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  • the Ultimate Guitar Center Drum-Off, all winners of 2000 in a competition!

  • anybody know the sticking between 0:04 - 5:08?

  • THIS GUY LACKS FEEL!!!!

  • @minstrel34 are you fucking retarded? this has so much groove and feelin in it. 

  • MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!

  • i liked the part when he played the drums!!!!!!

  • Love the groove with the cowbell

  • I'm sick of all this fancy ass shit going on with all these super fast notes flying all over the place. Who gives a flying fuck? Yeah, it's good, it's tight, and it's fancy. I want to hear fucking solid shit. Drums aren't something that's all about the most notes or the most being played. At this point in time I say Phill Rudd could kick all of these guys asses.

  • @KurdtKobain09 and you know what drums are all about?

  • @KurdtKobain09 That's true for situations when you're playing with other people. When you're by yourself playing a solo it's all about the goofiest tricks while still keeping your notes tight. When you're watching a single performer you don't wanna see them bust out baby's first rock beat.

  • @malcolmgetscrazy That is also true, but I'd like to hear more solid grooves than "tricky grooves". Look at ALL of the guitar centre drum offs, (except maybe the 90s ones) all except the special performances by famous drummers, they're all playing extremely fancy stuff. And it just bugs me a litte, you know? Like there are other grooves and feels to go on...It's like they don't think properly under the pressure of the competition. All performances have just seemed so plastic...

  • Was at this guy's house yesterday recording in his studio!!

  • @nick14cummings are you from keyser? cuz i live in cumberland

  • @hondapower991 Yess sir! He and his brother are good friends of mine.

  • I took lessons from this guy.

    I care.

  • WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE POLYRYTHMS CHECK OUT MY DRUM OFF VIDEO FOR ODD METERS AND REAL SHIT...

  • And its funny as soon as he started to use the double pedal, that automatically made him a monstrous drummer. And no it wasn't a better performance that the 2010 winner. If you really want to see a REAL Guitar Center champion, check out the 2008 winner. Thats how a drumming competition should be won.

  • Wait a minute....he was the winner??? The competition must have sucked!!! To be honest his performance was solid in terms of timing. Flawless timing, especially with the tricks he did do. But he plays a bit too soft. Its almost soft like he plays big band music. But the double pedal tells me he possibly plays rock but his hits were a little soft for rock music. Maybe it was the snare...sounded a little loose. His fills weren't defined. Meaning the hits on the fills sorta ran into each other.

  • at about the half way mark you can tell by the look on his face that he knew he won lol:)

  • this dude must get so much ass!

  • I LOVE the damn kick drums are SHAKING one of the front view camera's...AWESOME SOUND...wish i was there....

  • His current band is Simplified, check em out simplifiedmusic. . com

  • Jgu

  • This is definitely one of the more musical drum solos for GC Drum Off...

  • It seems like everyone who gets this far all do the same thing or something similar.

  • More cowbell.

  • 4 years later this one is STILL my fav solo to watch over all the others.......

  • This guy is an amazing drummer and also a great person. I met him a couple of years ago in Wilmington North Carolina while he was performing with his touring band Elm Tree. He is a very humble and non concieded drummer. I am please to have met him. Anyone that hates on Donnie is just envious of his ability to be a great drummer and will be one to remember in the years to come!

  • Insane groove, I must say.

  • all the dam edits suk(my opin)for the work.

  • this guy destroyed the 2010 performance. such a big contrast in skill, showmanship, and performance.

  • I dig the chokes, he does some nice clave based figures, probably listened to some dicenso for that.

  • Just goes to show how subjective drumming is, like everything else. He does remind me of Peart in the sense that he has mind-blowing technical skill but the overall result leaves me somewhat cold and detached. I prefer the winner from the year before, who can't match this guy's chops but has an absolutely irresistible groove. But then I'm the sort who ranks Bonham and Moon higher than Peart; many take the opposite view.

  • I think I've seen this video a hundred times over the past 4 years... Still the best drummer I've ever seen.

