Jaska Raatikainen - MEINL DRUM FESTIVAL 2008 II

[peterfreak71]

A bad drummer is one with shit technique, creativity, timing, and attitude. Don't see any of that here.. except maybe the creativity.. and timing a bit..

[Thomasgipsy]

Metal drummers are very rarely good solo drummers,not even the best metal drummers,Jaska plays very well in COB,great fills and he plays for the song not to boost his ego

[XxAardvark456xX]

Just because he isn't playing faster than the human ear can perceive doesn't mean he's not an amazing drummer.

[navids20]

@XxAardvark456xX Dawg, I may not know who the crap you are, and what you look like, and how old you are, but you are absolutely right. I hope we come across each other on the internets again. I bid you farewell stranger.

[thegreatestmaneverrr]

ive never actually heard jaskas drumming besides from records and from shows. but he is just fantastic.

[Zeeeroou]

siis ai että mä tykkään jaskasta! yksinkertanen rumpali joka kuitenkin pystyy säväyttämään mielettömillä filleillä! minun suosikki on tämä mies. jaska ei ole nopein vaikka nopeutta häneltä kyllä myös löytyy.. eikä ketään rumpaleita oikeastaan voi lähtee vertaamaan jokasella on ne omat tyylit ja systeemit. this message is from finland!

[newyork1222]

he looks like chris pontius with that pony tail and goatee :) love u jaska lol

[TheVechto]

best advertising for Nike lol

[chb46]

Thank you Jaska !!!1 \m/

[boazvanwi]

He's really good!! by the way, is he playing with two 10 inch toms?

Amazing!

[evil3drummer]

I appreciate metal drummers like Jaska who don't have to play 800 bpm to be a good drummer.

[ItalianDrummer88]

wow, i'm fuckin lovin him

[Perslapio]

Well he isnt the best drummer, but definetely my favourite! And in COB he is just perfect!

[KrankItVZ]

04:38, drum sweeping! that blew my mind

[cfaeslehc5091]

A little more respect for the guy after watching this. tiny

[olegariorock]

EXCELENTE BATERISTA CON GRAN PODER DE CREATIVIDAD Y PERSONALIDAD

MUSICAL-

[TheWezel1995]

I think this isn't a good drummer. In the beginning he slows down like crazy.. Everyone can here that. And I just don't like his playin'.. Not spectacular.

[Tuominen98]

@TheWezel1995 Idiot. Listen to his drum solo @ Stockholm Knockout Live, smartass!

[TheWezel1995]

dude it's just my opinion. You can leave comments to say you like it or not. I don't. What's the big deal? You don't have to call me an idiot for that. Ever heard of Mario Duplantier? Or Chris Adler? Thomas Haake? Those are the real talented metal drummers. (And that's my opinion too)

[mcrkiller93]

@TheWezel1995 Adler's overrated for what he is, which is a slightly quicker Jason Bittner. I don't really see how you can compare 4 drummers from 4 completely different styles of metal.

[beefhead27]

@TheWezel1995 dont post it were you know its not wanted to try to get attention that is by definition a troll

[cobarethebest]

@TheWezel1995

man you don't need to be spectacular to be a good drummer, Jaska has something that a lot of metal drummers don't have, it's called groove and taste.

[nonhasthisusername]

@cobarethebest i'm personally a fan of jaska, more than children of bodom, (the way they have developed on the last record) and he do got style and groove, but alot of metal drummers doo, if you ask me, it's different kind of groove, but still a groove, tbh the only professional drummer i'm trying hard to find the groove is Terry Bozzio, i mean i listen to alot of prog, don't allways understand everything but i allways find the groove, except for bozzio...

[Zeeeroou]

@06livefast.. i would love to kick your ass you fucking moron.. do you even know what is music all about? ikea.. xD yeah sorry but ikea is not from here.. god you are stupid.. should we all call you "mr stupid" for now on that would be good you deserve that. xD

[TheJamsh]

Hi im Jaska, & MY drum kit is tuned by jesus...

[james333781]

jaska is awesome fuck you if you say different

[strgaltdelete]

Always liked his style of playing. He is surely different from other metal drummers. Being only able to play fast, doesnt make you a good drummer.

[Zeeeroou]

jaska doesn't use triggers..

[IsurusDrummer]

Why does he have legs coming out of his bass drum?

[six6sixpounder]

It was cool to see another side to Jaska's drumming. i loved this vid.

