Bossa Nova Beats - FreeDrumLessons.com

[sweetdrums295]

I just learned this, thanks! this really helped

[blastbeatvn]

talk too much !

[TMTKowalski]

"Break on Through" by The Doors, anybody? :)

[rafael1801maragogi]

I wish here in Brazil people still liked bossa nova

[ludimcg2002]

@rafael1801maragogi so sad :(

[JGDRUMS89]

its an awesome groove! not easy- my teacher gave it to me to learn and i was like "yeah right" then i practiced it- it can be really fun to play- not a latin drummer but it will fit in well with my bag of grooves!

[wendepic]

Just learnt this on my drumlessons 2 months ago and i really love this beat, this is easy to play alone but when there is background track mine had really annoying cowbell going on the back which threw my attention from the beat :P really good video you have here. congratulations!

[skaterram117]

can someone help me read the sheet music i dont get it one bit

[Battossai3000]

he makes it look easy but its really hard playing these type of music so fluidly

[1988transformer]

yet another helpful video XD

[Ozzymoto]

This is a great video for learning the bossa. Took me ages, but I got there. With some concentrated hard work it all falls into place. Great lesson, thanks :)

[patrasch11]

sehrsehr schlecht

[CrunchyTuesdayface]

damn my drum teacher has shown me bossa nova, samba and two other brazilian beats but I cant remember their names!!

[gandja8889]

@CrunchyTuesdayface hahahaha you have a drum teacher , your not gonna be a good drummer thats for shure !

[Solidgrass]

@gandja8889 depends on the teacher, good teachers can save drummers years of wasted time, bad drummers can waste many years in learning.

[Drumboy5165]

@gandja8889 ??? wtf?

[GnrlTuna]

@gandja8889 dude i used to have a band teacher and it she sucked ass with percussionists but now i have a new band teacher and she has taught me well

[brandonelly1]

@CrunchyTuesdayface thats nice

[RagingSensei]

thanks, this is very helpful to us musicians who are inexperienced in the genre

[yqueweaaculiao]

good technique... but no heart. However, thanks for the instructive video. It was useful to me.

[anameoriginal]

these vids are a huge help. 

[Mikespyke]

Break On Through by The Doors is BOSSA NOVA!!!!!

[VictaoLFC]

sorry, but that was NOT a bossa nova man, HAHAHAH doesn't have any swing on it, I'm from Brazil and that was just a, let's say, "beginning" of a bossa nova, to play a good one, you must have the swing, it's bossa nova's soul, man. It helps, anyway ((: but bossa nova is a very difficult rhythm. Sorry for my english by the way.

[PossessWithin]

@VictaoLFC stfu fucker. he's a fucking pro. brazilians may have the fucking 'swing' for bossa nova neverthless they do not have an excelent rythym, study and discipline and many others talent as americans/europeans do. you're just being such racist and jealous, cuz i beat he plays better than brazilian people.

[TheVoodude]

@PossessWithin leave the poor guy alone, you hypocrite

[PossessWithin]

@TheVoodude whatever

[D4DrumminnN]

@VictaoLFC thats like saying no one but americans can play blues, because its theirs, and he never said this was bossa nova in its pure expression, its just the beginning of it.. don't take it that serious..

btw sorry for my english, im mexican..

[ronkopald]

Not sure what smack people are talking but for super white guys like me this is a very clearly explained introduction to one of the most fundamental drum rhythms on the fucking planet. I had the whole 8th note-hi hat thing down, but the bass drum always fucks me up. This is a deceptively tricky beat to really have all greased up and ready to go when the alarm sounds, so to speak. Nice job breaking it down.

[ahernan35471]

i love your videos your 200 videos so pwn the 138,000 expert village has your kits are better and you guyz dont seem like kids and your learning environment is better and you guyz dont make 4 damn video for one lesson.

[augustoddrum]

isso não é bossa nova, o ritimo pode parecer mas música tem q ter sentimento e falta o sultaque brasileiro nesse groove !! abraço a todos muito som !!

