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  • one of the best metal drummers. too bad shadows fall sucks

  • I definetly dont like the Style of Bittner... especially now after this ugly samba!

  • @HockeyDrummer55 I am so sorry to offend Mr Hockey Drummer, should I say that Neil Peart is the best drummer ever or pit him against travis Barker? i would say that you should have had a constructive argument rather than slagging off someone you have no idea of. My argument for jason was positive and constructive, you, are just a mere part of the youtube hate machine, bah humbug.

  • He is so much better than people give him credit for. He can probably play any style and jam in any time signature. Most metal drummers know nothing more than double bass.

  • Jason is a great guy,but this isnt really good for someone who has played 30 years like he has

  • @Thomasgipsy our drummer is playing for 4 years long and play better than jason.

  • Id like to remind all u critics watching this that he went to berkley school of music. This means he knows quite alot about the art of drumming and about all different styles of music. he is just trying to show a little different side of him. Id like to see any of you do a better job.

  • THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BORING SOLOS THAT I'VE EVER SEEN :-s

  • 0: 50 says everything about this solo

  • sloppy..... he should stick to easier grooves that sound better, he would be much more appreciated as a drummer

  • i hate it when really good metal drummers try and show jazzy technical beats, stick to what you know

  • @pdpdrummer1337 he obviously "knows" those "jazzy technical beats," so he IS sticking to what he knows. learn to appreciate other styles.

  • Proves that you can learn all kind of rudiments and how to play them as fast as you can, but if you don't groove you just don't groove and that's it. This was shit.

  • sup drum fans go check out my videos

  • i think he is a great drummer certainly more unique and tasty than most modern metal drummers.

  • the recording is so perfect that, if you close your eyes, it sounds like it's played on a MIDI drum pattern. Good Job Meinl!

    on his playing, he is definitely a groove machine. love it. Favourited.

  • @RyanUybengkee GROOVE MACHINE???? You fucking deaf or did you just not listen to this solo!!!! Steve Gadd is a groove machine!!! Dennis Chambers is a groove machine!!! This was fucking terrible dude!

  • @w9jon hey you.... fuck you! mind your comments and i;ll mind mine. who the heck asked you anyway...im stating my opinion and you better hell fuck off. dont call me deaf you fuck! this is my opinion about this guy. fuck you.

  • @RyanUybengkee usually i do leave people like you alone but that comment took the biscuit! I was just jaw droppingly shocked at how stupid you actually are!

  • Bittner is SHIT!

  • samba and those licks really dont work

  • I guess he just chose the wrong set - in my opinion you can't play a samba-groove with a metal-setup...

  • hum... i dont think so... i'm from brazil, and had to say that the problem is not the set... he doesnt have swing.... (im not saying that he isnt a good drummer... he is amazing =P)

  • nicko mcbrain uses a single pedal.lol

  • @Jleedrummermetal Well, Nicko is a god.

  • @skiddlecrumms lol you said it!

  • @Jleedrummermetal I firmly believe that a drum solo shows no hint of talent.

  • @skiddlecrumms lol why is that??

  • @Jleedrummermetal Because it rarely displays musical talent. It is usually just a testament to speed. There is no poly-rythm or syncopation in a solo and you don't hear how they play with others. It just doesn't impress me.

  • @skiddlecrumms lol i think they do show some talent. reasons for that, when you listen to the bands these guys are in, sometimes there isn't much space to show what you really can do. theres nothing wrong with speed. unless thats all you focus on. like people look at Derek roddy and George kollias and think all they can do is blast and double bass. but both can do poly rythm stuff and jazz and latin fills. you just gotta be open to these things and use them to expand in the music world of drums

  • @Jleedrummermetal I usually find that it is the other way around. The only interresting things I have heard from Derek or George was when they were playing to music, which I don't think counts as soloing.

  • @skiddlecrumms true that. but some of them design the music to solo to. but then again i cant argue you there.lol

  • i think he is a very good drummer and the thing that he do with the light that blind or with what drives the weak are awesome so... thats my opinion

  • donati can eat him alive but freakin neil pert will eat both of them alive men that is very relative you cant compare drummers cause like nico mcbrain with only a double bass pedal will eat him too so its not about that its about styles

  • Booooring

  • fett ^^

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  • really? if i tell you a song could you "play that shit easy?"

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  • ok so if you could do it easy can i request a song and then you record and post it?

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  • really

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  • ok sure dude

  • he messed up at 0:49 after the fill i think.

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  • for all you guys who think he sucks, check his new dvd, he has improved so much

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  • it`s easier to be a metal-player than a jazz-player!