  • damn, people are such trolls.....this guy is really good...like wtf do you want? monkeys falling out of the sky beat boxing? lots of rhythm variations, good showmanship, excellent chops, good variation with drum and or cowbell usage...he didnt spend the whole time just chopping out on the snare, it wasnt all just fast double bass....what more could you want? this was great!

  • So, what , does Neil Peart own a time machine, or is this guy his son? Incredible...

  • More Cowbell! 0:58!!! Awesome!!

  • People like this make me scared to play the drums when I'm at Guitar Center. "/

  • this guy reminds me of daniel adair. awsome!!!

  • Boring!

  • This guy blows the 2010 winner out of the water...

  • @ironbound623 Dude, this guy blows fucking sharks out of the water.

  • @ironbound623 Yeah he is. I saw his band Elmwood when they opened for Umphrey's McGee a couple years ago. He was fucking awesome.

  • @ironbound623 haha so does a new born child

  • @ironbound623 Although i love this guy, i respectfully disagree. This guy was more improvisational on the toms but the 2010 winner, in my opinion was more original on the drums, and during his beats he used the entire set. I'm not at all say this man didn't, just less in my opinion.

  • I gotta have more cow-bell.

  • so it only takes something this simple to win?

  • this guy something like the upcoming lord of drums... 

  • holy fuck!!!! That was amazing!!!!!!

  • now THATS how yu throw it down..awesome job man!

  • This is total drum corps.

  • @TrevorColeBand lol no its not...its a intresting grove...but its not corps....not to many rudiments here.

  • @metachozoite guitar center isn't really corps either, and he did play rudiments. I heard hertzas, roll variations (5 stroke, 7 stroke, 6 stroke, etc.) flams (I believe he was playing pataflaflas between the ride and hi hat at one point, but idk). You must be pretty one dimensional as a musician if rudiments are all you're looking for. Did I mention he played many diverse styles of drumming during this?

  • One word, yourfrigginawesome! It's been 20 since I last played, you make see how much I miss it. Thanks for the videos

  • Seriously whoever edited this video is fuckin retarded

  • this dude is like on a level of drums i see alot with like john bon jimi chamberlin buddy ritch u know that whol groop thears no beter than this its like a master level no one is beter i mean yea some of thear styels of druming are more favorable to others but i think once you get wear theas guys are your prety mutch maxed out guitars a whol nother story u can never master that in a life time maby in two but not one

  • 21 people are just mad because they arnt that good

  • these things are always so boring

  • @75dimitris

    @chop9suey

    those doods aint got shit on zach hill,id like to see him and this dood have a drum off for a long time i thought zach hill was the best but idk man this dood is good

  • this is a hell of a drummer

  • the dude would give Neil Pert a run for his money.

  • It's solos like this that piss me off when people say Adam Gray and Luke Holland are the best drummers alive.

  • @chop9suey Both Adam Gray and Luke Holland are great drummers, especially for their age, but nothing like this guy

  • I like the buddy rich style high-hat

  • How the the hell does he go from multi-rods to sticks in one second, and put two stick out out and play with them with one handed all in a second too? He must have dropped one multi-rod and picked two out of the stick rack, put them in his left hand and had the other multi-rod in his right.?

  • @givethedrummersome69 Well Done! You are correct... I had the 2 sticks in my right pocket.

  • dang!

  • One of the better solos in recent years. If you can call 2007 recent.

  • i used to be that bad... then my mom got a job.. and got me drum lessons.

  • Motherfucker slayed it. Just sayin.

  • This is one of my favorite drum solos I've ever seen.

  • this guy's timing is unbelievable

  • I'd like to see all the winners go head to head. thatd be pretty damn sweet.

  • The best guy to win this contest hands down. Most of the other winners can do nice stick tricks but this guy plays from the heart and kicks ass.

  • This is probably the last drum off winner I can respect. He focused mainly on the technique, kept the tricks to a minimum, and what tricks he did usually affected the sound, so they had a purpose. Unlike the more recent ones. Oh look, he can bounce up and down, scream, do a gravity blast while laying on the drum, smile while doing ghost notes, and "shock" woah, he's doing rim clicks...while flipping the stick. :O...obvious sarcasm...

