Steve Gadd (brushes)

[wickedbeatss]

this video gave me crazy ASMR

[allmetaliswelcome]

2:51 is great

[TheJazzdr]

is that chad wackerman holding the box?



[tgphotodesign]

@TheJazzdr I think so!

[TheJazzdr]

love it

I love it

[RobotsEatPeople111]

whats the paradiddle?

[cursedswordsman]

@RobotsEatPeople111 A diddle of the para

[spiritfan1969]

Godog!

[Noedig]

It has the same hypnotising effect as Bob Ross brushing the canvas...

[MrRedick]

@Noedig I had the exact same feeling. It's very relaxing with him humming and playing slow sweeps at the same time.

[RJiminez51]

thats why i love weed. you can have fun playing on a cardboard box

[cigarzan]

LOL! TOASTED!! And he got away with it!!!

[ultimatefighter187]

The funniest part is...he doesn't just show a demonstration he plays the thing for over five minutes.

[AsianTarzan94]

I love the transition from the 7:12 to 7:16 It gets really progressively louder, but not too loud! Just right.

[jarrahdrum]

hhehehe. Genius :)

[NerfLad]

Man, he really thinks outside the box.

[mikegalsworthy]

Listen all. This video is strictly for Gadd fans. Otherwise - and with that top... well, he does look like a mental patient, doesn't he?? "Hold this box, I wanna make scratchy brush patterns on it and sing stonedly to myself" XD

[miniatureface]

this video makes me want to go out and buy a cardboard box.

[twistesceo]

gadd's havin some kinda strange vietnam war drum flash back with those brushes lol gota lov it

[daneeehhhh]

ta hablando del faaaaaso

[Ismlor]

The music that pours out of Steve Gadd is unreal. He can turn it on like a switch. Or maybe it's never turned off. I'm not a worshipper of iconic drummers, but Steve Gadd probably at the top of my favorite list. Everything he does is for the sake of making music good -no ego. His playing does all the talking. And he teaches in such a way that is practical and intuitive. One of the best ever. Thanks for everything Mr Gadd! -check out my vids

[BauerPJL]

O Gadd na maior trip e o maluco segurando a caixa sem entender nada! kkk

[iendacard]

Why is it that every time I watch a video of someone on youtube, that person is "totally stoned?" Maybe he's tired. Maybe he's at a loss for words. Hey, I bet the guy holding the box is totally stoned! Look at him just holding that box and staring at the brushes! Haha, SO STONED!

[drummerboy6800]

what thickness of ampex reel box is it?  i know they changed to 1.7mm in the early 80's...

[labman1408]

it's always the man - never the equipmet...and Steve's the man!

[TheColbles2009]

This dude can make better music (while stoned) with an ampex box than all these metal drummers with their 10 piece setups.

[shuggahhead]

@TheColbles2009 lol. Don't bash a style if you don't understand it.

[TheColbles2009]

@shuggahhead Dude I understand metal drumming. All metal drumming is quads, triplets, sextuplets, octuplets, and just complex patters that have no musicality to it. Doing double bass at 330 bpm isn't everything in the world. And it's a crying shame when good musicians don't get any fame or acclaim, and these jokers who do nothing but blastbeats and machine gun double bass get big time record deals. Good music is steadily dying (along with good drumming)

[spurious]

@TheColbles2009 It's a crying shame to what extent you used such powerful diction to express such thorough ignorance.

[TheColbles2009]

@spurious I watch metal drummers practice all the time, and what I watch is not practicing music, they're practicing patterns, and yes I will give them props to the complexity of the patters that they play, but it's not music, it's a circus act.

[spurious]

@TheColbles2009 I stand by my previous statement that your ignorance is astounding.

[Swaggster1000]

@spurious Its not ignorance if someone defends an ideal. Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. I think he demonstrated his knowledge on metal drumming quite well when he described what it was. Now if all you have to say is that he is ignorant without some form of argument to back it up, I'd suggest stopping now before you make an idiot out yourself by bashing someone blindly.

