He’s not playing all the notes we're hearing unfortunately. He did a Tooth and Claw cover that blew up, but he’s really not playing all the notes there either.
Clearly he’s talented “for a young person” and as a normal person too. But bleed is primarily 4/4 basic hands with the feet doing all the work. His transition sections aren’t very correct.
He is doing a great job for his age, but it’s unlikely he could play this without the track (with a real band) and if we heard just his drums and not also the track, it might not be as impressive.
Again, mad talented for the age. But check out some of his other videos like Dance of Eternity (or was it instrumedley?) by dream theater. Clearly not really knowing what he’s doing there and doesn’t sound good. People wouldn’t be impressed with that one, just as an example.
I just hope he knows the drumming basics and isn’t just learning this over the top stuff. I’ve seen too many kids go wrong doing that. Can’t play a normal gig to save their life but they can play polyrhythms in specific songs pretty well.
here he is at 7 playing the song where you can hear just his drums. it's mostly there, but it's kinda not at places too. again. i KNOW he's 7. and this is great. it's amazing but comments all over are like "he's nailing it all" and he just simply isn't. i really have no idea what we're actually hearing in the video you posted.
at 1:35 in this video, it definitely falls apart because it's a very tough pattern that goes over the bar lines. but he's trying, and that's great! but he's just factually not "nailing it all" unfortunately.
it's unfortunate when people want to show their skill level on an instrument, but then do overdubs for primary parts, or even the whole thing.
this next guy came up in a recent "people speeding up their videos" thing on youtube.
he says he never overdubs and everything is real. "All drums were recorded LIVE"
but within the last 2 months or so turned off youtube comments. if this camera footage is the actual take and what we are hearing, can anyone explain to me 0:52 and 1:44 in the video? he says he doesn't overdub or add to the takes. then where does that snare sound come from when he's clearly not playing in the video?
if you aren't overdubbing, why downvote comments that questioned those points in the video, and then why turn off all comments too?
