did you play the original song so he can hear how it is???

Yeah I was also curious if you played the original track to him as well. I am very curious about his response!

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Hey, let's not sugarcoat this one. No offense to Dennis, he is elite, and he said this was not his thang. But, that was NOT a great play. Either the guy that called it a "funk interpetation" is the same guy that gets excited about paint splashed on a canvas and says it's worth $1 million, or he figured it must be great because Dennis Chambers played it, ( or he just did not want to offend the guy. ) But, he would not be offended, because he IS great at what he does, and knew this was not his thing. Plus, I just really don't think he was motivated to play it. And that is HUGE for a drummer; especially when it comes to interpretive playing. I'd rather not sugarcoat it. I think that if he was excited to play it, you would have gotten a lot more engagement. You guys just destroyed this man's career! Because you wanted it to work out so bad that you were forced to call it a " funky interpretation", and then lied to the man and told him " No Dennis, REALLY, it was sooo good!" I'm kidding about that last part. You didn't destroy his career :-) But, I give it a 3 out of 10. He got excited at the end knowing it was going to end,, so he played a fill.. and his feet were on point ; in a creative way. * If he wanted to play it, he'd slay it

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prison sex

🤣🤣🤣

Gold

😂😂

fuck yes

perfect!

it 'was wrong' because it's Trash... I mean, Tool. not b/c of anything he did.

@@sumdumbmick That's a spicy opinion buddy.

lol it Felt like it felt great! That was so enjoyable.

Ever heard is OSI or Circus Maximus? Not only those bands but Gavin Harrison's work list

TOOL most definitely has harder songs to play on drums, but Schism is a damn challenge

Danny Carey is a great drummer, but I definitely wouldn't call this an impossible difficulty song. It's not even on the ranking for more difficult things that Carey does, in my opinion. The instrumentals for this show the time signature changes for it fairly well. Are there a lot of them? Absolutely. Are they difficult to follow, I don't really think so. Dennis Chambers is great, though.

Because jazz drummer 🫡

Wouldn't say he killed it,but he's on the right track for sure. I couldn't imagine trying to do what he was doing.

I always cry when I listen to this song. It's a beautiful masterpiece!

Same here. That was awesome 👌

Nostalgic Happy triumph?

Watching someone masterful perform like this absolutely should invoke an emotional response.

It was like a watching a true master become the work itself!

match bass and snare hi hat to the guitar and its a cake walk from there. you can tell 100% he knows music though he's very close

First listen ever, 30 seconds in he was bobbing his head like he was hearing the drums, then just completely nails it. That's a *professional* at work.

He understood the assignment

Hands down the absolute best musical concept, shows how absolutely fundamental and crucial drums are.

It was close enough I suppose. I kind of get a bit of a nauseous feeling how it is close but not right at all lol.

The dude hitting the polyrhythms based on the guitar and (kind of but can't really remember) the bass was damn impressive.

well he is Dennis Chambers haha

I think this guy’s drumming is better and more impressive on the song.

@@newagain9964🤣🤣

I was like 😮

Idk who you are but write poetry and don’t look back

@@natelundy3681 Seconded, man.

Fuck yeah

I read this comment several times and got chills. Such eloquent wording. I agree with nate.

He's a structural engineer he blind designed that bridge so well

At least it was this song. While it does have an odd time signature that constantly changes, the bassline and vocals really heavily imply the beat.

Hall of famer

@@TheLowest oh sorry was it not hard enough for you

Musician? I think you meant to type magician. Holy shit he nailed it.

​@@gamesmaster1060I think the issue is that you don't have any musical talent and so you can't understand the comment that guy made. This is definitely a YOU issue.

both of these, please.

I second this.

Yes please

100% this

Yes please

Remember CAB with Tony Macalpine and Bunny Brunnel?

Danny carey is a god tier drummer. Both, are household names.

