Tips for Better Trading on the Drums — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:01foreign
3. 0:09[Music]
4. 0:16welcome back to another Jazz drummer
5. 0:18Q-tip of the week if you're new my name
6. 0:21is Quincy Davis thank you so much for
7. 0:23stopping by I hope you enjoyed this
8. 0:25lesson so much that you smashed that
9. 0:27like button so in this lesson I am going
10. 0:30to be offering you tips for better
11. 0:31trading on the drums and for me trading
12. 0:35has always been more difficult than
13. 0:37actually taking a whole solo over a form
14. 0:39and I think the reason is because you
15. 0:41have such a finite amount of time to get
16. 0:44your ideas out so I've actually had to
17. 0:47think about some of these strategies and
18. 0:49tips for myself to make sure that I feel
19. 0:52comfortable with my own trading so I
20. 0:55think these tips are going to be helpful
21. 0:56for you as well so if you're ready then
22. 0:58I'm ready are you guys ready are you
23. 1:00really ready this week for the trades
24. 1:02the trading well if so let's go
25. 1:07okay
26. 1:08[Music]
27. 1:24foreign
28. 1:26[Music]
29. 1:38so the first thing that I always have to
30. 1:41remind myself when I'm trading is to
31. 1:44think ahead and it may seem obvious but
32. 1:47um kind of When We're In the Heat of the
33. 1:48Moment We were getting excited there's a
34. 1:51chance that we forget to think ahead
35. 1:53exactly about what's going to happen
36. 1:55next so think ahead and have an idea of
37. 1:58how you want to start your trade and for
38. 2:00me that has helped me so much so I'll
39. 2:02demonstrate with that kind of looks like
40. 2:06and convey exactly the idea that I'm
41. 2:09thinking before I get there and play it
42. 2:11[Music]
43. 2:14that's what I'm gonna do
44. 2:17[Music]
45. 2:22right
46. 2:23blah blah blah blah blah
47. 2:26[Music]
48. 2:30all right
49. 2:33[Music]
50. 2:39one more yeah
51. 2:41[Music]
52. 2:48right so though I was trading fours in
53. 2:51that case and as you can hear I was
54. 2:54playing exactly what I was singing right
55. 2:57and maybe it wasn't perfectly exactly
56. 3:00perfectly except it's that damn green
57. 3:02tea again
58. 3:03um maybe it wasn't perfectly exactly but
59. 3:06it was mostly exactly
60. 3:08perfect
61. 3:13all right so let's say you're still
62. 3:15struggling with coming up with ideas to
63. 3:18play right well one of the problems
64. 3:20might be the second tip which is make
65. 3:23sure you have a plethora of language and
66. 3:26vocabulary in your belt that you've
67. 3:28studied you transcribed you listen to
68. 3:30right and you only do that from
69. 3:32listening to Great Master drummers I
70. 3:35don't need to list them but I will Jimmy
71. 3:36Cobb Frankie Dunlop Ben Riley Papa Joe
72. 3:40Jones Max Roach Bill Stewart Lewis Nash
73. 3:44all of them do all of them Mel Lewis
74. 3:46Buddy Rich whoever you gravitate towards
75. 3:50learn a lot of their stuff and get it in
76. 3:53your playing that way you have so much
77. 3:55to draw from and you never want to sound
78. 3:58try to sound exactly like them when
79. 4:00you're on a gig when you're in the
80. 4:01practice room you do when you're on a
81. 4:03gig just play and hopefully you've
82. 4:05studied them enough that it just starts
83. 4:07to come out by the way
84. 4:09I got a volume one and now a volume two
85. 4:12of solo vac vocabulary that you can
86. 4:16check out so that's going to give you a
87. 4:18whole lot of language to check out
88. 4:27[Music]
89. 4:32thank you
90. 4:35all right so this next tip
91. 4:38um is really extremely important
92. 4:41sometimes play the opposite
93. 4:44stay with me of what you naturally might
94. 4:48do
95. 4:49either dynamically
96. 4:52or density wise
97. 4:54language wise
98. 4:57there's so many different things that
99. 4:59you you might have a tendency to do and
100. 5:01try to do something different and the
101. 5:03reason is because sometimes we think we
102. 5:05have to do something when we don't have
103. 5:07to do it
104. 5:08let me say that again sometimes we think
105. 5:09we have to do something where we don't
106. 5:11have to do it okay so sometimes we think
107. 5:14we have to play a lot
108. 5:16to sound good or to to sound hip
