Best drummer on earth

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[Big R]

im in the top 1000 for sure...

[Krusha]

buddy rich (dead but the legend)

dennis chambers

[Pennywise]

like someone said on page 1.
Joey Jordison.

[Krusha]

some of you guys really don't know drumming

While Joey Jordison is fast ... it's all to do with his double kick 1 2 , and hands 3 4 rolls

simple patterns, executed well

tony royston jr.

dennis chambers

virgil donati

these guys have extremley fast crossover speed on their arms, and if there are any drummers in this thread you know how strenuous this becomes

but for style, buddy rich is still king

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Krusha

simple patterns, executed well

This is a key aspect to drumming though, IMHO.

Basically, the way I see it, you have two types of drummers. Insane but sloppy, or ridiculously tight.

When I saw Les Claypool's solo show a couple years ago, he had two percussionists
-One was the drummer and fell into the latter category. The beats he kept were simple, but he had such incredible command over rhythm and beat that it might as well have been a drum machine pitched up. Pat Mahoney from LCD Soundsystem is probably the #1 drummer in that respect - Fast, hard, driving beats that don't lose the tempo any way shape or form.
- The other was a full-on percussionist, who had cowbells (I think he had an entire octave of cowbells), tambourines, xylophones and some drums and cymbals. He didn't have as tight as rhythm but he was WORKING it. A couple of points he was doing these nutso bits on the xylophone and threw in some cymbals. And by threw I mean literally. He throws his drumstick to hit the cymbal and catches it on the rebound and starts playing back on the xylophone with it. Quite spectacular.

There was one point that Claypool, his saxophonist (who was there in lieu of a guitarist) and the chick he had playing one of those chinese somewhere-between-a-scitar-and-a-steel-guitar instruments left the stage and just let the percussionists duke it out. Probably one of the more fantastic points of the show.

[pstylez]

Originally Posted by Krusha

some of you guys really don't know drumming

While Joey Jordison is fast ... it's all to do with his double kick 1 2 , and hands 3 4 rolls

simple patterns, executed well

tony royston jr.

dennis chambers

virgil donati

these guys have extremley fast crossover speed on their arms, and if there are any drummers in this thread you know how strenuous this becomes

but for style, buddy rich is still king

Very strenuous indeed. Buddy Rich and Danny Carey really impress me because of the complexity of the beats they lay. It is one thing to throw some beats with a recurring 1 or 2 measure pattern with a fill and basic beats, its completely another to have 4 one measure patterns followed by another differnt 4 with complex polyrhythmic fills and not to mention the patterns themselves are complex polyrhythms. Crazy drum patterns make my brain tickle.

[RochesterSS]

Wow not one person said Steve Gadd.

I don't even like Rock that much and I know he's the best Fucking morons

Steve Gadd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Drafted]

this guy.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by cubed

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