 months ago
this shit is HARD!
scotfreak 1 year ago
without a doubt the best drummer i've ever heard
kmfdm10392 1 year ago
It's one of the most unique Drum beat Pattern I heard on most of the songs through out the generations, that proves that his a genius at work, I love the way he feels in to the song that they composed with him while in Toto. RIP Jeff...
8462995 1 year ago
y think the same as @eaaeeeea , both should respect each other but some guitarrists just think that drumming is easy and it´s not, it´s just another instrument, so they don´t have to feel free to say they are above drummers, because they are not
both are beautiful instruments!!
TheJUANITO03 1 year ago
One of the most brilliant percussionist of our time!!
chickenhookswitch 1 year ago 3
I miss him.....
63weezer 1 year ago
This guy was a superb musician....
clev9980 1 year ago 3
Great beat Mr DeComposition man.
hartistry1957 1 year ago
Damn this guy is good!
angelaprn 1 year ago
It`s so simple...WHEN YOU WATCHING GENIUS!!!
montenegrolightman 1 year ago
the best ever beat still for me tnx sir jeff porcaro!
cleipotz 1 year ago
Great Explanation
Migaluch3 1 year ago
nice beat!!!
vantots07 1 year ago
all the great ones have passed away :(
victoriaboy55 1 year ago
This is why Jeff Pocaro is an absolute genius. . . Dont care if you like toto or not. . . all drummers must stand and applaud this kinda work!!!
baisden77 1 year ago
WOW.. JEFF PORCARO!! and BERNARD PURDIE!!heh........
AyeBlinken 1 year ago
an immortal genius!!
jumpy27 1 year ago
what a drummer... who else could groove like that?
VentoRdrummeR 1 year ago
@VentoRdrummeR BonZo
dockaiser 1 year ago
@dockaiser yeah I'll give you that. it's not like jeff was lonely at the top, but to me there are really few drummers who perfected the groove like porcaro did. purdie might be another one, or gavin harrison.
VentoRdrummeR 1 year ago
@VentoRdrummeR I come from guitar playing, so I don't have this insight to the small details of playing drums.
He had this perfect laid back feeling and the mighty sound.
As a kinda riff orientated funk rock guitar player that I am Bonzo had this very appealing way of laying down a groove and accompanying during solos.
dockaiser 1 year ago
The ultimate groove drummer. Can't beat his grooves, the total pocket drummer. This is where feel and technique meet, he was tremendously human in his playing.
MarquisEstelle 1 year ago 14
does anyone know what snare he is using?
kcshook 1 year ago
Somebody needs to show me how to play like THIS
transporter362 1 year ago
I've been drumming for 20 years, and I couldn't play grace/ghost notes like this if I had a gun to my head....flawless
jimw281972 1 year ago
That is amazing. Just amazing. the ghost notes are so important.
analyzingfunny 2 years ago 3
he makes this look easy...
he holds his drumsticks as if he was so lazily...
yet he's a really good drummer...
RIP
MARIO4LYFE13 2 years ago
Miss his drumming! Jeff had some talent!
marinesnip 2 years ago
What can I say truly the best drummer ever. Check out our westcoast band State Cows. Lots of Porcaro grooves there
statecows 2 years ago
A true genius and still greatly missed.
missionalgirl 2 years ago
great drummer too...RIP jeff!
skylar1477 2 years ago
RIP
jedini11 2 years ago
AWESOME!!! Hats off to Jeff. Thanks for posting.
B0NZOfan2 2 years ago
He talks as if everyone can do this!!! WHAT A TALENT HE WAS!! Try to copy this, and you are a very very good drumplayer!! Jeff was, and always will be, my hero!! RIP
tonverbraak 2 years ago
RIP
essjkid05 2 years ago
i can see why this guy is so good''his influences speak volumes''
evelskunny 2 years ago
Now thats a sexy groove
Mck1nlay 2 years ago
He is the One.... :D
juuonse 2 years ago
There's only One ..... Jeff Porcaro!
gratistoch 2 years ago
thats coordination right there
lildrummaboi93 2 years ago
so```` great!!!!!!!
arnelsilvestre1 2 years ago
awesome playing! :)
one of the best drummers his time! perfect timeing!
and also today not easy to play for the most drummer!
