[Music] What's up folks? Geran Garnett here. We are in here building blocks to the chops.

Listen, today I want to talk about some grooving, right? I know I'm building blocks to chops guy, but I don't know. One of the guys hit me up in the in the YouTube.

He said, "Hey man, talk about some groove. " I said, "You know what? Let me figure out a way to talk about some groove.

" So, I'm going to figure out a good way. I'm going to do it in my way, but we going to talk about some groove. And um I I I I believe it'll get it'll be a blessing unto you.

Right. But before that, I want to give you one chop. Here we go.

Got to do a chop before I give you a groove cuz that's what I do. Here we go. It's a fivestroke situation, right?

[Music] Y'all got [Music] that? One, two, three, four, five. Right.

[Music] So when you're grooving, it's all about how you feel, right? That's why they call it the feel. It's the feel, right?

It's how you feel internally. Drmmers who are nervous, anxious, they have stiff personalities, usually they play really stiff because the feel is internal, comes from the inside. And the problem, Huh?

Oh, I'm preaching now. The problem that we have with drummers today is that they don't listen to drummers that groove, right? So, they don't have a starting base of what a good groove should feel like, right?

because it's all surrounded by it's it's all surrounded by by programming. So if you take the programming out of the groove, then what does the groove really feel like? Now there are some drummers out there who can, you know, play the trap stuff and the and the hip-hop stuff and make it feel really really good without the programming.

But once you get outside of that, it's like where where is my reference? Who who am I listening to to really figure out how to dig into this groove? Right?

So, the number one thing to grooving is you got to listen to some records, man. You got to listen to somebody that's grooving. You can't just look at me playing on YouTube.

You got to look at some records, man. I mean, you got to listen to some records. Get in the car.

All right, that's enough talking. Here we go. Your ghost notes got to be real subtle, real flavorful, real clean.

You going to groove, you got to have your ghost on point. [Music] Nugget number two, groove is all about consistency. Don't move.

Once you get it, lock it in and leave me alone. [Music] subtle interjections. Subtle something like if I'm playing bass with you and I hear that high hat do something out of nowhere that just makes me peek out.

That's a good thing. That's a good thing. If it just makes me get a little smirk on my little little lip right there like, "Oh, okay.

" Right. But but because I'm still here, right? I still want to dig [Music] in.

Don't do too many subtles in one All right. Keep keep the subtles every, you know, eight bars or so. Don't keep subtling me, especially if you got a bunch of splashes.

Cuz now we tinging and splashing and and and you know, clap stacking all over the place. And now we ain't even grooving. We just we just we a groove full of subtles, right?

You got to have a groove [Music] first. You got to move. You got to move your shoulders.

You got to back and forth. If you got You can't be [Music] here. You sound like how you look.

You sound like how you look. Relax. Loosen up.

Loosen up. [Music] Right. Who are my guys?

Some days, you know, I'm thinking Joel Smith. [Music] You got to get a few drummers in your mind that when you're in a particular groove, you immediately say to yourself, "Oo, I get to be my childhood hero. " Yeah, Mike Nubble.

[Music] That's a little Mike Nubble and Jamie Gamble mixed in. But I'm saying at any point in time, depending on what I'm playing, a guy will pop into my head. DLO, what up?

Derek [Music] Walker. If I'm just thinking I just want to be saucy and groovy, who are your favorite drummers? Who are you digging into?

Right. Are you Are you Steve [Music] [Music] Gad? Right.

If you're playing a song right there, like boom, I'm going into steep. Groove is about reference. It's who you know.

It's about your library, right? I'm pulling uh from my from my Gerald Hayward um Chris Daddy Dave library. [Music] You got to listen to records or you got to follow these guys to know that's that's Chris Dave.

That's Gerald. That's that's that's that's their thing. But some days I feel that too, [Music] right?

And I want to do it, but I know I can do it because I got the reference. Right? Your grooving depends on how many records you can pull from, right?

Cuz if you're playing with a seasoned musician, they'll know where it came from. They'll look back at you and say, "Oh, okay. That's that such and such record.

" "Oh, I see what you're doing, Young Buck. " You know, I was I was always the Young Buck on B. Oh, I see where that's coming from.

Oh, oh, [Music] okay. Okay. Okay.

You got the Rosanna, right? And if you and if you uh if you're in the church circles, you [Music] know, you're going to the Calvin mode, right? Listen, your groove, it's all about your comfort.

It's all about the libraries you can pull from. Can you sit down long enough on a band stand and play a groove for for three to five minutes without hitting the crash? Cuz that's grooving.

Getting locked in, right? Disappear. That's that's that's grooving right there.

But you got to like the music that you playing, too. If you playing boring stuff and you just bored, you going you going to fiddle fat all through the song. But if you enjoy the music, you going to lock in on it.

All right. Listen, this is a bunch of yapping, but man, this is the stuff. This is the stuff that you need, man.

Like, if you gonna play, I don't know what music is doing today. It's crazy, you know? Just just all of the live music.

I see my urban guys like killing it, you know? Devin Sticks out there killing it. And I mean, it's just they they they they doing their thing, man.

But you [Music] know, I don't know if folks are playing that anymore unless you going to the club or something. I mean, we in church, we doing stuff, but we all over the place in church, too. So, that's a whole another conversation.

Anyway, listen, dig into some records, you know, sit down on the drum set, play a groove just for five minutes straight. Don't move. Just stay there.

Don't move. put a click on your ear, put a loop on it, and just lock into that thing and get used to locking in, right? And you'll just develop an internal clock and that thing will sit in.

You'll start feeling like Chris Johnson, right? Look him up if you don't know. You just start, you you know, I even did the lefty.

You start feeling like Gordon Campbell. You know, you're just in there. You just, you know, but you got to you got to lock in there.

All right. That's what it is. Y'all be easy.