Great analysis. It is cool getting your insights. I can neither confirm nor deny that my love for this band might be excessive haha. ;)

Jinjer are total audiophiles, and it's great to see. The tones and snare sound sooooo clean.

I'm a layperson when it comes to the technical side of music ... just the average music listener, and I never thought I'd have a favorite drummer ... until I heard Vlad for the first time.

Vlad’s control of ghost notes is like nothing I’ve heard before and there are moments where his open hand playing makes me wonder how he isn’t losing the stick when he hits hard notes. Thanks for the reaction, also, love Bulgaria when I visited, Sofia was kind to me.

Vlad also plays the guitar. He wrote the song Retrospection on guitar first. Then the rest with the guys. He’s a beast

Now watch the drum cam of their song "Pit of Consciousness" played live in Kiev!

Love all the players in JINJER...especially love Tati's vocals. Vlad is a beast and very innovative. He works perfectly with the other players. I knew he played piano, but till now, never equated his piano playing with his playing the drums, makes perfect sense. Thanx for your excellent reaction and insight to JINJER...

Flipping stick actually gives you more power when you play. Props for Vlad because he is extremely good in making GHOST notes with them though

Danny Carey from Tool has a drum cam video for their song “Pneuma”. It’s definitely worth analysis from a drummer.

Totally agree about the snare tone! Between the tuning and the muting he does with the tape, it's one of the best sounding snare tones I've heard so far.

Vlad the impaler. He's awesome.

He flips his sticks quite often during songs and actually has some songs he plays all with flipped sticks. If I recall correctly, his "audition" video for Jinjer, he plays the entire song with backward sticks. It's on his personal YT channel.

At 6:00 Great Ghost Notes with both hands! I like how he accents on the beat with his left hand but plays a ghost on the others. Ghost Notes on The Snare are very subtle, but they add so much to this part of the song. He really makes this part of the song "feel" great. Well done Vlad.

Of course Adidas. He's a Slav....

Vlad joined a very good band and made them a great band.

From what I hear he's also a pretty good guitarist. All the guys in Jinjer are exceptionally gifted musicians. Roman and Eugene attended university where they majored in music theory.

Vlad is an amazing drummer! One of my favorites. This whole band is just crazy awesome! Listening to them play and Tatania sing is just amazing! Before covid I bought tickets to see them and I'm just waiting for them to make another date.

Vlad is awesome

Nice reaction and great analysis bro, yeah Vlad is a bad ass. I have another suggestion for you since you really enjoyed this. I think you would really enjoy reacting to Dmitry Kim's drum playthrough of "Captain Clock" by Jinjer. Dmitry was the prior drummer to Vlad, and let's just say, I have no idea what's in the water in Ukraine when it comes to metal drummers, but Dmitry is frickin phenomenal too. He would have been the permanent drummer, (Their prior drummer Eugene had a horrific accident and needed to be replaced) but he couldn't commit to Jinjers' touring schedule, so he was just a "fill" in drummer until they could find a permanent replacement which ended up being Vlad. Peace and as always, stay Metal. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🎶🎶🎶

It was nice to listen your analysis. I know nothing about drumming, no talent or skills with music, just love listening. You pronounce very well English, but bulgarian I know from my work (for example ex-boss), speaks also English quite well, but with accent. Jinjer have been one of my favourite bands almost 2 years now afted discovering them accidentally when I was searching music my romanian colleague suggested.

He is a machine.

Awesome, and awesome. Saw them last Oct in Canada. See them when you can! 🤘🤘

So I went through your vidios & I didnt see the drum cam of Danny Carey playing Pneuma by Tool. I would love to see you do an analysis vidio of this. Great reaction of Vlad. Thank you for doing this one...I didnt even know this vidio was out there.

Haha brings back memories...I used to flip my sticks back in the day because I thought I'd be like Vinnie Paul from Pantera! Back in the 90's...

Vlad is an incredible drummer! Perfect for Jinjer.

