this was actually a drum track matt wrote start to finish then sent to tosin for "reworking into a song" and tosin was just like "nah ill just write over this exact thing." so this song technically IS about the drummer. Not disagreeing with you on tosin though. He is the mayyyyyyyyyyyyn!
It'd be awesome to see some Gavin Harrison reactions, the man is phenomenal. He's won many awards as a rock drummer but considers himself a jazz musician at heart. Check out his jazz/swing chops playing Killer Joe or So What, or some darker stuff like Bonnie The Cat.
Matt Garstka will never lose the pocket. He's insanely consistent... Also you should start analyzing the music in your videos, us musicians would love that #futileheadbobbing
Matt Garstka is such a nice dude. He took the time to respond to a question I asked him in an email once. Didn't expect such a humble response let alone a response at all. I highly recommend any of his instructional lessons.
3:07 , it's almost like an exercice . Yes totally ! He wrote the 6 minutes drum tracks and after that they added guitars and stuff but it really was an exercice, like Gojira's Art Of Dying.
I took a private lesson with JP Bouvet when he suddenly filled in for Matt Halpern on the Fall/Winter 2017 Periphery & AAL Tour. As I was one on one with JP, Garstka walked in the room, and was jamming to my groove I was playing. I nearly shit myself, but it was one of the coolest things to have a lesson with a God and to have another God walk into the room at the same time. *With that being said, check out JP Bouvet if you haven’t yet! Not metal all the time, but I’m sure it’ll come someday lol
Loving these videos. I greatly appreciate the non exaggerated reactions. So many reaction channels they over do it and you just keep it real. Keep it up!
Really appreciate your honest, and experienced take on the few videos I've caught.....I swear like a trucker as well...plus, I've been a playing professional for 30yrs ...looking forward to more reactions....just might do my own reactions as well ...cheers!!
Has anyone suggested Gojira’s song “The Art of Dying” yet? I’m curious to see your thoughts on the opening couple of minutes of that. I’ve listened to that song dozens of times and can not comprehend the drumming. Check it out!
I like the point you made about dissecting your sense of time and then hitting that groove. There are so many ways to establish contrast in music and that's what makes it great. I've never considered this particular case.
Been waiting for this video! Also it's great that your channel is blowing up! One of the best drummers I've ever seen is Alex Rudinger, you should check out him playing "Storm." Blows my mind every time
Rudy is one of my fave drummers, too. First saw his work in "Where Are the Birds" with Good Tiger, and just keep getting floored by his work. His kit always sounds phenomenal in every video!
@@vahnn0 Right?? I found him through his cover of The Lotus Eater, and then fell in love with about every video on his channel. Once you fall down the Rudi rabbit hole, there's no going back. Xenochrist, Tethys, Coldly Calculated Design, and just about 3 dozen other videos would all make for great reactions/analyses in my opinion. But in the end, Storm is the one that gets me the most
Congrats! Love the channel, you deserve more buddy!!! Not a huge fan of reaction style videos, but I like your honesty, genuine reactions, and technical critiques. Good shit!!!
Some reaction ideas: Chris Pennie- Come to Daddy Terry Bozzio playing the black page 1 & 2 Annika Nilles - The Walk Snarky Puppy - What About Me? - Larnell Lewis learned the show on the plane to the studio, and you can see an awesome save and great ears at 5:56 Elliot Hoffman - [Car Bomb] - Meshuggah Tour 2014 - Multi-Track Alex Rudinger - Conquering Dystopia - "Tethys" Pepe Silvia w/drums - by david dockery
I'm very glad some metal sites have been featuring you so I found out about you. Watched a ton of videos already, love getting a non-metalhead perspective on this music. I'd love to see you react to other genres too especially ones you already know and love. Hope you don't get too tired of doing metal stuff. Cheers
2:10 - I don't know that that's true. Tosin Abasi, the guitarist, started Animals As Leaders and it was definitely more to show off his skills at first but after the first album, he basically just gets good musicians to do what they do best.
