0:20 - Poppa Jo 0:39 - Philly Joe (conventional) 2:18 - The Smooth One 3:32 - Palm Up 4:54 - The Trill 5:54 - Tense (fast) 6:40 - Tippin' 7:39 - The Cup (ballads, light bounce) 8:31 - Half and Half (ballads, medium tempo) 9:24 - Eyes (most tempos) 10:08 - Shuffling It 10:48 - Sweeping It 12:06 - Fancy Fancy

Aside from my grandfather, Mel Brown gave me my first drum lessons (1980, I think). I am a professional and employed musician. Thank you Mel. and thank you for exposing me to Philly Joe's Brush Artistry book !

This is by far the hippest brushes tutorial on the web! Great info..thank you for sharing..!

This is brilliant staff, the forgotten art of brush drumming...everyone drummer today is crazy about bashing the drums with the sticks. Thanks

Best lesson on KZfaq

This is a living tradition !

Great video. I downloaded a copy of this criminally rare book, and while it's great in itself, this video plugs the gaps. The patterns need to be both seen and heard to make complete sense, so I'm glad Mr Brown took the trouble to present Philly Joe's book on video.

Thanks for this - I’ve been having trouble making sense of Philly’s great book - some of the patterns make sense but others are a bit mysterious and unclear-nature of the beast. Mel really clarifies this great old brush moves, which were usually taught via oral tradition, by being passed along from one working jazz drummer to another (or a youngster) in night clubs and roadhouses and drum schools.

Thanks to all for the brush video I've waited a LONG time for.

Been watching many brush strokes videos , Mr. Brown's video is the absolute Best! As we say in Spanish, " El Mero Mero!"

This has got to be one of the very best lessons that I've ever had! Thanks and Blessings!!!

Thank you for posting this! Mel is such a fantastic teacher and drummer!

Fantastic demonstration! Thanks so much for sharing this valuable historical information!

Very comprehensive lesson and seemingly a great humble man too!! Nice job Mel

Fantastic lesson that make it clearer to understand the movements and the sound. So happy for this. Thanks Mel.

This is such an incredible resource thank you for sharing this

Thank you Mr Brown

Thanks Mr. Mel Brown! Great teaching and demo, very well done and explained.

Thank you so much for posting this, everything becomes clear! Invaluable help! All the best!

Note how Mr. Brown keeps time by rocking heel/toe on the left foot! Fantastic.

Excellent- thank you sir

So glad to have gotten the chance to meet this legend. Also, where is he getting these grooves from cause I’m curious.

How great is this. Thank you

Excellent! Thanks for posting the video and thank you Mel!

Excellent!

What I’m looking for!

LOVE THIS!!!

Thanks for the great lesson!

I like it .Very well done . He reminds me of Gordon Parks

THANK YOU!!!

I miss taking lessons with Mel.

Gorgeous.

beautiful lesson thank you!!!!

Yes.

...found a scanned PDF of the (out of print) book here- www.toddreid.com/uploads/BrushArtistry_small.pdf

• Mr. Brown. Very nice demonstration videos! Perhaps you could post a video demonstrating brush embellishments; specifically, how to properly execute the sixteenth note/4 stroke ruff that many jazz drummers utilize on the ‘and’ of the 4th beat of the measure. How to artfully go in to it and how to come out of it so as to go back into the sweep/tap seemlessly. I've searched youtube up and down for years looking for someone to demonstrate this to no avail. You could be the first! Thank You.

Sweet!

so dope. awesome presentation.

Nice. Thanks

Scans of the Philly Joe's Brush Artistry book - www.dropbox.com/sh/ja7mzglbvyxm9b0/L_JMBBBdU3/Brush%20Artistry

Interesting...Thankssss

Great 😷🥁👍🏼

Cool

Thanks a lot!

When playing the conventional -stroke it seems like the left hand play the 1 and 3, and right hand play on the 2 and 2 a, and 4 a ? I can see only 4 beats in his right hand in the bar. Comments?

GREAT

your description of the video says 'Philly Joe Johnson' when it should say 'Philly Joe Jones'

Jones Tim Ford, my favorite drummer B

GEM

What Remo head are you using? Nice 'swish' sound. I use a Remo Skyntone, but sounds smooth

Beautiful! Is this book still in print? If so, where can I purchase it?

good

Philly Joe Johnson?!!!!?

Do anyone here do the thrill with matched grip ? I try...

This guy hasn't seen a clock.

Philly Joe JONES, Philly Joe JONES. It’s disrespectful to misspell that great man’s name (I met him, he commanded respect) or really, anybody’s name. Please, please fix it now. Just click the three dots, go to Edit, change “Johnson” to “Jones”, right on your phone, now-It’s important. Thank you.