Read an interview with Adam Jones where they had Danny lay down his drum tracks and then programmed a click track that followed his playing for the guitar and bass to record to.
Time signatures can be kinda ambiguous when they get complex. Like for example the number 5 can be looked at as 4 and 1, or 3 and 2. It just depends on how you look at it
@@DTSVK Haha. I usually put both English and Metric conversions when I give a "fact" but I thought, "No one's going to read this one." Oh, well. Cheers.
@Johnny Dong I think it just took THAT long TO set up Danny's drum set and put Maynard's mic in a place where he felt comfortable... Probably behind the drum set.
The "pad" with the drumhead on it is a Korg Wavedrum. It is electronic, but it's not a trigger-based solution. It takes the actual tone of the drumhead and processes it to make different sounds. This means you can play it with hands, brushes, sticks, mallets, etc and get completely different sounds. It's a really cool unit.
Eskil Jepp! Got one and i totally love it. I‘ve tried several midi-based edrums and a roland handsonic before, but only the Wavedrum behaves in a natural way.
I have yet to try one but they seem sweet! I remember seeing it reviewed in Modern Drummer Magazine when it came out. Back when I was still subscribed to MD mag lol. Also piggybacking to say the other electronic pads he was using were "Mandala" pads that he helped design himself!
Watched him play about 15 years ago in a small club in pittsburgh with a band called Pigmy Love Circus. Dude was in the prime of his career and still broke down his entire kit by himself. Also regularly see him at The Baked Potato where he sometimes does little jazz gigs. Everytime he carts in every piece to his kit and sets it up. A lot of those nights he played jazz he had also played all day with tool writing the new album. He's legendary but doesnt act like it.
Saw him with Pigmy Love Circus opening for Type O Negative in 03. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. My buddy caught a drum head from Johnny Kelley and I met Danny and got his autograph.
I saw a video of him playing a Tool song with a high school band. It was cool and all, but the child-like joy he had while playing was priceless: looked like he was just glad to be invited!
The man loves playing and it’s as simple as that and it shows in his work I think it was Doug Webb are volto iand Danny did no quarter cover and the footage is not great but it shows Danny in this little bar and it’s got several great sections to it but damn the last 2 minutes he must b pissed off at those drums because he plays them so hard I think he caught them on fire
The clue that he's not on a click is that during each break before the "chorus" hs always looks to the guitarist to see when he's coming in. Tool don't play to a click.
Good catch. I just figured there couldn’t be a click, no way possible. How often can you catch the 1 in Tool’s music? Is Danny constantly counting in his head?? Or is he just THAT good, talented, from space?!?
Im sure part is counting, but I know when I play guitar myself to weird time signatures without a click or a drummer, I can keep it all by just muscle memory and feel. I might not be as tight with timing but I have the timing down that way. So I imagine part is counting, and part is just super muscle memory and comfort, and just knowing what the groove sounds like in your head.
@@AtticsTV yea I've never had any lessons or much research into time signatures and only song I can get right so far is lateralus. It's crazy to remember so much technical music
@@AtticsTV Counting, at least for Adam Jones, he stated that that's why he doesn't do any kind of running around or dancing during gigs, because he has to concentrate so much on his counting.
The best thing about Danny isn’t even his groove or timings. It’s his dynamics. He can drive the song just by accenting different notes and build suspense and slow it down and bring it up. He’s an actual player in the band not just someone who keeps time
Scott Orban I know exactly what you mean. I use the same thought process when explains death metal to other people. It’s another instrument or layer in the sound that they’re going for
Dude just do Danny Carey reactions for the next 3 months and you'll start making TH-cam money. May not be much, but Tool army always clicks. We'll all make it together somehow.
The problem is the lack of material. That's why we all geeked when this came out. So hard to get a high quality drum cam of him. I would watch this angle for every Tool song ever in one sitting.
@@acutting11 literally dude. Like we need fucking Salival. I love Tool and never ask much of them. Let them do them. But cmon dude. It would be a fucking crime not to show the world how great these guys are.
@@acutting11 Lack of material? Just "react" to Tool songs with a focus on the drumming. Don't need drum cam POV footage for every video. We eat reactions up, we'll click.
There is a rain stick that is hit 1 time. In the first little breakdown/bridge in Fear Inoculum. Its on an impossible beat inbetween to other beats. He doesn't play it live. Thats one thing Ive noticed that wasn't in there live.
@@c0unt1ng5heep4 a lot of 'what ifs' but I'm willing to bet that if Fear had dropped within a few years of 10,000 days it would be fine. I think people just felt underwhelmed after a long wait. Great album but not a 13 year wait kind of album.
It's true but also kinda not at the same time. I don't know what it is but his snare is just not doing much for me, except I can't imagine it sounding any other way, it's quite the paradox.
Straight from Danny: We were actually playing live. It’s a sad thing when almost every band you see isn’t playing doing that, it’s the clicks and backing tracks that are keeping time. I’ve never played to a click on stage in my life…
@@lo3572 Exactly. That's the difference between machine that is time-perfect and a human-being who is striving for perfection. Ask yourselves what is more admirable.
@@ltrzepalko Don't confuse inconsistent time keeping with "tHe HuMan ElEmEnt" - some of the best drummers are capable of keeping time to a machine-like level of consistency, even without a click. It's their ability to work fluidly within that time on the micro-level without actually affecting its consistency on the macro-level of a song that separates actual live 'unassisted' if you will drumming from today's horridly quantized(you better be staying up on your Rick Beato content!) recorded drumming/music. It's the ability to insert a fluid fill inside of an utterly ridgid time structure, it's not a constantly wavering time due to a drummer's variance without a click vs with a click. If a click changes the way you sound, that isn't the click's fault - [assuming that the song fits within one of course] Danny Carey isn't just miraculously going to sound 'inhuman' or like a 'robot' just because you put a click in his ear Different tools for different music; what matters is the MUSIC, NOT how it's made or how it's played. Make it/play it however the hell you want, however best works for you. You've gotta find out if someone is using a click before you can criticize them for it after all...
