"Everytime I hear a fretless bass I imagine it's been played by a clown." Man... I had to pause and have a silent moment for what ever I used to imagine when I heard a fretless bass. A silent moment for the man, husband, a father that I used to be. I'm still having the silent moment as I am writing this and it feels like ages. I will never be the same. It's... the clowns... with... fretless bass... the clowns... with... help me... please...

Forever ruined fretless bass for me with this perfect analogy

the fretless bass clown was so good

I watched that bass part at 4:46 a hundred times haha, so good

Thx Craig i will never take fretless bass seriously again

Elliot Hoffman does a lot of those quintuplet "falling down the stairs" fills too.

10:40: "I'm in the woods... being chased--by a goblin, a ghoul."

"is this what Obscura sounds like now?" I've had so many of those moments, and yeah they sound fucking great

"im realizing late into my drumming career that it's absolutely fine to bend forwards...... and get pegged. NO um-" LMAO

I love Sebastian's jazz work as well. The song is an amazing display of skill; thanks for bringing him to our attention.

Don't ever apologize for adding cool tidbits about gear and the playing!

Sebastian is such a controlled and calculated player, absolute joy to watch.

Elliot Hoffman and Bobby Jarzombek for ultra fast pregnancy

I’ve always said a fretless bass sounds like a deaf person speaking as a fretted bass were someone who is not deaf speaking. If you can imagine the sounds

I had to watch the clown thing over and over again like 5 times.

Back in the late 1990es we had our rehearsal room next to Unknown Dimension, Sebastian's band back then. He was unreal even as a 14 year old. By the way, their bass player - Andie Heyer - was one year younger and pure awesomeness as well. Such a rare concentration of talent.

I appreciate how you appreciate technique and theory. The explaining of rudiments and description of YT comments turned me into a sub. Good shit.

A lot of people refer to that blast as the Dirk Blast, after Dirk Verbeuren. Pretty cool! And great video, always a joy to watch and listen to you, er, pauze!

I don't know how I found you, but I'm very glad I did. Keep it coming.

“Clown is coming to get you, the clown is comin”. 🤣🤣💀

The guy who just retired as the drummer of fleshgod apocolypse and became the singer .... he’s insane as hell

Sebastian is in a league of drumming Gods.His Tama set-up is not dissimilar to David Diepold’s (Existential Battle & Hymns playthroughs). Identical paint scheme even! P.S. David’s also in the aforementioned league.

Dude you are freaking hilarious, if the drum thing doesn’t pan out long term you should try some stand up comedy. Love the vids.

That fart sniffer button is wonderful. Sebastian rules and I appreciate the breakdown of the patterns here!

great video as always

11:29 That is the most sincere "Oh my god." I've ever heard

Sebastian is disgusting. Obscura are sick, and Panzerballett are nuts. Those 16th note gallops going foot to foot blow my mind, so instead of going RLR RLR RLR RLR he's going RLR LRL RLR LRL, clearly he's some kind of advanced life form!

Ha-ha, jokes on you... I watched zero ads. :)

do Baard playing "the sky is red"

Felt depressed, so I came back to watch clown bass explanation.

Just found your channel. I'm a drummer as well (not a great one lol) and I watch drum videos and have the same reactions as you lololol. I'm dying over here.

Did anyone else notice dude had his drum key in his snare the whole play through?! GOAT moves!!

that moment when you're doing the drinking game for every pause he does and you have to pause the vid yourself because you can't fucking keep up I love it

I love the description 😆

Holy fuck that fretless bass bit got me GOOD 💀

That "Aussie guy" is actually a kiwi

You should react to Alex Rudinger playing Ordinance: This Theory Repeating. Sick playing, and it makes you hate yourself a little more knowing he was 18 when he wrote it.

Rediculous! Sabastian Lancer is a sick talent. Hey Craig, I like that circus bass sound.

"I don't know what's happening here, I can't give you anything!" Spat my tea over my phone then. 🤣🤣

I was waiting for this very moment.

ALTERNATING galloping 16ths!!

I am still in the woods, being chased by that Goblin.

That 2 handed blast is one of Dirk Vebueren's main techniques.

