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I have played drums for about 40 years, and Quincy is one of the most natural drum teachers I've come across. Carrying the torch, my friend.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

I appreciate your kind words very much Corey🙏🏾

Hello young sir, You don't know how much my drumming has improved watching these light bulb moment videos, it's like Ha Ha, so that's how they do it!!, I'm in my 60's, teaching myself...well watching you teaching me by myself how to drum, gone through the back ache stage, now going through trigger finger on little finger left hand, I use tradition grip so a bit confused way I'm getting that!!, suffering for my art I suppose!!, thank you so much Quincy, you are a star, I'm beginning to get jazz type sounds out of my drums, all the best from Bristol UK.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Hey Stevie! I’m so glad that you found my lesson so helpful. That’s exactly why I keep putting lessons out cheers to you and much respect to you for your continued pursuit to improve.

@stevenwring7317

11 ай бұрын

Bless you for the reply😁

“Do what you can, not what you can’t”. Love it!! Always great Q 🙌

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Thank you brother Gomez!

This dude is legit 👌 Edit: your approach to teaching reminds me of Bernard Purdie. Very cool.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Wow, that’s a hell of an comparison. He’s definitely a big inspiration. Thank you for the kind words.

Glad you made it home! This is a years worth of practicing in 20 minutes 😄 Great info!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks TC! Always glad to give you stuff to keep you busy for a while:)

This is what I like about practicing boss/jazz drumming. It’s like they purposefully arranged the simplest shortest phrases in the most confusing ways possible 😂

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@paradiddlemcflam7167

11 ай бұрын

Bossa nova and me involves one out of the left hand, right foot, or right hand, completely destroying the excellent (or at least adequate) coordination of the other two.

So practical and connected to the real life of a musician! Thank you so much Quincy! 😊

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

You're so welcome Bruno!

Stay in your lane! Words of wisdom! This is coming from someone who has flown off the overpass in front of many people!

@drumqtips

4 ай бұрын

Ha! ‘Flown off the overpass…’!! I love that because we’ve all flown off the proverbial overpass at some point in our lives multiple times. Thanks for watching.

One of your best lessons yet! Thank you!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Really!? Why do you think so? I’m curious. I’ll try to rinse and repeat if I can. Thanks!

Hard lesson, even harder to admit that these are concepts too often overlooked.

@fattmusiek5452

11 ай бұрын

Hats off to you @ixdrums , for recognizing and remind us the uncomfortable truths are what we need. Nice comment! #humancondition

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Right on!

@MortonLuvz2drum

11 ай бұрын

Right?

Another great lesson! You have a wonderful way showing how the fundamentals can be fleshed out and turned into music. Keep it up brotha

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

I appreciate that! Thnx

This video is maybe one of your best ones yet. Loved it.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah? Thanks for the compliment? Why do you say that?

@loko306

11 ай бұрын

@@drumqtips Yes! I believe so, because the knowledge that you teach in this video is, in my opinion, the type of stuff you only learn in private lessons or classes. Thank you very much for sharing.

I’ve never heard a floor Tom that high, I like it. Makes me wanna experiment with different tunings and such and see the different sounds I can get out of my kit

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Try it out! Makes you play differently. Sometimes I’m in a high-tuning kind of mood and sometimes I’m in a low-tuning kind of mood🤷🏾‍♂️

You’re a real one Quincy! Thank you for doing this.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure ‘Drew!

Theres enough here to keep me busy for the next 10 years..!!! Just great stuff !!!

@drumqtips

8 ай бұрын

Always happy to kick my subscribers' butts a little Mark!

Amazing stuff Quincy! Thank you my friend..

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure Dom!

