It's great getting more uploads from you, dude! That dude is an absolute maniac machine, but he knows when to tone it down and play tastefully and not overdo it and it's fantastic to see. Also I'm digging the overhead mic in a hammock!
Lars has gotten to the point where he thinks he's great but no longer puts in the time. Also always doing his own thing while the band is acting like a band.
Say what you want about Lars, but he had many great and memorable drum parts in their early days. That’s why so many drummers cover him. It doesn’t feel like he was limited by his ability to play, even if he is technically far from the best. This here is kind of overkill 😅
Aw DAMN!!! He played it the way Dave Lombardo did (Download Festival) at the end by keeping the double kik going. I always thought that was the better way of playing it.
The speed and gravity bombs aside, the fact he does all this on a relatively simple kit is amazing. Snare, 2 toms, a double pedal kick, and some cymbals. Definitely fun to watch.
👍I don't recall ever clicking full notification for an ESS reactor. I don't much watch ESS reactors (or ESS non-shorts for that matter, or pure drumming stuff either), so maybe that's it. But the "Jazz drummer reacts to ESS" (misspelled!) piqued my curiosity, and here I am, with an unexpected gift. It was a joy watching with you. I liked your honesty about your skepticism, your genuine love, and how breezily your body moves, utterances, smiles, etc blended perfectly with my experience of hearing this song and ESS playing it for the first time (unlike you I merely liked Metallica for a few years and that's about it; in retrospect I was obviously under developed as a music lover!). I think I'd love to see more reactions by you to songs you know and love, covered by ESS (or perhaps others). Maybe they're already on the channel? I guess I ought explore but my lazy self hopes to see more of you hosting me experiencing ESS doing songs, not shorts. When does he go a bit overboard? What things does he do that make you laugh or smile or frown? The kind of stuff you did in this reaction. Yeah, I can see myself enjoying some time with you. I presume you've also got some of your own stuff on here; I'll go look and listen. BTW, have you reacted to Ginger Baker stuff? Yeah. I'll go look. See you later. ✌
I reckon you'd enjoy the first couple of singles from his band #TheCost - he's very much playing musically *for the song* thru those. They intentionally released a slower more-rock-than-metal track for the first single to underline the fact that in the context of his band, he will be playing *for the song* ,not doing crazy technical sh1t for Instagram to get his numbers up! Peter (guitar & vocals) & Chris (bass) both went to Berklee's campus in Valencia, Spain to do their jazz-leaning Masters, & so met Jorge there. Always interesting to hear capable jazzers letting their heaviest influences come thru! ;) 1st single "Not For Me": th-cam.com/video/oFcq7stw1ac/w-d-xo.html 2nd single "Into the Drone" (more uptempo, closer to metal): th-cam.com/video/b2_R-OucqDU/w-d-xo.html
Great reaction as usual bro! Just a suggestion for you? Would you ever consider uploading covers of you playing your favourite non jazz stuff? As I said just a suggestion but I’d love seeing your take on other stuff!🙂
Great review Much of his insta posts are for passive drum fans. To garner viewership and followers, obviously. His youtube full features are flawless. Interestingly, the songs i havent heard before, that he covers, wind up being my favorite versions. Always challenging to hear my favorites played differently. That video was from a couple years ago. He is pretty young. 23, 24 ish in this vids. His style has evolved.
Garrett, if I can make a suggestion - it would be better to have he video you're reacting to be full screen with your face as the picture in picture in the bottom corner. The way you're doing it now makes it a lot harder to see what the drummer is doing. Just a suggestion 😊
He gets away with a 3 piece because his extraordinary bass technique, his covers are so good it’s hard to suggest just one, his tool stuff is kinda my favorites,
That's the secret to his popularity - he's got chops upon chops, but he has _taste_. Even when he does ridiculous stuff it almost always fits the song, or at least his interpretation of it. His cover of Blinded by the Light is a great example of this, and his cover of Everlong is pretty much just straight off the record.
Idk man, I feel like every time I've seen him play anything that isn't straight metal he overplays the shit out of it. But to be totally fair, I don't watch him that much. And since this IS metal, it sounded great! Lol, I don't mean to drop a hot take here, but he may be better than Lars.
That is extremely far off the mark. Taste is not the secret sauce for his popularity in the slightest lol. That's like saying Dragonforce was the biggest power metal band because they introduced taste to the genre. He's popular for a variety of reasons but the well produced shorts that highlight his humor and catch even non drummers' attention with the craziest gimmick arrangements of particular sections of popular tunes definitely ranks higher than his ability to play for the music in full videos.
