Virgil playing "Kingdom of Dreams" - Drum Clinic in Manchester, CT. [HQ]

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon
Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for improved playback performance. Upgrade now or more info.
12,131
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Mar 23, 2010

Virgil Donati playing backing tracks to Planet X's song "Kingdom of Dreams" from their 2007 record "Quantum" at drum clinic in Manchester, Connecticut. December 2009.

http://www.virgildonati.com
http://www.xplanetx.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

License:

Standard YouTube License

  • likes, 0 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Top Comments

  • A short dissertation of Virgil's playing style:

    step one: play a simple-ish beat

    step two: suddenly decide that youre bored and choose a new time signature to play in without alerting the rest of the band

    step three: magically rejoin the rest of the band perfectly on the down beat as if nothing happened

  • Like my drum teacher told me: "After seeing and hearing Virgil play you are faced with a decision. Either give up drumming all together or dedicate all your motivation and energy to try and obtain a fraction of the skill and musicianship Virgil possesses.".

see all

All Comments (55)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • Virgil Donati !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Incredible-fantastic-superlati­ve drummer , one of the best , surely one of the my favourite ( Dave Weckl and Steve Smith , too !!!!!!!!! ) . I ' ve seen Virgil Donati playing in Roma with Billy Sheehan and Tony McAlpine : simply wonderful ! A great musician ! About Dream theater session , i have my personal opinion ( we can discuss , eventually ) : Virgil Donati is too important drummer for Petrucci and Co. , his personality too big and strong for this band

  • @ 6:17 He enters God Mode.

  • @middlenut3

    Virgil Donati never stops to motivate and inspire me, I think he is the single-member-absolute-one-of-­a-kind stellar class of drummers. Although I am not too much into DT, I think that Mangini is the perfect match for them. After having watched the audtion vid's of Dream Theater I found Virgils takes killer but it appears to me as if he just had fun with the guys, not really looking for a job in a Progrock-Band.

    Great clinic performance, btw.

  • how could dream theater say no to this?????? what the hell is wrong with them????

  • @AtanasovPetar you are so fucking right.

  • @affablegiraffable

    ...try a little harder

  • I never thought much of Donati as an ensemble player.

    Great technician + soloist.

  • @dogb00ts i can die happy now too

  • i listened this melody live about a month ago, i can die happy now

  • Amazing playing!

Loading...

Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more