Drum Lesson, Basic Jazz, Bossa Nova

[FiKeppe]

Just the best American lesson on Bossa Nova style... I'm from Brazil and he knows what he's doing... Smooth groove... GREAT !

[galtyyy]

After three weeks I learned the Bossa Nova because of your video! Thank you!!!!

[PiwaiGee]

it took me 6 hours to get just the hand movement. Should I just give up drums ?

[TEVG1718]

@PiwaiGee it took me 5 minutes! :D

[lardmonk]

@PiwaiGee the fact that you were willing to spend 6 hours learning it means you shouldnt give up

[Lasgati44]

my brother taught me this! nice fills also i like how you change it up and stuff :D

[Bhuan73]

oh i'ts great...u r brilliat man...

[RevWrona]

I liked how you broke down the Bossa Nova beat but it was adding the extra fill that I really thought was fantastic. Showing the added omph was great.

[UncleSlamShow]

is she available to work?



[PiratedBox]

no notations ?

[cooperwulpaw93]

i know bossa nowa i have the same rythm

[ransherparihar]

those are nice cymbals and it really helped that u played simple 4/4 beats

[ElJazz93]

favourite part: 7:30 - 7:43

[ElJazz93]

@ElJazz93 genius, good lesson too! see you

[BertAtkin]

I just cant get it.So frustrating. I would love to see you play it really slowly whilst counting out the beat. Please?

[Chezgee7]

Nice lesson, good technique. Good to point up the difference between the heavier rock style and the gentle touch the bossa demands.

[beck0matto1vana]

just bought the cd , best €15 ive ever spent , thanks

[beck0matto1vana]

Do you know is this the beat used in Cannonball Adderly's "Jive Samba" ?

[lightning97]

Hey you did a real good job here to "build" the Bossa Nova and to allow beginners to learn the pattern and the proper dynamics of it, I agree 2/3, 3/2 means nothing in afro cuban drumming. I....believe me I use the Bossa Nova Pattern as fills in all different places on the kit........There are no rules to indiviuality, keep up the good work Tim.

[ranlett]

5:09 lol!

[hellfromshiryu]

nice dude! 

[AAI6718]

Those cymbals you play have a nice shimmer. Mellow and glassy.

[L0ve4music4life]

Hey, thanks alot for this lesson! Very good breakdown of basic Bosa Nova for a beginner such as myself. Of course i'm not going to rely on this as the "bible of bosa nova" as some people are implying. I am using it as a valuable learning resource for a very novice drummer, as I'm sure it was meant to be. Big help, and thanks again!

[smokeyg100]

ok

[Romans10Verse9]

Dude I don't even play drums but I really enjoyed this video. Very educational and efficient! Coming from a bass player I must say that it's really awesome that you mention the importance of FINESSE! People that don't know how to play with dynamics can be very hard to play with. There's a time to beat it out, but there's a time to kick back and enjoy simplicity. In my opinion, it takes a lot more experience, and maturity to play with finesse than it does to play 128th notes all day. Keep rockin!

[jerseymusicstudios]

Hi Tim!

I really liked your videos. What is your kit (drumheads and drums)?

[Schmalven]

do u play this in a studio room? or just in your flat?

can u do this to your neightbours?

ta mate!

[Fantasticifaction]

And I was taught to always keep in mind to not play the hi-hat at 1 2 3 4 at a bossa nova :( And this isn't the first bossa nova people learn. You should know that.

I admire the fill though XD easy stuff and sounds awesome.

[MrRooov]

EXCELENTE EXPLICACIÓN!

[Mistkerl6]

i cannot talk xD

[ricardokjkj]

thisss is nooo bossa novaaaa ,,,,,,

[geminisstone]

thank you!! :D

[DarklinTheFirst]

cool lesson, have not to learn that anymore, just was interesseted

your ok after the parts sounds sometimes like donkey kong :D

good job !

[Mohammed8778]

i got it ;-)

[Mohammed8778]

i am really desperate.... im trying really hard to get my hands and feet in the right rythm but im failing really hard every time. thats probably because i usually dont play this kind of music. i am very accustomed to hard rock and metal... these rythms are really easy for sure but they also stop me learning this beat because i want to hit the snare to 2 and 4 or the bass after the 2 1/2.... that coax me to despair...

