Benny Greb Meinl Drum Festival(Moscow2009)

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[paulard666]

fuck peart portnoy barker jordison and all those other overrated shit drummers....this is where its at...fuckin groove baby

[THEBIGZED]

Benny is such an inspirational drummer. Amazing groove always, something too many drummers forget these days.

[molomono]

@paulard666 Putting Peart and portnoy in the same list as Barker in jordison, what planet are you from?

[cisrael468]

@paulard666 i dont think peart is overrated

but because everyone loves him it seems that way

the other guys are though

[DEFLAMOL4]

i love this guy



[penguinsauce87]

@tamistamistamis yep that sounds like something you want to fix haha

[tamistamistamis]

I checked the video of your teacher. Very cool. You got my point; a kind of ostinato with the feet and improv with hands on top of it.

I tried the Benny Greb's pattern on my own drum and I've come to realise that beside practice, what I need is also a good double-pedal (or at least, a well adjusted one regarding the spring...) When my left foot was closing the hi-hat, it had to come back to the slave pedal but at that moment, this pedal was not back in a "hitting position".

[penguinsauce87]

@tamistamistamis i'm almost positive it's just a basic alternating 8th note pattern, just practice mobility with your left foot going back and forth from the hi hat to slave pedal, and you can also mess with the angles of your foot boards to play ostinatos where you split the hi hat pedal and slave pedal. here's a good example, this is my teacher playing L R R L R R L R R L RR with a split pedal. /watch?v=aIqgZE7BQaM

[tamistamistamis]

@Alexgireis Thanks.

In fact I checked some other videos of him meanwhile and I saw what you're telling me.

I am amazed by this ostinato. I am really aiming to practice this kind of control and independance of my limb.

[Alexgireis]

@tamistamistamis Yes, there is a double pedal there. We switches his left foot between the hi hats' pedal, and the secondary bass drum pedal. In his DVD (The Language of Drumming - awesome, btw ) he uses this trick quite a few times.

If you check one of his famous drum solos , the one from his dvd ("Insane Groovy Solo" search it up) , you can see how he uses this ;)

[DancesWithNarwhals]

@tiekoe You have no soul

[tamistamistamis]

From 5:50 to 9:15. I find this very very good.

What the feet does is real control.

I wonder exactly how he does that in fact...Is there any double pedal involved (from 5:50 to 9:00)?

Are the "triplets" on the bass drum really played with one foot?