Is it just me or has Jinjer become really good since Vlad is drumming?

Браво, пич! Готина реакция и разсъждения! Best wishes!

It’s hard to see in this video, but I think his rack tom is in the first floor tom position. 14” and shallow for a floor tom. I totally agree that his snare sound is great. I looked it up on Tama’s website, and I want one.

Very cool reaction. For a noob at drumming like me, your insights and comment are very apreciated. Keep it up, and keep the Jinjer reactions coming. Peace.

Hey cool kid! That's an interesting reaction to watch. I sure enjoyed it!

You should react to Gojira, the Art Of Dying live at Les Viellies Charrues, Mario Duplantier is just insane 🇨🇵🤘

Bruh React to vlad doing who's gonna be the one, im not a drummer but it looks super impressive to me 😱

....thanks for reacting to this...love your observations....just me or does vlad have the most languid style of any drummer you've ever seen...like zero aggression....very unique style....yeah that snare sounds amazing....maybe check out "dreadful moments" playthrough...its just the boys...thanks again cuz...peace...

Jinjer "On the top" live in Kiev , the pocket in that song drum and bass is sick.....🤘🏼

Vlad actually clamps his snare to the bass drum with one of those hihat stand clamps. I had the same problem for a long time. I was hitting the snare hard enough to make the entire drum+stand bounce and start slowly creeping backwards. I use a Gibraltar stealth racks to mount my snare & rack toms and that solved the problem but prior to that I was using a bungee cord looped around my bass drum let to stop my snare moving around.

I just watched a Black Sabbath performance of War Pigs in Paris from the 70's and their drummer Bill Ward played with his sticks backwards. Not sure if this is where Vlad or other contemporary drummers got it from but it was interesting to see it from back then.

Please continue to react to vlad. he is a great drummer, anda their stile are unic, plesase see Teacher Teacher anda tried to understan the cymblas line. cheers from paraguay, i'm goin to suscribe now

Flipping, or butt end, your sticks gives a fatter and louder sound and has a slightly darker cymbal strike as well. Think about the tonal difference from nylon and wood tipped sticks. When I play I am constantly flipping for tonal purposes. Butt end tom stroke sound so good...And generally, at least for me anyways, you can clean up your stroke and purposely not hit the rim and gouge your sticks. It's an old school thing...

Crashes look big because half of them are rides haha love it though

Watched a rig rundown with him, one of his "crashes" is actually a 20" ride lol, Also Bill Ward from Black Sabbath used ti flip his sticks.

Usually, drummers in live performances are perched upon a drum rise which sometimes isn't a solid platform and has some flexibility to it - so when they play hard the entire kit seems to wiggle and move even if the drum hardware is high quality.

Need to check out JINJER - Cloud Factory (Official Live Video)....VLAD stands out on this one

Ive never clicked on a video so fast as i was randomly scrolling 😂

TOOL - Pneuma [Danny Carey Drumcam]

He also has playthrogh for " Retrospection"

I swear, everyone compliments his snare sound. lol

Nice video, love your playthrough rections! Would to see your reaction on "nobody.one (studio) 'Omega' (42 дубль) " by Romario Petrosyan, this dude is real hidden gem!

You should check out Baard Kolstad from Leprous's drum play through of The Sky is Red. It's amazing.

My understanding after watching a drum tech review is that he uses butt ended sticks same size on the end as the handle... it gives a bit more oomph on hard hits i guess

The piano is a percussive instrument.....so the transition makes perfect sense.

You can be sure to have other Jinjer fan comments and followers if you react to more Jinjer videos (me included). But I watch your others reactions and because and I didn't find it I am curious to knows if you looked at Rush. It is an old band but their drummer, who passed away this year, was consider one of the best ever (some seeing him as the goat). If you have no clue who he is or the band, you could find entire rabit hole.. and the Rush army too :) I think Neil Peart is still the youngest drummer introduced to the hall of fame of drummer at the age of 23.. Just in case, if Pisce is the intro to Jinjer, Tom Sawyer (official) is the one for Rush.

