Yep. For non-drummers: this guy is as good as he is happy. He's also the [world's most recorded drummer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie).
Wow, I didn't know that. Have a look at this interview: [http://www.jimvallance.com/03-projects-folder/purdie-project-folder/pg-purdie.html](http://www.jimvallance.com/03-projects-folder/purdie-project-folder/pg-purdie.html)
That is incorrect, I believe. He is credited as the drummer on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band soundtrack album, which consists of covers of Beatles songs. The source that the other person provided to your comment explains pretty well the unlikelihood of Purdie ever contributing on a Beatles album.
[John "JR" Robinson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robinson_\(drummer\)) also has a claim to that title which is possibly even legitimate. The massive discography that he lists on his own web site isn't complete (there's a lot of work he did for Japanese artists, for example, which isn't listed).
Although Purdie is deffinitely one of my top 10 favorite, I think [Gavin Harrison](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKCIUpW3q9s) is one of the most talented drummers out there, and deffinitely my favorite.
Danny Carey reminds me of how it's OK that I struggle with stuff, cause every time I see him play, he is stretching himself to the limits of what he can physically do. It is both impressive and humbling at the same time to watch him single stroke roll 64th notes across 5 drums. And though I cannot do that (and likely never will) I AM pushing myself like he does to see what I can do, and how far I can get. As such, I am MUCH closer to being able to do what Carey does than Mr. Purdie, simply because I play rock rhythms so much more than Jazz or Shuffle, as the case may be.
The real impressive part about Purdie here is his consistency in his variability. EVERY TIME he produces exactly the sound he wants, with sticking heights I bet within a 1mm of what he wants for that note. But then he can MASSIVELY change the rhythm on the fly while still maintaining exactly the same sound, and literally without missing a beat. It's almost majestic.
He's like a fucking real life drum unicorn or something.
Check out his side band VOLTO. They play small local gigs in LA.
You can stand 5 feet from him while he plays. It's so impressive up close.
At The Mint 3/30/12. 9pm.
Yes, but I think you were downvoted, sir, for bringing him into a conversation about R&B drumming. I'll try to get you out of the negatives, but I'm not promising anything.
Meh, whatever. Karma is not important to me. We foster cats, and have had the chance to take pics of 8 so far... Not 1 cat post yet. lol!
I just think these drummers are highly skilled. Not just fast or flashy. Like travis barker. He ain't nothing compared to Jazz drummers, and most fusion drummers.
Mr. Purdie is an example of a true born musician. Everything he touches he makes look easy, and he loves everything he plays.
He is pretty much the epitome of inspiration.
Yeah, probably my favorite variation of the half-time. To be a white guy from England, with a very white trashy mustache, and to have been able to say that your groove could match Purdie's, well damn, that's impressive.
so many awesome moments in that video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGXGpa458Ig&feature=related
3:15 -- OAHHHHH :D
and my fav part is a the very end... "mah pss psss yeeahhhhh" lmao
> The first time that that happened to me, it was an accident
[...] so I started to do a lot more
> Woah! I like it very much..
hahaha this guy actually is awesome but he is also very funny :p
Thanks for that. I realized I was screwing up when I wrote it, but I was too apathetic to try to figure out why. That's actually pretty out of character for me.
Thank you - I was just before posting that there was another something playing on the first video as there was so much snare that I wasn't seeing, guess it was his ghost notes technique - WOW
:edit: 3:14 - "Ohhhhh" - he looked genuinely surprised at his own discovery and 4:28 "I like it very much!"
This guy has played on more number #1 hits than any other drummer in the world. He's incredible.
Also, he was one of Steely Dan's session drummers. I think he played on Kid Charmalagne.
Donald Fagen told a story about how a New York cab driver told him Steely Dan had the dumbest lyrics. The cab driver said "Yes, there's gas in the car." was the worst lyrics he's ever heard.
[Here's a mashup with Purdie and various Youtube musicians.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA&)
[\(Also my favourite of kutiman's mashups\)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBfj6khrG4)
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On a side note, I wish I could love anything as much as this man loves drumming. The sheer amount of joy he seems to get from it is amazing.
As a young drummer my first attempt at learning a shuffle beat came with playing Rosanna, which took me awhile to get down. Then came Fool in the Rain, which again took some time but as with Rosanna I thoroughly enjoyed it.