Any reactions for the original drummer for sylosis, guy was such a beast man

Thanks Slim

"Good band though! Filled with clowns..." 😂😂😂😂Man, I know you said that with the sincerest appreciation and utmost respect for the band, but fuck, it was jokes... Lol love your channel.

Brother you cracked me up so much in this one i now have two distinct ass cracks

Great take on the fretless bass.. got the same feeling from Cynics first album back in the 90's.

I almost literally died from laughing at this Clown’s bass interpretation

Click this vid as i crack a beer. Little did i know we were playing a drinking game.

Holy fuck I was mind blown on so many parts of this. Didn't think I'd be into this band until I heard the drums

Veil of Maya - Visera playthrough please! :D

I fucking love these videos

Oh, he's going foot to foot!!

Already drank too much before watching you video. This was a great end to my night man. Respect. Not a drummer btw.

Heard alot of great stuff about the Acrolite snare and the Pork pie ones too

Quote of the year "Love me a pause"

There's is nothing like a good feed of chicken nuggets after a hards night on the piss, there's something so healing about the nugs aye, saying that mc Donalds nuggets don't seem to be soft or greasy enough to soak up the cocaine and alcohol.

Fart sniffing sound for SMS notification! xD

You should check out any Elliot Hoffman drum cam, that dude is so fucking sick

The death metal fretless bass sounds like a mix of a fart and the teacher from Charlie Brown

11:00 wouldn't say they were rushed, they are exactly with teh guirtar section there... i know why you'd think it though, but works in the fill

Also check out Sebastians playing in Panzerballet

I would love to hear your take on JoJo Mayer... specially his 2020 drumeo festival vid.

Did you edit some parts out? Anyway, love the reactions, keep them coming, i’ll give you that sweet ad-money anytime!

They do have a new bassist now. Wonder what he will bring to the table?

You gotta check out Gavin Harrison, his performance of Anesthetize or Threatening War is insane. if you want to see him live with his band Porcupine Tree I’d recommend Way Out of Here in Tilburg.

that bend forward and get pegged thrown in real fast joke, real nice

That fretless bass clown dis. Damn near fell off my chair hahaha

David Diepold is the new drummer of Obscura now. Both extremely fucking ridiculous drummers

Would love to see a reaction to Phil Dubois (Revocation) - The Blackest Reaches. An oldie, but most definitely a goodie

Mystical

"i'm in the woods, being chased by a goblin, or a ghoul" lmao

should have do a video on the Diluvium or Ten Sepiroth playthrough too

Don't know whether this verges into 'fart sniffer' territory or not, but I actually own a serpent ride that Derek used for a clinic tour!

You haven't seen nothing till you see Chris turner - trigger or 40 roll

Blake Richardson Obfuscation! you wont be disappointed

Clockworks drum cam.

And how I’m pretty sure David d is their drummer now

Yo this dude

also, the true Norwegian jazz metal thing was damn fckining funny! I am still laughing on that!

should’ve reacted to Sebastians play through of Sermon of the Seven Suns, modulations all over that song, absolutely disgusting.

I fear the baby voice

DUDE I FUCKING LOVE U LMFAO.

Please do a side project in pure baby voice only breaking into normal voice where formally appropriate

In all serious seriousness can I buy one of those snares mate 😂

If they're not genuinely in pain, it's fake. He in pain.

"You've obviously gone hehehe il watch it" yep yep correct, your click bait is the right kind

Hey man!!! Greetings from Brazil...react to Fernando Schaefer...an awesome brazilian drummer...he plays death and hardcore with such power, creativity and dinamic... Check out his work with The Silence...We still stand festa Billy Graziadei (Bio Hazard)...you rock bro...

When u say u don’t know wtf he is playing groups of three with the right hand

That was the Dirk blast i believe, he's got an old video up about it. Fart sniffaaahhh

The end tho 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

You’re in the way

FART SNIFFERS!!!

Yes a Death metal drummer you can lean and have to lean forwards to increase pressure.

Fretless bass is great but it has a tendancy to sound like a grumbling belly, the kind that precedes catastrophic bowel failure

troll voice = your actual voice

Najo ezmi

You should react to Oki Fadhlan - Jasad (Siliwangi) Drum playthrough 🤘🏿

You should react to that stick to the path band