@@ltgreatsocks1 I also feel he overplays a lot. It's not always the best choice for the individual song, but it IS entertaining. My guess is if he joined any of the bands he's covered, he would chill out a bit more, and that his covers are more for fun.
@@SJ-ym4yt I totally believe that he would chill out and play appropriately! Dude is clearly a very experienced drummer after all. Regardless, I just don't always get a lot out of his overplaying, stick tricks, and other shenanigans. I definitely see the appeal though!
Not even Lars can follow Lars, he is random generated lol. Cool to have you back on youtube, pls check out more. He does all covers in one take, some of the most crazy ones are blinding lights and eminem cover.
Another one that really kills me is his cover of In The End by Linkin Park. I'm not even a LP fan but he's sooo crazy good. It's one of my favorites of his.
Like Lars really cares about the criticism I bet he sleeps very comfortably at night with his hot ass chick and his Ferrari's in his mansion living off royalties.
Other than a couple of tiny parts in there I REALLY prefer this version of the drumming. The extra straight singles on double bass that he throws in REALLY drives the song forward and gives it a sense of urgency that the original simply doesn't have.
I dig El, and I've been subbed for a while now, but I can't help thinking that his virtuosity will also be his own death knell, much the same way that Yngwie Malmsteen's career went. The world is simply not ready for him yet.
I actually would say that this guy basically took the issue of over-playing and turned it into art. I mean, seen him play with his band, does stay in his lane and in the pocket with what the band needs, but nevertheless, what I mean is that his drum covers just add creative ideas and creative ideas, that one can, I think, call overplaying and going wild where simple things would work and are put on the record, but he's doing it with the adequate musicality the songs need and a load of taste.
This is similar to the drum cover that David Diepold did of the song by Slipknot named Eeyore, somehow he played it better and everyone knows that with Joey that is very difficult to do
I kinda lost interest in Metallica in the mid 90's, started to explore more niche and different kinds of metal (the cassettes I ran to complete static from the mid 90's were Clawfinger and Meshuggah albums) and it was also the period they got far more mellow. But those earlier fast trash metal songs they had, still 100% my jam.
Idk man, every time I see sth by Estepario, it is very impressive on a technical level, lots of notes are being played, and all of those notes are perfectly on the grid, but there's just no emotion coming across for me, I don't feel moved by it at all. Lars is a way inferior drummer, but I'd much rather listen to the original regardless of that, because that was played with emotional intent and not just to show off how many notes Lars can play.
That was actually pretty good - but honestly my biggest problem with his playing is that he uses the snare too much - I'd love to see him use more than the two floor toms. It just kinda sounds lazy to me, which is the last thing anyone could say about his drumming. But yeah, good stuff.
Take a song and add a ton more complexity but laser sharp and clean. Lars needs to focus less on the knapsack and just get to practice practice practice again. Not happening.
Damn this guy is a great drummer. He also over plays to the point where the focus of the song is on him and not the song itself. This, despite his technical proficiency, makes him a poor drummer. Unless the point of this cover was to showcase his ability; and even at that, his total capacity is diminished by the unrelenting over playing. A great niche drummer for the Tis Tok crowd but utterly unlistenable otherwise.
I make the original smaller so it's not an alternative to the original. You want to see his video clearly? Go watch his original video. But yea, bye. ✌️
If you learned to play Metallica by ear listening to their albums and can play any song you've learned start to finish as it's recorded you're already a better drummer than Lars, he hasn't recorded a song beginning to end since Kill 'Em All, every track is heavily edited and copy-pasted together from multiple attempts, at the end of Battery where Lars went off-beat, that was a mistake that he thought sounded cool so he kept it, as a drummer it always bugs me, but not as much as listening to him improvise his way through sets with fills and rolls. He also doesn't play double-bass the way he used to, Fight Fire With Fire live just sound wrong without them.
@@hhaste Not in metal it isn't. Only when a band "makes it" they can afford to take all the time in the world to put out a new album, if you have a studio for 2 months you have to record as much in one take as possible, Engineers fucking despise musicians who record in sections because they were too lazy to come into the studio prepared, they make everyone else's job more difficult and act like divas.
nice cover indeed but still prefer the original drums. for me, metallica is the only band i know that any cover done never sounds better than the original. it's impossible to change/cover a metallica song, and make it sound better. i don't agree with the point you made that lars would want to play "this good". lars was one of the guys paving the way for others, decades later, to have something to build upon. lars is part of a group of few guys that invented a style of playing. Estepario, amazing drummer as he is, is not on that level. he plays "better" the styles other people invented. and that's a huge difference.
