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  • I saw the score for this piece and the counting in the main part is phrased with a bar of 7/4 followed by a bar of 5/8.

  • The syncopation is nuts on this track.

  • The thing I love about Bill Brufords drum kit (especially for clinics), is how you can't see him more clearly. Everything's below head level. Nicko Mcbrain on the other hand...

  • ME HUBIERA GUSTADO QUE BRUFORD HAYA SIDO PARTE DE LA HISTORIA COMPLETA DE YES, CON LO POCO QUE PARTICIPO DEMOSTRO UN DISCIPLINA MATEMATICA PARA LA PERCUSION. NO LE QUITO EL MERITO A WHITE PERO ESTE MUCHACHON ES EXTRAORDINARIO.

  • how is this hells bells?

  • @sammaify like t.n.t. by tortise

  • @sammaify

    it's not the ac/dc "hells bells"....it's the technically superior Bill Bruford version of his album One of a Kind

  • @deadhardy kay gotcha

  • when i saw the title i thought it was that he would be playing the ac/dc song. "how humiliating" was my reaction

  • 19/8, right? 7/4 followed by 5/8. cool as hell

  • Met him today at my school! Really awesome guy!

  • He is making this look REALLY easy!

  • God this is good!!

  • His touch gives him this sound that is so recognizable...I can tell by the sound that it's him hitting those toms...those mad English drummers!

  • @erikimba @DanLetts there is no one solid time signature. Its a mixed meter piece. There are traces of 9/4, 4/4, 7/4, and i believe 5/4.

  • Position of the hats is in front of the snare. He's using that Tama hat stand with the pedal running through a funky cable so you can place the pedal away from the hats. Strange but I guess it works

  • Awesome as always

  • DAT SNARE

  • I remember they had bruford piped in at the start of a rush concert before people were even getting to their seats , I still marvel at Alan Holdsworth making his strat sound like a saxophone , feels good to me ! gradually going tornado is one of my favourite bruford albums , it is just too bad that nobody uploads that whole album. I would also like to see some of brufords songs on here that has Annette Peacock singing . there are two other bruford albums i forgot the name of that i liked.

  • kick ass!

  • Robotic and sterile.

    Give me Varese, Patch or Zappa.

  • A brilliant robot. He will be a speck - if at all - in a hundred years.

  • @crightox2000 is that a diss or a praise?

  • time keeper

    

  • Thirteen people don't like drum clinics.

  • In the couple of hours leading up to show time on Rush's Time Machine Tour, an eclectic mix of classic and progressive rock music can be heard from the house speakers. The third song is Hell's Bells. Also included is UK's In the Dead of Night and Court of the Crimson King, and a couple of Yes songs as well. Neil Peart must be on a Bruford kick. He covered a lot of his musical history in the Time Machine Tour's house music list.

  • 10/8??

  • @notnowjon 19/8 pa pa paa pa pa paa pa paa (7+7+5)

  • @erikimba Grazie!! ^^

  • @erikimba Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's 19/16. No??

  • @DanLetts97 jajajajaja, sure you are correct can be 19/16 or 19/8 or 19/4 or 19/2 or 19/1 etc, but i feel it more like 19/8 cause i feel that 8s steady rock beat (even bruford plays some 16s to embelish) not that disco 16 notes playing all the time the hihat. A piece on 19/16 is "19 days" by Gavin Harrison, he is playing almost every note with a couple of rests, but can also be interpreted viceversa. Think the songs as you feel more comfortable anyways are 19 notes =)

  • @erikimba Uhhh, I'm going to have to politely point out that you're completely wrong. A time signiture is what it is based on it's function and existence. This song cannot be in whatever time signiture you personally feel it to be. It most certainly isn't 19/4.