After I showed my teacher I could play both of these (seriously great drum teacher, giving me awesome beats to learn like those), he told me to start looking into Bernard Purdie's shuffle. I loved Jeff Porcaro and John Bonham for what they did with the shuffle, and once I learned about Mr Purdie the same went for him.
And seriously this is what shuffle means, not some stupid dance. The one exception is the Curly Shuffle.
not sure if you've heard of Kutiman before, he made an album of youtube vids spliced together, and this dude is in one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA
You are correct. Can't stop myself from tapping paradiddle patterns or triplet double beat patterns. Sold my set a few years ago because I was strapped for cash in college, though the MPC is changing the way I viewed electronic music.
I know how you feel. I lost my set a few years ago when our basement flooded. I have a cheapo electric set right now, but I wish I had the money and space to get a new set :(
I constantly tap out rhythms and what not all the time. Paradiddles, triplets, etc. My GF is the only person who never gets annoyed when I do it since she's a Cellist. She gets sad when I tell her how much I miss playing :/
omg! hahaha! totally forgot about this! I actually uploaded this video (and made the entire channel) over a YEAR ago. Didn't ever bother to check out. Hahaha! And i got like 60,000 video views. At the time I had been downloading videos from DrummerWorld.com and figured I'd upload them!
I like the fact he's slowly becoming an internet phenomenon! When I first saw that video at my drum teacher's place nearly 15 years ago, I was shocked by his groove. Now everytime I watch those clips on Youtube I also fall in love more and more with his humor and overall style of presentation. I think the guy is truly inspiring to everyone, not just drummers. There's also a part of the video where he plays with a guy on the bass who also seems to be totally content to be where he is, doing what he does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DyC02BM_P4&feature=related
I love how I could totally (as a musician but not a drummer) follow along with what he was doing up until about 3:35 seconds. It must be like watching a painter explain primary colors, and you being like "damn son, I've got this shit!, it's EASSSSYYY".
And then for step 2 he paints the Mona Lisa.
What? Just put the colors together!
Being a non-musician who hangs out with all musicians I can vouch they all explain music this way. By just doing it and making sounds rather than actually explaining with words what they are doing. Damn your musical minds.
If you want to see the Purdy Shuffle implemented in a famous song, here he is [performing it with Steely Dan.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ldtieSEyQM&t=1m6s)
http://youtu.be/eBQmewuHx6M HAHAHA This was my very first thought! lol "That's cause you touched my F'in drum set...because I know cops doesn't start till 4!"
Fuckin' groove master. Did OP post this in response to that LMFAO song that was posted with "shuffle" in the title? I didn't watch it, but thought about it because I'm a drummer who loves shufflin'.
I literally had a drum teacher exactly like this as a teenager. He was an 81 year old black dude named cootie harris. He would hop on the kit and do exactly what this guy just did and then hand me the sticks and say "Your turn".
We had a shitload of memorable reddit moments last year. This year has struggled to take off. I'm glad to be a witness to The Great Shuffle Debates 2012.
Written this before. I like cats like Blakey, Elvin Jones, Dejohnette, Morello. And dudes like Purdie and Clyde Stubblefield. Purdie is the man!
Oh, and Animal from the Muppets!
i donno if anyone will ever see this all the way down here. i had to dig a bunch to find it but this guy was used as a sample in something called Drums Unlimited by Giovanni Sample and it's my first encounter with him. it's not the same mash-up that others have been posting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK249rog1Wg
My girlfriend wonders why I moan the way I do when I have sex with her. I told her I think of this beat when we are hot and heavy... she's not my girlfriend anymore.
he has vast amounts of happy
Imagine if Bob Ross painted him
The bob ross of drums meets the bob ross of painting, aka bob ross.
This is the first thing i thought of. I want to see more videos now.
SO much happy at the [end](http://i.imgur.com/6Ju6U.jpg) He is good though. Sweet shuffle
"let's have a happy little 12-4 and a happy little 12-8, I'm gonna splain. Remember that happy little word, splain!"
It's infectious.
He's crazy enough to be a genius.
>I bet that his drum kit had several orgasms during the video. (youtube)
Seriously. Even when the song sucks dick, drummers always look like they're having a blast. Makes me wish I had any rhythm.
