Pure Prodigy! I can't believe this kid's talent. I'm 65 years old with a 12 year old hero.

You nailed this video when you said “she’s one of the greatest drummers of all time “

Her skills are unrealistic but her smile at the end of each videos are adorable. Even when she was a little tot. She's the best

I honestly didn't think I would want to watch a 31 minute video on this incredible drummer. But I enjoyed every minute because of how brilliantly you summarized everything!

This will go down as THE official unofficial biography of Yoyoka's early career. Well done, @Wave!

I don't usually comment, but I have been following Yoyoka, and you, Wave, for a couple of years. ( I should call myself "Lurker"!) I am moved to comment this time because you have outdone yourself Wave. I am a rabid fan, a silent part of the "Yoyoka Army", and you have masterfully captured the essence of her career. I expect I will be watching it over and over! Thank you a thousand times for the number of times I expect I will be watching this in the future!

"The Hokkaido Hammer" I LOVE IT!

Yoyoka is currently my favorite musician in the world. How she doesn't have millions of subscribers is baffling to me. What a great and informative tribute to her career in progress. Seeing the tiny tot version of this drumming powerhouse brought tears to my eyes. I know that she'll go on to do greater and greater things but already miss that little tyke as we first met her. Long may she run. Thanks, Wave!

This was awesome 10/10 for this and I have watch it twice.

This particularly interests me as I was very early ground floor rock music in Japan. I was in the Navy in Japan in the very early nineteen sixties. I am a drummer still rocking pushing 80 yrs old. We formed a rock band and were very much in demand where ever we went. Rock music in Japan was very rare back then. We played in many clubs, resorts, etc. We had a blast. Loved the Japanese people and culture. What a great documentary. Amazing drummer and amazing documentation. Thanks. Japan and music definitely go together. Great musicians of all genres .

I'm glad I finally found this - thanks Potter, well done. As a former musician, what strikes me is the pure joy she experiences when in the flow of creating music with others - the heart and soul of a true musician. I can't help but grin when I think of Yoyoka playing. (And she's truly playing... not performing. She wouldn't know how to perform.)

Beside her obvious phenomenal talent as a drummer, I am just struck by the incredible joy that is inside her.

She’s great! I love to watch her when shes 8 and have to stand up to reach to silent the crash cymbal with her hand. So lovely.

I was lucky to spend 4 years in Japan in the 80s. There all school children did 110% + on there work, and to do this above is amazing!

She is tremendous and what a great story, thank you.

I just found Yoyoka's videos a couple days ago and was so blown away. I've been watching and wondering so much about her so I appreciate this great video. 👍

I've followed Yoyoka since the Good Times Bad Times video a few years back. As a drummer this kid is off the chart. Watching some of her recent covers you're left thinking "no 13 year old should be able to do this". All I can say is she better start rehearsing her drummers hall of fame acceptance speech. If there is such a thing as a drummers hall of fame she's a shoe-in. The kid is good. Seriously good!

This is such a great documentary. So much accomplished in her lifetime, and it's just the beginning! Thank you again, for putting this all together! Wave, Glen Black, and especially Rosie...such a wonderful supportive wife! You guys are the greatest!!!

Her talent seemed to explode after the Purdie Shuffle Toto cover. Most drummers I know mention how difficult that song is due to the complexity and dexterity required with every limb playing virtually a different rhythm pattern. But it's not just her ability to play complex patterns that's impressive, it's her maturity in playing what is right for the song not just every fill she knows. She is truly a one-in-a-million talent. Well done Wave, as always.

Thank you for your excellent documentary on Yoyoka. She is out of this world talented!! 👍👍👏👏👏

She certainly is a remarkable talent who has great feel .

What a great cover of her this is. You captured the spirit of what it is to be a musician. Yoyoka is just one of those that inspires.

I discovered Yoyoka 2 years ago, and as someone who struggles with depression, watching her play, grow and develop has been like a health tonic for me. I’ve learned so much about music and drumming by watching her. I’m a grateful and dedicated fan.

