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  • Hey Chris. Dunno why I've never looked you up on here before, but glad I did. You have only gotten faster and more technical... just when I thought you couldn't possibly get any more impressive, you do. Snare sounds amazing. Your bass keeps getting faster and faster. Keep up the good work. For those comments about the vid being sped up: I marched on the same drum corp for years. This is CERTAINLY NOT sped up; it's all him. But to the haters: Don't worry I feel ya... I'm jealous too. -Ryan

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  • not at aall.

  • you wanna know if it's sped up look at the cymbals, clearly NOT sped up

  • It'd be alot better if you lined your snare up with your high tom, then you could bring the hi-hat in close, then see the rest of your kit:)

  • waa you're sweeeeet!!!

  • talent

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  • Hi!

    You are like (in appearance) KEITH CARLOCK! :)

    Great snare drum, great sound, great drummer!

    What kind of hi hat cymbals?

    Cool pattern from 4:50!

    I give you five stars!

  • i did 5/5!

  • That Anton Fig snare is BALLIN'!!! I'm picking that one up asap! You sound real good man!

  • I was going to mention that you should try a different style setup, but I guess your already on top of that :]

    youve got such tight single strokes, and that fig snare is really singing in this. Theres chops here for sure, now you just gotta work on being Tasty.

    (ex. : Nathaniel Townsley )

    gj my friend!

    -nick

  • un quema cabeza mal........

  • Well if you say so.. but seriously it looks like you're head is everywhere :S

  • Ehmm this just gotta be speed up :s

    look from 1:14 to 1:30 for example.. look at his body :s

  • Haha I'll take that as a compliment, but it's not sped up :D

    The fact that I tuned my snare so high also makes people think that sometimes, but it's normal speed.

  • this looks sooo sped up

  • It is sped up! Whatya trying to pull here?

  • what kinda skins you using for that snare drum??

  • after watching the first 10 seconds, i knew that you would steal my attention and mold it with this vid.

    love this

    keep it up and upload more!

  • What kind of snare is that?

  • Yamaha Anton Fig Signature Snare

  • Yep still amazing... I wonder how many people watching know that along with the single bass pedal, you are also blind in your right eye and still manage to be a badass. Keep it up man. Can't wait to hear some new stuff.

  • I dont want to come off the wrong way, but being completley blind shouldnt even affect anyones drumming. I think sometime it can make u better seeing as how drums are a instrument based on feel. I know when i play and get into a groove my eyes are usually closed. When u go blind or if ur born that way, ur other senses are intensified and amplified. That includes feel. I mean look at Stevie Wonder

  • You're right :) It's more of an annoyance than a handicap. Being blind in my right eye eliminates the peripheral vision to my right side, which is one reason why my head moves around a lot so that I can see where I'm going when I need to jump over to that side. I mean, yeah I can play without looking, but it's still nice to be able to somewhat tell where I'm going lol. Setting up and breaking down means that the drums aren't always in the exact same position every time though. Pianos are.

  • I have now re-arranged my drums to be more ergonomic than they used to be though. My setup back then was all out of whack lol. Look at how spread out they were... it was ridiculous haha. I keep them tighter together now, and I use a jazz setup, which makes everything much easier. I made it harder on myself before by setting them up that way.

  • My Stevie Wonder reference was about the drums! Seriously, search for a steve wonder drum video on here and be prepared!

  • a drummer who wears glasses lol ur sick. i was hoping to learn something off some people on youtube but your too complicated to learn off man and im too shit . your sick thoe.

  • hey dude great job...your apparently very good, but i would like it a lot more if it wasn't always fast! but good job anyway

  • Dude Im still loving this three years later, great stuff bud.

    Dog, why dont you over analyze what he is doing a little more, seriously, everyone has there own style, own grip and so on, let people play their own style so we arent all robots following a book of "Drum Law." Last time I checked some of the greatest drummers alive right now have some jacked up grips and everyone has there own style and groove, its nice to see not everyone following the norm.

  • the very beginning reminded me of incubus's drummer

  • awesome style man, love the sound.

    Sick groove at 1:40, lovin' it.

    Got any recent stuff?

  • Dude, your setup is unique, and I really dig your playing, I love the snare.

  • Jedi Knight Style.

