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  • Just to inform anyone not aware, he does in fact have a lot of experience across all styles.

    Wouldn't win all those awards if he could only play rock/metal.

  • seems like a great dvd for shadows fall fans that are also drummers... i'd buy it too but there are very many other dvds that i'd buy first if i had the money

  • doesn't impress me at all. he's not bad, but not "dvd lessons" material.

  • 1:00... he's wearing a Death Angel shirt. Haha, right on!

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  • people are vicious man, regardless of his skill level he is a pro, the are many excellent musicians out there that will never leave their garage. People are hater on youtube land where everyone is an expert.

  • honest....but you suck

  • 1:20 tribal beat

  • ow shut up with the jealous shit.. has bin voted best metal drummer of 2005 by the best drum festival in the world (Modern Drummer) and they are right you are just opinions

  • @nopp1 in the 2005 the real winner was chris adler...jason was just a consolation gift

  • @afheadra he got the prize for best metal drummer of 2005 not Chris.

  • @nopp1 Wrong, he got it in 2004 and Chris got it in 2005, he just presented it to him.

  • @nopp1 mm yeah misstype but still he's a great metal drumming so why are they hating so mutch on him

  • @afheadra mm yeah misstype but still he's a great metal drumming so why are they hating so mutch on him

  • never really liked shadows fall, or the kinda stuff he plays, but not going to deny, he's a class drummer.

  • Wonder how bad the tornadoes were near Shadows Fall's practice space in Springfield,MA on June 1st?

  • Well I just watched the video... why can't people just watch it and shut the fuck up. The comments ruined the whole video for me.

  • dude is bad at best, and the band is terrible

  • @wezthapez What you are saying, in essence, is that the users should be paying for YouTube, not companies.

    Sure, ads are annoying, but I can put up with them considering they are what keeps YouTube free to use!

  • alot hilarious arguing in here, but i like his setup.

  • you can say he sucks all you want...hes not like overly amazing, but better and more successful than any of you will ever be ;)

  • wow his kick pedals are really loose and his kick skins are really tight

  • Also, get rid of the gloves. If your hands are blistering up, you're holding the sticks wrong. I've seen tons of faster drummers who don't wear gloves, so speed is not an excuse.

  • well hes a decent drummer, good enough for the bands he plays in, but I wouldn't spend money on his dvd. There's dozens of more seasoned drummers, with better technique and sense of musicality, which you should learn from. Do yourself a favor and learn to play drums from someone else. You're not gonna learn very much from washed up metal beats.

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  • @tcslick420 I think that all drummers can show you something that can help you in your drumming,and he seems a very good drummer...anyway,your opinion

  • Hahah, that blastbeat sucked. Ass.

  • WANKER! nice gloves too, what a tool XD

  • jasons a supper good drummer!!! end of story!!

  • What's more faggoty? Gloves or drummer here?

  • @realdrummer110 Dave Grohl wore gloves too, so you can kiss my ass.

  • @Chameleonizer Grohl? So what? Just another overtaed drummer and guitar player

  • @realdrummer110 Just because he played simple beats with Nirvana doesn't mean he's not one of the most influential drummers of the 90's and today.

  • @Chameleonizer What's more faggotty...Gloves or Nirvana?

  • @realdrummer110 My private drum teacher Chris Milillo (you can find him on the internet and youtube) taught me how to play Nirvana when I was 12 because it's great technique for drummers to play rock beats, so clearly you don't know what it means to be a drummer.

  • @Chameleonizer Yeah Nirvana was pretty good for rock beats. But if someone doesn't progress from there like Dave didn't\?

  • @realdrummer110 From there, I learned to play other styles like Funk (Tony Royster Jr.), Metal (Jason Bittner, Chris Adler), and now I'm trying to learn guys like...dare I say...MIKE PORTNOY :O

  • @Chameleonizer Mike Portnoy? hahaha. Loser. All mike does is quads. An overplaying quad fucktard.. Bullshit influence kid. Go learn from dennis Chambers Billy Cobham Steve gadd or Greb or Weckyl.. All make Mike useless as tits on a bull..

  • @realdrummer110 mike is a good drummer, although i agree he uses that lick WAY too much. but his prog drumming is still ... impressive... not as awesome as virgil donati, but impressive.