I will agree with you about the OG drums for their songs being the best version of them... I'll get into why below. I will say that Eloy Cassagrande's cover of Battery is tied with the original in my mind... it's excellent if you haven't checked it out. BUT... let me attempt to change your mind about a couple of things, respectfully. Mainly, I won't agree that Mr. Estapario isn't on the level of Lars. Here's my long, rambling case that may be TLDR material: MetallicA was absolutely special and, of course, they were on the edge of the Thrash trailblazing pack of the early/mid 80's. Hell, even AJFA in '88 was a standout as far as the drums go in metal, period... both in his almost Prog approach to the parts he wrote to the production and sound of the kit... I mean, I challenge folk to listen to metal pre AJFA and post AJFA and tell me with a straight face that Lars wasn't 75% or greater responsible for the change in sound of the drums, again, in general, in metal. I 100% love Lars' work, just to be clear. IMO, as a drummer that started playing BECAUSE of Lars, his standout quality was playing *for the song*. He wrote interesting parts that complimented and supported the rest of the band, as well as helping to compose a lot of the song structures for the other parts, and while never overly showy or technically amazing, he was in the right spot with the right people at the right time. He was special because MetallicA was special. There were other Thrash bands helping that trail to get blazed, and with arguably better drummers all around... but Lars was exactly what was needed to make MetallicA songs unique, along with the other members, and it's just GOOD MUSIC. Yes, there is a signature sound to his playing and that is notable (his use of the Snare\Crash combo, for example, is absolutely recognizable to anyone who's paid attention... which is definitely an achievement to even have a signature sound, for sure), but he isn't a drummer that challenges other drummers when they try to emulate him. His parts aren't mind blowing, they aren't filled with techniques that wow his fans, and in many ways are limited in scope. BUT... they are memorable, appropriate for the song, and obviously crafted with care and purpose that shows through. Yes, even on St Anger. I take nothing away from him while acknowledging his shortcomings. (Also, I don't hate on the bad clips out there, he's played WAY more shows where he didn't mess up than the ones we see in the hate vids... but haters gonna clown) Lars is one of those few musicians of any caliber that is unique and recognizable in every way. He stands out, even to this day. Likewise, though, El Estapario is one of, if not *the*, biggest and most recognizable drummers from his sector of the entertainment landscape. He is one of the very few "internet drummers" that not only "made it", but trailblazed and perfected the internet drummer grind with some amazing techniques and video ideas that no one else was doing like he was. Not saying he invented the techniques he used, but his approach to composing his parts, even on covers, is extremely creative and inventive. Everything from his skill, those techniques I just mentioned, the use of the Yamaha EAD as the only mic on the kit during the early days, the absolute creativity with which he composed his parts, the use of anything and everything to make noise (if you watch his shorts/tiktoks, you'll know what I mean), to his approach to being ENTERTAINING for his audience, was a unique approach and just as influential to today's generations of drummers and music lovers as Lars was to mine. AND HE DID IT WHILE MOSTLY PLAYING METAL! He's normalized the idea of drumming being a draw, in and of itself, to a whole new generation that never heard of Buddy Rich, and created a brand and an entire niche in the area that is Social Media music. Dude makes folk who never cared about what goes into drums, absolutely HOOKED on his content and learning what time signatures and polyrythms are. He didn't create the Internet drummer, but he was the perfect blend of skill, aesthetic, work ethic, and, again, entertainment, to rocket to the front of the pack and be a force all of his own... even without a band for most of it. Greyson Nekrutman is probably the next most influential, imo, but Mr. Estapario was not just good at the drums, he was the whole social media package, and has successfully kept it going enough to carve his own path forward. All that to say, they were both extremely influential and I would not like a world without either of them producing beats for me to groove the hell out on. \m/
Lars was a follower, not a trend setter, there were better metal drummers before him, Dave Lombardo and Charlie Benante for instance. Double bass drummers in the late 70s and early 80s listened to jazz inspired double bass players, Louie Bellson started using a double bass kit in the 1950s, but they didn't become popular until Bill Ward, Alex Van Halen, Carmine Appice, Ron Tutt and Tommy Aldridge started using them in the late '60s and early 70s, THEY paved the way, Lars followed. The drummers Lars mostly listened to and learned from were Philthy Phil Taylor of Motorhead who didn't start using double bass until 1979's Overkill album, (and inspired Lars to quit tennis and learn to play drums) and Deep Purple's Ian Paice who only uses double bass on a few songs and doesn't actually like to do so. Lars isn't on any of their levels, outside Ron Tutt and Phil Taylor who passed away all those others could out-drum Lars right now. There's a reason practically any metal drummer from virtually any band can cover Metallica's drums tracks but Lars can't cover anyone outside classic 70s bands, he can barely cover himself ffs. You'll never see Lars play an Anthrax, Testament, Overkill or anyone else's songs of the 80s thrash era because he's a lazy sod who gave up trying to improve after Cliff died, his skills have only gotten worse, he can't even play the bass blast beats from Fight Fire With Fire anymore.