R.I.P. Jeff
representaa 2 years ago 3
Whether it be drums, bass, guitar or whatever, you can't help but sit in awe at someone as supremely skilled. RIP Jeff.
EddieG1888 2 years ago
I love the way Jeff's (RIP) mics are EQ'd.
fnkdrmmr 2 years ago 2
I recall hearing somewhere that the only EQ on this vid is a slight low end boost on the kick....the rest is Jeff's technique and tuning. Hell yes.
aedwards39 2 years ago
Thanks for that information.
fnkdrmmr 2 years ago
he has a cool speaking voice
bendinggreenvans 2 years ago 20
Yeah and the fact that he doesn't have any ego about playing/constructing that great pattern makes it even better.
aedwards39 2 years ago
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Dennis plays this the sickest by FAR
ziqqyman101 2 years ago
Sut up you fool.. Its not about who is better. Both Great drummers.
TravisBickleJnr 2 years ago
I like the way Dennis plays it better so what? u need to relax and ROFL at your name.... im sure u know lots about music being a travis barker fan and all
ziqqyman101 2 years ago
nice thnx for posting :)
markmusette09 2 years ago
this is an really easy grove....it would be cool to us different eightnote textures in each measure
spatchycat 2 years ago
nice groove
flippaton 2 years ago
Nobody shuffled like Jeff. I heard he could walk into a drum shop and the drums would throw themselves at his feet...
hevylevy1 2 years ago 2
Awesome footage from the man himself. Wish I'd seen this before i tried to work it out for the 1st time!!
Cheers.
jimmydrummer 2 years ago 2
doesn't he mean that he's playing the first and second note of each triplet on the hihat and the third note of the triplet on the snare?
Cuz he says that it's alternated. The first and third note of the triplet on the hihat and the second note on the snare.
36MonkeysThatFly 2 years ago
Hi.
No he said it right. Hi hat plays 1st & third partial of each triplet (as in a normal half time shuffle) then he ghosts the snare on each 2nd partial of the triplets. Snare then plays on 3rd 1/4 note of each bar. (as in usual place for snare backbeat in a half time shuffle). Hope that helps.
jimmydrummer 2 years ago 2
Thanks. When I reviststed it and really listened, I could tell I was wrong. He just plays the triplet extremely fast.
36MonkeysThatFly 2 years ago
Jimmy is absolutely correct!
mixman808 2 years ago
I admit that I was somewhat confused when I heard Jeff say this...it could be that he is grouping the pattern at a different point...I understand the notation as (with "g" as the grace note):
RRgRRgR(RL)gRRgRRgRRgR(RL)g
(as in a 4/4 signature, the snare first comes in on the 3rd beat, and then on the 4th beat in subsequent measures)
Jeff seems to be grouping it using RgR (the 1st R here is the 2nd R of the previous triplet, and the 2nd R here is the 1st R of the next triplet)...
davss5 2 years ago
@davss5 Since the time I wrote my previous comment, I have learned that my understanding of the triplet grouping (back then) was incorrect...Jeff was right, I was wrong...the correct notation is:
RgRRgR(RL)gRRgRRgRRgR(RL)gR etc.
davss5 1 year ago
best beat, best drum tuning, my favorite drummer
Koshak1991 2 years ago
Great Jeff..i'm italian, my surname is Porcaro and i play the drums!!
Gelobenson 2 years ago 3
Hi Gelobenson. Sadly, Jeff has been dead since 1992.
nauyaca555 2 years ago
Hey..yes, i know..
Gelobenson 2 years ago
Respect for Jeff Porcaro, only Jeff can play these shuffles like this! A-mazing!
