Dive deeper with free sheet music for all these grooves in our latest Beat article: www.drumeo.com/beat/the-8-tool-beats-every-drummer-should-know/

Videos like this are why I play guitar.

Can we give Brandon some props for simply learning all these grooves to begin with

You guys need to get Danny on the show! Thank you for the video!

Carey is an absolute master of the drum kit

What I love about the drums, is that every single person that straps a set on, from the very beginner of beginners, to the master of masters, each person has a unique footprint just based on how their limbs coordinate. I love that, you don't sound like anyone else even if your new, and I'll steal anything from any player no matter how much experience they have. If I think it's cool, I'll pilfer it, and call it my invention. Playing drums is like being able to go on the amusement park rides as many times as you like with no lines. Ah I'll take some of that.

That Rosetta Stoned groove messes with my head, man.

Cool! Now do all of chocolate chip trip.

[01:20] The Grudge (slow) [02:00] The Grudge (normal tempo) [02:54] Sober [08:00] Ticks and Leeches - 7/4 (slow) [08:25] Ticks and Leeches - 7/4 (normal tempo) [11:53] Rosetta Stoned #1 (right hand ex) [12:19] Rosetta Stoned #1 (R+L ex) [12:54] Rosetta Stoned #1 (R+L proper) [13:40] Rosetta Stoned #1 (slow) [14:14] Rosetta Stoned #1 (normal tempo) [15:21] Rosetta Stoned #2 (slow) [15:35] Rosetta Stoned #2 (normal tempo) [16:48] Pneuma - Chorus (slow) [17:15] Pneuma - Chorus (fast)

So glad to see the Eulogy bridge included. It's a staple. When I heard this back in high school for the first time, it unlocked something in my mind, how I approached drumming, and permanently let Tool live in my head rent free since.

Ticks & leqches kicks butt even without any other instruments

The Rosetta Stoned breakdown broke my brain! Dude’s a legend for a reason! 🤘🏻🤯

Rosetta stoned is the ultimate demonstration of brilliance and mind fuckery for other musicians to replicate. This channel is fucking amazing brother.

You could do an entire album breakdown, love me some TOOL

The stickings + patterns are nearly endless in drumming, and echoing another comment, they form your unique sound, which makes this instrument the greatest. This community is unlike any other in music. We celebrate our heroes, we learn from them, and we help each other.

Well done Brandon! You definitely did Danny's drumming justice. Thank you for taking the time to compile this upload, I thoroughly enjoyed it. All the best to you.

All of them are crazy good but seeing as Rosetta is my all time favourite tool song, I'll go with that. Phenomenal!

We all know what a beast Danny is .. But damn Brendon smashed it as well ...my favourite of all the Drumeo guys and they are all freaking awesome ...

That Eulogy beat is one of my all time favorites! Great job!

Absolutely loving the tool content.

The Grudge is just 🔥 🔥 🔥

Wearing basketball jerseys, shoes, and shorts helps with odd time. Everyone should know this.

Its not the most difficult, but that 6/4 breakdown in Jambi is damn tasty

“Eulogy” is the groove you play hoping to get the other band members to join in at jam night.

This episode requires so much hard work to produce! THANKS SO MUCH for doing this extremely valuable tutorial!

Yep pneuma every time! Can't remember how many times I've listened /watched this song too many to count

This is genuinely one of the best educational music channels online. Perfectly presented, clear and inclusive.

I discovered Drumeo almost 10 years ago, a newer drummer who idolized Danny Carey, and hoped one day a video like this one would come along. Seeing this, especially with the amount of care put into getting it right, is just spectacular. Very well done, Drumeo. Thank you, sincerely, from a diehard Danny fan. Also THANK. YOU. for giving "Rosetta Stoned" the spotlight in this video. Those polyrhythms, man.

OK this is VERY timely, I'm in a Tool tribute band and we've added Rosetta Stoned so I really need to learn that instrumental part properly and this is a great breakdown to help me get there! Luckily the next gig is a few months away so I have some time to rewire my brain to make my limbs do that

To learn the groove of rosetta stoned is incredible.. to create it..... a whole other world

Great job man! Pneuma live from Danny's cam is just one of the best videos out there imo. 🤘🏻

best drummer to ever exist and you can’t change my mind

It's too much to pick an absolute favorite lol. All of their songs are sick!!! Thanks for the cool video. Great job!

He’s like Bonham and Peart had a love child 😂

Sheesh... How can someone be so inhumanly good? I would have loved a breakdown of the song Lateralus too. That's got rhythm changes and polyrhythms. Oh, and Invincible too.

Brandon you have become my favorite drum instructor on YT. Great stuff and thank you!

