Excellent! Starting at 4:00, you draw the audience in and make them pay attention to the music. It's like, "Come here, I want to tell a secret." Perfect control and sound. Thank you.

What a fine lesson in expressive grace. Allowing the snare to just whisper opens door to more creative expression without drawing attention or stepping on other’s lines. This video is the foundation of comping at its best.

The best drum instructor I had was a professional jazz drummer in the 60's who could blow away most drummers with his brushes on solos. My first lesson was with marching band sticks about the size of baseball bats. He told me to do a double-stroke roll on his 4" x 14" Gretsch piccolo snare drum with the mufflers off. I sounded like someone throwing marbles into a metal trash can. He took the sticks from me and made the same rudiment sound like someone tearing a Kleenex in half. That got my attention. This began a very long relationship. I was his only student because he said he didn't teach. I was his first and only exception simply because of my passion and the fact that I had improved every time I came back for my next lesson. Because of him, I transitioned from a lousy teenage rock banger to jazz musician. It took a lot of time, practice and patience. He was like Mr. Miyagi in the movie, "Karate Kid", and he was very strict - nice, but strict. I was hired for my first jazz gig at a very large and famous destination resort as a fill-in for the original drummer who had a car wreck. I was scared to death. Within the first 5 minutes of my audition, the leader of the group (violin, piano, acoustic bass and drummer) said I was QUIET and kept good TIME. In other words, the POWER OF TOUCH. I'm 75 now and I'm still practicing this very thing. Ulysses is an old soul in a young body. So wise and so gentle. Thank you, Ulysses!

I went from playing in metal bands to jazz and singer/songwriter stuff and nothing has been better for my sound than to realize the potential for expression in dynamics in volume!

I had a really interesting experience one day when I posted to Facebook a "drum off" featuring Colaiuta, Weckl and Gadd. A music loving non-performer friend of mine asked, "What is so incredibly different about the guy on the far right?" Of course it was Gadd. That's when I really had to think about how to explain that originality of the highest order can come as much from touch as technique. She totally got that all three drummers were obviously monsters, but even without the vocabulary for it she picked up on something really profound. That's why I was so happy to have your video pop up today. Thanks for your great presentation.

Best lesson I've seen on line in quite a while. Thank you.

Thankyou , very interesting lesson 😊

We’re loving the sound of that signature Noble & Cooley snare of yours. “U” deserve nothing but the best. 🤙🏽

Beautiful lesson about mindful drumming, so important.

This was the nicest video I’ve found in about 2 years. I spend a lot of time on this : “touch” and “intent”. And by a lot I mean hundreds of hours in a year. It takes a long time to do well, but hopefully in my case it means I can sound good in more rooms and with more bands over time. Thank you!

Ulysses is the man

THE most important topic!! Thank you! Well done!

What awesome communication/education about a subject that is very easy to misunderstand. Thanks!

Beautiful.

Thank you. Fantastic lesson.

So we’ll done! The word touch can be replaced with taste or class!🥁💜

GRANDISSIMO 🎉

YO!!!!!!!!! This video is 🔥 really enjoyed listening to what was discussed & how he applied it there at the end. Earned my respect! Touch & intention: GOT IT! Time to go back to the practice pad. Again.

Thanks for the video

Touch: Jarle in Tord Gustavsen's trio, Jon in Eberhard Weber's Yellowfields, Joey Baron, Brian Blade, Paul Motian, Jack Dejohnette... Thanks for bringing up this topic!

"I use PROMARK sticks." *continues the entire video holding his REGAL TIP drum stick*

Bello/Magnifico.😱✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️

Wow this is great lesson. Thanks

It also helps when you have really great gear too. It makes a big difference. I remember playing at different churches where they had a very low budget drum kit and I would tune it, muffle and moon gel it and the drums would sound a little better but never to the degree of what a quality drum kit can deliver. That snare drum in this video sounded great in high and low volume, but like I said, it's a challenge to get a great sound from a low budget drum kit. My opinion from experience !!

Regal Tip are the best sticks in the world. Period.

Great lesson, I hope you elaborate or do more like this.

Wonderful lesson! I feel like I’d be bashing my hands on the crash/ride placed over the high tom so far.

Listen to Antonio Sanchez from pat metheny!!!

Hello Memphis drum shop! I love every single videos of your youtube channel. But would be best, if you can create set list of each type videos you having here. Appreciate all your work! ❤

Light touch is where control happens

That ride got more square footage than my house

Great lesson! Touch is rally all about how you PLAY drums and cymbals rather than how you HIT them. Further, so many drummers today play WAY too loudly these days, in my opinion.

Or put simply , sometimes you can play hard sometimes you can play soft. Job done.

I like holding my sticks way back like that too. They become like paint brushes.

I partially agree with the funk groove played at a lower volume, there are certain situations where that could apply. But I don't think its gonna cut through in a funk band. I think you had more intent when you played it louder.

I'm sorry but this makes no sense. Why hitting the snare and pulling the stick back to the top affects the sound? A strike is a strike, provided that you don't dig in the stick into the head then physics tell us that it's exactly the same. He says that and then demonstrates something different. I mean he's a great drummer but this is just wrong