There are still so many people who have to discover Yoyoka Soma..and who will be blown away ...person after person lol ..I'm one lucky dude that discovered her allready.. :)
This little lady is having some serious FUN! Huge factor. I really enjoy her performance on " We're an American Band " The look on her face is priceless.
Dude! I love your loading screen preview intro. Also, the way you describe the actual mechanics behind the techniques is so great! Keep up the good work man!
Thanks for making a reaction video that isn't just someone fawning over Yoyoka. She absolutely deserves all of the praise that she gets, but you add a lot of useful criticism and explanation that allows a non-musician like me to appreciate her playing even more.
Most of the growing kids' musicians tends to play at a very high level for their favorite songs that they listen to a lot, such as anime songs and pop songs, but their performance level drops for songs that they don't know well or don't like much (assignments by drum teacher etc...). However in Yoyoka's case, she plays at the same level no matter what the piece is. I think this song is not one that a 7 year old would like, but she plays it with great joy. That's because Yoyoka loves the drums more than the song. I think this is the big difference between Yoyoka and other kids musicians.
I always say that this song, for me, is when you could tell she was a full fledged professional! Yes at 7 yo, she became a professional. I know she's been playing paid gigs since 4, but this song was at a whole new level.
Thanks for this one Van! It's one of my favorites - 7 years old. What a pro! Yoyoka has always picked her own music, from wildly different styles & technics. This has been her classroom. Totally self motivated. I am in awe!
This is my top 5 cover of hers. The first one that truly impressed me not because of her age this time but in spite of it. Her technique was and is always excellent. Every time I watched this, I have to keep reminding myself that she was only 7. It’s a solid pro inhabiting an itty bitty little thing. The stick work and the quiet upper body were the ones that made me noticed the awesome technique that maximizes her efficiency therefore generates a cleaner and more powerful strokes. The control was amazing. She’s always focused so even a little booboo doesn’t fazed her. This piece is by the legendary Char and it’s quite challenging with the dynamics and tricky pattern but she tackled it effortlessly. This kid is a force. Thanks Van for the reaction. 👍🥁🤘🏼
The fluidity in her shoulders is fascinating when she expresses power and subtlety in the same phrase. She won "hit like a girl" back then (age 8 or so) but these days she could be a contender for "hit like a grown man".
@@vand3rhorst Thank you; I appreciate your dedication to your craft, In case you've never seen this, here's a cool clip... YT link a th-cam.com/video/cZnBNuqqz5g/w-d-xo.html
I think that point you made about the mistakes adding flavor to the music is so true. Now with midi instruments and digital composition software, you can MAKE music sound perfect. But it doesn't have the human element to it. Hearing the squeak of the guitarist's fingers sliding up and down the strings, hearing notes continue to carry in the background after they've been played and bleed into other notes, and having some of the timing be just slightly off by a millisecond or so, adds so much personality and style to music that you just don't get when you cut all of those elements out. Great reaction and analysis man.
Great react! I learn more about drumming each time, and you make it enjoyable! Yoyoka is a LEGEND! I especially enjoyed your ending humor with the movie clips! I laughed so hard, that was perfect. 👌 🤣 😂
Really,,,I nominate this as the best and funniest comment on Yoyo ever !---it should go into some biographic file or record or something. We all wish we had said it !..........
I'm guessing you've watched Yoyoka's birthday series, she released another one yesterday. It seems Japan's finest musicians (and they are mighty fine) are clamouring to play music with her. You said in another reaction that professional musicians look at her and see a fellow professional, but I think even non-musicians can sense her brilliance, she has this kind of humble charisma. Heaven forbid I should wish old age on her, but I can't wait til she's grown up and touring with her own band, I would travel to Japan just to see and hear them live.
She just got lucky. How else do you explain how so much awesomeness got smooshed into such a tiny little doll of a girl? The world spins at a different rate of speed than it does for the rest of us.
