Lmao that's gold

Brilliant!

Hahahaha awesome

What a horrible joke. Made me laugh.

This comment is legendary 🙌

Yea I couldn’t agree more, this is an epic opener and really an eye into the album as a whole. Such crisp sound and amazing musicianship displayed.

It’s perfect it was meant to be number 1 on the album

yes!and to me it gave some great context to monomyth. transition was smooth

It really is!

Agreed

"Giving it away" is the sign of someone who's a legit master at their craft. Us mere mortals feel like "giving it away" is just "giving up your secrets," because we feel like we're "competing" with each other (and to be fair, some of us are). But Matt really has nothing to lose and everything to gain here. It's more nuanced than this, but at the most basic level, transcription is practice. It's more "seat time" on the drums, more thinking about playing, more visualizing. At a higher level, he's leaving an artistic legacy to be studied and analyzed for years. At the highest level, he's promoting good technique and artistry and pushing and inspiring others who will follow to make better music.

@@daedalus_20v agreed, it’s awesome how the best player I’ve ever seen isn’t one who just makes people want to quit with how good he is - because he encourages people to try it themselves by making lessons and transcriptions available, as well as just being a generally down to earth seeming guy. I’m sure it helps that from my outside perspective, guys in bands like AAL seem to be the perfect level of “famous” where they’re revered as legends by their fans, but it’s a generally niche audience so you can still live your life without getting bogged down by it. Everyone handles it differently I’m sure, but I’d bet that helps with still caring about helping your audience succeed. We also can’t act like he doesn’t profit from it, lol. But even still, it feels like most great players can’t be bothered to do that.

I would not be the drummer I am today if he didn’t educate how he does. I’m definitely not aiming to be a copycat of Matt, but man is his playing style just so over-the-walls insane with so much information. I’ve learned so much about drums just from studying his playing. Please keep educating Matt, you’re an inspiration to so many.

@@zeusthedrumlord547 He makes money from it, sure, but even masters gotta eat lol! Put another way, I certainly don't think he's doing it to "get rich" (not that that's what you were implying, of course). For real though I _want_ artists like Matt, Tosin, Javier, Ichika, Tim, etc. to be so financially stable and comfortable they don't even think about it and can just focus 100% on their craft. I'm in a different creative industry (film), but financial anxiety makes it _real_ hard to maintain that "vibe" sometimes.

Well said! We are fortunate that he is as passionate about teaching as he is as playing. His material will be appreciated and used long into the future.

I’m a big fan of AAL and Garstka, but listen to The Wormhole Experience. The drummer - Valerio Lucantoni is even better. Pure genius! I’ll give you an example: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLWAYNRkq53Qeac.html He is the next Donati.

If we're talking about technical-level here, I'd argue there's a few that could compete. Alex Rudinger with Intronaut; Luke Holland with Jason Richardson's music; Aric Improta with Night Verses; and Troy Wright and Chris Allison with Plini. I'd even throw Jay Postones in there from Tesseract. All these guys are at the top of their league though and they could all probably play each other's music backwards. I love this whole generation of drummers.

@@thebuttersqiud8912 trow Baard Kolstad in there too please 🙌

@@thebuttersqiud8912 *Chris Turner enter the chat*

@@thebuttersqiud8912 Hilarious, Luke cannot comprehend half of Matt's technique and maths. The others I can see but not Luke. Not yet at least. He had a hard time playing an old AAL back then and I can't even imagine him playing the most intricate pieces that Matt has written recently like this one.

I'm glad YOU recognize that as a guitar player. I'm a drummer of 25+ years and sometimes my guitarists wouldn't understand the complexities of drumming. Translation from guitars to drums is way different.

The same goes for me as a drummer. Matt's playing is on another level for us mere mortals but Tosin and Javier are up there as well. Their playing is something no one could have ever come up with, in the same vein as Hendrix or EVH being innovators of the guitar in their time.

Yes! I feel that way about Gestaltzerfall too

Yes! This one feels kinda different than the rest, my favorite for sure

The Joy of Motion, having more of the big clean, ambient melodies in the background make for a less grating listen than the tunes where the D&B/EDM stuff is going full blast. I liked that stuff for a bit as a kid, now I'm more or less just totally turned off by it after maybe 10/15 min. Some of that is subjective, but I can't be the only listener who finds that sound to be a bit much sans the chemical alteration that is appeals to.

Right, same feelings

that was so cool to see. looks like he hits the hi hat with his left hand when his right foot hits so when he hits the next one on his left foot he can close it for the mute

First thing I did was say out loud "you son of a bitch" when I noticed that.

Noticed this too! Not something you see very often.

@@djentrification1631 he does this on some fills in kascade too I think

His switch to dw is paying off, melodically, of course, as he has mentioned!👌

Your ears are fucked. This is one of the worst recordings I've heard in a while. Just sounds like paper slaps.

Definitely loving this DW kit over the Tama.

Did they have these new song down pretty well? That’s awesome, I’m seeing them 4/18

@@danielprzyojskijr.2022 yeah , they sounded really good. Practically the same as the album.

@@danielprzyojskijr.2022 yes, for sure. It was a clinic.

Anyone that says there's no groove clearly lacks the musical intelligence to comprehend what's going on here. There's grooves on top of grooves and it's all layered in a beautiful and calculated way.

​@@FrozenSparkyno joke I saw a boomer comment that on one of his posts on Instagram, he got cooked by everybody afterwards

​@@FrozenSparkythe "this really good but maybe a little groove will help ya?

more... there must be more... more

Its not helping my fever

There's only one prescription!

Why you gotta say throbbing bruh

@@omukssbm because i`m not the one with wishful thinking ;)

Not trying to be negative or troll, but he’s not doing heel toe. Ankles and hips. He’s not doing double strokes in this song. Heel toe is used for doubles and hi hat splashing.

@@mathewreed818 dropping the whole foot with your hip then snapping with the ankle for the second hit is taught as heel toe commonly, it’s a different term for the same thing. Very few to no professionals that I’ve seen actually do “heel toe” in the sense that you’re saying because the heel hits are weak sauce. Maybe only people who use triggers but I think that’s even uncommon in that regard.

could you be talking about him bridging his left foot to hit both the left kick and the close the hi-hat at the same time? like the whole stack section starting at 1:19? if so, I agree 100%!

@@mathewreed818 yeah what Jed said is more what I mean, just the whole technique applied between the hi hit and left kick is incredible

@@zeusthedrumlord547 I've never heard that. That's called "heel up" technique. Heel toe is specifically the heel-toe action that produces a double stroke in a single motion. If you think they're weak, you should look into the scores of professionals who've mastered it and see what you find. Its come a long way. Matt certainly isnt using the technique here, except for maybe a few isolated doubles. None the less, they're two entirely different techniques, applications, and references and they dont really have the same name. Heel up and heel toe are completely different.

Bro I would cry 😂

It's a really moving piece. I'm sure he'll get to it and it will be breathtaking.

@@Iamcrago I would cry too 😂 love that track

@@Mr3ff yeah man hopefully, I need to see how a human can cover that song in total perfection, and the only one for sure is Mr. Perfection Garstka

He did a play through for every song on the album so it will be released eventually

Here you go: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j-CSprxnva66p3k.html&t

@@cilionheart cymbals. Thank you tho

Temporal Cymbals: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rMyjfd1knb-qc4E.html&t

How was the rest of the concert, bro?