[CFHyeahCOB]

can somebody tell me a size of these toms?

[sweetfly66]

those cymbals sound phenomenal ....to my ear , Meinl are making the best cymbals in the world right now

[metalliclark]

His 10" and 12" toms sound fantastic, the 14" tom sounds terrible.

[antiago1983]

These are rototoms?

[antiago1983]

These are rotodrums?

[TMSapphiroN]

Some guys on the internetz need to learn that even if there are better players in the business, that doesn't make one bad. A drummer can be pretty damn good without being the best in the world.

[davss5]

@TMSapphiroN Thank you for your comment...I do have my own opinions about "upper level" drummers (and those with lesser skills) - but (1) every drummer (regardless of skill) can make contributions, (2) not all drummers have a desire to be the best (they simply enjoy drumming), and (3) fans of certain bands don't care that the (respective) drummers are phenomenal or not (e.g., I feel that Mick Fleetwood is solid but not phenomenal - but Fleetwood Mac fans go to see/hear the band as a unit)...

[davss5]

@TMSapphiroN (Addendum to my 1st comment/reply) Also, some music genres (e.g., country western music vs. prog rock, jazz, or jazz fusion) and songs (simple drumming on Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out") may not call for extra-intricate drumming...lastly, " less may be more" on certain songs/drum grooves - "silence"/"absence" may add more "dimension" per se than filling up a song/groove with "fancy drumming"...I applaud phenomenal drumming skills - but drumming is also about enjoying music/songs...

[drumhatecrew]

Jaska is one of my favourite drummer cause he doesn't only play metal. He can play a lot of different things in many styles. He's very estimable

[TheJerryRX]

kannattaa kelaa tohon 1:40 kohalle

[dreamtheaterisbetter]

this does him no justice. he needs to do more double bass X)

[orazio221]

@dreamtheaterisbetter Ya,after seeing Mike Portnoy play this is kinda just So-E-So.

[bbguy17]

@dreamtheaterisbetter no this video does him great justice, it's more technical than anything he's done with COB.

[ordoadchao]

his ideas aren't that good,but i liked as hell his motion on his hands!

[drummingtothesky]

triggers on bass drum?????

[ASKReplyPublisher]

@drummingtothesky

Maybe. It sounds to be triggered however.

[bloodredskies95]

@drummingtothesky no jaska has never used triggers. This is the sound of the mic placed close to the drum head and a well tuned bass drum ;)

[Munki6]

@drummingtothesky sounds natural to me. That's what good mic placement and well compressed kick's sound like.

[conterooski]

great quality

[utsacherylann]

this guy blows ive seen better..

[bbguy17]

@utsacherylann he doesn't blow, this is pretty difficult to play

[DeathPunch217]

@utsacherylann Good for you. I'm glad you announced something none of us care about.

[LordHypnos93]

at first i thought he was playing a tool song..

[toymacdylan]

@wreckage06 ok man, that's cool :)..well, it really shows technical ability but he seems to change rhythms so weirdly, that it looks like he's running out of ideas :S....i mean, it has good moments but the entire thing is kind of boring, because of lack of consistency.........but what the hell!!, i'm just an amateur drummer, he must know what hes doing X)

[toymacdylan]

@wreckage06 , the doctor dropped you when you were born, didn't he?...can you show me where did i write about being fast?...yeah, i thought so.....for the last time!, i[m not saying hes a bad drummer, i really think hes great... i'm just saying this specific show was boooring compare to what he's capable of...like the drum solo in chaos ridden years

[bbguy17]

@toymacdylan it's not supposed to be flashy. to me this is more entertaining than his solo, it shows what he can actually do.

[kassaunders]

Joey is a great drummer just not as uber brilliant as people think. I hardly think any pro drummer's gonna be crap. This performance from Jaska is pretty good IMO even though I hate jazz, a great drummer is one who is versatile and diverse as well as fast.

[sedativeman]

I'm not a drummer, but I know what drumming is in metal and then in music. This guy seems to be more of a musical drummer than straight up metal, like Kai Hahto - but what is difficult in their playing isn't the speed but the timing. I think this is jazz drumming right? I know Hahto is a jazz drummer and I've heard shit similar from him.

Long live metal!

[bbguy17]

@sedativeman Yes this is jazz, you've got a really good outlook for a non-drummer. This is definitely not in 4/4 I'm not sure what timing it's in really. Jaska and Kai are apparently best friends, they made a drum piece together that's very solid and jazzy. Too bad Jaska's metal drumming is average.