At some point, someone will put together a long reaction video of Yoyoka covers from ages 6 to now to view her development. Of course, if you've gone down the rabbit hole you know, but it would still be so enjoyable because, to borrow a sports metaphor (but only for the greats), her floor was high and her ceiling is outta sight.
Another great reaction video Vand. I learn so much from you and the comments posted. I’ve always liked drums but now I’m starting to realise why! Yoyoka is awakening so many of us with her amazing talent. Thank you, Pat 🏴
Great reaction !!---thanks to Vanderhorst--- for describing as you have, the complexities that would have eluded me---in this fabulous Yoyoka performance ! For us non-drummers (musical illiterati ! ) reacts like this are a real education !
She got me interested in drum parts in music. I see what a great drummer she is when I see how awkward other drummers(kids and adults) look. The way she hits, grabs her sticks, moves her wrists, even the way she sits, everything about her is just perfection.
Yeah, my dad was a big band drummer in the 50s. Like most kids of musicians I wasn't too attentive. Watching Yoyoka has made me aware of the drummer's responsibility. I play guitar and I think it's helping me understand timing better.
Hey Vand, really enjoyed your reaction, and I like the way you let a performance play through the first time, and then break it down for the viewer (especially us non- or wannabe drummers). Recommend you watch another amazing video from her jazz-fusion phase when she was 7, the Senri Kawaguchi piece “Onyx”. It is a rare, live performance video of her playing with a band, in a club, and is perhaps an even better example of what a pro she was at that age. th-cam.com/video/MkhGgqXywU8/w-d-xo.html 👍😎
Good to see you have the same attitude towards mistakes as I do. Being a relatively new drummer I've made a few while gigging, I always apologize to the boys after the gig but 9 times out of 10 they hadn't noticed. In my many years as a bass player I would make a point of playing one bum note just to see who was listening, The guitar player would growl at me and I would just stand there smiling as I found the one bass player in the 2000 strong crowd who noticed lol. Awesome reaction dude, as always, Yoyoka is beyond words.
Yoyoka's thoughts as she is drumming (since nailing every note in the song takes no effort): "Drumming wears me out. I'm going to have some milk and cookies when I finish banging this song out"
In regards to "flubs". For anyone that wants to really know how good she is (not that anyone doubts it), play her famous "Good Times, Bad Times" video th-cam.com/video/91pz1E8pAOY/w-d-xo.html starting at 00:49 at .50 speed and watch at 00:50 how she almost drops the stick in her right hand by accidentally hitting it on the side of her drum after hitting the cymbal on her right. What a phenomenal save! Never lost her smile or the beat! I think most drummers would have dropped the stick. I never noticed it until "Wave Potter" did a reaction of it and caught it. Out of the millions of people that have watched this video, he is the only one I've seen that caught it (or at least mentioned it). He was quite impressed that she didn't drop the stick. Check out his channel also, he's a really nice guy (and friends with Vand3rHorst (right Nick?)) Both these guys are awesome reactors! We need both of them to point these things out or we just wouldn't see them.
I am transfixed watching this awesome young lady just crush what she’s playing...so natural is her swag, I’m sure she doesn’t even feel how she swings and how she’s impacted the music world. I feel as enthralled watching Yoyoka play as I did and do feel watching and listening to Buddy Rich... Still think that a good name for her band would be Tsunami. Perhaps it’s not a good name due to the Tsunami that devastated Japan a few years ago from 2021.