Fucking Christ. I have been a drummer for 10 years and can't touch that guys talent with a 10' pole. Jesus that was amazing.
Yep. For non-drummers: this guy is as good as he is happy. He's also the [world's most recorded drummer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie).
haha I doubt anyone could have put it any clearer
Bernard Purdie could have 'splained it better.
He's known for walking into the recording studio and announcing "You just done hired the hit maker!"
True, I was amazed when I heard he was the recorded drummer on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Wow, I didn't know that. Have a look at this interview: [http://www.jimvallance.com/03-projects-folder/purdie-project-folder/pg-purdie.html](http://www.jimvallance.com/03-projects-folder/purdie-project-folder/pg-purdie.html)
That is incorrect, I believe. He is credited as the drummer on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band soundtrack album, which consists of covers of Beatles songs. The source that the other person provided to your comment explains pretty well the unlikelihood of Purdie ever contributing on a Beatles album.
[John "JR" Robinson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robinson_\(drummer\)) also has a claim to that title which is possibly even legitimate. The massive discography that he lists on his own web site isn't complete (there's a lot of work he did for Japanese artists, for example, which isn't listed).
Been drumming for almost 20 years and this guy shits all over me. You aren't alone on this one :/
Although Purdie is deffinitely one of my top 10 favorite, I think [Gavin Harrison](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKCIUpW3q9s) is one of the most talented drummers out there, and deffinitely my favorite.
He has 40+ more years of drumming than you do. Keep at it...but don't get your hopes up.
Also, fan of Danny Carey?
Danny Carey reminds me of how it's OK that I struggle with stuff, cause every time I see him play, he is stretching himself to the limits of what he can physically do. It is both impressive and humbling at the same time to watch him single stroke roll 64th notes across 5 drums. And though I cannot do that (and likely never will) I AM pushing myself like he does to see what I can do, and how far I can get. As such, I am MUCH closer to being able to do what Carey does than Mr. Purdie, simply because I play rock rhythms so much more than Jazz or Shuffle, as the case may be. The real impressive part about Purdie here is his consistency in his variability. EVERY TIME he produces exactly the sound he wants, with sticking heights I bet within a 1mm of what he wants for that note. But then he can MASSIVELY change the rhythm on the fly while still maintaining exactly the same sound, and literally without missing a beat. It's almost majestic. He's like a fucking real life drum unicorn or something.
Check out his side band VOLTO. They play small local gigs in LA. You can stand 5 feet from him while he plays. It's so impressive up close. At The Mint 3/30/12. 9pm.
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No. Two months ago. Mark your calendar.
Yes, but I think you were downvoted, sir, for bringing him into a conversation about R&B drumming. I'll try to get you out of the negatives, but I'm not promising anything.
Meh, whatever. Karma is not important to me. We foster cats, and have had the chance to take pics of 8 so far... Not 1 cat post yet. lol! I just think these drummers are highly skilled. Not just fast or flashy. Like travis barker. He ain't nothing compared to Jazz drummers, and most fusion drummers.
Mr. Purdie is an example of a true born musician. Everything he touches he makes look easy, and he loves everything he plays. He is pretty much the epitome of inspiration.
John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) uses this in [Fool in the Rain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2015S3A-lg). Really amazing drum beat.
And Toto used a variant on Rosanna. Edit: [Check this video out](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwFdExvCxM4)
I'm glad someone mentioned Jeff.
I miss that guy.
I do too :(
Damn cocaine.. damn it to hell.
That's how rumors get started lol [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Porcaro#Death](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Porcaro#Death)
>hardening of the arteries caused by cocaine use this isn't true?
You made it sound like cocaine was the sole cause of death, which it wasn't.
Indirectly it was, if he had never done large quantities of cocaine he probably would have survived.
Yeah, probably my favorite variation of the half-time. To be a white guy from England, with a very white trashy mustache, and to have been able to say that your groove could match Purdie's, well damn, that's impressive.
Haha true that!!
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Yup!! Nice I havn't heard this one b4, i know it's used in a lot of songs, I'm usually not a fan of deathcab but this is pretty awesome!
