Virgil Donati Power Drumming - 13/16

Virgil playing a 13/16 time signature with a backing track. This video is an excerpt from Power Drumming (1992).

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• Donati
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• Remo
• drums
• drummer

[Antiks72]

Now that's some serious Star Trek shit.

[underscoreisnotvalid]

sounds like a great song to dance along to :)

[SickyHamiltonTV]

To count 13/16 just think of it in 4/4 and count 13 16th notes then cut off the count and start over again like this: 1 e and a 2 e and a 3 e and a 1 1 e and a 2 e and a 3 e and a 1 etc... 13/16 just means that there are 13 16th notes to the bar. This piece just sounds insane because Virgil is such an amazing drummer that he can syncopate the hell out of anything.

[crunge311]

@rosenbluntz hey man quick question...would you happen to know how he is subdividing this, or even counting this by any chance. Your right, his phrasing is creative for odd meter. .. thanx

[juanbarros88]

the allan holdsworth of drums

[AKtifosi]

sick



[skulltac]

@ohaithercat Really?!?!

[ohaithercat]

I will pay $20 to anyone who can headbang to this

[bowiemott]

@metalmike83 the guy I mentioned couldn't play polyrhythms well either. He just thought he could.The point is that anyone who skips over the basics thinking they can become advanced is deceiving themselves. Virgil can play this stuff because he CAN groove but the newcomers don't want to bother with the basics - they wanna be flash. Its like the bassists who can ONLY slap - can't play any walking lines or melody. OR the shredder who doesn't know any chords. Too many guys wanna skip the basics.

[metalmike83]

@bowiemott how can someone play odd times if they can't play in common time?

[isaacleedrums]

@underscoreisnotvalid lmao

[bowiemott]

god drumming but unfortunately young drummers want to perfect things like this when they should be focusing on the basics. There was a guy who auditioned for working cover band who could not play straight time no matter how hard he tried. He bragged about his "polytrhythms" and ability to play in odd time but he couldn't handle pop tunes of the past few decades. Beatles songs threw him. And it wasn't like he was good at jazz either - he was just an drum anorak for playing odd meters.