SIGN UP FOR AN ONLINE GROUP LESSON WITH ME HERE: www.quincydavisjazz.com/projects-6 Lesson Time Stamps 00:00 - Intro and Lesson Description 00:34 - Playing Interlude 00:59 - #1 Way to Improve Your Jazz Drumming 02:43 - #2 Way to Improve Your Jazz Drumming 04:40 - #3 Way to Improve Your Jazz Drumming 06:59 - #4 Way to Improve Your Jazz Drumming 09:32 - #5 Way to Improve Your Jazz Drumming 11:53 - #6 Way to Improve Your Jazz Drumming 14:10 - #7 Way to Improve Your Jazz Drumming 16:31 - #8 Way to Improve Your Jazz Drumming 17:57 - #9 Way to Improve Your Jazz Drumming 20:00 - #10 Way to Improve Your Jazz Drumming 22:20 - Closing Remarks

I’m in jazz band at school and I feel like I’m not playing well enough but this really helped me to outline specific things I can do and strive for rather than people just telling me to listen and practice. Thank you!

I'm not a drummer, I'm a pianist, and I regularly watch your videos. Helps me understand the role of the drummer and internalize the swing.

Tips worth their weight in gold. Magnificent video, I really appreciate that way of expressing sensations and postures when playing drums. Quincy, I won't get tired of repeating it, I love these videos, I enjoy them... A very cordial greeting.

Quincy, I forgot to tell you that you’ve helped me so much with all of your lessons, you’re a master drummer and I have great respect for your playing and ability. Chuck C

Wow! Really a gold mine of a video. Great teaching and great tips. Wish I'd seen it sooner!

I really enjoyed this vid and took some great notes, thanks for your awesome instruction!

GREAT love your vids and easy to understand explanations ! ! !

great video, you really helped me!

Amazing video! You're amazing! We're so lucky to learn so much and precious stuff from you, and for free. Keep it up!❤

Love your channel, Quincy. You're such an inspiration and and I'm learning so much from your vids. Thanks for doing this. ❤ from Sweden.

Incredible video. Thank you very much!

This is absolutely fantastic! Thanks so much. Brilliant playing.

What a great video. I'm hooked. Thank you for this :)

Great stuff, been doing all of these ever since I've started learning just cause it made sense, mimicking what I listen from my references!

Man. That is the best sounding ride cymbal that has ever been made into a ride cymbal by people who make ride cymbals!

Great content..! Thanks for the reminder 👍🏽

Thank you for this, and all your other videos. They're so helpful. Really appreciate you

Q great advice once again. Thank you for putting so much into all of your lessons.

Great video, Quincy, I'm looking forward to the lesson this weekend! Thoroughly enjoyed the first one!

Thanks for sharing!

Great and strait to the swing ! Thank you Dr Q Davis !!

Great Q-Tips Quincy! Thanks!

Excellent advice, Q! Keep the insightful lessons coming.

Great!!! Thank you man🙌🏼🥁

Great video man, love your drumming.

This video is solid gold. The fact that it’s delivered while your playing is impressive. To me this is the kind of knowledge that is the most helpful for learning. It’s simple and practical, not too theoretical…can be implemented instantly. The fact that you demo it as you’re talking is extra impressive.

Thanks, your a Awesome Teacher ! Great advice for every drummer , beginner or advanced.

What a great lesson thankyou for all you do

A+ and thank you very much for your valuable -- and musical -- insights.

Terrific video, Quincy! Super helpful and clear! Thank you.

This was so extremely helpful, thank you!

Thank tou Quincy! I'm new to jazz drumming. Just started this year. And this is very informative. Love your videos. All the best from Holland!

Great points and presentation brother. Worth it's weight in platinum! How great it is to be a member of our guild !! Rather be a drummer than anything else ,even in music ! So much fun !

Wow, I needed all 23+ minutes of this lesson. Thanks Quincy! Insightful and fully spot on 'how-to's'! Look forward to applying them all. Cheers! IP

GREAT tutorial ! One of the best. Thanks !

Thank you for your videos, I am using ideas from them every day and find them really inspiring[2-5-6-7 for me in this one].I was playing along while you were playing today and it might be cool to have a 3-4 minute video of you just playing for us to play along with you at some different tempos sometimes.

Love your videos man. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Quincy I'm guilty of least 3 of these... Always great to see you put this style of music/playing into perspective ❤️🥁

Super-well articulated. Your lesson lives up to the title. Supreme teaching. Thank you

Thank you very much sir❤

Thanks for the lessons from the heart

This was a great lesson. I'm guilty of all of them. Definitely helpful

Swinging good lesson. Thanks for another great lesson Quincy 🥁👍🏾👍🏾

Wow,this was good! Thx

This is fantastic

Great advice thank you 😁🥁✌🏾

Cool video mate

thnx a lot master,ur tips are realy learning,generaly about drums and music ,not only jazz playing!

nice job ,great playing and your drums sound great

Thank you for these direct and concrete tips! I keep getting told to just listen to more jazz and not overplay but that's very vague advice. These direct tips are very helpful.

Enlightening, as always.

Having been playing for over 30 years i went through most of those issue (not that i don't fall into a few of them from time to time), but it's great to see them summarised in one excellent video. Plus i love the Purdie vibe 😁 Great work brother, you got a new subscriber. Peace!

Thanks!

I love watching these videos as a horn player just to learn more about what drummers are doing. Thank you for the amazing content!!