As I have stated before, she can fill in for any drummer in any band.

Wave, one of the first comments I left you is that your a natural on camera and on the mic. Good job, thoroughly enjoyed.

Wave hitting the next level with this one. Stretching the boundaries of what a reaction channel can be.

I came across this amazing and lovely young lady during lockdown and her drumming and wonderful smiles helped the days pass better. Can't wait to see where life takes her. Please come to the UK and tour soon. (Manchester please)

Wave I really enjoyed your docutribute, she is a joy and an inspiration to all of us. 🐰🥁🐰🥁🐰

Yoyoka brings tears to my eyes, whenever I watch her perform. She is also the cutest kid in the world.

Wow, great documentary you made your. Please keep your passion for music alive. Thank you

Shared the video ... Hope that a lot of parents are going to be inspired to put their kids into music... Thanks for this amazing job. And the Artist with a giant A, Yoyoka thanks for bringing me so much Joy and Life.

1st class deep dive documentary on Yoyoka Wave! Loved it! Ty for the time & effort! She will love this fantastic tribute! 🤙🏼

This is the best introductory video I've ever seen on youtube. I'm very happy because it's a wonderful yoyoka introductory video made by my respected Mr. Potter. This is really a great piece of permanent preservation. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you for making this recap of Yoyoka's achievements so far!! Man I didn't even have a dream when I was 12!!;)

A really good effort, Well done.! I think Yoyoka and the Soma family will love it.

I have exhausted all word on how much i love this family.

... no, thank YOU, Wave. This is brilliant and for me much awaited. I have craved to learn more about Yoyo-san and her extraordinary family. After all when you experience genius it opens your mind to all kinds of possibilities. The first Yoyoka video I watched (about 4-5 years ago) I went in search of because I had found the and watched the DJ+Robert Plant video... which without reservation - blew my tiny mind. I was hook, right then and there. Sitting there in my mundane life it was crystal clear to me - this kid is special. And the thing that nailed it for me was that she was having such a good time. I was like ...wOAH! look out this one is going to leave a mark. And yeah ... watching her broaden her skills and seeing the person she was becoming, was a tremendous privilege. Thank you so much for this Wave Potter. You put a smile on my face a mile wide, just like Yoyo-san does. And that is a good thing.

A excellent Pro Kid Percussionist to entertain us all in Honolulu,Hawaii,the Land of Aloha,50th State A.S.A.P. We have a Outdoor Venue places in Waikik,The Shelli and the University and Blaisdell Arena and Concert Hall. Note: I got my first kit at age #12.,and started on Led tunes,too.

It's not only Yoyoka, but it's very heartwarming to see so many very young musicians displaying such a skill and taste in good music. It gives hope that we can quickly overcome the current generation who's only skill is tiktok and instagram

My most emotional moment with Yoyoka was Ian Paice's reaction when he had tears in his eyes 😭 Thank you for this stirring documentary 🚀🥁🎸✨❤️

Goosebumps, man. Thank you so much for making this. It really drives home what a once-in-a-century talent she is shaping up to be.

You have done justice to a great drummer. She has a beautiful soul. Thanks for your dedication. ✌🏻😎

Thanks again Glen, Wave and Rosie! That was awesome!

Hokkaido Hammer. Beautiful!

Thanks to wave and glen for taking the considerable time to make this feature length video. I think I ended up here after seeing some numerous classic old hard rock. IT said 12th birthday session of what looks like seasoned sessions players. THanks I have a feeling I"ll be spending many hours at your web site here lookin for some quality music acts to follow, cheers

Yoyoka's parents are a key to her success! I call Yoyoka the "human metronome": her timing is perfect. She is in the US now: we are so lucky to have her! All the best Yoyoka!