  • snare is fucking delicious

  • Oh my god your hats are WAAAAAAY far back.

  • boring, no dynamic awareness, lacked evenness and the worst possibly setup ever! Plus your grip looks horrid...yes your fast and have chops, but technique starts from your grip, setup aswell as you speed...and these things do accept your sound, which is why alot of this has no dynamics or is uneven in places...learning to play quietly, even and still play with energy is ten times harder than the chops your trying to pull off in this. Sorry mate

  • Why do you critisize his drumming. Its really good. Everyone has their own unique style to play drums. This guy doesent need a good Grip or how you see it because maybe its not his Style and maybe he prefers it that way. Plus you cant judge his setup....Because again every Drummer has their own setup That THEY like not for people like you. So yeah....

  • every drummer plays like this. I'm not saying it's bad, but what ever happened to the ridiculously hard-hitting massive pounding drumming of drummers like Dave Grohl? there should be more drumming like that. people who play the drums for the songs, not for their own satisfaction. Having good songs as a band (if you're in one) is much better than having just a good technical drum part. again, I'm not saying this is bad, all I'm asking is why do all drummers strive to be fast and technical? I dont

  • Obviously playing with other musicians and playing solo are two completely different animals. I love Dave Grohl's playing (one of my first songs to learn on drums was "Everlong" by the Foo Fighters) but that drumming without music is just another plain drum part and wouldn't carry a video by itself. I like to play in both worlds; one being where I compliment a song with back beats and hard hitting grooves, and the other side where I push my technical limits. This vid is the latter.

  • That looks like an Yamaha Anton Fig... is it?

    If so do you have it tuned up?

    Great dexterity!

  • Yes sir, that is an Anton Fig Signature.

  • gotta love that cheap ass Pearl single pedal lol.

  • Snare sounds great, but without mics probably not so much.

  • quit the band your in (heavy metal stuff) and join a new band yo could be famous

  • Slipknot sucks hard ass!

  • no they suck big hairy gorilla ass!

  • no they arent your style!

    i cant name any slipnot songs but you cant hate

  • slipknot does suckassss and wintersun is the best metal band ever and dont forget tool and porcupine tree

  • I love your bass drum/snare

  • damn dude you are THE MAN!!!!

  • watch out jordison!!

  • I'd actually prefer watching this vid than ANY Jordison vid! He's boring and non-musical...

  • dude! very enjoyable!

  • oh my god man you're incredible

  • Sounds Killer I want your snare

  • duudde... ur amazing!! dam i wish i could play as good as that, how long have you been playing?

  • =O fuck!!! too good to be true!!!

  • You gotta get in record company.YOU KICK ASS

  • Man it's crazy see people reactions to this almost 3 years later. (Isn't that the cheap set you got off ebay for like $600?...lol)

  • how old is that kid?

  • thats not a kid

  • Yo Chris, it's very inspiring playing! you rule man

  • Crap, someone else who's better than me!

  • nice groooove dude. i think you should add a secondary snare on your left. that Yamaha is cool but after many beats sounds boring. by the way you're great.

  • what snare heads do you use?????

  • holy shit dude that blew me away man, rad use of ghosties and fucking beautiful sounding snare!!! 5 STARS

  • that was insane

  • cool, but dont tell me youre self-taught;) Real great, anything less than 5 stars would be an insult.

    Nice snare tone;)

  • Nice snare

  • prity cool nice snare

  • perfect snare micing!!!

    did you mic the resonant head as well?

  • hey man nice solo i was wondering what kind of snare that was???

  • its a yamaha "anton fig" snare man.

  • you sit in an unusual fashion, quite to the right of the snare and turned left, nice soloing, sounds awesome.

  • its wierd to hear the anton fig nare cranked up when anton usualll has it tuned lower.

  • i used to think this is amazing playing but now that I know better it's not that great... it's just "good." and he calls himself a virtuoso.  as if.

  • err...when did he call himself a virtuoso?

  • i thought he did in the tags. but this guy isn't arrogant and self-praising like i thought when I made that comment. i found out later he only put virtuoso in the tags so this vid would show up in more searches. my bad.

  • God dammit.... hier feet is soooooo fast... Awesome video!!!

  • How do u get ur bass drum to sound like tht ???