Wickydeviking 2 years ago
Fascinating, absolutely fascinating --- I'm not a drummer, though I'm otherwise quite musical, but it never ceases to amaze me how elaborate the percussive underpinnings of some pieces are. I knew that "Rosanna" went through a couple of changes of meter, but had no idea there was anything *this* complicated going on. All I can say is "Wow!" :-D Unbelieveable, that one person can "juggle" three patterns at once like JP and other kit-masters can!
sdingeswho 2 years ago
i almost have it!! ill upload a video to this clip when i know how to play it
shirgit 2 years ago
guitar players ? i mean they should just stop people from picking up those things .... is like.... yes of course i know how to eat silly i also play the guitar lol
checkabreak 2 years ago 2
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Not bad for a corpse
neckus22 2 years ago
shut the fuck up, have some respect you retard
danztal 2 years ago
neckus that's absolutely disrespectful.
BigBoiJC 2 years ago 4
Why do guitarists take the piss outta drummers?
What makes em think they're above drummers?
Jellybeantiger 2 years ago 58
@Jellybeantiger that's because most chicks think guitar is the sexier instrument. luckily, not all of them
VentoRdrummeR 1 year ago
@Jellybeantiger
More strings and combinations, maybe.
RontaDM 1 year ago
@RontaDM Try playing a drum set as well as we do. Then we'll see who the piss comes out of.
AshDrums7 1 year ago
@AshDrums7 I did.
RontaDM 1 year ago
@RontaDM ok then man,cool. im s guitarist as well as a drummer too
AshRevolution 1 year ago
@AshRevolution Great!
RontaDM 1 year ago
@Jellybeantiger Scientical examining has proved that drummers have the biggest brain activity during a performance :)
SimonVicFirth 1 year ago
@Jellybeantiger there just jealous lol jk jk
CrazyC9020 1 year ago
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@Jellybeantiger they're just jealous lol jk jk
CrazyC9020 1 year ago
@Jellybeantiger I'm both a guitarist and a drummer and I think that drummers and guitarists should respect each other equally.
eaaeeeea 1 year ago
@Jellybeantiger its easy: music made up of rhythmen, harmony and melody. nothing more. thats it! And here is the answer:
Drums: Rhythmen. no harmonic or melodic information.
Guitar: Rhythmen, Melodic, Harmonic.
Drums vs Guitar: 1:3
BeatBay 1 year ago
@BeatBay
Yeah but rhythm is the most important part!
Without it,the melody doesn't go anywhere!
Jellybeantiger 1 year ago
@BeatBay
Yeah but rhythm is the most important part!
Without it,the melody doesn't go anywhere!
5-0 to us drummers hehe.
Jellybeantiger 1 year ago
@BeatBay
Yeah but rhythm is the most important part!
Without it,the melody doesn't go anywhere!
5-0 to rhythm.
You need us to make your melodies.
Jellybeantiger 1 year ago
@BeatBay
Yeah but rhythm is the most important part!
Without it,the melody doesn't go anywhere!
5-0 to rhythm.
You need rhythm to make your melodies.
Jellybeantiger 1 year ago
@BeatBay Actually, you forgot that music's fourth cornerstone is form and the fifth is dynamics. Drummer-musicians have to have that mapped out too. Since the drums can be the most dynamic instrument in an ensemble, form can be illustrated simply by dynamics. Even playing the very same notes with less or greater intensity on the same sound sources can be musical and can help shape a tune. Drums do too have melodic information, but not tonally speaking (according to tempered scales).
tapkae 9 months ago
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@Jellybeantiger because we are! :))
tomiclav 1 year ago
@Jellybeantiger well these guitar players obviously havn't tried playing samba or doing gospel chops. or just doing a simple groove and make it sound as groovy as jeff porcaro is doing.
torelk 11 months ago
@Jellybeantiger I am a guitarist with the heart of a drummer!
surferboy36O 10 months ago
awesome sounding kit!