Greetings from a fellow cheesehead🧀! Outstanding video. The care and dedication you put into this effort is abundantly clear throughout. Thank you so much and keep on keepin on my friend!

Absolutely epic Wave!

Yoyoka has the full and unending support and encouragement of her mother and father ( and even her little brother). Yes: she is amazing and talented! Very nice documentary! She is totally off the chart! If you dont already, watch her! Love you Yoyoka!

Excellent and heartfelt thanks guys.

Great video I've only just found yoyoka. And she is amazing. Really enjoyed watching this

This was a great video, thanks to Wave, Glen and everyone in the community, which should soon be the whole world.

OMG!!! What an amazing video of her😭Thank you Wave for everything you have done for her😭🙏

Hello Wave (and Glen). That was a truly excellent and heartfelt Yoyokamentary. I wish I had the financial ability to support more musicians but I focus all my available $ on Yoyoka now. You allude to Yoyoka's charm beyond her musical prowess, However, if you ever amend this video, many of us fans realize that she kept us sane over the last couple of years. She has been the most influential person in my own mental health struggles and as I have stated before, inspired me to take up the drums. There is not a day now that passes where I don't listen to several Yoyoka tunes. I thought I had scoured the entire Internet for all Yoyoka content, but you have some real gems in your video! Thank you and Glen for a fantastic effort!

She’s Amazing 😻 we all were blown away watching her do Good Times Bad Times.. it was clear from the start that she surpassed the ability of drummers 3X her age Truly a Prodigy

I have watched her Stray Cats video a thousand times. Can't get enough of it.

I'm not a drummer but it's obvious to me she is brilliantly talented. It all seems to come naturally for her.

Wow! What an awesome tribute! Great job Wave!

Very impressive, Wave! You really do her justice. Thank you for this. 👍🏻

It's rare that a musician will bring tears to my eyes, not just because of the power and beauty of a performance, but because of who they are. Yoyoka has had that effect on me MORE than once. Yoyoka is not only incredibly talented - especially for her age - but she is sweet, generous, charming, funny, brave, and inspiring, and so is deserving of this wonderful tribute. (Excellent work on this documentary, Wave and Glen!) Something tells me this won't be the LAST documentary on the amazing life and skills of of the great Yoyoka Soma.

Fantastic documentary! Thank you Wave!

Thank you for your time in making this video. I appreciate your kindness and humility. Your kindness to this young genius and your humility with regard to being inspired by her. Very rare and precious traits indeed. That makes you special.

Excellent video! Yoyoka is currently my favorite drummer. You are very talented as well Wave! This was very cool to see her accomplishments so far. Thanks for the time and effort you put into this documentary. Well done!

What a fantastic piece of work you guys put together there man. Absolutely love it. She is a special human being. This planet needs more of them. And yes. 'Sparkling' is really something special.

Wow..what a fantastic tribute documentary. I'm a fan of Yoyoka as well as you, Wave. Thank you Wave, Glen and Rosie for putting this all together. Greetings from Indonesia. ❤️

Great video about a terrific young drummer and who seems to be an even better person. To this day, no matter how excellent her new videos are, my favorite video of Yoyoka her cover of Rock This Town by the Stray Cats.

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A very big thank you Wave, for this excellent documentary you are really a very special person and I love your work. Thank you, thank you and thank you again.

NICE work Wave, really enjoyed it

Great video bro, this was epic, yoyoko I’d love you to come and perform in Tasmania 😊I think the Mona festival would be epic for you....Mona is a crazy art museum, your drums would be so epic at the festival🎉🎉🎉🎉

just found you today... through my admiration for andy .paak... wave i love what you are doing...you are a very good writer as well.

Wow, that was a great video. I've been watching Yoyoka's videos for the last 6 or 7 years and I'm a huge fan of hers. This video showed me a lot more of her that I didn't know. Thanks for making such a nice video of Yoyoka. Yoyoka is a superstar in the making and I'll be following her for the years to come.

