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Jazz Drummer Improvs Nirvana’s “In Bloom”

Jazz Drummer Improvs Nirvana’s “In Bloom”

We enjoy watching Drumeo’s series, where they ask musicians to create the drum track for a song they’ve never heard. In this session, they challenged Julliard jazz professor Ulysses Owens Jr. to perform the Nirvana song In Bloom. Ulysses’ interpretation both touches on the original and adds some new flourishes compared to Dave Grohl’s original.

Chad Smith Improvs Thirty Seconds to Mars

Chad Smith Improvs Thirty Seconds to Mars

(PG-13: Language) Drumeo frequently invites percussionists to improvise rhythms to songs they’ve never heard or played before. In this session, they asked Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith to take on the Thirty Seconds to Mars song The Kill (Bury Me), and he totally nailed it despite his lack of familiarity with the track.

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Drumming to Any Song

Drumming to Any Song

Richard Rey aka Office Drummer, has a unique skill. He accepts song requests, then live streams an improvised drum beat regardless of whether or not he’s played it before. His performances include Beastie Boys’ Intergalactic, Outkast’s Hey Ya!, Green Day’s Brain Stew/Jaded, and MGMT’s Electric Feel.

Timothy Fletcher: Drum God

Timothy Fletcher: Drum God

Musician Timothy Fletcher is one of the most talented drummers we’ve encountered. Here, he shows off his mad snare drum skills as he juggles his sticks and swaps some out in the middle of the performance. Be sure to check out his TikTok or Instagram channels for more amazing drumming.

Dennis Chambers Plays Tool

Dennis Chambers Plays Tool

Percussionist Dennis Chambers has performed with acts including Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, George Duke, and CAB. Drumeo challenged the legendary jazz-funk musician to listen to Tool’s Schism for the first time ever, after which he improvised a killer new drum track.

Rockin’ 1000: My Hero

Rockin’ 1000: My Hero

During a performance in Paris, France, a group of 1000 musicians gathered to pay tribute to late drummer Taylor Hawkins with an epic performance of the Foo Fighters’ track My Hero. A few years back, Rockin’ 1000 played the Foo’s Learn to Fly.

Low-budget Drum Kit

Low-budget Drum Kit

If you look around, you can find a bargain-basement drum kit for about $200. But if even that’s not in your budget, you could do what Deden Noy did, and make your own drums from plastic buckets, water bottles, scrap metal, and packing tape. Check out his YouTube channel for more performances.

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Drummer Learns Enter Sandman

Drummer Learns Enter Sandman

Crazy as it sounds, Snarky Puppy drummer Larnell Lewis says he never heard the Metallica track Enter Sandman before now. But it didn’t take much time for him to pick up the rhythm, which he proved with a flawless performance right after his first listen in this video from Drumeo.

YYZ Blindfolded

YYZ Blindfolded

The 1981 Rush instrumental track YYZ is known for its intense rhythm track, but that didn’t stop musician Mitch Bruzzese from performing the daunting track live for his Twitch followers – while wearing a blindfold for the entire 4+ minute song.

Ants in My Eyes with Drums

Ants in My Eyes with Drums

Drummer David Dockery’s latest rhythm-matching exercise lines up his drumbeats with one of the many classic improv bits from Rick and Morty, as the duo tunes into one of the multiverse’s infinite TV channels, and encounters a salesman with an eye problem.

Family Guy with Drums

Family Guy with Drums

Drummer David Dockery continues his series in which he synchronizes his drumming with dialogue, this time adding some rhythm to the words of Peter Griffin. We’re still not sure that he can actually drum all 50 states in a 1/4 of a second though.

Willy Wonka with Drums

Willy Wonka with Drums

Drummer David Dockery is back with another rhythmic reinterpretation of a classic scene. This time, he transposed the dialogue from the famous fizzy lifting drink argument from Willy Wonka into a drumbeat. Listen to the beat without the voices here. “I said GOOD DAY!”

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Two Drummers, One Kit

Two Drummers, One Kit

Their stage schtick is cheesy, but that takes nothing away from the talents of these dueling percussionists as they both play on the same drumset during a performance of the classic surf tune Wipeout! by Rich K. and the Allnighters, featuring drummer Steve Moore.

It’s Always Drummy in Philadelphia

It’s Always Drummy in Philadelphia

Drummer David Dockery synced up his rhythms to match the dialogue from Charlie’s Pepe Silvia meltdown on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It’d be cool if he did a live performance like this with scenes from a bunch of TV shows and movies playing on a big screen.

Backflip Drum Solo

Backflip Drum Solo

Night Verses drummer Aric Improta shows off an impressive bit of showmanship in which he performs a backflip between two drum kits, and manages to keep the rhythm going with only the briefest of pauses in his solo.

Ice Drumming

Ice Drumming

Back in 2012, percussion group ЭТНОБИТ (Ethnobeat) transformed the sheets of ice on Siberia’s frozen Lake Baikal into a wondrous natural musical instrument. The recording engineer for this clip deserves just as much praise as the musicians.

You’re So Stupid!

You’re So Stupid!

In order to truly enjoy the comedic timing of the kid drummer in this brief video clip, you must make the assumption that the other kid injured nothing more than his ego. After you do that, it’s comedy gold.

Busker Techno Rave Party

Busker Techno Rave Party

Street performer Dario Rossi demonstrates his impressive rhythm and improv skills as he uses a variety of found objects as surrogate drums on the streets of Rome, Italy. Just one question: is he rushing or dragging?

Multitasking

Multitasking

“I’m an obsessed marathon runner and an out-of-work drummer. I’m not particularly good at either.” That’s how Brendan likes to describe himself as he gets in a little workout while he practices his percussive skills.

The One-Handed Drumroll

The One-Handed Drumroll

This street performer starts out with a solid demonstration of his pickle-tub drumming skills, but amps things up to percussion level 9000 when he busts out a lightning-fast, single-handed drumroll at the end.

U.S. vs. South Korea Drum-off

U.S. vs. South Korea Drum-off

The drum crew from the U.S. III Marine Expeditionary Force challenged the Republic of Korea Army Band to a battle of the bands. The Koreans shot first, but the Marines came right back and gave them a taste of their own medicine.

A Drum Beatin’

A Drum Beatin’

Under no circumstances do we condone any sort of violence towards children, so despite the title of this post, you can rest assured that no harm came to the boy who served as a surrogate drum kit for Atticus Avenue drummer Brad Kuehner.

Drumming with FirePixels

Drumming with FirePixels

While it’s not nearly as perilous as playing drums with your drumsticks on fire, we still were entertained by drummer Tyler Williams showing off LiveSpark’s FirePixels which can map digital triggers to fire an array of propane torches.

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