  • @DanLetts97 all is an illusion, we humans pretend to put names-genres-categories to everything, to separate things n don´t understand the whole thing we're part of a very big sistem (universe), why couldn't be 19/5 or 19/7?, in fact it can be but with a different pulse, you can actually have 31/7 an can play those organically but with metronomes that will be fractional with a lot of numbers, i don´t disagree with you, what i was trying to tell you is we both love the song, and have 19 notes =)

  • @erikimba Yes, you have the top number correct!!! There are indeed 19 beats, but without understanding what the bottom number represents you're in trouble, whether you like to read Depak Chopra books or not. There is some math involved here and it cannot be muted by mysticism and crystal balls!! The bottom number respresents the count that each beat gets.... I've had this converstion too many times with people that aren't properly trained in musical theory and I won't get into it again.

  • @DanLetts97 ok. i like your point of view, i'm trained in musical theory ( theory not law or axiom ) and understand clearly what you are talking about, i just undertood by talking with jeff coffin of the flecktones that bottom number can be actually 5 7 9 or any number n that we put 4 8 16 etc cause its easier to understand and cause the clock based on 60bpm. if you only see pair numbers on the bottom you are losing a lot of fun on music

  • @erikimba I searched high and low on the internet and can't find an example about that which you speak. It's possible that even this guy from the Flecktones doesn't quite understand what he's speaking about. I've heard other people reference the 60 BPM thing, but it doesn't add up to the law of musical theory. I'll continue searching for more info on this...

  • @DanLetts97 i would give you an example, you have bass snare simple rock beat 2 bars of 3/4 (6/4) and override every dotted eight (3/16) but in that space instead of that you put 4 notes n play only 123 of those 4, how would you write that theorically at 60bpm, that is organic playing, why 4/4 even if you have 8 or 16 feel why not 8/8 or 16/16? cause its easier to follow. I would actually like to hear you about microtones on music? are the musicians out of tune?

  • @DanLetts97 and by going deeper, the spaces (silence) between the notes is what actually give you the beat not the notes per se; bruford mentioned that on a video i don't remember exactly on which one an its always a -1 number of what you represent . and going to science by taking you mentioned math is involved, can you explain me what it's time? or explain me with physics!

  • @erikimba I think that maybe some of these drummers are waxing poetical and using some strange explanations to help us understand what they're playing. I think they're trying to paint visual pictures to help us get inside their heads, and I think it's confused you. You can't have 19/7 time until there is such a thing as a 7th note, or a 9th note (which there can't be) or what have you because odd numbers don't go into even numbers.

  • @DanLetts97 lol. you will understand some day, what to do you think about microtonal music? look also for this Klavierstück IX Bar 1 in 142/8, gulliver suite in 24/1, Mikrokosmos no. 153 in 8/8 (why not 4/4?), Driftwood Suite and Touch Piece partially in 5 and a half/4 and 4 and a half/4, Upstart in 3 two thirds/4, Reverie der Laputier in 3 two halves/4, L'Artisanat furieux Bar 3 is in 4 thirds/2, and finally Mädchentotenlieder bar 112 in 4 fifths/4 and bar 97 in 3 fifths/4 good luck with math

  • @erikimba We''ll have to agree to dis-agree. If you think that Hells Bells can be played as 19/4, then why don't you try playing it that way? Play it so that each note is counted as a quarter note, or even an 8th note (19/8) and you won't be able to, if you understand music. Listen to Hells Bells while snapping quarter notes with your fingers...then 8th notes as well. The beat won't fall on the first note of each bar, because they're being counted as 16th notes.

  • @DanLetts97 agree to dis-agree, this are the more enjoyable 19 cycle of notes of my life cause all the talking and hearing over and over the song......i can hear the song in 19 notes, dancing in 3 clapping in 5 and sing it in 7 lol, i sent you inbox good luck ;) also look this video of alex acuña explaining a typical music of peru where you dance in 3 clap in 4 and sing in 5, or Efrain del Toro, i am going out for a moment when come back will look the videos for you. regards my friend

  • @DanLetts97 this is alex acuña at 00:42 take a look watch?v=GWsGn8lmXVY&feature=re­lmfu, and also efrain toro opened my mind widely look at this watch?v=9z6Fc_UzTPw and this watch?v=xX6p5Bf8j4Y and this one on daylimotion(dot)com cause didnt find it on youtube video/xa32xe_gregg-bissonette-­and-efrain-toro-ja_music

  • @DanLetts97 it can be played two to one until you get to the thirteenth floof of any building with an elevator and it continues to skip that beat or floor until you are at the ceiling and down you go to the tobes of hades!