[GonxhaMASH]

stop crying and keep practicing

[EMOxiZxHIDDEN]

@Mohammed8778 i know this is an old comment but have u tried to break it down and isolate each separate part? i find it easier to open and close the hi hat on 2 and 4 but and since i was taught to play that way i've had trouble to play w/out opening and closing it. play it slow and maybe try writing it out. it will be a lot easier to play if u can see what ur playing. also try to sing the clave rhythm or sing all of it.

[xbob1980]

Great lesson, glad I found this video, thanks!

[GuitarRHCPfan]

Using a simple kit yet playing such an array of different sounds and beats, gives justification to the drummers ability. Well done tim481.

[wacko1024]

thats sweeet ..

[greenforddrums]

good vibe man.

[pakrato11]

i love hear to jazz and play jazz on drums

[dackly]

tim481.. this was very helpful! thanks so much!!

[blica1]

cool lesson..i had to learn this on my own after 20yrs of playing , and all by freaking ear..but i've mastered it and i add and improvise a lot more with fills and rim shot patterns..super cool vid !

[pdc1453]

great job man.. from just watching the terrible expert village videos.. you are the only person on youtube who knows how to play an actual bossa nova. THANKS

[FrankP1969]

spiritoso and bravo!!

[RudeBoy78511]

YEAH!  ... and im almost playing drums as good as he do!

[eatrocksah]

rimclick? nice.........its known as crossticking

[MrWassup14]

Thats nice man! I fucking love jazz playing on the drums, and I really wanna get to play like that

[GODCORRUPTED]

great great teacher

[JMDanteG]

hi, nice video, you really do make it so simple, what i wanted to know, cause i really dont understan it, its wich are the names of the records you suggest.

Thanks and keep on.

[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?

[bradzdestroyer]

I think ill subb to you.

[SilentDancingFlower]

Wow you are really good,

you make it sooooo simple :D

[frankysharpp]

Thank you very much Tim!

very interesting lesson

[oxouk]

No hair combing LMFAO! Nice lesson, i dig it.

[meamkurtis]

wow thank you. im a guitar/ tuba player and my good friend has a drum set he's always asking me to play on. now I have something to strive for. Great demonstration!

[dbarbiegirl]

dude....you really help me to make the backing track :) just perfect! 5*

[joeyhoeyca]

that warm up at around 4:30.... awesome! very helpful!

good lesson man

[niloc141414]

really great. you are an awesome player.

[MrLanttu]

that's very good but in original bossa nova you play also right hand to snare. :)

[94Eros]

Your cymbals are great, your sound is very good.

Thanks for this lesson.

[octavarium23]

One and two AND three and FOUR and one and TWO and three AND four and...

[Nikitaman666]

Best bossa nova lesson on youtube!

I love the way you teach just great

[rohbit]

I love your pedagogy.

Show the beat.

Show what's being played on each limb.

Show it together for memory.

Build it up one at a time adding each part in.

Awesome!

[thatbastardson]

best advice ever. if youre right handed, stop playing right handed. lead everything with your left side. its painful, and youll want to kill yourself for like a month, but its the best thing you will ever do to advance.

[metallica2727]

i kinda understand what u mean/ im a right handed drummer, but can u explain ur technique again?sorry ;p ( do u mean do everything w ur left hand? thanks

[cnewman99]

I think he means play reverse. Like if your right handed play the hi hat with your left hand instead of right, and snare with your right.

[takearunatthesun]

Hello, Tim. Why don't you put your lessons on a instructional DVD and book? I'd totally get it. You're helping me a lot !!! Best regards from Brazil !!!

[MrRoberto05]

I love bossa - really easy to play and very effective - a good beat to learn - and once u master it sticks like cum!

[Xylence]

I wish I could find some help for chord progressions! I have the perfect rhythm on piano, but I can't really follow the usual tonal progression, and the modal sounds okay, but most bossa nova has such interesting progression, that I'm not sure how to :( No videos on youtube... Just some doofuses showing you a specific progression

[Xylence]

I don't play drums, but I was jammin' on me piano whilst you played that phat rhythm bro'! I'm going to download that little rhythm and repeat it over and over just to play around with it

[Racerdew]

what was the record he recomended? i really wanna listen to that, but im not exactly sure what he said...