I was going to say the same thing, this drummer is off the walls but that is because the other talent in the band need this skill level. Tosins stuff is crazy though guitar sounds like 3 people playing but tosins can play it by himself
MGŁA@Mgła-Exercises in Futility V -Darkside-Brutal Assault 2019 (Drum Cam). You will love it, that's where Darkside beats the sh'it out of not only chinas but all the set. The ending is especially spectacular.
you really should check out Matt's project with Josh de la Victoria!!! its called 'Victoria' Meinl uploaded a sick video of them playing one of their latest singles called 'Kepler'
If you want a cool drummer to check out, try any of Jamie Saint Merat's studio compilation videos for Ulcerate's last few albums. Genuinely one of the most unique drummers on the planet right now, has some of the most dynamic and intricate passages I've heard from a metal drummer basically ever. Otherwise, he has numerous live drum playthroughs on Relapse Records' TH-cam channel; his playthrough of "Everything is Fire" is, well, fire.
Congrats on the newfound success dude! You've got a cool take on all these metal tracks with your jazz history and point of view. Here's to many more subs mate
“And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope” - Ne Obliviscaris in Colorado 2016 It’s a full band video and the drummer has great drum cams on his personal YT channel. Dan Presland
Stranger Things by Periphery or Specular Reflection by Between the Buried and Me would be really interesting choices! There's a really good video for Specular Reflection from the drummers (Blake Richardson) playthrough of that whole EP
i love your videos man haha you have the same vibe i have. your snarky puppy review was so relatable haha i remember seeing them live and MAN it was insane. KEEP IT UP
Matt graduated from Berklee and has a background in almost every style of music; funk, prog, afro-cuban, latin, jazz, gospel, metal, etc, which is why you hear that funkiness in his groove and pocket along with his crazy chops. He also runs in the same circles as all the "gospel chops" drummers, and draws influence from the best ones like Ronald Bruner Jr., Thomas Pridgen, Tony Royster Jr., etc. You were spot on with identifying the style (although none of those guys actually like to use that term). You were also correct about the almost "pyramid" style writing for this song, where the pattern "stacks" and goes over the bar line, taking several measures for it to come to completion before starting again. This is one of those songs where the drummer wrote the song first and then the guitarists added parts over it. Matt has a whole article about it in Modern Drummer I believe.
Fuck yeah dude. I love your channel and how you break down the time signatures. Very informative even for us guitar players.🤘🤘 Please, please, please keep doing these vids.
Thank you. It's hard to do in one viewing, which is how I like reactions to be...maybe I can do a post analysis after the initial react for some videos but I'll try to add more when I can. This one is particularly complex, I was grasping for something semi intelligent to say because I was so speechless about what just happened lol
It's over 9000!! I'd recommend looking up Morgan Sansous in Henker. Sadly, I don't think there are any drum cam clips on YT, but there's a medley of grooves under the poor title of "brutal death drummer.mp4". You should be able to find it by searching for "henker drummer" as well. Cheers!
I think you'd enjoy a video of Jamie St Merat from Ulcerate. He's got some sick live videos, Dead Oceans is favorite, and he always does a 10-15m video of him doing drum tracking before each album comes out. I think he's one of the most unique death metal drummers out there.
React to T H I C C daddy Alex Camarena, Drummer on Silent Planet. There is a Live performance that has a drum spotlight on the song "Afterdusk" GREAT CHANNEL! Greetings from México
So there’s no drum cam footage of this song but you absolutely need to check out the song the art of dying by Gojira, it’s absolutely insane. Having your eyes broken by strobe lights and not being able to just watch the drummer is worth it to hear how insane the opening drum part is.
You'll get a lot more subscribers that's for sure. You're a very knowledgeable guy who isn't annoying and doesnt pause videos. Volumes are on point, what's not to like? Cheers for the content!
I vote you try looking at Aaron Stechauner of Rings of Saturn! His playthrough of Margidda is great, and would love to see you highlight and break down his foot technique!
"Song is about the drummer" if only you saw the guitar players were doing lol
true but to be fair the song is named after him
this was actually a drum track matt wrote start to finish then sent to tosin for "reworking into a song" and tosin was just like "nah ill just write over this exact thing." so this song technically IS about the drummer. Not disagreeing with you on tosin though. He is the mayyyyyyyyyyyyn!
Did I just watch a guy do paradiddles for five minutes ? I shouldn’t hate cause if people like it than they should do it. I don’t get the hype.
