Explanation of some triplet licks

A couple people asked me about some of the licks in my other video. There's a lot of dialogue in this one but I walk through the concept behind most advanced triplet licks... and a little playing at the end

Category:

Music

Tags:

• drums
• purdie
• shuffle
• porcaro
• triplets
• hip-hop
• gospel
• jazz
• lesson
• shed

[Danielcrspo]

And yo, honestly you are the first white guy that I've personally seen that really has the gospel feel to your licks, how did you learn this style of play? And you explain them so well, that now I finally understand how to emulate the feel I've been looking for for so long! I just had a crazy epiphany, thanks <9000!

[thatsmypeanuts]

@Danielcrspo Glad to be of help. Nice when people enjoy the video.

Also, not to be preachy, but race has nothing to do with learning the style... anybody can learn to play any style. If you grow up with it, it comes faster and possibly more easily, which is why you'll usually see black people playing gospel, Brazilians playing samba, and white people playing rock. But by no means are these styles exclusive to people of a particular color.

You can learn anything you want. Just open your ears..

[Feesharp9er]

did you end up shutting the window??

[thatsmypeanuts]

@Feesharp9er HELL NO!

[AlanColeslaw]

great but SO QUIET!!

[Feesharp9er]

Excellent!!

[sk8rdudeism]

i crank up my volume each time you start talking and then BOOM BOOM BOOM my room explodes, and i've gotta turn it down again (repeat x10)

nice playing though! :)

[Danielcrspo]

Dude this is killer, you literally just blew my mind, I've been wanna learn these type of licks for so long! Thanksss

[AlanColeslaw]

@thatsmypeanuts DUDE if you wrote a book.... damn I'd pay gooooood money for that, I love your playing so much!

[MrDbk13us]

NICE DRUMMING YES BUT THE SOUND IS LOW!

[drumsandivory]

@thatsmypeanuts ok thanks and just as my last question what's your favorite kind of lick to do with triplets?

[thatsmypeanuts]

@drumsandivory Exactly. As you do it more and more you'll have to count less and less...

[drumsandivory]

@thatsmypeanuts haha sounds good. well mainly i was wondering how one would practice the polyrhythm kind of thing where you go from a simple groove to a beat using grouping of 5 or 7 at the same tempo. i see a lot of 5's incorporated in to a beat not even as a fill. i guess you'd just set a metronome and count like crazy?