[jullyFeCh]

bossa nova é ritimo original do BRASIL

[turcoladen]

@jullyFeCh Bossa Nova is not a Brazilian rythm. It was inspired in brazilian samba and anothers, but it was created by north american people!

[nixeverafter]

@turcoladen ???

Well, Bossa Nova has a huge influence from Jazz, but... saying it's an american style is quite absurd '-'

[Catch23band]

Bossa Nova is soooo easy

[thalestsv]

@Catch23band if you just play like this video, of course it's gonna be easy.

try to watch a complete bossa nova show. i swear it's not easy.

[Lindembeerg]

really cool, im a brazilian drummer you're playing really nice. But you also need the feeling to play bossa!

thats not too hard men, i did this when i was 13!

[Berrymore84]

hi can anyone tell me what kinda bossa nova is this?

watch?v=Ids7jtwZO4o

thanks very much.

[lonecrow66]

Once we get to part 3 forget it .. I can get 3 limbs working pretty well together independently but 4 is a challenge.

[sxerDude]

@Sk8PengyThingyBlah good for u stop bragging. i have been playing for 9 months, know the basic polyrythems and how to use them in grooves, got my african drum techniqes and brush tecquies. plus i can do ghosted double strokes, and the samba in groove. c it doesn't feel good to be bragged to does it?

[joeyjunior111]

My music teacher said he gives 20euros money if somebody can play this beat :D holy i have to practice around my kit on weekend.

[Lindembeerg]

@joeyjunior111 just try play some grooves you alredy know with the left foot in the hi-hat as Mike did and the right hand in the ride. this will help a lot !

[joeyjunior111]

@Lindembeerg yeah ok.

[jpsguitarguy]

thanks. i had a hard time learning this beat for my school's big band.

[marcelofuji]

The sound of the hi-hat followed by the 2 bass drums we call it here in Brazil "chi-cum-dum" (read "chicumdum"). If you do it faster i´ll be a perfect samba.

It´s pretty fine to see you doing it right! I´ve seen lots of drummers doing it straight on the first note. It´s horrible and sounds like everything but bossa or samba.

Nice work!

[bonessammy1]

Oh great thanks :)

[cavo1king]

i no how to play this

[RUBIKSBOY55]

HEY HOW DO U GET THOSE MIC SYSTEMS THAT6 SOUND AWSOME AND GO THROUGH THE VIDEO WITH THE SONG PLAY ALONG WITH U?

[xxDROCKxx]

zomg!

[08mike11]

thank you for panning the audio.. Details like that definitely show you know your stuff.

[c00k13m0n573rm]

miaaaaaaaaaau !

[skilletdrummer12]

It may be a simple beat but it sounds pretty sweet

[wowrazzor]

Cool lesson, thanks.

[shazibIsMySon]

i play drum set by ear and i have no idea wtf he's yapping on about

[evanrkg]

@shazibIsMySon sounds like your problem. learn theory.

[shazibIsMySon]

@evanrkg

lol it is my problem... i was just putting it out there, i don't know what he's talking about. i would love to learn theory for drum set, but sadly, my parents don't have enough money to pay for lessons. 

[Gloc998]

i dont know why... but i cant compare myself to my other classmates at my Drum Lessons Class... its just weird... i dont thinmk its natural but they tell me that its natural... i can easily understand Drum Tablature... although... when i hear someone play the Pattern... i can AUTOMATICALLY play it without looking at the Tablature... BUT WHEN I LOOK... i get a bit confused... well... everyone has their own way of learning...

[bonessammy1]

thanks so much :) you totally solved my problem.. umm I noticed your also keeping time with the high hat while using the ride.. Do you think you could tell me what beats the high hat opens and closes on? thanks..

[mono1490]

@bonessammy1

2, and 4. Just count with the metronome if you can't get it straight away.

[greatcomedian18]

break on through to the other side!!

[danthman44444]

chip ritter?

