amazing

Retsina u mean

I don't know, It kinda sounds off, but, I don't know, It might be a Out of Tune Guitar, Just Slightly, I don't know, I'm not an Expert.

@@TheSageCookieuwu he's hitting the snare only on the 4th beat. Normal snares are on 2 and 4, sometimes only at 3. This doesn't mean he's off tempo, off tempo means he's playing faster or slower than everyone.

@@JawJX I was talking about the Guitar. smh

Look up “My pal Foot Foot” by The Shaggs. Closest we’re gonna get.

@@Bebe-hl1zx hahahaha! Way ahead of ya! A buddy of mine showed me them years ago. That band is rediculous!

Hahahhaaa! Rough, dude.😂

Fuck yeah😂

LOL!

even if you receive infinite amount of love and millions of dollar to do that?!

@@ariamehr3339 yeah.. It's his. Let him do what he wants. He owns it.

To be fair yeah, of I was playing the same set list for my whole life I’d just try to play each one completely differently

He cant fill

Vítor Martins people pay big money to hear their favorite songs from band, not fills from Lars lol

Probably exactly what went through his head

Ive seen a drummer screw up a Soundgarden song (easy ballad) after the band had played it LITERALLY every week for 4+ YEARS.

Seen a few of those drummers who miss the Snare and drop the sticks every 30 seconds. I would have took over but the bands were always playing terrible radio songs

In 1981, that's exactly what happened. Lars never played drums before Metallica, he originally wanted to be a pro tennis player.

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It literally makes zero sense for someone to play any instrument for as long as Lars and still suck ass.

You'd think after 40 years, he'd find his style. That is the beauty of Lars Ulrich.

@@europeanian4205 The beautiful thing is that he used to be really good but he somehow got worse

@@europeanian4205 pft Lars doesnt suck he's a pro drummer and been gigging for decades, some of you guys just take it to far Lars ain't the choppiest grooviest drummers drummer but he backed some legendary original songs and held it down with a legendary successful band. Thats more than most all of his haters have accomplished

One of the what?

@@wubonkald322 The joke that flew over your head

@@wubonkald322 one of the drummers.

Me too 😃😃

I'd also say that he is one of the drumers of the history.

You've gotta be a drummer to point that out lol. So true

lmfao

He knows adding kicks to the fills is surelly another point of failure.

Cracking up at "snare & toms broski"! lololol

Fuckin beat me to this comment

He doesn't practice or take lessons. No care about improvement.

@@suburbanindie Yeah he knows he can get away with it because he's Lars Ulrich. That's his thing.

so stupid

I like the songs they’re playing though

Shit it's very funny LoL

According to your math, I AM Lars.... *BASS SOLO TAKE ONE*

That is literally his skill level

Bahahahahahahahahaha so true

As a former high school jazz band drummer who hasn't touched a kit in 20ish years, I can confirm there are dozens of us, Lars included. Hell, I was staying in tempo with my finger drums on my desk watching this...

IVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOREVER

Lol nailed it

I was gonna say, I feel guilty watching this knowing I do a lot of similar stuff when I'm just jamming on an off day

Tube's Got Talent.

@@user-pz5bg3zz5g thats not a good thing

I later became a Rhythm Guitarist, which is when I figured out that the real drummer of Metallica was James.

@@user-ws7di2qo4t Lmao

When I was 9, Mr. T was my favorite actor. 😅

@@user-ws7di2qo4tto be fair, depending on how old you are now, he might have actually had it in him back when you were 9.

@@jams7781 Everyone here talking shit on Lars' drumming either isn't a drummer or is even more basic of a musician than Lars is. Most of these fills are mostly on, albeit most of them annoying to my tastes. Still on though. The quick cutting between clips definitely makes them stand out a lot more. Lot of arrogance here.

@@Explosivo11 Everyones got a hate boner for Lars, there's a place for more basic fills.

The only thing that is wrong with any of these fills is that some of them are noticeably out of tempo but that’s extremely common for drummers to do especially when not playing to a click. Lars gets a ton of completely unjustified hate. Yes he’s not technical like modern metal drummers but why would you expect him to do anything else than what he’s gotten good at?

While simplistic, a lot of the fills are fitting and actually a core component to the overall Metallica sound. Some are just bad and/or poorly played, though.

