John Riley is the Bob Ross of jazz drumming.

i could listen to john riley talk about drums all day.

that was by far the best lesson on feathering the bass drum I've ever watched! with all the backstory from it's begginings

1:25 actually sounds awesome

I love John Riley my teacher is actually friends with him so I've watched him play live 4 times

John is such an articulate teacher. 👏👏👏

You can tell when people take an art form to philosophical level - that's Mr. John Riley on drums

this is amazing, i just bought his Art of bop drumming and was reading his comment about feathering yesterday!

I knew it! I knew jazz drummers weren't just playing ride, hat, and and snare! I told my gf and she didn't believe me!

Boy, am I glad I found this channel!

This is the best explanation and demonstration of this I've ever seen.

Thank you, I could listen to your talks all night‼✌🌻

Excellent insight. John Riley is the best!

Great explanation from a great drummer and teacher, thanks for sharing, greetings from Peru!

Wow! What an amazing video, thank you!!

Terrific teacher and musician🙏🏻

Thank you the lesson 🥁🥁🙏🇮🇩

Superb lesson of feathering the bass drum. I listened to Dolores by Miles Davis, it was so hard to hear the bass drum, only after a few minutes I could distinguish a very weak pulse in the low frequencies. It really is super quiet, and definitely a blend, don’t cut, type of sound.

I listened to Dolores from the Miles Smiles album. And yes, if you only listen to the right channel, you will hear that Tony Williams is featering almost all the time. Great advise.

Great Video! Cheers from Brazil.

This was great!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!! 🥁👍

Always eloquent, Master Riley. Thanks for sharing AOD

Awesome😮

He's playing my kit! Same colour, even. :)

This is great! Subscribed. +1

As a metal drummer this is so alien to me

Jeez, Mr Riley, your lesson is REALLY great. THANK YOU!!! Ashamed to ask: what kind/brand of Ride-Cymbal are you playing.

Nice Ride Cymbal, can you tell me what it is?

Did we hear all mics or just the overhead at 04:10?

I’ve always had this question: what about fast tempos? Are you keeping the feather on?

Right, not to question John at all, that would be highly inappropriate. But isn't that the matter of preference and style? I see drummers like Joe LaBarbera and Willie Jones III feathering all the time. I don't see Dave Weckl in his jazz playing (all the more that he only plays heel up, can anyone feather heel up?) or Jack DeJohnette feathering at all. Neither Bill Stewart. Am I wrong with these guys? Did Elvin Jones feather at any time? What I like listening to is the bass drum as an equal participant in the conversation with the other voices within the drum kit and with the other instruments. Always ready to play on the beat, off the beat, anywhere, on the two trip-let notes, etc. I gather you can lock the bass drum on the quarter note and then unlock it when you want. For me locking the bass drum on the quarter notes then unlocking it to play something very syncopated, and then locking it again is a bit strange. I rather want to develop the ability to use the bass drum melodically, just like the snare drum, to play full phrases, bass drum - snare drum combinations, use the bass for counter point, etc. Very active rather than static bass drum use. But just seeing what Willie Jones III does is well, amazing.

Did Elvin do this?

How to spell the song that Miles and Tony played？

What is the series of drum, please?

Drum Lesson With John Riley Best advice of John: " Dont play anything" yeah that is it!

I am confused. You are not using flat foot technique on this video. But ıts written in the book that you use flat foot tech

Great video @ArtOfDrumming , your website amazing! I learnt lot of things! From SL ;)

Can’t heard bass drum at all ..?

Sounds simple. Not easy.

Bassplayer: Yeeees amazing . Drummer, What is this ??? Boring!!!!. My advive to the boring drummer - ( by the way ou sucks) Play only the cymbal and go to sleep and let the bassplayer do his fantastic job!

Uhh I think you should thump loud enough for the rhythm section can hear it but the not the audience! Hide it isn,t enough blend to the bass. Equal partner in the thump. I think the term listen can be misunderstood by drummers! The drummer should never ever adjust the groove to where other people want it!!! Drive the bus! The lead counts it off . Grab that then your job is to hold down the fort!!! Conservative players don,t like that sometimes but players will look at you and give you the yeah man nod!