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  • to.much.pedals.

  • laaaaaaaangweiiiiilig.........­

  • 01:10 Rambo

  • boring...its just noise

  • That's what i call a tin can of a drum kit!

  • I actually dig the sunglasses.

  • Amazing drummrr

  • @only77one yeah but George can play faster with his right leg than most people wish they could with both. The guy plays the drums quite well! But that just my opinion

  • Holy shit

  • looks like porn actor

  • @VisitPumpy This guy has no groove, it's a fact. In comparison to George Kollias HE looks like Lars Ullrich.

  • @Only77One That, sir, would be horribly incorrect. If you send me a message I'd like to provide you with some videos that will embarrass you for having said that.

  • BEAST!!

  • 4 snares & 7 tears ago...

  • Stupid critical assumptions. Just watch a full clinic of him, and you'll see how amazing he really is.

  • @thegrimreaper7 yeah, that's true. But my statement still stands.

  • @VisitPumpy not forgetting of course that mangini makes this guy look like ulrich.

  • @amithabajan2 In the last DT album, mike mangini makes mike mangini sound like lars ullrich

  • looove clear control sound with dot on top on snares!!!

  • 1:50 sounds like "Hot For The Teacher" lol

  • This kit sounds twice WAY better than his DW's. 

  • Anybody noticed that he never hits the ride?

  • I used to be impressed when I just got into music by any sound that came from drums or anything.

    But... yeah.. I mean... what the use of this?... This guy's practice-time?...

    It only got a little interesting in the middle when it started to get a rhythm...

  • not at his best

  • IT´S SO FUCKING GREAT *_____________*

  • He's like the evil guy in the movie "Zohan" xDDDD hahahaha

  • boring

  • How can people say this guy has no groove? Only drummer that is known for his speed and still has rhythmic prowess over any other drummer i've seen. Not to mention he makes portnoy look like lars ulrich.

  • @VisitPumpy "he makes portnoy look like lars ulrich"

    HAHA that's cold, but yeah...

  • @VisitPumpy portnony is more knowledgable in odd times than lang is.

  • @VisitPumpy SOooo True! For the people who want a quick fix for Groove, check out "It's a DW- Thomas Lang." Come on guys this is a Drum Festival. Drummers don't want to see Thomas play a groove, he does that effortlessly in his sleep. We want to see him do things we have only dream t of.

  • @VisitPumpy no this guy looks like lars ulrich, he does not sound good.

  • @Guitar1sti you are kidding right!? if not you have no knowledge about drumming

  • @VisitPumpy thats my favorite comment i have seen for months on youtube just for the portnoy , ulrich thing, and the fact is Lang does make Portnoy look like Ulrich , and i love Portnoy , another great drummer is Chad Szeliga (if you want to see a great drummer)

  • @VisitPumpy Haha. Nobody makes Portnoy look like Lars Ulrich. No need to peg down a world great on another world greats video. Theyre 2 different drummers.

  • @VisitPumpy Did you watch the Dream Theater drummer tryouts? Lang choked up in the middle of the jamming section. Couldn't get his head around their weird time signatures. I'm not a Portnoy fan myself, but you can't say this guy makes Portnoy look bad. He couldn't handle Portnoy's old gig. Though he is still an amazing drummer.

  • @Andrewfreak86 Bullshit. Thomas Lang can play anything Portnoy can backwards. The only drummers who weren't unfairly edited in those videos were the one they already wanted and the two they'd already worked with. Lang has an extensive body of work where he does all sorts of signatures.

  • @VisitPumpy Although I agree with what you said in the first part of your comment, taking random shots at other drums is immature.

  • booooorrred!!

  • Someone pokes Thomas at 1.00: "Mr. Lang, please... too much... just too much"

  • Thomas Lang is just plain sick!!!

  • LOL whose poking him at 01:00 ??