Chris McCoole they arent paradiddles in the first place bud
Well matt did write it at first and tosin and javier wrote the guitar parts around it so its mostly focused on the drums
Weird how the metal community seems to love watching non metal people react to metal/prog etc. glad to hear it's going well dude! Keep goin
It’s so we can relive listening to something for the first time
@@Goose21 It's what reaction videos are about.
Because it's wonderful to see people realize that it isn't just noise, but carefully constructed chaos that often requires a lot of talent to play. :D
It almost validates a community who is used to being shit on.
Metalhead Shaq my dude
"This guy should be playin in a *insert description of Matt's band*"
xD
Channel's blowing up! keep it up my dude! Enjoying your content.
It'd be awesome to see some Gavin Harrison reactions, the man is phenomenal. He's won many awards as a rock drummer but considers himself a jazz musician at heart. Check out his jazz/swing chops playing Killer Joe or So What, or some darker stuff like Bonnie The Cat.
+1 for Gavin Harrison!
Holy shit yes. Don't forget the Pasic 2008 performance and especially "Quite Firm"!
Gavin’s clinic play-through for Anesthetise is fairly astonishing too.
He already did
Real talk how many people subbed because of the fart
🙋♂️
Which video? @sheister 🤣🤣
I did
Yep, I did.
Yes
Matt Garstka will never lose the pocket. He's insanely consistent... Also you should start analyzing the music in your videos, us musicians would love that #futileheadbobbing
Saw them with The Contortionist and Between the Buried and Me. Matt totally missed a part and they had to restart the song.
Matt Garstka is such a nice dude. He took the time to respond to a question I asked him in an email once. Didn't expect such a humble response let alone a response at all. I highly recommend any of his instructional lessons.
Hey dude! Congrats on the success! Ill be here forever! I love what you do and I love the knowledge you have of drums, keep on rocking!
3:07 , it's almost like an exercice . Yes totally ! He wrote the 6 minutes drum tracks and after that they added guitars and stuff but it really was an exercice, like Gojira's Art Of Dying.
You should react to the drumming of Morgan Ågren (good starting point: his TV jam with Fredrik Thordendal)
th-cam.com/video/AgwJEvasJlM/w-d-xo.html
I keep plowing this furrow in his other vids. Morgan is great. Got to check out mats&morgan band folks.
Morgan Agren is one of my favorite drummers, absolute genius musician.
Andrew Hall Yes please, its a freakin must!!
Yes yes yes! With the guitarist from Meshuggah... I've watched that video countless of times.
I took a private lesson with JP Bouvet when he suddenly filled in for Matt Halpern on the Fall/Winter 2017 Periphery & AAL Tour. As I was one on one with JP, Garstka walked in the room, and was jamming to my groove I was playing. I nearly shit myself, but it was one of the coolest things to have a lesson with a God and to have another God walk into the room at the same time.
*With that being said, check out JP Bouvet if you haven’t yet! Not metal all the time, but I’m sure it’ll come someday lol
Isn’t he in Good Tiger now?
04:32 "This guy is funky as hell man, he should be playing in badass like funk prog band...." :D
**edit** You are right, he is. ;)
16k subs! Absolutely deserve it, I absolutely love your reviews!
I see garstka, I click. Legit the best drummer I've ever seen in the modern space. So varied in his skillset and knowledge
literally just watched his last video today hoping for some matt garstka and then this happens. much love bro and funny dude
Eternal Rambler figurally actually
Spencer Prewett of Archspire. There is a Drum! Magazine video of him.
Loving these videos. I greatly appreciate the non exaggerated reactions. So many reaction channels they over do it and you just keep it real. Keep it up!
"Futile head-bobbing"
That's how I feel for half the songs everytime I go see animals as leaders live
You sure you aren't right in the pocket but maybe think you aren't? You are.
Really appreciate your honest, and experienced take on the few videos I've caught.....I swear like a trucker as well...plus, I've been a playing professional for 30yrs ...looking forward to more reactions....just might do my own reactions as well
...cheers!!
Has anyone suggested Gojira’s song “The Art of Dying” yet? I’m curious to see your thoughts on the opening couple of minutes of that. I’ve listened to that song dozens of times and can not comprehend the drumming. Check it out!
The fking snare of that songgggggggg, i can't rationalize it. Im not a drummer, maybe that's the reason
I like the point you made about dissecting your sense of time and then hitting that groove. There are so many ways to establish contrast in music and that's what makes it great. I've never considered this particular case.
2 songs you need to see
Ectogenesis - Matt Garstka
Planetary Duality - Lyle Cooper drum cam from The Faceless
definitely Cooper video :D
Please give me a face reacting to Lyle's face.
@@Netheyh Lyle is "The Faceless"
Mack Shawn49 went over their heads lol
I was thinking I couldn't wait for you to look at Garska and suddenly this video appears on my feed. Wonderful!
an hour ago when i subbed, you had 4.8. now you have 5.03. keep up the good, informative reviews!
Thanks for that, Nick from "New Girl"! I never knew you were a drummer! Very Cool.
Been waiting for this video! Also it's great that your channel is blowing up! One of the best drummers I've ever seen is Alex Rudinger, you should check out him playing "Storm." Blows my mind every time
Rudy is one of my fave drummers, too. First saw his work in "Where Are the Birds" with Good Tiger, and just keep getting floored by his work. His kit always sounds phenomenal in every video!
@@vahnn0 Right?? I found him through his cover of The Lotus Eater, and then fell in love with about every video on his channel. Once you fall down the Rudi rabbit hole, there's no going back. Xenochrist, Tethys, Coldly Calculated Design, and just about 3 dozen other videos would all make for great reactions/analyses in my opinion. But in the end, Storm is the one that gets me the most
@@Ryguypie17 Is that a Tall Poppy Syndrome profile pic I spy??
KoalemosTheAtomizer Ah, a man of culture I see. ;) haha you know it! Leprous is my favorite band
@@Ryguypie17 Leprous have one of the most talented and amazing drummers I have ever seen
So happy `bout your channel mate Just keep up the great work, and we`ll love ya... ;)
There are many better examples online of just how insane Matt is.
Agreed this is a good track but probably not even in the top 5 for songs I would choose to demonstrate his badassery.
Am new to Matt Garstka and Animals as Leaders. Which examples are you talking about?
@@Gungnir111 The woven web, physical education, his live play of Cafo...pretty much anything honestly they are all good.
Your videos are a better choice lol
instablaster.
Yeah I can already tell I don't have to search for another drummer reactor ever again, this channel is gonna blow up! Great content.
Badass funk prog band might be one of the best descriptions of AAL I’ve ever heard
Congrats! Love the channel, you deserve more buddy!!! Not a huge fan of reaction style videos, but I like your honesty, genuine reactions, and technical critiques. Good shit!!!
There is no analyzing Matt Garstka...
There is only appreciating him. He is not of this world.
If you listen to Bozzio and Bruford you hear a lot of what Matt is doing. He's a mix of a rock and Jazz drummers.
Garrett pls keep doing it - you produce a very good commentary with the knowledge that we are interested about
Some reaction ideas:
Chris Pennie- Come to Daddy
Terry Bozzio playing the black page 1 & 2
Annika Nilles - The Walk
Snarky Puppy - What About Me? - Larnell Lewis learned the show on the plane to the studio, and you can see an awesome save and great ears at 5:56
Elliot Hoffman - [Car Bomb] - Meshuggah Tour 2014 - Multi-Track
Alex Rudinger - Conquering Dystopia - "Tethys"
Pepe Silvia w/drums - by david dockery
I said why not the whole "Melodic Drumming and the Ostinato" video. :D
I'm very glad some metal sites have been featuring you so I found out about you. Watched a ton of videos already, love getting a non-metalhead perspective on this music. I'd love to see you react to other genres too especially ones you already know and love. Hope you don't get too tired of doing metal stuff. Cheers
2:10 - I don't know that that's true. Tosin Abasi, the guitarist, started Animals As Leaders and it was definitely more to show off his skills at first but after the first album, he basically just gets good musicians to do what they do best.
I was going to say the same thing, this drummer is off the walls but that is because the other talent in the band need this skill level. Tosins stuff is crazy though guitar sounds like 3 people playing but tosins can play it by himself
As a drummer myself for over 30 years it is nice to hear someone break down techniques that others just have no understanding of. Keep em coming!