  • yeah right. i play both, i prefer jazz because its easier lol. and i like it. but metal i give way more props to

  • @MEINL5674 depending on how you play it.

  • proves that its easy to be a metal drummer

  • Well that's a lie.

  • totally disagree... I would like to see you doing what Bittner does.

  • Lets see you play it then. DO you even know what limb independence Is?

  • yea and this is a poor example of the simplist form of it. and on top of that it sounds like shit

  • Thats your opinion.

    There are plenty of metal drummers that have a lot of talent, while you don't necessarily need much to be in metal.

  • I know Jason is a very nice fellow but it would seem that he is way out of his league when it comes to drum festivals and the like. he sounds under rehearsed and there is a tempo issue too. I have heard many metal drummers (local or otherwise) that could floor the guy is moments. Stiill, he is in a popular band and thats what has carried him this far. I hope he will flourish in this arena at some point.

  • I think you have the correct understanding. He is a good drummer, but like you said he is somewhat out of his league. Guys like Donati, for example, eat him alive. But Jason is still young, and it looks like he has all the pieces in place for a very productive career. More power to him :)

  • @tindrum You my friend need to have your head checked. 

  • @tindrum

    You have terrible music taste... Janet Jackson? come on bro. Every artist on your channel favs suck ass.

    Jason is an amazing drummer. Seeing someone say that shadows fall is the only reason hes considered "good" is stupid.

    You have alot to learn about drums.

  • @TheMango121 You need to see a lot more drummers.

  • No offense, but this is extremely boring!!!!..... the only nice thing about this guy is that he uses TAMA drums!

  • i think what happens when he tries to do a samba beat is that it seems artificial because he doesn't have really the feel to perform samba patterns, and honestly i don't blame him. just prefer he'd stick to what he knows best instead of screwing around

  • this guy play samba with fuckin metal what a asshole

  • this is not that good at all

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  • the dude plays his part in shadows fall one of u guys show me if u mad it that big in music

  • this sucks. wanna see a real fricken amazing drummer? type in romain goulon on youtube and go to the veils of misconception. fucking insane doubles and blasts.

  • Dude, he's good but Jason

    Bittner is pretty good too man, he'sa got some good double bass blasts in the power of i and i , going going gone, and Seize the calm.

  • That isn't amzing its just fast faggot, and jason's blast are quite good and double bass is brilliant just lsten to some shadows fall dumbfuck then shoot ur mouth like the fucktard u really are, oh btw jason's double bass is fucking and he is much more skilled than romain and he also is musically way ahead.

  • i do listen to shadows fall you dick, and i like them a fair bit.

    romain is so much better than jason. jason plays like an amatuer, he only has fast hands and feet, isnt that creative, romain is fuckin 500000000x better than jason.

    fuck you

  • LOL this guy thinks he is a pro drummer?? he plays like amateur

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  • why is modern drummer so in love w/ jason bittner? I don't know ANY drummers (in metal or otherwise) who talk about him or can list him as an influence. and NOBODY gives a shit about shadows fall! I have no idea why this guy (and about a dozen other drummers) are the same ones featured by MD every month. there's SO many AWESOME drummers out there and MD seems to write about the same 10-20 guys for years on end, including this dude. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

  • boooooring.

  • after 2 years of drumming i played solos like that. and i'm dead serious.

  • diude i can never be as good as him no matter how much i have practiced

  • yea he blows for real lol

  • until u play in front of these crowds please dont say ur better than him or imply it

  • i agree dude,wat the fuck

  • lol i like the mix of world rhythms n' metal licks

  • rofl y diss him? how was that bad? show me what u losers consider a good solo... and i would love to see any of you do this... good lord ppl have no lives nowadays...

  • q merda d samba é esse!!

    vai tocar metal rapá!

  • He's probaly playing shitty cause he dosent care bout this shit. Meinl only wants to hear there cymbals in action they can probaly care less how jason plays. But jason is one of my favorites

  • that so fucking true. its all about the symbals not the playing.

  • this was just a bunch of noise. terrible example of someone thinking he is an artist. no wonder he is the poorest paid drummer of the top 5 thrash metal bands.

  • worst attempt at w/e the fuck he tried doing. he has terrible fills on top of it

  • That was terrible...

    Sou um baterista brasileiro, e sinceramente, faço coisa melhor.

    Samba groove??i don´t think so...

  • Have to say, I really didn't like this one bit. This is a typical example of a metal drummer trying to be something he isn't. I'm a metal drummer and would even dream of playing such styles that badly. Stick with what you know or at least get good at it before unleashing it on everyone!