  • @drummakid101 ?? many drummer use open handed blast beats, mike smith for one, george kollias for another, flo mornier, trey williams, john lonstreth, hannes romain goulon...the list goes on. your right this jason bittner is a poser metal drummer, buh open handed blasts are for pussies

  • Skankass and useless.

  • shut the fuck up and stop shitting about his blast beats!!! it's so clear that he didn't go in that way. if you really want to good blast beats you have to work so much and you have to exercise with you weak hand. it's clearly he can blast with his right hand but with the left he can't.

  • Blasts are not even Jason's playing style, of course they're not going to be as good as the others. From what his style is however, imo he does exceptional and keeps simplicity to the point and still fun to watch

  • This guy blasts in an open-handed way. Pussy.

  • poser gloves haha

  • his precision and power are unique

  • Blastbeat was not good :/

  • jason is an exellent drummer!! all his shit comes form his heart! so f*ck off critics you dont even know shit about drums

  • God damn the warlord bell brass sounds perfect. Good thing i'm saving for one lol

  • what is that for at 1:47 ??????????

  • @masterof94 for song ??????

  • his blast beats are perfectly solid, yes they are only 16ths and not 32nds like behemoth or something, but for the type of metal shadows fall is he's completely solid. For example Lars Ulrich is not that great of a drummer and probably couldn't blast beat that well either, but for the style of metal they play blast beats are not that much required.

  • when i heard his ride at 0:55, i knew i'd never play Mb8, Mb10, or Mb20

  • i wanna have his set

  • @hudsonmusicdvd what the name of the song at 1:53?

  • @thedrumsking235997 its called redemption by shadows fall

  • he is a good drummer but he's blast beat I have too say the that is blast shit no blast beat

  • You wanna know why you think his blast beats suck?

    He was doing them in three's.

    You're all morons. Congrats.

    Learn music theory before you douche up youtube.

  • @BLdrummer740 finally someone calling these non-classically trained morons out, and i'm so sick of people saying that Portnoy is so much better.... THEY'RE DIFFERENT DRUMMERS DAMMIT! thank you infinitely for your attempt at cleaning up this BP-esque douche spill

  • @BLdrummer740

    I thought they were a bit sloppy until I paid attention to them and realized you were right, this guy is not the bad drummer that half these dumbfucks on youtube make him out to be lol.

  • @BLdrummer740 Learn what a blast beat is before you accuse others of douching up youtube you douche. Whatever hes playing in, its not locking up. His hands are accenting a triplet feel, but his feet aren't in sync. Regardless...it sounds like shit and if I heard that on an album I would laugh. Weak ass blast beat.

  • @andrewk31 It's a poly-rhythmic blast beat.

    Go to college and take a music theory course.

  • @BLdrummer740 Ok, as long as you promise to go and take some playing lessons. Again...you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, they don't teach you about blast beats in school retard haha. That blast beat is shit, and so are you.

  • @andrewk31

    I'm going to assume that you grew up listening to horrible blast beat music all of the time and you've never taken the time to listen to real music. So let me give you a few tips.

    Go to a school for music. Let them break all of the lame habits you've created such as your poor grip, you're uneven strokes, and you're awful attitude.

    Then start playing four mallet marimba, take some lessons on excerpts from orchestral pieces for the xylophone.

    Come talk to me when you're done.

  • @BLdrummer740 Dude...I just checked your profile...quit while your ahead, and stop giving me life advice, i'm older than you haha.  That blast sounds like shit and theres 42 other people who totally agree.

  • @andrewk31

    And you probably have one solid style that you can play. Way to be, man. Way to be. Out of those 42, think back to how many would have read my comment, thought about it, then recanted their dislike. And don't say none of them would have. Also, check the overall statistical ratings. 120 to 40. Three times the amount of likes to dislikes. I listened to some of your recordings, too. Blast-beats all day every day, huh? You're going to make it pretty far there bud.

  • @BLdrummer740 Thanks man, that means a lot coming from someone of your status. I love you...you're so supportive, without you I would be lost. <3 Will you be my valentine? I promise you can cry on my shoulder and wipe your tears on my shirt.

