Buddy Rich & Eric Fischer Drum Battle - 1948

As seen in Modern Drummer Magazine and
http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2010/02/eric-fischer/#.TupJEVb0iSo

Not So Quiet Please

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[madamerotten]

This is an astounding work of dedication. I am reading Mel Tormé's biography of Buddy Rich, and was very pleased to find this. GREAT WORK!

[drumfootage]

@madamerotten Thanks!

[davidwoosley]

Eric, do you have any idea how freakin' impressive this is? Nice, nice job.

[drumfootage]

@davidwoosley Thanks, I appreciate it - thanks for watching.

[markyplanet]

Great job Eric...fantastic amount of work and meticulousness! Now the only thing I would suggest if I may is that I propose that since you got the notes correct and the midi interpretation so accurate, I would also suggest that you stress the importance of playing stuff musically and with passion! There is a passion that emits from Buddy...'how' he plays it and not just 'what' he plays. Great work, brother!

[drumfootage]

@markyplanet Thanks Mark, I agree with you 100% about musicality and passion. In this video, I was playing the solo to a sequence of Buddy, so most of my concentration was on matching his hits. When I play this without the sequence, there's much more drive and personality that comes through. Thanks for watching - I'm a fan of your drumming.

[MSmithjazz]

4 people have to be very bitter to give this video a negative rating.

[jamesyavalon]

what kind of an asshole would dislike this??

[17drums]

@jamesyavalon Really. This is so impressive. To match Buddy basically stroke-for-stroke is an impressive display of both picking out a somewhat lengthy solo first, and then flawlessly duplicating it. It's impressive regardless of who the original drummer is. But when it's Buddy, doubly so. Unfortunately, as I see above, there are Travis lovers/Buddy haters here too. Probably seven of them now. Or a combination of them, and insecure, intimidated drummers who trash ALL of their superiors!

[MetalDrummer776]

You cant keep up with Buddy :D

[richorico]

@catfacesilverdale idiot.

[govercheck]

Very cool man! With the midi you can really pick out the beats distinctively.

[uglynailsrock]

amazed!



[catfacesilverdale]

These guys are rubbish compared to travis barker. They have to use speed to sound good, but travis can sound good at any tempo, just playing in the pocket. He has a much better sense of groove than these guys, you can tell by watching his delicate techniques and innovative rhythm use in fills. He has much better skin-control too, he can get any sound he wants out of a drum, rather than just thrashing away with triplets and such... TRAVIS BEST DRUMMER EVER!!!

[TXMusicDrummer]

The only thing I don't like is the MIDI sequence part, but other than that, this is great. I may be mistaken, but it sure looks like Buddy is using a matched grip on this solo drum piece.