Colaiuta tours with Jeff Beck
Vinnie Colaiuta is touring this summer in Japan. According to vinniecoliuta.com, the tour starts on July 1st and goes through the 13th. I won't be able to attend obviously, but for those in Japan, go see it!
I found a great article on Vinnie's site about metric modulation or as Vinnie called it, "super-imposed metric modulation"
. Click Here to check out Vinnie's only lesson!
The article is probably the closest thing to a lesson from Vinnie tha most of us will ever get That brings me to a topic a lot of people are probably wondering why he's not into the whole educator thing or why he doesn't do an instructional video. I give him credit for not doing one. He's the last of a dying breed of musicians that aren't temped by big companies to market themselves He knows he's a good player, he probably doesn't want to try and teach people stuff.
What would you teach someone on a drum video? Steve Holmes' video Shed Some Light is a great video. I'm the type of guy that lets my playing do the talking. And Vinnie's probably has a similar attitude. At the same time, why would you give away everything you've learned & worked for? Look at Weckl, he's done 5 or 6 videos and how many Weckl clones are out there? A lot. What Vinnie does by not doing videos or instructional items is tell people that they should strive for creativity and originality.
Vinnie Colaiuta is touring this summer in Japan. According to vinniecoliuta.com, the tour starts on July 1st and goes through the 13th. I won't be able to attend obviously, but for those in Japan, go see it!
I found a great article on Vinnie's site about metric modulation or as Vinnie called it, "super-imposed metric modulation"
. Click Here to check out Vinnie's only lesson!The article is probably the closest thing to a lesson from Vinnie tha most of us will ever get That brings me to a topic a lot of people are probably wondering why he's not into the whole educator thing or why he doesn't do an instructional video. I give him credit for not doing one. He's the last of a dying breed of musicians that aren't temped by big companies to market themselves He knows he's a good player, he probably doesn't want to try and teach people stuff.
What would you teach someone on a drum video? Steve Holmes' video Shed Some Light is a great video. I'm the type of guy that lets my playing do the talking. And Vinnie's probably has a similar attitude. At the same time, why would you give away everything you've learned & worked for? Look at Weckl, he's done 5 or 6 videos and how many Weckl clones are out there? A lot. What Vinnie does by not doing videos or instructional items is tell people that they should strive for creativity and originality.