  • @metalmonkey007888 he probably only has a certain amount of time to play, they do this at guitar center drum off to let you know you have a certain amount of time left.

  • @metalmonkey007888 hahaha yeah wtf?

  • @metalmonkey007888 Its a classic signal on love shows for "You got 1 or 2 mins left".

  • @metalmonkey007888 Mean ''live'' whatever.

  • @metalmike83: Practice your comprehensive reading skills for a bit, maybe an hour or so. Once you have come back and read my comment again. Maybe then you'll realize I was talking style not skill.

  • Watched this guy straight after I watched Police's 6-part Regatte de Blanc docu. Sorry, but in comparison this is so dead-a*se effing boring, it simply couldn't do less for me in terms of excitement. There must be legions of drummers who can play as fast and as much and as intricate and all that as this guy but Copeland hits the hihat once and I know it's him. Copeland and the likes make me want to play drums, this guy makes me want to throw it all away and burn it.

  • @SpazzoTard Your name says it all....lmao...it's funny because you'd have to be a retard to think that Copeland is anywhere near this skill level. This guy can do everything Copleand can with one hand and one foot. Literally. As far as legions of drummers playing this goes...there's no one out there that can do this. No one out there can perfectly mimic this solo.

  • @SpazzoTard You're clearly not a drummer....

  • @SpazzoTard almost agree. lang have put a lot of effort in developing his great skill and he can speak understandable and in depth about music (rare!;p). he also found a learning method that i find useful. i really think he's a unique and creative drummer, still i find no pleasure in listening to him. i could watch it to try to pick up the tricks or just to say wow, but it's more of a circus-wow.

    copeland (not my fav) has groove and sound much more appealing, so there i hear music not 'drums'.

  • The best drummers in the world have that perfect balance of chops and soul. Drummers like Steve Gadd and Jeff Porcaro are all groove, whereas Lang and Jojo Mayer are the two most technically gifted players ever.

    Thats why the best drummers in the world are always gonna be that group of drummers that came from the 80's, incredibly quick but not generic, still so much soul and goove. Weckl, Colauita, Steve Smith, Dennis Chambers etc... One of those four. Oh and not to mention Benny Greb...

  • @Hitmanfan91 You who like good drums,search for KIKO FREITAS

  • @GabrielDhalaman Wow good find. Brilliant drummer.

  • insane

    

  • at 1:00 a guy tappes him on the sholder t tell him he's gone to long

    

  • @promaster901 that hand is creepy looking.

  • @dangerrat456 Yerr

    

  • yawn

  • @Samsgarden for a drummer that drums like half of year there's not mutch to this indeed.

  • @nopp1

    Sorry, T.L drums for half a year? It's hard to understand your post.

    I probably shouldn't have written 'yawn' but in all honesty, I get really tired of vacuous performances and this was one of them. It's trite.

  • @Samsgarden watch this one  /watch?v=r9bFPsVtXgY

  • envy... the more awesome a drummer gets, more zillions of stupid comments he gets... when you se "i hear no groove at all" in a solo like this... means that its a freaking good solo... if you read "joey jordison/the rev/travis barker is better" it means "this guy is a drum god", translated to retard language.

  • damn this is that it is a real drummer.

  • Thomas Lang RLLES!

  • why is the guy at 1:01 tapping him on the back:?

  • @feverfordrums to tell him he has so much time left for his slot

  • Que coordenação, que independência! Toca demais!

  • one word....AWESOME!

  • I mean I feel like at the end he develops it into a groove but yeah I mean he does have great technical skill

  • Love u...

  • What are those smaller cymbals in front of him? Are they splashes, chinas, or something else entirely?

  • @MapexIceCreamMan They are little chinas from meinl, they have weird edges though

  • His playing is incredible, beautiful, i love those patterns and phrases he did. Incredible, monster chops, and at one point in the solo he went into a great groove as well. I do wish he was playing Sabian instead of Meinl though lol.

