Extreme technicality

Frost

Frost

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This isn't a "is excessive technicality good or bad discussion", this isn't an argument about the place technical drumming has in music, nor is it a place to argue jazz vs metal or unreasonable tempo.

It's just a place to show off and discuss some absolute marvels of drumming as like it or not, some drummers are inhuman in their technical capacity.

This is an audio track from Czech band called Lykathea Aflame, while I don't love the music (some of it sounds wonderful to my ears but other parts are quite noisy), the drumming however is utterly mind blowing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dx8TP9UMX8
 
Frost said:
This is an audio track from Czech band called Lykathea Aflame, while I don't love the music (some of it sounds wonderful to my ears but other parts are quite noisy), the drumming however is utterly mind blowing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dx8TP9UMX8
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Sorry, as soon as the vocals came on, I had to turn it off!

Tommycanuhearme said:
Here's a cool video....notice the left hand, it's nothing but a blurr toward the end of the solo....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7SfAHRTys
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neat.
Tommycanuhearme said:
Another oldie but goodie....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faqbw96flWY
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Ah, I've heard of Barrett Deems, the so called "worlds fastest drummer", but I'd never actually seen a clip of him play. Nice chair solo!
 
DrumEatDrum said:
Sorry, as soon as the vocals came on, I had to turn it off!
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I understand that much at least, I don't love death growls, I find they can fit the music now and then, they serve a dynamic purpose occasionally, for example, growls and sopranos, growling is animalistic and because of that can have a certain power and quality to it, like a lion roaring, operatics are beautiful and together if done right the contrast can highlight the qualities of the other. Now and then it also serves to carry music from one part to another where the music is already very melodic and textured and adding further melody would be redundant.

There is actually singing in that song, I wish I could have just found the drummer but the band are fairly obscure, I can just tell you now that I've listened to a lot of technical metal before and Lykathea Aflame have some of the most insane drumming I've ever heard, John Longstreth kind of insane, it's impressive if not always musical.
 
I could not find any music in either one of those videos, just random notes played fast.
I find it kinda sad that this kind of garbage is so wide spread, remember what the Count said, "It don't mean a thing if it aint got that swing".
 
Good for you. Swing doesn't interest me. Give me dissonance and aggression any day of the week.
 
dairyairman said:
it's weird. that was a fairly impressive display of blasting and so on, but where is the bass drum?
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It's under there, you just can't hear it due to poor recording quality. The whole album was recorded on an acoustic kit, so if you look up the actual tracks you can hear what it sounds like. Needless to say, he's got some quick feet to match the hands.
 
I thought this was to be a thread about technique, instead it's turned into metal drummers which have no technique other than single stroke rolls done over and over, at least not any they are displaying in these videos.
Here's some technique for ya....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9fkAGwJcM
 
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I think speed is it's own technique, there are certainly techniques for kicking and stroking at those speeds in time. Feel free to post other techniques like you did, here is something from the non-metal end of the spectrum,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4hq3HY5t0o
 
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