He's the WORLD'S GREATEST DRUMMER... And He's NOT Even Trying
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He's the WORLD'S GREATEST DRUMMER... And He's NOT Even Trying
One word PRACTICE.
Millions practice - One is Jordan!
Practice and the ability to turn off and not think about it. Most of my better riff's are from turning off and just playing. Not everyone has a internal sense of time though which he most definitely has with all of his limbs which comes from the amount of time he puts in.
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Telling people to practice drums to be like this guy is like telling runners to practice and they can win marathons. Some people are born with certain abilities that make them elite
Two words, show off
Your reactions to Estepario are totally enjoyable. EES works so f**king hard...constantly. Even so the creativity of his thinking is totally unique I think. Play as much of his content as you want. The reactions really are fun!
i would advise you to react to his Blinding lights cover... it is truly awe inspiring .. the most amazing tune ever. the reason why he is soo good on the drum is because he has complete and total limb independence it is truly a gift.
I was going to say this but Alex's head might explode!! LOL
Beat me to it
I disagree with his limb independence being a gift. This guy has spent the last 10 or 15 years working his ass off to get to this level. He is the first one to tell anyone it's not a gift, it's a skill of applied repetition and proper learning technique. Learning limb independence is slow and sloppy at first but repeating proper application is the key to skill. In time anyone can do this. He stresses this in a video he made saying talent and gift is bullshit, his practice produced his result.
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It's soooooooooo good
I was always amazed by my father who is an organist. Both hands playing multi-tiered manuals, as well as using both feet. On top of that he flicks switched to change tones, turns the sheet music over then also sings along! Bloody crazy how he does it.
I've been watching this guys videos a lot lately too. He is a mutant and very fun to watch.
Dont get discourage, you can have that too. The beard part.
Love your intro “unqualified” and show Biden. 😂😂😂 so true.
Loved the unskilled pic. Priceless
Amaizing !!! What a ton of talent and ability !!! The Goat !!!
00:50 Fukin love the JINGLES 😂😂😂🤘🤘🤘
I'm down for a 3 hour video! 😂
So Alex it's all about separation. It's like patting your stomach rubbing your head or vice versa. Separation is one of the things that very great drummers have where they can keep time with one part of their body as well as using other things but there is a lot of skill. For me he was actually playing paradiddles with a tap-in between to keep the time.
The only drummer I know who I've seen play with that many pedals are either Terry Bozzio or Flo Mounier. Flo was (is?) the drummer for Canadian death metal band Cryptopsy and he was one of the original extreme metal drummers who emerged from the 80s/90s.
Last time I checked, Terry had 20+ pedals. But he is also an alien, so that makes sense I guess. Saw him in a solo concert a couple of years ago and it was just insane how many polyrythmic odd time ostinatos he had going at once.
Start watching his full covers.I recommend Blinding Lights and Knight's of Cydonia
Blinding Lights, you will not be disappointed!!
Go watch any of his full covers of songs, all of them are dope, Blinding Lights, Bongo Song, all of them are crazy. Or go for his compilations.
🎉🎉🎉🎉😂! Sir Alex! He is just doing that for fun and to piss People off! Cause, why not! He is the effing groovefather! He can do what ever he wants!! 😂😂😂🎉
This dude did Slipknot - Eyeless WITH ONE FKIN HAND
Bro..I freaking love you!!! He's awesome, but ur hysterical!!!
Stop feeling inadequate and just admire his skill like the rest of us do.
He's mastered limb independence and has amazing time keeping. Takes TONS of practice and discipline. It's incredibly frustrating while you're learning. focus on locking one pattern at a time.
I can’t walk and chew gum at the same time and I have to watch this guy.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
too funny bro 😂😂😂😂 love the reaction
You should watch his “Blinding Lights” cover its amazing!
Love this dudes 1 handed videos
He’s standing on the shoulders of giants with this one. thomas lang is undeniable and did a solo, with his foot pattern doi by something similar. El is a bad boy right there. I’m sure Thomas would have a huge smile on his face
I am a drummer, of course I am nowhere near the level of this dude, however, everything he is doing is a learnable skill with the right prep. There was a time when the blast beat was young and few of us could pull it off, but then tens of thousands of drummers learned what and how to practice and they applied the technique, now everyone and his brother can blast beat.
This guy is on the cutting edge of next level drumming and he is giving his technique away for free.
In five or so years many of us will be doing similar work with properly applied prep and thousands of hours of ppractice included for muscle development.
Blinding lights
He has worked for years through repetition and practice to be able to play this stuff. In other words he's earned it. And he is incredible at his craft.
