Steve Gadd's Mozabique Groove?

[Nugget]

Anyone knows where can I find a guide or tutorial that explains how to play Steve Gadd's Mozabique Groove?

It's this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCdeKmHwK30&feature=PlayList&p=4D7FCF5CE826E102&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=44

I try to play it but it's not the same. Gadd's groove is fillen with... mojo, and mine sounds to insipid.

[Class A Drummer]

Buy the book "steve gadd up close" and it goes into full detail on how to do it.

The basic hand pattern is

B RLRRLRLRRLRRLR

1 +a2e+a3e+a4e+a

where B= both hands together, R= right hand, L= left hand. For the "B", try flamming it sometimes, it gives a different feel.

A basic thing to do with that sticking is keep your right hand hitting the rim or maybe the bell of a cymbal, and randomly moving your left hand around to different drums.

There are plenty of ways to do it and its really alot of fun.

[Boomka]

Once you have the sticking down, pay careful attention to the phrasing. He accents some notes and lets others fall into the background. That's where the distinctive feel comes from.

[supermac]

There's a great explanation/demonstration on Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials DVD.

I was able to nail it after a couple of viewings...

[Bernhard]

Drummerworld ((...a website))

Drumclinic Section::

http://www.drummerworld.com/Drumclinic/stevegaddmozambique.html

and

http://www.drummerworld.com/Drumclinic/stevegaddmoz.html

B.

[bermuda]

Try to approach it as how your hands are working with each other (interdependence), rather than what they're doing separately (independence.) Play the pattern above on one drum or a pad, to get the feel of what your hands are doing. It's actually quite simple, the hardest part would be the flam at the beginning, and how hard is a flam?!

Then once you're comfortable with how your hands can play the part (should take about 30 seconds) you can split them between the cymbal and snare, and go from there.

BTW, once you have the sense of how any two limbs play a rhythm, you can move that rhythm between hands & feet, left & right, and reverse limbs as well. You'll be doing that mozambique between youir right hand and left foot before you know it, and it will seem perfectly natural as long as you don't try to over-think it.

Don't let a seemingly hard part confuse you, when the approach to it can be fairly easy.

Bermuda

[shadowtick]

Good thread and a beautiful groove. I too have just started learning this. I notice that sometimes when Gadd plays this he will use 2 sticks in each hand. Excuse my noobness but..... why?

[mrmike]

Good thread and a beautiful groove. I too have just started learning this. I notice that sometimes when Gadd plays this he will use 2 sticks in each hand. Excuse my noobness but..... why?

In his last DVD he mentions that using multiple sticks makes it sound like multiple drummers.

[jameswadewilson]

I learned a version from here:

http://jasonhorsler.tripod.com/id66.html


Anyone knows where can I find a guide or tutorial that explains how to play Steve Gadd's Mozabique Groove?

It's this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCdeKmHwK30&feature=PlayList&p=4D7FCF5CE826E102&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=44

I try to play it but it's not the same. Gadd's groove is fillen with... mojo, and mine sounds to insipid.

[NUTHA JASON]

lol thanks jamie. i havent visited that page in years!

j

[Boomka]

Try to approach it as how your hands are working with each other (interdependence), rather than what they're doing separately (independence.) Play the pattern above on one drum or a pad, to get the feel of what your hands are doing. It's actually quite simple, the hardest part would be the flam at the beginning, and how hard is a flam?!

Then once you're comfortable with how your hands can play the part (should take about 30 seconds) you can split them between the cymbal and snare, and go from there.

Great advice. Single surface learning can take a lot of the mystery out of very complex-sounding patterns.

[Nugget]

Whoa! Thanks everyone for the help. I've practiced, and so far... it's... ok. I need to practice more.

I just discovered something: It isn't only B RLRRLRLRRLRRLR, gadd adds lots of subtle accents and ghost notes that make the groove sound more awesome. I think I'll need to practice a lot so it can sound as awesome as gadd plays it.

It sounds better with a cowbell.

>_> daym, I wrote Mozabique instead of Mozambique.

Well, thanks everybody =P

[jasonrhcp]

Gadd's phrasing is awesome in this groove...legend, really..and it's SO hard to get the feel, but I love practicing this to "Late in the Evening"!