Drummers who review Danny Carey have so little to add because they’re always left in a state of combined learning like a student of a true master and flat-out awe of that master at work.
@Akhmad Muawal Hasan It's a slang term in the U.S. referring to someone's with muscular arms. It's especially impressive with Danny Carey, since he's 58 years old.
Thank you for not stopping the video every 30 seconds to share your thoughts and just letting it play through. That’s the most annoying thing people do is have to stop the video every single time they have a thought.
@@IvanFloresArt A backbeat is generally defined as the 'unaccented beats of the bar' or the "2 and the 4". Listen to Tool's Sober. It is a slower song but you'll definitely hear Danny Carey smacking the snare drum on 2 and 4 consistently, aka a backbeat. Garrett is being slightly facetious in his statement but also some truth, there are some Tool tracks that are straightforward w/structure
Jamie Craighead Stinkfist actually doesn’t have a “2 and 4” backbeat. The snare during the verse and pre-chorus hits on the 3, and during the chorus it’s just Danny Carey magic 😎
Danny is nearly my age and I can throw my back out washing my Harley lol ... One of a kind and I've seen some great drummers but DC is something special
His power and physicality are crazy good for his age. 58 isn't really "old" these days, but it's still pretty damn unusual to be doing what Danny does here at nearly 60. Most drummers will experience something of a drop off in some facet of their game once they reach their late 40s to early 50s (akin to how someone in their mid-to-late 30s will often begin to noticeably drop off in combat/contact sports) but Danny is still killing it and doing so much better than a lot of aging drummers....
Best was that little clip at the end, “He’s fucking good at drums.” 😂 I think the most impressive thing about him, is that he’s so fluid while playing difficult stuff. Hard to make stuff so technical, sound so musical and easy.
Yeah. Focusing on Carey's technique is the tip of the iceberg. He is one of the musical percussionists out there. What he does with groove, timing and dynamics is something that's really missing in a lot of technical players, and he is out there making them his best features
Danny Carrey is one of the GOATs for just his polyrhythms and crazy time sigs, and now that Neil Peart is gone, I think danny is probably the best alive.
Yeah they've never really had a weak song on their albums, and all 3 times I've seen them they've put on the most incredible shows. Idk where they got their drugs from, but if it'll make me a better musician then I'll take 10 please 😂
@@calebd4669 They used to and we got Third Eye + Lateralus lol, of course they didn't take anything while recording and writing tho. Just the inspiration for the album
3:25 -- Here we go! 6:01 -- Alright, here we go... 8:55 -- Oh, here he goes. 10:57 -- Ohherewego. 12:22 -- Oh here he goes! Don't you know Tool's gonna tease you with anticipation for 90% of the song? 😂
"It's Danny Carey... He's fuckin' good at drums." This needs to be on a T Shirt, or at least in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the Greatest Musical Understatements Ever :)
The thing about Danny’s playing is no matter how technical it gets and how wild the time signatures are, the musicality is still amazing and never overpowers the music as a whole. Not many around can do that.
This was my first and only Tool show. After their incredibly long hiatus I had to go no matter the cost and so pumped I did. Tool is just disgustingly talented, especially on their timing. Loved watching this, continues to heighten my love for them and him, and stoked you caught this video for your channel so quickly! Hell yea, good time to be alive....oh wait?
Saw them in Houston in 2019. Absolutely amazing and I love the Fear Inoculum! A straight up religious experience. I had chills the entire time. Spiral Out!
Yes. Saw them in November of 2019. So happy I did considering all the madness we are seeing now with the Covid 19. It was f'n beautiful. All of the members of Tool are too talented. It was really fantastic. I've seen Tool live since 2001, and I am always amazed. This tour especially. So unbelievable, so insanely amazing. Wow.
@@TexAgsArmyVet It is a beautiful, stunning album. So unique. I cannot wait to see them again. The live shows do feel like religious experiences. Something special happens when Tool are on stage. Just amazing.
Danny actually has a background in jazz drumming. He doesn't even keep count in his head as he plays he just... Plays. And it blows his band mates minds that he can.
I've watched so many drummers react to this video and finally someone got as excited as I did right around 11:22! I personally don't play the drums, but that "triplet" is my favorite part of the finale! Sounds like heart pounding gunshots to me! Thanks for the video, you can never go wrong with Danny Carey!
Seriously it’s the highlight of the ds for me and he hits it every time. Danny is a fucking juggernaut on the kit, by far my fav, and arguably the best❤
For some reason Danny is the only drummer when I watch I feel like I’m in complete owe. His Aura is so huge and powerful. Also, I love the “react” videos so much because of the sense of companionship, I live in the Middle East so it’s not easy to find people who are into this genre of music. So yeah... keep doin what you doin man 👍🏻
Dude is a beast and you hit the nail on the head the way he breaks up the timing but always comes back around in a few measures. Dude is on another level!!!
Quote of the video: "He's doing that Swiss Triplet shit again." Absolutely love watching drummers react to one of the greatest polymetric drummers on the planet, trying to count his time signatures; never gets old.
Žiga Petrič I’ve seen some debate about it. The beat isn’t strongly anchored. It does feel more like syncopation to me, with evidence such as it flowing naturally out of 4/4 at 5:57. I guess it also depends on how used you are to beat displacements. Gavin Harrison does it sometimes, for example. In his case they’re definitely syncopes (at least a temporary offset which invariably returns to normal), and if you don’t anchor on them they hit you again and again.