Speaking of chokes. You don't want to miss this one! This whole video is awesome, but the reason I'm calling it out specifically is the choke, or should I say double chokes that happen at 4:35. Start at 4:30. Pay attention, seriously, or you will miss it! He's like an absolute freakin' NINJA! And he kills the sound of the cymbal IMMEDIATELY!! "Michael Jackson's Drummer Jonathan Moffett Performs "Smooth Criminal"" th-cam.com/video/bRM2Gn9nU7Q/w-d-xo.html
日本語のスキルが足りないことをお詫びします。私はよよかから何も奪おうとはしていないので、私の反応があなたの基準を満たしていることを願っています。むしろ、彼女がしていることの説明に30年の経験を加えようとしています。私はこれらの反応をするように頼まれたので、私を信じてください、すべての西洋人が同じではありません。西側の世界では素晴らしい音楽が大幅に不足しており、それをカバーするためにTH-camのセクションに参加できて幸運です。(I apologize for my sore lack in skills for Japanese. I hope my reacts meet your standards as I am not trying to take anything away from Yoyoka, rather I am trying to add 30 years of experience into an explanation of what she is doing. I was asked to do these reacts so believe me, not all westerners are the same. There is a MAJOR shortage of amazing music in the western world and I am lucky to be a part of the section of TH-cam to cover it.)
There are still so many people who have to discover Yoyoka Soma..and who will be blown away ...person after person lol ..I'm one lucky dude that discovered her allready.. :)
Who the hell gave that dislike? She is so damn good and so much personality. Cute little wave before and after every song.
This little lady is having some serious FUN! Huge factor. I really enjoy her performance on " We're an American Band " The look on her face is priceless.
Dude! I love your loading screen preview intro. Also, the way you describe the actual mechanics behind the techniques is so great! Keep up the good work man!
Thanks a lot my dude :D I kinda got inspired by you and a few of the other's channel's I look up to. Thanks man!
I was blown away the first time I saw Yoyoka cover this song here. Great playing for a drummer of any age !!!
OMG.. I got tears up... so beautiful..
Thanks for making a reaction video that isn't just someone fawning over Yoyoka. She absolutely deserves all of the praise that she gets, but you add a lot of useful criticism and explanation that allows a non-musician like me to appreciate her playing even more.
Keep in mind that in these older videos of her, the drumsticks are damn near the length of her entire arm
Even with the "flubs" this SEVEN year old NEVER looses the pocket.
Hell, she OWNS the pocket!
I love what you said about mistakes... it's not just about music, but life.
Most of the growing kids' musicians tends to play at a very high level for their favorite songs that they listen to a lot, such as anime songs and pop songs, but their performance level drops for songs that they don't know well or don't like much (assignments by drum teacher etc...).
However in Yoyoka's case, she plays at the same level no matter what the piece is. I think this song is not one that a 7 year old would like, but she plays it with great joy. That's because Yoyoka loves the drums more than the song. I think this is the big difference between Yoyoka and other kids musicians.
I always say that this song, for me, is when you could tell she was a full fledged professional! Yes at 7 yo, she became a professional. I know she's been playing paid gigs since 4, but this song was at a whole new level.
yes....see what you mean !..
Thanks for this one Van!
It's one of my favorites - 7 years
old. What a pro!
Yoyoka has always picked her
own music, from wildly different
styles & technics. This has been
her classroom. Totally self
motivated. I am in awe!
The Atomic Clock of Rock.... nice 👍
Your delighted smile says it all. She is just wonderful and so happy beating that drum set. 🤗
Interview of Yoyoka in Modern Drummer. She's the youngest drummer ever inducted into the Drummer Hall of Fame Top 500.
This is my top 5 cover of hers. The first one that truly impressed me not because of her age this time but in spite of it. Her technique was and is always excellent. Every time I watched this, I have to keep reminding myself that she was only 7. It’s a solid pro inhabiting an itty bitty little thing. The stick work and the quiet upper body were the ones that made me noticed the awesome technique that maximizes her efficiency therefore generates a cleaner and more powerful strokes. The control was amazing. She’s always focused so even a little booboo doesn’t fazed her. This piece is by the legendary Char and it’s quite challenging with the dynamics and tricky pattern but she tackled it effortlessly. This kid is a force.
Thanks Van for the reaction. 👍🥁🤘🏼
Well said !
The fluidity in her shoulders is fascinating when she expresses power and subtlety in the same phrase. She won "hit like a girl" back then (age 8 or so) but these days she could be a contender for "hit like a grown man".
She is an absolute diamond the lil prof skills beyond skills discus.