[XlaceratedX]

Hey idiots. A drum performance is not meant to be blast beats and fast double bass the whole time. It's alot of rudiments and technique, usually in a weird time signature. It's showing skill, not speed. You can be the fastest drummer in the world but it doesn't matter if you don't know your rudiments. His solo was pretty good, especially since he's a metal drummer, and not a clinician, or studio musician.

[drummerkid28]

hes reading tabs and notes i think ..wtf is this

[toymacdylan]

fuking disappointed...i like C.O.B and i think Jaska is a really god drummer but this was crap!!!

[brownsopianae]

@toymacdylan that happens when an incompetent person leaves a comment... so sorry mate, his skills are more than crap, try to redo and I bet you'll be fucking disappointed in yourself while struggling with it

[toymacdylan]

@brownsopianae O.K, whatever makes you happy...

[jeroen0011]

Joey isen't overrated, people are saying slipknot sucks and that kind off stuff . . .

but they are popular for a raison, see a drum solo of joey, he's talented and probably best drummer there is, anyway jaska and children of bodom owns too

[Rasmusmeda]

@jeroen0011

joey is not the best drummer hes not even close check one of his drumsolos, he does almost the same thing all the time. sucks kinda bad

[darthsupreme18]

Love that part 1:54 - 2:20

[Villex93]

That bass sound is amazing

[xx4door]

hes good but not very impressive. check out guys like tony royster jr. or eric moore now theyre impressive!

[mycurse333]

at beginning of vid watch camera cloely must be some pretty deep thumps coming from the bass to vibrate the camera like that lol.

[theseeringlight2429]

One of my favourite drummers of all time!

[Zeeeroou]

rsman169 well said :D i agree. i saw cob live a month ago in tampere finland and it was so great again! im from finland.

[VegetaSasuke89]

All Meinl fests have shity sound!

[cyraxprocs]

the best...

[darkangel11856]

For greenflipflopsguitar :

He plays a Meinl Byzance Traditionnal Heavy Ride, and judging by the video, i'd say it's a 20".

[greenflipflopsguitar]

anybody know what ride he is using?

[greenflipflopsguitar]

anybody know what ride he is using?

[06livefast]

..she's so loose that's what it would take. fuck you bitch.

[06livefast]

@Blasttphemous

you have a point, he touches base on some very basic forms of technical drumming outside of deathmetal.. but he's nothing compared to half of the guys who should be as successful as him.

Listen to the guy from Meshuggah and you'll see what i'm sayin man. Oh and ps fuck you for bein such a straight up hurtbag if i ever saw you at a sesh i'd light your fuckin hair on fire you little bitch. Stick my hand up to the elbow in your moms grilled cheese vag just to make her cum..

[chb46]

mmmm beafckingutifull !!! Never seen this tho its a bit old, but whoaa ! Jaska is so much my hero ! Love seeing him doing this ! THaNks !! \m/

[06livefast]

yo exactly man cob's awesome but the man should never participate at a drumming clinic, shit lets get real here.

[06livefast]

easy there label - a - douche- a - matic.. this guys a fuckin ikea bird who can't comprehend good drumming, and just so happens to play death metal.. there's guys out there who are beasts at death metal and they're absolutely hand down incredible but this guys a faggot like Yo Om Jaska, poss mmay duh drom stick. fuckin get out of here ya hurtbag like lets get real here.

[ejemajkej]

if U think that music that CoB's playin' is "death metal" - U probably never heard ANY Death Metal bands.

[PEARLDRUMMER1992]

CoB plays melodic death metal. It's not like death metal from behemoth or cannibal corpse. It's melodic.Behemoth or cannibal corpse have both great musicians but it's kind of less technical its just fast.

[ejemajkej]

In any kind of music U need technic.

For ex. Blast beats without technic sounds like shit, isn't it?

[PEARLDRUMMER1992]

Good point but, i mean in death metal you can play actualy a whole song with blastbeats and i don't say that's easy but it's always the same. Cob has a lot of variation in the drums.

[Blasttphemous]

@06livefast

dude your retarded. obviously you havent heard versatility or death metal.

1st of all.

This is not a drum clinic.

2nd

Jaska does not Just play death metal, you are seeing his other influences in this video.

3rd of all.

Ikeas are from sweden, not finland. you failure.