Danny Carey is an absolute monster on the drums *amazing job learning these Brandon!

So glad you did that part in Eulogy. It's so awesome!

Brandon you absolute god! Danny is inhumanly good and you actually learned, played, and NAILED his parts for the drumming community. You're a damn good drummer in your own right and so committed to teaching. It's so cool to see. Thanks for all you do

You guys keep raising the bar by providing such high level insight. I have bought your courses but also appreciate how much you put out there for free to the masses. You are preserving and advancing the art of drumming.

Love this channel, you are an amazing drummer, dude. Props. Also, love how you set each kit as the drummer portraying. That high hat moved up is sick, I wanna play like that one day.

If you turn on the subtitles at the beginning of the video, you'll see the drums are thanking Danny for banging them.

Holy F’n $hit, bro! 👏🏼 Seriously, how long did you prep for this? I’m guessing it’s years of Tool fandom with an opportunity to make the video. Great job!

Damn that was super clean playing on Ticks and Leeches

14:56 im losing my mind This has gotta be my favorite drumeo video so far, you guys provide so much knowledge to the drumming community in such a concise and entertaining way!

Whenever I'm craving more TOOL, drumeo always seems to read my mind!

All so amazing. I managed to figure out most of them by myself in the past, but now I actually have a chance it figuring out Rosetta Stoned!

That TD Garden performance of Pneuma will live on forever

I agree, that rosetta stoned part is insannnnnne😂 took me months on that part alone

Learning and playing these classic parts is fantastic AND recreating Danny's kit is next level!!! That has to be so much fun to play! Kudos 👏

Rosetta stoned so sick to watch you shred, love these tool videos so much man. Let’s hear you shred more of them! Hahaha, H. Is interesting, maybe the drum solo part for 46 & 2? Try getting every song recorded on videos lol. 😂

It really is a great test to be able to play something complicated at a very slow tempo which almost makes it harder. Great video and really cool drum set layout!

When I "understood" Tool for the first time, my great discovery of rhythm began. To this day I have no idea how to count some rhythms.... instead I have learned to feel them. I've also loved jazz for a few years and I always notice what Tool opened up for me. I saw Nik Bärtsch live for the first time a few months ago, and even though the rhythm was constantly changing, I was able to adjust almost directly to the rhythm, at least in the air and in my head, and enjoy it that way. There are dozens of drummers who are technically better, but there isn't one who has influenced me as much as Danny. And since he was also one of the pioneers, he is simply the best for me.

Almost 20 minutes of pure bliss!!! Thank you so much, @Brandon Toews for showing us, once again, your mastering!

Great job figuring all that out for us Brandon. Danny is amazing.

Man, I ground my teeth to dust learning that Rosetta Stoned part on bass....But it slaps so much gosh darn balls, it's absolutely insane! Great job playing that on drums, you madlad!

Thank you SO much for this!!!! Rosetta Stoned is my personal Mount Everest... Hopefully with this guideline I may be able to master it FINALLY!!! Kudos!!!

I am living vicariously through you. Uh... pun intended...? I would love to see you demonstrate that gorgeous Ænema groove (from 1 minute 17 seconds), oh the bliss it brings.

My friend of mine knows Danny quite well. His exact words are "Danny and his wife are two of the nicest people you could ever meet in you entire life". I believe him, hopefully that day will come.

Great video thanks. Really enjoyed the breakdown and your commitment to Tool. Rosetta Stone played the acoustic way at speed. What an amazing sounding piece. 👏

This is absolutely fantastic! Thank you SO much.

Rosetta Stoned was my favorite one you did. It’s so insane to see how complex it is to break apart. Funny your sticks paid the ultimate price lol

more Tool please! awesome stuff and great video as always!

Sick! Hard to pick a favorite, they're all incredible grooves. But it's hard to beat the hypnotism of Rosetta Stoned. Keep the Tool grooves flowing!

That’s cool how you added the EP for sober. I have (and had all the EP’s back in the 90’s and early 2000’s) and those are great albums. Lots of nuance in his playing between the studio and live albums. I highly recommend finding this albums for any tool fan

Yes! More Danny breakdowns, please. Man, it does my head in!

props for putting the hi hat in the center like danny

Great job, Brandon ! Danny Carey is a great drummer in all aspects. Technically, graceful, a master of the kit !

Awesome lesson Drumeo, thanks Brandon!!

amazing stuff man. as a guitar player who loves tool and also happens to love danny carey's work on the drums this is just a great insight into how drums work in the first place. i really need to get myself some e-drums and start a new journey.

Brandon impresses me more and more with every video

Wow. THANK you, Brandon, for translating some of Danny's otherworldly language into a dialect I can aspire to mimic. This is an awesome demystification!