  • Who the fuck-word plays that crap on such a kick ass set? Jason Bittner.

    If I was in the crowd, I would've walked up and snatched the sticks and take over his throne...

    Then Meinl would've laid a lawsuit against me, hahaha.

  • Hes a good drummer, but he wasnt born for solos, lol and it seems like he is just playing around. I wish he didnt do so many double bass fills.

  • this just doesn`t seem to be the kind of music

    this guy should play,missing some kind of latin attitude.......

  • I don't get why everyone's dissing him so badly. I think he's a great drummer, just not so much in a solo setting, which is the case for plenty of drummers.

  • this was pretty horrible

    expected a lot more

  • wow, i gotta say.. i though he was ALOT better from the SF songs...they must be hardcore Fixed .... idk could just be me

  • fuck that was terrible..

    the worst samba groove ever.

    if he's going to play the samba, at least play it with a bit of a latin feel and not with metal fills all over the shop.

    i expected a little more from jason bittner than that.

    poor!

  • he plays like more muscle is going to make his samba sound good

  • meinl fuckin sucks sabian is a lot more tonal

  • what tha hell?

  • boring

  • parts of it are taken from his live drum solo at the modern drumfest '05

    i still like it

  • change instrument

  • What a pathetic attempt on a samba, jesus this guy is incredibly bad!

  • its like jazz dressed up as metal

  • SAMBA!

  • he DID go to Berklee after all. He even said that he was pretty much ONLY metal guy out of every drummer there in '88.  about this solo in particular though, I've seen MUCH better from him. This one was actually quite "bad" considering the stuff he's done before. The flow in the beginning of this one is horrible and it sounds where "spliced" together as far as his transitions go. Now, he is still awesome, but this solo was one of his worst.

  • he is good, but on the beginning don´t have so much feeling, cuz his is playing samba, and samba it´s for us(brazilians).

    It´s like, "the best players of Jazz is North Americans(Yankees), and the best players of Samba is Brazilians". Someting like that, but not exactly.

    Nice solo.

  • he does pretty well at samba though to say he's a metal drummer

  • he has no flow. this solo is all over the place.

  • Hey I got a question for the fucks who are bashing this guy. Can you guys play this? NO? didnt think so. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

  • booooring

  • dude bittner can do a lot of styles and metal drummers dont suck retard metal drummers are some of the best drummers around.

  • Why he is a metal drummer?

  • What kind of question is that? I dunno... Because he plays like one?

  • But not like a "traditional" Metal Drummer...

    His style is very Jazz-Influenced

  • ... No. :D

  • he's a metal drummer because he's in a metal band perhaps?

  • I know Shadows fall, i liove them

    but his style isnt't very metal

  • i think its fairly metal

  • But Jazz influenced

  • and keeping in mind your level of stupidness leads us to the conclusion that your style isnt very clever.

  • This must be one of the finest examples of "a drummer with some name showing he can pull off a variety of styles - the only problem is that he can't".

  • hey jason do you want some lessons from alex acuna? :) good drummer but just play what you know please.

  • sorry

    but he never will play samba like the brazilian's drummers

  • nothing quite like samba metal! Yeah Bittner!

  • It doesnt have to go fast to be a good solo, but this is a bit dull.

  • haha. worst samba i've ever heard.

  • this solo is a bit dull. doesnt do anything for me at all.

  • this solo is boring

  • thats because your probably not a drummer and probably dont understand how great this solo is

  • youre right, im not a drummer in a sense that i do not play drums for any band, but i still know how to play and i could tell a good solo from a boring one, and this IS boring.

  • if this is boring, why do people go nuts wen someone like john bonham does a solo that is crap?

  • i din't say anything about crap. anyway if you mean boring, i don't know the answer to your question.

  • hey man! there is no such thing as a crap john bonham solo, he's the freakin best drummer there ever was and ever will be, and dont even say neil peart cus bonham owns him!

  • well jason bittner happens to be my favorite drummer. i know he isnt the best but hes my favorite. i checked out that bonham guy because you said his solos dont suck but all he did was hit random drums for like 20 seconds because hes a dirty hippy. you should get smacked in your mouth for even thinking that hes better than neil and buddy rich would tear him a new ass hole. but you probably think tommy lee is amazing to

  • He checked out "that Bonham guy". HA! Unbelieveable.

