Drummers, BETCHA CAN'T PLAY THIS!!!

not surprising that most drummers can't play this. but if you want to talk crazy speeds, check out buddy rich and jojo mayer. jojo mayer can play so fast that it's not even musically useful cuz most people won't be able to keep up with his playing. but i can say jojo mayer is one of the fastest drummers alive, and he plays live.

and the link you gave, the drum part has been heavily edited that's why it's really hard to "play" it.
 
nah i still think buddy rich was the fastest drummer who ever lived. his one-hand roll can beat 90% of the world's drummers' single stroke rolls.
 
Buddy Rich is d greatest drummer ever, period.! until now, Im still trying 2 find 1 who could tapau him, but couldn't...
 
BebopIggy said:
You called that music?

sigh.....
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you call yourself a musician? music is an art. however the artist wants to express himself is entirely up to him. art is very personal. not everyone can go into the person's mind and experience what the artist is trying to portray through his masterpiece. if you think it's not music it's probably because you don't understand the artist producing it, nevertheless it doesn't make it anything less or lesser than other things.

so do you call yourself a musician? or just a music instrument player?
 
My Opinion

They have good chops. a variety of flam concepts, single stroke tom rolls, rolling in triplets, paradiddle concepts(single, double and triple) with double strokes with the kick added at times, six stroke and four stroke rolls with doubles with the kick, poly-rhythmic ideas with rolls in between and a bit of groove variations.I liked the parts where there were linear funk concepts being sped up to sound more groovy compared to the repeating rolling ideas being orchestrated onto different parts of the kit by the different drummers.Could have been more musical. drum battles do not always have to be about vomiting out your accents on cymbals and toms and double stroking ghost notes on the snare in my opinion. well in the end its an ego thing i guess;)
 
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Drumbassador said:
They have good chops. a variety of flam concepts, single stroke tom rolls, rolling in triplets, paradiddle concepts(single, double and triple) with double strokes with the kick added at times, six stroke and four stroke rolls with doubles with the kick, poly-rhythmic ideas with rolls in between and a bit of groove variations.I liked the parts where there were linear funk concepts being sped up to sound more groovy compared to the repeating rolling ideas being orchestrated onto different parts of the kit by the different drummers.Could have been more musical. drum battles do not always have to be about vomiting out your accents on cymbals and toms and double stroking ghost notes on the snare in my opinion. well in the end its an ego thing i guess;)
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the first guy is now an endorser of Meinl and DW drums. his name is Benjie "Bagets" Mendez, the two other drummers were, Frank Benitez and Otep Conception.
 
yea i guessed. the banners behind them reflect that. these guys are good no doubt but after a while they become very predictable with their chops. there is a limit to the chops you can deliver. you give all and you have nothing left to give and you become repetitive. and endorsements mean popularity. if you are well known in the scene you get the endorsement because you are a walking advertisement for drum companies to show their products. no doubt to be known you still need to be good enough to be called by people to play for them and get known in the scene. just for extra knowledge though. there are drummers out there who are way better then those endorsed but the only difference is that the latter made themselves more popular.
 
Drumbassador said:
yea i guessed. the banners behind them reflect that. these guys are good no doubt but after a while they become very predictable with their chops. there is a limit to the chops you can deliver. you give all and you have nothing left to give and you become repetitive. and endorsements mean popularity. if you are well known in the scene you get the endorsement because you are a walking advertisement for drum companies to show their products. no doubt to be known you still need to be good enough to be called by people to play for them and get known in the scene. just for extra knowledge though. there are drummers out there who are way better then those endorsed but the only difference is that the latter made themselves more popular.
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i agree with what you said. there are drummers who are underrated but definitely is more talented. well, maybe the opportunity is not yet there for them or they don't to be in that position meaning it's their choice not to be popular or well-known, something to that extent. i remember what Jim Chapin said...

"think in terms of how you relate to other musicians...do you make them happy, do they make you happy?"
 
yea that is true. i can give you three good examples. i gig with tony zee now and then because i am from the SAF Music and Drama Company and he freelances for us and i have had good chats with him regarding the drumming scene. he has been offered endorsements before but he just chose to reject it because with endorsements come responsibilities like doing masterclasses and stuff like that....at least until now. he is now endorsed by tama under swee lee. another example i can give is Md Noor and he told me he never liked the idea of endorsements because you are being confined to what you are being endorsed by and you cannot simply add your own brand of instruments to your kit.Vick Veera(former SAF MDC drummer, tama endorsee) told me its a good and bad. when you cant play on a kit with the brand you are endorsed by you need to tape up every part of the kit which shows a hint of a different brand.
 
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