Don't forget that she does these videos uncut! No fancy editing!
Your reaction is gentle👍
Look how high her snare hand is. Oh, and ONE TAKE!
Hello Vand! Great piece from Yoyoka.At this age to play this is requires talent and great determination! I bow! Thanks for the great comment. Alex
Pretty sure that the word 'Yoyoka' translates to 'pocket' in English! ha
She dominates, man.
Yoyoka brought me here.
I dont know drums, nor music, but I do know reactions, and your reactions are worth watching 😀
Broooo, Thank you very much man :D I'm sitting here editing and seeing the comments pop up really makes this all worth while. Thanks man.
@@vand3rhorst Thank you; I appreciate your dedication to your craft, In case you've never seen this, here's a cool clip... YT link a th-cam.com/video/cZnBNuqqz5g/w-d-xo.html
I think that point you made about the mistakes adding flavor to the music is so true. Now with midi instruments and digital composition software, you can MAKE music sound perfect. But it doesn't have the human element to it. Hearing the squeak of the guitarist's fingers sliding up and down the strings, hearing notes continue to carry in the background after they've been played and bleed into other notes, and having some of the timing be just slightly off by a millisecond or so, adds so much personality and style to music that you just don't get when you cut all of those elements out. Great reaction and analysis man.
I really appreciate that man :D glad you enjoyed the vid.
Just in case some don't know, she's around 12 now, and still killing it. It's insane how good she was already at the ripe old age of 7!
even killing it more now..
Great react! I learn more about drumming each time, and you make it enjoyable! Yoyoka is a LEGEND! I especially enjoyed your ending humor with the movie clips! I laughed so hard, that was perfect. 👌 🤣 😂
Of course she hits with force. Look at her upper arms. They are so massive! Over twice as thick as the drumsticks!
You made me laugh out loud!
@@chrisegbertky That's Great!
Ha !---great !
Now that is funny!!! Kudos!!
Really,,,I nominate this as the best and funniest comment on Yoyo ever !---it should go into some biographic file or record or something. We all wish we had said it !..........
She's like a 45 yo drummer trapped inside a little 7 yo Japanese Girl's body. I never believed in reincarnation until now!
Thank you so much for your reaction. Little und r r the weather so thanks is all.
All that skill and cute as a bug. I can barely stand it! Thanks for the excellent breakdown!
I'm guessing you've watched Yoyoka's birthday series, she released another one yesterday. It seems Japan's finest musicians (and they are mighty fine) are clamouring to play music with her. You said in another reaction that professional musicians look at her and see a fellow professional, but I think even non-musicians can sense her brilliance, she has this kind of humble charisma. Heaven forbid I should wish old age on her, but I can't wait til she's grown up and touring with her own band, I would travel to Japan just to see and hear them live.
She just got lucky. How else do you explain how so much awesomeness got smooshed into such a tiny little doll of a girl? The world spins at a different rate of speed than it does for the rest of us.
Plain ridiculous. Never surprises to amaze me.
At some point, someone will put together a long reaction video of Yoyoka covers from ages 6 to now to view her development. Of course, if you've gone down the rabbit hole you know, but it would still be so enjoyable because, to borrow a sports metaphor (but only for the greats), her floor was high and her ceiling is outta sight.
Great phrase for her !
Another great reaction video Vand. I learn so much from you and the comments posted. I’ve always liked drums but now I’m starting to realise why! Yoyoka is awakening so many of us with her amazing talent. Thank you, Pat 🏴
I hope Yo-yo will revisit this song, make an updated cover of it.
same here !
Great reaction !!---thanks to Vanderhorst--- for describing as you have, the complexities that would have eluded me---in this fabulous Yoyoka performance ! For us non-drummers (musical illiterati ! ) reacts like this are a real education !
My pleasure! Thanks a lot Wave :D
She got me interested in drum parts in music. I see what a great drummer she is when I see how awkward other drummers(kids and adults) look. The way she hits, grabs her sticks, moves her wrists, even the way she sits, everything about her is just perfection.