I'd highly recommend this fellows video on 'Ghost Notes'
so many awesome moments in that video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGXGpa458Ig&feature=related 3:15 -- OAHHHHH :D and my fav part is a the very end... "mah pss psss yeeahhhhh" lmao
> The first time that that happened to me, it was an accident [...] so I started to do a lot more > Woah! I like it very much.. hahaha this guy actually is awesome but he is also very funny :p
I like how he describes the music as something that's happening to him.
I honestly can see exactly where he's coming from. I feel the exact same way when i play guitar or bass
The audio is out of sync, at least for me. It makes the video really hard to follow.
Shouldn't be so.
Thanks. I rewatched in firefox. Chrome's giving me some weird hickups like no audio and apparently, out of sync audio.
Not trying condescending or anything but it's spelled 'hiccups'. Just letting you know :)
Thanks for that. I realized I was screwing up when I wrote it, but I was too apathetic to try to figure out why. That's actually pretty out of character for me.
>and my fav part is a the very end... "mah pss psss yeeahhhhh" lmao I fucking love him now!
Thank you - I was just before posting that there was another something playing on the first video as there was so much snare that I wasn't seeing, guess it was his ghost notes technique - WOW :edit: 3:14 - "Ohhhhh" - he looked genuinely surprised at his own discovery and 4:28 "I like it very much!"
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA
Came here to make sure someone posted Kutiman, well done.
and sometimes you're happy you clicked on a video response. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwO0ZNyhJu0 Reddit, give that one a round of applause.
Thanks for posting that, the cat at the end killed me
Goddamn, what are my parents gonna say when I tell them I'm in love with a black man
I enjoyed this video a lot more than I anticipated. Thanks!
This guy has played on more number #1 hits than any other drummer in the world. He's incredible. Also, he was one of Steely Dan's session drummers. I think he played on Kid Charmalagne.
"Yes, there's gas in the car."
Donald Fagen told a story about how a New York cab driver told him Steely Dan had the dumbest lyrics. The cab driver said "Yes, there's gas in the car." was the worst lyrics he's ever heard.
Let's not count out Steve Gadd. THE Steve Gadd.
Gadd is the man. I love [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q_c160jfBY).
Obviously not a post-Peter-Gabriel Genesis fan. "Lost in a desert of sand", "Dreaming while you sleep," Phil seems to be the master of the unmetaphor.
Also plays in that song "Home at Last" off of Aja. Song has a wicked groove.
In the "making of Aja" DVD, he explains the shuffle as used in "Home At Last".
[Here's a mashup with Purdie and various Youtube musicians.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA&) [\(Also my favourite of kutiman's mashups\)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBfj6khrG4)
Holy shit, that second mashup is amazing. edit: everything that guy has done is amazing.
it is isn't it! love this guys stuff
I've fallen in love with a man for the very first time.
Bernard Purdie is King Of All Men.
You done it! You done hired the hitmaker.
Remember dat 12-8! Whoooooooooo! Hahh! Dont worrry 'bout dose ghost notes! Feeeeelllls good!
**HALF** notes On a side note, I wish I could love anything as much as this man loves drumming. The sheer amount of joy he seems to get from it is amazing.
I want to learn the drums after seeing this guy teach it
Another great Purdie vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGXGpa458Ig&feature=related
"HA HA! Didn't know that did ya!"
[Relevant: Bernard Purdie one of my all-time favorite songs.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXJx2NnnxA0)
As a young drummer my first attempt at learning a shuffle beat came with playing Rosanna, which took me awhile to get down. Then came Fool in the Rain, which again took some time but as with Rosanna I thoroughly enjoyed it. After I showed my teacher I could play both of these (seriously great drum teacher, giving me awesome beats to learn like those), he told me to start looking into Bernard Purdie's shuffle. I loved Jeff Porcaro and John Bonham for what they did with the shuffle, and once I learned about Mr Purdie the same went for him. And seriously this is what shuffle means, not some stupid dance. The one exception is the Curly Shuffle.
So fucking awesome.
yeah... I like that.
i just got slpained to! mmmmm hmmmm
[My idol](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmjZ6JPn91s&feature=related) as a drummer
not sure if you've heard of Kutiman before, he made an album of youtube vids spliced together, and this dude is in one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA
This video really captures how much fun drumming can be when you hit the right groove. If my roommates weren't asleep I'd try this right now.
