Stop Listening To Music (Stephen Taylor)

_______________ Stop Listening To Music (Stephen Taylor) -- One of our biggest tools as musicians...our ears. Leave a comment and let me know you were here!

New drum videos & lessons here every Tue., Thur, and Sun. at 11:00 am CST.

Cymbal Setup From Left To Right:

All Zildjian

Hats:
16" EFX Crash on top
16" K Light Top Hat on bottom

18" Kerope Crash

22" K Custome Dark Complex Ride

22" Renaissance Ride

Drums:
Tama Starclassic Bubinga with Tiger Wood finish

Sticks:
Vic Firth 5A

Drumheads:
Aquarian
Classic Clear on toms and snare resonant
Response 2 on toms batter
Hi-Velocity on snare batter
Regularor (Ebony) on kick resonant
Super Kick 10 on kick batter

Alclair In Ear Monitors #StephenTaylor #BestDrumLessons

[CallMeGuap]

Beautiful! Currently, I’m thinking about only listening to music when I want to listen to a new album or song. Taking the appreciation up a notch and not feeding my brain the same tunes over and over. Thank you for this.

[natethehero]

I love just sitting back, closing my eyes, and dissecting my favorite songs. Drumming has totally changed the way I “listen” to music

[Strellock]

Yep, I rarely ever listen to a song without gouging: a. are those drum kit drums or samples, b. can I play it, c. can i play it better; I rarely can relax when there's drum kit in a song. I sometimes even catch myself counting when I've no intention to learn/play the song! Stephen should do a lesson on how to stop listening to just the drums in songs, for real!

[googoo]

i havent listened music for 12 years. it happened all of a sudden. its quite satanic because music tells u what to do and how to feel love instead of having your own interpretation of love. its kind of scary

[brandenbright]

I can't help but dissect music anytime I listen to it.

[cesarbetioli]

After all music is something to enjoy, being simple or not... It's not like a sport that only performance matters

[tch]

This is absolutely true and enlightening. Nowadays musics and songs are easily played on various streaming services, along with the unlimited playlist and people tend to get numb with what a music can induced to their mind.

In some ways we have been taken granted of this conveniences - listen too much without hearing the actual essence, we tend to lost the appreciations to the precious art piece.

[patcummins]

"The theory comes to explain why the artist created something" fantastic! Too often we focus on the HOW rather than the WHY. Great video.

[jonathanpalmquist]

Buying the $99 Grado SR80e headphones will facilitate this. I just got them a few weeks ago and the sound quality is crazy good for a pair so cheap. The sounds become crystal clear like the recording studio is inside your brain, and the soundscape incredibly wide and balanced (cause they’re open back).

[ryanbarkosky]

Every guitar, bass, and drum person needs to watch this video!!!

[RaoulMoreira]

What you're explaining is transitioning from listening from a closed mindset (judging) to an open mindset (Open questions about the artist and song). It's applicable to your entire life, from problemsolving to social gatherings

[frankschnyder]

What you're really saying is to get rid of distractions. You can't really hear a song while driving, cleaning the kitchen or playing a video game. The music just becomes background. If you want to (attempt to) appreciate what an artist did, yeah, turn off the lights and just hit play. If you're listening to see what the drummer did, focus on that, but he probably did what he did to COMPLIMENT the other players and see how the drums serve the song in general. Oh and getting high helps, yes, but it will block the memory of what you focused on. Great video! Thanks.

[guitardavepdx]

Preach it, brother. Awesome stuff. I discovered this all by accident. When I first found Joe Satriani, I had just bought a cd and was just vegging out after work one day. It got dark out and was too lazy to turn on the lights, kicked back on the couch, closed my eyes and heard Flying in a Blue Dream. Blew my mind. Never looked at any song the same

[williamsharp]

Music on the radio is hard for me to really hear, but when the church rehearses I am able to see how the song comes together. I liked your explanation on how to hear the music better.

[christianfekete]

This is beautiful, i think that answers the question of why I feel like repeating techniques instead of playing music, thank you
It seems like it is more about enjoying life rather than practicing life, i see the passion

[Jameskeith]

Listening at the surface level is where we let the music take us on a ride. Digging down to the base level is stoping to "hear"(feel/see/touch) the language being used. We have to adjust our camera angle to do this. Zoom in and out. This was how it was explained to me in the past. Thanks Stephen!
Ex. I listened to some Rachmaninov a couple of days ago to demonstrate this idea to stepson who has taken up violin. I was showing him how the soul can be moved by just a few notes.

[johnson]

I love that you mentioned artists in other genres - I have found the greatest joy when I am working with an ensemble where I am so engrossed in the music that there is no space to think about what I am playing, I just know that I want to participate in the musical conversation in the moment. I have played behind vocalists that have had me in tears behind my kit - the result, some of the most musical performances I have played with the fewest notes. Each note meant that much more in support of the song.

Don't get me wrong, it is fun to chop out (in the practice space only) - but I'd rather play 8th's on the hat with cross-stick on 2 & 4, 1 and 3 on the kick if that is all that is needed

[MatthewDavidT]

This is what it is all about! What an absolutely groundbreaking video! Well done my friend.

[InveterateMendaciousness]

There is never a time that I can keep myself from trying to understand the shapes and textures of the music I’m listening to. I mean that kinda literally; I love to imagine sound as forms with textile qualities and altering structure, and even temperature.

[donaldham]

I have to say, the way you break things in bits n' pieces is truly amazing. Listen🔊 Listen🔊 Listen🔊....I will do !!!