Great video! You can only imagine how much prep work went into this.

Very helpful video my guys, I've been having some trouble figuring out how to play Rosetta's impossible groove by ear but now I think I've got it! Thanks Drumeo! Sick video 🔥

I feel like I would have no chance of pulling these off without an identically arranged kit. His snare and hi-hat placement is very unusual. Zero percent chance I could even come close on my setup. Bravo for nailing these. It's harder to copy someone's grooves than to write them yourself. Major props.

I'm usually pissed at the generic explanation cadence, but you truly have a knack for it.. please keep teaching us🤘🤘🤘

Fantastic Video Brandon! The Reflection Rhythm Section has an Interesting Groove 🎶

Playing the opening to The Grudge slow like you did, I got major Soundgarden vibes, specifically Like Suicide 🤘

Wow dude. Bravo. Thats very well done. I can imagine the work that went into this video.....Excellent job.

Great video, Brandon! Thanks so much for breaking these down! \m/

All of these are awesome but the ones that are difficult are Rosetta Stoned and Pneuma as well as Triad (not covered here) because it's not just the limb independence of the sticking while the Swiss Army Triplet rudiment is underlying what he's doing with polyrhythms and polymeters compounding it all, but the fact that his dynamics are always reinventing the Swiss Army Triplet from one or two drums, to as many as six drums at times! He is such an orchestrator and arranger with his pieces of music because he never makes just beats, as he said he doesn't believe in only beats, he wants his drumming to be perceived as movements and musical to the listener! His experience with learning from many great mentors and years of marching band with drums also shows, especially when he brings his giant gong on tour for certain shows (not the one that is always behind his kit, but the huuuge one that is sometimes seen on a separate stage platform away from his kit...80inch or 90inch!) His stick-tricks are insane when he plays the gong in marching style! Plus, just like with Thomas Lang, and Matt Garstka, Danny can LEAD with any of his four limbs as he chooses, and be balanced and flowing! I'm always mastering my craft, and that is with 35+ years of drumming (and various hand percussion) along with being a piano player and guitarist, but what's helped is... with years of lessons and breakdowns from Matt Garstka, Thomas Lang, Gene Hoglan, Gavin Harrison, Tim Alexander, Josh Freese, Mario Duplantier, Danny himself, and many others...my few weaknesses are being fine-tuned and becoming strengths! 🤗 Another big part of that strengthening is very much due to all of you here at Drumeo, and this awesome community of like minded and unique individuals all pushing each other to excel! Very blessed to be here in this time with this plethora of knowledge, fundamentals, rudiments, and the exercises of limb independence and amazing polymeters & polyrhythms (like Sarah Thawer! 🤗) Truly great stuff you all do for us, as well as yourselves so that we can all become greater today than we were yesterday...each and every day we sit behind the kit! 🥁

well played 👏 learnt a lot 👍

Brandon is a demigod! Born to teach and spread good vibes.

Brandon is such a goat, he understands Danny's drumming like no one else

Awesome stuff as always brother!

Really shows how much of a tool nerd I am when I already knew how to play all of these perfectly (except for Rosetta stoned, but I’ll get it with help from this vid)

Awesome lesson !! Aenima is my favourite along with Rosetta Stoned

Oh My! That moment at 15:34 is one of those that you smile at the screen, as if you're seeing something that cannot be described, just felt... WOW that was awesome!!! (well done Brandon, well done)

gotta be honest... seeing that the kit is set up almost exactly like danny has HIS set up is pretty cool. on one hand, it shows how "in depth" brandon wanted to go on this, on the other, it shows how important a kit setup is to the drummer playing it.

Dude, the drum sound in this specific video is amazing.

Yes please Brandon! Epic work as ever - would love to watch you break down some of Danny’s solos, like on…The Grudge!

Terrific video, and kudos for learning all of those amazing parts. Surely there must be an outtakes video on the horizon. Many thrown sticks, I'm sure.

"Let me see if I can play this." I'm gonna get there. Probably when I'm around 70. Props.

This is beyond amazing. Thank you

Thank you Brandon. Simply amazing.

Brandon, you're an absolute legend!

Please make a part 2!! Would love to see you guys cover the intro to triad.

What a wonderful channel. Brandon is a class act.

Killer content love the channel and love Tool especially Danny Carey

This is amazing. You did it again drumeo! Congrats to Brandon for surviving these 😂. For the Danny Carey lovers out there, I definitely recommend checking out John Kew’s covers on KZfaq. He is the only one I’ve seen playing Carey’s drum lines note by note! Cheers! 🇧🇷