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I have played drums for about 40 years, and Quincy is one of the most natural drum teachers I've come across. Carrying the torch, my friend.

Hello young sir, You don't know how much my drumming has improved watching these light bulb moment videos, it's like Ha Ha, so that's how they do it!!, I'm in my 60's, teaching myself...well watching you teaching me by myself how to drum, gone through the back ache stage, now going through trigger finger on little finger left hand, I use tradition grip so a bit confused way I'm getting that!!, suffering for my art I suppose!!, thank you so much Quincy, you are a star, I'm beginning to get jazz type sounds out of my drums, all the best from Bristol UK.

“Do what you can, not what you can’t”. Love it!! Always great Q 🙌

This dude is legit 👌 Edit: your approach to teaching reminds me of Bernard Purdie. Very cool.

Glad you made it home! This is a years worth of practicing in 20 minutes 😄 Great info!

So practical and connected to the real life of a musician! Thank you so much Quincy! 😊

This is great man. Showing us phrases and counting. Makes a LOT of sense. Nice work.

I mostly play metal but this is such a great lesson, starting with rudiments is such a good idea for enabling yourself to play those ostinatos, and patterns like these always extend into your playing in ways you would never expect

This is what I like about practicing boss/jazz drumming. It’s like they purposefully arranged the simplest shortest phrases in the most confusing ways possible 😂

Another great lesson! You have a wonderful way showing how the fundamentals can be fleshed out and turned into music. Keep it up brotha

One of your best lessons yet! Thank you!

I’ve never heard a floor Tom that high, I like it. Makes me wanna experiment with different tunings and such and see the different sounds I can get out of my kit

Love it. Will work on this today.

This video is maybe one of your best ones yet. Loved it.

Lifelong student of music here. You are an inspiration. I also want to compliment your fantastic closed captions! Thank you!

Tough lesson ! Gonna require lots of work . Thanks

Theres enough here to keep me busy for the next 10 years..!!! Just great stuff !!!

Amazing lesson, Q! Drummers of all styles ought to subscribe to you. ✌🏼

Excellence Q, I’m practicing and failing miserably on these patterns. I am hopeful.

Thank you Quincy that material is solid in the development independence or interdependence and the internal clock. When you said syncopation, in the 5/4 ostinato my mind went to Ted Reed and using any of the nine exercises you could take a bar and extend it to the first beat of the next bar, giving you a figure/melody to place over the ostinato.

Great jazz lesson

Hard lesson, even harder to admit that these are concepts too often overlooked.

You’re a real one Quincy! Thank you for doing this.

Just found you on KZfaq for the first tiime. Great lesson. Many thanks!!

You have such a great feel, sir... Thanks for the lesson!

Greetings from the Emerald City, Q. Another great lesson, thank you

Brilliant again . Cannot express my gratitude for your kindness.

Stay in your lane! Words of wisdom! This is coming from someone who has flown off the overpass in front of many people!

Good lord, that was instane. My head hurts. Thanks for the amazing lesson QD!

Thankyou Quincy great lesson

Been playing for very long time sincec1962 I know a long time but love my Jazz and drumming it.

"Does that make sense? I think it does." 😂 great video man

Great to isolate each B pattern & to focus on each one as a practice session. Thank you Quincy, enjoy yr tea. J

Green tea? definitely the green something! 😂😂 great lesson, thankyou.

Amazing stuff Quincy! Thank you my friend..

I remember when Mr. John Riley showed these foot patterns back in 2009 in a workshop. I was blown away how simple things can become a coordination nightmare when taken to different musical directions. Awesome lesson as usual! Thanks! 🙃

Great video Quincy! Watching Bill Stewart play dotted quarters on the hi hat while soloing is so cool. Practicing it will kick your butt though!

This Remind me Joe Morello playing incredible solo with 5/4 feets. Amazing

great lesson as always😃😃

Hi Quincy, for me it absolutely makes sense, in the sense, that all these things take building, and slowly, that means don't jump too far ahead, don't speed up too soon, just take one step at a time but get it down as deep as possible. And then take it to the next thing or the next level. This is very good advice for me.

Great lesson master Davis, and great playing too. Thanks for your insights about how to practice this material. All the best!

Beautiful lesson👍

Wow! Loving the Songo pattern, looking forward to playing around with this. I've been working on an ostinato that's based on a lot of Afropop, since that's what I love. Neil Peart has a famous part of his solo that he developed towards the latter half of his life that is based on the 3/4 ostinato you use. Thanks for the great lesson as always!

I think that was "MEAN GREEN" TEA In that cup today!!!!

Thank you very much. This lesson is so packed feels like it’s a year with of practice is packed in just one lesson 😂

hey there quincy. thanks so much for these lessons. ive been playing drums for awhile and its always amazing to me how much we all learn and teach one another. you're an inspiration man,! keep on with the keepin' on.

These concepts are often overlooked and should be practiced; these are some of the best lessons I’ve seen

Brilliant/essentials.

1:03 that green tea really hitting haha

Honourable mention to the legend Alan Dawson and his Rudimental Ritual (using rudiments with foot ostinatos)

Great lesson Q ! Thanks.

Hello Quincy, absolutely love this video! Some great examples of how to start building solo vocabulary as well over some great foot patterns! I also wrote a crazy paradiddle inversion training over the “songo” foot pattern which I think you’d love!

That snare sounds fantastic! And the lesson ain't bad either!