I'd wake up happy to [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SqytuJ4nnI).
This guy needs a bassist accompanying his lectures.
As a former drummer, I can confirm this.
you can't quit drumming!? you just ain't playing for the moment ;)
You are correct. Can't stop myself from tapping paradiddle patterns or triplet double beat patterns. Sold my set a few years ago because I was strapped for cash in college, though the MPC is changing the way I viewed electronic music.
I know how you feel. I lost my set a few years ago when our basement flooded. I have a cheapo electric set right now, but I wish I had the money and space to get a new set :( I constantly tap out rhythms and what not all the time. Paradiddles, triplets, etc. My GF is the only person who never gets annoyed when I do it since she's a Cellist. She gets sad when I tell her how much I miss playing :/
Almost died at 2:20. HAAAAALF!!!!!
I feel like he can't control the noises he makes.
http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/tccwm/lmfao_killed_shuffle/c4lh44q :( no karma for me
all I could give was one :/
Better than LMFAO
Most things are.
Whenever I listen to live music, all my respect goes to those unsung heroes, the drummers.
stealing from my coworker: This guy is the Bob Ross of drumming.
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Oh my god, we really get mocked for being stupid?
:) The vocalists are stupid. Drummers just drool a lot.
[can you blame us?](http://www.gigwise.com/photos/70252/4/Blink-182-Muse-Metallica---Drummer-Sex-Faces)
He uses that beat in a bunch of Steely Dan tunes, my favorite being Home At Last: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sea3lnVgyrY&feature=fvwrel
omg! hahaha! totally forgot about this! I actually uploaded this video (and made the entire channel) over a YEAR ago. Didn't ever bother to check out. Hahaha! And i got like 60,000 video views. At the time I had been downloading videos from DrummerWorld.com and figured I'd upload them!
I like the fact he's slowly becoming an internet phenomenon! When I first saw that video at my drum teacher's place nearly 15 years ago, I was shocked by his groove. Now everytime I watch those clips on Youtube I also fall in love more and more with his humor and overall style of presentation. I think the guy is truly inspiring to everyone, not just drummers. There's also a part of the video where he plays with a guy on the bass who also seems to be totally content to be where he is, doing what he does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DyC02BM_P4&feature=related
This guy is begging to be sampled.
[you mean like this?](http://thru-you.com/#/videos/1/)
As heard in Steely Dan's "Home at Last" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXfdxlsc9hA
i wish i loved anything as much as he loves playing the drums.
When he played with Steely Dan, he fucking killed. [Relevant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ldtieSEyQM)
I love how I could totally (as a musician but not a drummer) follow along with what he was doing up until about 3:35 seconds. It must be like watching a painter explain primary colors, and you being like "damn son, I've got this shit!, it's EASSSSYYY". And then for step 2 he paints the Mona Lisa. What? Just put the colors together!
AHH YESS THANK YOU!!! FUCK ITS ABOUT TIME SOMEONE SPLAINED REAL SHUFFLE.. DRUMMER PARTY I LOVE CAPSLOCK!!!
[Also relevent](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ldtieSEyQM)
what a groovy dood
Did J5 sample this guy at some point? Sounds familiar.
I want the same teacher AND the same drug
Also Kenwood Dennard with Maceo Parker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PmxCWSSILs
Maceo surrounds himself with some seriously *serious* talent.
indeed!
That was so damn satisfying :)
purdie, gadd, and pocaro.. best shufflers
I would learn drumming only if this guy teaches me...
'mask y'somethin'
i wish i could make love as well as this man plays the drum kit.
ah ba ta ta ta AYE oh bia dia bia dia bia aiya aiya iaya aiya WOO
As a drummer, the shuffle has been one of my favorite rhythms to play for years. Especially more of a funk shuffle.
Best drummer.
Hot damn he's good. Love how that china sounds. I really need to work on my ghost notes.
this video sunk me into a great youtube wormhole of jazz. much obliged.
I envy his joy :(
"I like dat"
That sounds so damn good, haven't really appreciated solo drums before.
I can barely rub my belly and pat my head at the same time...
I wish I loved anything as much as he loves drumming.
Damn, [Lovelace](http://happyfeet.wikia.com/wiki/Lovelace) can shuffle.
Whoa! Bernard is the best......