4th. Need i point out more irony, because i can. you possess such an amount of fail once never thought possible.

yeah, theres alot better then jaska. but unlike thoose other dicks he doesnt sit there and boast.

[IRONdonkey217]

CoB is not death metal you tard

[MothaFukinCrazy09]

"power metal, neo-classical metal, speed metal, black metal, and melodic death metal. Their more recent material, such as Blooddrunk, has been said to contain thrash metal elements" Its hard to classify them in any genre to say there not this or that is also wrong to :)

[Blasttphemous]

@IRONdonkey217

Lol, did i say cob? dont be so close minded.

[urgepower]

@ IRONdonkey217.

"CoB is not death metal you tard".. then what the fuck are they? I'd say it they went from being neo-classical metal to melodic death metal..haha what would YOU call CoB? melodic trash metal?..fuck you man, they are death metal.

[parkoanime]

theyre melodic death metal

[TheSoxSorrow]

@Blasttphemous AMEEEEEEEEEEEEEN bro... you got the point of the whole thing... in this vid Jaska is playing a lot of progressive and almost nothing related to death, showing that he's a really versatile drummer... (ikea, finnish? lmfaooo)

[hugslyh]

@Blasttphemous dude dont get your knickers in a twist

yes jaska isnt that great a drummer yea hes good but not gr8

but i would like to ask how ikea got into all of this

[Stealthyst]

@hugslyh fucking serious? jaska is an amazing drummer, i'd like to see you do this. no he isn't the best fucking drummer in the world but he sure as hell is great.

[hugslyh]

@Stealthyst i said he isnt that great a drummer but he is not a bad drummer like joey joridison

[MParseface38]

@Blasttphemous

just take a look at his profile page and see his favorite bands: blink 182, box car racer, +44 and so on. that should speak for itself.

[spurq]

Im talking about Joey Jordison.

[Sh4gr444th]

He's a very good metal drummer, but not a big groover.

[06livefast]

shitty except for the technical hi hat beats which still have no feel. It's all about feel damnit!

[Jpprflrp]

he's a death metal drummer for fucks sake..

[spurq]

Because he really is overrated and pretty much sloppy live.

...and if there's one thing these nolife youtubers can't stand it's seeing someone being appreciated even if he doesn't have much talent, in some way it's jealousy i think.

[Jpprflrp]

It's you being jealous..

I'd rather have you doing this the same than you telling he sucks..

[spurq]

Nah, it's not.

And I think you misunderstood my point.

[Jpprflrp]

I don't, you misunderstand mine.

[dunnsky9]

wow...totally new perspective on this guy after watching this video. =)

[gammarays666]

Same here people, I also look at the floor, sometimes side by side. I prefer that way. It adds on my concentration.

[MonnicaFreud]

I´m in love!!!! :D JASKA JASKA JASKA!!!

[ARSKA7287]

Fucking awesome!!! :D

[StratovariusFTW]

im also watching the floor why im playing, i dont know why but it makes it easier somehow

[kmblodorn]

@StratovariusFTW haha.. i do that too man.. i dunno why either

[mirkajunior28]

we all do it... :D even me evr drummer I have seen does it.. reallY

[paullatourcobhc]

ima guitar player and i dont know much but its always nice to hear some good druming

[nortuber]

Not bad, but stretching it a bit. Probably for show - he drops out of pocket a few times. But hey - nice skills.

[tankentomas]

hmm not his best performance

[samolli96]

jaska raatikainen Rules! i'm from finlad, and its so tiny land, but jaska, hi is so big in the world!! COB FOR LIFE!!!

[lolboy01]

i was there and it was sooo awesome and the sound was 10000 times better than here on youtube

[daniel3786]

why does he keep looking at the floor, is he playing from a chart?

[M0RTEXes]

no! many people, look at the floor , when they play, , so that they don`t have eye contact

[voltwings]

i just look to the left outta habbit, idk maybe he does to

[ageofcrackpipe]

there are many reasons to move around through the performance.

[donster95]

nah dude its just a bad habit or tick that most drummers develop without realising i do it slso

[dandrummerdan1]

He keeps looking at the floor im guessing to concentrate on his bass drumming

thats what I would look at the floor for anyway LOL

[dandrummerdan1]

Looking to the side at the floor also helps me to hear what my playing sounds like

[ausllama]

@dandrummerdan1

haha, do hink left handed drummers look to the right at the floor, not the left?

i like to close my eyes when i practice, not performing though, and when i play to some realy good songs, like Epic by Faith No More. Awesome song, so much feel

[foxrocks16]

jaska is second to none !! cobhc for life

[rsman169]

He may not be the best drummer, but this man has some of the best drum fills in the business!