  • Someone remind this dude that music is both notes AND rests....

  • I've totally disconnected from Thomas Lang...he took drumming to such an extreme that it now souds and looks like a circus act. He's got 6 o 8 pedals now? Ridiculous!

  • 0.o to much meinl...

  • Absofuckinglutely mental!

  • ese weii es un DIOS!!

  • holy shit this guy is fast

  • thomas lang is the most awful musician ever

  • He's got great technical skill... this is almost like a modern Buddy Rich... however there isn't any groove in so that just ruins the whole thing :/

  • there is a hand in 1:02, what is the meaning of that? ^,..,^

  • It seems crystal snares

  • Just epic skillz

  • DAVE WECKL RULES

    

  • eww i hate meinl users

  • Like it or not, it's completely ridiculous. He's gotta be one of the most technically proficient drummers ever. He's a master.

  • I bet you criticizers can't do better.

  • Aw C'MON! That shit's not even fair! That's fuckin' crazy!

  • the man can do what he wants

  • lol he's good and still he sucks so much

  • Dear performer, BRAVO! Exquisite! You are a very talented musician... And as an advice... Don't let fools judging your work... Leave their belittled, minimalistic concern behind you... They cannot touch your talent... Happy to here about real musicians. Good work. Thank you.

  • I think there's plenty of musicality in this. It all boils down to what you think of as musicality. I think it's creative and I can hear the beat, therefore I feel like it's musical. It's all opinion.

  • no musicality...

  • Watching him play is like watching an epic special effects movie - with no plot.

  • Is he in a band?

  • @MalikThomasDrumz i think he is the new dream theatre drummer but i´m not sure

  • ho avuto un orgasmo

  • Que pasada, increíble!!

    NICE!!!!!

    jo ara estic començant amb la bateria, i quan veig això comprenc que encara em queda mooolt!! jajaja

  • 3 snares...too much but awesomeness ensued so I'll let it slide

  • Caralho, Lang e maluco mesmo hehehehe

  • Technically brilliant but as usual Lang's solos never leave me breathless. There's just not enough creativity. That said, I can't take a thing away from those chops and in fairness this was way too short of a solo.

  • Who the hell needs 3 snare s ??? ?

  • @idogoofy Thomas Lang.

  • hes a good drummer, a very very very good drummer, but theres no soul in his solos, there all about technicality

  • he's freakin good, but i still dont know how ppl can drum with their left stick holding like that. =S

  • brilliant but those symbals are horrible especially the china

  • 11 people are blind?

  • 1:01 someone tapping him on the back? Oi... stop being so awesome?

  • @NoExitWoundUK and utterly deaf

  • @NoExitWoundUK

    yeah interesting point. Maybe there were reminding him of the time limit or something?

  • holy motherfucking tits

  • goddamn, youtube has some annoying people. stop babbling about how his drumming is "mindless" and "not musical." why the fuck are you watching a thomas lang video? thomas' drumming is about technicality, not groove. there are plenty of other drummers who you could rather be watching if you want something "musical." stop posting annoying comments like this and respect everybody's style.

  • he has 3 different snares!! haha awsome what are those cymbals??

  • @joak1too

    Meinl

  • Drums like Ginger Baker when he was a young man

  • boring!!! It's to much....

  • He is such an awesome drummer - why in the world does he need to cheat with those stupid bass pedals?

  • @tattoo39369 where is he cheating?

  • OH NO it's Arnold on the drums xD

  • Where can I find the full video!? I've seen this performance on DVD and it's supposed to be something like 10 minutes long

  • 2:06 ... he becomes an octopus...

  • max roach ftw

  • He is 'El pulpo'. Like Luis Conte said.

  • Thomas Lang is a fucking machine!!!

  • it's a drum solo... what's he supposed to do... play a jazz beat for 2 minutes...?

  • I just can't hear any music, sounds like a sewing machine to me. He'd do well in the Olympics!