​@@deeznuts5757 In less than half a percent of households man

@@voncornhole you really hating on tool rn bruh

Brother. Danny is up there with Dennis. Both are truly amazing drummers. To call his work child’s play is wild

I saw Bill Bruford (King Crimson, Yes) in a drum clinic in 1993. He said he just plays to the song--the rhythms and melodies. He then proceeded to play his song Beelzebub, basically a song without time signatures. Blew my mind then. Now I get it. Dennis was doing a bit of it, but seems like he was focusing more on keeping on the time signatures.

Cheers, Simon!

yeah that’s me every time i attempt a tool song. love how his style came through, now i want a transcription of his interpretation

I feel that one fundamental aspect of being a musician is to go outside your comfort zone and attempt to see what you can do with something that isn't in your wheelhouse. As long as it's fun, and you feel proud of what you came up with, that's what matters. Never has to be a perfect recreation.

It's why I love my e drums, I can suck and no one else has to know. Haha. I love just playing along, even if it's not perfect. It just feels fun and good.

Was about to say the same thing- there are no 'wrong' timings or notes in music! If it sounds 'wrong' to you, it's probably just heavy jazz and you're not ready yet 😜 (Just kidding obviously)

My best friend from high school was like him, and so is my wife. It's a form of photographic memory. Listening to a song once burns a perfect copy in their head. They just shut their eyes, and they can hear it play as clearly as if they were wearing studio headphones. It's absolutely dumbfounding to me.

I’m not so sure that you’re correct. I don’t think it has anything to do with “burning a copy in their head”.. I think it’s more along the lines of knowing keys and time signatures. My dad and best friend could play along with a song without ever hearing it at all. In fact my best friend would fill in for bands not knowing any of the songs at all.

agreed, Danny can break this one down

BRO Denis chambers is one of the greatest drummers of all time, this song is a piece of cake for someone like him

Right what a brutal song to try and feel out after only hearing for the first time. I would to see what he would do with it, if he could really take his time and pull apart all tracks and compose his own take. @Drumeo That would be a dope series, have this first take never heard it before attempt to play and then give them 3 months or however long to really learn the song and then come back and do their own thing with it! And then have a video of it toggling A:B back and forth to see the evolution.

especially without the drum track

That's the phrase(time signature)I was trying to remember when I noticed it, like on his high hat work, but yeah, he'd just jump right back in it. Love seeing this improv stuff fr

Kind of the strength of funk. Having those weird off beat hits allows a master of funk really use that to their advantage on odd time signatures and it fit well.

@@cdrmusicaz They can hear a bit of the kit in the mix - these programs they're using to disassemble the mix are far from perfect.

Jon Sudano! Cheers mate!🙏

Even though I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Somebody once told me....

Personally it's actually been the easiest song for me to learn on drums by Tool. Not because I count the time signatures, but because the melodies in combination with the drums just make sense to me.

@@sempthegreat If anything it’s the song built for people who don’t do time signatures cause the basic person just goes “oh, do what the bass is doing!”

Its crazy, very talented people out there

Facts

Absolutely 💯

Dude is a legend for a reason.

Yea sure... I can't hear the bass

Yes, Dennis is a master of the craft. He'd probably deny it, but nobody can be right ALL the time.

Just pretend you can't hear the drums. Problem solved.

They do that on the newer ones. Such as the Megadeth drummer hearing Mr Brightside for the first time. :)

You know you can search for it yourself?

@@BeauTylerMakesMusic- it’s literally for a second tho lol

Same

This just underscored Danny Carey's role in creating the Tool sound. Really it's kinda messed up that he listened to this song without drums as his introduction to Tool.

I’m weak! 🤣🤣

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If only we could be so “wrong”, right?

Would have been funny if we could see him listen to the original right after his attempt.

I even preferred his drumming over the original - which isn't bad at all to start with! ;-)

It was beautiful and uncomfortable at the same time. I would love to see Dennis’s reaction to the way Danny plays the song!

agreed

Yea he turned it to funk but I did won't more break down

It's different, but at the same time similar in ways that feel almost organically tied to the rest of the song. The song requires a certain attitude from the drummer (pretty much all Tool songs do, Danny is so integral to the end product), while he hit different beats, he captured the attitude almost completely.