Great job Wave and Glen! I meant to just watch a little of this, but ended up watching the whole thing because it was fascinating, well organized and well delivered. I am sure if I was a drummer, this would have been even more interesting.

Great job Wave! And thanks to Glen too for your contribution 👍

Great job Wave! Captivating without being gushing. Well done.

I see a Yoyoka video, it immediately gets clicked for viewing. I see a Wave video, it goes very high on my watch immediately list. Now I see a Wave-produced documentary about Yoyoka, what am I suppose to do? 😅 Jokes aside, this is an excellent documentary on the first 12 years of Yoyoka. It would be an absolute waste and travesty if it does not reach like every corner of the world of KZfaq. I'd be sending this to my friends, but that sounds like such a limited idea. If everyone would kindly forward this as much as possible and try to turn it viral, it might have a shot. Any other ideas are also welcome. Let's move this documentary forward people, pretty please with sugar on top!

Wow, Wave. This is an incredible tribute to an absolutely wonderful and talented soul. And I agree with you. She inspires me to want to be a better musician, too.

Thanks for blowing up this really special musician and all the good she’s doing in the world! Love all these young kids playing real music on real instruments! 🎸

Well done, thank you Wave!

Wow.....great video.....congratulations....and thanks

Thank you making this doc of my favorite drummer. I can't believe how many times I have been brought to tears, smiles, & just overall joy by watching her.

Beautiful job you did Wave. I especially liked the parts where it was obvious you were speaking from your heart based on your knowledge of Yoyoka and her music then later on having interacted with her and her family. It seemed at least half the video was in that emotional grateful style of yours which was very moving to hear and watch. Glenn Black thanks for getting the 10 pages of notes to Wave to get this fantastic tribute documentary rolling. And Wave is right , you guys do extremely well together in your symbiotic Half Brain modes. This effort was amazing from start to finish and an absolute joy to watch and take in. Beautiful👍👍👍👍🌄

Amazing work Wave and Glen (and Yoyoka!), this is so good.

_Responding to Wave and Glen:_ Thank you both! Glen and You have created a very wonderful Yoyoka retrospective. She is so prolific and eclectic, there's plenty to fill a documentary. It seems a little crazy to even _consider_ making a retrospective for a 12yo. Yet you two are fully justified! 🤔😃 I'll use links to this to encourage every YT channel who reacts to Yoyoka! 👍 I hope your Documentary helps her get more of the recognition she truly deserves. 👏 So, once again, Thanks to You, Glen and Rosie. ☮️

Very nice job putting this video together. Clearly you are more than "just" a talented multi-instrumentalist.

So excited all this great music will never end thanks to these talented kids. Unlike boomer parents who always told us not to do music because we would never be able to make a living at it. Sad I didn’t go for it anyway but wound up homeless in high school and working in offices instead of going to college, so we’re doing it now. I’m very inspired and learn much from watching these talented kids. Hope she does a band with Ellen. What talent! I’ll have to check out the drum course.

Yoyoka is a genius. Skater and Surfer Sky Brown and Yoyoka are two of youngest people ever sponsored by Nike. I believe she was sponsored by PEARL at maybe 9? Yoyoka has talent far beyond her years, and it's not hyperbolic to call her a genius drummer, one of the best in the world. I've subbed her KZfaq channel for years and watching her progression is just incredible. I ve commented multiple times on her channel about how great her family is, it's so cool they visited you. They had a live birthday celebration on her channel. What a sweet righteous family.

Great doco dude. I just love this amazing young musician. She has that special something - that musicality and feel that cannot be taught, plus the amazing skills she has developed through her immense body of work. Her latest instrumental composition Sparkling? is nothing short of amazing. When she does a Led Zep cover or any other band’s cover she totally breathes the character of the music and drummer - it is astonishing. I’ve been a fan for years and will be a lifelong fan.