McFly always said that if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything ✌🏼
I'm a drummer and that requires a loooooot of practice, but is doable. What he's doing in this video is not particulary hard, the pattern is relatively simple... what's hard is having the coordination and resilance to keep it up consistant, clean and seemingly effortless.
he is so incedible
Looks complicated but its relatively simple if you break all the parts down and practice them individually its doable that being said this guy is incredible I dont have the amount of his skill and practice to be able to do that at the same tempo
The blessed problem he has is that he makes you addicted to watching his videos because they are so impressive and he always surprises you. i dont think that any others drummers can play like him
Good luck Alex with your channel ✌
*ALEX!!!!* my man, u have been a Slipknot fan for such a long time, and yet u NEVER LISTENED TO "THE BLISTER EXISTS"??? its some of Joey's BEST DRUMMING and some of Slipknot best work!
don't sleep on this one plz (please dont do the music video, do the audio is way better) is probably their most headbanger song
also do "THREE NIL" probably the most underrated song from the same album one of their best and most underrated songs overall that doesn't get enough love, also they're from 2004!!! 19 years ago! Some of their earlier work, the instrumental is amazing and Corey sounds really young which I rly like, not trying to comparing this "new" Slipknot from nowadays to the old Slipknot but like the old Slipknot just hits different, these 2 songs are SO headbanger! Like super headbanger! Break yo neck listening to them (not literally)
Also
Listen to System a down self titled songs: MIND and War?(audio, not music videos) PLEASE
Up
yes
My fav.entertainers in UA-cam right now? El Siberiano for all of his talent and you Alex for your versetaile ways of comenting him - now that blows my mind all the Time 👍👍👍💜🔥💜🔥💜🤟🌈🖖😘😘😘😘
Wow, thank you!
You gotta do his Blinding Lights cover ! It's truly a sight to behold !!
Your reaction is priceless 😂😂😂
bro lost his mind completely 🤣🤣🤣
Another drummer video you might find interesting is 'Domino Santantonio Hears Slipknot For The First Time' found on the Drumeo UA-cam channel. Domino, a pop music drummer, is challenged to come up with a drum track for a Slipknot song she has never heard, using a drum-less version of the song.
The best part is he is just taking a piss. He does this shit to fuck with us. It's part gift, part practice, part tenacity, and part attitude.
he's hella creative ! MAAAAAAAAN
It is a lot of practise. Please try to get a drum lesson from him.
Great content as usual
And yes they do make more than double pedals some pedals run other things like cowbells tambourines and assorted but now they're becoming more prevalent in bass drumming there's a triple head pedal with a single on one side and then there's a quad pedal you can do in design anything you like. If you want to hear Terry bozzio original drummer for missing persons has a huge drumset where he plays solas but he also plays a cymbal drum set which is incredible. Give it a listen sometime
HAHAHA, LIKE U~I My MAN?, He Don't Even Know HOW FN FUNNY He IS! LMAO ! MUCH LOVE LIL CUZ 🤪😜😛🤓😎🤯🥳🤠, PL&M ERY~1...
You NEEEEEED to check out Matt Garstka's drum playthroughs of Animals as Leaders. he has such an incredible musicality to his playing
The thing about Matt though is his stuff goes way over most peoples head
He’s a machine!
Did anybody else think that sounded really close to Incubus - Follow from the Halo 2 sound track?
Also think about his foot movements and even hand's like ball room dancing. Specially the dances from Spain and Mexico. Or even tap dancers. Both use rapid foot movement and specific placement.
he said something to haters like "if you practiced half the time you spend bitching, you'd be just as good" or something like that... but you're not wrong, it's mindblowing
0:07 lol
Four peddles now 😂mind blown
Love your reactions man! Answers to some questions you asked before punching yourself in the face😂:
1. Actually there’s no polyrhythm in this video, just amazingly using 16th notes in many ways / patterns. (Really hard to preform)
2. If you wanna see lots of pedals, check out Mike Mangini’s drumkit in the “Distance over time” tour (Dream Theater), every pedal has a purpose, but still lots of them 😂😂
This dude (Estapario) is incredibly skilled thanks to years and years of practice, very clean technique and a very clean sound. This is a lesson to all of us that says “just go and practice”
Cheers 🍻
heh heh heh
People with 'Mad skills' ALWAYS make it seem so easy!
Gotta appreciate and respect 'em even more!
:-)
The foot pedal action sounds like the beginning of NIN 'Head like a hole' on its own.
The footwork is actually deceptively simple. Both his feet play the same pattern but his left foot is one 16th note behind.
he has the most insane limb independence I’ve ever seen.
