7/8 Afro Cuban Solo

[dragondix]

killing bro.

[pdrums777]

YOU'RE GREAT MAN!! 

[gubatera]

yes man.....good mind.....

[TheB0P]

mad legit. I feel like it could be more accurately described as 7/4 or 21/8... 7 beats of triplets...?

but yeah. ill.

[papat1999]

You are the best drummer i ever seen in my short life and it's probably the best drum solo on youtoube. You should be a professionnal, you are even better than a lot of big drummer and you are so young. You have a perfect groove, technics and musically.

I hope you will play with other musicians because you desserve to be famous.

Sorry for my english, i'm french and you are my most incredible musical discovery on youtoube.

aaargh i'm so stupefied.

[Jerurce]

Holy crap! That was insanely awesome. I have no idea how to even approach learning that......

[Fatherman100]

you sound really good bro.. its very very very creative which you dont see in alot of popular musicians.. I ADMIRE THIS!! I have been looking for a afro cuban solo to study this is it!

[Brucelee8bjork]

I enjoyed every moment of this. This was truly inspirational. Your approach couldn't be anymore perfect. Man that was amazing!!!

[BurningGundam85]

Dude! You have to give me a download link for the loop :D

[jswitch2010]

yu a beast bro

[johnsbubbalog]

fucking amazing!



[aboubacarsidibe]

This is the exact kind of style Im going for - heavily incorporated with African stylings if u look at African drumming ensembles they do the exact same type of soloing.... Some moments there when u almost seem "free from the time" I just need to get my chops and time feel to the point to where ur at.... then Ill be able to do some rlly sick shit.... Btw... Does Elvin Jones play this kind of style? Who was ur inspiration for this?

[metalcore929]

Awesome. 

[bamwow09]

Wooooooooow. Awesome bro. Great sounding kit too. Are the resonant heads double or single ply?

[FSKvmartin]

Great Video!

[sseos]

very nice sound you got out of the drums and really nice drumming. you have any tips on what to study to develop this kind of technique? cheers

[DrumzzKool]

nice groove. well laid out. cool.

[jshields01]

Great work, the kit sounds amazing aswell

[furiousmiles123]

Yo what school do you attend?

[Jaredgoldmoney]

Not in 7/8

[jshields01]

@Jaredgoldmoney its a slow 7. Arguably 7/4

[tylerfightclub]

AMAZING !! AWESOME ! I LOVE IT !

[Morisson555]

wow, well done!

[cdzenge]

awsome!

[drumman60471]

Sound good yes tasteful drumming

[sktrfreak666]

good chops....funky groove

[KilikaDrums]

You need some musicians! Best amateur drum vids on the tube but everytime I pass I wish you weren't playing by yourself.

[scoobypoo88]

Really good stuff here, I like it a lot! Are you going to school for music?

[somuchmusic17]

SIIIICK BRO, REAL NICE....looks like fun

[somuchmusic17]

SIIIICK BRO, REAL NICE....looks like fun

[somuchmusic17]

SIIIICK BRO, REAL NICE....looks like fun

[somuchmusic17]

SIIIICK, BRO REAL NICE...looks like fun

[somuchmusic17]

SIIIICK, BRO REAL NICE

[etpetnel]

Excellent, respect...

[clarkcu00]

OOOOOHHHHHH ... SHIT dude that was sooooo fucking good ... holy God that ... i'm still ... shit dude, well done.

[lukeoluke90]

great work

[JosephStalin5]

are those apolo drums?

[mayimbu22]

a la mierda el tipo este ... es jodido tocar en esa division

[rusjazzman]

are you using a sequencer for recording those loops? If yes, what kind and model. I'm in the process of getting myself a good sequencer. I'll appreciate your advise.

[ZMoney99999]

@rusjazzman I recorded the piano line live on garageband, looped it and played it through a PA system.

[rusjazzman]

thank you very much!

[ivarsarutjunjans]

yes, yes, yes. respect, man. really like your style, respect! :)

[darkaza666]

I love your style, it remembers me to john theodore from the mars volta.