@@ll7868 this was a bunch of useless party wisdom. and partially inaccurate - Benante/Lombardo didn't made themselves a name before Lars, they all started around same time, while insiders had Lars on their list since the "No Life ’Til Leather" demo from 82 - and pointless: why the heck should Lars play a song of a different band to show skills? as if any of the bands you've listed is more technical than Metallica. They are all above average but surely not on the level of "highly complicated music".
Lars is a great drummer..... for metallica's music. the guitars and vocals to me IS metallica, the drums are there to keep the beat with a fill every now and again... lars is perfect for that. estapario... dude is a drum god, his style fits so many songs, but for me simple drums on metallica's songs works for most... not so for battery that was just badass :D
New to the channel , Drummer and guitarist myself, You should ( If you dont know him,) look up Extreme Drumming on youtube , He is also insanely awesome Mauricio Weimar, he is fun to watch ,\m/
man just wanna say it's damn good to see your reactions again!
Love that garret is back no one covers drummers like he does 👌🏻👌🏻
"Try to follow along with Lars"
Damn, you're good! Even Lars doesn't follow Lars 🤣
Lars is an interesting character but an average drummer. El Estepario has more talent and technique in one limb than Lars has in all four.
@@JohnnoBogan Basically any modern metal/prog drummer does compared to any drummer from that era.
It's great getting more uploads from you, dude! That dude is an absolute maniac machine, but he knows when to tone it down and play tastefully and not overdo it and it's fantastic to see.
Also I'm digging the overhead mic in a hammock!
"This is what Lars wanted to play, he just couldn't" 😂
Ridiculous comment... not by you but by the reactor
@@4ytcomment C'mon, it's funny 😉😄
@@4ytcomment I am really sorry if his comment ofended you, but, he is right, he is better than Lars technical and musicaly.
Lars has gotten to the point where he thinks he's great but no longer puts in the time. Also always doing his own thing while the band is acting like a band.
Say what you want about Lars, but he had many great and memorable drum parts in their early days. That’s why so many drummers cover him. It doesn’t feel like he was limited by his ability to play, even if he is technically far from the best. This here is kind of overkill 😅
Aw DAMN!!! He played it the way Dave Lombardo did (Download Festival) at the end by keeping the double kik going. I always thought that was the better way of playing it.
You should watch the version Eloy Casagrande played on his TH-cam channel.
The speed and gravity bombs aside, the fact he does all this on a relatively simple kit is amazing. Snare, 2 toms, a double pedal kick, and some cymbals. Definitely fun to watch.
the little changes really make the song slap even harder.
React on how Aquilles Priester covered Damage Inc.!
👍I don't recall ever clicking full notification for an ESS reactor. I don't much watch ESS reactors (or ESS non-shorts for that matter, or pure drumming stuff either), so maybe that's it. But the "Jazz drummer reacts to ESS" (misspelled!) piqued my curiosity, and here I am, with an unexpected gift.
It was a joy watching with you. I liked your honesty about your skepticism, your genuine love, and how breezily your body moves, utterances, smiles, etc blended perfectly with my experience of hearing this song and ESS playing it for the first time (unlike you I merely liked Metallica for a few years and that's about it; in retrospect I was obviously under developed as a music lover!).
I think I'd love to see more reactions by you to songs you know and love, covered by ESS (or perhaps others). Maybe they're already on the channel? I guess I ought explore but my lazy self hopes to see more of you hosting me experiencing ESS doing songs, not shorts. When does he go a bit overboard? What things does he do that make you laugh or smile or frown? The kind of stuff you did in this reaction.