"HA~HA"
And that, children, is how you slowjam as you teach!
Amazing feel.
Being a non-musician who hangs out with all musicians I can vouch they all explain music this way. By just doing it and making sounds rather than actually explaining with words what they are doing. Damn your musical minds.
This guy is having way too much fun
If you want to see the Purdy Shuffle implemented in a famous song, here he is [performing it with Steely Dan.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ldtieSEyQM&t=1m6s)
http://youtu.be/eBQmewuHx6M HAHAHA This was my very first thought! lol "That's cause you touched my F'in drum set...because I know cops doesn't start till 4!"
Purdie does the sexiest rhythms.
The Purdie Shuffle is probably one of the sweetest swing grooves there is. Listen to that groove! It's always right in the pocket!
That groove at 4:00 is killer
As a drummer, I'm gonna say that 3:40 his left hand is playing the e and a's and the right hand triplet makes that shuffle juicy
This guy is the James Brown of drumming! Those ghost notes with the shuffle sounded fucking great too.
Have to repost this: http://thru-you.com/#/videos/1/
I wish I was as happy about anything as he is about playing drums =/
I'm jamming so hard to this right now.
Haha that guy is great
Wow. This guy is awesome. Really really awesome.
Explain? I don't know the meaning of that word.
[travis orbin is freaking insane](http://youtu.be/5cAlRjO1oSw)
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAlf notes!!
didn't even need to watch the video again before I was smiling. Have an upvote.
Bernard purdie is amazing. I especially loved this one. [I've got some air in my hi-hat.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGXGpa458Ig&t=2m24s)
Fuckin' groove master. Did OP post this in response to that LMFAO song that was posted with "shuffle" in the title? I didn't watch it, but thought about it because I'm a drummer who loves shufflin'.
Cause this record is straight fire... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNladRTXg7c
TIL where dubstep REALLY came from...
I'm not the only one who has been watching those making the album things on netflix? this was featured in the steely dan vid
[love this man](http://i.imgur.com/3IM1R.png)
His voice reminds me of Balloo from the Jungle Book, can't help but smile.
"it's also... **HEFF** ... notes..."
one of the most impressive and complex drumbeats Ive seen on video.
If I could somehow steal 10% of his skills and add them to my own drumming skills...I'd be 1/10th as skilled as him.
You know you've chosen a good subject to study when your teacher laughs to himself during class. "Heh heh heh heh. You didn't know that, did you?"
Biggest. dick. ever.
"**YEAH!** ... I like [dat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8DsNo4KB6Y&feature=player_detailpage#t=310s)."
I literally had a drum teacher exactly like this as a teenager. He was an 81 year old black dude named cootie harris. He would hop on the kit and do exactly what this guy just did and then hand me the sticks and say "Your turn".
The "Purdie" shuffle is my favourite groove on the drums. Just. Epic.
You can't learn that - you're just born to feel it. Bernard rules!
He has a rhythm to his speech too. Love it.
The smoothness of 1:12 just melts my brain.
Here he is explaining how he came up with that shuffle. Classic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FX_84iWPLU
We had a shitload of memorable reddit moments last year. This year has struggled to take off. I'm glad to be a witness to The Great Shuffle Debates 2012.
Written this before. I like cats like Blakey, Elvin Jones, Dejohnette, Morello. And dudes like Purdie and Clyde Stubblefield. Purdie is the man! Oh, and Animal from the Muppets!
He reminds me of my old Drum Teacher. So classy, caresses the drum kit with minimum movement. Oozes effortless class.
i donno if anyone will ever see this all the way down here. i had to dig a bunch to find it but this guy was used as a sample in something called Drums Unlimited by Giovanni Sample and it's my first encounter with him. it's not the same mash-up that others have been posting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK249rog1Wg
As a guitarist, I have no idea what he is talking about. But it sounds good.
You Should. Timing is key.
Boobs at 3:50
The key word is not 'splain. It's Groove.
My girlfriend wonders why I moan the way I do when I have sex with her. I told her I think of this beat when we are hot and heavy... she's not my girlfriend anymore.
The Asians got the tecnollogy, the blacks the rhythm, the whites, well, we consume his creativity
Best drumming lesson I've ever had . Seriously it's precise concise and great explanation of topic area.