[jazzandfriends]

thank you very much for this

[salgadoe2]

this is hard for me because I play with a back beat style

[SeanFinni]

Then this is all the more better for you, work on your weaknesses and you will improve much faster as a drummer

[joshisasecret]

awesome beats, not very hard to learn... im not really good at reading music or following 8th ntes, quarter notes.. but just playing it over and over my ear picked it up no problem.

[aldeiatrioacustico]

isso nao é bossa

só se for bossa de americano

presisa ter mais swing

[NeedMoreLumber]

This is actually much easier than it seems, I learned this in an hour or so overall.

[imabitch4u]

you should chek the mexican and tex mex cumbia!!!.. thats a very interesting rythm! i mean i hate the music but the rythm is challenging

[ardan18]

ok so i can play the bossa nova pretty well, i'm just having a problem with fills. do you have any video's that can help me?

[sweepy90]

i need another 4 brains for this ...

[JackassKing95]

if anyone knows not fade away by the rolling stones thats actually a bossa nova pattern

[NOSFERATUalu]

These guys are awesome instructors =D Go Mike =D

[brakingben4lyfe]

he bobs his head too much and seems like too much of a happy go lucky guy lol...great drummer though

[ferdzz04]

its for beginners.

[drumzillia96]

mokey gay fat left right det hit

[drumzillia96]

cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooooooooooooock

[emilioktalmetal]

this is good, but would be better if he puts more omplex exercise, this is very basic

[fahimcan1]

Mike Michalkow is a great instructer but i still can't do the bossa nova

[Tuomionkasi]

You must practise more. I too had problems with bossa nova beat with my 8 year drumming experience.

[rpgwapn]

Try learning to play the foot pattern with sixteenth, eights and quarters on the ride, as you will need that for a lot of grooves. Once you are comfortable with that, you can concentrate on the "moving" accents provided by the crosssticking. Having the feet on autopilot no matter what your hands are doing is great for latin rhythms in general and, in my opinion, easier than starting with the clave pattern and trying to add the feet later.

[lostfeelinggonegone]

haha you have no souls

[google1496]

dude what happened to vanilla ice? wheres jared? haha..

[blaklabelownz]

yes, very good. Thanks

[ADAMKTN]

This guy rocks - very good instruction!

[Muzicalle]

This guy is a good teacher because he appears so patient and calm. Thank you very much for this lesson sir =)

[Clickandkick]

thank you

[NickTheDrummer13]

its a drumming steve carrell!!!

[8tartz]

very Great!! i love it, very firm foundation for us. thanks Teacher! :)

[neopandorex2]

zero soul zero feelin

[TampicoKingT]

your right, zero soul zero feelin

[tamaplayer22]

wow, i've never played something like that before

[bryan770]

I  need to play a 6 bar bossa nova beat for auditions for the All-state Jazz Band

[adrumos94]

when he plays the second beat the snare and the bass dr flam!

[rastazilian]

no feeling...

[Egp12995]

If you dont like the video why are you watching it?

[bryan770]

EXACTLY WHAT I SAY! haha

[evry1shout]

Shut up mother fucker

[Str00pwafel]

the fucker really looks like hes havin fun...

+he doesnt play this lovely beat with music, he should

[Mazorkista]

thanks man for remember the brazilian songs!!

you guys are great... Um grande abraço à vocês de todos os bateristas do Brasil!

=P

[breakbeatss]

i ran to my drum kit and fell over, i broke my ankle and wrist and now they both have been amputated. take my advice and dont run to the drum kit. just walk

[sgeGaming]

lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheGovtOwnsYou]

Thanks for the advice, i don't think i'll ever run again now.

[miggy1038]

why do they have to be amputated?

[xXMattSheaXx]

its a lie

[dezzapink13]

hahahaha bro thats...hahahaha

[xXMattSheaXx]

ya right...

[davidelmejor54]

@breakbeatss u lier xD

[nelsonian13]

@breakbeatss ok...

[sxerDude]

@breakbeatss really?



[henkhakkertoene]

@breakbeatss what kind of shit are you talking?

[eselpopo]

YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

[trendyjon]

How easy is this,,,,,wow

[caffrenn]

well, i learn the bossa nova ages ago, and it's piss easy

but you make it sound difficult.