  • I love the aurora he gives off while he's playing (Bruford's mind-'Yeah...I'm motherfucking Bill Bruford')

  • Danny Carey has the same positioning of his Hi-Hat, right in the center. Not surprising since Bruford is his favorite drummer.

  • Effortless. What a dude!!

  • bill bruford's brain must be analyzed

  • u can definately see where danny carey got some of his style from

  • @trankuser9 Exactly.

    

  • BILL BRUFORD/Hell’s Bells

    ドラムクリニックでのパフォーマンスか⁇

    上半身全くブレず、無駄な動きが皆無‼

  • Hot damn! Truly a master

  • watch?v=DvQwXOCKNLY

  • fell back on the search engine to have as far flung truth as the sliding floor

  • porque salió de King Crimson ?

    yo opino que es por el lenguaje que piensan usar para las siguientes producciones.

    La batería en Dangerous Curves es como los mandalas.

  • porque salió de King Crimson ?

    yo opino que es por el lenguaje que piensan usar para las siguientes producciones.

    La batería en Dangerous Curves es como los mandalas.

  • I met him at a record signing about the time Gradually Going Tornado came out. Great guy, very professional, well mannered, and down to earth at the same time. He and Jeff Berlin and the band just ripped like crazy at the gig they played that night. One of the best shows I have ever seen. Also saw him twice with King Krimson and those were great shows too !

  • @BDizDaBest Ha, just got back from seeing Alan White 2011 with Benoit and Oliver.

    Steve Howe and Chris Squire are men of class. That's all I have to say on Ash Wednesday from the HOB.

  • @BDizDaBest what kind of crap have you been listing too dude?....lol....are you deaf...or dumb? C'mon ,...ur not serious r u? open ur ears and mind

  • @BDizDaBest You think Bill Bruford is overrated? Keep listening to Travis Barker....

  • siempre será el mejor, el más técnico, el más innovador, el más todo. Y todo hecho con una facilidad pasmosa. Sólo Peart se le parece en esa facilidad. Ahora una pequeña broma: no se parece, un poco, a Harpo Marx? Verdad?. Su cara de felicidad tocado es como la de un niño jugando con los juguetes el dia de Reyes. Larga vida al rey!!!

  • EN UNA SOLA PALABRA, EXTRAORDINARIO, COMO SIEMPRE EN PRIMER PLANO DE TODO EL INSTRUMENTAL PROGRESIVO

    PP

  • Good ol'  BILL ...FUCKING RULES !!!

  • my next door neighbour :) hes a legend!!! u gotta love him so much!!!

  • 12 dislikes confirms that there are at least 12 people out there in need of psychological help.

  • a drummer with total command of tempo, time, timbre and dynamics. A rare breed indeed... shame he's formally retired...

  • I love watching the really talented drummers...Bill actually looks like he's going for a ride...no effort at all!

  • What a stud!

  • I'd touch his shit. His book is a MUST HAVE.

  • Just reading his autobiography at the moment - very insightful and well-written...and funny! Bill is a real inspiration - a very intelligent drummer who has advanced the instrument. A real pity he's officially retired from touring. I hope he keeps giving Clinics and making music.

  • "Bill Bruford...the master of syncopation. I am so glad that I got to see him and King Crimson in the early 90's.. along side with Adrian Belew...great stuff!!"