​@@Explosivo11these fills are poorly played or/and out of tempo. Furthermore the problem is not that these fills are simple, but that they mostly suck

I think he just stopped practicing some time in the 90s. Nowadays he's truely a shit musician and Metallica is weaker because of him

Lol, he's been forgetting how to play for years

Have any of you watched any of this years live stuff? He’s playing better than he has in years.

@@percrunner1433 Jk, Lars is a good drummer.

@@bxhrbr4940 …well let’s not get ahead of ourselves 🤣🤣🤣 He was definitely a beast on the first 5 albums, and he was pretty solid even up through St. Anger (his drums sounded like ass but his playing was actually great). It was right after st anger where things fell off.

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Therefore not on beat

Maybe has something to do with the value of the wah coin at the time?

I realized that when I played guitar hero Metallica on the drums, now I can’t unhear it ever again. Although it also made me realize how good he can be when he wants to.

Yeah he's quite versatile that way.

It's the Yellow Ledbetter syndrome.

@@gwarriorfromhell funny

Well Keith Moon did the same thing - difference is Keith was actually good.

hahahahahaahahahhahaahhahahaahahaahahhahaa

Thx you made my day

ayyooooo

I see what you did there.

James: What songs are we playing tonight?! Lars: Let me fill you in. Kirk: wah wah😜

Kudos to you Mr Turkentorque for best comment and definitely weirdest name.

oh, he definitely cannot

cthulhuuhuhuhu?

JAJAJJAJAJAJJAJAJAJAA

🤣 omg.

Unpredictable for sure

angry lars ulrich heeeey!! Lars it’s me! Lol

Needs more cowbell (?)

Those drum fills are the foundation of Metallica's sound! I wouldn't want it any other way.

Try to play fills only.

They represent america.. represents freedom. It cant all be the same, because then they arent different

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Okay. Wait.....you as a what????

Funnily enough. Deaf people enjoy music mostly for the rhythmic vibration. Meaning, deaf people would probably be MORE annoyed with Lars' drumming lol

@@mikaelthebard5068 😅😂 oh gosh

Mention an iconic part that a student can't play one week into lessons.

When are the drums the iconic part of any metallica song? He always plays the most boring beginner level rhythms that he could possibly get away with, at best he's decent enough to not be too big of a distraction from the actual iconic parts played by the rest of the band.

The drums on dyers eve are by far the best part of the song.

@@AlexDogwalker1234 the one right before the blackened harmony

​@@AlexDogwalker1234not even for whom the bell tolls parts can be played by beginners

someone apparently listened in on james' monitors in his ears that was playing at one of his sets and believe it or not all evidence actually points to james being the one who keeps the rhymth of the band, as in lars is following what james does and not the other way around

@@paddypenguin8895There’s history of dodgy timekeeping in metal bands as far back as Sabbath tho. Bill Ward played along with Geezer. He described himself as “a percussionist”.

😂😂😂👍

@@gm3043 Link, or it didn't happen.

@@user-sf7kl9uh7k One of modern metal's pivotal moments was the time Slipknot's Joey Jordison and Slayer's Dave Lombardo filled in for Lars Ulrich during Metallica's set at Download festival in 2004. Unable to appear due to a health emergency brought on by exhaustion, Ulrich's no-show left the band's set in doubt.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Nice

Damn hahahahaha savage

Underrated comment

LMAAAO SO GOOD

I don’t know why, but even as a non-drummer there’s something about his posture there that just seems off to me. He just looks so unbalanced and limp than other drummers I’ve seen live cams of.

don't forget danny carey and tommy aldridge, who is like 98978 years old and still has it.

@@susrev88 Great choices, Tool is one of my all time favorites.

@@OrphanMartian simon phillips too, there are a lot of absolutely great drummers (Ie musicians). scott travis from judas priest, marco minnemann. they're solid. tom hunting from exodus. see, i got carried away.

Lmao and yet their songs sound amazing.

@@susrev88 i think Marco minnemann is a bit better than "solid" lol but I get your point

Tbh lately he has been pretty good

He was actually amazing on their second and third albums

Live shows from 1986-1989 prove that he was once a good drummer, he was never the best but during those years he definetly could hold his own.

@@kalil4133 he was pretty good on ajfa too

I love you Mike M.

Maybe they're possessed by demons?