This guy is a really good drummer. You also wanted to know about any other drummers who use more than two-foot pedals. Well, the only other drummer I've seen who uses more than two like this drummer is using would be jazz drummer Thomas Lang. He uses 4-foot pedals and sometimes 5. And he plays them of all. He also has videos on UA-cam. I'm a musician too and play 3 different instruments and also do vocals, and drums is one of the three instruments that I play, and I can't do a lot of the things that I see both this guy and Thomas Lang do. They're both incredible, along with jazz drummer Buddy Rich.
Haha you don't think about it, it just comes to you after lots of practice!
"El est-eh-par-io sib-er-e-an-o" i know you're trying 😂😂😂😂
Alex, you should react to some of the compilations of his, instead of just one video at a time. His one handed drum videos are the best!!
Must watch his Blinding Lights video
What's special about playing drums is how the brain shifts modes. Imagine a vertical line splitting your body in half right in the middle. This is how our brain splits our body in our everyday lives: left and right. But when you play drums, your brain has to split your body with a horizontal line at the waist so that it's thinking: upper and lower body. Once you've done that, coordination becomes easier.
As someone who used to drum, the hardest thing you have to teach yourself is letting your feet and hands move independently. Even the SIMPLEST beats you can learn, single strokes on the high-hat with alternating Bass /Snare, simple beat, you're gonna want to hit something at the same time as your hand on the high-hat, and learning not to is hard! Seeing this guy do a foot pattern is like "ok, I get that, I could learn that", but keeping that moving for however long you wanna go and let your hands do some sorta thing up top that isn't at all like your feet is INSANE.
The way his legs and feet move reminds me of the marionettes from Team America movie lol
I have a friend who i think could do this. he's been playing 40 years. We were best friends in school. He always wanted to play drums. I got a drummer to give him a lesson. He could play the first time he sat down. The guy got mad and kicked us out. He thought we were messing with him.
You said the key word of this guy "success"; PRACTICE. If you want to be a successfull on something you have to practice. I beleive he practices 8 hours a day. He doesn't think talent even exists, it's just practice, dedication and love for what you do........ pluss, he recordes 300 times every video.
I personally think talent does exist but you have to acquire through practice, dedication and true passion and not a gift or something natural. I used to draw a lot and sometimes people would tell me I had natural talent or that I was gifted and in my head I'm like "Mf, I spent 5 years drawing everyday to be able to do this!!"
Some people may have an advantage over others due to biology but that means nothing without practice and passion still.
I play drums, but this dude has a whole other level of skill on the drums
I need to see him and The Dooo do a collab together
it's extreme multi-tasking, and most drummer's use a bass pedal an a hi-hat pedal, so two is what most drummer' use
So if you're using a double base peddle with individual head peddles and a hihat you already have 3 peddles, adding a 4th honestly wouldn't be as bad as you might think, just the logistics of how to get that new peddle in a comfortable enough spot that you can get at easily enough and then lots of hours of practicing adding in the change over to the new peddle.
Bro you can't even spell pedal, you don't get a say
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha@@incogneeto2418
@@incogneeto2418 you right, I cant spell lol 😆
Def Leppard's drummer has this mastered
@@musickfyes he has. But, he's one arm short, so he Had to learn how to Master this (playing with multiple pedals)... ESS though, doesn't have any excuse, other than..... he Can. 😄😄😄
His Misery Business cover is wonderful
He's overdoing it, as usual.
A 12 y/o girl did a better cover than him. With more musicality, dynamics and, above all, in the service of the song:
ua-cam.com/video/V-EXhg0m-3s/v-deo.html
I've seen a lot of his videos. He's really good
I have 3 pedals, 2 bass and 1 hi-hat. that is the basic setup for most metal drummers. left is 1 hi-hat plus 1 bass and right is the primary bass for single notes.
Bro! He’s the Chen Siyuan of drumming. It’s crazy how he can do that. He’s a total badass.
I learnt many years ago that some things cannot be unseen......so, no I haven't seen 2 girls 1 cup.
His one handed drumming can't be beat. IDK how he does it
Man this dude is out of this world every time I saw the new videos is like WTF
If you look closely even though he is moving his right foot the pedals are still moving on there own because they are connected to the left pedal which you can't see because of the angle! Also there is a bar that stretch's over to the right side you just cannot tell exactly what its connected to!
Thanks for this, you are hilarious 😂 If you feel up to it, I would highly recommend watching him playing his drumaphone that he built himself and plays with rubber kitchen spatula’s!
