When the drums come in on "Good Vibrations".
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 October 2021 03:22 (two years ago) link
Van Halen’s “drop dead legs” right before the second verse.
― calstars, Friday, 8 October 2021 07:34 (two years ago) link
4) Don Henley - Hotel California
― calstars, Friday, 8 October 2021 07:36 (two years ago) link
Nicko's coast to coast tom fills on "the Trooper".
― earlnash, Friday, 8 October 2021 12:24 (two years ago) link
Angel of Death is my personal go-to, good calf exercise
― starship blooper (Matt #2), Friday, 8 October 2021 12:27 (two years ago) link
The Alphonse Mouzon sample at the beginning of Shake Your Rump by the Beastie Boys.
― peace, man, Friday, 8 October 2021 12:35 (two years ago) link
https://youtube/cZYa_KfLTtM
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Friday, 8 October 2021 12:37 (two years ago) link
xpost I'd like to see someone air drum that and not hurt themselves.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 October 2021 12:47 (two years ago) link
20th century drumming has seven or possibly eight moments of transcendent perfection.
Two are from Motown. One is the Benny Benjamin-style pickup (see the beginning of "Ain't too Proud to Beg," but repeated elsewhere).
Two are from "Fool in the Rain," remarkably placed within a few seconds of one another.
You know that part of Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain" where they come out of the silly Latin section back into the main piano riff and there's like a steadily rising drum roll and
One is "In the Air Tonight," but I have mixed feelings about it. It is very dramatic, and achieves its intended effect perfectly. But I submit to you that it suffers ever-so-slightly because it lacks inventiveness. "Wow, seems I have four rack toms. What if I hit each one twice in a descending pattern?"
It did not take a great mind to come up with the idea - it took a great mind to realize that this one simple idea was sufficient to make an iconic moment. Personally I feel there is an even better drum "Phil" later in the song during the fade - that does a cool rushing-then-bleeding thing. But all anyone remembers is doo doo / doo doo / doo doo / doo doo / etc.
The other two perfect moments are from Richard Starkey but I haven't decided which ones yet.
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 October 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
For context, my favorite fills are often the least technical ones! Even in "Abacab," the sloppiest ones are the tastiest. Just before the vocals enter, three quarter notes: whap whap whap ksssh, "Look up on the wall..." There's another right before the fade.
On further thought I am being too narrow. "No Reply at All" has a few gems as well. I could probably do a thread just on Collins, another on Bonham.
Mitch Mitchell has several all-time greats just in "Wind Cries Mary."
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 October 2021 13:51 (two years ago) link
I have sporadically table drummed the intro drumroll to Peaches En Regalia at school and office desks, dining tables and any nearby inanimate object for near to three quarters of my life at this point.
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Friday, 8 October 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
Judas Priest - "Painkiller"
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 October 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
“good times bad times”
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 October 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
this sounds like total bullshit, and it may be, but apparently in high school my steering wheel fell off after i hit it so hard. the sad thing is i was probably totally wasted (while driving country roads. i was and am a bad person) so i really don't remember, but people tell me this story like they saw it happen― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Friday, October 8, 2021 2:40 AM (eleven hours ago)
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Friday, October 8, 2021 2:40 AM (eleven hours ago)
― Nature's promise vs. Simple truth (bernard snowy), Friday, 8 October 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
Won't Get Fooled Again
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 8 October 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
Neil Peart needs his own thread, but three that come to mind:
Spirit of Radio (intro to verse)Tom Sawyer (series at the end of the solo before back into the verse)Limelight (the end)
― Hannibal Lecture (PBKR), Friday, 8 October 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
Admittedly not a big Peart stan
To the extent I enjoy his work it is more about grooves than fills
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 October 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
That's his particular genius, imo. It's about the arrangements, the precision, kind of like an orchestral percussionist. Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HXrU2p8e5U
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 October 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
The fill when the drums enter in Radiohead’s Exit Music are ripe for air drumming.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 October 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
The intro to Poison Idea's 'Just To Get Away'
― ringworm, Friday, 8 October 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
intro to Pink Floyd's "Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 8 October 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
The solo fills leading into the bridge in "Jack and Diane."
