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Listening to great music, bands and musicians is essential
when studying to play Jazz. So here is a compilation of music
which inspired me the most and which profoundly shaped my
style of playing:
The New Orleans drumming style is very special and important for a
jazzband. So it is crucial for a drummer to understand and to study
that style profoundly in order to be able to adopt and play properly in that genre.
To study this, I put together a Spotify playlist with tracks by the most
important New Orleans drummers of the last 100 years:
THE BIG "4" - This is one of the most important elements in New Orleans drumming: The accent on the "4", and NOT on the "1".
In this video Wynton Marsalis explains the New Orleans drumming style
to an audience of school kids. This is a great lesson for all jazz drummers.
Shannon Powell, the "King of Treme" is one of the outstanding drummers in New Orleans today.
To watch him play is the best drum lesson one can get.
Here are two video to do just that:
