7/4 with 8th-note triplet subdivisions, 32nd-note paradiddles, and 4/4 metric modulations with the pulse on every other 8th-note triplet! FINALLY, something I can dance to!!!

@arthurfranca5516

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahhaahaha

@OwenAdamsMusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@arthurfranca5516 Lol I forgot I wrote this comment, I feel like I just time traveled back a year. No one seems to have challenged my rhythmic analysis at least 🤨

@arthurfranca5516

3 жыл бұрын

@@OwenAdamsMusic hope you are still dancing to it lol

@andreaalexis2937

2 жыл бұрын

I mean come on, if youre not shaking your hip in alternating paradiddlediddles to 7/8th swiss army triplets, are you even really dancing?

@obedbabington3903

2 жыл бұрын

@@andreaalexis2937 Any tips for a beginner drummer (myself) who understands nothing of the rhythmic analysis you are making?

Counting to seven repeatedly for three minutes has never been this fun

@bugproductions9050

4 жыл бұрын

I could not agree more.

@vecernicek2

4 жыл бұрын

Until now.

@TeezyThaKidd

4 жыл бұрын

Jordan I'm sayinggggg haha

@420protoman

4 жыл бұрын

Guthrie Govan - Sevens... check it out

@TeezyThaKidd

4 жыл бұрын

420protoman oooooh throwback!!! good one! almost forgot about sevens!

Well that was humbling.

@hazardeur

4 жыл бұрын

I laughed more about this comment then I probably should. Because it's true.

@sneakybeaver13V2

4 жыл бұрын

like for real, as a music major, this put me down cuz this was not the standard clap

@boboloko

4 жыл бұрын

At first I messed up because I expected it to be in 4/4. Then I read the comments and saw that it was in 7/4. I counted 1,2,1,2,1,2, (clap) and got it right every time.

@samcooke343

3 жыл бұрын

@@boboloko It should be (clap), 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1 etc. The clap is the first beat of the bar, not the last.

@boboloko

3 жыл бұрын

@@samcooke343 okay, how about clap 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, clap 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2 ...?

My daddy always said if you can get a crowd moving with just a bass drum, high hat and snare you were a *certified bad ass*

@oldethangoogleacc8484

3 жыл бұрын

just play dotted sixteenths

@noahnolte7288

3 жыл бұрын

He was playing snare lol

@satsukikorin

3 жыл бұрын

Nate Smith WRITES the certificates.

@mickdundee364

2 жыл бұрын

my daddy taught me not to be ashamed of my triplets

@chrismathewsjr

2 жыл бұрын

sweenytv, the bottom feeding checkmark in the comments!!! love to see it. i bet your dad really did say that you clout chasing goof

Couple of cool things about the part at 2:11, where the clappers lose it. If we're in 7/4, and assuming claps on 1, he throws us off by starting his groove on the CLAP rather than every time before starting really on the 2nd beat. It's still triplet hi-hats like the bars before, but split into groups of 4. This technique is called metric modulation, and it sounds like the tempo changes (tempo-rarily). If you watch his left foot on the hi hat, you can see him counting 3 -4-5-6-7 in the original pulse, while he's playing the metric modulation over the top, so he's still feeling that 7 pulse. Something else, if it helps too. A bar of 7/4 in triplets is a total of 21 hits on the hi-hat (3x7). So if you split that into a four pulse, you can count it as 1234 1234 1234 1234 1234 1 CLAP, or listen for K234 S234 K234 S234 K234 1 CLAP. where K is kick and S is snare hit

@readyaimfire3454

4 жыл бұрын

James H Dude thank you for this! I get it now. I'd still probably clap offbeat by accident, but I understand why it'd be offbeat now!

@dadyjoe9721

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for explain this..

@hughkills

2 жыл бұрын

Counting along, I really want the clap to be on the 4. I feel super awkward clapping on the 1 in general regardless the time signature.

@troopjunior

Жыл бұрын

​@@hughkills ​I totally hear you about wanting the clap to be on 4 (or 7)! Even George Collier's analysis of this video comes from that perspective. I'll direct you to 0:41, though. Nate starts conducting a bar of 4/4 with the clap on the downbeat (that's my interpretation at least). I see him dividing the groove into 4/4 + 3/4 with the clap on beat 1 of the 4/4 bar. I'm not throwing any shade! This discussion is just SUPER interesting to me! I have a hard time hearing the clap on beat 7 and I come back to this video often to try to train myself to be able to hear it that way.