Yeah, I can see myself enjoying some time with you. I presume you've also got some of your own stuff on here; I'll go look and listen. BTW, have you reacted to Ginger Baker stuff? Yeah. I'll go look. See you later. ✌
All his covers are out of this world
I reckon you'd enjoy the first couple of singles from his band #TheCost - he's very much playing musically *for the song* thru those. They intentionally released a slower more-rock-than-metal track for the first single to underline the fact that in the context of his band, he will be playing *for the song* ,not doing crazy technical sh1t for Instagram to get his numbers up! Peter (guitar & vocals) & Chris (bass) both went to Berklee's campus in Valencia, Spain to do their jazz-leaning Masters, & so met Jorge there. Always interesting to hear capable jazzers letting their heaviest influences come thru! ;)
1st single "Not For Me": th-cam.com/video/oFcq7stw1ac/w-d-xo.html
2nd single "Into the Drone" (more uptempo, closer to metal): th-cam.com/video/b2_R-OucqDU/w-d-xo.html
His cover of badadan by chase and status is pretty cool
Crazy sick drum machine. Awesome!
He may have been using his Dualist pedal. The speed he can get out of it is face melting.
Eloy Casagrande does an insane cover of this track as well, worth a watch!
when i clicked this i thought it was ELOY!!!! AHHHH i wish he did the eloy one instead but oh well
Eloy is so damn good I enjoyed his cover of Phil Collins just as much
Yours are the only videos I like and comment on.
I also love when drummers play the kicks through the breaks.
Great reaction as usual bro! Just a suggestion for you? Would you ever consider uploading covers of you playing your favourite non jazz stuff? As I said just a suggestion but I’d love seeing your take on other stuff!🙂
Awesome video is always Garrett!
Dang he’s good!
His stuff always sounds great and this seems like he’s got almost 19” crashes with the quick punchy feet 🤙
Great review Much of his insta posts are for passive drum fans. To garner viewership and followers, obviously. His youtube full features are flawless.
Interestingly, the songs i havent heard before, that he covers, wind up being my favorite versions.
Always challenging to hear my favorites played differently.
That video was from a couple years ago. He is pretty young. 23, 24 ish in this vids. His style has evolved.
welcome back my guy.
He pronounces El Estepario Siberiano awesome straight out the gate, I am loving this channel instantly.
Good to see you back!
You're back!!!!
"This is what Lars wanted to play, but couldn't". Sad but truuuuue!
Love you Garrett.
Bro has more chops than a karate tournament
Eloy playingit is also AMAZING
Garrett, if I can make a suggestion - it would be better to have he video you're reacting to be full screen with your face as the picture in picture in the bottom corner. The way you're doing it now makes it a lot harder to see what the drummer is doing. Just a suggestion 😊
This. Do this. So we can see what your referencing in the video that the drummer is on
His cover of Baddadan is FANTASTIC!! And his cover of Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold is wonderful 😍😍
Dude is a machine!
Estepario is a monster!
keep dropping them.
garrett you need to check out Jay Postones most recent play through of "Natural Disaster" Meinl session
He gets away with a 3 piece because his extraordinary bass technique, his covers are so good it’s hard to suggest just one, his tool stuff is kinda my favorites,
That's the secret to his popularity - he's got chops upon chops, but he has _taste_. Even when he does ridiculous stuff it almost always fits the song, or at least his interpretation of it. His cover of Blinded by the Light is a great example of this, and his cover of Everlong is pretty much just straight off the record.
Idk man, I feel like every time I've seen him play anything that isn't straight metal he overplays the shit out of it. But to be totally fair, I don't watch him that much. And since this IS metal, it sounded great!
Lol, I don't mean to drop a hot take here, but he may be better than Lars.
That is extremely far off the mark. Taste is not the secret sauce for his popularity in the slightest lol. That's like saying Dragonforce was the biggest power metal band because they introduced taste to the genre. He's popular for a variety of reasons but the well produced shorts that highlight his humor and catch even non drummers' attention with the craziest gimmick arrangements of particular sections of popular tunes definitely ranks higher than his ability to play for the music in full videos.
Honestly I find him pretty tasteless
@@ltgreatsocks1 I also feel he overplays a lot. It's not always the best choice for the individual song, but it IS entertaining. My guess is if he joined any of the bands he's covered, he would chill out a bit more, and that his covers are more for fun.
@@SJ-ym4yt I totally believe that he would chill out and play appropriately! Dude is clearly a very experienced drummer after all. Regardless, I just don't always get a lot out of his overplaying, stick tricks, and other shenanigans. I definitely see the appeal though!