[yogibearx15000]

He first recommended anything by the pianist Antonio Carlos Jobin, and then the "Getz/ Gilberto" album (which Jobin plays on). Girl from Ipanema is a really good track, we're playing it in our jazz band.

[Racerdew]

hey thanks bud! that was very informative!

[woodshome11]

Thanks for the lesson,very well done.

[hknuddv]

you are a seriously good teacher, been playing drums 3 weeks and I picked that up in about 30 minutes :) THANK YOU

[fuel4fire93]

... your gonna wanna not do that...

ha ha this guy is the man, and he is right too

Love your drums and they will love you

[epasurr]

One of my favorite teachers on youtue!

[JABRIRO]

MUCH THANKS!!

[TangoAlphaNiner]

i like how you build it up, that's a pretty neat idea.

[PintechDrummer]

This video lesson helped me out a lot. thank you good sir.

-Jimmy

[Esterol69]

Actually Bossa Nova is as a mix of Jazz and Samba, rythim of samba in jazz instruments (drums and bass, are mostly responsable for bringing the feeling of samba), that's why it blends so well, the guitar basically "sing" the song for itself. In many ways it surged as a musical movement to "please" and do a positive propaganda of Brasil to the rest of the world, great compositors and musicians tough, I love it.

[blada600]

By far the best Bossa Nova lesson you could ask for on youtube. This is exactly how it was explained to me at my drum lesson today. and then it only took like 15 minutes to get consistently.

[jessdrumz]

wow cool

[Knutorius]

nice video. i'll check out the others later for sure.

[rsheehan79]

this is great. I have been a musician since I was 11 years old and just recently (4 months ago) started playing drums. I have always been natural at timing and beats, etc... and had the bossa nova in my "bag of tricks" the same day my instructor showed me the beat. But your approach has already opened new doors for me as far as fills and actual placement and expression go. Thanks.

Oh yeah... and you're a great musician.

[bobfranke95]

You're amazing!

[niloayer]

man, i'm a brazilian drummer and I really love bossa nova..and you've got the way to play...really cool...I'm watching all your lessons and I just added you as a friend...you probably know some grat brazilian drummers but let me know if you want to know some more...and I know that you're a drummer, but look for an album called "ao vivo em minas", by Antonio Carlos Jobim...it's just piano and vocals, but it's a wonderful record.

take care, thanks for the lessons..

nilo

[max8me]

Yeah !

[hujjer]

man, you're good teacher... the pace was OK for me...

[Olav86]

Awesome Tim! I love your lessons.

[heinzie5]

awesome samba, uh, bossa nova grooves!

lol seriously though, this is really helpful. good stuff.

[mdroach9]

wat was that record u/he was talking about?? It all sounded like gobbligoop

[tim481]

The record is Getz/Gilberto. Amazing record. Check it out when you get a chance.

[jambonitoz]

i learn love bossa and then learn bossa after listen to that record when i was in high school. a big part of my life..

[Crumpelstiltskins]

You have really great feel, especially your left hand.  Check out my interpretation of a bossa nova if you wanna.

[0kills]

that's it?

yeah that's it. lol

[namelessfeelings]

A great lesson, my only critisism is that you go too fast when you build up the beat, for someone trying it for the first time it's very hard to follow and therefore very hard to understand. Your videos are all a huge help though, thankyou!

[mdroach9]

yes i agree too

[longlivemetal16]

thanks man!!you are helping me very much!!cause we having a jazz band:P

[FrameSticker]

A thing that's really distrubed my about your lesson is that you didn't even mention the terms 2-3. 3-2, clave or 2 & 4 on the hi-hat at all. Bossa is oftenly played on the ride cymbal (as you know because you played that at the beginning of the video). However, people who learn from this lesson will fail to properly play Bossa Nova - they'll learn to play a beat.

But I bow to you for reminding of the dynamic level that the Bossa needs to be it. Thank you.