@joshuawilfred264

Жыл бұрын

@@troopjunior just count 13/8 clap on 13

holy shit he's really doing those 16ths on one hand

@franckmarronier130

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@galebh9715

3 жыл бұрын

it wont take long just keep at it bud

man just when you start to think you know a little bit about music

@xydex99

5 жыл бұрын

Caleb yeah you're right man thanks

@boristerbeek319

5 жыл бұрын

Caleb lol why'd you be this harsh

@xydex99

5 жыл бұрын

I wasn't aware everyone could play subdivisions like this, but Caleb, he took me to school

@Kaonashimusic

5 жыл бұрын

i rarely see a guy commenting at youtube willingly taking L , you supposed to clap back bruh

@maximomastrolia

5 жыл бұрын

wasn't that a little bit tooooo mean? come on..it's a person with feeling you are talking to bro

3:12 "nasty"

I both smiled and cried at 3:06 that High-hat and stick combination is legendary.

This is like a test for yourself. I wish there was, like an album of this for the listener to get involved like this. I'd love to rest myself on this shit all day and in turn, feel complex groove modulations more naturally. I get what's going on when he does it. It's just alot to actually FEEL and not actually count. Lol

@jamesonowens4562

2 жыл бұрын

It’s called Pocket Change by Nate Smith. It’ll change your life.

Lol no one could find the clap when he accented the offbeat triplets

@GhANeC

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah hehe. They still did good, considering in most shows, when there's a quiet part in 4/4, the crowd can never clap on tempo for even a single bar.

@Shane988

5 жыл бұрын

except the bassist

@tehxperience

5 жыл бұрын

@@Shane988 and that man was called adam neely

@Dev1nci

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I watched that part a few times- I can’t get it either 😂

@thedrummererik99

4 жыл бұрын

I lold

And this is why no matter the experience you should always count the beats as a drummer. Feeling will only get you that far.

@farshimelt

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewmitchell8 And they years of experience he/she has.

@morbidmanmusic

Жыл бұрын

it can work both ways equally well. in the end, being able to feel odd time is better than counting it./ I learned all the prog songs i liked when i was a kid,. perfectly before learning to count them. Yes, now I can count.. but as I said, both work..

I've never heard a bass drum tuned so perfectly.

I love the musician on the right claps on bit effortlessly every single time

How many of y'all sit here and watch this dude and just stare at your phone or your computer and just shake your head back-and-forth in disbelief because I know I do...

@sethcashman1011

5 жыл бұрын

*raises hand*

@javiceres

5 жыл бұрын

Nathan Walsh How could I shake it in disbelieve because you do?

@tempojesus5928

5 жыл бұрын

I feel personally attacked by this relatable content.

@johnnyfrank6934

5 жыл бұрын

lmao you spyin on me dafuq

@GVilleAnarcho

4 жыл бұрын

I shake my head back and forth cause it helped me keep rhythm.

Everybody gangsta until Nate starts playing in 7/8

Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if the general Chicago resident knows how to count in 7/4

@ookiikuma3420

4 жыл бұрын

@S Tra bruh

@christopherjamesblackwell

2 жыл бұрын

Tool fan from Chicago checking in

So much better than any of the thousand shredding drum solos I've suffered to watch, this guy is the boss

So I failed the first clap, and the second. And then the rest.

Every drummer love this video

@user-oy7gz5bf2h

5 жыл бұрын

Hakan ARIK aawwhh There's one now..!

@TheToniz4

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone likes this video

If he tried this in Sweden he would get 0 timed claps lmao

@indiepoetic

4 жыл бұрын

lmfao

@_banja

4 жыл бұрын

lol why

@MrGenedancingmachine

4 жыл бұрын

MK Piano white people lol amirite

@drageben145

4 жыл бұрын

Though i am guessing russians would be fine Heard theycare good with this

@robminder

4 жыл бұрын

Meshuggah is from Sweden.

One of de most important drummers, excelent

I love the guy recording (or maybe close to the camera), laughing his ass off at the beginning. I love it

@Shedthemusic

5 жыл бұрын

Chaotic Good that was me!

@chaoticgood9297

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shedthemusic Didn't know you responded! Everytime I come back to this video I laugh along haha!

A great example of someone that listened when he practiced.

Love Nate Smith!!!!! Amazing drummer and a real class act!!! 👏

This dudes drumming is just so inspirational. Love everything he does.

Incredible! You know that Nate is also a fantastic human being....he means every note he plays!

For the love of the counting gods! this dude is amazing!

This video had just ended and I’m still counting to seven. Send help.

Ive been watching this ever since it came out, and im still here

love that little swung shuffle he threw in there, nice mixup

my favorite drummer

My day be so fine, _then boom.. 7/8 beat_

If I had a musical career of any kind i would be questioning it right about now...

Always brings a huge fuckin' smile to my face. Watched this thing as many times as I've watched 50% of all other videos together... that's the count! :D

Why is he so good? JUST AWESOME!

This is just beautiful.

fascinating! tricky as heck! I'd love to see more stuff like this.