Yeah, my dad was a big band drummer in the 50s. Like most kids of musicians I wasn't too attentive. Watching Yoyoka has made me aware of the drummer's responsibility. I play guitar and I think it's helping me understand timing better.
Hey Vand, really enjoyed your reaction, and I like the way you let a performance play through the first time, and then break it down for the viewer (especially us non- or wannabe drummers). Recommend you watch another amazing video from her jazz-fusion phase when she was 7, the Senri Kawaguchi piece “Onyx”. It is a rare, live performance video of her playing with a band, in a club, and is perhaps an even better example of what a pro she was at that age.
th-cam.com/video/MkhGgqXywU8/w-d-xo.html 👍😎
thanks for the breakdown man, as usual..for me i don't mind with the pause and breakdown, because i get to learn..i love drums, i want to learn :)
re zevroman----YES !---agreed entirely !
When i was 7, i learned to swim and ride a bike...not bad also hahahaha
Good to see you have the same attitude towards mistakes as I do. Being a relatively new drummer I've made a few while gigging, I always apologize to the boys after the gig but 9 times out of 10 they hadn't noticed. In my many years as a bass player I would make a point of playing one bum note just to see who was listening, The guitar player would growl at me and I would just stand there smiling as I found the one bass player in the 2000 strong crowd who noticed lol. Awesome reaction dude, as always, Yoyoka is beyond words.
Yoyoka gives stink looks to the other members of the band when they make mistakes, just to let them know she noticed....lol
Ahhh I have been waiting for this one bro. And what a classic song, btw. It’s like I knew it before I ever heard it.
Yoyoka's thoughts as she is drumming (since nailing every note in the song takes no effort): "Drumming wears me out. I'm going to have some milk and cookies when I finish banging this song out"
yoyokaによってCHARの名曲smokyが海外にもフューチャーされるなんて...。
驚き桃の木である。
この曲が出来たときは、きっと彼女の両親もまだ、お互い出会う前だろう。
この人も、誰かは知らないけれど
一回全部見終わってから、再度
チェックしているところが好感を持てる。
Great insightful and intelligent comments on this young lady- great job!
In regards to "flubs". For anyone that wants to really know how good she is (not that anyone doubts it), play her famous "Good Times, Bad Times" video th-cam.com/video/91pz1E8pAOY/w-d-xo.html starting at 00:49 at .50 speed and watch at 00:50 how she almost drops the stick in her right hand by accidentally hitting it on the side of her drum after hitting the cymbal on her right. What a phenomenal save! Never lost her smile or the beat! I think most drummers would have dropped the stick. I never noticed it until "Wave Potter" did a reaction of it and caught it. Out of the millions of people that have watched this video, he is the only one I've seen that caught it (or at least mentioned it). He was quite impressed that she didn't drop the stick. Check out his channel also, he's a really nice guy (and friends with Vand3rHorst (right Nick?)) Both these guys are awesome reactors! We need both of them to point these things out or we just wouldn't see them.
Yeah we're friends & working on collab stuffs. Schedules keep interfering so we might have to record things in bits then edit it together.
Atomic clock of rock! Absolutely!
I can tell yoyoka is amazing but I enjoy watching drumers reacting as it teaches you why you are amazed
DYNAMICS!!!
Thanks guys so much just enjoyed seeing your facial expressions for sure exactly the same as my facial expressions when I watch her do this number.
Yoyoka is 7 here but the drumworks she performs is from a 35year old pro-drummer lol.. :)
I am transfixed watching this awesome young lady just crush what she’s playing...so natural is her swag, I’m sure she doesn’t even feel how she swings and how she’s impacted the music world. I feel as enthralled watching Yoyoka play as I did and do feel watching and listening to Buddy Rich...
Still think that a good name for her band would be Tsunami. Perhaps it’s not a good name due to the Tsunami that devastated Japan a few years ago from 2021.
haha She really is a ray of sunshine in a dismal world. I am very inspired by Yoyoka :D She's the greatest.