I think it was that fart on the last Garstka vid..I know I sure subbed after that bro. Spit my damn drink out too.
Another fun one is Virgil Donati's (or Planet X) Alien Hip Hop and its funky triplet metric where double bass patterns just flows along
You shoul try Jay Postones from Tesseract!! Live in Athens, 07 07 2019
Congrats on blowing up! You seem like a really cool dude, I want to kick it with this guy!
Check out Alex Rudinger (Obscura - Anticosmic Overload cover)
He is currently playing for Whitechapel, he is sick AF...
Didnt realize your channel grew so fast! As I said in another post you got my sub right away. You're obviously doing something right so keep it up.
MGŁA@Mgła-Exercises in Futility V -Darkside-Brutal Assault 2019 (Drum Cam).
You will love it, that's where Darkside beats the sh'it out of not only chinas but all the set. The ending is especially spectacular.
Yes!!
+1 from me!!
Recommended this too, there’s no one like Darkside... No one!
Holy shit your channel blew up! I joined at 2k subs a few days ago and you're currently on 5,4k, deserved!! Loving your videos Garret!
you really should check out Matt's project with Josh de la Victoria!!!
its called 'Victoria'
Meinl uploaded a sick video of them playing one of their latest singles called 'Kepler'
Celebrating 4.5k subscribers in this video. A day later your subs have doubled. Congrats, man! Well deserved.
If you want a cool drummer to check out, try any of Jamie Saint Merat's studio compilation videos for Ulcerate's last few albums. Genuinely one of the most unique drummers on the planet right now, has some of the most dynamic and intricate passages I've heard from a metal drummer basically ever. Otherwise, he has numerous live drum playthroughs on Relapse Records' TH-cam channel; his playthrough of "Everything is Fire" is, well, fire.
Seconding this
Yes. I reccomended him a few vids back. Guys a beast. His shaping is so unique, he is basically the heart of the music
Kerosian1 for real. Not to mention just how fucking good of a pair he is for the riffing which is arguably just as impressive and unique.
Congrats on the newfound success dude! You've got a cool take on all these metal tracks with your jazz history and point of view. Here's to many more subs mate
VOLA - Ruby Pool Play Through........a really smooth jam!!!!
Congrats on the channel's growth, it's well deserved!
Between the Burried and Me (studio live) please..
That'd be awesome! Blake Richardson - Obfuscation in the studio! th-cam.com/video/snGxAUBMZHY/w-d-xo.html
Yes pls!
Yes!!!!
YESSSSS
I saw that live studio session and I was blown away
A band like BTBAM is a rarity
Really enjoying your personality and your take on music!
They’re song “Another Year” is a badass funk prog song
“And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope” - Ne Obliviscaris in Colorado 2016
It’s a full band video and the drummer has great drum cams on his personal YT channel. Dan Presland
Good to see your channel blowing up!
Can you react to Zach Hill? Either him practicing or his performance of Face Tat? Thanks!
You are now my favorite music reactor. So glad I’m here early in your YouTubing career.
Love the channel! Definitely check out any and all videos of Animals as Leaders. They have an awesome studio session with Dunlop!
Stranger Things by Periphery or Specular Reflection by Between the Buried and Me would be really interesting choices! There's a really good video for Specular Reflection from the drummers (Blake Richardson) playthrough of that whole EP
I was just about to recommend the studio recording of Specular Reflection myself.
What's up with that ride?!? Holy God.
Check out Ectogenesis btw...same set up, same guy.
Jazz ride, baby!
Listen to this song on repeat for hours. One of my favourites of all time.
Hi welcome to Matt-ematics 101, todays lesson is in time signatures. Open your books to chapter: 9/4
Every song on this album is more of an "exercise" than a piece of music and i absolutely love it. I will watch the fuck out of any AAL video you do
React to Alex Rudinger - Xenochrist.
His Conquering Dystopia stuff is nuts as well
Found your channel by accident! You well crack me up for some reason. good stuff! Commenting because you referenced Warren G - you are a true g.
"gotta fix this, gotta fix that, because i beat the shit out of it"- every drummer ever lol
Great to see that you're blowing up!
