Official Virgil Donati thread

[electrizer]

your boy

Sorry, but this is a very "youtube" type of a comment.

[Rodge]

That's because your replies sometimes have had a tendency to have a built in negativity which doesn't suit you. Like the one in the Gadd thread.

Well it is very not negative, sure I smile, but it's not negative.

Guy put a link where he wants to talk about Steve Gadd, GREAT, but if he puts "I like Vinnie, but Steve is the man...", I say "I like Steve, but Vinnie is my man..."

Nothing negative here too, but I don't know how people perceive things, it's not a big deal anyway.

Electrizer, Virgil is Morgenthaler's boy like Vinnie is mine, if you want to see this like a "youtube" type of comment, it's fine for me, I'm not above people commenting on youtube anyway, I'm a regular guy.

[Morgenthaler]

Cool. Cheers.

[electrizer]

is Morgenthaler's boy like Vinnie is mine, if you want to see this like a "youtube" type of comment, it's fine for me, I'm not above people commenting on youtube anyway, I'm a regular guy.

Just sounded a little derogatory and immature to me. I'm a regular guy too but I was talking about the intellectual load of what you say, especially when in written communication like this a lot of the non-verbal stuff is lost and it's easy to misconstrue.

[langmick]

"I like Vinnie, but Steve is the man...", I say "I like Steve, but Vinnie is my man..."

I don't give a flying shit who likes who.

[Morgenthaler]

A nice quote I just stumbled upon. Si-Phi on practicing, chops-building and Virg.
(found here: http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2004/ ... per-chops/)

[Morgenthaler]

New Italian clinic tour dates for Virg and new Holdsworth dates to be split between Virgil and Gary Husband.

Clinic dates:
June 10th, 2014 - Officina degli Angeli - Verona, Italy
June 12th, 2014 - Esse Music Store - Treviso, Italy
June 13-15th, 2014 - Virgil Donati Experience - Rovigo, Italy
June 17th, 2014 - Bateras Beat - Cagliari, Italy
June 18th, 2014 - TBA - Milano, Italy
June 19th, 2014 - CDM School - Genova, Italy
June 20th, 2014 - L'Accademis di Parma - Parma, Italy
June 21st, 2014 - Freestroke Drum School - Firenze, Italy
June 23rd, 2014 - Fonderia delle Arti - Roma, Italy
June 24th, 2014 - Acustica Napoli - Napoli, Italy

Holdsworth dates:

In mid August and late August/early September, Allan Holdsworth and his band featuring Jimmy Haslip on bass
and Virgil Donati on drums to be announced for the following cities:
Phoenix AZ
Mexicali BC Mexico
San Diego CA
San Juan Capistrano CA,
Santa Cruz CA
Modesto CA
Sacramento CA
San Francisco CA and
Oakland CA.

More dates of Allan's band featuring Jimmy Haslip on bass and Gary Husband for the tour from mid September:
3x City of New York
2x Chicago IL
and 4 more in NJ, CT and PA.

Also, the last minute of this rather silly/playful look back at his recent tour with LALU, is a preview of one of the songs off of the album
Atomic Ark: (this show was also recorded for an forthcoming live album)

[gretsch-o-rama]

"I like Vinnie, but Steve is the man...", I say "I like Steve, but Vinnie is my man..."

I don't give a flying shit who likes who.

hehe Looks like I caught the tail end of this shit storm.

[Morgenthaler]

Upcoming 'In This Life' US tour, featuring some blistering young talent.

[Morgenthaler]

Here's a great exercise that Virgil demonstrated at the 1997 Modern Drummer Festival. His focus was on the feet, but
it's a great exercise for hands as well. It's a 4-step circle of doubles, utilizing straight doubles and inverted doubles with both hands or feet leading.
As I said, it really can be done with hands or feet. It's dead simple. Here goes:

|| :rrllrrllrrllrrll
rllrrllrrllrrllr
llrrllrrllrrllrr
lrrllrrllrrllrrl: ||

Repeat over and over and slowly build up speed, starting at around 80 bpm (4/4) and do the exercise as 16th notes.
This is a great tool to build and train the ability to shift leading hand (or foot) in any kind of fill or beat.

Enjoy!