Spot on dude!

Robocop is more metal than this.

Amen.

The sticks are wood though.

Wait til this guy here’s Metallica..

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Drum and Bass through an iPhone 4 speaker

You should hear him play with a kit. It's the literal nucleus of this retardbot genre 'drum n bass' clicky clacky computer nonsense for moronbots. But he does it all himself without an assistantbot. Frank you should learn about real music before you check out.

He’s an artist not a salesman

@@Swing20 You got the joke, congratulations.

Whooooooooosh

@@Swing20 whooosh real hard

@@Swing20 give a break, man. it's not even that good

jokerbot!

Lmao

The band would be The Drummers

@@yansasobao or Mr. Drumset

Like before drum kits were invented

There should also be a piano player for each note sitting in a circle

well said.

tell that to your snare drum--

The best ever

Rubbish

Hahaha get out of here 😂

Tries and fails

LMAO🤣🤣

hahaha

Nah... He stole the high hat. That's how the joke goes...

Jokes on the thieves they've got a whole drum kit just to get blue-balled by no High Hat meanwhile my niggas got the best part all to himself all they did was lift his trash *ear rape intensifies*

He will use what he's got left to earn back what he has lost.

Here here! This was a masterclass.

The man deserves respect, but even the most respected musicians make music that sounds bad from time to time

Yeah respect for the skills and all but this hi hat sound bad, it kills the soul

One of the great jazz composers too

"When the pickpocket meets the holy man, all he sees are the pockets." There are many who consider themselves hot-shots because they believe they have chops, but aren't in this class of musicians by a long shot. This was brilliant play, whether or not the sound of these hats meet one's needs.

Nah... The low hat is better

I liked that part too

Nah fam, I think the part where he hit the snares is better

That part was kinda over rated in my opinion

Yeah I would agree

exactly

that's a guitar stupid

Exactly! I always have gotten a sense from him that he's extremely aware of the pitch or shall we say melodic content - whether from pitch, timbre or whatever source - of his chosen medium. His rhythms are also more melodic to me than other great drummers, if that even makes any sense to say - they seem to breathe and move more like sax lines than other drummers. I like thinking about such things while listening to him on, say, "Saxophone Collosus." It's interesting, here, to listen to him artificially limit himself, both with just the hat and with lack of a surrounding tune - and still be himself. He'll always be my favorite drummer.

There is no more hi-hat to be applied. This is all the existing hi-hat.

How about cowbell?

Needs more low-hat

Yeah and cowbell. and the rest of 'em.

xD

@Spaced Invaders Actually it made total sense and it was funny as hell 🤣

i laugh from the other side of earth, wkwkwkwk

Nice suit though

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Those fancy jazz gigs ask a lot out of a player-on-a-budget

lol

Mr Roach dont need no stinking drums....

all u goofballs criticizing him, just so u know he is was and will always be--1. a LEGEND 2. BETTER THAN ANY OF YOU

@@donsmith3857 amen brotha!

It’s all joy indeed but I think you know who the master of hi hats Nd drums was and in my eyes always will be That’s the worlds greatest drummer Buddy Rich

@@josephgiarraffa6379 meh...

@@audieconrad8995 Meh? Elaborate please.

@@BootySweat4491 Buddy Rich - not my fave that's all...

Buddy Rich was great - but not the greatest of all time (as He Himself declared). Why? Because there IS no greatest drummer of all time. Period. There are a small group of REALLY great drummers who showed the way (Sidney Catlett,Chick Webb, Buddy, Max, Mel Lewis, Ben Riley, Keith Moon, Bill Bruford, Terry Bozzio, Mike Clark, Johnathan Blake, etc etc etc).

Well I mean a good pair of Istanbul hi-hats can run you around $300-$400 and a good hi-hat stand can cost anywhere between $150-$250 so....... $499 for his setup is not a ridiculous price

Yep drummings expensive

EA followed the lead

English be like, “ don’t talk like that.”

In drumming, we call that Roland.