  • Who hates Jeff Berlin?. Certainly not me or the Great Neil Stubenhaus, or Getty Lee. He is a great Bassist,who happens to be very opinionated. The guy is a monster player. Do you Anthony Jackson as well?. He,s really hard ass, but you have to respect him . I say let their music talk, the rest is wind in sails.

  • bill bruford has amazing control and holdsworth is amazing and so is jeff berlin. this band is so underrated but is a million times better than all of the crap today tht ppl call rock its just absolutely amazing how ppl can even come up with music like this

  • omg i just love how he smiles, as if to say, 'look how easy this is' in grand syncopation of flowing spectacularness, a percussionist's dream of the mock turtle's flappers

  • beautiful set up ...I STARTED USING THIS SET UP A YEAR AGO ...TRY IT OUT KIDS ...W.P.

  • Bill's totally got his chops down. Thanks for the posting. I wore 2 copies of this album OUT.

  • I album in 1979 & wore it out in the next 12 months LOL. This clip reminds me how intelligent Bill's drumming is. It's kind of mathematical with wonderful changing geometry... or something. Hard to put into words eh.

  • @pobinr yes like danny carey, you can feel that math on the drums

  • Bill is still under rated...great stuff...ah takes me back

  • It's great to see real drummers. Bill is great! Love it all. Love his open rolls too!

  • If not for this man I'd never have bought a drum set. The best!

  • Yep, gotta love that trademark "ping" on his snare. Hey, thank Chris Squire for that. hehe

    Just an AMAZING drummer.

  • The greatest. Nobody touches his shit.

  • @turntapzap i want to touch his shit and his balls to get some of the power lol

  • Bruford helped me through some strange periods of my life. OK I know everyone hates Jeff Berlin, but I love his playing as it fitted perfectly with Stewart and Holdsworth. These albums & tours plus King Crimson & UK are treasured musical memories. What a percussionist. It's his FREEDOM & the gear changes! How he draws your attention to the bass or link to something else; his drum controls the focus of your ear! Hey -just try tapping your feet or fingers to this guy! Genius with a capital Gee!

  • In past interviews he's explained that, early on, he felt he had something of a weak left hand, and when he moved into the world of amplified rock music he developed a semi-rimshot that he felt helped him cut through the sound.

  • I saw Bruford play with Earthworks in 2002, supporting Stewart Copeland.

    Copeland had all these lame songs named after his grandchildren.

    Needless to say, Bruford did a Bowie on him, making him sound like an utterly incapable spastic.

  • Ok obviously I know Copeland is an excellent drummer, but making him look lame - that's how good Bruford is.

  • I would go so far as to say Bill Bruford rules.

  • love it. well said. copeland seems more like a band manager who plays drums. (better than me on both counts) but bruford is the real deal. love your comment.

  • he always looked liek that while he played

  • and bout 1:25, thats a big grin

  • Yes, Indeed. All you pro drummers out there, Bill Bruford is still better than you.

  • Genius is making the impossible look easy, and that's what he does. To boot, his drum tuning is totally unique, and his inventiveness and timing are impeckable. That's how we can listem to these songs over and over again...they're appealing on so many levels. I never listened to the drums before Bruford and Tony Williams.

  • great drummer

  • Thanks for the awesome video...I've never been the same since a friend and I walked into the Vogue in Indianapolis in 1985 and got to watch Bill warm up - we also got to chat with Pat Moraz while we were there.

  • lost my virginity to this song

  • great drummer, I see he still likes all the drums tuned high

  • i love the way he plays but i hate that snare sound. blah ;[

  • I think the snare drum sounds as it does because of the video quality. I agree - it's too dominant.

  • Nope, thats Brufords snare tone.

    Very one of a kind.

  • Pure GEnius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOve him with yes and 70's crimson! Beeshot you are right he plays effortlessly! I am jealous!! and I am a guitar player! HA!

  • He always liked a "klonky" sound to his snare, doesn't he?

