Відео

I think my real talent is putting together this Big Band and finding all the music I want to play with these outstanding musicians. I always learn the score first so I can tell my musicians how I want the arrangement to be played. It`s always about the music first for me. Then I use my drumming to support the musicians and make the music sound as good as possible. I don`t know many rock drummers who are leaders of their own band.

@@KenLoomer I'm one and I got 2 bands.lead,built,legwork ,

@@JAYTHEDRUMMERAREA352 So wonderful to hear of a drummer that leads his own band. Let me know the name of your band and if you have posted some video`s, go ahead and give me the link. Thanks Jay for your comment.

Tony on keyboard also plays on my Big Band, Jazz Quartet, and Trio. So we both know so well our style of playing and we just put together exciting arrangements that works so good as a duo. Thanks Mark for your comment.

Tony and I get to do our own arrangements of these great jazz standards. We have fun doing them for sure. Rare Tiger Stripe finish on these Pearl drums. Thanks for your comment.

This is only a jazz duo doing some exciting new arrangements of these great jazz songs. Thanks for your comment.

When I grew up in the 60`s and 70`s, a lot of the Big Bands were still on the road like Count Basie, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Harry James, Stan Kenton, and Maynard Ferguson. I saw in concert all of those Big Bands. I fell in love with that Big Band music and decided to form my own Big Band. With hard work as a drummer, my dream has come true for me to be the leader of my Ken Loomer Big Band. All the talk shows back then when I grew up had these great Big Bands on their show. Buddy Rich on Johnny Carson Show all the time. When was the last time you ever saw a jazz musician or Jazz band on any of the Late Night Talk Shows today. It`s Never!! The days of the road Big Band is long gone, but I have been able to keep the sound of a great Big Band like mine here in Florida. Thanks so much for your comment Paul.

Great Great Sounding swinging big band you have ken and of course great playing from yourself. I'm just back home from a two week holiday in Florida,wish I could have seen your band live and met you maybe someday. 🙂

@@brennelson7844 AS you know, the weather is getting really hot here in Florida, and so is this Big Band. It`s always about the music first for me and supporting my outstanding musicians with my drumming to make the music exciting. Thanks so much for your comment.

What you said means a lot to me. As a drummer Big Band leader, it`s always about the music first for me. I just want to support my fellow musicians with my drumming to make the music exciting and feel good. Thanks so much for your comment.

These Slingerland drums is my favorite drum set when I play with my Big Band. When I play with my jazz Quartet or Trio, I enjoy playing on my smaller Gretsch sets that I have.

As a drummer Big Band leader, it`s all about the music first for me. I want to support my fellow musicians with my drumming on these exciting arrangements I pick for the band to play. This is a roaring swinging Big Band that I`m so proud to play in. Thanks so much for your comment Daniel.

Tony and I love to do new arrangements of these great jazz songs. So much fun for us to play together and do them. Thanks for your comment.

It`s all about the music for me as a drummer Big Band leader. Must thank my outstanding musicians for their wonderful playing on this exciting arrangement of The Trolley Song. Thanks for your comment.

I love plying on this rare Slingerland Super Sound King Snare Drum. Very crisp sounding snare that projects so well. Every beat I play on it comes out very clearly. Thanks for your comment.

With this angle, you can see how relaxed I am when I play around the drums. Thanks for your comment.

As you can see in the video, the strainer is no where near my leg to hit it. The rock drummers would tilt the snare the other way ,so no problem it would get hit. The tone control muffler was not engaged. I used a Remo Emperor snare head to get a more dryer sound for this Slingerland Super Sound King snare drum.

@@KenLoomer emperor snare side?

@@sticksbass Remo Emperor batter head.

@@KenLoomer ok, they do dry out drums.

@@KenLoomer i tilt mine toward the ft. helps w more of a circular motion to avoid wrist pain. i saw leonard haze of y and t tilt his that way. he was more of a gusto player. hardly even any ghost notes if any at all. his foot was so fast and powerful.

Always good to learn your rudiments no matter what style of music you play. Plus I work on my drum technique to play relax and to be able to come up with new idea`s on what to play. Thanks Frank for your comment.

I like to watch so many musicians who play other instruments. I learn from all of them and get inspired to improve my playing and how I can as a drummer support what they play with my drumming. Thanks for your comment.

