jjez - drum lesson jazz blast

ok everyone .. just want to throw something out there ... i get more views and comments on this than any of my other vids .. i hate this vid but won't take it down because i think it's at least a coordination exercise worth learning.
there are 2 bands i know of now that i didn't before that combine metal and jazz .. cynic and atheist .. neither use this blast ..

blast beats WERE used before death metal .. but not in the same way .. more as a short fill and normally in triplets .. used by the likes of buddy rich and tony williams and others of the psychotically amazing jazz world.. if you could please keep your comments to logical thoughts it would be greatly appreciated.
i havn't found any use for this in real music yet ..other than a short fill .. and don't think i ever will find a situation to play this as a main groove to a song .. but the coordination is still good to get under control for further drumming development.. so i say .. work on it and get it down .. not to use in a blast context .. but to get more freedom to play whatever comes to mind

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[DrumTchr]

This "idea you had" is a VERY common thing. With the snare you are simply playing quarter note triplets against the swing ride cymbal pattern. The bass drum is playing off beat quarter note triplets. Another way to look at it is that the notes of the snare and bass equal eighth note triplets. This pattern is used all the time in jazz but with much more finesse.

Check the clutch of your top hi hat cymbal. It's so loose that it makes noise. Sounds like you don't have a bottom felt for the clutch.

[shadowlorde]

@DrumTchr I was on a short lived blast beat kick when i made this vid. and i was also working on the art of bop drumming .. came across that and thought I could turn it into a blast variation. and in my mind at that time I was thinking of doing that through a whole part of a song as a main beat. and the hat clutch thing ... it was just really loose i do have all the felts on all my cymbals

[Szaam]

"a band that somehow succesfully mixes death metal and jazz?" erm, atheist?

but besides that, you're jazz playing is tight as fuck.

[shadowlorde]

i wasn't into atheist when i made this vid (didn't hear of them yet).. but have since gotten REALLY into them and yes .. HOLY SHIT !! they are awesome .. i saw them live in allentown maybe like 2 months ago .. i was standing against the stage mouth wide open drooling at what steve flyn was doing.. completly sick!! he never uses this jazz blast though and i honestly hate this video .. it's gotten more views than any of my other vids and it was just a random vid i made with little thought

[mikesstudents]

Haha was it the one with Gnostic and The faceless? If so i opened up on the hall stage with my band.

[shadowlorde]

yes it was ... gnostic had me drooling too.. sick stuff. which band were you? i don't remember any of the openers ... the sterling always has 10,000 openers

[JawnDeeMusic]

...blast beats were in jazz before other bands started using them.

[shitsucks08]

Give Wikipedia a search.

Probably under "blast beat". Then read.

[Jasoncampbell65]

I love the idea.

[pongsitchingy]

Haha, awesome!!

[Slipstream0001]

I do that too man, I also switch it up so I'm leading with the snare and also play sextruplets.

[AromaticDogwood]

when it's sped up, it sounds like d-beat. i think there's some weird triplet, bass drum on the off beat stuff going on in d-beat

[kalabiandarkness]

Listen to Against the Clock by Allan Holdsworth. There's a blast beat in the drum solo.

[DrumTchr]

@shadowlorde we are all drumming brothers. we are all different. much luck and success with your drumming. peace.

[iamnotemo24]

That is SOO rediculously rad!

[mdgab321]

its something different, and nice that somehow you achieved to combine metal and jazz, but when playing it, there is nothing jazzy on it, at all. jazz time looses its feel in that death metal mess. anyway, i think its a great idea for practicing, where for sure, can help both jazz drummer and death metal drummer. so, well done my friend