LET'S GOOOOOOOOO
You should check out Valtteri Wäyrynen's playthrough of Opeths song paraghaph one. It's pretty tasty🤌
i loved the part u said that was a bit too much for u, made it all dank n proggy
Not even Lars can follow Lars, he is random generated lol. Cool to have you back on youtube, pls check out more. He does all covers in one take, some of the most crazy ones are blinding lights and eminem cover.
"..Metallica I.v. drip 90-92"😂😂... we lived identical lives
Another one that really kills me is his cover of In The End by Linkin Park. I'm not even a LP fan but he's sooo crazy good. It's one of my favorites of his.
Hey there Garret! How are u buddy? Nice to see you again! =)
I'm good, thanks for asking! Had some hard times but things are better lately.
Lars could never
The best "Battery" cover on TH-cam by far is played by Eloy Casagrande.
To all the Lars haters....
He's in Metallica and you aren't.
Just sayin'.
imagine being in Metallica with Lars 😂
That's all we can do, because we're not.
The dumbest argument. Lots of assholes get lucky/rich. They're still assholes
Like Lars really cares about the criticism I bet he sleeps very comfortably at night with his hot ass chick and his Ferrari's in his mansion living off royalties.
Check out the Dennis Chambers talking about him
Hey, yeah he's insane but more importantly you're looking really well! Hope life's treating you good :)
Other than a couple of tiny parts in there I REALLY prefer this version of the drumming. The extra straight singles on double bass that he throws in REALLY drives the song forward and gives it a sense of urgency that the original simply doesn't have.
4:44 I think he heard you lol
I dig El, and I've been subbed for a while now, but I can't help thinking that his virtuosity will also be his own death knell, much the same way that Yngwie Malmsteen's career went. The world is simply not ready for him yet.
"this is what Lars wanted to play.... but couldn't"
-Garret Miller
Ridiculous comment... not by you but by the reactor
wb!
His hands are like a CGI blur
Man those older metallica albums really benefit from a modern punchy kick sound imo. It really makes it so much heavier.
can u react to dan preslands citadel album cover
If you have a chance check out Caleb H The Summoning by Sleep Token its amazing. Oh yea he's 9 years old.
I actually would say that this guy basically took the issue of over-playing and turned it into art. I mean, seen him play with his band, does stay in his lane and in the pocket with what the band needs, but nevertheless, what I mean is that his drum covers just add creative ideas and creative ideas, that one can, I think, call overplaying and going wild where simple things would work and are put on the record, but he's doing it with the adequate musicality the songs need and a load of taste.
Garrett,
Sorry if I’m late to the party, but did you perform in DCI? My son is auditioning for the Bluecoats next month! Cheers from SATX.
Naw I never marched but am a huge fan of DCI. Best of skill to your son on his audition, Bloo are the future of DCI!
Hey Garret, react to VOLA - Cannibal (Drum Playthrough by Adam Janzi) 👌
🤘🍻🤘
You should use earphones, because the sound is doubled.
This is similar to the drum cover that David Diepold did of the song by Slipknot named Eeyore, somehow he played it better and everyone knows that with Joey that is very difficult to do
hi never overkill it
enlarge the screen and turn up the volume
You can tell right away from his second flam at the floor tom that he is not playing the audio...the hit doesn't match the sound you hear
I kinda lost interest in Metallica in the mid 90's, started to explore more niche and different kinds of metal (the cassettes I ran to complete static from the mid 90's were Clawfinger and Meshuggah albums) and it was also the period they got far more mellow.
But those earlier fast trash metal songs they had, still 100% my jam.
too bad it's not an audition video
Hah, ride cymbal doesn't belong in classic Metallica! I had the same reaction as you.
Like this comment if you tried to wipe a hair off your phones screen
Idk man, every time I see sth by Estepario, it is very impressive on a technical level, lots of notes are being played, and all of those notes are perfectly on the grid, but there's just no emotion coming across for me, I don't feel moved by it at all. Lars is a way inferior drummer, but I'd much rather listen to the original regardless of that, because that was played with emotional intent and not just to show off how many notes Lars can play.
Review an actual LARS video from 1985.
th-cam.com/video/IQyjSoA7r6k/w-d-xo.html
This drum cover completely ruined the original version for me. This is now the definitive version and the only one I'll willingly listen to.
At least it's tasty.
Out of your league!
Too busy
never seen this estepario playing very jazz,anyway...
Rather see more of the person you’re critiquing visually rather than your big mug. Switch ego man.