No matter what style of music you play on the drums, it`s always good to study the rudiments. I`m still learning all the time myself. I thank you so much for your comment.

As a drummer Big Band leader, it`s all about picking the best musicians to play the kind of arrangements I want to do at these concerts. So glad you notice about the feel of the music we played which is so important. Thanks so much for your comment.

I like to work on new drum techniques. This one for my left hand works great for me. All my best to you with your road work. Thanks for your comment and watching my video`s.

Always good for me to try out new drum techniques . This one for my left hand works great. Thanks so much for your comment.

I use old school bass drum tuning with just a felt strip on the back and front head for that big open clear sound. I don`t like the dead thud sound of today`s bass drum. Thanks for your comment.

I like to try out new drum techniques all the time. This one I use for my left hand works great for me. Thanks for your comment.

Since I do mostly jazz concerts playing with my Ken Loomer Big Band and Jazz Quartet, I would never play on a electric drum set. They sound only as good as the sound system you have. For practice with headphone on, they are excellent for sure. I don`t know what kind of music you play, but it seems to work good for pop music, rock, country using an electric kit. You could use the electric kit to practice on, but when doing your gigs to use real drums.

@@KenLoomer thanks for your entertaining reply Ken. I love playing my snare... I love it with zero dampening... to make it "sing". The tones across the snare as you'd know are many & varied. I played Roland triggers in the 90's, I was not impressed. I'm not as skilled as yourself on the snare, I try, I can do up to 5 stroke single hand bounces easily, sixes are my best as I can single handedly make them sound like double triplets... 123123 in a single bouncing stroke... I am very fond of that achievement, but it's more than the bounce for me now, I like varying the tone of the strike, from the centre of the snare where I have a lovely regular rock snare tone, to the sides which I've managed to tune with variance, so that one side of the snare sounds different to the other with different bouncing tensions... strange snare playing I suppose, I'm just having fun. I'm just worried that all that will be gone if I can't play my snare skin. No rubber can emulate that, I do use practice pads, simply they do not "sing". I've seen the most modern electric snares, they pale in my needs. The best has only two strike zones and no tuning variance. Perhaps I'd be better digging a deep hole & sound proofing it. Thanks for being so kind as to answer me, I do enjoy hearing from you very much... fortunate such a great player as yourself gives anyone the time of day, so many do not. Thanks again for your entertaining and enlightening shows. Maybe they'll make a better snare electronically one day, I'm not impressed today... your snare sounds great by the way, nice tuning. Tuning, it's a big deal that too many pass over, not to mention popular copycats that I tire of... everyone having similar snare sounds. Thanks again, my best to you & yours.

@@bloodmoney88 You are correct no electronic snare drum can ever be the same as a real snare drum. It`s excellent you are trying out new drum techniques on the snare drum. You know best what technique works best for you. It`s a problem for sure if you can`t practice where you live using real drums if you can`t sound proof the room. I for sure love the open tuning of a snare drum to get many sound out of it. You can check this video I made of me playing my Rogers 67 Dyanasonic snare drum ua-cam.com/video/_-LQfg7VtJI/v-deo.html Always glad to help out a fellow drummer.

Buddy played his 22 inch Swish Knocker starting in 1979 with the rivets. His good friend Mel Lewis was the drummer who told Buddy he should use a Swish Knocker cymbal back in 1979. Starting in 1986, Zildjian made some Swish Knockers for Buddy with no rivets or holes in the cymbal. How many swish cymbals do you play on? You seem to ask a lot of questions about the swish cymbals Buddy played on.

@@KenLoomer I have one Zildjin and a Sabin one i’m sorry

@@KenLoomer it’s good to ask questions

@@joshuajuaire8757 Like always, I have answered all of your questions.

John Lamb is the best bass player with amazing feel I ever played with. Thanks for your comment.

My piano man Tony Castellano is in my Big Band. I have lots of video`s with my Jazz Quartet and Trio. All of the musicians I hired are excellent jazz musicians who can play in the style I want. Check out this video from this concert ua-cam.com/video/wlB5kWQQp_o/v-deo.html These are world class musician for sure.

All A Zildjian cymbals in this set-up. First is the 22 Swish Knocker,18 thin crash, 20 Ping ride, 8 thin splash, 17 thin crash, 16 medium thin crash, and 13 inch New Beat hi-hat.