  • @andrewk31

    And no, I'm not done. Listen to the blast beat. Listen to it over and over again. Listen to the metronome. Triplets. Shit tons of triplets. There's a reason he's making DVD's and you're making youtube videos.

  • @BLdrummer740 yep triplets.they need to go back to school

  • @BLdrummer740 He obviously knows more then you considering the fact he is in a band that is famous and you are stuck in ur moms basement jacking off all day

  • @TSfutbalplaya

    I love it when people such as yourself assume I live in a basement and wank all day.

    It's not hard to do a little research before you post something on youtube. You now appear to be a tool.

  • @BLdrummer740 The fact that he blasts in threes does not change the fact that hes not playing it well.

  • @BLdrummer740 His blasts don't sound bad at all

  • haha this dude sucks. i know 18 year olds who don't have fancy seats and gloves and their hair tied back, who are 100 times better, more creative and faster than this guy.

  • This dude makes mIke Portnoy look great ...Believe it or not!!! Skankwad and dickreedish is the best compliment possible for scumbuckets like this.

  • I think people who put bile up for comments also suck. But thanks to your ilk, I have gigs! Thanks!

  • tht blast beat is simply just appaling just pure crap

  • shadowsfall suck

  • Well...

    This guy is the drummer of a n average Heavy-Metal-band.

    His most famous video on YouTube is a 2 minute show of him failing to keep a simple 4/4 beat during a solo. He tries to sell his "metalfy"-stuff as a very special, innovative thing but in fact it is just a poor excuse, a euphemism to cover the simple fact that he has absolutely no feeling for the grooves he mutilates here. And those "blast beats" suck ass. So... who needs this dvd? I don't. And you shouldn't either. Go see JoJo (;

  • @MrBlastBeast Well put.

  • @MrBlastBeast, im a metal drummer but i much rarther watch drummers like gavin harrison or carter beauford when it comes to drum solos. 16th note speed solos bore me!

  • @MrBlastBeast ok what the fuck 1 he did not get off beat in that solo 2 ur a retard 3 his blast beats are some of the best beats that are artound buddy rich would get killed by him 4 ur a homo 5 this dvd can teach faggots like u to stop being so fucking judjmental learn how to play and instrument so that u can move out of ur parents basement stop working at burger king and get a mother fucking life ass hole 6 ur a chode chomper shit faced loser

  • @MrBlastBeast, jason is a metal drummer. you are not. he is famous. you are not. he plays big sold out shows. you do not. he's a very followed drummer for being "original". you are not. he goes on tour. you do not. those "blast beats" he plays just as a normal drummer would, but he plays it 2-footed, not 1-footed like Kollias or Roddy.

  • It amuses me how a lot of you guys try to bash me, just because i criticized their famous idol. ^_^ You all are just being polemic all the way. No serious arguments on the subject itself. Just plain bashing and insulting. Just two things for you: 1. Fame is not necessarily a result of talent. 2. Don't tell me to get some more lessons or stuff, better take them yourselves. Because eventually you may hear the sloppiness in his playing. But yeah, i'm just a jealous fag.

    Stupid fanboys...

  • @MrBlastBeast you are awesome :-D

  • @MrBlastBeast you know why we are criticizing you?? because.. you should have come full uns blazng and upload a solo of your ... of what you call ""feeling the groove""...

    i am not saying that that he is the hell damm god. but atleast he is better than you and your dad masturbating

    to a kitchen oven

    Amen \m/

  • @MrBlastBeast Cool, wheres your DVD bro?

  • @MrBlastBeast if he sucked why is he making it big? honestly not being smart ass i really want to know if u can answer this ill be shocked

  • @MrBlastBeast and if he sucked he would not have gotten into berkley the most prestige school of music

  • @MrBlastBeast thank you. you finally put into words what i've been trying to do for the past long while.

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  • blast at 1:46 is sick

  • So what specifically could this DVD teach you?

  • @spacitydrummer4JC, it demonstrates how gay drum gloves can look!

  • He's great for SF, but should never solo..... EVER!

  • Everyone can fuck themselves, hes a great drummer, has fun playing and has a great band

  • take off those stupid gloves and learn to hold the sticks with right technique and you'll never lose grip of them.

    dummy.

    such an overrated douche.