[tim481]

Thanks for bringing this up. 2:3 or 3:2 clave does not apply the same way to Brazilian music, or really at all. These traditional Clave's are found in Cuban or Afro-Cuban music. Brazilian music such as the Samba or the Bossa do have a different type of clave or more specifically a two sided rhythmic feel, it is just not the standard 2:3 or 3:2 Son or Rhumba Clave.

[FrameSticker]

I totally agree with you on both comments: if you wanted to cover just the basics of Bossa, you did it amazingly accurate. However, if you're going to do more videos about Bossa, I reccomend you cover the points that I mentioned.

By the way, I have listened to that record countless times and it is as amazing as you say. While one could play jus the bass & hi-hat part of the Bossa and it would sound great, the clave is an essential part of Bossa Nova, and I think you should teach it

Thank you!.

[fluffytheevil]

of course not to be a douche but the clave is very rarely used in Brazilian music.

[FrameSticker]

Clave usually refers only to Afro-Cuban music and the alike, but the term has eventually made its way to Brazilian music. The cross-stick pattern that bossa nova uses is really just a son clave with the 2 note in the 2 part delayed by one eighth note.

[tim481]

This is a BASIC Bossa Nova lesson. A first step or introduction if you will, to the music. I just wanted to cover the very basics of this style of music in the 10 mins YouTube allows you for videos. However, should you listen to the CD that I mentioned, you will find that most of the bossa's on that record are played on the hi hat without any cross stick.

[ShoesNeverWorn]

FrameSticker just explained why

There's more than one type of clave, one of them being the "Bossa Nova Clave" taught in this lesson

By the way, thanks for these lessons, they're really great!

[groopysack]

nice video man, uve got really good drum ethics, need more drummers like you

[emixolydian]

awesome lesson, thank you.

[broadcaster2009]

thanks man! its going to help me for a song we are playing!!!

[akugualawoi]

Love this lesson.

[kyjello12]

your fucken awsome. good lesson.

[livewiththenoise27]

youre also a very good drummer

[livewiththenoise27]

what kind of ride is the one on your left?

i can only tell its a sabian vault..

[HendrixcommaMartin]

Are your mics hooked up to the video? Or is the audio just from the camera?

[LuisssF]

Hey men, thanks a lot for this lessons, I had been playing rock all the tyme, but it's time to change directions.

It will helt me a lot be a bossanova drummer, hehehe.

Regards

[joysimone]

great video. very helpful!

[sonor3]

Yo, post some clips of you just jamming.

[Iwanete]

ey man nice drum set, whats the album you recomended? sorry my english..

[michelero2012]

stan getz joao gilberto tom jobim

"girl from ipanema" album

[Prospeed2]

Great lesson. I've been listening to that album for about a year, it's addictive.... The Verve Jazz Masters 13 kicks too!

[sexblaster]

you have a great teaching technike ( at 1:37 an 4:10 ) that is good for understand (i'm french sorry for the mistakes;))

[well2doer]

Wait, that's it? Yes! hahah Rofl

[madchops82]

how do you like that kit? I am in the process of buying it...

[tim481]

I love it!! You will not be disappointed.

[pjpai0420]

good lesson..i like your teaching..

[dirksgv]

really good lesson!

[VeronicaWilliam]

Thanks for the Lesson!! You explained really well..

[scottsax4]

u know your junk, thats good. i commend you, good job, keep it up

[drummingskater14]

On my Bossa Nova i play the 8th notes on the Ride and open the high hat and close it on the te of 1 the te of 2 the te of 3 and the te of 4 to make it more amusing. Try that and see how it works for you.

[ATSA4ME]

The Bossa Nova is more of a latin patern, not jazz. It's still awesome though.

[j3s12e01]

He said we USE it in jazz. Thanks for your opinion that nobody cares about though Mr. fuckin smarty pants!!!!!!

[wgbm92]

really helps a lot, thank you!

[bretkill]

Great video. By the way, most people I know refer to rim clicks as cross-sticks.

[underprog]

simply great

[blestwithsons]

Thank You So Much!!! This is how video lessons should be - broken down into easy pieces!

[thegreatNEb]

would have liked to see a bit of you jamming it at the end...

but nice vid

(all y'all should check out Bernard Purdy's videos too)

[johnpgray]

cool!.. really enjoyed it!