Who he is doesn't change what he's doing in this video

Tom Armstrong yea but the hi hat does not sound good

Steve Carter/Seth Gauby You have to have an appreciation of the technical intricacies being performed to understand it. Keeping in mind it is a YT video, Mr. Roach is demonstrating how drummers manipulate various tones within specific rudiments to create the sounds you may be familiar with once integrated into popular songs. Only, he's doing it on less than 3% of the total instrument with effortless execution using a specific rudimentary cadence.

@@stevecarter8810 Sad, but true.

There’s a ton of technical and timing mistakes in this. It’s shockingly amateurish.

lmao yes

Interesting to read. I saw him here in Rochester at the Eastman School of Music in 1990 and prior to doing this he spoke of a clinic or convention (I forget) he performed at which included several drummers such as Art Blakey ("brought his thunder"). Then he mentioned another (again I forget, but I assure you I'm not making this up) whose performance this was based on which brought down the house. Wish I could remember who - some help, anyone?

There's more out there my friend.

@chindoo Whatever. Seek help

@chindoo Whatever. Seek help.

yea but i dont think anyone here can play tempos approaching 400 bpm.........

don smith so what it still sounds like shit

don smith i can definitely can. Triplet rolls at 200 bpm means there’s strokes at 1200 bpm

As brilliant of a drummer as he is, this is pretty silly for a video

@@freddie7981 You're tone deaf. There's more technique in here than in many a prog drum solo.

His M'Boom project was pretty impressive, too.

One of the best drum solos of all the times!

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thank you. will rn

Ugh, I know. So many comments about lack of kit, so few about the fact that Max is an all-time great and jazz legend that's showing what can be done with just one part of a kit.

How’s it going?

@@lukewagner158 it's going pretty good so far, slowly but surely. it may be annoying as fuck to my neighbors but they'll live. I'm just a neighbor making a lot of noise. it could be worse. I could be one of those neighbors that'll break into your house, steal all your shit and come over the next day and act like I didn't hear anything and say "i heard you got robbed".

Did you create this? 'Cause this is awesome!

@@TheRumpaliX taken from Gang Starr "Jazz Thing” kzfaq.info/get/bejne/adGXY9CZmNLZaYU.html there's plenty reference to jazz players such as bird, coltrane and the likes

@@TheRumpaliX you're welcome, check the lyrics they're very good!

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His band with Clifford Brown was something else. To me Mr Roach was a bit "controlled" in his playing. I think his left foot was more active then the right, he,he.

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why different sizes?

@@pettipoole Maybe to get that specific washy sound. No top felt either, so I'm assuming he wanted as much cymbal, and that particular sound as possible, since it's Hi-Hat only. It could be as simple as that. Maybe someone who knew Max or sombody close might have more solid information.

seriously, here's some mismatched istanbuls, a clutch that's falling apart and NO FELTS

@@demonicsweaters And yet he still had all he needed. There's the Real lesson.

Shea Teeley I wasn’t talking about the hats. I said “stand”

Cat Hill 1) I can play way better than him 2) check my channel

@Cat Hill you're really trigger because of a comment about a stand?

Lol do you even know the drumming community these days? There are some phenomenal drummers coming out now that would shit on these old timers. Just because they did it first doesn't mean they did it best. Also most pop drummers are usually incredible funk/RnB drummers, who definitely know their rudiments

@@patrickwilliamson29 Just because they don't know how to play drums. Hahahahaha! Enjoy, man. You'll look back and laugh when you're my age.

@@patrickwilliamson29 "... shit on these old timers" exposes your ignorance. Peace

Ah yes, boomers coming to the play. I love how defensive you old timers get because lets face you are not in touch with the modern music scene. I guess because I am not in my 60s I have no idea what I'm talking about? This kind of crap really goes to show how arrogant the older generation are, especially the "you'll understand when you're older" bullshit. Neither of you got my point anyway, maybe you're senile or can't read, I don't know, but what I said was modern drummers are better and I stand by it. They learnt from the best drummers of the time and have improved. You think music should just stagnate and we should regard buddy rich or max roach as the best drummers to have lived? No, drummers like dennis chambers, steve smith, ?uestlove, tony royster jr, kenny aaronof just to name a few really popular ones are in my opinion far superior drummers that don't have one or two very old tricks, but can play a huge array of styles, grooves and wait for it...have better hand technique than the oldies. There are also literally millions of extremely competent drummers who not only play pop, but can actually play double stroke rolls. Seriously both of you need to get out more and play with younger musicians and expand your horizons and get over the fact that "you know better because you're older". Nobody cares about your age, just your skill

​@@patrickwilliamson29 The second you say "boomers" you come across as an ignorant bellend.