  • @thessbmaster you're not watching the same video I am, are you? this guy is more tricks than creativity.

  • @VeryLargeRat Compared to the 2010 winner? come on now, there aren't that many tricks and most of the tricks he did actually did something that affected the sound as well.

  • @thessbmaster a stick juggle and a behind-the-back change the sound?  the hi-hat thing was cool, but the others were for show. 1/3 isn't most.

    Isaas Gil (2010) was a lot of show, yea. But Ramon Sampson (2009) was damn phenomenal, changing drum sounds with cymbals and towels, playing on the underside of the snare, and having the most authentic Latin feel I've ever seen in a drum-off video. Ever. And he was funny.

  • @VeryLargeRat Yes, behind the back can actually affect the sound. The fill and which toms are hit are affected. And regardless, 3 tricks isn't that much anyway. Ramon was pretty good, but I don't think funny belongs in a drum off. Some other people deserved to win that one in my opinion.

  • LOVE IT! AND THE DRUMS..;)

  • HOLY SHIT! THATS MY TOP COMMENT LOL!! I had no idea.

  • nice

    

  • i love the sound of the drums. especially the toms. they just blew my ears away..

  • Dudes fucking amazing!!!

  • This guy's solo is so musical and well organized

  • talent.

  • This guy i can definitely say deserved to win. some of the more recent drum off winners, in my opinion of course, really weren't very great compared to others.

  • wooooooooooooooooooow!!!!!

    

  • They have to give people alcohol at these events man. you hear those people cheerin? I'd be right there with 'em If I had a few brews and, Yes, some jammin percussion

  • highhat blastbeat 1:55 loll

    

  • never had one lesson

  • am i the only one who cant hear his floor tom

  • Someone help me pick my jaw up off the floor.

    

  • I beat this guy at drumming. Then I woke up.

  • @ZackLikesCheese Must have been a great dream huh?

  • I CAN DO IT BETTER

  • damn ... he has touch - speed and talent and he is a lilly white boy to !

    he has my vote the best i have ever seen in 44 years i've played the drums.

    who is he working for ?

  • @lgttb1 For the band elmwood

  • Fire the bad editor. MTV cuts are for jackasses. Grow up.

  • Awesome drumming, he deserves a much better drumming kit :)

  • 2:39 from here, shit just gets beastly!

  • This guy is good!!!

    

  • Anyone wanna tell me what the thing at 1:52 is called? lol or how do you do it?

  • i love how smooth he plays even after he builds up!

  • i love how smooth he plays even after he builds up!

  • I'm sorry, but is on the wrong website. Shouldn't this be on Redtube?

  • Needs more cowbell lol

  • should of played four sticks-led zeppelin :P

  • Maybe I was hard on Donnie he at least seems very humble unlike the other winners. my grip is against GC contest for letting the contest be hijacked by marching band type drummers who have a mentallity of practicing a handfull of patterns into the ground and neglect the music side. I don't won't to hear a bunch of rudiments performed perfectly like a thomas lang I won't someone to step out of the box and create somethings that sounds bad ass instead of coping someone else's material.

  • the first minute is really bad - no beat or direction, but after that it's brilliant

  • @dilligaf1942

    Nah, I disagree, that was just a nice expressive opening volley of singles and doubles etc. I liked it ... frankly I thought he built "tension" quite well with it. Some many times even the top pros start with a cheesy "snares off - sensitive touch" intro. It's almost expected. I really thought this was refreshing. He kept it on the soft side without boring me. I think you could even say it was a little on the"avant-guarde" side.

  • This contest has been turned into a drumline, pattern contest. Same licks used over and over with showmanship cheese mixed in. Thats why only a couple drummers have been able to land significant gigs afterwards. Ivan Garcia should have won he is a musician who plays drums

  • @badmotorscooter1000 , you know why he won, this guy can make ties between different pieces of his solo, he can fill in the gaps with a little roll and get right back to his beat and if you hadnt noticed, all drummers a musicians and music is basically made up of patterns and fills

  • not my favorite, but really good still

  • Def the best (solo?) out of the last 4 who won it..