Seconded this. Love these videos taking these accomplished drummers out of their comfort zones.

@@OneDeadDonkey REALLY shows what the best look like. MOAR

Enter sandman is at a 1/10 in difficulty while Schism is at a 20/10 in difficulty lol.

@@billiemack64 Correct, but the concept is truly fascinating to watch.

I really, really want to see folks truly going in blind. I rarely ever see people hop into completely new music aside from streams, but it's all I ever do these days and I want to see different players go for it.

Yeah and when he smiled with about a minute left was a highlight. Totally got lost in the moment

Just incredible. To achieve that first listen first try is true joy

It is amazing how those who have mastered their craft can easily fall into the pocket. This was crazy fun to watch. Mr. Chambers is an ace.

HELL YEAH!

same here + goosebumps! so good.

The mouth says "this isn't my cup of tea", but the ear-to-ear grin and poppin' groove say otherwise! Mind=Blown

gave me chills.....

​@@caseycasey5521 for real I wasnt expecting or ready, it just took me.

Proving that, when we're talking music, there's no "wrong" answers!

gotta disagree. He totally missed the groove because he was never shown it. He didn't even get to hear the original drums, which is the forefront of the song itself.

I was looking for this comment, because goddam! The double kicks are out of this world .

Right??? @@Bismarckloping

My thoughts exactly

@@Nnubbs they were shit, actually.

"This isn't my cup of tea" but I'll drink it to the last drop. Kudos MR Chambers.

Yeah that was sick honestly. Some shaky parts but dude a first read and play? Holy cow. I liked a hell of a lot of what he did.

Exactly. A true professional!

He nailed it? Are you f........ deaf. This was truly bad.

I mean your not wrong He could actually fill in for Danny if he was out or something. LOL . HE fucking nailed it ..

He did an awesome job!!

Agreed. It's like Danny Carey's first interpretation of the track, if he were a dunk rhythm musician

Funk * lol

I think given time, he’d spice this up so much more. This is such an awesome experiment.

It's because you have seen and heard proof that this man also owns a variation of the same understanding of the Muse that you possess.

It's da funk man. Da funk.

I ki da chuckled when he said that. Thought to myself it was a good thing he didn't choose Lateralus, but after hearing his interpretation of Schism I think he'd be ok.

ehh its not that hard. Most rockers get their mind blown listening to anything outside of 4, this guys not in a garage band he knows what he's doing.

preach.. tool is tricky in general.. so this was great to watch.. just fun.

@@marcapesos3731 it's not about it being hard though, necessarily. it's about playing something completely outside your comfort zone, being able to pick it up after one or two listens, and making it sound great.

@@jillybeangaming He is a studio-, session artist of THE highest caliber for decades now, so c'mon. I really like Tool but go outside of western music and this isn't as mind blowing as most people think it is. Again, not to knock on Tool because I have been listening to their music for decades and appreciate their art.

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@@shauncurtis4398 90 now, go ahead.

@@bannerba-banner2230 haha, thanks!

almost flawless

imagine being 61 year old Danny Carey and hearing TOOL for the first time. Wrap your mind around that

and fantastic!

Never thought my heart could swell more. Was rooting for the man and also loving it

I wish I could play something so “wrong” so right like he just did. What’s beyond amazing?

ikr dudes so chill and interesting hey

How? The dude played it so bad I had to mute the video.

For sure. One of the differences between a creator and a listener.

He was not enjoying the song.

Dude, i love the fact that he looked at the computer right before, like: "oh thank fuck, it's almost over. Let's have some fun."

Haha but he's not smiling cuz he's loving it. He's white knuckling this entire thing.

Show me Chris Dave jammin to Animal Collective.

Agreed! He's going full pocket, but I bet he could fill it out more than the original.

Barely out of his comfort zone. He's still killing it

I Think preaty the same, This patterns are so difficult and there are not In his lenguage…

@@Lupine. He was already starting to fill it out toward the end of this first attempt.