[bubnjarovski]

this is one of the best drum solos that i have seen on youtube!

[yipyipR]

I think this is the real idea of drumming instead of the drumming you hear everyday on the radio

[cubiche88]

sweet video man. i've been playing for 2 years and been wanting to play this kind of stuff considering my uncles a percussionist and i live in miami. thanx for posting a gr8 vid.

[audiorage092]

This is really amazing man....you are awesome...don't stop..you could be one of the great jazz players....not unlike Chambers or Wekyl

[backbeatbobby]

2 bars of 7/4

[shaydrums]

Awesome, great ideas/chops

[winnerbaby44]

you are the real deal

very good.. loved it

[richie535]

sounds like dave holland looking up

[romadrummer77]

nice Ideas,Great feel.

[ZachRhea2]

Very nice. Your drums have a very nice sound too. Is that a reissue set or a vintage? Also, do you have anything between those two stacked cymbals? I'm trying to get a good stack sound with my 20 HHX stage ride and a 16 A med thin crash.

[chrisr0cks09]

sounds like vinnie gone afro cuban lol.

definitely hit the musical approach.

[dandadrummerman]

zach you are amazing!! how long have you been playin so i know how long its gonna take me to get to where you are

[backbeatbobby]

bout 7 yrs bro  he just practises alot

[ZMoney99999]

About 7 years. But I don't know what you are talking about man I watched your videos you are sick for real.

[dandadrummerman]

you dont realise but thats like praise from ceaser lol

[vaydrummer]

awesome! Where do you study?

[westhofer8]

dude you are my hero this is seriously awesome. you're an inspiration to the best of us musicians.

[DmitriMironov]

This great!

But its 7/4 bro!

Nice job!

[drummer510]

definitely my favorite zmonaaay vid. very tasty, sounds like some Eric Harland/Billy Kilson runs at times.

[bubnjarovski]

so you count it one, two, three, four, five, six, seven?

[YoungBrando25]

great job...nice feel, no matter what these guys say, you were in the pocket. nice journey, it took the listener to different places.

[lzo210]

that was fucking SICK!!!

[Bodhisattva2012]

whatever time it is in, this is truly inspiring, and as clean of a solo as I have heard on youtube. Beautiful and inspiring work here.

[carmexsd4]

the best

[berlinBOOMorchestra]

I have seen pretty much everything on youtube, and this guy has some world class chops and feel. I mean who can play this f+++ing cool. Gadd? Elvis jones... I mean, they are some clean paradiddles at 2:13. Forget parradiddles. This is genius.

[dtegg91]

I'd love to download that looping piano part.

[ZMoney99999]

I just made it on garageband.  It's easy you can make them yourself with live or software instruments.

[tchfunkta]

Is this the groove from Looking Up by Dave Holland on the album Prime Directive? If not, check it out! :-)

[tomorronow]

hull yeah

[cloudig]

Very impressive. You've got amazing feel and obviously the chops too haha. Keep it up!

[lileulileu]

Marcus Baylor style all the way... :) Great stuff indeed! Wish there was 7/8 beat somewhere in between though... 7/8 beat can be interpreted quite interesting... pity! I mean what you play can be played freely over any beat... if that's the idea, then...

[Embracable]

have you ever thought about the guitar center drum off....this stuff willl fer sure impress thomas pridgen

[jimmyboiiiii]

from 2 58 onwards its sickkkkkk

[drummrguy]

hahahahaha so sick!

[cab88888]

this groove reminds me of Dave Holland quintet's Lost and Found... Do you know that tune ? It would be funny if you didn't ! But since you appear to know Eric Harland who plays with Dave, I guess you probably do. ++

[epn10]

that's better than about 99% of professional drummers. the feel around 3:00 is ridiculous

[eldowns]

Pretty hip that the drums are in key with the vamp. Word up.

[drumology2001]

This is pretty wicked! I picked up a couple of great licks from this. The flow of the rolls, the odd meter, and the color choices around this unconventional kit are what made me favorite it. :)

Keep up the killer work - more, please!