I'm not a drummer, but all my friends are musicians including few professional drummers and via them I understand drumming and different techniques fairly well.
Usually drummers have either two or three pedals (Bass + hi-hat) and in some cases they might have fourth for some special reason.
EES has "jingles" as 4th pedal and has replaced hi-hat with snare. It's semi easy to come up with beat with that set, so all that's needed is some foot dexterity and I'm 100% sure that he has just had a "leg day" on training and found something fun, added some accents with hands and there's a new video.
I mean, that's how I see his content; as a progress diary.
Your sense humour tho 😂
I like your reactions
Tbh:
It!
Is!
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BEARD!!!
check this one out THE BONGO SONG - DRUM COVER - SAFRI DUO
You've gotta graduate from his shorts into the full song covers.
Bro! You said it at the beginning. Hard work, practice, skill. The more you practice and put in the effort the better your skill level increases. If you put your mind to it you can do anything. He is proof
not true. not everyone can do anything. there are actual limits to this game.
@@primeryai I strongly disagree. If you think that way then you definitely won’t achieve anything. Prime example, Stephen Hawking. In his 20s, prime of his life, he got sick. It eventually cost him the ability not only to move his body parts but his ability to speak. Now if there ever was someone who could give up and no one would ever be upset with it’s him. Instead of giving up, he brought a team of engineers together to build what he designed so he could continue living as unimpaired as possible. Arguably the smartest man of our time. He passed away a few years back and his contributions are still held in high regard today.
@@SteveCoronado2 You don't think there was anything exceptional about Hawking? You could do what he did if you wanted to?
@@primeryai which part? Kind of a vague question if I’m honest but generally speaking if that’s what interested me and I was passionate about it, absolutely-faqing-lately!!!
@@SteveCoronado2 You're missing my point. I didn't say you can't achieve a whole lot with the right mindset, discipline etc.
I said there ARE limits. Not everyone is Mike Tyson, or Mozart, or Simone Biles, or Björk - or Hawking, even if you think you're potentially on his level.There are vast individual differences in human race, as well as more modifiers than I could ever list.
But I hope you're putting your omnipotence to a good use!
I don't believe that 1% could even do that bc my mind's blown! But im not a drummer, so idk. I'm sure many will argue about the "best drummer", it's semantics. He's incredibly talented and deserves the recognition without question! ✌️
It depends on your personal preference when it comes to setup. I have a double bass pedal and then the third pedal operates my high high hat
His hands: paradiddles. His feet: God mode.
Mike Shinoda released a solo song called Already Over that sounds a lot like Linkin Park and BMTH released Darkside, another song for their upcoming EP, you'll love both I'm sure
8 hours of practice per day = unparalleled mastery
Alex, you absolutely have to check out Austin Archey.
Also, you absolutely can learn this stuff. As an example: I'm 10 years into playing guitar And I can play through In flames The end without an issue. I never thought I'd make it this far. It takes a long time to learn an instrument, but anyone can do it with enough practice. I have enormous respect for drummers, because the levels of coordination are beyond me, but I feel like I could get it with practice. Shame it's too expensive for me.
Have you watched his non drumming videos? Even if you do so off stream, check them out. Most inspiring thing about him is how honest he is with his own struggles and journey. Amazing person.
3:28 I can... in my dreams, thats why i wake up always tired
Check his one handed drumming haha
I've seen such things from Thomas Lang, he is amazing, but not a lot drummers can do so!
Drumming is co-ordinated disco-ordination. Four limbs doing something different at the same time; in time. This guy just takes that concept to a whole new level. The drum kit is, I believe, the only instrument on which a single player can play two time signatures at the same time. A polyrhythm. If you watch is feet it looks like that's what he's doing. Again, he's taking it to a new level.
Sorry to say!, but this is nothing new, Thomas Lang has done it, Grant Collins has done it, Terry Bozzio has done it, and many more, just check some of the artists I've mentioned...
@@hybrid8253Wish people wouldn’t sleep on Virgil…
i wonder if what he is hearing is the clicks. i play drums its all counting really and practicing. hell yeah dude he is gifted. i take his lessons then try to go do it myself lol
most drummers use one or maybe two pedals depending on what kind of music they play. Rarely i've seen three. Four is excessive but the elite can handle it. Check out Terri Bozzio''s kit. Man has like 50 pedals
Personally I have four pedals: double bass, one primary hihat and one secondary (remote) hihat. From left to right it's left hihat pedal, slave double bass, primary double bass, remote right hihat. I play ambidextrously, not quite on this man's level, but I have been at it for over 30 years. Practice is the difference with a pinch of natural talent.