  • I wanna that sound on my drums, how the fucking tune haha LOL (jocking)

  • DUH>>>>WINNING!!

  • best

  • He's "alternate picking" on the hat :O And does later on something even weirder on it besides the display of acrobatics! I'm litterally in awe..

  • i prefer zildjians but those are some nice cymbals too

    drumming skills!! props be to you

  • "Drums are a dime of dozen" - Some dude I know

    "THIS type of drummer is about a nickel of a benjamin" 

  • @MoreThanAchievements uh..isn't it dime a dozen...as in they're cheap..

  • @blank21121 no dime a dozen as in 10 out of 12

  • @MoreThanAchievements no i think it litterally means a dime for a dozen of something meaning cheap... your kinda retarded

  • @dusty500067 nope it mean a dime out of a dozen, as in 10 out of 12, thank you and come again tard!

  • @MoreThanAchievements ok then specify please everyone might think your stupid or something, can't even type let alone argue.

  • @dusty500067 what do you mean please specify?

  • What the Fuck Just happened to that drum kit. i think i peed a little

  • his crash on his left has a piece missing...

  • @eliruben123 That's the shadow from the mic.

  • incredible

    

  • every time those edge hats are open, the cymbals sound like their saying "Whutt!?!!'

  • HE IS HOLDING THREE STICK @ 3:45 ! OMG! :D

  • /watch?v=vhIXnbjFNmc

    ^Epic

  • whoever the fuck head was that kept changing the camera every two seconds i say GGRRRRR and should go to bed WITHOUT any dinner tonight and many nights to come!

  • @michael9110 Woahh!!!!!!!!! Thats too harsh! Bed with no dinner :O

  • @michael9110 repent jesus loves you.

  • what the hell....

  • What's with all the criticism here? This guy rocks.

  • He plays for Elmwood.

  • Oh My God!!!

  • awesome drumming..HORRIBLE video editor. really hard to watch.

  • Watch Ramon Sampson's Performance At Guitar Center's Drum-Off 2008 instead

  • Starting your solo out on the cymbals is so Dave Weckl. Let's try something new.

  • watch the beginning he has like 4 sticks in his pocket

  • well performed solo.....displayed a huge range of skills. I bet he could play that exact solo today. well thought out, very neat,.....i enjoyed watching it over and over.

  • But.... He's not black?

  • @jamiequinlan its 2011

  • @omarphi215 ...Yes. Yes it is.

  • @omarphi215 its a joke

  • whats the difference between the sticks he started with and the sticks he pulled out later on?

  • 14 people that dislike this are Rock Band drummers that can't play an actual drum set

  • man was this before the pearl gyro-lock stuff came out? thats not relavant though. good drumming

  • Very talented percussionist

  • 100% pure talent

  • if he were a metal drummer........he would be blastin like a golden champ.

  • that little fill at 3:33 is so amazing sounding to me

  • pause at 0:00 hold left arrow key for two seconds then while still holding left arrow key start holding up arrow key.its that game snake..I dont know what its called!

  • @jangel2771 dude that is tight lol, howd you find that out?

  • @muttonman17 some guy commented on some other drum off video I think 2010 but its to pass the time time while your video loads

  • @jangel2771 ANACONDA!!! I haven't played this game in years. Yet another reason to be addicted to youtube. As if I don't have enough already.

  • donnie never did none of that advertising or doing dumb stuff like these new drummers..putting on I love la shirts or moving symbals around for no reason or goofing off in the middle of A solo.. this is a true drummer.

  • chills at 2:40

  • MORE COWBELL!

  • he added more cowbell... BEST DRUMMER EVER!

  • in the words of the legend christopher walken, "sounds good but i can use a little more cowbell" lol

  • @allthatremains2009 their is no such thing as enough cowbell

  • @allthatremains2009 repent jesus loves you.

  • Yup someone sure played Snare in there drumline...or Tenor haha

  • @TheAftermathWorld you should run her over.