  • what song is on intro?

  • not only is he not that great he SUCKS DICK as a person

  • his grip technique is not so good...

  • i think the shadows fall guitar dvds are much better. the guitar parts are a shit ton of fun to play cause they have such a driving/galloping sound to them. im just not quite sure people should really be taking advice from this dood like hes the guru of drumming

  • his drumming and his band are soy fuckin´gay

  • This dude should be thrown in prison for crimes against drumming! So weak, so poor, so lame...

  • @MrAakesson

    i dont think he's that bad, obviously not amazing though

  • what pedals does he use out of interest?

  • aileanwazere, dw9000's

  • @aileanwazere well he used old tama camco pedals for most of his career so far but i think he did change a while ago

  • @ultimatefighter187 well no we never saw what all three were able to do , but for me it's not a compitition , every drummer have his style so we can't really judge .

  • I love the part of this video that shows him playing blastbeats. It's there for like 2-3 seconds and each note makes him offbeat more and more.

    At the end it sounds like a polyrhythm.

  • Intense Metal Drumming by George Kollias, and Blast Beats Evolved by Derek Roddy. Only two DVD's an extreme metal drummer needs.

  • hes no george kollias, but hes ok

  • it doesnt matter if its easy or not man. it sounds good with the music they play. Jordan Mancino for As i Lay Dying. are you gonna tell me hes not good too?

  • after seeing the derek roddy dvd, everything else just seems like a waste of time. derek roddy's dvd is chop full of good shit.

    & it's only 30 bucks.

  • agreed with the last comment. a drum dvd should not be made by some random guy that some people may know but by a guy with outstanding technique and good teaching concepts/ abilities. jb's technique is pathetic, his ideas not very original. i've seen/ heard those fills and grooves a thousand times before and every drummer that listens to metal for a while could figure these ones out by himself. so unless ur a jb hardcore fan (i feel bad for u if u r) there's really no reason to buy this.

  • Good drummer for what he does but far from to be good enough to make a DVD. It's ridiculous. It means that a LOT a drummers can make a DVD!!! lol

  • And a Metal drummer at that. Not many metal drummers make DVD's. I completely agree with you, man.

  • his signature drum sticks are the shit

  • btw: shadows fall sucks

  • is drumming a sport now? or why he weares handgloves ???

    and yes JM is the shit !!!

  • the gloves are worn for comfort, i personally perfer wearing them too, cause with fast beats, and sweaty hands you tend to lose youre sticks xD

  • blast beat? this isn´t a blast,this is shit

  • the next Scat Blast candidate ;D

    Jason Bittner Fail, Kackblast wins ^^

  • @mrKotBerg Blastbeats are for drummers who can't play for shit

  • @BRARONproductions oooh sorry i didn´t know that...i guess now i have to quit playing drums

  • @mrKotBerg might just be the kit/recording. I've heard other drummers that are amazing at blasts, sound like shit.

  • @mrbreckles i think he plays 16 notes on the bass drum and 16 note triplets on the hands , like a polyrythm blast ......i'm not sure , i think ...

  • @RhythmEngineering sounds like 16ths with his feet and his right hand and 8th note triplets with his left.

  • @mrKotBerg what are you talking about?

    it is a different technique and a diff kind of blast for you to know. there are many kind of blast beats.

  • @guitarralaraja but it still sounds like shit xD i think it would help to play with the right hand on snare and left on hihat .. it surely is an interesting idea of bittner, maybe for training, but who will ever use this in a song or live?!

  • @anderl22 hi.

    first of all im not a drummer and im from chile, so i cannot tell you the "english"name for some techniques.. in the band that i play the drummer do several kind of blasts, and this is very intersting, not the tipical "death metal blast" but still very good.

    in a song he told me that this blast is harder to play than the regular one of you play it very fast

  • @guitarralaraja i agree,there are many types of blasts but in my opinion he tries to hit everything at the same time,completely ignoring the speed of the metronome...except snare.i think he plays great grooves which express much power but the blasts just don´t listen as good as he plays these grooves.thats my opinion :)

  • could anyone tell me what's the song at 1:46? thanks

  • Something from burning human

  • omg his blastbeat sucks oO

  • @777EZekiel HE sucks

  • @777EZekiel he even admits that his blasts beats arent great. but in burning human they sound on

  • @777EZekiel he´s not a death metal drummer!