@@JiihaaS Dave mustaine did a blood pact & summoned the devil on their show. He was flying around the rafters... up by all them hockey and basketball banners.

Dead End I don’t ta think tatata he tata has t* AD tatatata D tatatatatata

@2 Other well I didn't think Lars would be staring at the ceiling for no reason unless there was something up there. It was the devil and Dave flying around the basketball & Hockey banners.. thanks for the thumbs up I appreciate that

I think Lars is trying to find the right beat from the ceiling.

4/4 doesn't say anything about tempo (it's a time signature), but yes

it's called a style

Was? 🤣

@@MichaelDionneDrummer For 10 minutes in the late 90s.

@@MichaelDionneDrummer "was" sounds right

Wait. He‘s a drummer?

that joke is also burnt.

It's a jazz improvisation. Lars has really evolved stylistically you see he's simply unpredictable.

@@leviathan3630 hahahahahaa

@@leviathan3630 lmao wat

Ur profile pic lmao

(Laughing)

oh what an original joke, congratulations

Underrated 😂

They actually have a very good drummer, named James Hetfield (who said once that he was playing playing drums on a guitar)

They are successful because of the period where Lars was actually good, when they released their best albums, not because of the last 30 years, so you're not really wrong 😅

@brugges he was never good honestly. Everyone else in Metallica is just so good, that it counterbalances Lars' terrible playing.

@@michaelzamora8056 "hE wAs nEvEr gOoD" stfu lmao. he absolutely was, cut the crap. And oh yeah... He still is good enough for Metallica. suck it.

That's what is odd. He seems to have NO idea he's not playing well. Indication he has an enormous ego.

of course he's having a good time. he doesn't have to play with lars.

Drum kit supplied by Dunning-Kruger

Because of him lol

@@mikerogers9387😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Rhythym

And looking hella lost all the time

@meow bastard Leave my basement room out of this would you?

And stand up as often as possible so the crowd can see you.

and after you the song ends, stand up and swipe your arm from left to right, expressing that you are done.

From the same creators of brr brr DENG

Oh how I lol'd

Lars during ride the lightning with china: CHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCH

i would agree but you made a no one joke so it's a no for me

I think the entire decade of the 2000’s up until 2012 might have been Lars’s worst period of drumming. The level of laziness and his inability to play his drum parts like the albums really shows in the time period. I did read somewhere that James and Kirk finally had a come to Jesus meeting with Lars’s live performances. After Metallica played the Glastonbury Festival a few years ago is when they told him he needs to tighten up. Lars literally and completely screwed up the timing of Creeping Death and played the first section of the song twice leaving James, Kirk, and Rob lost and confused. Luckily James being a good frontman and leader managed to save the performance and song without stopping and making it look too obvious. In Lars’s defense now, I think his live drumming has improved and is much better than it was back in the 2000’s and early 2010’s. Clearly his best days of drumming are long behind him but he has been doing a much better job since the release of 2016’s Hardwired to Self Destruct. What I find completely astonishing is that Kirk is the one making mistakes live by screwing up his guitar parts.

It’s also the fills

Yes. Exactly

The sloppiness and out of tempo come when he sits in the stool with his knees above his hipbones. It’s mechanically and physically impossible!

Agreed. I can't watch any of their live performances anymore because of his ability to completely kill the groove stone dead.

One of the recent ones I watched was TGTF from maybe three or four years back. It was horrific. Fluctuating tempo, rushed fills, and completely neglecting the drum flourishes that makes that song great. The comments were all positive though so I think I'm in the minority in finding it unlistenable.

HAHAHHAHA

hhahaahahahahahahahahahaahhahahahahaha a positive statement. you sir are intelligent. not like all the idiots how hate and dont know shit about music.

"Out of tempo"? Nah, you just don't understand his "Odd time signatures".. annnd, neither does anyone else..(Including, and perhaps especially Lars). 🤣

he's probably deaf too

mmmm

But if he hits the wrong notes accurately every time, does that mean he's doing something, right? So he just rewrote all the drum tracks for every Metallica song every single time he plays it? 🤔

hit the wrong notes ?? ... perhaps it's best you don't criticise drummers

​@@aussiesurfer805Drums have notes

@@user-py3py5sx2f Yeah I know mate, I was probably a little harsh with my words.. But we weren't watching a jazz quartet with a virtuoso drummer presenting his final arrangement for his PhD candidacy or the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra tuning up for a world performance at Royal Albert Hall.... It's a rock/metal band, where 99% of all drummers ain't arranging their drumming based upon the key signature and the selection of the correct note frequency from the chromatic scale. They're laying down a back beat for the most part and staying well away from the melody. Plus it's Lars, a little too much criticised for my liking, but he's not part of the

I love his playing. Please share one of your videos

hahahahhahaha damn that was a good one

Yeah. Imagine where they'd be with a better drummer. So held back.