[TheColbles2009]

@spurious hahahaha What? No it is not. Ignorance is what swag said, a lack of knowledge. I have full knowledge of metal. 

[DrummerZM]

@TheColbles2009 If you had full knowledge of metal, you would have to play it until you master it. Metal is far from an easy genre. Metal drummers are essentially athletes and require great speed, endurance and coordination. Granted some metal drummers heavily focus on speed, its not necessarily unmusical if its their conscious decision to play that way for the song style. I appreciate all genres, not metal bashing. Check out Matt Greiner of August Burns Red. Most musical metal drummer i know

[TheColbles2009]

@DrummerZM I like him actually! He's not the kind of metal drummers I don't like, I don't like derrek roddy, he makes drums out to all just practiced patters and speed.

[DrummerZM]

@TheColbles2009 Hahahaha I agree with you there. He's like a master at speed but his technique is strange and his playing is very square

[drummerkingmike]

@TheColbles2009 Preach brother!

[dhampex]

HAHHA steve playing off an AMPEX 2 inch tape reel box HAHAHAH love that!!! Another way to use analog Tape!!!

[ValentinoSoirez]

figure skating

[protobuster]

when i play brushes, it's so important the direction that i play them??? for example in clock or anti-clock direction???

[shizo668]

That jazzy piece they play is mighty sweet. Anyone know the name of this composition?

[k5vg]

@shizo668 On brushes he starts out with "My Romance" and then goes to "Bye Bye Blackbird". On sticks, that could be anything, but it sounds like the bridge on "Tristeza". Same changes, anyway.

[stitchkaboodle999]

I have one of those Ampex boxes beside my regular snare now.

[dhampex]

@stitchkaboodle999 HAHAHA 2" reels or Half inch!!!!

[roberto3582]

I think at this moment Gadd was completely stoned

[General9313]

Second song is Bye, Bye Blackbird

[migsdrummer]

I could fall asleep, it's so chilled!

[maartenmoesen]

He says he's not playing time in a ballad! LOL! Even when he's trying not to groove he swings like a t!t :-).

[89joho87]

Haha! nice humming !

[maartenmoesen]

That's 'My Romane' he's humming.

[Vayshen]

Is that an ordinary box or a special practice cover thing?

[thepolice911copeland]

Its just box he is so freaking stoned but he still plays so well

[DarcyC88]

is a box of ampex reel-to-reel audio tape

[08mlascelles]

hahahahahaha, this is hilarious, because steve gadd is completely stoned, and he is playing on a fucking box, and yet he still sounds better than most drummers in the world put together

[Junkay]

yeap no one can groove like him boy!

[nicedrumsguy]

Ampex reel boxes never sounded so good...

[sweetfly66]

as stupid as that other guy looks .... who among us would not want to be him ..... gadd is amazing

[andurin90]

Great! Really cool swing feel. Brush Master itself!

[AlmostEthical]

He has such great feel. I'd love to have his wonderful sense of rhythm and timing.

[minmei75]

Gadd nos muestra constantemente el amor hacia el instrumento,,,todo lo que crea...suena perfecto.

[jonescrusher1]

To throw in a quote from Kool Keith aka Dr. Octagon - "Flex skills on Ampex"!

[larrykind]

this is the perfection on brushes. best brushes video on you tube.

[DankaButterfly]

Ya habia opinado aqui, pero no se si se haya "guardado" lo que dije O_O jaja...Dije que...Esta increible, muy interesante lo que hace, hay partes en las que pareciera que hay un "chelo" sonando por ahi atras de las camaras, esta realmente muy interesante...

Te amo amor.

[DankaButterfly]

Ya habia opinado aqui, pero no se si se haya "guardado" lo que dije O_O jaja...Dije que...Esta increible, muy interesante lo que hace, hay partes en las que pareciera que hay un "chelo" sonando por ahi atras de las camaras, esta realmente muy interesante...

Te amo amor.