Žiga Petrič Yeah that’s correct. The downbeat is on the cymbal choke so I would sub divide the drum groove into 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 / + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 / +3 + 2
I love how everyone who does a reaction video to this sounds like they are stoned on acid by the end of it trying to explain the fuckery of this mans talent... it gets me every time!
What I love about drums is there is a moment when you listen to this genius playing, your heart beatings are aligned with it and is when the chills starts.
His playing puts in the mind of being in the left hand turning lane and all the blinkers are going crazy and then they sync in together for a moment and go cray again...
Seeing your raw, honest appreciation of Danny's performance just made my day. Thanks for doing this video, it was great to feel that sense of wonder along with a fellow drummer.
“Staying clean” in the music scene has a whole new meaning in 2020. Loved watching your facial expressions. I’m no drummer, but Danny has always been my favorite part of Tool. Thanks for doing this.
Brother, that was the best reaction to this vid that I've seen. Real-time knowledgeable reaction without getting too hyperbolic and admitting when the skills were beyond you. Nice work!
I can't get over how the brim of his hat keeps lining up with the cymbal that's mostly out-of-frame at that low angle from inside the middle of the kit
Man, I thoroughly enjoyed the shit out of this. To hear a drummer react to Danny was a blast for me. I dont know drums or time signatures. I just absolutely love listening to the kit, especially when jamming to Tool. Your no bs, laid back, attention to kindness, and knowledge was very welcoming and entertaining. First video I have seen on your channel. Im subbed now and looking forward to more of these!
I honest to God do not think I have ever heard a drummer as versatile as Dany Carey, he has it all..swing, groove, funk, taste, and supreme technical ability. Absolutely unreal!
his control of the sizzle on the hi hat and then the steady beat he keeps on it with the foot in the midst of all the madness going on in the breakdown it just completely mind boggling
OK I spoke up before you analyzed it perfectly, I hadn't heard the Swiss Triplet thing before, well done, words fail to capture how insane this performance is
I love how it’s powerful to you through a computer. I saw them in Portland in a stadium as groups of 250+ people got banned. Anyways the drums and bass shook the entire fucking stadium. I felt it too my core. His double bass was so powerful. It’ll shake your soul!
@@Salomon_G Before you go running your mouth on the internet. You should fact check shit. "Maynard is currently the only person on ears and he is using JH Audio earpieces with Sennheiser G3 transmitters. For Danny we have a left and a right stack of two d&b Q subs and a single top. Justin has two d&b M2s in front of him and one J-Sub with a single J8 top to the left of him. Adam has three d&b M2s in front of him and a J-Sub with a single J8 top to the right of him." "We were actually playing live. It's a sad thing when almost every band you see isn't playing doing that, it's the clicks and backing tracks that are keeping time. I've never played to a click on stage in my life..." -Danny Carey Again. Only Maynard is using an IEM. Idk what is in Danny's left ear but it certainly isn't a monitor. You would know if you watched them try and hold the end of Descending together.
So I've watched like 80 different reactions to this video, and almost none of them have anything to add. Your video was by far the most information packed and wonderful to watch. Thank you. You're also like one of the only people who caught his mistake. I love the breakdown you give on different parts.
I came here to listen to someone that knows something about drumming, to say something interesting about this video, and... yeah. Once I heard him say this and lick his lips, I was like, "Ok, next video..."
If a reactor doesn't mention Danny's time signature in the first 30 seconds of him starting, I start judging like a British aristocrat looking at a roofer from Mississippi who just walked into the study and interrupted tea time
Feel lucky to have seen this song live, they played here in New Zealand last weekend of February, then less than 2 weeks later our government cancelled public gatherings (on the same weekend I was supposed to see Deftones 😭?
So I've watched a ton of other "reaction vids" to this, and I keep coming back to yours: 11:22 "Ya dude, that left hand. That bleh bleh bleh, triplet coming off that." ...That WAS indeed fucking SLICK. You're the only one that really catches that and, brother i agree, it's HARD man. It sttod out the first time I heard it and it makes the song for me now,.I anticipate that punctuation the whole song leading up to it. I keep watching other drummer reactions waiting for someone else to catch it, you're the only one with me on it so far. Hard AF, like a finger in the chest.
I have to say, I’ve watched a lot of reactions to this video, and yours is BY FAR my favourite. I have not seen anyone else even reference time signatures cause I don’t think the other drummers/teachers want to touch that with a 10’ pole. Lol. You at least talked a bit about it. You didn’t stop the video every 30 seconds and yammer on. You didn’t stop it in the middle of all the peaks and most important sections. You let the song play and didn’t over or under talk. Commented on a little bit of everything while the song played, and just appreciated it. Well done. Btw, rather than the word anger, I think the word you want there is INTENSITY. ❤
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My new thing during COVID is watching people react to tool .
This is all I do on TH-cam now
That’s my new hobby too..
I got ya mate
me as well
12:14 me in Covid 😳😳😳
Fun fact: Every time Danny Carey wears a teams jersey during a concert, the team gets a win added to their record, even in the offseason.
Nice
Touché
It's a shame they aren't touring, the Timberwolves could win the title this year if they did a residency in Minneapolis
because gods are with the team
please come to chile and wear a colo-colo shirt FFS
Danny never plays to a click, he’s a machine
Clicks play to Danny Carey.
Read an interview with Adam Jones where they had Danny lay down his drum tracks and then programmed a click track that followed his playing for the guitar and bass to record to.
He is the click!
Total cyborg
Danny is the click.
Drummers: What’s this time signature he’s playing right now?
Danny Carey: I dunno man. Pick one.
I’ll get to it eventually.
Danny Carry: Until you learn Varjayana drumming meditation, you will never know.
