[butter]

what do you think is the hardest song to play on drums?

[don11817]

Well, most stuff by Dream Theater is pretty tough.... Odd time signatures, lots of changes, lots of fills and syncopation...


Here's a tasty piece of Dream Theater--not their hardest stuff by any means---just nicely done, clean sound and nice music to boot!

YouTube - mike portnoy Hell's kitchen

here's a more recent and harder one:

YouTube - Mike Portnoy - Honor Thy Father

[don11817]

Here's a dude playing some serious prog music... I never really heard of him until recently, but man, has he got chops... His setup is really weird, really close-in and some of his cymbals are behind his head, but if it works for him, so be it... This stuff would be incredibly hard...

YouTube - Bobby Jarzombek

[butter]

wow. thats some crazy stuff.

[Chronic Blasturbator]

Check this out its just pure crazy, some mess about with time towards the middle

YouTube - Marco Pitruzzella - 'Subliminal...

[butter]

the guy looks like hes in pain sometimes

but still thats awesome.

[upyoursorelse]

The hardest music to play on drums is jazz by far, i mean check out dave weckl, that dude is insane beyond the membrane

[butter]

i dont agree with that. sometimes jazz could be harder to play than other genres of music, but it demands different types of drumming skills than other genres. i dont have time to go into much detail right now, ill post again later.