Nate Smith is now unstoppable that he found the rest of his drum kit

@capitanesejapitalism1679

3 ай бұрын

bahahahaahah

@jefferybeckman5231

3 ай бұрын

'k, hipster doofus.

@stubowl1

3 ай бұрын

@@capitanesejapitalism1679 LOL

@levisiem4145

3 ай бұрын

Make sure guys that this will stay most liked comment here

@troubleondemand7703

3 ай бұрын

That's a fraction of the kit he used on Kenni and the Jets

finally that fearless flyers money was able to afford nate smith a ride cymbal and a floor tom 🙏

@daredevil7008

3 ай бұрын

ahahahhahahaha

@JaySuschrist

3 ай бұрын

Except on Tailwinds when he had a 93 piece drum kit. lol.

@elahem6940

3 ай бұрын

Drums are overrated, Nate is so powerful he could sit silently on a stool all night and telepathically inject the rhythm into everyone's brains

Crazy how Vulfs music videos went from being recorded in a basement to being recorded in the Blue Note

@rfinnegan7106

3 ай бұрын

And always quality with balance and space. Wow!

@Richorino

3 ай бұрын

to be fair, their last album was recorded in a Sauna

call that fearless flyers IV bc i want this transfused right into my veins 😫😫🔥

@TriggeredGibson

3 ай бұрын

goated comment

@rfinnegan7106

3 ай бұрын

Soul transfusions could be useful right now!

@kaytamatsuno

3 ай бұрын

Took me a second.. Good one..

@isaacjensen1627

2 ай бұрын

I’d be dead without them IV

@redgit9905

2 ай бұрын

I want this injected into my veins, too 😩😩

If anyone missed it, the song titles are all names of International military jet display teams. Blue Angels and Thunderbirds from the US, Red Arrows from the UK, Frecce Tricolori from Italy, Snowbirds from Canada, and Patrouille de France from France. ✈ Fearless flyers indeed.

@bossbaby2112

3 ай бұрын

This made me smile real big when I opened Spotify this morning. Love it

@ZippyLeroux

3 ай бұрын

Wonderful! I needed this pointed out. Thank you!

@Dyingsociety38

3 ай бұрын

Interesting thing is that Red Arrows scandal about sexual harassment and predatory activity. Ohwell ay 🤫

@thejesse

3 ай бұрын

i would have noticed this but wouldn't have made the "fearless flyers" connection.

@lazylion420

3 ай бұрын

I want to say "duh" but I guess it's not common knowledge. my parents took us to air shows as kids and we saw most of these teams fly in person over the years.

Joe Dart is one of this era’s greatest bass players

Cory's solo in Patrouille de France fuckin blew my mind. Going down in the history books for me.

@mattdippel6494

3 ай бұрын

It broke my brain when I heard it lol

@soniccucumber6639

3 ай бұрын

And the way guitars overlap in the beginning, kind of swing feeling?

@willowozurumba4352

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I was like "holy fuck"

@GefJam1

3 ай бұрын

and I involuntarily pull the same faces as Cory did when I hear that kind of sound

@exaexalipoor

3 ай бұрын

All my life listening to guitar solos...this is one of the most inventive, zero bullshit, most organic freaking great soloing I've ever heard, and coming from the greatest funk rhythm guitar player of the era.

Nate's the jet engine, Cory and Mark are the wings, and Joe's the artillery.

@e4jasperi

Ай бұрын

Nate and Joe interchange their roles.

@Thecrd2

12 күн бұрын

Artillery doesnt really fit in with the aircraft analogy. Sidewinder ftw. Nates the chassis cory and mark are the tires and joe is the toe nail clippers.

Funk-sutawney Phil predicting an early spring with this heat

@jefferybeckman5231

3 ай бұрын

'k, hipster doofus.

@linebeck1381

3 ай бұрын

Best comment I’ve ever seeen

@jj5jj5

3 ай бұрын

Bravo 👏😂

Every time we're reaching higher funky altitudes. At this rate, the boys are going to be The Fearless Astronauts by 2027.

i ALWAYS get extremely impressed with the precision and accuracy of Nate Smith playing drums. what a force of nature this dude is

@andreaiachini7517

3 ай бұрын

For real. Everytime I watch him play.

@adamnewyork

3 ай бұрын

He's like a metronome but better because of his tasty fills and high-hat work.

@ChildishDanbino

3 ай бұрын

The man coaxes whatever exact sounds he wants with such calculated aggression. Truly a sight to behold

@MattKeenanMusic

3 ай бұрын

the discipline!