  • totally agree. I don't understand this whole john bonham thing. It's because people who listen to more accessible music only know accessible drummers. So their choices are shit like john bonham, neil peart, and guys like joey jordison. You ask a bonham fan if they have ever heard of dave weckl, tony williams or jojo mayer

  • Ok...I love Bonham and Zeppelin. I do however, also love drummers who are known for being drummers. I'm talking about the Dave Weckls, JoJo Mayers, Steve Gadds, Max Roachs, John Blackwells, and my personal favorite is Marco Minneman. I completely agree with your opinion of accessible music and the fact that most people don't take the time to really look at what's out there. Something can be taken from all those names you mentioned. Anything I can learn will only make me a better drummer.

  • well, you know your drummers, and I love marco minneman too. Therefore I appreciate your opinion on BOnham. Hey, the guy does keep a solid groove don't get me wrong. But yeah, your opinion is a little more valid in that regard

  • i agree. but bro i have to say there's something wrong with your ears if you don't get the "whole john bonham thing." oh and by the way i'm a bonham fan and i HAVE heard of dave weckl, tony williams, jojo mayer and many many more. they're all bad asses too. i'm not even sure how you can compare bonham and peart to weckl, williams and mayer. if you want to compare groove and feel then bonham takes the cake, but if you want to compare from a technical view, yeah, those guys blow bonham away.

  • i have to disagree. especially with dudes like jojo and tony. I mean jojo can rip, but have you ever seen videos like pleasure control? check it out. Hey bonham has feel dont get me wrong, I just think the feel in his playing is as guided or progressive sounding as someone like tony williams or jojo's. hard to explain. almost like every nuance was purposely put there, even deeper than a ghost note

  • LOL!

  • Awesome solo :P

    I Still don't get why he uses a superstar.

    Starclassic sounds better and looks better.

    And I can't imagine he's short for cash either . . .

  • he doesnt

    he uses starclassic's

    But his signature series is coming out on superstar

    For some stupid reason

  • But he's using one there.

  • Well if he can play an awesome drum solo on some lower class gear, then its clever because he leaves it to your imagination as to what he could do and sound like if he had a better kit.

  • bittner is crazy, i hart Shadows Fall.

  • gotta love the transfer from a nice latin groove to metal double bass.

  • I couldn't agree more! Jazz and Latin sounds have more influence throughout great drummers than I feel most would acknowledge or even notice.

  • Jason is THE BEST METALDRUMMER in the whole world.

  • lawl..

  • tama kickdrums sounds beautiful

  • thats hit in the begingin like after the one minute mark when he wa splaying the 2 fllor toms sounded like shit. he is still a greta drummer though

  • dont forget about chris adler

  • okay when he is in his grooves and stuff and going at it in this vid he is great but his transitions are horrible.

  • Will u all shut the fuck up he is better than all of us. And he is one fuckin hell of a drummer!!!!!!so shut ur fucking mouths!!!

  • What do you want?! JB is one of the best Metal Drummers, you can ask anybody how knows him seriously...

  • Whats up with all these mid-level/mediocre drummers being concidered great drummers and getting so much attention....one of them being this guy.

  • shut up Jason Bittner is better than you'll ever be

  • ok show us a video of you double-bassing as fast as in the light that blinds

    didnt think you could do it, so stfu.

  • Listen to Cast Down the Heretic by Nile and that song would make this noobs feet explode (Noob being Jason Bittner)

  • i love to see you calling professional drummers noobs.

    pretty much an oxymoron.

    besides, even if he isn't as fast as the nile drummer, there's no space for you to call Jason Bittner a noob, little bitch.

  • Well......Ok, that song isn't that fast. And yes, if I had the time I would gladly post a vid of me playing that horrid song.

  • So speed is the key to everything? gtfo

  • That is the fucking must boring and fucked up (almost so annoying that it drives you murder crazy) samba drumming! WHAT THE FUCK WAS HE THINKING?! "Oh the other guys are versatile... What am I? I'll give it a try on the world wide well known Modern Drummer Festival where almost half a million people will be watching... MAYBE it we be succesful"?!

  • this dude is just a practisemachine, he has no rythm, talent og understanding in phrasing and music.

  • Thanks for being the only other person in here that isn't autistic.

  • I'm autistic what's that gotta do with this guy?

  • yea with other genres though, he's only good at his type, metal...i guess.

  • I personaly like his drumming, he is a good drummer, with pretty good tecnicke, and nice feeling, so if i play like him, ill feel glad about myself

    Sorry about bad english :(

  • i have that exact same shirt, hah

  • lame

  • alright wat drummer dat u like u pathetic peace of shit