I mostly play metal but this is such a great lesson, starting with rudiments is such a good idea for enabling yourself to play those ostinatos, and patterns like these always extend into your playing in ways you would never expect

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Rock on my man🤘🏾

@davidgomersall7185

10 ай бұрын

Stuff like this definitely extends into metal, some of the most demanding beats for foot independence come from the genre. Thomas Haake playing Hertas on his feet for 7 solid minutes in "Bleed" springs to mind (tbf, pick anything from Meshuggah's catalogue for equally valid examples..). Thanks, Q, for these exercises, I'm going to start by diving back into "Syncopation.." and attempt to play these under the exercises as my starter for ten. Wish me luck 😂

Lifelong student of music here. You are an inspiration. I also want to compliment your fantastic closed captions! Thank you!

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you Pat!

Love it. Will work on this today.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Practice hard but practice…😉

Wonderful content as always. Very inspiring I will practice those patterns. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Brilliant again . Cannot express my gratitude for your kindness.

@drumqtips

8 ай бұрын

You are very welcome Jeff! I appreciate all your kind and sincere words. Glad you find my lessons helpful.

You have such a great feel, sir... Thanks for the lesson!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Great lesson master Davis, and great playing too. Thanks for your insights about how to practice this material. All the best!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Ricky!

Tough lesson ! Gonna require lots of work . Thanks

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

You can do it! I have faith in you and all my subscribers👊🏾

Great to isolate each B pattern & to focus on each one as a practice session. Thank you Quincy, enjoy yr tea. J

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure Josefina:)

Good lord, that was instane. My head hurts. Thanks for the amazing lesson QD!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you!

Thankyou Quincy great lesson

@drumqtips

5 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it Bob!

Darn good stuff. thank you very much.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it friend!

great lesson as always😃😃

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

Great lesson Q ! Thanks.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Always my pleasure Spicey!

Great lesson Quincy! Thx very much! 😊

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure Gregger!

Nice video, great walk through and demo!!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks for video man!! ❤❤

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Mark!

Been playing for very long time sincec1962 I know a long time but love my Jazz and drumming it.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Amazing Jimmy. Much respect to you sir!

Excellent stuff my man👍

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Much appreciated doc👊🏾

hey there quincy. thanks so much for these lessons. ive been playing drums for awhile and its always amazing to me how much we all learn and teach one another. you're an inspiration man,! keep on with the keepin' on.

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

I appreciate that very much Pete🙏🏾

Just found you on KZread for the first tiime. Great lesson. Many thanks!!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure and welcome aboard Mark!

Excellence Q, I’m practicing and failing miserably on these patterns. I am hopeful.

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

Enjoy the process brother 👊🏾

thanks so much!

Amazing lesson, Q! Drummers of all styles ought to subscribe to you. ✌🏼

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

They should subscribe only if they want to learn what NOT to do🤣🤣🤣

Right on, love it!

Thank you Quincy that material is solid in the development independence or interdependence and the internal clock. When you said syncopation, in the 5/4 ostinato my mind went to Ted Reed and using any of the nine exercises you could take a bar and extend it to the first beat of the next bar, giving you a figure/melody to place over the ostinato.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

That’s a great idea Paul!

Great video Quincy! Watching Bill Stewart play dotted quarters on the hi hat while soloing is so cool. Practicing it will kick your butt though!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

That’s certainly a butt kicker but somehow I can’t get enough of it. I always want Zamor-a 🤣🤣🤣. I hope you got that cheese joke:) (hint: Zamora = some more😉)

Thank you very much. This lesson is so packed feels like it’s a year with of practice is packed in just one lesson 😂

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Have fun practicing my friend:)

"Does that make sense? I think it does." 😂 great video man

@drumqtips

5 ай бұрын

Like, why’d I even ask you🤣🤣

I remember when Mr. John Riley showed these foot patterns back in 2009 in a workshop. I was blown away how simple things can become a coordination nightmare when taken to different musical directions. Awesome lesson as usual! Thanks! 🙃

@drumqtips

9 ай бұрын

John Riley is a master whom I respect very much! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and saying hi my man👊🏾

Hello Quincy, absolutely love this video! Some great examples of how to start building solo vocabulary as well over some great foot patterns! I also wrote a crazy paradiddle inversion training over the “songo” foot pattern which I think you’d love!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Your songs thingy sounds good…and hard:)

great videos... always ready :-)

@drumqtips

5 ай бұрын

Let’s go my man💪🏾💪🏾

Very nice.. and SO Important to learn this stuff thanks, QD

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure and you’re totally right!