  • triggers...look em up

  • i love you hahahahahaha no im just kiding your awesome

  • ur kit sounds amazing

  • beautiful

  • your snare and double bass sound very nice its got a good softness to it.

  • awesome man...

  • i just got my new double pedal and i kinda stink lol

  • excelent your great ^^

  • are u using a double bass or a double pedal?

  • Nope, I used a single pedal in this video. I now use a double pedeal with my band, but I still use a single in my solo stuff :)

    --Chris

  • Super great man. Reminds me of Neil Peart.

  • holy crap, im even tired after watching you, so fast

  • That snare makes me wet

  • i dont know how you play that good with the snare so far from the set but you do it

  • I always played with the snare farther from the set and tilted nearly 45 degrees and people always think I'm for it. Thats what you get for teaching yourself with a rudiments book and a few of those play along book/CD sets.

  • wow awesome drumming but ur snare seems really far away. everyons got thier own style

  • exelent.., i hate u ;) hahaha

  • congratulations, buddy...Nothing more to say you. Great solo, man!...your control of the drum pedal is fantastic

  • he said in this he used some discontinued $50 pearl pedal

  • Ha, obvious Akira Jimbo fan. Sweet.

  • This is great!

    That's one fast foot you've got there too!

  • hey nice job

    nice feel

    what do u think of my drum vid - like from a drummers view = rock on

  • your drums are fucking orgasmic!!!!!!!

    i just dont like the wood hoops on the snare personally

  • i think u speed it up cos the way u movin looks unnatural

  • drums sound amazing oww yeah and the drummer playing on them but the toms need a little more definition like sound wise...(low-high)

  • drums soud amazing!!!

  • nice fast triplets on the single pedal

    you must use a DW9000

  • your sound is great (the mics very good quality or you sound card or i dont know what i just play guitaer)

  • nice drumming. u do look like a bobble head doll though but it's cool

  • Dude, beautiful technique... as smooth as any I have ever seen... and yeah nice snare :-)

  • I have to add that based on your talent as a drummer, I'll be buying "The Armour Adorned" as soon as it is released...

  • Awesome! I love your style. I'm trying to work on that type of feel instead of just metal-ish fusion stuff...haha.

    To say the least,Nice, very nice

  • and i say u r a bobble head doll :D

    god job anyway. like ur snare!! and ur base drum is awesome!!!!

  • Most excellent! The imagination, the physical exertion, and the satisfaction of soloing and acheiving optimal results are just cause to be a bobble head! Dont worry about it! A great solo video without a doubt! Smooth, fast, accurate, creative and flowing...seamless percussion! It does tend to remind me of Hillary Jones style in a big way, she's definately one of my favorites. Drum on!

  • snare sounds CHOKED............

  • NICE

  • holy fuck dude thats awesome how long have you been playing?

  • hey Chris, what size a custom crash are you using, im planning on getting one and i figure the size you use must be good

  • I wonder what the rim shot sounds like on the snare.

  • i know these were your old drums, but what were they

  • not very good..

  • Damn, what a snare=D It is an extreme metallic sound:D

  • omg how do you tune those toms i need to no

    mine suck

  • FUUUUUUUUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF­FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF usin EEEEEEEEEEVERY video to get people to look at pathetic websites

  • duuude. first of all. ur snare an toms. make me wanna break every bone in my body. then ur snare by itself makes me want to smash my head thru a concrete wall after breaking my bones. then ur skill on top of that makes me want to just go die. ive quit drumming. ur amazing.

  • great playing and a snare that sumbody(me) would kill for

  • Dag yo, I thought I was good. I think I'll quit now.

  • i want to buy your snare

  • Listening to that snare drum makes me want to throw my v-drum snare across the room. I want the one you have.

  • Killer man, the living end for sure. If thats just brainstorming then I need to hang it up! :)

  • the snare <3

  • Nice drums,Nice playing;)

  • you are not bad (: just get more rthym in its a fairly boring solo too mish mash try experimenting new beats by riding on your toms etc choke your crashes .. but you're on a really good track see ya on the big stage soon!

  • what drums are those? they sound absalutely immense

  • Damn those drums sound so sweet! good playing also!=)

  • Yeah nice, thats kinda how I play.