It's a great video. So clean so useful ideas... I should watch it everyday. Maybe listen to this while driving. It's like a biblio

Thank you for this very good lesson🔥

Thanks for another wonderful lesson! Not swinging the 8ths was a real eye/ear opener.

im beginner into jazz drum and this helps me a lot thx u!!

Great lesson! I'll put my hand up for at least three of these. Gonna take this to the shed and the bandstand. Thank you Quincy!

So helpful!!!

Excellent Q as always 🙏

Awesome series!

Amaaaazing!

Thanks for the good ways to improve

Thanks a great lesson

Just started trying to play jazz so this has been really helpful your awesome man

Guilty of all 10! Thank you so much for giving us these FIXES! I've seen enough TIPS on jazz drumming out there

Quincy, this is great stuff, thank you. I play mostly rock and blues but, I hope, a lot of what I play is influenced by a jazz feel. And I’ll practice just playing jazz to tunes like Take Five and the like…they feel just awesome. Anyway, thank you for your lessons. Please keep it up.

really enjoyed this! thumbs up and rang the bell!

Dope !!

great lesson!

Tks man

Can’t thank you enough for the great advice. Been a percussionist and jazz has been a weak spot until you helped me.

Amen to every one of these!❤

Well that's hands down the best intro to jazz drumming I've ever seen. Cheers Quincy.

I'm thrilled I found your channel! I've been playing the drums for over 25 years and have a music degree. I've mainly been a rock drummer but I love jazz. I worked with Syncopation, the art of Bop Drumming and some other "jazz" books with a few different teachers and, extensively on my own. I learned more about jazz comping from this video than I have with all those teachers combined. Where were you 20 years ago? Haha! Thank you for laying it out so simply. Great channel and great playing!

Great lesson!

Very good lesson being mindful is what I need to work on adding space all this is old stuff I forgot Thanks

One of the most helpful drum channels on KZfaq.

Thank you!!

What a great lesson on Jazz 101 I’ve made some of the mistakes demonstrated here and now know how to correct them enough to sound half way legit. I just celebrated 50 years of drumming. Their would be no Rock without the Roll.

Some serious groove going on… Thanks, Q!

I'm a beginner rock drummer and not into jazz, but I loved this video, thanks for sharing.

Great video, Quincy! Great to meet you at JEN! Have a great semester

In all my years on the road and with my students, your tenth point is the one I had to address the most.Playing with intent, purpose, and soul can overcome a lot of deficiencies in anyone's playing.I always loved hearing the Detroit guys talk about playing with fire when I lived there.Also, you might have a point of contention talking with some New Orleans cats about not moving too much when you play.{Just kidding,or maybe not]Always the best lessons,Quincy,thanks.

Gracie for this!

Lots of great points - thank you for mentioning posture - slouching, or sitting too stiff and restricted - only one of my teachers over the years ever talked about that- The great Gary Chester. It was a central part of his teaching concept! It helped me a LOT over the years. Peace & best-GREG BURROWS

Tnx man👉

Thankyou Quincy! Brilliant tutorial All the rubbish I do encapsulated in one lesson 🥁🙏

I’mma have to watch this atleast once a year. like maintenance checklist 😂 Thanks for the great tips, all of them 👌🏾

Heeeey Quincy! Absolutely love the video and the hints you give! Would it be possible for you to do a video on playing fours and improvising complete musical figures in four bars like Max, young Tony or Philly… It‘d be really helpful for me personally! Thanks as always for the videos :))

Wow! That's an amazing synthesis of a lot of stuff I learnt from you! I have to say that I'm a lot better drummer thanks to all your tips. Recently I noticed that my 2 and 4 hi hat beats were'nt really with my ride cymbal (they were a little behind) so I fixed that with awareness (like Dan Weiss says...). Fun fact: In French, Spanish and Catalan (my main languages) Strong and Loud are the same word 😂. THANK YOU, as always!

Although I've been playing for 60 years I enjoyed your video and it was a great reminder of things to avoid. I've made all those errors in the past (I played '4 on the floor' on 'A Night in Tunisia' with a student big band that went out on the BBC in 1965!! lol. Thank you. I will check other videos.

Certainly guilty of some of these misdemeanours! Not any more, hopefully… Straight from the heart to the heart - thank you…yet again!😎

New subscriber. Loving the content, very informative stuff. Whats are the best size sticks for jazz drumming? Thanks

Quincy Man great video. I had a chuckle because you remind me of Bernard Purdie a couple times.

Oh man, you're gold

Love your advice Quincy! Also your laid back style of teaching. I'm more of a rock drummer. I'd love to play jazz, but I have hardly ever had an opportunity to play in a jazz band. I did play once with a stand up bass in a clinic, and I discovered I had no idea how to use the bass drum in that situation. I've learned to play the bass drum really loud, because that's what you do in rock music. My bad!

Hi Quincy....Great lessons! Great playing and examples!....I have dabbled with a little jazz...I would sometimes attend jazz jams...one thing (which I really thought you were gonna mention) was one of the first things the house band drummers or rhythm section players would tell me is not only keeping time with the ride....(while feathering the kick)....is making the high hat beats heard....even though you did mention keeping the 2&4 on the hat...what I remember is being told the h-hat..needs to be more prominent....so the other players could hear it clearly...would be Great to hear your feeling on that....t.y. Sir!!