Finding Your Voice With Brushes | Jason Sutter

This lesson is all about finding your voice and developing your creativity on the drum kit - with brushes!

Jason Sutter will be covering different patterns and strokes you’ll be utilizing to extract a variety of colorful sounds from your snare drum. He’ll also demonstrate them to music throughout the lesson to help give you a better understanding of the musical applications. Jason wraps up by giving you a handful of killer tips and tricks to apply brushes in ALL genres of music.

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Chapters

0:00 - Intro
0:06 - Song: "Up Jumped Spring"
3:34 - Introduction
5:20 - Lesson begins!
8:30 - The Tap Stroke
10:43 - Song: "No Greater Love"
13:22 - The Sweep Stroke
19:35 - Song: "Body & Soul"
22:34 - One Handed Roll
24:04 - The Rim Roll
26:02 - The Rip Roll
26:34 - The Butterfly Roll
27:41 - The Sutter Flutter
31:52 - Applying Brushes in Other Genres
42:30 - Q & A!
50:18 - Song: "Caravan"

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Jason Sutter in an American drummer and musician with an impressive resume! He's recorded, performed, and/or toured with artists such as Marilyn Manson, Smashmouth, Pink, The Rembrandts, Our Lady Peace, Soundgarden/Audioslave front-man Chris Cornell, The Campfire Girls, Joe Walsh, Butch Walker, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Dean and Robert DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots) as well as many others. Jason has also made numerous television appearances including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and The Late Show with David Letterman.

Jason plays:
Ludwig Drums
Paiste Cymbals
Remo Drumheads
Regal Tip Sticks

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[JimBrooksDrums]

Some of the best brush playing I've ever heard. Fantastic lesson.

[ryancox]

This is a lesson in not judging a book by its cover. If you saw this guy walking around the rehearsal space, you might see him as the drummer for Marilyn Manson or Foreigner, but who would've guessed that he was a straight-up brush master? So much respect.

[fionamackenzie]

He's like a dancer! He moves and feels the beat in such a way that if I close my eyes, I can see the movement! Amazing! 😘

[dreamdrummer]

AMAZING!!!, not a single cymball, no toms or kick, just talent

[FrederickJohnSebastian]

Something so classy and elegant about good brush playing

[JuanCarlitoMendoza]

This has to be one of my favorite lessons of all time. Learned so much! Very informative, musical, and just masterful. Bravo!

[gregoryhussey]

Watched this twice - practiced brushes and experimented for an hour and am twice as good as I was - that was an awesome lesson and so Inspiring...Jason Sutter you are a legend

[antonburger]

What a super lesson! That one can provide complete rhythm with only a snare amazes me!. Not even a kick drum!

[MrFchank]

WOW!! MESMERIZING!! Best brush playing I've ever seen.

[wkoszek]

What an excellent example of a musicianship. His technique is amazing.

[fionamackenzie]

He's like a dancer. He moves and flows and expresses the beat so completely that if I close my eyes I can see the movement

[rthavi]

Not even a drummer but I've really digging jazzy brush drums lately. Such a fantastic sound. I love learning about the process from masters like this absolute pro.

[paulinefoote]

Thank you this is fabelous and creative. I am a new drummer, 62 and loving it. I use brushes a lot becasue the places our band plays have very basic drum sets. Brushes are so versatile... try the nylon ones.. Ive been making my ownout of bits and pieces I have in the shed. My cord tie brushes are heavy duty, they sound very raw...Try the wire brushes on the cojon ..sounds great

[jgaldo]

Jason Sutter, a real soulful craftsman. I feel both your joy & groove. What a great/inspired 53 minutes time spent. Most grateful to/for you!

[trae]

Many thanks DrumeO for featuring Mr. Surter and his astounding devotion to this art!

[MichaelMolinaM]

this dude is a beast on brushes. absolutely love!!!!

[geodoc]

Thanks for bossa pattern! Great! Never found anything simple and cool like this pattern shown by Jason !

[seeminglymodo]

What an amazing lesson. I love how prepared he was, and I LOVE that he kept it all about sound - every technique and approach was about the sound it produces, and what we can add to the music with brushes. That being said, I would love if you guys brought him back for a follow up to discuss how to expand upon this. Every time I learn the basics of brushes it's enlightening, but I can't quite cross the gap into filling like he does in this video and getting more comfortable adding the flourishes and patterns that make brush playing really exciting without losing the flow. I'd love to get more insight, from him in particular, into how to go beyond the principles discussed here and become a killer brush player.

[Jtdubbzz]

Incredible. I’ve only taken interest in brush work recently and after watching this lesson I’m determined

[monkybunney]

This is the most useful video regarding brushes I've seen. Thank you so much