this guy is the steve terry berry of drumming

Fun fact: Eric says good morning because he hasn’t slept since 2015.

Lars used to sound great back in the early 90's when he still cared. He got lazy and his mistakes are a result of not preparing and that is inexcusable.

Lars is counting money instead of beats

I like to imagine a show where James just keeps repeating “let justice be served! LET JUSTICE BE SERVED! let justice be served!”

"Why dont you try a more solid beat" 😭😅 pissing myself

Oh, and that part in Frayed Ends is 4/4 then 2/4 in the studio recording. with the two crashes on the 2/4. He just messed up the fill.

James Hetfield is the real drummer in that band, his time is so solid Lars can just fuck up without causing a major problem

Imagine joining the Marine Corps and spending all your money on chickens

Eric, I just wanted to let you know that I was going to give up trying to audion for a group. But after watching some of your videos I realized that if I gave up, I wouldn't ever get the chance to get in. So thank you for inspiring me to keep trying.

I love Metallica, I’ve seen them multiple times. I saw them in San Antonio, opened with Blackened, and the drums started without him being behind his kit. He caught up though. One of the funniest quotes I saw was: Interviewer to James: “How is it playing with the best drummer in rock?” His response “He’s not even the best drummer in the band.”

In Fail #4 he actually meant to do that measure of 2/4. It’s from the song Frayed Ends Of Sanity, he was actually pretty close to the original fill in that piece

This video reveals two things: 1)Eric Carr is going to become rich being on Lars' payroll as public relations expert 2) Eric Carr eats his boogers confirmed!

You are like the first person I’ve seen realise the “...and Justice for All” mistake wasn’t Lars’ fault. Although I do agree he could have kept playing.

You forgot to include all of St Anger

I highly doubt Lars is counting. Maybe he does and the Danish confuses him. All the ums are hard to count.

Day 10 of commenting till emc makes a gong hi-hat

I thought it was Steve T's video at first and was scared af when the video started

Something I learned with weird time signatures. any fill can help you recover. Then turn that recovery fill into its own thing you come back to

Your videos are always so entertaining, funny, accurate, interesting, and well produced! Thank you! :D

The problem with lars is he phoning it in . He makes up all his fills now . Stuff doesn't sound like the record anymore.

Fill from the fail #4 actually has that two 2/4 notes at the end originally, it's from The Frayed Ends of Sanity and it's pretty sick tbh, you should really check it out. Lars just screwed it up completely at this live performance, but time signatures were alright

Lmao when Lars messes up Nothing Else matters it looks like that dude in the sunglasses heard it and was disappointed

Theres far bigger issues with his drumming than most of that. Just missing a few snare hits, who cares its live drumming. The speeding up and changing tempo through his rolls are the bigger fails.

When he tried to fix the time signature of Frayed Ends I nearly died. He should listen to the original. It's gonna blow his head.

You're a legend! The analysis of fail number 6 was epic!

In number two.... I can’t believe he didn’t try to recover to avoid the train wreck. Holy crap.

you made me laugh man!!! loved it! great job on editing!!!

To Eric, if you've never watched 'Some Kind of Monster' in it's entirety, you are missing one of the greatest comedic achievements of the mid 2000's. I remember when it premiered, it had a theatrical run and everything. It's basically 2 hrs 30 minutes of Metallica breaking up, having relationship therapy (via a therapist who works mostly with NFL players on the same team who can't get along), they kick Jason Newsted out of the band just for wanting to have a little side project, Lars wears a bathrobe and screams one inch away from people's faces for most of the runtime and James can't come to band practice for more than 4 hrs a day because reasons. Kirk and Rob come off as perfectly rational, reasonable guys (the band probably wouldn't function at all without them) in the middle of a crazy shitstorm of ego, but I'm telling you, it's comedy gold. The particular clip you edited from that movie is extra funny when you realize the context. They said they wanted to go back to their "garage roots", so they rented out the entire Golden Gate presidio complex outside of San Francisco and filled it with piles of top tier equipment, and after like several months of trying to write in there, they literally get nothing out of it (it's all as bad or worse than what they play in your clip) and then I'm pretty sure James ends up having to go to rehab for a whole year, so then the camera crew has to fill a gap in runtime by interviewing Lars in a bathrobe about his weird art collection and having Dave Mustaine confront him about kicking him out of the band 20 years earlier. Thats in the first 25% of this fucking thing 😆. It's really worth a watch, you will cringe, but you will also laugh your ass off. You could probably do an entire series of videos like this based on every "jam session" they do in the movie. It's all based on the creation of probably one of the worst albums they've ever done, St Anger, and I honestly don't know why they wanted the whole world to see it. It is certainly some kind of monster.