― Weston-super-Mare, Minehead, Lynmouth, Ilfracome, etc. (SlimAndSlam), Friday, 8 October 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
the first one that popped into my head is 'sister christian' based entirely on ten seconds of air keyboard into air drums from this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGp-4NP76MM
― joygoat, Friday, 8 October 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
“Vanishing Girl” by the Dukes of Stratosphear, first shows up about 50 seconds in.
― JoeStork, Friday, 8 October 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
"making plans for nigel" is also a good one
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 October 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
"dreaming" by blondie, the drums are pretty much the lead instrument on that song
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 October 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
The fills with toms earlier in the song are more impressive but I can't resist miming the cheeky snares towards the end of Can's Moonshake.
― only built 4 lynx africa (Noel Emits), Friday, 8 October 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
xp: oh fucking definitely. clem burke is amazing.
― peace, man, Friday, 8 October 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
Eye of the tiger
― calstars, Friday, 8 October 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
INXS - never tear us apart
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 October 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
Steely Dan - Green Earrings also has some cool ones for the more advanced air drummer.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 October 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
And Aja
― Hannibal Lecture (PBKR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jSdyDt-Ync
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 October 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, October 8, 2021 2:30 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
purdie's fill heading out of the bridge and into guitar solo #1 is incredible, but idk how i'd even begin to air drum that one lol (especially since a lot of it seems to be played with the feet!)
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 October 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
xp there you go
― Hannibal Lecture (PBKR), Saturday, 9 October 2021 02:25 (two years ago) link
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili),
Can’t find one of green earrings but Aja is achievable if you know Kung Fu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE4RRhvm-Jk
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 9 October 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
thank you for this
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Saturday, 9 October 2021 06:09 (two years ago) link
lol, the air drummer on that is totally me. when you play the aja solo you are legally obligated to make those "gently astonished at yourself" faces
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Saturday, 9 October 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
I can't remember where I read it, but the story I heard was that Steve Gadd was brought in for the "Aja" sessions and recorded the title track in maybe one take, before he even heard Wayne Shorter's part. Gadd then moved on to another session somewhere else. Some time later Gadd (who was at the height of his self-destructive years) was invited back by the Dan to hear how the "Aja" was coming along, and after they played him the track he was impressed and asked who the drummer was. Their jaws dropped and they said "it's you!" Gadd apparently laughed and said "I'm a real motherfucker," then left.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 October 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
When the drums finally kick in on Pink Floyd’s “Time”
― calstars, Saturday, 9 October 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
Joy Division's Atmosphere.
The fills in Aenima by Tool (and 46 & 2). All of Demon Cleaner by Kyuss (and the opening to 50 Million Year Trip).
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 9 October 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
Beatles - Sgt. PepperJorge Ben - UmbabaraumaAnd "Born on the Bayou" if the start counts as a drum fill
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 9 October 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
halleluwah
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
I'm always compelled to copy Dinger's little cymbal washes in Isi.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
fair but i think it's more important to know exactly when to pluck those two earlier high air guitar notes
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 October 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
Wait, you don't air-drum the whole roto-tom intro?
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 9 October 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
stairway, though
assuming one remembers laughter
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 October 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
Every fill on The Fall's Live at the Witch Trials
― nerve_pylon, Sunday, 10 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Andy Anderson on “One Hundred Years” and “The Walk” - The Cure, Concert
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 10 October 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
Bonhams opening to Moby Dick. He goes 3 instead of 4 on the last measure before the riff
― calstars, Sunday, 10 October 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link
Chad Smith snare fill leading into Give It Away
― peace, man, Thursday, 14 October 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link