Thanks for this. I also found my perceptions of her changed when I heard her play Rosanna. That wasn’t ordinary drumming and it wasn’t deliberately flashy, just difficult, complex, and extremely precise. She was already astounding but that’s when I realized I wasn’t listening to a kid here. This wasn’t prodigy drumming, it was adult drumming.

Gobsmacked! What an amazing young girl, truly a natural musician, but especially at one with a drum kit. Thanks for an amazing mini doc on Yokoya - I've finally been made aware of her. Incredible.

Thanks for putting this together, as it's fantastic to see so much of Yoyok's incredible journey in one video. You could've included a dozen other amazing covers she's done, most notably 'Speed King' by Deep Purple, which she absolutely nails, and 'Getting In Tune' by The Who, where she literally reincarnated Keith Moon. I've been following her development since around 2018 and I cried when I first heard 'Happy', which is always such a joyous song to listen to. Thanks again. We're all so priviledged to be witnessing the birth of a truly great rock legend. Cheers from the UK.

She reminds me so much of who I could be, if I were given half a chance, a more supportive family, and if had I stuck to my guns a little more closely. Fortunately, there's still time. Yoyoka is such an inspiration!

What can one say, Wave and Glen, for framing that portrait of technique and feel in such a wonderful video. It was packed full of Yoyoka history - all 12 years of it - as well as it being super entertaining. It was amazing to see two worlds collide when Yoyoka had the opportunity to visit you and you both got to play together. Two keepers of the sticks of difference cultures, ages and genders, and opposite ends of the world, sharing the same passion and creating a beautiful session. Thanks. It was a pleasure to watch.

Thank you for putting this video together, it was a BIG hit and I like the way you present her...excellent. I'm a sub to Yoyoka, love to watch her play, watched 250+ of her videos, some 20-30 times . Major credit to her mom and dad, they are parents of the decade IMO. Your reaction to Sparkling was a great inside into just how technical and musically talented Yoyoka is. I look forward to anything she puts out and hope one day soon I get to go to a concert where she is performing.

Your history of Yoyoka was so professional and informative. I also liked what she did with you, while she was in the US. Finding out that she could use funds for her worldwide endeavors and I checked out her merch. I noticed a big opportunity for her to monetize on her notoriety. Me being a nobody, I thought maybe you can take the credit, for recommending that she START putting out a numbered edition, colored glossy poster of herself w/autograph to her patreon and regular(non numbered & unsigned) posters on her merch sites and drum outlets around the world. Can you imagine the international demand for these posters. Imagine people selling her posters on Ebay. Imagine posters for every year of her life. Imagine, her 20th edition poster. Her autograph will be worth a lot of money down the line, along with her rabbit logo. Maybe she'll appreciate(?) your suggestion, if you show her any research on the industry, production costs, possible market distribution, demand and the possible future of the monetizing of her image. Of course the posters have gotta have her in action on the drums. What do you think? From my research I found; In 1976, Farrah Fawcett's swimsuit poster cost about $2 back then. Pro Arts made $12 million in revenue with $2 million in profit with Farrah's cut of 40% royalties or $800,000.. Adjusted for inflation, that's $3.6 million today. Yoyoka is not a cupcake, she's a unicorn. Why not have her posters become collectibles or anything that she signs. Of course, you'll probably have the signed editions protected by holograph stamps to prevent counterfeiters. That's why the patreon editions will cost a little more, along with rights of refusal for future editions. Maybe she could cut us in with signed posters. Even her sponsors can get in on the idea and increase her sponsorship contract. In closing, I like your streams and reactions. Rock on. steve

Great storytelling very inspiring how you matched your own background and experience against yoyoka' s

Oh man thanks for this! I’m a big Yoyoka fan. It was nice to see her drumming throughout the pandemic and she helped keep me sane! Ha!

Great job Wave!!! 👏

I hope she will see your docu soon. I'm convinced she will like it a lot.

Marvellous absolutely marvellous thanks for producing this video. Kudos to yourself and Yoyoka