Tommy Igoe...

[moosetication]

I agree - I picked it up to have as a "handy audio/visual reference" and it's perfect for that. It's sure not something you'd watch end to end, and there are no extras - just the grooves, one after the other, with two examples of each at a slow and a quicker tempo. But the guy's enthusiasm is pretty infectious.

[Groovissimo]

Take a look at two super video clips on Vic Firth's web site:
Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials.

Click on:

http://www.vicfirth.com/education/dr...ssentials.html

[Steve Holmes]

Wow he's playing some great stuff on those clips but my Gawd do those DW's sound like ass. Not sure if there's heads on those toms, or just cardboard.

BTW this is a classic example of me being hesitantly honest for fear of being percieved an ass hole.

[WebDeco]

Originally posted by Steve Holmes:

BTW this is a classic example of me being hesitantly honest for fear of being percieved an ass hole.[/QB]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Add me to that list. His sound IS like ass on the toilet no less.

Tommy has chops but not much soul. Basically another guy who plays what he was taught.

[PocketPlayer]

This issue of sound never ceases to amaze me. No doubt he is playing top of the line drums, yet? [img]eek.gif[/img]

[MethodAir]

hmmm...on the GETTING STARTED ON DRUMS intro clip, kinda surprised to hear the bass drum out of sync on several notes.

[Steve Holmes]

WOW you're right. That stung for a sec.

[jonthibault]

I just got Tommy Igoe's "Essential Grooves" DVD from Netflix, and I was surprised at how good it is. Much of the stuff is very basic, but the World music section is really cool. He covers pretty much everything from a cha cha to a mozambique, and plays each groove in slow and fast musical settings (which is great, since most of us probably wouldn't know when to play a lot of this stuff).

Although I found the visuals sometimes cheesy (they occasionally cut to black and white grainy footage, in an attempt to look like a music video or something), the world music section makes is worth getting. If you mastered every groove on his DVD, you'd be a monster.

[robertopeland]

Yeah, Tommy's new DVD is great and highly instructional. Just being able to play all the grooves included with such ease and flow it would be awesome...
The final track is also great with that beautiful African flavor...
Peace
Robertopeland
www.thedrumland.com

[juanexpo]

Keeping in mind that this is a world distributed instructional DVD and not just a web drum file...it is really a mistake. Yes, the intro part (the first notes the plays with the playback) are seriously out of time. Also some backbeats played after a crash-bassdrum notes could be better. Something happened...maybe he didn?t listen to the drum-take after each song, maybe he did but he didn?t mind it, maybe they hadn?t much time for the recording... In his case I would have said: "Aurghhh, Joe(engineer man)delete this, for God."...The sound of the video seems to be pretty good.

Anyway, I love the job Tommy is doing teaching the grooves, many fundamentals things and the way he explain them. You can find all the rhytmes (many styles, with every drum score included)in the vic firth site. (After the video is downloaded in your screen, you can find them in your Temporary Internet Files of your PC (Windows users). Then you copy them to another folder)

Also, I am sure his DVDs are very informatives.
Bye.

P.D.:in my case I haven?t a world distributed instructional DVD...well and a DVD distributed in my neighbourhood neither.

Bye.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 27, 2004 09:52 AM: Message edited by: JuanExpo ]</font>