He is not in his comfort zone, he is none of the drummers in their comfort zones, tool music is not intellectual. It is just composing music on the table to make it in unrelated forms of time signatures and after that trying to memorize it like a down syndromed fellow. It is a pseudo-intellectual form of music, it is a music form that is beeing tried to be made to look like a complicated work. No one needs to make interpretations of meaningless bad time signatured music. If you wanna get out of your comfort zone, stop listening to '' wanna-be complicated '' prog bands and try to learn how to funk and jazz.

Dennis is surely amazing and did damn good with just one listen but I didn't like it 😢 it's clearly not his style but he put on a hell of a performance

@@LiL.Pixxie Same, but he did have his moments.

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Tool songs are tough? C'mon man, Dennis is from the Prog-Rock / Prog-Jazz era and that stuff continues to be complicated even by todays standards. its not that he doesn't like it or that its hard. Its just that hes BORED. Hes a progressive drummer. and... ahem, hes pretty much a grandpa - LOL

Much easier tool song compared to some but dennis could handle anything he is one of the greats

@@breakfastplan4518 yeah he even said this woulda been awesome when he was younger lol 😆

@@breakfastplan4518 i think he would even disagree with your statement.

I produced this video with Dennis and he phoned me two days before he flew out to the studio. I asked him if we could document him learning a song he had never heard before and all he said was "As long as there are no blast beats" - I figured "Schism would be a great choice. So glad he was open to filming this video!

That's what lots of improvisational practice will get you. Instant analysis and adaptation to any feel.

Kind of. Not saying chambers isn’t everything he’s cracked up to be, because he obviously is. But he’s doing a little ‘trick’ to survive that I like to call ‘temping’ or, using his confidence in his rock solid rhythm, experience, and talent to lock into the TEMPO at such a level that he can sort of zone out and forget about counting and riff until he hears something he recognizes. This is NOT a knock. I’m not saying it’s easy trick, because it isn’t. Just that it’s essentially turns into doing something only a proficient, true drummer can do, reliably (or tastefully) - solos and fills over the bar line. Easier and way cooler sounding to do in 4, as something recognizable comes around to the ear much sooner than later to pull one back into finding the 1. But Chambers knows there’s little utility in even thinking about the number 4 at this point, and he also knows he’s good enough to put any number other than a strong 1 out of his mind and just keep going, just keep listening as he plays, just keep feeling that tempo and just GO. His honest and blunt reaction upon listening leads me to believe he’d fully agree with how I described it. There’s probably a different term for it that I forgot from music school lol, but I just always called it ‘temping’ because I noticed it before I really learned music, & never heard anyone else really talk about it (also got frustrated so many people DIDN’T recognize it, and heard something I likened to mere ‘survival’ as borderline supernatural - until I learned in music school that it’s actually not all that easy, however naturally it had come to me when I was younger. Kind of like perfect pitch singers realizing not everyone can keep tune like them and most work really really hard just to fall hideously short!). I also always likened it to a 2-strike approach in baseball, where the hitter chokes up on the bat, stops guessing which pitch might be coming next, sits on a fastball, and stays ready to foul off anything close to just simply SURVIVE…until he gets that fastball he can actually do something with.

@@SpeedOfThought1111 Feel being they key there. I think very little analysis is going on during, see my previous comment! 👍🏻

@@bogme for sure, i'm capable of doing the same thing with hearing most songs for the first time, but to do it to Schism is certainly extra impressive, and yeah those of us who can really see and hear noticed his small mistakes and hiccups during the transitional moments, and honestly there were a couple parts I thought he was playing pretty cautiously and could've easily done more but for a first time blind playthrough it was awesome. and yeah i totally agree about analysis, it's just instantaneous subconscious rhythym, that brain is basically doing on autopilot.

dude is a beast

No it isnt

They have Nic Collins whiplash lol this is a cake walk compared

@@psychotic0condoms u do it. bet it will sound good and not totally trash

Nothing gets by you, Captain Obvious.

@@ChrisPBacon3000 definitely a normal person behind that username getting so easily sassy about a compliment. what, bothered that nobody gives you any? no, surely you aren't that pathetic right?