109. 5:19but you don't so in those instances when
110. 5:23you feel like you want to play a lot
111. 5:26right instead going
112. 5:28[Music]
113. 5:34not saying that sign is so horrible but
114. 5:37instead of doing that maybe I'll go like
115. 5:39this
116. 5:41[Music]
117. 5:48right so I kind of started it the same
118. 5:50but then I said hold on hold on hold on
119. 5:52I don't want to go down that just kind
120. 5:54of loud dense path I want to do
121. 5:57something a little more interesting so
122. 5:59and this only happens when you're really
123. 6:01experiencing you have the confidence to
124. 6:04try something different don't try
125. 6:05something different if you're not
126. 6:06comfortable with it but when you get to
127. 6:08that point when you you find yourself
128. 6:10kind of regurgitating the same ideas and
129. 6:12playing the same way that's definitely a
130. 6:14tip that will help
131. 6:16me I mean you you me you me both of us
132. 6:20yeah
133. 6:27[Music]
134. 6:38okay so this next one right
135. 6:42it's really important sometimes we turn
136. 6:43off our ears when we're Trading
137. 6:46can't do that stay acutely aware of
138. 6:49everything that's going on in the song
139. 6:52in the form it's all right there and
140. 6:55also in the band and there within those
141. 6:59those things right those areas you might
142. 7:02get some ideas that Inspire your own
143. 7:04traits so let's say I'm playing and the
144. 7:07song you know maybe the song is based on
145. 7:10this for the best
146. 7:12maybe that's the Rhythm right or a
147. 7:14certain maybe the bridge goes
148. 7:17right so why not put that in my trade
149. 7:21[Music]
150. 7:26[Music]
151. 7:30you know and it doesn't sound it sounds
152. 7:32good it sounds good and I'm using the
153. 7:34information from the song or maybe
154. 7:36someone in the in in the Solo in one of
155. 7:40the trades right before my trade The
156. 7:43Soloist play something that I'm like oh
157. 7:45I like that they're so we're playing
158. 7:48oh
159. 7:51[Music]
160. 7:59you see and suddenly now it sounds
161. 8:01relevant to what's happening around me
162. 8:03rather than just random ideas that are
163. 8:06not connected to anything that's
164. 8:08happening
165. 8:09thank you
166. 8:13all right so this last tip or Q-tip if
167. 8:16you will
168. 8:18is
169. 8:19um to make sure or try to create a
170. 8:22Common Thread through all of your trades
171. 8:25so I'll play let's say I play Four
172. 8:28trades right now
173. 8:29um and I want you to hear
174. 8:32how I try to keep a Common Thread
175. 8:35through them all even though the the
176. 8:36material and the trade themselves are
177. 8:39different let's see if I can do that one
178. 8:41two
179. 8:43[Music]
180. 8:49[Music]
181. 8:52right okay let's see what happens
182. 8:55[Music]
183. 9:01okay
184. 9:02what happened now
185. 9:05[Music]
186. 9:10one more to go
187. 9:11okay
188. 9:14[Music]
189. 9:18right and again maybe it's not so
190. 9:21obvious to you to The Listener or you
191. 9:24right now but to me
192. 9:26everything that I played was completely
193. 9:29totally related to that first trait that
194. 9:32I did
195. 9:35I took that idea and applied it to all
196. 9:37the rest of my trades you can take more
197. 9:39obvious rhythms maybe you go
198. 9:42you know
199. 9:44and then you orchestrate that in way in
200. 9:47different ways
201. 9:49[Music]
202. 9:55right so you can use all those different
203. 9:58orchestrations in your different trades
204. 9:59and it'll sound more connected and
205. 10:03cohesive
206. 10:04so that is the lesson I hope it was
207. 10:06helpful do a lot of studying and of
208. 10:09course check out if you're looking for
209. 10:11new material to check out again I've
210. 10:13transcribed and kind of created phrases
211. 10:16off of some of my favorite drummers
212. 10:17ideas and that's going to be in volume
213. 10:21two some of you have volume one but
214. 10:22volume two of my uh it's not just Bebop
215. 10:26it's some more modern ideas modern
216. 10:28drummers uh solo vocabulary ebooks so
217. 10:31you got to check that out but until the
218. 10:33next time you know what to do practice
219. 10:34hard
220. 10:37for practice smart take care bye-bye