Maybe 1 was the first moment he hit that hi-hat after that he never counted 1 again lol
Think he puts it on his shirt (not a drummer myself just heard it)
Time signatures can be kinda ambiguous when they get complex. Like for example the number 5 can be looked at as 4 and 1, or 3 and 2. It just depends on how you look at it
😂😂😂
You weren't ready. This man is one of the top three drummers of all time.
Neil Peart, John Bonham, Danny Carey. Argue all you want who’s 1 2 & 3. This is the holy trinity of drummers.
John Bonham, Nick Mason, Danny Carey
Danny carey, bill bruford, john bonham
I love how everyone agrees John Bonham is also one of the greatest☺️
@@RAH-Andrew Try Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, and Tony Williams.
FUN FACT: Danny is 14'3" tall. His hi-hat and last floor tom are in different zip codes. My cat looked this stuff up on Wikipedia.
M McBride 😂😂Right!!🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻
Me: using web calculator - height 434.34 Centimeters, so really tall man.
Smart kitty
@@DTSVK Haha. I usually put both English and Metric conversions when I give a "fact" but I thought, "No one's going to read this one." Oh, well. Cheers.
Hahaha!
Fun Fact: Maynard has been social distancing before it was cool. Even in concerts.
@Johnny Dong I think it just took THAT long TO set up Danny's drum set and put Maynard's mic in a place where he felt comfortable... Probably behind the drum set.
Why is it a "fun fact"?
Brennan Ledet comment of the year 🏆
A few other band have done that to most purely for audio in Maynards reasons on a podcast it’s partly because audio but hey it’s Maynard who can say
haha I love observational comedy! Good call :)
The "pad" with the drumhead on it is a Korg Wavedrum. It is electronic, but it's not a trigger-based solution. It takes the actual tone of the drumhead and processes it to make different sounds. This means you can play it with hands, brushes, sticks, mallets, etc and get completely different sounds. It's a really cool unit.
Eskil Jepp! Got one and i totally love it. I‘ve tried several midi-based edrums and a roland handsonic before, but only the Wavedrum behaves in a natural way.
Pretty cool device
Thanks for that info. Appreciate it
I have yet to try one but they seem sweet! I remember seeing it reviewed in Modern Drummer Magazine when it came out. Back when I was still subscribed to MD mag lol.
Also piggybacking to say the other electronic pads he was using were "Mandala" pads that he helped design himself!
Gary Shack1970 This guy is correct. Thank you.
Watched him play about 15 years ago in a small club in pittsburgh with a band called Pigmy Love Circus. Dude was in the prime of his career and still broke down his entire kit by himself. Also regularly see him at The Baked Potato where he sometimes does little jazz gigs. Everytime he carts in every piece to his kit and sets it up. A lot of those nights he played jazz he had also played all day with tool writing the new album.
He's legendary but doesnt act like it.
Saw him with Pigmy Love Circus opening for Type O Negative in 03. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. My buddy caught a drum head from Johnny Kelley and I met Danny and got his autograph.
I saw a video of him playing a Tool song with a high school band. It was cool and all, but the child-like joy he had while playing was priceless: looked like he was just glad to be invited!
The man loves playing and it’s as simple as that and it shows in his work
I think it was Doug Webb are volto iand Danny did no quarter cover and the footage is not great but it shows Danny in this little bar and it’s got several great sections to it but damn the last 2 minutes he must b pissed off at those drums because he plays them so hard I think he caught them on fire
Correction: He wasn’t in his prime 15 years ago. He’s still getting better.
Danny C. Does such good jazz drumming
The clue that he's not on a click is that during each break before the "chorus" hs always looks to the guitarist to see when he's coming in. Tool don't play to a click.
Moreover, mr. Carey doesn't record to a click
Good catch. I just figured there couldn’t be a click, no way possible. How often can you catch the 1 in Tool’s music? Is Danny constantly counting in his head?? Or is he just THAT good, talented, from space?!?
Im sure part is counting, but I know when I play guitar myself to weird time signatures without a click or a drummer, I can keep it all by just muscle memory and feel. I might not be as tight with timing but I have the timing down that way. So I imagine part is counting, and part is just super muscle memory and comfort, and just knowing what the groove sounds like in your head.
@@AtticsTV yea I've never had any lessons or much research into time signatures and only song I can get right so far is lateralus. It's crazy to remember so much technical music
@@AtticsTV Counting, at least for Adam Jones, he stated that that's why he doesn't do any kind of running around or dancing during gigs, because he has to concentrate so much on his counting.
The best thing about Danny isn’t even his groove or timings. It’s his dynamics. He can drive the song just by accenting different notes and build suspense and slow it down and bring it up. He’s an actual player in the band not just someone who keeps time
It really creates a different level for a player when he or she can play accents and play musically rather than simply rythmically.
I've always thought that danny was essentially playing another guitar...but on the drums. If that makes sense?
Scott Orban I know exactly what you mean. I use the same thought process when explains death metal to other people. It’s another instrument or layer in the sound that they’re going for
Um duh....
His creativity is second to none. This dude could easily overplay the shit out of this, but no. Fucking surgical.
Danny Carey is a terminator sent back-in-time and we would all be dead if it hadn't decided to play drums instead.
Thank fuck he did decide to play drums. Praise danny
lol
"Are you a friend of Sonor Connor?"
@@paulmetaxas7913 bruh...First day working from home since Corona happened. I rolled all over the floor. What a fucking beast, GrandMaster Danny
@@saky29 😂
Dude just do Danny Carey reactions for the next 3 months and you'll start making TH-cam money. May not be much, but Tool army always clicks. We'll all make it together somehow.
I am glad to hear BTS isn't the only group with an army. It kind of scares me that I know BTS has an army.
The problem is the lack of material. That's why we all geeked when this came out. So hard to get a high quality drum cam of him. I would watch this angle for every Tool song ever in one sitting.