Sometimes life makes sense. Like when Eric makes a video about Lars Ulrich. I would bug my dad as a teenager all the time when I was obsessed with Lars and show him videos telling him he was the best drummer in the world. My dad is not a musician at all, but even he would look at me like he was worried about my sanity. I've come to appreciate Lars more with age, but I've also come to realize his limitations and yeah... I'm not sure where I'm going with this... kind of like Lars's fills! 😅 Thanks for the video Eric!

never so early before!! HECK YEAH. how are you today Eric? good, I hope? love your content

Imagine what they have to do in the studio..splicing, punch ins etc

Having recently found your channel, I have come to the realization that you sir, are a genius.

We need a full 2 hour video of you fixing st anger

I didn’t think someone would do this I’m so happy thank you Eric I’ve been watching a lot of his fails recently haha

Amazing editing! Nice job!!!

6:13 I had to double check since the 2/4 measure sounded right to me. Those two beats are in the original and they are after a measure of 4/4. It seems like he maybe just forgot how the fill went, causing the weird rests.

Lars' drum skill is somewhere between toddler and Meg White

That frayed ends fix earned my like, I laughed hard man, great job

lars is literally on my pc screensaver and this pops up...

A guy I went to high school with once wrote an essay on why it should be socially acceptable and perhaps even encouraged for people to pick their noses in public. Sure wish I could remember the details of it! He was an interesting guy.

I thought “One” would be in here somewhere as Lars always screws the pooch on the sixtuplets.

Really entertaining and well-edited video

As others have said, you made #4 worse. The time signature wasn't the problem, just that Lars screwed the fill up badly.

Lars need this guy to edit all of his videos

After watching this, I had to go watch Danny Carey to cleanse my soul...

I've watched 2 of your videos. They have been entertaining, but not a commercial per minute entertaining.

You’re a fricking wizard!! Your mastery and knowledge is amazing.

You’re a huge dork, and I love it. I watch all the way through every ad to show support. I didn’t do drumline, but my wife did... so I make her watch all the parts that make me giggle.

This is just Eric flexing his editing skills

Also in the third measure of the first solo there should be a diddle on the first note in the second triplet.

I remember watching fail 3 .. and the 1st couple beats i understood what groove he was after. Needed more foot work with those odd snares. Creating tension and unresolved. Id bet if he wouldn't have been discouraged so quickly under the scrutiny of filming he would have figured it out. Brought it full circle and locked it in.

That part of Justice isn't in 7/4. It's in 4/4 with the occasional bar of 2/4.

You should edit his parts in the studio from now on

The best thing about the Frayed Ends fill is the drum fill he recorded was easier then what he played in that clip 😂

Ok. Just the title of this vid itself is gonna get this to like million views

When I first saw the name Metallica; I thought it was pronounced "Metal Lica."

Actually, the 4th fail is NOT a fail (at least from the technical point of view). The additional 2/4 bar with 2 quarter-notes DOES appear on the studio recording of Frayed Ends....I've got to admit though, the rest of the fill WAS quite sloppy :P

Loving your channel!!

I saw someone say on a comment section of one of the fail compilations that Lars is what happens when you don’t practice, you don’t try to improve and you never took or you stopped taking lessons. I also believe someone said he had a lot of balls to say that James or Kirk were inventing the same or similar riffs when Lars was one to basically only play one type of beat.

i challenge all the drummers of the world to try to replicate the ''odd'' Larsian fills!

Lars is an incredibly musical drummer that influenced many a young drummer in the 80s especially. When I heard Ride The Lightning for the first time in 1984, I was blown away. I had never heard a drummer play like that. I mean... the entire band was killer, but Lars's parts were so musical. He's an extremely talented composer of songs, and though his drums are almost always (even in the early days) pasted together from parts... the composition of those early songs was amazing. He was a huge influence on my drumming, and he deserves credit where credit is due. Also... when I saw them on the MOP tour... his drumming was far better than it was after Cliff's death. I think that may have taken some of the steam out of him, and he kinda gave up on practice.

on the second fail the band played the pick up (the last 3 beats of the 7/4) so would they be fine ?