  • Dudes ever hear of this drummer?

    I stumbled across this drum solo video via Vic Firth's website.

    Just type and search:

    Paul Wandtke Vic Firth full live drum solo Mandeville, Louisiana

    This guy is badass too!!!!

  • jason is a great drummer. i like how he plays within his comfort zone too. like speed wise. instead of trying to be the fastest. cause of course the more you play you will gain that kinda stuff. chris adlers another like that.

  • i think lyle cooper is one of the top metal players, not so much jason bittner...

  • wat song is at 1:59

  • it's "Redemption" by Shadows Fall

  • Jason is really a good player.........Looks like an interesting DVD.....

  • Go Jason,Go...Beer Drinkin' & Thrash Metal Style!!! Salute

  • this isnt thrash its very very far from thrash wow

  • Yeahh.. Whatever it is,it's music right..? C'mon bro.. It's only the Vibe Why Bother??

  • what?

  • Damn his pedals look like the springs are at most loose point. cant imagine that to be comfortable

  • DW9000 pedals are naturally springy, they are very light

  • At the end what song is shadows fall playing?

  • redemption off threads of life :D

  • I have this DVD and it is very well done. kudos to jason Bittner.

  • Why all the Hating about how he plays or about if he uses triggers on his bass drum. What a bunch of immature kids. He is doing what the haters wish they could do!

  • lol its funny cause every single drummer who plays live uses triggers, lol butting a mic in ur bass drum is considered a trigger, but i see wat u mean who CARES!

  • man..he's an amazing drummer...

  • Musicianship 101:

    You play for the sake of playing.

    You respect your fellow musicians

    You help your fellow musicians

    You do not insult based on skill

    You do not retort in an angry fashion

    Musicianship is all about the expressing of creativity, if you don't like the way someone else is expressing, you do not critique

  • Chris Adler is much better

  • see thats where your wrong go listen to burning human

  • boring.... too common.. search for GEORGE KOLLIAS dvd trailer

  • this is boring!? george kolias just does blast beats over and over and over that is much more boring then someone that has technique.

  • Kollias has technique, but u don't need technicalmrudiment skills to play black metal.

    When he plays metal he only plays fast singles on hands and feet, but check out his drum solo things.

    And to everyone else, don't compare other drummers who don't play the same genre. it's just a waste of time and it doesn't make sense at all!

  • get your shit together george has amazing technique. how the hell do you think he has managed to be one of the fastest still hard hitting drums.

  • if u think being able to play fast and loud is technique you are sadly mistaken especially when he use triggers.

  • but it is indeed technique...you try flailing around on your drums and see just how fast you can play.

    Don't get me wrong, playing fast does NOT make a good drummer, but it is no walk in the park to play 250+ like GK and keep the volume like he does.

  • Fucking tight.

  • Hes good but you cant beat Jojo Mayer!

  • HAHAHAHAAA! xD Just a few people can beat Jojo, maybe 2-5 drummers are better than Jojo! You cannot compare Bittner and Jojo!

  • LHondrums i feel you im younger im sure but i have the same feelings about all the people on youtube getting praised who arent good as real drummers who work hard and/or are just better but we dont get sponsored

  • Do you know WHY so-called "real drummers" on youtube don't get sponsored? Two reasons. First, these people spend more time WHINING about how much better they are than everyone else (like LHondrums) than they do practicing. Second, almost all of their videos are COVERS. Playing is only half the battle. Less than half, even. Even if you could play every Shadows Fall song perfectly, you would never replace Bittner because he WROTE the parts himself. Creation is the difference.

  • those blasts raped my ear

  • man i don't have my own drumming dvd. i don't have an endorsement. i only play about 20 shows a year and don't even practise half as much as he does..

    but i'm so much better than this stupid motherfucking overrated bullshit!

    and so are all my friends i drummed with..and everyone out there who plays for a couple of years..

    man i gotta calm down.

  • yeah i see so much ego!

    i see someone is jealous!

    i see a kid crying with envy

  • jealous definately! but not because of his skills. more because he's so popular. yeah you got it. idiot.