We will literally support you bro
@@acutting11 literally dude. Like we need fucking Salival. I love Tool and never ask much of them. Let them do them. But cmon dude. It would be a fucking crime not to show the world how great these guys are.
@@acutting11 Lack of material? Just "react" to Tool songs with a focus on the drumming. Don't need drum cam POV footage for every video. We eat reactions up, we'll click.
HE DOES NOT PLAY TO A CLICK!!! Adam Jones, the guitar player, has talked about that a lot and how much it continues to blow his mind.
Fun Fact: Danny Carey likes to play four different timings at once. He can do five, but not with his pants on.
🤣🤣💀👍
Lol good one
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact, video no.3 with the same comment
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Fear Innoculum was a grower, but even on the first listen, Dannys drums stood out. He's a monster
I agree that Danny stands out in Fear Inoculum but this album is very disappointing, to say the least.
@@MCHiphopotamus Like the last guy said, its a grower. I think its a fantastic album. Keep hammering it man and it will grow (typical Tool)
The first time I heard fear Inoculum I thought it sounded like a tool cover band. 12 hours later it was all I could listen to
There is a rain stick that is hit 1 time. In the first little breakdown/bridge in Fear Inoculum. Its on an impossible beat inbetween to other beats. He doesn't play it live. Thats one thing Ive noticed that wasn't in there live.
@@c0unt1ng5heep4 a lot of 'what ifs' but I'm willing to bet that if Fear had dropped within a few years of 10,000 days it would be fine. I think people just felt underwhelmed after a long wait. Great album but not a 13 year wait kind of album.
He’s got a license to fill
Chris Culver underrated comment
That some dry funny shit. hahahaha
As a guitarist, I always thought my drummer had named his snare "Phil". I now get the term, and feel incredibly dumb 😂
clever
Fact.
Danny Carey has the nicest drum sound in all of rock and metal.
It's true but also kinda not at the same time. I don't know what it is but his snare is just not doing much for me, except I can't imagine it sounding any other way, it's quite the paradox.
Gavin Harrison
Nathaniel Whitman don’t forget Ed Warby, too
Yup, also besides being a tight snare , it sounds like he's got the snares backed off abit of the bottom head?!?!(obviously bottom)
Laughs in Neil Peart.
"He's fucking good at drums"
Completely accurate and also the understatement of the year... lol.
Hell yes!! Gig em'
Straight from Danny: We were actually playing live. It’s a sad thing when almost every band you see isn’t playing doing that, it’s the clicks and backing tracks that are keeping time. I’ve never played to a click on stage in my life…
Clicks are good, especially if you play in a pop-rock kind of band. Obviously you can't play to a click Tool lol
Revolutionaire Rebel it’s not the same feeling tho
@@lo3572 Exactly. That's the difference between machine that is time-perfect and a human-being who is striving for perfection. Ask yourselves what is more admirable.
@@ltrzepalko Don't confuse inconsistent time keeping with "tHe HuMan ElEmEnt" - some of the best drummers are capable of keeping time to a machine-like level of consistency, even without a click. It's their ability to work fluidly within that time on the micro-level without actually affecting its consistency on the macro-level of a song that separates actual live 'unassisted' if you will drumming from today's horridly quantized(you better be staying up on your Rick Beato content!) recorded drumming/music. It's the ability to insert a fluid fill inside of an utterly ridgid time structure, it's not a constantly wavering time due to a drummer's variance without a click vs with a click.
If a click changes the way you sound, that isn't the click's fault - [assuming that the song fits within one of course] Danny Carey isn't just miraculously going to sound 'inhuman' or like a 'robot' just because you put a click in his ear
Different tools for different music; what matters is the MUSIC, NOT how it's made or how it's played. Make it/play it however the hell you want, however best works for you. You've gotta find out if someone is using a click before you can criticize them for it after all...
@@revolutionairerebel9511 You could certainly play Tool to a click. But it would have a different feel.
Drummers who review Danny Carey have so little to add because they’re always left in a state of combined learning like a student of a true master and flat-out awe of that master at work.
Well said
Well said
Danny's posture is perfect. So many drummers hunch over.
Have you seen Matt Greiner?
Those guns are why he has to wear the sleeveless basketball jerseys all the time. He doesn't have a concealed carry permit.
@Akhmad Muawal Hasan It's a slang term in the U.S. referring to someone's with muscular arms. It's especially impressive with Danny Carey, since he's 58 years old.
Concealed Carey Permit.. ya I know it's fuckin brutal ha
Nice
First guy i see not to pause this video 100 times while reacting. Thanks😂
Thank you for not stopping the video every 30 seconds to share your thoughts and just letting it play through. That’s the most annoying thing people do is have to stop the video every single time they have a thought.
"I expect zero backbeats" lmao exactly. Garrett you crack me up "he's doing that Swiss triplet shit again"
I'm have zero concept on these musical terms, what's a backbeat and which song does TOOL use it in?
@@IvanFloresArt A backbeat is generally defined as the 'unaccented beats of the bar' or the "2 and the 4". Listen to Tool's Sober. It is a slower song but you'll definitely hear Danny Carey smacking the snare drum on 2 and 4 consistently, aka a backbeat. Garrett is being slightly facetious in his statement but also some truth, there are some Tool tracks that are straightforward w/structure
@@crushingbelial What about Stinkfist as well? At least during the main riff/verse/pre chorus
@@alpur214 oh of course there are def more wasn't just singling out sober :)
Jamie Craighead Stinkfist actually doesn’t have a “2 and 4” backbeat. The snare during the verse and pre-chorus hits on the 3, and during the chorus it’s just Danny Carey magic 😎
Danny is nearly my age and I can throw my back out washing my Harley lol ...