  • Geesh ..Bruford is a genius.  And ..so frickin nonchalant about it !! Amazing testimony here ;)

  • Bill "BBOOM" Bruford is a delight.

    Surely, there is no finer drummer.

  • i love tool. i just love the drumpatterns. bill bruford really rocks my socks as well!

  • The absolute master!

  • sembra che le bacchette si muovano da sole!

  • Listen really hard and you can hear Danny Carrey. Wanna know who Dannys main influence is? Your watching him.

  • Amazing¡¡¡

  • Damn His Paistes Soound Great

  • this is simply awesome!

    the audio is all about the drums ! wish i could hear all the One Of A KInd tracks like that for the fun of it

  • I saw UK's '78 show in Dallas.  And the later one in '79 (Bozzio et al opening at TCCC, with ceiling lights on and milling, distracted Jethro Tull fans grabbing beers from the hallway--having no idea what they're listening to).

    The snare poing is a signature. Half the fun is finding when it lands next.

    For a drum clinic, buy the album Danger Money.

  • I agree with you on anticipating his next Poing..he never palys a song the same way twice....read an interview with wetton once who said quite simply.."if you didn't tap your feet when playing with Bruford you fucked" (that's a paraphrase)

  • Smooth!! Was there! Simply mind boggling how good he is.

  • I liked Bruford in King Crimson many years ago better.

    Bobcats

  • Saw his clinic when he rolled by here in Victoria a couple months back. Totally cool how he encouraged input and questions from the new/non-drummers during the audience chats. Very illuminating on the musicality of the instrument. Taking a page out of his book I got a remote hi-hat so that I play it over (and between) my 2nd and 3rd toms now. Sitting front row centre I think my Cephalic Carnage tee discouraged him from answering some fanatical questions I had for him.

  • Please Listen to "Music for Piano and Drums"

    Patrick Moraz and Bill Bruford.

  • Agreed! Really shows how exceptional of a jazz-inspired drummer that Bruford is...

  • Only Bill can make odd time signatures not sound odd at all =)

  • Awesome.

  • oh the snare sound :)

  • Bill never misses a rimshot. Poor sound quality, but great view of the master at work. What a smoothie.

    I sincerely doubt he'll get Bruford back together. He's not the kind that looks back and after several dinosaur tours with the Yes crew he has vowed to never work with a rock group again.

  • Such a great. And always with a killer snare sound.

  • Must have been the primary influence for Danny Carey. Carey even moved his high-hat to the middle of his kit, just like Bruford.

  • Yeah I agree, you can really hear Bruford's influence on Danny's playing, there both just sick players. A lot of Bruford's patterns remind me of the way Danny plays.

  • Sweeeeeeet ! He makes it look sooooooo easy ! . . . only it's not !

  • saw bruford with yes but really enjoyed the UK show in chicago july 78.

  • that doubletime section at the solo at 1:50 is my favorite bill bruford moment ever and probably the most reused groove that he's done. Before him I don't think there was a groove much like that, and since, people are using it everywhere!! I like his ride hiccup at :50 and like the badass that he is, he just smiles it off :)

  • the master!

  • I expect a reformed or new version of Bruford in the next 5 years based on this clip.

  • Bruford is the man

  • if he tried, he could look even more pissed off and bored !!!

  • Hey, I saw him smirk and smile a few times.

    He's like a Ninja in a boxing ring.

  • its a clinic, ive been to so many, but they play songs, and then break down things and teach about feels and things in that song, or other things

  • this guy is absolutely amazing

  • Absolutely! Bruford has such a rare resplendency. Genius. Clinically a master!

  • I would love to see this in person! Why do they call it a "clinic" though? Semms more like a great show! Peace

  • say hello to god is right! and that f'n snare sound!! is that that bell brass? please william, hit it again.

  • Donde vergas esta Hell Bells?!!!

  • Gracias Bill por la inspiración !!

  • holy crap!

    bruford is a great drummer... hell yes!