[thatsmypeanuts]

this is badass. but I have to say... it's not in 7/8. It's in 21/8, or alternating 12/ and 9/8. The compound time equivalent of 7/4 (which is a simple meter).

[Drumman74]

21/8 is 3 bars of 7/8... You are hearing the phrasing and interpreting it as meter. Technically, it could be written out either way.

[thatsmypeanuts]

Sorry. I disagree. Yes, technically it could be written either way, but the whole point of meter is to write it in the way that best represents how it sounds. This does not sound like 7/8. It is 7/4 in compound meter, which means that each beat is subdivided into three parts. Hence 21/8.

[thatsmypeanuts]

7/8 is counted as 1-and-2-and-3-and-4.

7/4 is 1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and-5-and-­6-and-7-and.

He is playing the latter, but instead of "and," which means subdivision into 2, he's subdividing the beat into 3.

The same way 12/8 would be expressed as 1-and-a-2-and-a-3-and-a-4-and-­a, this is the same but through seven instead of four.

You could say it's three bars of 7/8, but then his phrasing has nothing to do with the bar line. Better to choose a meter whose barlines reflect the phrasing.

[tchfunkta]

The feel is 2 bars of 7/4, kind of a 4/4 + 3/4 type seven. He already said afro-cuban so the triplet feel is implied. Triplet feels don't HAVE to be written with an 8, like 12/8. 12/8 just makes it easier to look at on paper sense you don't need a million 3's cluttering things up. Just notational preference though, really.

[thatsmypeanuts]

You're right. You could call it afro-cuban 7/4 and the triplet feel would be implied. But we agree that it is 7/4, not 7/8. No offense to Zmoney, who is a superior drummer to me in most respects, but 7/8 is a tad more challenging.

[backbeatbobby]

so what your saying is basically you count it as 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 and a 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a?lol:)

[thatsmypeanuts]

No, you count it in 7. But the point is that it is counted in quarter notes, (7/4), and that each quarter is subdivided into 3, because afro-cuban beats use triplet (rather than 8th note) feel. 7/8 feels much, much different than this. Check out my videos in 7/8 for an example.

[tchfunkta]

but you can swing 16th notes and make the 8th pulse slow... this is simply a notational argument that can never truly be solved, and doesn't really matter

[thatsmypeanuts]

Yes I agree, but there are conventions for notation. You could notate it the way you say, but that's unconventional for an afro-cuban groove. Generally those are notated with the main pulse being a quarter.

You're not wrong, but your argument is "you can notate it either way." Yes, but one way is preferred as per notational convention. That is all I'm saying.

[bubnjarovski]

sick dude

[metsportslete241]

how long you been playing?

[MrVick85]

Yeah you creamed that one mane... Keep it crisp brotha, its soundin nice.

[broderick2681]

an up and coming BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mempT]

the best part of yer playing is how well it all flows, very naturally. it seems as though the drums are playing themselves- which is the biggest compliment i could give-you are truly one of the most creative and exciting players i've heard lately. you should post more of yourself playing with other musicians too! ;)

[dhsc19]

Absolutely fantasic!

[artisanride]

i seen all your videos multiple times this is one of the best if not the best

[woodnskins]

keep it up fam you sound good

[ocdrumboy1]

watch out! this dudes comin through!

[artisanride]

hell yea he is hes sick, checked your videos your tight as hell

[artisanride]

you know thats sick

when we gunna shed out and push eachother????

[johncool182]

Awesome stuff man!

RESPECT! :)

[eldowns]

It's good that you're "Looking Up," Z, because with all this practice, someone's bound to notice and reach down to snag you.

[eldowns]

Sounds like it's in 7/8. Also sounds really good.

[erikeepper]

Obvioysly a typo.

[eldowns]

Obviosysly.

[erikeepper]

Obliviounsly. what?

[eldowns]

Obrivliounslzqly a typok.

[erikeepper]

You didn't get it :(

[eldowns]

Bummer.

[amishrockstar]

Obivivlisouousollizvy qa teeppoki

[Moog167]

Awesome Vid as always doc.....What are those drumsizes?