Nice, but so nice to heaer that someone else thought that bell at 4:37 was truly awful.
Just shows how bad Lars is. Lars can't even spell triplet.
That was actually pretty good - but honestly my biggest problem with his playing is that he uses the snare too much - I'd love to see him use more than the two floor toms. It just kinda sounds lazy to me, which is the last thing anyone could say about his drumming.
But yeah, good stuff.
Take a song and add a ton more complexity but laser sharp and clean. Lars needs to focus less on the knapsack and just get to practice practice practice again. Not happening.
Damn this guy is a great drummer. He also over plays to the point where the focus of the song is on him and not the song itself. This, despite his technical proficiency, makes him a poor drummer. Unless the point of this cover was to showcase his ability; and even at that, his total capacity is diminished by the unrelenting over playing. A great niche drummer for the Tis Tok crowd but utterly unlistenable otherwise.
Dude flip the view so we can see him we only need to hear you. Im out . Thumbs down. Your awareness is suspect.
I make the original smaller so it's not an alternative to the original. You want to see his video clearly? Go watch his original video. But yea, bye. ✌️
when is your next gig? i like watching you play. it's a whole different style that metal guys cant quite do.
If you live in Ventura County, I'm playing at the Manhattan of Camarillo November 2nd, 6:30-9:30. And thank you 😊
Just like 90% of the other videos, too much commentary.
Only most annoying persons start a video cracking their fingers. Jeez man.... don't need to see the rest of the video.
If you learned to play Metallica by ear listening to their albums and can play any song you've learned start to finish as it's recorded you're already a better drummer than Lars, he hasn't recorded a song beginning to end since Kill 'Em All, every track is heavily edited and copy-pasted together from multiple attempts, at the end of Battery where Lars went off-beat, that was a mistake that he thought sounded cool so he kept it, as a drummer it always bugs me, but not as much as listening to him improvise his way through sets with fills and rolls. He also doesn't play double-bass the way he used to, Fight Fire With Fire live just sound wrong without them.
It's very common to record in sections..
@@hhaste Not in metal it isn't. Only when a band "makes it" they can afford to take all the time in the world to put out a new album, if you have a studio for 2 months you have to record as much in one take as possible, Engineers fucking despise musicians who record in sections because they were too lazy to come into the studio prepared, they make everyone else's job more difficult and act like divas.
nice cover indeed but still prefer the original drums. for me, metallica is the only band i know that any cover done never sounds better than the original. it's impossible to change/cover a metallica song, and make it sound better.
i don't agree with the point you made that lars would want to play "this good". lars was one of the guys paving the way for others, decades later, to have something to build upon. lars is part of a group of few guys that invented a style of playing. Estepario, amazing drummer as he is, is not on that level. he plays "better" the styles other people invented. and that's a huge difference.
lars had the vision, but not the skills to pull it off while keeping the timing straight. he's just awesome on the records.
And white stripes:)
I will agree with you about the OG drums for their songs being the best version of them... I'll get into why below. I will say that Eloy Cassagrande's cover of Battery is tied with the original in my mind... it's excellent if you haven't checked it out.
BUT... let me attempt to change your mind about a couple of things, respectfully. Mainly, I won't agree that Mr. Estapario isn't on the level of Lars.
Here's my long, rambling case that may be TLDR material:
MetallicA was absolutely special and, of course, they were on the edge of the Thrash trailblazing pack of the early/mid 80's. Hell, even AJFA in '88 was a standout as far as the drums go in metal, period... both in his almost Prog approach to the parts he wrote to the production and sound of the kit... I mean, I challenge folk to listen to metal pre AJFA and post AJFA and tell me with a straight face that Lars wasn't 75% or greater responsible for the change in sound of the drums, again, in general, in metal. I 100% love Lars' work, just to be clear. IMO, as a drummer that started playing BECAUSE of Lars, his standout quality was playing *for the song*. He wrote interesting parts that complimented and supported the rest of the band, as well as helping to compose a lot of the song structures for the other parts, and while never overly showy or technically amazing, he was in the right spot with the right people at the right time. He was special because MetallicA was special. There were other Thrash bands helping that trail to get blazed, and with arguably better drummers all around... but Lars was exactly what was needed to make MetallicA songs unique, along with the other members, and it's just GOOD MUSIC. Yes, there is a signature sound to his playing and that is notable (his use of the Snare\Crash combo, for example, is absolutely recognizable to anyone who's paid attention... which is definitely an achievement to even have a signature sound, for sure), but he isn't a drummer that challenges other drummers when they try to emulate him. His parts aren't mind blowing, they aren't filled with techniques that wow his fans, and in many ways are limited in scope. BUT... they are memorable, appropriate for the song, and obviously crafted with care and purpose that shows through. Yes, even on St Anger. I take nothing away from him while acknowledging his shortcomings. (Also, I don't hate on the bad clips out there, he's played WAY more shows where he didn't mess up than the ones we see in the hate vids... but haters gonna clown) Lars is one of those few musicians of any caliber that is unique and recognizable in every way. He stands out, even to this day.