[zeldija1]

No, this is real bossa nova beat, I learn this 2 months ago!

[caffrenn]

i didn't say it wasn't the real bossa nova you dipshit. i said it made it sound difficult ffs, & well to me it did. & good for you if you learnt it two months ago, i'm doing it for my grade 4 exam & i learnt it last year. but mine's a customized one, so it'll be more difficult. gawd. learn to read properly.

[welchtim]

Isn't this just a slower samba? Icybearg450? I'm ready to bust these out at my lounge gig.

[LiamMulcahy]

The Samba is missing some of the hihat notes (ie does not have hihat playing straight eighths but instead 1 2 and 3 4 and 1... etc.).

[needlearmor]

thanks for the quality vids amid the hundred thousand shitty vids from expert village.

[shlempnar]

hah yeah

[SupraJin]

@needlearmor everybody hates expertvillage and loves freedrumlessons :D

[noconfig]

@needlearmor Ahahaahahahah

[jdiogo78]

BEST drum teacher !

xD

[Icybearg450]

Right on M8...I'm from Brasil living in US for a while and your vid nailed it !!

I'm not drummer but I'm a keyboardist and flutist I actually play Choro! :) thanks for the vid !

[OzoneReviews]

Love the Bossa man!

[generatrix999]

Somewhat confusing verbally;

" The beat is no longer on beat 3 in the second bar ( 1:16 ) it pushed to the and of the second bar".

Sorta true, but what he meant to say was "The beat is on the 'and' of 3 in the second bar".

The beat doesn't land on the 3 in the first bar here, so to say "no longer" is somewhat confusing.

[c4d3nce]

I didn't find that confusing...

[loudisgood]

fuck this

this shit is hard

[OzoneReviews]

It's actually pretty easy if you put your mind to it man.

[blight4hire]

bloody americans, the most racist creatures on earth, besides australians and the french

[roflolmao12321]

It's not like that where cultures meet, we have some of the most cultural mixes in some places but where they don't mix, yes there is racism.

But you have to ask yourself, where isn't there racism?

[TheWoogyEffect]

troll

[BarbababaBabarMama]

joey jordison is really not in bossa nova... :P

[sachaplusgst]

Internet fighting: even if you win you're still a looser. lol calm down guys, its not worth bitching about something that's just trying to add something to your drumming vocab. Ps you suck

[mejrreyes]

hes just trying to fukn help!!!!

[Beregond]

Actually there's another version of the Bossa Nova. I learn it at the moment. It's played with an accented note on the Hi-Hat on 2 and 4 and rest of the Hi-Hat is played as ghost notes. Ther's an accent on the 2nd bass not, too.

[jsegovia612]

If you know that much, Why da fuck are you watching this video?

[jsegovia612]

Ok, How do I explain this to you? My first language is spanish. I know a little bit of English. How much do you know about spanish? I bet I wouldn't understand a word from you if you try to say an Spanish sentence...

Quiero decir que si hablaras en español estoy seguro que no entendería ni una sola palabra que digas... Otra cosa no todos los hispanoparlantes vivimos en México, vamos a corridas de toros y comemos tacos y burritos con picante. How about that?

[stumpitage]

Bien, usted tiene razón. Yo no hablo español con fluidez. Sin embargo, hay traductores en línea. Y estoy perfectamente enterado que no todos altavoces españoles viven en México, yo me doy cuenta de que España, soy una gran distancia lejos de México y soy una cultura separada. I might not be able to speak it well enough, by I have the ingenuity to figure it out.

[jsegovia612]

Well done man. I use no translator, but you did and that's good. Two things, hispanoparlantes means spanish speakers. Your translator didn't do its work right. And in fact Mexico and Spain are very distant one from the other,and they are indeed very different cultures. And you Americans please not stereotype us as burrito eaters and flamenco dancers. Thanks

[RyanZawicki]

Stumpitage: "And you in particular could use some grammar classes."

And

Stumpitage: "You kids this days need to learn some respect."

Yeah... us kids this days really could...

