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  • Why Cant Drummers Just shut up and keep a simple groove.All this skippity flippity shit. A.D.D. DRUMMING.

  • drummer need to stop hating on each other and learn how to encourage one another. Spanky is just gifted by god stop hating.

  • Spanky doc u are amazing man....keep up doc...

  • They need a love button

  • maneeee ilove yur off-beats!

  • Does this Guy have his own channel?

  • dang he start goin crazy at the end lol

  • real drumming

  • thomas pridgen

  • Music for drummers is about time. This guy owns the time. His skill and talent is his ability to groove the shit out of things whilst mixing up subdivisions. This is true talent. SPANKY is a true innovator. I don't care who says what. He has locked in time and smashed the hell out of it.

  • @NOYABEATS

    truth my friend

  • both good points. being a Good musician also means know where to put things. Sometimes a song or environment can warrant you being very technical other times it may require just keeping it smooth and simple.

  • placement is the illest part of spankys playin for me just sicccckkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!

  • .. and yea, I know he plays ghosts here and there ... but merely a few ... ;o)

  • I doubt that he is not able to play ghosts but all he does is hitting the snare really hard here - so the sound is rimshot after rimshot.

    I agree he is insane playing like this but actually playing like this is not that special if you do play on this high level all the time. For example : if you play fusion all the time normal rock-guys would think about your playing about the same.

    Anyways - I know I´ll have some pissed off replys now - not THAT special aside from the musical style.

  • Maybe someone could give some advice how to tune snare drum like this? I'm tryin to get that sound from my drum but i'm not success..

    Spanky is killin, one of the best!

  • @prankas Try tensioning the snare side head really tight and the batter side moderately tight, until you get the pop you're looking for. That what I sometimes do on my 13" x 7" snare and it has a ton of crack, similar to the snare he's using here.

  • ii cant stress itt ennuff; spanky is a beast

  • spanky is ill and but damm cant bump to it wat music about then

  • I guess by bumping you mean nodding your head to a 4/4.

    That's not what music's about, at least to a musician.

  • who are you to say "what music's about". music is different to everybody. if he wants to bob his head to a 4/4 then let him bob his head to a 4/4

  • So you'd rather agree with the guy saying music should be simple and groovy? I'm just saying most musicians get tired of 4/4 and want to move on to other timings.

  • you gotta remember that it would not be possible to be a musician if you did not get paid by people who are not musicians thus these are the people you have to play to. "nobody cares if a bass player can solo besides other bass players". yes its good for music to push the limits and find new things, but dont do it so much that you cant still relate back to the common man... cause thats the real point is bringing happiness to them.

  • In context with a video, this is a music clinic, not an entertainment performance.

    I agree that if you're selling your music, you should put the consumer in mind. I'm speaking in terms of talent and in relation to the playing in this video.

    The guy said what's good about the music if you can't nod your head. That's his opinion, I just simply stated that's not all that music is about.

  • does anyone have any idea what type of cymbals make up that cymbal stack starting at around :14 ?

  • wat kind of bass drum pedal does he use

  • iron cobra i think

  • na actually he was using teddy campbells pedal that yamaha pedal i forgot what its called

  • That guy could use any pedal... it's about muscle memory.

  • chani au mann

  • 5:09 - 5:12 is just crazy

  • yeah he crazy on them keys too.

  • is that kevin powell on keys

  • na thas eddie brown

  • there are at least two more guys filming this..

    thank god!

    this is history and should not be lost!

  • Spanky you rip

  • yo calling all musician in the tri state area if u live in philly, new jerz or delware click my page my church need musicians bad!!!!

  • so many times i've been back here (and other vids from the event). for me it's a pinnacle of drumming. makes me wanna save for trip to US just to see a fraction of all this goodness.

  • Great job recording the dude in the gray T while spank was rippin that trap UP. Dude is nice for real.

  • Good Stuff Spanky 4 real!

  • mean and clean

  • spanky is alsome at what he does

  • Spanky is not cocky....he's down to earth......he cool..:)

  • SPANK IS THA TRUTH! (bows down)

  • is it jus me or does this look sped up

  • nasty drummer sick style

  • its called syncapation, look it up. once you understand the numbers, and the foundation, it istnt that hard..