  • I saw Rat Race Choir perform this piece with Steve Luongo on drums back in 1980. Super instrumental, Bill does a great job!

  • Yeah! RRC did this many times. I remember they opened at The Orangeburg Pub in Orangeburg, NY with this number. Steve had the Fibes kit back then. Awesome! They used to do Alaska from UK too. Great band. Mark Hitt was an awesome guitarist.

  • He looks like a Dalak playing the drums.

  • Say hello to God

  • Damn. I love how he's so relaxed. Great video.

  • Saw this clinic in Edmonton 5 days ago...he OWNED the place with his humour, education and amazing playing. He opened the clinic with Hell's Bells and had everyone's attention for the rest of the night. Had very good things to say about other drummers; he mentioned the Buddy Rich sessions in NYC produced by Neil Peart and the players involved. Bruford's a class act.

  • nice. i was at his clinic in new haven, CT, and it was awesome

  • He is one of the hardest drummers to copy!!

  • Bill's is a master...what can you say...except perfection

  • Thank you Billy, thanks to show your humanity and get a tad bit ahead of the beat in the rim click section, you grinned and got it back in place before it went askew, as great and accurate as he is, he is still human, huge influence, always the innovator and artist!

  • You said it so well! It comforts me to see legends like him miss a beat or screw up a little from time to time; it reminds us that what they play is humanly possible and attainable by us mere mortals.

  • one of a kind is a great album. the love the way he did a version of the track on of a kind with earthworks. this is the perfect opening to an album.

  • DukeLaCrosse,

    It his timing and use off odd time measures that are impressive. He is looked up to my many greats in the world of percusion, including Neil Peart and Mike Portnoy.

  • Why can't we get Bruford, Stewart, Berlin and Holdsworth together again? Would that tour make money? I would die to see that.

  • YES! YES! YES! we need a campain to get this goin' Lets get some original UK action goin too.. if Asia can do it, so can they...

  • Thank you so much for posting. Ive loved "one of a kind"

    for all these years.

  • he's the reason I play Paiste cymbals...no kiddin'.

    and that snare poing...if it didn't go poing it wouldn't be Bill.unimpressive? you must be real young.

    Bill been playin hipsh*t for almost 40 years now.Readily identifiable sound and style.Nobody duplicates his thing.Major props to Mr.Bruford.

  • I don't get the excitment about Bruford. He plays a clean, crisp beat and was involved with some great music from the 70's and 80s, but his style is a bit predictable and unimpressive (every time I hear that snare go 'poing' I think, damn, there it goes again).

  • Well, actually what I would remark about Bruford is to what extent he is an unpredictable drummer. So many times, listening to some music where he is the drummer, I have been absolutely surprised for not being able to predict what comes next. And so many times, what comes next is the last thing (fill, whatever) I could expect, but fits so good into the whole music. To me, Bruford is a genius.

  • You have "hit it on the head" with that description.

  • Bruford is my drumming hero. God bless him and all his multitudinous talents.

  • Wow. Best drummer to ever walk the earth.

  • I attended this clinic and was fortunate to be in the 2nd row!! Bill was fighting a cold that night and although was sick was engaging and performed amazingly. It was awesome to hear the drum set as we were so close that the you could hear the kit from the stage, not from the speakers!

  • Thanks for the post. Must say I think Bill´s drumming wasn´t great on this, though I love the song. He seemed a bit switched off. Mind you, he´s still the dog´s nadgers!!

  • I think the video quality is great! Specially for people who look for poorly yes' videos from the mid 70s like me =)

    thanks for posting man, I love this song

  • Hold the camera steady!

    No seriously, awesome video. Thanks for sharing. I'm so bummed he didn't come anywhere near me on his recent North American clinic tour. :(

  • Yea, this is one of the more unsteady songs from my video, but I was kind of surprised I was able to get the little steadiness I could from using the (fabric) top of the empty seat in front of me. I'm kind of surprised at the video quality of this on YouTube, I expected better.

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