@hyde4004

2 ай бұрын

The thing is he could chop the audience out to a black fucking hole but he plays so absolutely restrained and the groove is so infectious. Insane insane drummer

Being at this show when Jack came out with the steadicam and they said they were gonna record the new album right then and there was one of the coolest concert moments I can remember

@ahvostik

3 ай бұрын

Did he share anything else about the album? Did they only play these 6 tracks?

@hadengold

3 ай бұрын

this is the album@@ahvostik

@Chloroform4

3 ай бұрын

They were playing a regular show and then halfway through did this and blew everyone's minds (and then did two other songs after) @@ahvostik

I can't believe that's a live recording. Whoever are Miles Hanson and Noam Wallenberg deserve some awards.

@jim5148

2 ай бұрын

The cameraman just needs to learn the set.

@zombi3907

2 ай бұрын

The Camerman is Jack Stratton rofl@@jim5148

@zachkadison8482

2 ай бұрын

@@jim5148lol its Jack Stratton

This is the modern-day equivalent of Casiopea's "Mint Jams" album: recorded live, edited to sound like it isn't, and full of unbelievable amounts of groove

@cristianvergaralagos8666

3 ай бұрын

Totally agree

@therealwhite

3 ай бұрын

Eyyyy mint jams love in a vulf comment section

@joshdobedoe2845

3 ай бұрын

And so tight you wouldn't believe it's live

@philippbokrand26

3 ай бұрын

I remember that one

@mm23z

2 ай бұрын

Mint Jams is still fresh af to this day

Precision + economy = groove

@thromboid

3 ай бұрын

Your equation checks out. 🙂

Always nice to see Cory do some lead parts

_Nate Smith asks for full drum set_ *_barely uses said full drum set_* What a king.

@Iceman259

3 ай бұрын

I imagine it went more like this: "Nate, you're gonna be playing with the Flyers at the Blue Note next week." "Do they have a snare, hat and a kick?" "Don't you want to bring your own gear? It's probably better than the house kit..." "Do they have a snare, hat and a kick?" "Y-yes"

Holy shit Mark's solo on the final track. Chops and vocab off the damn charts!

@davidgoeller5843

3 ай бұрын

The rhapsody in blue quote! Twice!!

@desktopdrummer6599

3 ай бұрын

@@davidgoeller5843 I KNOW!!!

I’ve been waiting for this and it just drops suddenly, like no big deal, here’s some of the best funk music out right now.

@BreathEmpowerment

3 ай бұрын

Bro the amount of stuff Cory has been releasing the last couple years blows me away, I can't keep up with it

@laylover7621

3 ай бұрын

LITERALLLYYY

And the Grammy for most funkiest shit goes to The Fearless Flyers.

6:19 Insanity. Nate said in an interview that he would have loved to collaborate with James Brown. The world wouldn’t have been able to comprehend. Long live the king.

It is the kind of concert where you feel like the band is just having fun, and you are just having the opportunity to enjoy with them.

idk how nate smith makes four on the floor feel so good. something beyond the notes he’s playing

@maegnificant

3 ай бұрын

Spacing

@jameswebster2605

3 ай бұрын

He sits right up on the beat, if you listen carefully to the snare he puts it just ahead of the hi hats, not enough so it’s on a different beat, but just enough to make it pop. Steve Gadd does the same thing. Dilla would create beats that did it to a ludicrous degree, but this is so subtle it’s hard to pick what it is if you don’t know what to look for. Hope that helps :)

@bailzzzzzz

3 ай бұрын

​@@jameswebster2605feels to me like for the first couple of tracks the kick and snare are clockwork, with a really subtle drag on the hats. That dilla behind the beat 'drunk' thing is way more evident in track three, but do you think in the other tracks there's still a push or drag on the kick/snare? Interested to know, I'm not a drummer

@arthurmilano2920

3 ай бұрын

I feel like Nate’s style is to put most of his accenting notes in the ghost notes just outside of the 4 on floor beat, it’s perfectly peppered around. Much better sounding than somebody who just floods beats with unnecessary fills