First time seeing this. Very impressed.

Very entertaining and great beats! 🎶

One of the absolute best

one of the most satisfying things ive ever yootubbed

Time is a wonderful thing. I'm not a musician, but I can appreciate how hard it is to count to seven, for three minutes, with varying speeds of music playing Great vid

@dabiga2315

Жыл бұрын

See, that's the thing. He didn't change the speed at all. He was just messing with the rhythms to make it _sound_ like he was changing speeds (or tempo, as the cool kids call it)

That was pretty amazing.

This video will always be legendary. I keep coming back to it. Nate smith is not from this planet

What a great way to make a point

The Ace of Aces.

@jbenoit1962

5 жыл бұрын

Hiroshi Tanahashi?

maaan he is incredible!

This has got to the wildest drum grooving I have ever seen in more than three decades of playing drums. What makes it so wild to me is that the reference point of time seems to morph like mid-phrase or mid-section or something. It’s as if Christopher Nolan made the movie Tenet into a drum groove.

Haha, I was at this show! I sat in the first row of tables on the left end. It was a blast!

@TT-zi7hi

5 жыл бұрын

This the jazz showcase or where was it?

Never heard of the guy.... Nate Smith is awesome.

If it weren't for the saxophonist, no one would clap in time 🤣

Fantastic!

Savage! This is Chicago man... haha stunning demonstration of pocket, time and odd meter playing

A great lesson

I find this great rhythm exercise to practice to.

Who be on a Nate Smith binge after this?

Wow! Yeah! I love it so much, it's so good

Holy moly !!!! That was impressive =)

magical grooves

I always have the 7/8 beat of March of the Pigs by NIN playing in my head throughout the day

He's awesome!

He didn’t learn the drums, the drums learned him

incredible

Whaaaaaaaaaaa dude that was AWESOME!!! Lining this up with some of bela bartok in 7 would probably make magic. You are SKILLED my dude.

I smiled the entire time

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@2:27 he even got the sax guy

amazing!

Excellent.. Wonderful...

the sax player "O no, not again!"

that was great as well nuts

Amazing! I made it all the way..thanks for sharing

Wow! This is awesome!!!!!!!

Great groove

man, this is hard.

Buddy miles did something similar in his solo tour in ‘71 during his drum solo in the song wrap it up.

this makes me anxious and exited both same

Been playing drums for 18+ years.. and some of his counting structure still doesn’t make sense to me 😂😂 gotta love Nate man

Nate is truly on top and seems to be a nice person too :)

Amazing !

Damn that high hat work is insane

Love it .........

The Best!!!!!!!!!!!

I must say it took me awhile to get a hold on that one! Great stuff! How important is timing to a drummer though? Lol

Hahaha this is awesome. I have work to do on keeping timing.

Saxophone in the top right standing there like „yup, just another Thursday“

Gotta respect that saxophonist! Didn't get it wrong once!

@tomaspabon2484

2 жыл бұрын

I mean if you play the saxophone and cant count in weird time signatures what on earth are you supposed to play?

Great!

Nate is da MAN!!!

I've smiled throughout the video like a kid.

こんなに楽しい四分の七拍子は初めてです♪

The legendary Jaleel Shaw on the saxamaphone lol

@darnellkirkland784

5 жыл бұрын

Omar Saleem yessir

That is absolutely fucking sick. Amazing...

GG monsieur ! Vous m'avez eu avec vos "claps claps"

This is so much more impressive to me than dumb chops(which most of the time are useless). Dudes like Nate and Steve Jordan that play groove are much more stimulating to the ear imo

@brendanmcgrath4831

5 жыл бұрын

rippindrummer666 especially when they’re this good at it !

@PorkchopSandviches

5 жыл бұрын

I mean this took a ton of chops plus it was in an odd time so like I'm not entirely sure your point lol

@brendanmcgrath4831

5 жыл бұрын

PorkchopSandviches I think this dude’s talking about like Gospel Chops style stuff. He’s just expressing a preference! :)

@PorkchopSandviches

5 жыл бұрын

@@brendanmcgrath4831 I mean yeah obviously that's fine, people have different tastes and that's what's cool about music. My point was just that he said he doesn't like dumb chops yet that's kinda exactly what this video was haha

@rippindrummer666

5 жыл бұрын

Chops are fine within a groove which he’s doing here. I’m just not into the standard gospel chops style. Notice how the groove never stops even when he is throwing in those small fills. Also none of his fills in this use anything other than kick snare hihat, he didn’t touch his toms once. For an example of what I’m not as in to, go watch a Thomas pridgen video. That’s a good example of the kind of chops I’m talking about.

So much fun

All Master !!!

Mad MAD Chops!!

words not enough ! Purdie first & Nate now ! groove monsters !