  • syncopation*

  • Help me out -

    I thought that Chris was mentored by Spanky at one point... am I confusing McCurdy with another drummer? Isn't this the same cat coming out of Mint Condition (the band)?

    To Saibus 2005 - this may sound repetitive to you, but keep in mind that people haven't really been playing like this until Chris Dave came along - which is why they call him "Daddy" - he's become the father of another way to play. Spanky is nice w/ his stuff though.

  • OK - I was wrong.

    Stokley was the Mint Condition Drummer who helped mentor Chris Dave. Spanky is an entirley other cat.

    Chris Dave is definitley the next "drummer" out there. Spanky is nice though.

  • I adgree with Organizedblues...Chris Dave is on another planet and spank plays a few of Chris's licks.I heard they are close friends. Chris plays so many different styles that he may be the most versatile percussionist I'd heard.

  • snare sounds crazy !!

  • and wat concept is that?

  • yea true

  • totally awesome.

  • Spanky and Chris Dave both are on a level of their own!!!

  • na chris dave is on his own... spanky is real nice but chris is from another planet

  • i've watched these videos like 40 times.

    he's badass

    watching these inspired me to try new beats

    experiment a little

    thanks

  • Teach Me!

  • i hate to hear when a musician especially church musicians become arrogant or full of pride humility will bring you high pride will bring you low

  • you got all my respect rmartin well put comments thats all i been trying to tell these cats get yo name out there practice the gift is in us all use it if you got it like i said i was face to face with spanky and if he dont no you then you a nobody to him the nigga wouldnt even let me shake his hand and tell him how sweet he was so all well in well

  • thats weird right after this... (im definately a "nobody" i shook his hand and he told us about his cymbals and stuff. hes definately a quiet one not arrogant quiet but he seemed kinda shy. when teddy campbell was playing he was just locked into what teddy was doing while everyone was talking and oooooing and aaaaaing. thas what i got from him when i met him. kinda shy no cockiness idk about now tho...

  • ive been pickin apart from 0:50-2:30..u on point spanky

  • nice spanky critics are always there i like ur playin check me out reppin cogop UK

  • whers the love guys?

    music is is a cooperative art not a competative one

  • STOP comparing yourself and lift your self up in God and you will shine, but not own your own. Ego is shine on your own without God through negative input shinning...YUK its sin. Why is it sin? Im glad you asked,ego is to separate from the word of God,sanctify yourself and fix your thoughts and line up with Gods word. Ego says, i can do all things without christ through my sences only along with bad mouthing better than anyone else.

  • I feel you brother, but spell check please.

  • Im a keyboardist and drummers have always acted this way. Ego.... I read a comment that is true in this post. Freestyle for yourself but learn rubaments if thats the spelling. Practice what you dont know until you get it and DONT compare yourself to anyone ever. This happens alot to musicians,

  • HE does play for TYE! HE played Last night for him in LONDON!

  • Spanky will murder Calvin Rogers.

  • You must be crazy...

  • its bad to compare spanky and calvin have 2 totally different styles they are both very sick! you cant compare two of the top drummers in the gospel industry.

  • yeah he so good he dont even play for tye anymore he just to good for that come on people think about if he to good for that than i know he aint gone say we good' he to good for his self i anit got nothing else to say am done am good he good yall good we good but god is great dont forget it

  • he still play for tye they just did a live recording for there new cd in Va like a few weeks back

  • he still plays for tye but he also plays for other people. he gotta make that money. so him and pudge are doin the tye gig. i really dont understand why everyone keeps sayin hes cocky. he didnt come off as cocky when i met him.

  • ill say this if ya know how to play you can do the same stuff nothing but free style and what is free style well since yall keep acting like spank had no1 to look up to then get with yourselfs and do what you know how to do just maybe then yall can uplift yo self or maybe you just aint that good after all now like blackvash690 said'' you bums''take spank nuty butys out ya mouths

  • go meet spank and see what he thinks about hisself and about us he thinks he cant be stoped while lease tony will help you learn if you just dont know how to play

  • i dont care what yall say see like on here that aint nothing but marching band druming on a set if ya go to school ya will know .and no drummer can be taught it still was inside of tony dennis just brith it out of him yall just happy to see a new drummer cause tony just ben ripping since bush father was in the white house

  • Why are drummers always hating on each other. You never see this with any other instruments. Its always a competion but no humility.