One of a kind and I've seen some great drummers but DC is something special
His power and physicality are crazy good for his age. 58 isn't really "old" these days, but it's still pretty damn unusual to be doing what Danny does here at nearly 60. Most drummers will experience something of a drop off in some facet of their game once they reach their late 40s to early 50s (akin to how someone in their mid-to-late 30s will often begin to noticeably drop off in combat/contact sports) but Danny is still killing it and doing so much better than a lot of aging drummers....
If you practiced washing your harley every day you wouldn't throw your back out. Get it?
Best was that little clip at the end, “He’s fucking good at drums.” 😂
I think the most impressive thing about him, is that he’s so fluid while playing difficult stuff. Hard to make stuff so technical, sound so musical and easy.
Yeah. Focusing on Carey's technique is the tip of the iceberg. He is one of the musical percussionists out there. What he does with groove, timing and dynamics is something that's really missing in a lot of technical players, and he is out there making them his best features
He adds electronic drum sounds seamlessly as well!
Danny Carrey is one of the GOATs for just his polyrhythms and crazy time sigs, and now that Neil Peart is gone, I think danny is probably the best alive.
Mike Portnoy?
Portnoy and Harrison too.
JakeIsWayBlack portnoy?
Matt Garstka would like to have a word. RIP Neil.
bruford?
What hand is your dominant hand Mr Carey?
Danny Carey: Yes
Mr. Carey: "hand?"
Dont u mean tentacle?
All eight of them.
The overall musicianship of Tool has always been top notch.
Yeah they've never really had a weak song on their albums, and all 3 times I've seen them they've put on the most incredible shows. Idk where they got their drugs from, but if it'll make me a better musician then I'll take 10 please 😂
I think the secret is that they aren’t on drugs, really
Reyn Time but imagine if Tool went on acid trips 😳
@@reyntime8735 when will people get this shit thru their thick skulls. I guess it’s just “cool” to think they’re all on mushrooms writing tunes? Mkay
@@calebd4669 They used to and we got Third Eye + Lateralus lol, of course they didn't take anything while recording and writing tho. Just the inspiration for the album
Also, he has said he doesn't like playing to a click, so I doubt he is.
The click plays to him
Chuck Norris played drums to a click once: the click asked if it could piggyback on his internal clock signal. Danny Carey; same thing.
@@substrate001 Chuck Norris then asked Danny's permission to let the click play
Yeah he plays just by the feeling
@@substrate001 Dont get me started on internal clock signal. 4/4 110 BPM should be the same on every goddamn machine!
3:25 -- Here we go!
6:01 -- Alright, here we go...
8:55 -- Oh, here he goes.
10:57 -- Ohherewego.
12:22 -- Oh here he goes!
Don't you know Tool's gonna tease you with anticipation for 90% of the song? 😂
90% of the song and 13 years of your life :).
He thought it was 7empest and he was gonna sing along...
"It's Danny Carey... He's fuckin' good at drums."
This needs to be on a T Shirt, or at least in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the Greatest Musical Understatements Ever :)
Peter Clarke haha. Love that idea. Busted up laughing at that one. Great comment
Came here to say this. That's gotta be understatement of the millennium 😂
The thing about Danny’s playing is no matter how technical it gets and how wild the time signatures are, the musicality is still amazing and never overpowers the music as a whole. Not many around can do that.
He always puts the music first.
This was my first and only Tool show. After their incredibly long hiatus I had to go no matter the cost and so pumped I did. Tool is just disgustingly talented, especially on their timing. Loved watching this, continues to heighten my love for them and him, and stoked you caught this video for your channel so quickly! Hell yea, good time to be alive....oh wait?
Saw them in Houston in 2019. Absolutely amazing and I love the Fear Inoculum! A straight up religious experience. I had chills the entire time. Spiral Out!
In my book, being alive beats the alternative all to heck.
Yes. Saw them in November of 2019. So happy I did considering all the madness we are seeing now with the Covid 19. It was f'n beautiful. All of the members of Tool are too talented. It was really fantastic. I've seen Tool live since 2001, and I am always amazed. This tour especially. So unbelievable, so insanely amazing. Wow.
@@TexAgsArmyVet
It is a beautiful, stunning album. So unique. I cannot wait to see them again. The live shows do feel like religious experiences. Something special happens when Tool are on stage. Just amazing.
Same, my first show was this one in Boston. So glad that this video of him exists to bring me back to that show whenever I want
He's 58 and told me backstage after the show that he had 10 martinis the night before
Hello, Ister Grey....
No way lol
@@thebeasters
WAY!
And probably another 10 the morning of
FUCKING. LEGEND.
Danny actually has a background in jazz drumming. He doesn't even keep count in his head as he plays he just... Plays. And it blows his band mates minds that he can.
I love how complex his drumming is and how much he puts into it without being overpowering or taking away from the melody of the song
This. 100% this. Polyrhythms? Monster fills? Double kick? All these things and much more, but always listening to the band and serving the song.
They build the songs off of Danny’s drum track
I've watched so many drummers react to this video and finally someone got as excited as I did right around 11:22! I personally don't play the drums, but that "triplet" is my favorite part of the finale! Sounds like heart pounding gunshots to me! Thanks for the video, you can never go wrong with Danny Carey!
Seriously it’s the highlight of the ds for me and he hits it every time. Danny is a fucking juggernaut on the kit, by far my fav, and arguably the best❤
Fun fact: In an interview Adam said Danny plans his left hand at 1 rhythm, his right at another & his feet at a 3rd. Seriously.
He also said Danny plays a 4th rhythm with his wang he thinks. 😂
For some reason Danny is the only drummer when I watch I feel like I’m in complete owe. His Aura is so huge and powerful.
Also, I love the “react” videos so much because of the sense of companionship, I live in the Middle East so it’s not easy to find people who are into this genre of music. So yeah... keep doin what you doin man 👍🏻
Been in Oman for a year. I'm the only one in my entire company who even knows Tool I guess. I get you buddy
Dude is a beast and you hit the nail on the head the way he breaks up the timing but always comes back around in a few measures. Dude is on another level!!!