Likewise, though, El Estapario is one of, if not *the*, biggest and most recognizable drummers from his sector of the entertainment landscape. He is one of the very few "internet drummers" that not only "made it", but trailblazed and perfected the internet drummer grind with some amazing techniques and video ideas that no one else was doing like he was. Not saying he invented the techniques he used, but his approach to composing his parts, even on covers, is extremely creative and inventive. Everything from his skill, those techniques I just mentioned, the use of the Yamaha EAD as the only mic on the kit during the early days, the absolute creativity with which he composed his parts, the use of anything and everything to make noise (if you watch his shorts/tiktoks, you'll know what I mean), to his approach to being ENTERTAINING for his audience, was a unique approach and just as influential to today's generations of drummers and music lovers as Lars was to mine. AND HE DID IT WHILE MOSTLY PLAYING METAL! He's normalized the idea of drumming being a draw, in and of itself, to a whole new generation that never heard of Buddy Rich, and created a brand and an entire niche in the area that is Social Media music. Dude makes folk who never cared about what goes into drums, absolutely HOOKED on his content and learning what time signatures and polyrythms are. He didn't create the Internet drummer, but he was the perfect blend of skill, aesthetic, work ethic, and, again, entertainment, to rocket to the front of the pack and be a force all of his own... even without a band for most of it. Greyson Nekrutman is probably the next most influential, imo, but Mr. Estapario was not just good at the drums, he was the whole social media package, and has successfully kept it going enough to carve his own path forward.
All that to say, they were both extremely influential and I would not like a world without either of them producing beats for me to groove the hell out on.
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Lars was a follower, not a trend setter, there were better metal drummers before him, Dave Lombardo and Charlie Benante for instance. Double bass drummers in the late 70s and early 80s listened to jazz inspired double bass players, Louie Bellson started using a double bass kit in the 1950s, but they didn't become popular until Bill Ward, Alex Van Halen, Carmine Appice, Ron Tutt and Tommy Aldridge started using them in the late '60s and early 70s, THEY paved the way, Lars followed.
The drummers Lars mostly listened to and learned from were Philthy Phil Taylor of Motorhead who didn't start using double bass until 1979's Overkill album, (and inspired Lars to quit tennis and learn to play drums) and Deep Purple's Ian Paice who only uses double bass on a few songs and doesn't actually like to do so. Lars isn't on any of their levels, outside Ron Tutt and Phil Taylor who passed away all those others could out-drum Lars right now. There's a reason practically any metal drummer from virtually any band can cover Metallica's drums tracks but Lars can't cover anyone outside classic 70s bands, he can barely cover himself ffs. You'll never see Lars play an Anthrax, Testament, Overkill or anyone else's songs of the 80s thrash era because he's a lazy sod who gave up trying to improve after Cliff died, his skills have only gotten worse, he can't even play the bass blast beats from Fight Fire With Fire anymore.
@@ll7868 this was a bunch of useless party wisdom. and partially inaccurate - Benante/Lombardo didn't made themselves a name before Lars, they all started around same time, while insiders had Lars on their list since the "No Life ’Til Leather" demo from 82 - and pointless: why the heck should Lars play a song of a different band to show skills? as if any of the bands you've listed is more technical than Metallica. They are all above average but surely not on the level of "highly complicated music".
Lars was and will always be average at absolute best
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Luckily music is about expression and not a sports event.
Lars is a great drummer..... for metallica's music. the guitars and vocals to me IS metallica, the drums are there to keep the beat with a fill every now and again... lars is perfect for that. estapario... dude is a drum god, his style fits so many songs, but for me simple drums on metallica's songs works for most... not so for battery that was just badass :D
New to the channel , Drummer and guitarist myself, You should ( If you dont know him,) look up Extreme Drumming on youtube , He is also insanely awesome Mauricio Weimar, he is fun to watch ,\m/
lars couldnt play Dyers eve the second they wrote it nor this lol