Wow! Loving the Songo pattern, looking forward to playing around with this. I've been working on an ostinato that's based on a lot of Afropop, since that's what I love. Neil Peart has a famous part of his solo that he developed towards the latter half of his life that is based on the 3/4 ostinato you use. Thanks for the great lesson as always!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure Tom! Thanks for watching brother🙏🏾

This Remind me Joe Morello playing incredible solo with 5/4 feets. Amazing

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Exactly Boom!

bravo!!! thank"s

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

Thank YOU!

Greetings from the Emerald City, Q. Another great lesson, thank you

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Chuckie! Say hi to Seattle for me.

Amazing lesson my dude, you put me in mind of Bernard Purdie with your ability to just casually talk while playing virtually impossible patterns, your feel is great too! Instant sub from me

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

I appreciate that doc🙏🏾

Hi Quincy, for me it absolutely makes sense, in the sense, that all these things take building, and slowly, that means don't jump too far ahead, don't speed up too soon, just take one step at a time but get it down as deep as possible. And then take it to the next thing or the next level. This is very good advice for me.

@drumqtips

9 ай бұрын

I’m glad you found it useful Art!

That snare sounds fantastic! And the lesson ain't bad either!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Much appreciated that Felix the “cat”😉🙏🏾

How good is this guy 🫡🫡

These concepts are often overlooked and should be practiced; these are some of the best lessons I’ve seen

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

I appreciate your kind words Mr. Piano Man!

@jazzpianoman01

11 ай бұрын

@@drumqtips Thanks man.

@jazzpianoman01

11 ай бұрын

@@drumqtips Great stuff

Great Video. Subbed.

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub Shawn!

Brilliant/essentials.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Q man this all kicked my butt In a good way!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Hopefully it hurts so good Davey:)

Honourable mention to the legend Alan Dawson and his Rudimental Ritual (using rudiments with foot ostinatos)

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely! That’s a great shed in rudiments and coordination.

Mr. Davis!!!!! First and foremost, I want to say I listened to you on Aaron Diehl’s Space, Time Continuum twice in a row today. I hear so much of everything you teach within your playing. Perfectly stylistic! Your performance on that record is a clinic in jazz drumming. Great album! Now for this video, yes I’ve practiced some of these and some other ostinatos, especially when I was checking out how Terry Bozzio originally started using ostinatos. Your suggestion of playing all the rudiments with the samba feet ostinato is the premise for the great teacher Alan Dawson’s workout “Rudimental Ritual”. You can find copies of that just by googling it. Great stuff! FP

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Very kind of you Frankie! So glad you like the album. And yes, Alan Dawson’s ritual is the bomb! I learned it back in college and it was a game changer for me. Cheers!

Great advice thanks man!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Thank ya!

This reminds me of the “rudimental ritual “ by Alan Dawson. It’s a excellent exercise . Also my grandpa was named Quincy Davis😃. Thanks and I subscribed keep up the great videos

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Whoa!!! Your grandpa musta been a damn hip mf🤣🤣. Thanks for watching and yes yes yes to the Ritual by Mr. Dawson!

Thanks master

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

You are welcome Miguel👍🏾

This is an amazing lesson

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Cabron!

@MarioCalzadaMusic

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

I think I once saw Mike Mangini do a solo with a dotted quarter note ostinato once. Changed my life.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

There ya’ go! Not easy at all but sounds really cool.

1:03 that green tea really hitting haha

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Man! It really got me there🤣🤣🤣

Love doing this soloing on the drums

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Have fun Stevie!