Simply - great Musician.

You do know who Dennis Chambers is, right? FYI: he really is not struggling here. Dennis is one of drummers who made fusion drumming to what it is today. If you want to get to know Dennis, check out the "In the pocket" and "Dennis Chambers & Buddy Rich band" videos.

"This guy" Cant help but laugh at this line...

I love how he gets lost every time timing gets weird 🤣

This is absolutely what it's like to lose yourself in a musical high/buzz Just letting it happen 👍👍👍

Yeah, that double kick, hehe.

Even after insisting this isn't his cup of tea lol. Drums (music in general I suppose) are the universal language

Saw that to

ok

Same, he smiled and I thought "he cracked the code, he's in"

Agreed. I smiled with him.

having been used to this song it was a bit awkward to listen but indeed, about 9:20 towards the end of the song he totally got into the flow.

Dead on, he morphed into the song. 🔥

@@kevinbertele8649 completely agree. the smile gave it awwaayyy

Man, I can't remember the original version & wasn't terribly impressed at the time, but Dennis killed that track all the way thru imho

Glad you like it!

it is like hearing a language, but the accent is different. Both are amazing

@@craigwalker4166 Excellent analogy

@@craigwalker4166 GREAT COMMENT!

I really hadn’t thought of that you are right! I play guitar as well & they aren’t as nice! 😅😂

“wHoLeSoMe”

You haven’t looked at any Lil B comment sections

YES

Exactly what I tought. It would have been great.

I was waiting for that too. Disappointed after this great vid.

I wanted to see that, too! Was waiting for it the whole time!!

Yeah, I thought that was the point of the video.

he closes his eyes around the time he stops having to consciously count the weird time signature changes. You can see it in his groove, face, everything. Badass. Playing it on guitar I have to count the entire time or I lose it. And I'm only focusing on one dang thing!

Channeling the Carey.

Channeling the Carey.

As a drummer, your eyes are next to useless for playing.

No its basic musicianship

They are predictable you just need to be a mathematician.

Yea the constantly switch back and fourth in timing. If u noticed he does that very simple technique of counting to figure out the timing and it makes hime extremely successful playing the song

true. tool is a math and predictibility music. this is why their music is so addicting. they use patterns that human brain loves to figure out and follow

They have some of the most predictable and easy timings of any metal band though.

@@flagmuffin1221 Definitely not easy timings but I would say they’re predictable. You just also have to be really good at drumming too though.

He got it wrong though, it's 5/8 and 7/8

It’s not wrong it’s his interpretation

@@DPRX99 but he plays it in the original time signature :)

@@DPRX99 His interpretation just happens to be wrong

@@karwashblark7499 Like, you know time signatures aren't set on stone, right? He can divide this song however he prefers. That's why he's a pro and you're, well, watching him.

52 time changes! Thanks for the new fact on this song I've enjoyed for so long.

52 is a fun number, but if was going to score it, I don't think I would write 5/8 7/8 over and over and over. I'd probably just be lazy and do the first half of the song as 6/4 or 12/8. The middle part could just be 9/8. It doesn't really matter how you divide it up. There's really just two grooves. The beginning has the 5/8-7/8 groove and the middle has 27 eighth notes. I like to count that part as 9/8

It's truly effing incredible. Wonder how many drummers on earth could do that.

try gentle giant - three friends, there's a change of timing in pretty much every bar, and yet it floats well :)

@@mspinksosu which is why counting is redundant… Yes, with songs like this you probably need to have a decent understanding on the changes and count, but if you take it as just counting and knowing changes, you throw everything away You still have to incorporate soulful and heartfelt playing, without being 100% technical and sounding like a robot 🤖 Which is why Danny is the 🐐 He plays exactly like he said he stared, watching his dad swing and fight with swords and Crowley eyes wide shut rituals Lmao

Amazing 😍👌

No kidding!! I am in love with his interpretation

Was awesome to see

Yea this guy is a legend

you call him farmer? put some gondann respeck on his mfrking name

same