@russell lane so in other words it's like being in an abusive relationship with a rich person

@russell lane money

Like Gene Simmons w kiss!! Take the easy road for a buck!! Lars needs a serious slap in the EGO! After which he'd suck his teeth for a half hour while making up excuses for the fact that he's a lousy drummer!! And he really always has been,,go back and listen to the old stuff,,,, nothing to write home about and it's only gotten worse!! All about the money.

The Fill That Should Not Be 😂🤣

He's so in between Time signatures its like hes playing right into the idea that he sucks but i bet this is just high brow jazz improv on display. I mean this IS a guy that sips champagne well selling art for millions of dollars okay. He's not dumb, he's... special. :)

@@wariokhabib245 that’s sad but true

Um desses vídeos é o primeiro que eu vi do Lars. Presumi que o que ele fazia era normal, e sinceramente até hoje gosto muito dele.

Hes misunderstood. This is free jazz with avant garde influences

Sounds like he was one of the better parts of that festival…

I can't play drums either but even i have some kind of understanding that I could probably play them better

@@jamesarmstrong88 I think he quit practicing and lost interest years ago. At least that's what I'm guessing.

@@jamesarmstrong88 I heard that Lars recorded song sections separately and they spliced it together like Frankenstein to sound coherent on And Justice For All

same

@@anthonyc1515I believe it bc he never plays his fills on blackened live and they’re so good his drumming on ajfa was insane

And you don't even play the drums yet, right? Lol !!

@@TurboGTO288 I do actually.

idk lars isnt a great technical drummer but his ability to make music is undeniable the reason why hes so successful get basically writes all of the songs

@@spaghettisauce445 correction, Lars helps to arrange the music ... most of it is written by the other members, first and foremost, one of the best lyricists ever ... James Hetfield. Without James, there would be no Metallica. Lars would go crawling back to Dave Mustaine without James.

Lars is famous because his parents were famous tennis players. They invested in this band. Money begets money. That's always how it worked.

lars is actually big jazz music fan for real. and i do think that influences his playing.

@Potato Man According to him , between kill em all and Ride the lightning he took drum lessons And thats why it improved a lot between both albums plus touring Also i think he really practiced then , just see the progression till 1989 .

Lol he has no ride cymbal

So he’s Ronald Shannon Jackson now?

Kairozart lol he couldn’t on his best day

The guys from BTBAM and Car Bomb have like half of his experience and still remember their crazy ass shit though. 😹

also, they way they recorded the black album: bar by bar and pieced them together. heavily edited

thats the first thing a beginner drummer does to impress - add random crashes and fills. i mean, what else is he gonna do to mask up the fact that he can't really drum? the problem is that this strategy actually works on most non musicians.

Its the best Metallica solo imo.

conner adams almost certainly

WHERES RIDE THE LIGHTNING???

Isn’t he the cutest😂

The fill at 2:23 is good that said . Vintage fashion 70's

Lmao

It’s a possibility! :o

Is this thing a copy pasta? Funny af 😂

LMAO he just sounds rusty tbh

@@jjhayaNope. - just the thought that popped into my thinkin’ meat.

Haha exactly!

My friends do that to me all the time. It's like I'm the only person they know who has drums it's irritating was hell

That's me! Thump thump thump crash bang bash!

Then your friend sells 50 million albums

that is why i got my own drumset... lol

David Nwokoye I’m only getting pissed when he is unnecessarily filling when playing slower songs like one/welcome home/ nothing else matters... kills the mood everytime

@@skinny_sam big facts though, his fills in nothing else matters are unnecessary

Sam Tanem yea that or when he plays over a solo like bruh it’s a solo for a reason

@@skinny_sam not necessary because on Slow songs you have more space

@@Nissardpertugiu if it would sound good at least tho

Lol

Accentuating the drunk in drunken grooves

Thats sound dope by the way

bro just put a different groove on for the fucks of it, it’s the tuning room.

dilla metal

He just wants to live in the moment.

agree and most drummers find it hard to follow his weird fills, i have a band back then our drummer has no problems with slayer songs but metallica gets him pretty heat up because of the unexpected fills that is not uniform to the next platform.

