Chords for Drum Lesson: Play Like Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones)

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All right, hello everybody, this is Stuart Jean here coming back at you once again for drum magazine
I'm here on the third floor of the main building on the campus in Hollywood, California of Musicians Institute
[N] _ So we're looking at for the month of December rootsy
essential grooves that
_ You know staple grooves that a lot of young players can look past
_ Maybe they don't require a ton of technique or they seem like they don't require a ton of technique and
You know, we look past these things
So in this video, we're gonna look at what I like to call the Charlie Watts Rolling Stones beat
_ _ Where we're playing the hi-hat
eighth note rock, but when the snare drum hits
_ _ We're lifting the hi-hat
_ Away, we're not playing the hi-hat _ _ _ _ _
And that's that kind of thing
_ _ Lot of history to this this concept of playing this approach
_ There's some videos out there.
You could see Jim Keltner hanging with leave on helm and _ Charlie and
Jim is saying he saw leave on playing
Playing that way and he decided to adopt it
_ I've always known of Charlie doing it.
I always kind of thought he was the one who started it
_ Just sort of assuming that if in early videos of the stones in the 60s, you don't see Charlie doing it
And then now the band got louder and I'm just sort of assuming
You guys can tell me out there if you know any better
But I think Charlie just had to get this stick out of the way like how can I hit this drum harder?
And he just decided to move the stick out of the way and it became a style maybe he saw leave on doing it
but but the way I like to look at it is you look at slightly more modern guys like Kenny Aronoff Steve Jordan and
They're doing it when it's that feel so it's a feel it's a it's a style and it's not as easy as it looks
it makes you think and you got to be accurate [A] and
Basically, the groove is this right? _ _ _ _ _
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different bass drum patterns work
_ But I would start there and you know if someone wants like a stones kind of groove
you definitely want to
To play this, you know if you're playing happy off of exile or maybe traveling Wilbury song or Tom Petty songs
When Jim Keltner was tracking that stuff _ _
He definitely cops that feel you know, and it definitely creates a vibe if I go into that
_ Into this thing on it on a gig and it's that kind of song
People notice, you know, they notice that that's that's the right feel so
Again, not rocket science, but you want to be aware of it
and if you know, you're a younger cat and you're on a gig and you guys are jamming on some stones or [N] some straight-eighth rock and
You know you you kick into that
Maybe that older statesman bass player looks down at you as a young guy and thinks that looks down at you
but looks at you and is impressed because you
Understand the depth of this music and you're not taking it for granted
So again, it's really
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[D] right, so check that groove out.
I'm gonna play it along to a track and enjoy.
Thank you _ _ _ _ _
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