@jas_bataille

3 ай бұрын

@@bailzzzzzz It feels square but it isn't. It like a hand drawn square with nice rounded edges VS a perfect 90 degree square like a metronome. Billie Jean is the best example of this : you think it's perfectly square. But I guarantee to you it's not even close. A Casio is perfectly square : there is the same exact spacing behind every beat. Sounds horrible. Only a robotic movement can have the same exact space between the hit and when you *lift* the stick, so drumming is like a dance! Any groove breathes. Pictures a swing : 4 on the floor only move the swing a little and it comes back quickly, but the spacing is not the same between every note. A swing feel is perfectly clearly showing that effect, and a J-Dilla beat is pushing it even further, to the point where the mechanism of the swing creaks and jam a little before going to the other beat. Does that make sense?! That's why it's called a backbeat when you the snare, and that's why swing is called... swing! You can make a physical movement reference for any beat. As a drum teacher this is my secret weapon lol

17:27 The first nerd to transcribe this solo deserves a medal. Nate Smith is the ace of aces.

@throngalaxyxy2862

3 ай бұрын

If you know your rudiments then it shouldn't be that hard

@KenVallejos

3 ай бұрын

@@throngalaxyxy2862 lol

@KenVallejos

3 ай бұрын

@@throngalaxyxy2862lol

The start of "Frecce Tricolori" sounds so unapologetically Steely Dan. Love it!

@toast1612

3 ай бұрын

It was originally titled “so-dan”!

@christopherbrody5290

3 ай бұрын

literally Deacon Blues for like two chords

funk is when the space in between, the notes you dont play, has a pulse as well and adds to the groove! Also a well placed cymbal crash means the world to a funky groove! Killing it fellas!!

12 minutes in Corey had me doing the stank face with an unearthly solo. What a start to the weekend!

Nate Smith scares me

These new vulf logos are so damn good

Just casually dropping this on a Friday morning with no warning!

that joe dart bass is unmistakeable

Blue Angles' groove is so addictive

what a week of vulf. i bought tickets to my first ever vulfpeck show and now FFIV drops? what is my life

@Kebbie01

3 ай бұрын

What show?

@diigdugg

3 ай бұрын

@@Kebbie01it’s in austin on friday, april 5th

@TriggeredGibson

3 ай бұрын

@@diigdugg same bro

@marcusjohansson668

3 ай бұрын

Wait.. FFIV and Vulfpeck mentioned in the same sentence. Never expected to see that. I guess we are really in the age of nerds. xD

@Myulls

3 ай бұрын

@@diigduggbro I had no idea, THANK YOU FOR THIS COMMENT - i just bought my ticket too because of you

I found this guys on Facebook in pandemic. A ray of light in my darkest hours.

An endless stream of funk? How is this possible

@derenjoy3r

3 ай бұрын

sir the levels of funk are too hard for our legs to sustain, we are forced to boogie!

@rfinnegan7106

3 ай бұрын

Sit defying funk.

Mark's tone on that Thunderbirds solo is B R U T A L

Compared to other FF projects, this album really felt like one big ride that we were invited to join.

This is one of the grooviest, funkiest things I've heard in a long time.

Cory, Mark, Joe, and Nate all seriously shined on this record

Cory's lead chops are so tight on this album. All killer no filler

That solo from Cory! 🔥

Cory’s solo on 3 was so amazing!!!! I got chills…

@iaial0

3 ай бұрын

He ascended. Really

Crazy move dropping this full album out of the blue no hype, no singles, no nothing. Love.

Nate's solo from 6:20 to 7:12 is why I like music so much!

@justinedwards9123

3 ай бұрын

Yeah that was insane

12:42 nice Stuff from my boi Cory, great solo

Cody is the evil genius, Mark's the one that actually killed a guy, Nate is the driver and Joe's just happy to be here.

Cory is so fucking versatile now after the endless touring. Gonna be a good year for funk with ghost note putting out an album too. Please recommend more funky shit in the replies. Cheers

@roddypiper7404

3 ай бұрын

Ever heard Casiopea? The s/t and Mint Jams in particular.

I feel so blessed to be alive when this music is being created and shared. One of humanity's greatest expressions! ❤

@blackwizards1692

3 ай бұрын

TRUTH

I love how the tracks are paired up: colors, foreign languages, and birds.

@joemoran7797

3 ай бұрын

They're all aerobatic flying teams from different countries. Pretty cool that they all lined up on those categories, too :)

@kentscherm2213

3 ай бұрын

National aerobatic teams... fabulous flyers

@trav4v710

3 ай бұрын

@@joemoran7797 oh sweet! thanks for the info

At a time I was getting more and more bored of current music I stumbled over Vulfpeck. This lead to Vulf. This lead to FF. And my life is brighter now. Thank you.

What a wonderful start into the weekend! Mark has some awesome Takanaka tones going on! Everone as amazing as always!