[Jpprflrp]

@rsman169 Of course, cause he's one OF the best drummers.

[mekhet83]

the first 40 seconds of the video sound so similar to "Sentiment" by Cynic...

[azidify]

abit slow would of made it more jump if it was me still really good i want the same cympol set as him meinl fucking good.

[flashOFmetal]

this is drumming

[n0b0d1r]

Indeed hahah.

[rootbeer10122]

Zebra Drum Carpet = Worthy Investment.

[LHondrums]

i like this cause he knows how to groove. and seems pretty open minded to me.

pretty good, it really is sth else compared to when he plays with bodom..

i think he's a really good drummer.

[ilikepiegotaproblem]

It's a guy :D

[Arod006enforcer]

joey is so overrated!!

[netterhaufen]

joey is so much overrated.

many peole say he is the best because of his fast doublebass- drumming.

I saw him at Nova Roch 2009 and sometimes he was out of the rythm. to be fast doesnt mean to be good

[squezer]

netterhaufen.

cant agree more, well said

[nrb3987]

true, he is really good, but not as good as everyone makes him out to be... and the only reason he has the record for fastest double bass is because he had guiness book of world records time him for a minute. there are many guys who are way faster, they just never had anyone time them for a minute strait.

[Krazydeath66]

what about joey jordison, isnt he your fave?? you dumb shit. joey rules. you dont

[SeanyFens]

Hes my second favorite drummer behind chris adler.

[nrb3987]

i have a drum stick from a lamb show... it was such a sick show

[Schnabeltier7I4]

how does he play tha part at 2:33 ??

[l33tohs]

They're just doubles on the snare over doubles on the toms, alternating between the toms and snare. He just does it really fast.

[EduNascimentoDrummer]

THAT'S HARD... but not soooo much....

[NTSdrums]

the beggining sounds like rage

[Grof616]

he"s a good drumer and he is improving

[HenryTholomewPlague]

Is this him improvising? Or is it from a Cob song? And plus why do the 2 high toms look the same size?

[WarHeartInme]

This one is improvising, the other one is a song.

[heavydrummerfin]

He is improvising mate. He's testing the cymbals.

[rTuomikanto]

They're both 10", I heard Jaska thought 8" tom is too small for him to hit it.

[PlayDead22]

maybe its the angle :P

[VaNkUrSx]

yeah!!

jaska is the best!! *¬*

COB is a F*cking awesome band! *¬*

yeah!!

COBHC

[arsqqa666]

He is a great drummer from great band!

[Chigo21]

Those accents are just plain sexy. :D

[jayakishore1234]

jesus AA meinl's are just way too sick for me....sick tones............these germans are real good in manufacturing everything :-DD

[nh03y]

god hes sooo fast.

[Kaavs]

well, their whole band is formed of freaks like him. Pretty damn unfair, i think.

[BreakTheSilenceBand]

cuz everybody in cob is a beast at what they do.

[LuzzSoloGuitar22]

The best thing is that he plays jazz patterns. He kicks ass in metal and now prooves that he is good in any kind of music, cuz jazz is most difficult one.

Hail Jaska!

[ShaxDr87]

:// cant agree.

[killerkumag90]

i disagree with that, not with jaska being a good drummer but with the fact that jazz is the hardest. latin is way more complicated than jazz if you havent tried it yet :)

[LuzzSoloGuitar22]

First of all I'm a guitarist :P

The second thing is that latin music is, more or less, some kind of jazz at all :P

[killerkumag90]

well you wouldnt know not until you play jazz and latin on the drumset sir, it s a whole different thing :P

[dor44]

ummm

i kind of agree and both disagree...

well in terms of diffculty yes latin is tech harder...

but playing jazz requires a groove and flow of the playing that you get over time playing that i at least consider harder then tech...

[Zeeeroou]

jaska is absolutely my favourite drummer of all drummers!!

[wtpbikes]

Am i the only one that notices a pattern of him attempting to be Thomas Haake?.. i mean the pony tail, not shaving how he did before, trying to play like Thomas... not saying he's bad but he's trying to be thomas and nnnnot succeeding xD

[Banga3386]

Hmm, a metal drummer having hair and not wanting it to be in his face playing something other than 4/4 patterns , yeah total Haake rip off. You're a hack