  • exactly!!!!!! why dont we bond!! we all play different!!! some busy some pocket some both! just let god use you as a vessel to bless others. your gift will make room for you! be humble we needa stick to gether drummers! stop hatin on each other

  • @twils005 Too right bro, everybody has their own style to develop.. I think the drummers who are arguing constantly are just too immature to realise this

  • @twils005 really? tbh, i thought that was guitarists really. But i dunno

  • till he play like tony r jr i dont want to here no comments about spanky cuase tony will [spank] him realy good but lease he better than tye tribbett brother he kind of mess up alot. above all they all hot on the drums hell am hot on the drums we all are here to do what we're here to do ya remenber that and lift yo self up sometimes and get yo video up here ya feel me.

  • tony is nice too but let me hear tone without that double bass and all that hype like my man said it depends on what you like but anyways this is a music clinic you heard of that animal cat or jamal spears

  • the difference with tone and spanky is spanky is raw uncut ,tone's technique is ridiculous somebody taught that the dude straight out the womb hard to determine

  • Dennis Chambers taught tony

  • i agree blackvash here got his licks i got mind nobody knew him till tye tribbett came out. am from detroit so he'll have to get down or get up and i hope that aint his best.keep doing spank you one=1#of the best

  • u betta rep philly spank....

  • OMG U bums betta Recognize that noone is better than another person. Everyone has their own style and their own way of playing. Now, If u wanna say Who's better It really doesnt matter what you think because it all depends on what u like as a musician anyway for you to decide =\

  • he can play but he is cocky i dont like his attitude 1 bit people look up to him and he treats them like he doesnt care

  • You really are hatin'!!!!!! Maybe Spanky can teach you a little somethin' one day. It's ok God doesn't give everyone the same gift.

  • better than tony royster

  • not better than dennis chambers

  • i havnt heard him but i will check him out u knoe that dennis chambers taught tony royster

  • SPANKY IS A BEAST!!!!

  • his timing is amazing can you say hemiola

  • Truely. check out my vids of him in Jersey. for me, just listenin to how he takes a beat and adds some funky *umph* is hot.

  • He has nice grooves

  • I like the rist work kept it up

  • if you are an interested musician go to musicspaces.wetpaint. com

    it is only a new site that i am working on for any muso

  • is this the drummer for tye tribbette and GA?

  • Yes, he plays for Tye Tribbett and GA amongst many others like Mary, Mary, etc...

  • chris dave clone

  • word!

  • Chris Dave Jr.

  • I hate when drummers make u feel inferior to them. I smell insecurity. I love this video so much, but my girls don't think I can do that.

  • Dont you just hate that, when another drummers make you feel like your shit at drummers =P

  • spanky killin

  • COOL

  • he said this was a short segment..shit long as hell

  • lol trust me the video is like 30 mins long

  • Put Some more Up The Otha Dude Version is Wack lol

  • if it was 30 days i'd watch it at once.......

  • He sounds alot better with a band

  • ...and you wrong for that. Man, that was beautiful. I definitely picked up on some Chris Dave in there. You remind me of this cat from Dallas named Sput Seawright, who is a sick drummer.

  • Yeah Sput is rediculous. He played on Kim Burrell's 2001 album, Victory. A monster doc!

  • Sput and Chris Dave got the South on lock.

  • great is your playing

  • i got to work with Spanky and Ty Tribbet in Las Vegas awhile ago and the boy is blessed!

  • I really enjoyed the complexity of your grooves and rudimental theories you used in your playing. Question: have you every heard chris "daddy" dave? The licks you played around 50 seconds sounded just like licks he used on one of his grooves. check in out on you tube!

  • I heard he and Chris hang out... heard they've done clinics together and stuff

  • Holy that's some fucking serious grooving.

  • Does anyone know where i can find any videos of the dude thats killin on the keyz...not the organ but the keyz...I believe thats my dude eddie brown...