Great lesson Quincy! Thx very much! 😊

A good example of this comes from Alex Van Halens solo on Van Halens LIve Without a Net live video. His solo is very Bonham-influenced, and he starts with a bass and snare pattern accompanied by playing 8th notes on the hi-hats with his foot. Really well done.

Hey, good stuff, from a former drum instructor. Now near age 80 and stil playing a in a couple of bands. Was able to stay with you on about 90% of that. Thanks for the exercise.

This reminds me of the “rudimental ritual “ by Alan Dawson. It’s a excellent exercise . Also my grandpa was named Quincy Davis😃. Thanks and I subscribed keep up the great videos

Amazing lesson my dude, you put me in mind of Bernard Purdie with your ability to just casually talk while playing virtually impossible patterns, your feel is great too! Instant sub from me

Mr. Davis!!!!! First and foremost, I want to say I listened to you on Aaron Diehl’s Space, Time Continuum twice in a row today. I hear so much of everything you teach within your playing. Perfectly stylistic! Your performance on that record is a clinic in jazz drumming. Great album! Now for this video, yes I’ve practiced some of these and some other ostinatos, especially when I was checking out how Terry Bozzio originally started using ostinatos. Your suggestion of playing all the rudiments with the samba feet ostinato is the premise for the great teacher Alan Dawson’s workout “Rudimental Ritual”. You can find copies of that just by googling it. Great stuff! FP

Darn good stuff. thank you very much.

Love doing this soloing on the drums

Damn! Your bass drum sound is so soft! I’m more on the heavy playing side of things, but a good lesson is a good lesson. And your is a good one. Keep it up man!

A trick that a teacher told me to learn the bossa is to learn as an inverted double (RLLRRLLR) and then remove the first left (so you have R-LRR-LR). For some reason, learn this way and then remove is easier than playing/learning straight as the bossa. Hope it helps someone.

great videos... always ready :-)

Funny teacher but very very BRAVO! Best regards from Roma!Simple and essential concepts,bravo.

Wonderful content as always. Very inspiring I will practice those patterns. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Years ago, when I saw Frank Zappa the drummer Terry Bozzio would solo over an ostinato on his double bass drums . Totally blew my mind the limb seperation required. I didn't even know the word Ostinato. Just noting lesson applies to all genre's. Can be very useful.. Thank you Q

Thanks for video man!! ❤❤

I first saw a guy named Frank Briggs talking about the importance of foot osteanatos. Then Thomas Pridgen was practicing rudiments over a super quick Samba on Drumeo. I couldn't do ANY of it, and I had been playing for a while. It's still not my forte because I'm a rock drummer. I do think it's one of the quickest ways to clean up your rudiments because it forces them to have a specific note value. My double stroke roll was terrible until I started putting over a Samba...it really helped a lot! Thnx for the video. More patterns to practice. 😊

Excellent stuff my man👍

Great foot ostinato between feet are also doubles and paradiddles, and play creative flam rudiments between hands over this...

This is an amazing lesson

Q man this all kicked my butt In a good way!

Interesting... what a different approach to drumming, man!

I am waiting for the "Q" pill that grants full 4 way independence - another great lesson - thanks!

Excellent lesson, with very useful examples! The songo ostinato reminds me of my favorite solo ostinato, which is the New Orleans mambo (like songo, but with an additional BD on the downbeat).

Always enjoy your lessons. Listening on IPhone the bass drum was difficult to hear. The & of 2 then 4 is a Latin pattern the works in many situations.

Nice video, great walk through and demo!!

Great lesson, gonna practice right now, oh wait my downstairs neighbor is sleeping! Haha

I think I once saw Mike Mangini do a solo with a dotted quarter note ostinato once. Changed my life.

Great lesson today Q. Love those dotted 1 /4s. These patterns do kick my butt! Here is my recipe for energy boosting and cold and flu prevention: Any tea with fresh ginger, turmeric,clove,paprika, cardamom,organic soy milk (opt.)

Thank you!

How good is this guy 🫡🫡

That last one was tricky. Erroll Garner used to use those dotted quarter notes in his left hand while soloing. ❤

bravo!!! thank"s

👍🏾you are definitely on point!with those exercises!! Challenge!!!those are challenging exercises!! I like it!! I have been claiming pro caliber for years and I am good but I have to thank you for bringing this to light for me!you are like a advance version of Mr.Purdie!😂

Hi Quincy, haven’t sent you a message in a while, how have you been ? I actually no problem doing this exercise you’re demonstrating at all. I’m not trying to sound arrogant or anything like, I just don’t have any difficulty playing in this manner. I’m glad that you brought it up though because it’s overlooked by many drummers that I’ve watched and listened to. It’ll kind of old school but very effective in my opinion. Glad that you demonstrated this. Take care , Chuck.

Q go over your list of best useful rudiments again please.

thanks so much!

"its gonna kick your butt... but in a good way." made me laugh. good job. solid exercises.

Right on, love it!

Thanks master

Great lesson as always Quincy! green tea is working! 🤣🤣

This cat knows where its at. Classical music convert trying to get my chops together, great message. Could you say a piece about "playing off" the half note in 3 or dotted quarter in 5? I hear it when you played basic rudiments but i dont get how to start it...

Very nice.. and SO Important to learn this stuff thanks, QD

Great Video. Subbed.

super, dzięki!

Hi Quincy! Great video, as always. Can you please make a top of your favorite jazz/traditional jazz cymbals? That will be so nice)

you have to be extremely cool to pull off having a name like quincy and 10x harder if you wear a headset mic but hes done it by god