@@KenLoomer is the swish with rivets

@@joshuajuaire8757 Yes this Zildjian Swish Knocker has 20 rivets.

@@KenLoomer nice dark sound

You forgot to say the drummer is vintage which I am. You never know what good stuff that can be found and fix it up to working order again.

@@KenLoomer You might be vintage, but it looks like you keep in shape, of course the pots and pans are a great workout machine.

I enjoy so much playing on these vintage Classic Ludwig drums. It brings out the best in me. Thanks for your comment.

Got to love the sound of that big 26 inch bass drum tuned wide open. Buddy Rich and John Bonham always had that type of tuning which is a great natural sound of the drum. Thanks for your comment.

@@KenLoomer Both Bonham and Paice used Ludwig 26 in. bass drums.

That`s what made this an excellent arrangement of this famous jazz standard. People can easily hear the chord changes, along with all that`s going on in this arrangement. A very wonderful arrangement with some exciting off beat hits played very tightly by my musicians. Just the type of swinging new charts I like to play with my Big Band.

I love to do these live performance with my Jazz Quartet. When it`s my turn to do a solo, I want it to be dynamic and exciting for the people who come out to my concert. The people will let me know in real time how my performance is. Thanks so much for your comment.

When it`s my turn to do a solo, I want it to be dynamic and exciting for the people who come to my concerts. The only way I know how to play is give it 100% in my performance. the people in real time will let me know how I`m doing. Your comment means a lot to me. Thanks so much.

I just love playing on these great old vintage drums. It brings out the best in me. Thanks so much for your comment.

As you can tell, I love to do these live concerts. The people will let me know in real time if they enjoyed my performance. Thanks for your comment.

I hope you are still playing your Slingerland drums. Maybe pick up a few things I did in this video and try them out. It will be fun drumming for sure. All my best to you always!

Most important to me is that I get to play on these great Slingerland drums with my Big Band. It has the perfect sound for the type of charts that I play. Thanks so much Vincent for your comment.

Since I love drumming so much and of course being a Big Band leader, I work on my playing so much. Not only for doing solo`s, but so important to play to the music I do to support my fellow musicians. Thanks for your comment.

I`m big into learning how to do new drum techniques. I`m sure with the amazing job you do with wood, you have learned so many great techniques on how to get the job done right being a carpenter. Hope you still have time to play you drums. Thanks for your comment.

I just love playing on this vintage Ludwig drum set from the 60`s. It has a great big open clear sound which fits my style of playing so well. Thanks Frank for your comment.

I for sure learned a lot from the great Buddy Rich. I got to know him and he was always so kind to me. I even got a drum lesson from Buddy and he let me play his Slingerland drums. The reason why I have my own Ken Loomer Big Band is because of my love of the music Buddy played. To see pictures of me and Buddy, and pictures of me playing on his Slingerland drums, here is the video ua-cam.com/video/BTsnnA6nlvk/v-deo.html Here is one video of my Big Band you can check out ua-cam.com/video/MM-OXmNhzO0/v-deo.html Thanks so much Alberto for your comment.

This is a power bass drum 18x22 inches in size.

@@KenLoomer very pretty and sound as good as anything. love the cowbell work. ive 5 on my acoustic kit.

@@sticksbass You must be great at playing latin music with 5 cowbells on your acoustic drum set. You need to make a video of you playing that drum set with the 5 cowbells. I`m just using my one LP Mambo cowbell which has that wonderful dry sound to it.

@@KenLoomer i have 1 lp separated from the others w a tamborine on the hh stand and its interestingly dryer than the rest. the tamb sounds like some chingring when i pedal the hh.

Glad you enjoyed this video.

At least you got to play a 60`s Ludwig drum set at one time. You must be a very good artist to paint your own logo on the front Ludwig bass drum head. Do you play drums in your own band? What kind of music do you play? All my best to you with your drumming.

I love being a drummer Big Band leader. So wonderful to find these great new arrangements and have my outstanding musicians play them in a exciting way. A great feeling do these live concerts to play this wonderful music for the people. Thanks so much for your comment. It means a lot to me.

Always good for me to try out these new drum technique. It seems to work for me very well. Thanks for your comment.

You are so correct that practice is a good thing. thanks for your comment.