@Lovelystevie

11 ай бұрын

@@drumqtips Thanks Quincy You got a good Channel going, bravo 👍

I am waiting for the "Q" pill that grants full 4 way independence - another great lesson - thanks!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Well…there’s a pretty serious cost to pay for that. Not sure it’s worth it. 🤣🤣

Green tea? definitely the green something! 😂😂 great lesson, thankyou.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Haha! I think the lesson would’ve been a bit different if it was the other “green tea”🤣🤣

A good example of this comes from Alex Van Halens solo on Van Halens LIve Without a Net live video. His solo is very Bonham-influenced, and he starts with a bass and snare pattern accompanied by playing 8th notes on the hi-hats with his foot. Really well done.

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

Oh awesome! I’ll check that out Jim👍🏾.

@JamesDooney

10 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aad-mNJ_e5iqf6w.html@@drumqtips

Excellent lesson, with very useful examples! The songo ostinato reminds me of my favorite solo ostinato, which is the New Orleans mambo (like songo, but with an additional BD on the downbeat).

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it.

@jc3drums916

11 ай бұрын

Also known as baiaõ, another Brazilian style. I think it's a better one to start with, as the downbeat kick makes it easier than soloing over songo IMHO.

super, dzięki!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Interesting... what a different approach to drumming, man!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Thank you…I think🤣🤣

Years ago, when I saw Frank Zappa the drummer Terry Bozzio would solo over an ostinato on his double bass drums . Totally blew my mind the limb seperation required. I didn't even know the word Ostinato. Just noting lesson applies to all genre's. Can be very useful.. Thank you Q

@drumqtips

5 ай бұрын

Terry can do some pretty crazy ostinatos for sure. Awesome you got to see him!

👍🏾you are definitely on point!with those exercises!! Challenge!!!those are challenging exercises!! I like it!! I have been claiming pro caliber for years and I am good but I have to thank you for bringing this to light for me!you are like a advance version of Mr.Purdie!😂

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure Jeff! Glad you’re good to go with these👍🏾

That last one was tricky. Erroll Garner used to use those dotted quarter notes in his left hand while soloing. ❤

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

He did!!! That’s a great reference. Erroll used dotted quarters all over the place. Cheers!

I first saw a guy named Frank Briggs talking about the importance of foot osteanatos. Then Thomas Pridgen was practicing rudiments over a super quick Samba on Drumeo. I couldn't do ANY of it, and I had been playing for a while. It's still not my forte because I'm a rock drummer. I do think it's one of the quickest ways to clean up your rudiments because it forces them to have a specific note value. My double stroke roll was terrible until I started putting over a Samba...it really helped a lot! Thnx for the video. More patterns to practice. 😊

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing Rob! Rudiments with the feet is on a whole ‘nother level. 🤣🤣

I think that was "MEAN GREEN" TEA In that cup today!!!!

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Stevie B figured it out. It was definitely some Mean Green Tea!!! I feel better now that I know what was wrong with me. Sure going to miss having you around Mr. Barnes!

Always enjoy your lessons. Listening on IPhone the bass drum was difficult to hear. The & of 2 then 4 is a Latin pattern the works in many situations.

Hi Quincy! Great video, as always. Can you please make a top of your favorite jazz/traditional jazz cymbals? That will be so nice)

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Great suggestion! Thnx

Great lesson today Q. Love those dotted 1 /4s. These patterns do kick my butt! Here is my recipe for energy boosting and cold and flu prevention: Any tea with fresh ginger, turmeric,clove,paprika, cardamom,organic soy milk (opt.)

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

I may have to try that concoction sometime Simon!

A trick that a teacher told me to learn the bossa is to learn as an inverted double (RLLRRLLR) and then remove the first left (so you have R-LRR-LR). For some reason, learn this way and then remove is easier than playing/learning straight as the bossa. Hope it helps someone.

