You're up there too my dude! You're friggin awesome!

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Stoked to see you're a Jojo Mayer fan. Love you even more you freak!

One step forward how?

I’m assuming he’s talking about Mayer’s usage of triggers, midi, and electronics in his drumming. He’s triggering chord changes and sounds with the BopPad in front of his snare, and what seems to be a trigger on his kick drum. Every sound you hear is being played or triggered live, he’s not playing to a track.

​​@@NICKHAM16I agree it is progressive in a since but Akira Jimbo was triggering chords, chord changes, playing melodies all live in the 1990's he just needed more sophisticated hardware to store sound patches. 🤷🏿 I lived in Japan for many years and got to see Akira play a few times by himself but putting on a whole melodic and harmonic concert. The difference is Jojo is playing how he plays and expressing himself

Yes, it is quite cutting edge. ​ But not because of him triggering chord changes and sounds (that's been done before since the 80')...this is not what's happening here from what I understand. He's improvising live with a generative AI algo. That AI engine is fed in real time with his drumming from which it generates a set of sounds, chords, etc. to which Jojo is reacting by adapting his playing, further feeding the AI engine with new data, further pushing the improvisation in another (or same) direction.

@@MichaelWashingtonAE I think how he set his cymbals so high is a clear nod to his predecessor Akira Jimbo.

I would say most unique

@forrestrice

Change is alright, keeps things fresh. But yes, this does not work for me.

People always comment negatively about this and don’t consider how much more ergonomic it is for playing, especially when the cymbals are titled like this. Listen Mangini or Terrana talk about it.

what a load of BS. you named some of the most showy drummers for that argument? besides, what they mean is that its the most ergonomic way to play cymbals that are high up. not cymbals per se. this here is mainly show and any person that ever tried drums for a bit will understand why. @@RockyTop85

@@RockyTop85 actually I think it’s a good thing! It also helps in recording sessions, no cymbal bleed in toms’ mics and more presence in the overheads 😬

Is that what’s he’s using?

@@JustanEdrummer I really don't know, but Jojo is an Evans artist

Have you never seen a drummer before? First day on the internet?🤦‍♂️🤡

I know right. What did that gong ever do to him!

It has been done before many times

@@spanqueluv9erlol guys, take a chill pill, easy with the over reactive, nerd rage, arrogant and rude comebacks… he obviously meant that last back punch of sorts on the gong (which you likely didn’t even wait to watch before commenting), which really isn’t very common lol, he clearly didnt mean that first back stroke with the mallet

@@monetarnie3841 he obviously meant that last back punch of sorts on the gong, which really isn’t very common lol, he clearly didnt mean that first back stroke with the mallet

Same with Nate Smith and Simon Phillips. Always pushing themselves, playing on the edge, sometimes stepping over, recovering beautifully. Real human music. ❤