{"id":36941,"date":"2022-08-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=36941"},"modified":"2022-08-25T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T21:35:45","slug":"steve-smith-live-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/steve-smith-live-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Smith&#8217;s Journey To Rock Drummer Stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nkcpmsI83Og\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/p><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Smith, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/watch-steve-smith-perform-at-the-2020-drumeo-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drummer of Vital Information<\/a> and the former drummer of Journey, has played with a variety of artists like Steps Ahead, Jean-Luc Ponty and Mike Stern. He&#8217;s known for writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/art-of-drum-solos-steve-smith-part-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tasteful drum solos<\/a> and musical drum parts, and for incorporating different styles into his playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also played drums on what&#8217;s now one of the most popular karaoke tunes of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this full lesson, not only will you see Steve break out the 24&#8243; Zildjian Ping ride used on his Journey records (after 30 years in storage), you&#8217;ll learn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What Steve means when he says &#8220;everyone is self taught&#8221; when it comes to music<\/li><li>An easier way to count in 15<\/li><li>How Steve orchestrates Indian rhythm systems on the kit<\/li><li>How you&#8217;ve been playing &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/dont-stop-believin-journey-drums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;<\/a>&#8221; wrong<\/li><li>How Steve became an open-handed player just to be able to play parts he was hearing in his head&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For in-depth, step-by-step lessons with Steve Smith on building musical drum solos and more, check out his brand new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drumeo courses<\/a> &#8220;The Art Of Drum Soloing&#8221; and &#8220;Beyond The Books&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get a free week trial of Drumeo here!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson index:<br><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">0:00 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Separate Ways&#8221; by Journey<br><\/span>5:29 &#8211; Introduction and counting in 15<br>8:41 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Seven And A Half&#8221; by Vital Information<br>15:15 &#8211; Breaking down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/sarah-thawer-drum-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indian rhythms<\/a>\/konnakol<br>20:26 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Interwoven Rhythms &#8211; Synchronous&#8221; by Vital Information<br>23:49 &#8211; Continuing the konnakol story<br>29:34 &#8211; Solo excerpt from Journey&#8217;s &#8220;La Do Da&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full solo available inside Drumeo<\/a>)<br>36:00 &#8211; Introducing <em>the <\/em>legendary ride cymbal<br>38:56 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believin'&#8221; by Journey<br>43:10 &#8211; Breaking down &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believin'&#8221;<br>47:29 &#8211; Final thoughts<br>49:23 &#8211; SOLO: &#8220;Choreography Of Sound&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Steve:<\/strong><br>Steve Smith is a treasure to drumming culture. He was inducted into the \u201cRock and Roll Hall of Fame\u201d and voted \u201cBest All-Around Drummer\u201d five years in a row by&nbsp;<em>Modern Drummer&#8217;s<\/em>&nbsp;readers poll. Steve is perhaps best known as the drummer for Journey. He would end up recording six albums, including Journey\u2019s most popular album&nbsp;<em>Escape<\/em>, during his tenure with them. However, Steve is a jazz drummer at heart. He has been the bandleader of his group Vital Information since the early 1970s and has been a sideman for artists such as Jean-Luc Ponty, Steps Ahead, Dweezil Zappa, Bryan Adams and Savage Garden, among many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Steve Plays:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sonor Drums<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zildjian.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Zildjian 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 Steve:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stevesmithdrums\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vitalinformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitalinformation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Smith, drummer of Vital Information and former drummer of Journey, breaks down legendary drum parts and talks about Indian rhythms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":37009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-full-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36941"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37016,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36941\/revisions\/37016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}