Vlad is #BadAss! I love how huge he can make that kit sound, right down to super-tasteful soft ghost notes, & everything in between! I sense he's quite high-IQ & so really enjoys something more interesting than a basic 4/4.... I bet he had plenty input thru everything they wrote for the Micro EP & Macro album, as there are plenty of interesting timings in there. p.s. yes, Vlad loves that snare too! instagram.com/p/B7_mH3KAoC-/ ;)

Request Meshuggah "Bleed" Live Drumcam....

I think this stick flip is a live thing for more volume and punch, I mean I hear every time his ghost notes

Honestly a better video to really get a good look at Vlad's skills is "jinjer - pisces (live session)" - in that song he plays a ton of ghost notes and has a lot of very tight changes up and down along with intros and outros carefully timed to the rest of the group. It's just about as good, in technical terms, as any drummer I've ever heard.

Not flipped-- those sticks do not have tapered tips. Looks like ProMark Hickory Rock Knocker based on the stripe in the middle.

That just makes me realize I have nowhere near the coordination to learn drums 😂

Hitting with the big ends gives the track a heavier sound...if you're drumming with a set of 5's...they sound really good for most stuff and you can flip them for the heavier stuff......or you can use a set of 5's for regular banging and 2's for the heavy tracks...but who knows...Vlad might be using custom sets

While you sit there and wonder where is this guy from ... and he tells it to you :D

Check polish black metal band Mgła - Exercises in Futility V drum cam video. Amazing drumming especially cymbal work, one of the best videos to react even if you don't like BM

drummer playing piano here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d5yJZ7uhp97OhWQ.html same young lady playing drums here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i66qiM1yqNjKYXU.html

I’d like to see a reaction to Christoph Schneider from Rammstein :)

It was @gtrsean that told you about vlad being a piano player before he picked up drums...next jinjer reaction has to be "on the top" live from Kiev

I think he if using double butted sticks. Also I think his kit is surprisingly minimal and low. At least that's how it looks to me. Vlad is easily one of my favorite drummers.

What's up? I informed you about Vlad being a trained Classical Pianist. This react would be cool and hasen't yet been done. Jinjer Cloud Factory official live Napalm vs the studio vid version. Different drummers and one less guitar player in the live version. I won't interject my musical observations or opinions. It would be cool to hear your opinions as a drummer. Cheers!

Check Aquiles Priester playing Shadow Hunter

flipped sticks or Vater Alien Freak?

"Oh my God, now I see he doesn't have a rectum" 4:55

react to nils fjellström drum cam dark funeral pls

"Or if you really hate me...show me to your ex, just for the fun of it..." 😅

Backwards sticks is straight from Vinnie Paul. How does a drummer not know this?

Please react to the drummer by polyphia ( G.O.A.T) it’s amazing

He did not flip his sticks. They r double ended non taper sticks

Next? Vlad playing Gojira's "Rememberance" on... no, not on the drums but on a shitty, beaten up baby blue Strat! I'll even provide the link so you don't have to search for it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i51da5WKrrvLp5s.html. You can thank me later. ; )

Eloy Casagrande "The pentagram"

Trust one slav to notice the Adidas of another slav. It's the traditional ethnic outfit of my people

watch the live video of cloud factory

Moving from piano to drums seems legit to me. It is just transitioning from one percussion instrument to another.

I think Vlad is left handed. And play with the right hand set.

They are double butt-end sticks

I don't play drums, just curious... I see drumers with a "big set up drums" like Nightwish or most of metal bands, and I can see that Vlad uses a "simple" set up, but for some reason it sounds "clear", how does it work? If this question does even make sense for you as a drumer hahaha

Tommy Lee is another drummer that plays piano, not comparing Vlad to Tommy lol

like 666

React to Eloy Casagrande - Means to an end kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mreVZqio0LbHdok.html