  • your bass drum sounds sweet

  • god damnit i need to mic my set haha your's sounds so badass haha

  • ur drums are set up weird. sounded good. keep it up! =)

  • Hey man, that sounded fuckin great. If you get a chance, check out the drum video on my account and suggest some areas of improvment. The drumming sounded fuckin awesome.

  • pmg lolz u sukz lol dis iz totalie sped up pmg!

    jk chris, you fucking rule life man, amazing.

    -nakoa/blastbeatsforbreakfast

  • SO WHAT you just sped up the tape

  • i think u don't even know what's a drum..

  • your snare is amazing

  • thats incredible

  • Thanks :) I've learned a lot from everybody who has posted on here, and I know that I didn't "groove" a lot on this video, and I've learned to really space things out everything since then. We lost our practice space recently so I can't record a new video at the moment (this one is over a year old) but I'll get one soon enough hopefully.

  • Chris, can you please tell me what your finger technique is... it looks like you mainly focus on putting a lot of pressure on the fulcrum between your index and thumb? I'm trying to copy you. =)

  • i said god damn!

  • god damn guy.

  • i'm pretty sure you sped that up. as a drummer, i can tell.

  • lol NO, I did not speed it up. I swear on my life that I didn't. Sorry to dissapoint you.

  • He didn't. Look at his cymbals genius.

  • i did, "genius". why does everybody use that argument? there are points that he didn't speed it up at all, but there are some fills that you can clearly tell its sped up because of the way his entire body rotates. you cannot move your entire body back and forth that fast.

    but I'm not going to argue. if you think, its not sped up, its not my problem.

  • I didn't speed it up. If you don't want to take MY word for it, fine, but you're in denial. NONE of it is sped up. If it was sped up, don't you think the tone of the drums would change? Wouldn't there be some kind of artifacts in the sound that would show that something wasn't right? It's all legit.

  • P.S. I'm blind in my right eye, so yeah a lot of times I may turn my whole body really quick to see what's to the right of me. There are a few times that I shift my whole body really fast to look the other way... that's just the way I have to do it.

  • Alright. I believe you. good job, you're phenomenal if its real.

  • hey man love ur speed its demonic- hah theres a good compliment for u- im a young drummer and would love half ur speed can u mail me sum tips plz- would be awesome- thanks!!

  • FUCKIN SWEET MAN keep it up. btw, placebo: look at the cymbals when he plays, they sway naturally, it's not sped up.

  • Swweeeet !

  • LOL you fasten the video what a damn cheating...that sucks

  • I didn't "fasten" the video.

    Maxtotheham: I moved my hihat later on to play around with the clave.. I just got it and hadn't used it much, so I didn't really know where to put it haha.

  • dude....it donesn't even look like you're using

    a double bass....but i swear I hear it...

    but killer ass solo anyway..I love woodrimmed!

  • where does your hihat go? it like disapears a 3rd of the way through

  • Woodrimmed snare gives a more crisp tone, I love it. Your solo is great too, and I bet a lot of people wobble there heads, haha I do.

  • If you wnat to tighten up your groove, shorten the distance of your beater-head to the kick. You bass drumm is playing catch up to your licks/groove. If you can't handle you can try cranking up the bass drum head (get a single ply). You'll sound much tighter. The left ft clave is cool, but pointless.

  • hey this is one of my favorite vids on you tube and this is what made me think of micing my drums and snycing the video with it.. but you are great.. what type of heads do you use

  • Awesome solo mate. Remember its best to do a drum solo as a story. Start with an intro, fundamentals, then variate on them until you get to the highest point, the climax (pull off lightning fast up here), then slow decline into awesome finish outro. Good job with the video.

  • Love your snare sound, the part with the claves rules!!!

  • Great work!!!

  • How long have you been playing dude ?

  • you look like you can play pretty well but this wasn't some of your best work i'm sure. This sounded like you got reallllly high and started drumming...you were going allll over the place with no real linking between beats. It was like a schitzophrenic on crack playing the durms.

  • great snare sound. but this solo doesnt have enough variety.

  • get off the snare  for two seconds and this would be better.

  • very very nice solo!

    first amateur drumming on youtube whats really great! and first one i couldnt play as well :D many newbs post their "solos" in here ._.

    hang in there dude!