Quote of the video: "He's doing that Swiss Triplet shit again." Absolutely love watching drummers react to one of the greatest polymetric drummers on the planet, trying to count his time signatures; never gets old.
Actually Danny has a kind of fusion jazz band called VOLTO!, worth checking out, it´s awesome
Thanks for the info! I loved watching Neal Peart doing his jazz thing and will def watch Carey.
Listen to the song Invincible. Carey’s drumming on that is incredible.
When is Danny's drumming not incredible? I know not of this time!
Listen to Tool songs. Carey's drumming on those is incredible.
Isaac Hunt Agreed.
Danny what time signature is this one in?
DC: Yes.
That was funny......
.......in 2010
11
Where we're going we don't need time
“All of them”
Jason Papai all of them and even the ones in between, up, over, down, and around them.
„What is that, 11?“
It‘s actually 33/16 according to their guitarist. Don‘t ask me how it‘s compounded haha
Tobias (2+3+3+3+3)+(2+3+3+3+3)+(2+3) with syncopated accents after each 2.
14 + 14 + 5
@@EllipticGeometry isn't the first 2 an upbeat? making it (2)+(3+3+3+3+2)+(3+3+3+3+2)+(3+2)
Žiga Petrič I’ve seen some debate about it. The beat isn’t strongly anchored. It does feel more like syncopation to me, with evidence such as it flowing naturally out of 4/4 at 5:57. I guess it also depends on how used you are to beat displacements. Gavin Harrison does it sometimes, for example. In his case they’re definitely syncopes (at least a temporary offset which invariably returns to normal), and if you don’t anchor on them they hit you again and again.
Žiga Petrič Yeah that’s correct. The downbeat is on the cymbal choke so I would sub divide the drum groove into
3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 / + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 / +3 + 2
I love how everyone who does a reaction video to this sounds like they are stoned on acid by the end of it trying to explain the fuckery of this mans talent... it gets me every time!
I think that term is to be exclusively for Danny Carey. Drum Fuckery...
most underrated comment in this video
Now that Neil has passed into the great beyond, Danny is the greatest living drummer.
Ian Paice is
No he's not.
@@s.9070 definitely not
Even if Neil was still around, he could never touch Danny.
I think we all thought of you dude the minute this video dropped. Glad to see you didn’t waste time x
Woah woah...hold on there...speak for yourself maybe...
I can't process a drum video without knowing Garrett's take on it.
Sounds like I wasn’t the only one bombarding you with this request/insistence/demand for a reaction. And IT FRICKIN’ WORKED. Winning.
Got me!
I’m gonna go for Trilok Gurtu next. Just you watch...😳😁🤙
Fun fact: The Atomic Clock uses Danny Carey to keep time.
Isn't Gene Hoglan the Atomic Clock?
@@cletusbeauregard1972 Not anymore lol
Ha!! Please. Hogland shits on Carey no offense.
@@CDJF1 yes, he is and always will be. Don't disrespect my mans Gene Hoglan. He's a legendary drummer in his own way
It’s Danny’s moment and we are feeling him hard. No disrespect.
What I love about drums is there is a moment when you listen to this genius playing, your heart beatings are aligned with it and is when the chills starts.
I love how Danny turns many drummers into children watching one of their heroes.
There’s no one better this guy deserves to be recognized for the most original drummer he’s a god
How old are you?
His playing puts in the mind of being in the left hand turning lane and all the blinkers are going crazy and then they sync in together for a moment and go cray again...
Seeing your raw, honest appreciation of Danny's performance just made my day. Thanks for doing this video, it was great to feel that sense of wonder along with a fellow drummer.
20 years later and he’s still my biggest influence. The man is loaded with talent....my dog!!
Legend has it the US government syncs its clocks to Danny's playing
“Staying clean” in the music scene has a whole new meaning in 2020. Loved watching your facial expressions. I’m no drummer, but Danny has always been my favorite part of Tool. Thanks for doing this.
Brother, that was the best reaction to this vid that I've seen. Real-time knowledgeable reaction without getting too hyperbolic and admitting when the skills were beyond you. Nice work!
Bro. Eloy Cassegrande from Sepultura. Anything from his last 4 videos, but I recommend The Pentagram, Isolation, or Raging
Eloy is a prodigy turned into an absolute beast. He was talented as shit as a kid and now he's just fucking destroying the game.
@@philanaemic word
I didn't think anyone could fill Igors shoes. I was wrong.
The recording does him no justice or the mix or something because those playthroughs look and sound way better
Eloy is absolutely unreal
Finally sat down for this one. This was good. Cheers dude, keep your head up!
I can't get over how the brim of his hat keeps lining up with the cymbal that's mostly out-of-frame at that low angle from inside the middle of the kit
Man, I thoroughly enjoyed the shit out of this. To hear a drummer react to Danny was a blast for me. I dont know drums or time signatures. I just absolutely love listening to the kit, especially when jamming to Tool.
Your no bs, laid back, attention to kindness, and knowledge was very welcoming and entertaining. First video I have seen on your channel. Im subbed now and looking forward to more of these!
The fact that Danny is almost 60 years old and he's still writing stuff like this is insane.
"Are you bored yet?" I'm an introvert, this is my life. I feel great! (physically not so much lol)
I honest to God do not think I have ever heard a drummer as versatile as Dany Carey, he has it all..swing, groove, funk, taste, and supreme technical ability. Absolutely unreal!
his control of the sizzle on the hi hat and then the steady beat he keeps on it with the foot in the midst of all the madness going on in the breakdown it just completely mind boggling
OK I spoke up before you analyzed it perfectly, I hadn't heard the Swiss Triplet thing before, well done, words fail to capture how insane this performance is
Dude is 58 years old and better than ever! "Pneuma" is the best song of 2019!