UklaTheMokk 2 years ago
brilliant! love it!
and the tom mikes too!!!
grahamaroo 2 years ago
What does it matter how he died? If it were coke or not is not the point of this video!! Its for people who love the music and love to learn new patterns or see how old ones are achieved!! The guy was a legend and it was tragic enough that he died so young!!
WHUFC71 2 years ago 3
Great video. Thanks for posting! What a tasteful and musical touch. I never want that groove to end!
mccakb01 3 years ago
awesome clip.
sexyed 3 years ago
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Died from coke. not the diet or caffeine free, either
joesbarngrill60 3 years ago
joesbarngrill60-
Not so. He had a reaction to some pesticide he was using in the garden. I had always read that it was coke, and no doubt he and others used coke. But it was not a coke-related death. The cardiac problem stemmed from his exposure to the pesticide. Bad enough the poor guy died young, so don't repeat stuff you're not sure of.
nitedrive 3 years ago 24
@nitedrive Like most great musicians that die young, Jeff died of substance abuse. The pesticide story was just something presented by his family to make things more socially acceptable. The article was in the LA Times. Check it out for yourself , just check the reference in the wikipedia, it has a link to the article.
He still was one of the top, if not THE top, studio drummer in the 80's and early 90's. Substance abuse is the number one killer of musicans.
mlcoo17 10 months ago
I really enjoyed this.
I'm a guitarist and I've been playing in bands for years. I normally take the piss out of drummers but this really underlies what an art form drumming is.
I've always believed that a band is ONLY as good as its drummer
ak301 3 years ago 4
This guy was,and continues to be a huge influence. Still missing you,Jeff.
redstone1963 3 years ago
Man, I've never seen someone ghost like this!!! Also, it's needless to say he was the groove master.
TBlundetto08 3 years ago
es increible que no este mas........ un genio!!
leandrummmer 3 years ago
Now thats how you grooooove!!
Blackroom502 3 years ago
The first drum video lesson I saw was from Jeff. I didn't have a clue to what it was going on. Them I learn that he passed away. Awesome drummer!!!Rip
metalmessenger 3 years ago
He was one of the BEST. He was taught by his dad Joe Porcaro who still teaches and write drum books. Joe has recorded with just about everyone. Check out his web page. Google his name!
kenny711 3 years ago
he can groove like a king!
Slayer100 3 years ago
How the fuck can a human being coordinate like this. Jeff is the man!
9114SCENTRAL 3 years ago
And somewhere in a Modern Drummer article, Jamieson relates a story that he attempted to teach Jeff to drive a 3-speed stick-a mustang.
Jeff made him take the car back and find them an automatic trnasmission. (They were on a recording date in Florida in '81 I think...). Jamieson's quote, "just prooves that for all his coordination, that was just one thing he could not do." (i.e. drive a stick...). This clip from the DVD STILL floors me. Master Craftsman, indeed. He was brilliant.
raincloudmusic1 3 years ago
Best drummer I've ever heard. HE was so creative and unique. A master of his instrument.
TikkiTikki7 3 years ago 3
Thats so amazing
NikFrivilous 3 years ago 2
Your the best!
maty7976321 3 years ago 2
Thanks to Jeff for all his drumming contributions...
davss5 3 years ago 3
RIP Jeff
Portnoy79 3 years ago 5
Okay, going wierd here, but here's a perfect example of Coleridges' distinction between the primary and secondary imagination: for you literature majors, primary imagination is understanding the creative genius of our past masters; secondary imagination is taking this understanding and making and giving it a new twist. Jeff took what he understood of Bonham and Diddley and made it into somethings of his own. Way to go Jeff, R.I.P
demokritos1966 3 years ago 3
Don't forget The Hit Maker Bernard Purdy.
That's his shuffle.
dunskie 3 years ago
R.I.P Jeff. you were a groove master!
justentime66 3 years ago 5
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Unless you're Porcaro himself I hate when people try to explain other peoples drumming. GAY
MikeMoneyMiami 3 years ago
That IS Jeff Porcaro on the video. Read before you post.
poch333 3 years ago 6
Notice that he does not add the snarebass thing at the first round when he starts playing the complete rythm.