  • This cat is very talented with a pair of sticks and amazing foot speed, But.... If you want to see another truly blessed drummer, type in Tony Royster Jr. and just enjoy what your eyes and ears will run up on.

  • He's sick, sounds a lot like Brian Blade and Anwar.

  • Great!!! Thanks for posting!

  • Man how does is your speed so fast and what do you practice too?

  • I cant even breath,the cd's you play on dont even show your skills like this..

  • If he is cocky, so what. I am too. I can tell he knows his shit, and people that dont know wont ever understand. Press on bro, shake dem haters bro.

  • I'm still trying to figure out how to do that groove at 53 secs....lol

  • I thought it was just me dude....LOL

  • AWESOME VIDEO of one of my main influences in Gospel music.

  • to all the cats that think spank is sick here...wait till you see the video he did for TAMA....dude is unreal

  • i think your the best i ever herd spanky.

  • I know Spank and I've heard alot of crap and seen alot of dumb stuff. I think it comes with the territory. It's been times me and Spanky sat in the Gallery and chewed the shi*. And there was times he just said what's up and kept it movin'. Other than that, he's always showed me love. Until he craps on me, he's still my homie. And one of the sickest drummers!

  • Its your UNCLE vee hit me up boss. DENNIS CHAMBERS WHO!!!! LOL!!!!

  • Ok, I see Nisan and the rest of them dudes.

  • Was this at the P.A.W. convention, the clinic Nisan put on?

  • yo spank, i heard you was tourin with diddy off the tye tribbett mb. what u up to nowadays?

  • thank u drum lova for that cause my friends from philly knows him and was telling me that he has this cocky atitude like im spanky and u cant tell me nothing kind of thing well ight then big ups

  • CRUSHIN!!!!

  • HE IS MY FAVORITE!!!

    ````JDrew

  • he has the most creative combi's i have ever heard and i have heard some of everything my brother recorded that too.. i hate i missed that convention

  • no, he is not arrogant, personally i think he is humble, and humbleness will take u far

    God Bless

  • this spanky erbody talking about . he cool on the kit . but is it true that hes arrogant thats the reall question .

  • na hes not arrogant he may come off arrogant cuz i heard that hes kinda shy but if u talk to him you can tell hes not arrogant he just loves music and hes kinda shy like when u compliment him he just says"its god not me" cuz its true hes a good guy i talked to him after that performance and believe me there WAS a line

  • hey i have the pleasure of know this guy personally and he is 1 of the silliest, most down to earth, humble people u could ever meet, all lot of people misconceive him as being arrogant he's just really quiet and laid back

  • this was at the 2006 PAW Summer Convention in Cali!

  • yup sure was lol they not even knowin about the shout with all the musicians i refuse to post that part hahahahaha they was SMASHIN

  • Yo u got more of them videos wit spanky on um

  • where was this and who's playing wit spanky and where can i see the shout

  • dumb!

  • q isso??/

  • Yo spanky man you one of the best.Did you play kit on every song on Victory or did pudge get in some licks too?

  • naw man dat was all me dog big p is smashing wit tye now tho if they cum were u are go check them out yo

  • and hes into the word of god,yo boy blessed wit talent man thats what its all about

  • Spanky Is The Truth!!!

  • this isnt spanky i recorded this it was a stack i believe a hhx cymbal and a china cymbal i didnt see exactly whichones

  • yo wuz up dis spank i been looken for a copy of dis if give my adress will you send it to me?

  • Yo Spank, what is that trashy cymbal on your right?

  • yea it was a stack yo hhx and a china you should try it....

  • Yup, tried it during the weekend. Good look bro.

  • Awesome!!!! He is by far my favorite!! I have Tye Tribbet's newest CD and this guy is ssiicckkkkk!!!

  • He aiight. I am just playing you know I got love for you spanky.

  • its all good my nigg....

  • yo dis spank,i aint kno dude was recording dat maaaaaaaaaan dang.but thanks for tha complaments tho yall stay blessed.peace.....spank

  • amazing....

  • See This is why I rate Spanky SOOOOO MUCH his groove ideas are Crazy, he doesn't need fills, his groove changes are all he needs.

  • yo spanky is a beast 4real big ups my nigga

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