{"id":35896,"date":"2022-06-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=35896"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:23:48","slug":"how-to-drum-like-buddy-rich-greyson-nekrutman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-drum-like-buddy-rich-greyson-nekrutman\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Drum Like Buddy Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lDqsdfNSB0I\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Some say he&#8217;s the next Buddy Rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others think he&#8217;s a social media sensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either way, Greyson Nekrutman is definitely not your regular 19-year-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greyson decided in high school that instead of partying and hanging out with his peers, he&#8217;d sneak off to practice drums at lunch. He&#8217;s sacrificed a lot to get to where he is today: a young Big Band drummer with hundreds of thousands of online followers and growing gig opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There aren&#8217;t many modern drummers who play the style popularized during the golden age of drummers. Influenced by Big Band and jazz legends like Sonny Payne, Louie Bellson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/5-impossible-buddy-rich-licks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buddy Rich<\/a>, Gene Krupa, Max Roach and Art Blakey, as well as players in other styles like Carter Beauford, Mitch Mitchell and Ginger Baker, Greyson does a great job taking notes from his heroes while developing his own identity as a drummer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It might be hard to believe that a capable player like Greyson would be met with criticism, but he&#8217;s already encountered his fair share. He says it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/greyson-nekrutman-interview-drumeo-gab-podcast-179\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pushes him harder<\/a> and reminds him that he&#8217;s doing something different. He&#8217;s setting out to prove people wrong, whether it&#8217;s those who don&#8217;t like what he&#8217;s doing or those who rejected him from music school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video lesson, Greyson shows you how he plays Buddy Rich&#8217;s legendary one-handed rolls and how he puts together drum solos &#8211; and shares a vulnerable side as well.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"blue-text-block\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><strong>Play Your Favorite Big Band &amp; Jazz Tunes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/21150547\/2022-01-15-COACH-Greyson-AM-116.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Want to learn to play like Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, and Louie Bellson? Greyson Nekrutman&#8217;s exclusive Drumeo course on Big Band drumming will get you one step closer to understanding the Greats while improving your hand speed, technique and more.<\/p>\n<p>Start a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/choose-your-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">7-day Drumeo trial<\/a> and get Greyson&#8217;s best tips, plus all the perks of being a member!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"join blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/choose-your-trial\/\">Start Free Trial<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson Index:<\/strong><br>0:00 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Caravan&#8221; by Duke Ellington (Arranged by Chris Fischer)*<br>2:10 &#8211; Drum Solo<br>9:32 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Caravan&#8221; by Duke Ellington (Continued)<br>11:18 &#8211; Introducing Greyson and his influences<br>18:10 &#8211; How to play Buddy Rich&#8217;s one-handed roll<br>28:18 &#8211; Drum Solo<br>32:24 &#8211; Breaking down the solo<br>37:00 &#8211; Getting compared to Buddy Rich<br>43:31 &#8211; How his childhood illness and music school rejections fueled him<br>49:15 &#8211; Was Buddy Rich the greatest drummer of all time?<br>50:57 &#8211; &#8220;Trajectory&#8221; by Chris Fischer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thanks to Chris Fischer for arranging &#8220;Caravan&#8221; for this live lesson. You can download and practice along with the drumless version inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drumeo members area<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Greyson:<\/strong><br>19-year-old Greyson Nekrutman has received accolades by the National Association for Music as one of the top-performing high school jazz musicians in the United States. Both a live performer and a popular social media drummer, Greyson is slowly but surely becoming a household name because of his incredible musicianship, work with Bakithi Kumalo, and performances in various New York venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greyson Plays:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pearldrum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pearl Drums<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/meinlcymbals.com\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Meinl Cymbals<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/remo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Remo Drumheads<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/vicfirth.zildjian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vic Firth Drumsticks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow Greyson:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greyson_nekrutman\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@greyson_nekrutman?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TikTok<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greynekrutman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to play Buddy Rich&#8217;s famous one-handed roll and more in this Big Band lesson from Greyson Nekrutman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":35962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038,4018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-full-lessons","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35896"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35940,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35896\/revisions\/35940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}