Meet Yoyoka at the 2022 NAMM Show！！
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She may have been avoiding the hat on purpose. With the way this music is you can't guess what will come next.
My teacher.
Another great 7 year old Yoyoka at a gig:
th-cam.com/video/MkhGgqXywU8/w-d-xo.html
You were wondering how she'd handle a live gig at 7? Here it is.
No one hearing the opening would expect a kid, let alone a 7 year old.
Not to be grumpy, but what is that life form starting to move on 0:52 and then rolling with all feet up? :D
haha that's my baby Adaleigh the best wiener dog in the whole world.
THE HIKEDO HAMMER AT IT AGAIN, TRY KILL THE KING HER LATEST VID BLOODY AWESOME IN ITS POWER MT GET ON IT.
Sounds like steely dan
Speaking of chokes. You don't want to miss this one! This whole video is awesome, but the reason I'm calling it out specifically is the choke, or should I say double chokes that happen at 4:35. Start at 4:30. Pay attention, seriously, or you will miss it! He's like an absolute freakin' NINJA! And he kills the sound of the cymbal IMMEDIATELY!! "Michael Jackson's Drummer Jonathan Moffett Performs "Smooth Criminal"" th-cam.com/video/bRM2Gn9nU7Q/w-d-xo.html
That whole Sugarfoot video is so enjoyable.
@@chrisegbertky That guy is awesome!
please react to Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas
Dude! There is a hotdog on your bed.
haha YES! She's the stream mascot! :D
I had no idea this whole time in the intro she was rolling around on the bed hahaha. I never noticed and I'm the one who edited this xD
just a like for youre dog ! ;)
haha She's the best!!
btw youre reactions are realy good !
@@RevenTon73 I really appreciate that you like them :D There are soooo many more hahahaha. I love doing these :) I am very blessed.
I think I saw a big rat wandering behind you :) Watch out!
xD hahahaha she photobombs all the time I love it.
Honestly, I was not paying attention to you in the beginning. I was watching that cutie playing in the covers. Sorry!
Effortless
and she.......
looks tiny :)
Someone accidentally hit the dislike button XD
hahahahaha I knoooooow. If I'm not pissing somebody off, I'm not doing it right.
こんな子供に注目しなければ成らない位、世界の欧米のメタルロック界は人材不足なんですか？子供の時に神がかる子供ていますが、大人に成ると、、、、、、
@md 42jkl 私も浅田真央ちゃんの大フアンです。でも美を審査する等はおこがましいし、審査員の乞食振りに欧米人の嫌な部分を見て全然見ていない。欧米人の良い頃加減さには疑問符です。彼女に対して各人の思いで良いのではないか？ネットはそんな処で、其れでも納得出来ないなら、何時でもお相手します。
日本語のスキルが足りないことをお詫びします。私はよよかから何も奪おうとはしていないので、私の反応があなたの基準を満たしていることを願っています。むしろ、彼女がしていることの説明に30年の経験を加えようとしています。私はこれらの反応をするように頼まれたので、私を信じてください、すべての西洋人が同じではありません。西側の世界では素晴らしい音楽が大幅に不足しており、それをカバーするためにTH-camのセクションに参加できて幸運です。(I apologize for my sore lack in skills for Japanese. I hope my reacts meet your standards as I am not trying to take anything away from Yoyoka, rather I am trying to add 30 years of experience into an explanation of what she is doing. I was asked to do these reacts so believe me, not all westerners are the same. There is a MAJOR shortage of amazing music in the western world and I am lucky to be a part of the section of TH-cam to cover it.)
@md 42jkl Thank you very much my new friend! :D I surely will!
@md 42jkl Oh, I firmly believe it'll be happiness across the board, mutually assured success from both sides. :D
@md 42jkl 大人が弄ぶとその子の為に成らない。そっとして上げるべきです。世の常で上げたり下げたりですから。