He's not abstractly bad.

@@renegadusunidos6151 i agree with that, sometimes live versions of songs get a bit weird, but i think for the most part they fit in a weird kind of way. it's just an out of the box way of playing, and i feel it gives life to a good majority of the songs live but in some cases it is out of wack.

No he’s bad

Lolz.. should make a profile Lars mouth... it's even funnier when he plays.

snare drum go brrrrrrrrrr popopopop

As a kid you'd hear from teachers/coaches etc that just showing up and being committed had more value than talent. They should use Lars as an example

Insane. Their songs sound amazing. Nobody cares about this.

I love it when nobodies say things like this.

Went from shredding with ozzy to Lars must’ve been a huge change😂

Hed probably try to kick them out if they said something

Yeah or despite his sloppy drumming he cooks really fine meth

He's one of the founding fathers of the band...

His talent is actually scouting other smaller bands and stealing their music

to me it is incredible how for years they bullied jason newstead, how lars fucked up and justice for all out of being shitty with the new guy, and still plays like this with confidence lmao

There are 5 yeear olds that can drum circles around Lars

It isn't always about being great.

And they will be working 9-5 jobs when they’re older instead of being a founder member of one of the biggest metal bands of all time.

@@JP-yc1wp Nobody cares if he got lucky lol

I've never played drums but I bet if you gave me a drum set and like 2 hours I could figure out a Metallica song at least 95% lol

He formed them, that's the only reason he's in the band at all. If he auditioned even a couple months after Hetfield and some other person formed Metallica, he would not have gotten the gig.

And its crazy how people defend him to the very end like hes some god. Its embarrassing lol

@@gagelindell271 “he’s part of metallica, so that means he’s good” LMAO

@@gagelindell271 He's a 16 year old metal garage band drummer with 45 years of experience.🤣

He isn't as good as he once was that's for sure

That was exactly what happened when Lombardo subbed in for them back in Downloads ages back. They were so used to Lars fucking up the Battery drum break but he dragged them back right in time.

Dumpster Player hahaha I was about to write the same thing! Most flagrant example out there haha 🤟🏼

@@dumpsterplayer5133 and same with Joey jordison

@@vltprn5820 Jordison was just playing unnecessary double bass all the time, just like Lars with the fills.

for real

Lots of people play like him, most people don't know that because it is only for a short period of time until they actually develop. I apologize to Lars if I am wrong but I seriously do not believe he is a good drummer nor a unique one, only thing outstanding about the guy is that he managed to keep playing like someone that just started drumming last month for decades now

Plenty of people play like him. They're mostly teenagers who piss off their bandmates by playing beyond their skill level just just for the sake of being "creative."

Totally agree dude. BTW I watch your videos sometimes in the morning-they’re recharging! But I do prefer listening to Lars in the evening:)

Lars Ulrich icon of Metallica members👍👍

STOCK to my ears

Fear of Status Quo

lol

This is so true it's not even funny. Love the comment bro.

This kinda implies he's super talented / very well-trained, it'd have to be рооr and uglу реорle saying lооks and mоnеy don't matter otherwise (as if they were соріng)

And you're so amazing at ??? The world wants to listen to you cus...??? That's right. You don't have anything the world wants to see or hear. Lars does. You don't.

@@stringingitalltogether5773 Just accept that you're don't know a thing about music and Lars is bad, please.

why does it matter that he's not ultimately good? he started the band, it's HIS band.

piece of art

Hey was rocking the George Carlin 😆

LMAO 😂

Maybe he should fill it.

I think he should shave it all off, grow a full beard, start working out and, of course, start practicing again! Either that or leave

Nope

Lol that's the most basic fill ever and is not even well performed

Cesar Zaffa it looks like Bonham triplets to me but I didn’t get a good look

Dude, are you a simpleton??

@@cesarzaffa3599 u know he's bad if a simple fill sounded good to people hahahah

He isn't staying in tempo that's the whole thing this video is criticizing