Mike Portnoy's Influences: John Bonham

[Music] Mike Portnoy here and welcome to drum guru I've never been one to hide my influences I am proud of the drummers that I grew up listening to and still do to this day I am utterly inspired by so many kinds of drummers from pop to classic rock classic rock to progressive rock to metal I mean I'm just a musical sponge I love listening to other drummers I love listening to what they're doing and you know how they're doing it and thinking wonder why they're doing it and basically I'm gonna pay tribute right now to some of my biggest drum heroes and kind of just give you my interpretation of their styles I didn't really prepare anything I didn't really learn the exact parts I'm kind of just doing this from the heart and from the memory of you know growing up with these drummers and you know there's probably people out there that can't transcribe the exact drum parts I'm kind of just gonna play my interpretation of a lot of my favorite drummers general styles John Bonham is one of my all-time biggest drum heroes in fact I have his his symbol tattooed on my leg and and he's always always been one of my biggest drummers and not only me I mean he's influenced I think every drummer that's picked up a pair of sticks you know beyond the 70s his style was just was so universally able to transcend genres I think jazz drummers loved him rock drummers loved him he's one of those guys that you know he played with such a heavy groove and he had these nuances and his playing that that that just made him one of a kind and I've heard people say you know how how to jump on him get that drum sound you know was it the way that Mike the drums are the way you tuned the drums the reason John Bonham sounded that way is because he was John Bonham it wasn't the way that the drums were mites or the way the drums were tuned or the type of drums or a type of sticks it was him that made those grooves sound the sound the way they did and he just played with weight and groove and and feel and and there's I don't know if there's any but ever been a drummer that has really duplicated his feel exactly a lot of times people think about Bonham and they talk about the kick drum and yes I mean he had this big 26 inch kick drum the big boomy roomy sounding kick was was definitely part of his signature but I think people underestimate the sound of his snare and his high hats I think his snare in high hats were very very very much a part of his signature sound as well and I think probably one of the most iconic drunk drum beats of Bonzo was the intro to when the levee breaks and it's one of those those drum intros that's just you know I'll play it for you right now but it's not gonna sound like him and and millions of drummers have played this intro and it still doesn't sound like him it only sounded like him because it was in his hands and in his feet and in his body in his soul so I'll play it for you and this is my rendition of when the levee breaks and you could kind of feel how he really laid into the hi-hat and the snare it wasn't all about that kick it was the combination between the kick snare and the hi-hat so here we go [Music] [Music] long live the king a signature bonham phil is based on the triplet feel and he played with one bass drum in one pedal so basically he you know that the signature Bonham triplet feel was snare Tom kick snare Tom kicker in fact I'm not sure if that was the correct sticking that he used but when I kind of try to cop Bonham signature feels that's kind of the way I stick it so basically it would be like this [Music] [Music] so that's it that's the clip of the week and remember leave us some comments we need to hear back from you guys tell us what you want tell us what we should be doing what we can bring you on drum guru remember anywhere in the world anytime day or night you just turn on your phone or your iPad and you can get something from us so check back next Saturday I check our Facebook and Twitter feeds and we'll see you next time Rob Wallace signing off from drum guru

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Keywords: drum, lesson, drumming, how to, play-along, drum school, drum teacher, Mike Portnoy (Drummer)

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Length: 6min 59sec (419 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 10 2014