I haven't heard a song that good in at least a decade
It could be argued that Invincible is. Or Tempest or...
"I wonder if he plays to a click?". No, the metronome plays to a Danny Carey.
Fun fact: metronomes refuse to work union gigs with Tool due to the many discrepancies in time signatures.
There is good reason Adam Jones says “We...have...THEE...BEST....Drummer”
Strategically placed Fibonacci sequence in the background
tool does that all the time. like the vocals in lateralus
It’s so encouraging as a drummer to see him have even the tiniest flub
I love how it’s powerful to you through a computer. I saw them in Portland in a stadium as groups of 250+ people got banned. Anyways the drums and bass shook the entire fucking stadium. I felt it too my core. His double bass was so powerful. It’ll shake your soul!
"HIT THAT CHINA!!" ... LMAO... awesome stuff
Watch the intro for this video 4 years later is weird. The pandemic was a tough! Hope you're doing well
The Energizer Bunny died from a myocardial infarction while trying to duplicate this.
Danny doesn't play to a click, he is father time himself
I believe what you're asking about @3:09 is a Korg Wave Drum, Danny refers to it as "the toilet seat" and yes it's a programmable electronic drum.
Coronavirus: ravages earth
Garrett: 12:16
I was thinking he needs to put out shirts that say something about beating the fuck out of that china, but it might get misinterpreted lol
LMFAO
good one!
@@andysantarelli3056 I was on that same wavelength like it's such a great catchphrase except it's so terrible lol.
🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I’ve seen a bunch of drummers react to this and your vid is by far the best. Great dude.
This is BY FAR the best reaction to Tools "Pneuma". No Bullshit, just honest and well-founded criticism about the drums.
Love it!
"Got a license for those guns " *licks lips*
Yeah you dont pay attention
A natural reaction
"So how many polyrhythms are we gonna go with here fellas?"
"Yes"
Tool never plays to a click. They play off eachother and feel the music rather than fitting it into click track.
Thats the reason Maynard sits in the back. Because hes the only one with an earpiece
@@tristanwright9733 Again, no. They all have in ear monitors. You can see Danny's in this video ffs. Just stop dude, you are spreading lies.
@@Salomon_G Before you go running your mouth on the internet. You should fact check shit.
"Maynard is currently the only person on ears and he is using JH Audio earpieces with Sennheiser G3 transmitters. For Danny we have a left and a right stack of two d&b Q subs and a single top. Justin has two d&b M2s in front of him and one J-Sub with a single J8 top to the left of him. Adam has three d&b M2s in front of him and a J-Sub with a single J8 top to the right of him."
"We were actually playing live. It's a sad thing when almost every band you see isn't playing doing that, it's the clicks and backing tracks that are keeping time. I've never played to a click on stage in my life..." -Danny Carey
Again. Only Maynard is using an IEM. Idk what is in Danny's left ear but it certainly isn't a monitor. You would know if you watched them try and hold the end of Descending together.
I enjoyed your commentary. I'm just amazed watching him play and your explaining what he's doing is informative for us non drummers. Thank you!
So I've watched like 80 different reactions to this video, and almost none of them have anything to add. Your video was by far the most information packed and wonderful to watch. Thank you. You're also like one of the only people who caught his mistake. I love the breakdown you give on different parts.
Doug helvering has a great reaction video too.
"Got a license for those gun, sir?" *licks lips*
I came here to listen to someone that knows something about drumming, to say something interesting about this video, and... yeah. Once I heard him say this and lick his lips, I was like, "Ok, next video..."
@@yeeeehaaawbuddy lol stfu
If a reactor doesn't mention Danny's time signature in the first 30 seconds of him starting, I start judging like a British aristocrat looking at a roofer from Mississippi who just walked into the study and interrupted tea time
finally a video where the creator has even the slightest idea of what danny's up to
Best drum reaction channel I've seen, just genuine interest and off the top of my head commentary. Great stuff man!
I've seen Tool in concert twice. And I'd be lying if I wasn't focused on Danny Carey's drumming for a good portion of the shows. He's a fucking beast!
Feel lucky to have seen this song live, they played here in New Zealand last weekend of February, then less than 2 weeks later our government cancelled public gatherings (on the same weekend I was supposed to see Deftones 😭?
MrBurnsy81 broooo I went too, I’m so grateful 😂😂
I was at the Saturday gig and also was to be at Deftones. Got chills seeing this clip, was like being back there!
When he smiles at the camera, it's like he's saying, "This shit is easy". Yeah, totally easy...
So I've watched a ton of other "reaction vids" to this, and I keep coming back to yours: 11:22 "Ya dude, that left hand. That bleh bleh bleh, triplet coming off that." ...That WAS indeed fucking SLICK. You're the only one that really catches that and, brother i agree, it's HARD man. It sttod out the first time I heard it and it makes the song for me now,.I anticipate that punctuation the whole song leading up to it. I keep watching other drummer reactions waiting for someone else to catch it, you're the only one with me on it so far. Hard AF, like a finger in the chest.
I have to say, I’ve watched a lot of reactions to this video, and yours is BY FAR my favourite. I have not seen anyone else even reference time signatures cause I don’t think the other drummers/teachers want to touch that with a 10’ pole. Lol. You at least talked a bit about it. You didn’t stop the video every 30 seconds and yammer on. You didn’t stop it in the middle of all the peaks and most important sections. You let the song play and didn’t over or under talk. Commented on a little bit of everything while the song played, and just appreciated it. Well done. Btw, rather than the word anger, I think the word you want there is INTENSITY. ❤
That fill at 13:07! Playing that at 59? No wonder he's still ripped!