I see what you did there, EMC. The placement of that elephant's hiney over that suspiciously poop-looking splotch on your background image. Very cheeky, Marine. ;-)

The fill at the the end of that section in Frayed Ends of Sanity does have a 6 beat pulse through it. Whether it's 6/4 or 12/8 or simply starts by completing a bar of 4/4, I'm not certain unless I go back and listen to it in context. However, the atrocity that you turned it into gave me a headache. Hahahahaha Also, missing an eighth note triplet fill in Am I Evil?, that he has played 1000+ times, is an 8/10 because of how lame it is to miss that simple of a fill. AND ANOTHER THING!! LOL Justice is a 2 bars of 4/4 followed by a bar of 6/4. It actually appears that the band came in an entire measure early and it turned Lars' brain completely off.

I'm glad you address the elephant in the room

Good job on the video man hahaha

The frayed ends of sanity fill i think that became more strange after the change lol, but it's because im listening to this song my whole life

So for Fail #3, Lars admitted he's sick of playing the same old rock beats that he's been doing for decades. He was trying something new and different and yes it failed but give the guy credit for having the courage to step out of his comfort zone. The problem is he's been in his comfort zone so long he has no ability to do anything outside it. Take the band Phish and their insane drummer Jon Fishman - countless examples of a drummer who can experiment with different beat/measures and make it sound excellent. Mound. Walls of the Cave. Anything from the 90's. It's crazy complicated stuff. Has he every screwed up whilst playing live? No. Because he's not from planet earth.

Hey buddy, thanks for using my edited version at 0:58

Also on the sixth measure of the first solo there should be a diddle on the first triplet

You should've watched some performances of "One" and then compared it to the recording on the album, his rushing there is unmatched

st. anger will never be fixed

I have a challenge for you Eric: analyse Danny Carey playing pneuma live. (And maybe transcribe some of it I’m desperate help me)

Covid self practice test hahahaha.. that definitely makes my day bro

I appreciate how at 8:33 the blobs on the Fail Score board make perfect elephant poop.

I agree that mistakes can happen live, but you don't see these kinds of mistakes from Nicko (IM), Scott (JP) or Phil Rudd.

It is impossible to fix all of Lars' fails. And I say this as a fan of his since 1986.

i really thought that you were stevie t until like half of the video LMFAOAOAOAOAOAOOA

Genius!!! New follower here!

I’m a huge Metallica fan, but even I can say that Lars can screw up big from time to time.

You NEED to check out Neil Peart. Greatest drummer of all time

This is a great video!!

this video is basically the best example of Bethesda's game and how their mod community fix the bug. Thumbs up for the elephants !

I was the 69th like and at the time of the 69th like there were no dislikes.

Lars is genuinely awful. It's like he's never even really tried, or cared

The footage of elephants during Nothing Else Matters made everything else seem irrelephant 😂

So nice to fix all his FLUBS! ... Oh, and nice Christmas Tree outside your window! 🎄🎅🤶🎄

It is beyond me how a Drummer who is that bad can still play in one of the most succesful bands in the world, Lars is just a joke at this time.

6:16 that measure of 2/4 is intentional and in the original record

You HAVE to watch Some Kind of Monster. So unintentionally funny

Somehow KZfaq only just flagged this video on my feed, but better late than never, video gave me a great laugh.

Plz rate Slipknot or try playing one of their songs

Lars Ulrich is like the guy in a band that is really bad, but because he is your friend you don't want to tell him that he should find another hobby.

Finished to this. Thanks, pal.

I recognize that “stock footage” from Slipknots show at the download festival in 2009 😂

Lars is the only drummer I know of who gets worse over time. Its like, I know youre a millionaire dude but how about practicing?

I honestly clicked on this thinking is was Stevie T.

The fail #3 is a prototype version of the Some Kind of Monster beat, although is only used at 4 and not the entire time like he did in here

Love the amount of effort on these videos man! Great job!