He’s always played (at least everything I’ve read and seen) 14” top over 15” bottom.

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Promotes hole stress cracks. Also noticed lots of these old timers didnt use felts on their crashes. Extra projection maybe ? Sure makes things ring quite a bit longer

smart thinking, you don't need that

Perfect way to destroy cymbals...

Have to agree, I quite liked the sound without any felts on the hi hat stand or on the clutch. Top cymbal might broke, becouse it no longer have free movement. The sound is awesome tho.

@@betulaobscura lmao no

@Max William Lauf As unlikely as it might seem, a hi-hat cymbal absolutely can keyhole (more like the center hole becomes slightly larger and lopsided). It's happened to me before.

Big Rock Sure is.

@Big Rock the dude abides

? This is complete trash. There's one ''uncommon'' technic and he didn't even master it.

It's just a raw lathe style with an "aging" colorant made by Istanbul cymbal company. What's so exotic about that? If he had two 22" ozone style ride cymbals as hats, then I'd get you point. But I think this is the same set of hats that Nick Menza played for a bit in the 2000s. I know menza swapped to their brilliant lathe cymbals at some point, but stayed with Istanbul for a long time. Possibly through his untimely expiration.

@@jamesmcgrath849 to the original commentors credit it does appear to be a 13 top on a 14 bottom which is unusual

@@gofigure84 He could have downsized, but back in the '60's when I copied his set-up, he used a 15" and 14". Had great "clap", but man could they chew up the sticks.

@@gofigure84 Not ludacrisly rare though. My jazz band in HS did it, so did my college. I guess I look at it like plays who primarily play with the butt of their drum sticks: you don't see it every day, but you do see it regularly.

@@gofigure84 but not unheard of by any means (Thanks to this very man in the video lol). Acting like it's breaking one of the Drum Commandments is ridiculous and just makes him sound like a looky-loo.

No, man. That don't look easy anyway at all.

Listen to the masters and practice, practice, practice.

The most difficult thing of it all it's achieve that it seems easy! When it's not!

The one thing I like about the comments is I figured drummers would be here.

@@ericparrish1515 we may b underrated and least respected, but there is no band without a drummer or rhythm.

why?

He was in his prime.

@@rthmjohn??? In his prime with what??? Technique? Musicality, or even style and look?

...agreed

@@dujanaabdul-nur7647 The respect for him by musicians who know his real skill does not nullify the fact that what he was doing was like having a class for elementary school kids showing them how a hi hat sounds.

@@genez429 He was playing some pretty intense stuff. If that kind of 'basic demonstration' was all of what you heard, then congratulations on having an elementary-school level understanding of drumming. This was a very cool video, with a fine message to it.

Most young guys listen with their eyes.

yeah sure stick dynamics can be tricky and he may have been influential, but that doesn't make it good

Bottom line though, if it sounds shit to someone who knows nothing then it doesn't belong in mainstream entertainment

@@oliver.douglas to you. I think it's amazing.

@@doublestrokeroll Yeah me too, i think its great, what i was getting at is our mate who made the comment said that these people are ignorant "they don't know who he is", " never picked up a drumstick", "clearly can't understand stick dynamics and the resulting musicality" (very pretentious statement btw), all i'm trying say is that none of that matters because its all subjective.

@@stevecarter8810 it's... not in mainstream entertainment though? It's a niche youtube clip of a TWENTY FIVE YEAR OLD PUBLIC TV PROGRAM. What are you even talking about? How about, "if you know nothing, don't speak?"

It is a technique used primarily in Jazz and Polka music. The idea is to trap air towards the center of the cymbals while allowing vibrations to pass along the edges which speeds up the frequency and varies the tonality creating a simultaneous high and low sound that can be manipulated when striking the cymbals in different places.

@@rodneytruitt9566 Now that's what I call an answer...

@@spicypineapple It could be a recommendation from his stick maker. /The lower cymbal will "eat" sticks/.