What Happens now - Porcupine tree
It is an AMAZING song to review
What about the live version of anesthetize ?
one of my fav drummers!
please react to "Converge Concubine and Dark Horse Live GoPro drum cam Ben Koller"
Matt's playing is subdued in this video. If you watch him live he SMASHES the drums & the whole kit shakes nearly the whole time.
Look at Matt in "victoria" his side project
Holy fucking shit i like that better that Animals.....there i said it
i love your videos man haha you have the same vibe i have. your snarky puppy review was so relatable haha i remember seeing them live and MAN it was insane. KEEP IT UP
Please react to art of dying by gojira!! It has an awesome and weird time signature
That song is beastly. The intro is insanity
Matt graduated from Berklee and has a background in almost every style of music; funk, prog, afro-cuban, latin, jazz, gospel, metal, etc, which is why you hear that funkiness in his groove and pocket along with his crazy chops. He also runs in the same circles as all the "gospel chops" drummers, and draws influence from the best ones like Ronald Bruner Jr., Thomas Pridgen, Tony Royster Jr., etc. You were spot on with identifying the style (although none of those guys actually like to use that term). You were also correct about the almost "pyramid" style writing for this song, where the pattern "stacks" and goes over the bar line, taking several measures for it to come to completion before starting again. This is one of those songs where the drummer wrote the song first and then the guitarists added parts over it. Matt has a whole article about it in Modern Drummer I believe.
Ayee congrats on Influx of subs my dude! Could you check out Aric importa - Earthless playthrough!! :3
Fuck yeah dude. I love your channel and how you break down the time signatures. Very informative even for us guitar players.🤘🤘 Please, please, please keep doing these vids.
Maybe you could react to Chris Turner from Oceans ate Alaska? I think you would like his style
The dude did go to Berklee for primarily a gospel background, so they're definitely gospel chops, spot on
Please, just analyze! We like it when you try to dissect it.
Thank you. It's hard to do in one viewing, which is how I like reactions to be...maybe I can do a post analysis after the initial react for some videos but I'll try to add more when I can. This one is particularly complex, I was grasping for something semi intelligent to say because I was so speechless about what just happened lol
just a guitarist here, came for the bands you react to and stayed for you my dude
M O R E A N I M A L S
Frosttyy12 Y E P
It's over 9000!!
I'd recommend looking up Morgan Sansous in Henker. Sadly, I don't think there are any drum cam clips on YT, but there's a medley of grooves under the poor title of "brutal death drummer.mp4". You should be able to find it by searching for "henker drummer" as well.
Cheers!
No hook, no chorus - you just described a bunch of Animals as Leaders songs lol
I think you'd enjoy a video of Jamie St Merat from Ulcerate. He's got some sick live videos, Dead Oceans is favorite, and he always does a 10-15m video of him doing drum tracking before each album comes out. I think he's one of the most unique death metal drummers out there.
Gojira - Art of Dying!
dude your channel is awesome keep it up
React to T H I C C daddy Alex Camarena, Drummer on Silent Planet.
There is a Live performance that has a drum spotlight on the song "Afterdusk"
GREAT CHANNEL! Greetings from México
You have to do more of Matt. One of my favorite bands and drummers. He is a fucking GOD
Between the buried and me. Any song will do!
Been a subscriber the past few days. Best of luck man!
Do a reaction video for Polyphia OD Drum playthrough by Clay Aeschliman
loving the videos man
If u want the best drummer you should react to Lars Ulrich 💪😁
Keep up the good work mate, you deserve all the subs that you get man
So there’s no drum cam footage of this song but you absolutely need to check out the song the art of dying by Gojira, it’s absolutely insane. Having your eyes broken by strobe lights and not being able to just watch the drummer is worth it to hear how insane the opening drum part is.
You'll get a lot more subscribers that's for sure. You're a very knowledgeable guy who isn't annoying and doesnt pause videos. Volumes are on point, what's not to like? Cheers for the content!
I vote you try looking at Aaron Stechauner of Rings of Saturn!
His playthrough of Margidda is great, and would love to see you highlight and break down his foot technique!
This song live sounds so goddamn massive. The drums blew my fucking mind so hard lol