Why for such a great drummer seems difficult to learn such an easy song?

As technically advanced as Eloy is, this is a drastic style change for him. He's used to playing very aggressive metal, whereas the Foo Fighters have a very different feel.

Dave Grohl is also a very musical drummer but some of his parts are more difficult to execute than they sound.
 
SharkSandwich said:
As technically advanced as Eloy is, this is a drastic style change for him. He's used to playing very aggressive metal, whereas the Foo Fighters have a very different feel.

Dave Grohl is also a very musical drummer but some of his parts are more difficult to execute than they sound.
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Shouldn't be easier to play less complicated drum parts?
 
RLRL said:
Shouldn't be easier to play less complicated drum parts?
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Sure, for an accomplished drummer it will be easy to replicate the exact sticking pattern. Capturing the feel of the parts might be trickier.
 
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RLRL said:
Shouldn't be easier to play less complicated drum parts?
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He's not struggling because it's difficult to play, he's struggling because he doesn't know the song yet. It's easy drumming but there are a lot of "drum parts"; fills, changes, etc.
 
There is a big difference between technical ability to play a song and being able to learn a new song exactly quickly.

Drummers that do a lot of sessions and play with a lot of different bands often spend hours listening to and writing out charts for the songs. Very few drummers can just sit down hear a song once and nail it immediately without a few practice runs.
 
Many drummers have talked about having trouble with getting particular songs together. Some stepped aside to let session players or machines play on the problem track.
 
If you ask a really good guitar player if other players can capture the feel (not just the notes) of someone like SRV, you'll frequently get a not really response.

I agree with a couple of other comments already made.
 
DrumEatDrum said:
There is a big difference between technical ability to play a song and being able to learn a new song exactly quickly.

Drummers that do a lot of sessions and play with a lot of different bands often spend hours listening to and writing out charts for the songs. Very few drummers can just sit down hear a song once and nail it immediately without a few practice runs.
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Man did I need to read THIS today. It's a confidence booster actually.
 
Funny. I don't see it as him having trouble learning the song. I saw it as him being very particular about capturing it a certain way, pretty faithful to the original.

Some guys in this series just go in and play it their way, which is very cool. I felt like Eloy was expecting something different from his performance. I quite liked it.
 
There's lots of stuff on YouTube where accomplished drummers play songs they're unfamiliar with; my personal favourite is Larnell Lewis playing Metallica's "Enter Sandman", apparently having never heard it previously:oops:

After a single listen & taking some notes, he absolutely nails it; I appreciate that he's a very talented (& IMHO, genuinely humble & likeable) human being- I just wish I had 10% of his ability...:rolleyes:

I wonder if Lars has ever watched it & thought, "Maybe I should practice & up my game"???
 
Bozozoid said:
Man did I need to read THIS today. It's a confidence booster actually.
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It really hit me one day when I was hanging out with Livingdeaddrummer one day with one of the million bands he plays with. He had this huge notebook full of detailed handwritten charts from all the bands he is in.

It really hit me that's where my career went wrong. I'd write charts but I was always lazy about getting into too much detail. And that's why I didn't get all the gigs!
 
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