@teuast

3 ай бұрын

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought Takanaka hearing some of those Mark lines.

That escalated quickly! Patrouille De France and Thunderbirds went full beast mode! i love some mean Fonk!!! And with Joe andNate you have the definition of Pocket at hand...

what a hell of a nice surprise! thanks so much for being yourselves, Flyers!!!

This is so funky. Easily the grooviest FF album yet.

Great to see musicians at the top of their game, playing music that they themselves like.

Vulfpeck and these guys are the new ambassadors of funk music.

In tunderbirds the last track Marcs solo!!! 😮 i love how Joe stares at him the whole time almost in disbelief and laughing! Almost as if hes winging it and trying to find the right note or something, you can see the bewilderment in his face as joe just grins like a cheshire cat like GO IN THEN BROTHER! Then that last part where he stomps on the pedal and takes off! Oh my days what a performance

some of this are instant classics... but thunderbirds is one of those that grow on you, and they keep growing with each listen. Mark's solo on that one broke my brain i will never be the same

Insane that this is a live album

I'm just happy to live in a world where my favorite guitarist and drummer can be in a band together

@thomasfaraone4213

3 ай бұрын

It’s like Jack Stratton wanted to build a band around all 4 of them but figured it was easier to put them all in the same band

It's almost unbelievable how tight and clean all of the performances are. Being able not only to hear but see the skill evident in the playing is incredible.

im convinced that you could give nate smith a rock and he’d use his drum wizardry to make that thing sound like a full kit, he is hands down one of the best to ever do it

Watching peoples heads snap back and forth at 6:00, going from the cool bass riff, to nates drumming, to the guitar lick, to nates solo, must have caused whiplash

Cory's eyebrow raise at the end of Snowbirds. The cat knows he nailed it!

I feel like the flyer's composition skill really shine in this album

21:54 to 22:08 WTF MAN?!! Just so damn funky Nate! Supporting solos like that wish such groove, funk, tension and release? Just masterclass and only one moment in time!! 👏👏👏

That is some black magic stuff from Cory Wong with that Patrouille de France solo.

Saw Cory last week for the first time and when he told me a FF album was dropping in 2 days I couldn't possibly prepare myself for the amount of funk that was in my future.

Fearless Flyers IV: A New Hope

@dev5576

3 ай бұрын

you know, this technically was their first album

6:10 and Nate - holy smokes!

Superb feels, chops and musicianship, as always! It feels good to see all these people in the public not using their phone and enjoying this tremendous moment! Music lives!

That sort of sforzando at 2:00 mark is one of the tastiest plot twists ever

It's crazy how they're all able to stand out at the same time

I like seeing Joe smile. That makes me smile

Epic solo de Cory Wong en Patrouille de France

In my opinion, their best work yet.

This is my favorite Supergroup of all time.

I’ve never experienced stank face AND tears in the same situation. THANK YOU

Those first two tunes are actually jaw-dropping

All the Vulf team has simply made our time something worth to be remembered forever

amazing idea jack your creativity is overflowing!!

This is very much my favorite listen right now. It's stupid how good these tunes are.

Some of the funkiest music ever made without keys and horns!

The Flyers with their funk etudes. Gotta love it.

This better win a grammy next year 😫😫😫

Longtime fan here, thanks for all the the funk you do in the world.

WAOW WHAT A RECORD THANK YOU MR. FLYERS

Peak fearless flyers, i cant describe how incredible this is

This is the best music to look at spreadsheets to. Thank you, guys.

Never stop making awesome music! Love you guys!

I have been listening to all the blue note shows. I just wanna tip my hat to the fantastic post production work. This project is top notch. I love it, thank you!!!!!

Fearless Flyers releases are always a treat! Really digging the soft rock influences in some of these tracks. Stellar as always.

What a gig. So many great things but Cory's solo on Patrouille de France is incredible. 14.15 sounds like a jet plane screaming and diving at supersonic speed. Fantastic!

Nate Smith. Nate effing Smith. My god, what a drummer.

Absolutely love that you now have more mid-tempo, deep-groove tunes

Holy smokes this is awesome. Nate especially is killing it on the drums

Extra funky and look at all those pixels

Absolutely brilliant work... every piece, every part. My ears are stupid satisfied, and my brain is bigger now. These guys are killing it. Amazing.

We need more of those drum solos . So great 😮

The precision of these guys blows my mind. I can’t even get through 2 minutes without flubbing a note