  • Tremendous skills, obviously.... How many snares does he need?

  • O i didnt get to the rest of the video... :P

  • all hail to lang but it sounds like he's just smacking shit :S...with skill

  • hey if you think you can do better i would love to see your video of you playing better... go ahead and post one mr best drummer lol

  • jazz.. good..

  • oh god

    

  • THIS DUDE IS GOOD BUT I CAN DO THAT ALL DAY

  • @cabdrums1717 yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hahahaha...YYYYYyeeeeeeiiiiiii­iiii hee hee he he he he he he -...funiest think i've ever heard

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  • This is terrible.. there is no space. where is the groove? where is the feel?... mindless chops

  • @Funkify4 absolutely agree 100 % , and the worst bass drum sound

  • @Funkify4

    Chad Smith would suit you better, I suppose.

  • @Funkify4 still better than chris adler from 2005's festival.

  • @domdom87 chris who? LOL i just watched chris from 2005 and he is nothing compare to this

  • @Funkify4 Wish I could do mindless chops like this.

  • @GeOlicar Maybe in hundreds of years you could..

  • @Funkify4 Why the hate dude, if you'd seen much of Thomas Lang's playing you'd know that he is fully capable of grooving like Steve Gadd, but this is amazing too and he should be allowed to do fun stuff like this without a band of haters.

  • @rith5 Lang's chops are off the chart...but groove like Steve Gadd? No way. That is ridiculous. While I agree that the haters need to lighten up, comparing Lang's groove to Gadd's makes you sound like you don't know what you're talking about.

  • @rith5 Lang's chops are off the chart...but groove like Steve Gadd? No way. That is ridiculous. While I agree that the haters need to lighten up, comparing Lang's groove to Gadd's makes you sound like you don't know what you're talking about.

  • @Funkify4 ok, lets see your Modern drummer festival vid...

  • @Funkify4 It's all about technique here. And that's not a bad thing at all.

  • @Funkify4 I belive Its ment to be a showcase of skill! Not feel, or groove!

  • @Funkify4 I guess so but Thomas says in an interview that to him he appreciates this sort of stuff... he feels that drummers want to sit there and be like "wow, how did he do that". It's the only reason i guess.

  • @Funkify4 its what peope, want...

  • @BizliBoy then "people" don't know the real meaning of drumming

  • @Funkify4 I can agree with you! However Thomas Lang to me is the modern Buddy Rich! If you check out more on Thomas you'll see what I mean! The guy is a beast!

  • @Funkify4

    look up his vid mallory

    he obviously has chops...dumbass.

  • @Funkify4 The guy is good!! but I have to agree with you 100%

  • @Funkify4 At least he's got a liiiiittle more groove than Donati! Regardless, I agree..

  • @Funkify4 ITS CALLED A DRUM SOLO YOU FUCKING BRAINLESS MORON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Funkify4 shut the fuck up

  • @Funkify4 Im with you, ignore the rest (Y)

    

  • @Funkify4

    was the first thing i thought

  • @Funkify4 Agreed. I like space.

  • @Funkify4 I agree,as i was watching the video i was like "Sure,it LOOKS cool,but i don't feel any kind of beat."

  • @Funkify4 just like virgil donati

  • @Funkify4 no shit.....

  • @Funkify4 It's a solo man...

  • @Funkify4 He can still wreck on you, if you want melodic, he'll shove melodic right up your ass while doing the same fucking chops in a time signature

  • @Funkify4 I watched a few of your vids and you aren't doing anything special if that's even you playing...just keeping a beat, maybe some syncopated high hat here and there...big deal.

  • Oh, that crazy thomas lang and his pedals.

  • I know his solo's might not sound that great, but this dude is definitely one of the best teachers out there...I highly recommend his DVD's!

  • Wow, so many pedals!

  • I know that mightymerold. You must be an idiot if you thought I didn't know it was a solo. Dumbass.