It confused me a little when I used this genuine video to learn this genuine beat.
Jeff Porcaro and Toto lives in us all!
SigDrums 3 years ago
What kind of ghostnotes, does he make now in heaven?
We miss you Jeff!
bontebont 3 years ago
Hello Mihail99pap!
Well, I have an answer to that;
This is pure magic. =)
Totolives 3 years ago
O.K.,Jeff explains the well known Rosanna groove but why do I get the feeling that he is keeping a little secret about that groove shield in his mind? Maybe a milion drummers in this world know how to do the shuffle-incl. monsters like Simon Phillips-but no one does it like him.(Carlos Vega really got close).So there must be something else.
Mihail99pap 3 years ago
i KNEW porcaro at least half-copped that from "fool in the rain," (yeah, i know "DUH!") but it's niceto hear him say so. i imagine he was a very cool guy and a HELL of a teacher.
Jeffmonicon 3 years ago
this beat sounds different for each drummer.this is one of the greatest drum beat ever u gotta at least play this to graduate MI haha
bmwz9602 3 years ago
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he looks like the wheelchair dude from scary movie 2 haha
rockbot3000 3 years ago
You'd better Respect Jeff and his legacy.... He was the man, and he lives in our hearts forever..... LONG LIVE J.P.
doedoe1 3 years ago
have respect for an all time great!
ridder1705 3 years ago
Merci,Jeff forever!!!
bermude8 3 years ago
Jeff has left us with a unique beat...a signature beat...immortalized!
REST IN PEACE
cdchase 3 years ago 2
The key that Jeff was a musical giant and thus a technical giant on drums. Jim Chapin once said -- some of the best drummers really can't play the drums well but plays superlative anyways. Essentially, you may not even read music but creates a really good sound! JP was a musician not just a drummer which you really can hear.
ejeepin 3 years ago
DAMN RIGHT ejeepin... JEFF WAS THE DRUMMER'S DRUMMER !!!
doedoe1 3 years ago 3
i know this question is off subject.....but does any of jeffs sons play drums?
orgasmtron 3 years ago
I'm sure it's all been said before but this is awesome. I teach drums and I often see kids with amazing feet and rubbish hands. I'm gonna make this compulsory playing for my students who think quick feet is the most important thing. As most of you know - it's the groove man, it's the groove - fast or slow - heavy, jazzy or even country - it's the groove. Peace to Jeff Porcaro
skydog331 3 years ago
A true genius at his craft. Jeff Pocaro is the true standard for grooving in the pocket drumming. His legacy is and will always be long remembered. Rest in Peace Jeff. You are up there providing the groove for many of the greats dearly departed.
ducky811 3 years ago 3
No drummer in the world will ever have your groove and feeling!
d0bbb 3 years ago
I'm a guitarist. I always picked this intro as magical. I just assumed it was really basic but awesome (kind of like the drum equivalent of an AC/DC guitar riff). Now I realise it wasn't some random act of awesomeness. Jeff Porcaro is an absolute genious. Bravo!
pinchedharmonic 3 years ago 6
The coolest thing about this groove is, its a good fill for different styles of music and play it as a displacement. Love it!!! We will miss this guy!!!
jmr2master 3 years ago 4
One of my all time favorite rythyms. Jeff could lay down some smooth grooves, with the greatest ease. We miss you Jeff.
mikewnc 3 years ago 3
That's the sad thing about Toto's American legacy. Not just Toto...but all the people they worked with. All the funk players, blue eyed soul and rock musicians who depended on them and Jeff in particular. Its just pop tunes to the avg listener. To musicians its to be imitated. What's sad is they look dated because they just plugged into what was going on. I'd love to know what Jeff would have come up with now. Tho "Toto" still of course exists...just that formula...we sadly will never know.
hazeldreaming 3 years ago