[jimmy9258]

this is much more different then rock, so it's kinda hard for me

[vidboy26]

ride in rong place

[xxhatexwatxuxlove]

Rong spelling in rong place

[vidboy26]

giv a shit? look i kno i was wrong but i just start so how i kno....

[xxhatexwatxuxlove]

I'm just messing I really don't care about spelling.....hope there ain't no hate between us.....

[vidboy26]

ni it fine :)

[primordialsensei]

lol not only that but this guy is saying a pro put his cymbal in the wrong spot...

[Peetar]

Actually, like all things in music, nothing is set in stone.

I've seen drummers put their toms in reverse order, cymbals all in crazy spots, and right handed drummers preferring to play on left handed kits.

There's really no "wrong spot" for anything.

[TheSeveredTongues]

wait i take jazz and latin and afrocuban drum lessons im pretty sure hes playing a bossa nova in 3-2. although its usually on ride but its fine on hihat. well im only 14 so dont get pissed at me this is some hard concepts to understand

[thisnamesbetter]

Yea that seems like more of a Samba to me. Bossa Nova is more polyrhythmic.

[thisnamesbetter]

Actually the last beat he plays is a classic Bossa Nova I'm pretty sure.

[celtofasatru]

It can be considered bossa nova in 3-2, you are entirely correct... The last beat is closer to bossa nova than anything else, I wouldn't go as far as to say it's classic bossa nova, but bare in mind that this is a beginners video. Due to the fact that it is a beginners video and that bossa nova has samba as a stylistic origin, it will have striking similarities upon less complex beats. Bossa nova is more polyrhythmic but only noticeable when the true classical way is played...

[celtofasatru]

...What really makes bossa nova, bossa nova is that it is based more upon complex harmonic strokes and sounds, with the additive of minimal percussive voices.

[goodbiggles]

just so you know..

this is NOT bossa nova!

it's what most non latinos/brazilians think is called bossa nova

and it's not like i'm trying to be a racist or anything..

but i'm brazilian and this is more of an samba/axe kinda rythim (is that how you spell it?)

so.. rotuban was right

don't try teaching anyone stuff before you've learn them yourself

[Nuggetmasterman]

No, it's definitely a bossa nova.

[goodbiggles]

nah... sirously search axe up and listen to the drums

[AfatPasty]

what hats are those? they sound sweet.

[gogugaze]

sabian hhx :)

[pred005]

dude

i was searching for them right now and theyre like 900 bucks for hi-hats,ride, and a crash

although they do sound sweet

[kyledrum15]

HOT DAMN!

I'll just sell a kidney, maybe enough left over for some lunch after I buy it lol

[DrummerInTheHead]

argh exercise 2 is the exact same beat as one of the school pieces i've got ^^

[Parley454]

I think the sound effect part was really helpful, maybe because that is how I describe drum beats to people.

[rotuban]

Hi! i'm steven from argentina! bossanova it's not like this...first of all you have to count in 2/4 it doesn't work if you play it in 4/4 doesn't feel like it has to be...

Second, it's not "straight eight notes" you have to accentuate the piano high notes, with the drum in the rim on the snare, and alternatte them. Anyway it's very good INTRODUCTION to the BOSSANOVA rythm, but definitely it's not the rythm itself...

You have to study first some brasil percusion to understand it...

Thanks!

[justinge20]

yourr drum sounds great

[shadow9Ox]

nice puma shoes

[flash233]

wow. I never realized how much Dave Grohl used bossa nova beats!

[lomednamelomo]

ya lo sake, grasias inche gringo xD jaja

[DrUmMeRsC]

English please

[cansinoeres]

¿?por ke ; for why

[clockworktomat0]

this is great...putting something like this out there for those individuals not priviledged enough to take lessons face to face with another person. great job.

[9Coronas]

What an awesome sounding kit.

Thanks.

[tomo748tomo748]

absoloutly amazing sounding bass drum

[sexysudaka]

que bien !!

aunque derrepente pasar las partituras no

seria malo, ami me costo menos sacarlo leyendo

que a oido.