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Wonderfulness

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

🙏🏾🙏🏾

Damn! Your bass drum sound is so soft! I’m more on the heavy playing side of things, but a good lesson is a good lesson. And your is a good one. Keep it up man!

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

Hi Quincy, haven’t sent you a message in a while, how have you been ? I actually no problem doing this exercise you’re demonstrating at all. I’m not trying to sound arrogant or anything like, I just don’t have any difficulty playing in this manner. I’m glad that you brought it up though because it’s overlooked by many drummers that I’ve watched and listened to. It’ll kind of old school but very effective in my opinion. Glad that you demonstrated this. Take care , Chuck.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Good hearing from you Chucky! Glad you have no problem with these. There’s always harder ostinatos to try😉. Thanks for saying hi!

Hey, good stuff, from a former drum instructor. Now near age 80 and stil playing a in a couple of bands. Was able to stay with you on about 90% of that. Thanks for the exercise.

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for saying hi Freddie and much respect to you for being in the “game” for so long. Respect sir👊🏾

@MortonLuvz2drum

11 ай бұрын

Right? I like teaching rote concept stuff too. Most popular music that kids listen to has no creative element like this. So, I'd be interested to see just how they understand this stuff. You being 80, and me 53. We have a lot of sight reading, listening, and theoretical knowledge to back it up. I have a student now who will read, but if I let him go he starts noodling. Noodling is ok, but he lacks the structure to even play rhythmically in time. I've relied on some ostinato patterns to give him time to figure out how to keep things organized.

@roadboat9216

11 ай бұрын

@@MortonLuvz2drum Yes, time keeping and phrasing most important. Much more that rudiments and “chops”. These are developed through practice WITH music.

@MortonLuvz2drum

11 ай бұрын

@@roadboat9216 I wish I could say that guys like Chad Smith and Buddy Rich were good sight readers, but they didn't read jack. But, it sure is nice knowing how to read.

@roadboat9216

11 ай бұрын

@@MortonLuvz2drum Indeed. However I must admit that with age, partially vision issues, I read a lot less that I use to. I use to do a lot of orchestral music, mostly timpani, where reading was critical.

Q go over your list of best useful rudiments again please.

This cat knows where its at. Classical music convert trying to get my chops together, great message. Could you say a piece about "playing off" the half note in 3 or dotted quarter in 5? I hear it when you played basic rudiments but i dont get how to start it...

@drumqtips

10 ай бұрын

I appreciate that. In the next video on the topic, I’ll talk more about those topics.

Great foot ostinato between feet are also doubles and paradiddles, and play creative flam rudiments between hands over this...

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah that can sound really cool Hendrick! Thnx

What type of & snare & drumhead? Its sounds reaaly good, the whole kit sounds great.

@drumqtips

3 ай бұрын

Check the description in my recent videos. All my specs are listed there. Glad you like the sound!

I play Rock and Country drums and have decided to learn Jazz for the challenge. Not only do I hope to bring some cool licks over to my working bands, I also hope to do some Jazz gigs within maybe a year or so, just for something different. Also very excited to raise my ability cealing to make my main gigs super easy. Any vids you think I should start on. I know the very basic swing ride pattern with hat chicks on 2 and 4, but not a lot beyond that. Just started messing with

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Awesome! If you listen to and play along to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. And watch a bunch of my videos that should get you started nicely:)

Great lesson as always Quincy! green tea is working! 🤣🤣

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Ha! Thanks brother🙏🏾

Great lesson, gonna practice right now, oh wait my downstairs neighbor is sleeping! Haha

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Hope you woke your neighbor up with some “smart” practicing:)

you have to be extremely cool to pull off having a name like quincy and 10x harder if you wear a headset mic but hes done it by god

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Laughing my butt off🤣🤣🤣

Magnifico.💣💣💣💣💣💣

@drumqtips

11 ай бұрын

Thank you Mark🙏🏾