Drummer REACTS to One Armed Drummer playing Slipknot's Duality

[@JackThomasDrummer]

Thank you for this man! You did a damn good job replicating my playing! Glad to hear you’re still kicking ass after your own adversities!

[@MalyanDrum]

Thank YOU so much man! What an inspiration you are. I've been binging a lot of your videos and have been astounded at your fluidity. Thank you for showing people that they can not only "get over" adversity, but truly thrive through it! All the respect to you!

[@Fortunecookielied]

After filming Jack for his KZbin Channel, there are two things I instantly noticed when editing the footage. 1, his posture is incredible...better than anyone I’ve seen and 2, the fact he was always smiling. This video highlights both of them. Thank you for a great breakdown.

[@primordial.sounds]

This guy does more with one arm than I could do with four! lmao Awesome spotlight on this talented and resilient dude!

[@DuffyLONER64]

You have four arms?

[@primordial.sounds]

@@DuffyLONER64 Not yet, saving up for the surgery! lol

[@dreamcatcher9085]

I loved this video and how genuine you are. I smiled whenever you smiled! Thanks!

[@dreamcatcher9085]

Oh and if you happen to go to my profile those videos are light-years from the past xD I have a SoundCloud with porly recorded stuff (studying to be a sound engineer just now), but anyway instagram: fenjamusic and shit I've forgotten the SoundCloud one...looking up... m.soundcloud.com/fenjamusic

[@Aaronek5]

Thank you Mike for this content.

[@thumb_bass_guy]

Awesome video man. Loving your content.

[@modernmartyr]

You are a killer man. Great video

[@HarperMattraw]

Incredible drumming in spite of everything! Stoked to see you making more of these kinds of videos too. Can't wait to see more!

[@liamjohnbyrne]

Dude that was mad

[@MsKraven4311]

That's insane! Love this drive he has... first saw your drumming in a collab with Troy... Glad to see you overcame your obstacles also!

[@brittanygarrison8030]

Yous are both very talented.

[@franlovelsimic8421]

Goes to show how commitment and willpower can get you through anything. Absolute unit that lad! Oh and I had no idea you played drums for Desource. Found about them today because it's release day and I snoop around to see what got released. Def check it out if you love hardcore meets djent type stuff you guys (and galls)!

[@christianfenton706]

Love this!

[@josepheovine4341]

Check out Rick Allan from Def Lepard lost his in 84 auoto acedant

[@soysauce9296]

I guess you could say... all he's got is INSANE? ....

[@Hartygan]

Inspiring! Ok so how many beats per minute does this guy have to do to be able to play this one handed?

[@DELTAdarke]

How your right crash hasn't cracked, makes me want to buy a pure alloy.

[@petebates6576]

Incredible. I admire the fact he's still doing what he loves and he's fucking awesome at it. You should check out the punk rock band Authority Zero, their guitarist has one arm and he totally shreds \m/

[@Sk8ndrummer963]

Insane! I wish you would have tried to replicate him with your left hand though..

[@MalyanDrum]

I did it for a second.. I just have all my main tones over on the right!

[@HronisArva]

💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@ryanmiles8056]

I’m not a drummer - I mean in my mind I am 😏.... but this is pretty damn inspiring for any obstacle anyone is trying to hurdle. I actually learned a little something not drums, and about life in general 🤙

[@publicprofilename4273]

So, I'm a drummer. I also happen to be legally blind. My visual acuity is 20/400- which in people speak means that if I were to be 20 foot from a sign, and a person with 20/20 vision were more than 400 foot away from the same sign, we'd see it the same way. I say more than 400 because of the little "-" at the end. The test doesn't go beyond 400 but my vision is lower than that. Now, I'm a decent drummer. I can say this, for the embarrasingly long time I've been playing, if I weren't what non drummers would consider "good" then I've sure wasted a bunch of time, and even more money for 30 something years now. Other things, I do and shouldn't. I'm a wood worker, with a nice wood shop full of every kind of ridiculous saw you can imagine. I even have the deadly "radial arm saw". Imagine a table saw turned inside out, where the blade is what moves, and the wood stays still. yeah... I call it the remove arm saw lol. Got all my limbs and digits fortunately. I've been a high end professional painter, hard wood flooring installer, and roofer. I've worked at a tire plant, where my job was to sit on a conveyer belt, much like the one Jack worked around I imagine. it ran between rows of tire presses, and I would on certain models, have to be at the press the instant the tire came out, to pull up on the center beed, so the sidewalls weren't caved in. I also had to keep the lines moving and cleared. I was the internet sales manager making around $2,000 a week, at a high volume car dealership. I started as a telemarketer, and sold so many cars, I ended up heading the entire internet department, in 4 months time with absolutely no prior experience. Yes, i miss that job lol. I went to college for computer programming, and did that for a while as well. I've owned a couple stores. A drum shop, a couple different antique and repurposed furniture and home decor stores, and currently a live edge wood store. I was a single dad with sole custody of myy daughter. I've never had a driver's license, but have always owned at least 1 car. I got gifted a project Chevy Suburban by me dad, who intended on me selling it as is, for a couple grand. Well, I decided one random day, I was just going to build the thing, since all the parts were there. I installed the new carpet, restored or replaced every single interior trim piece, and electrical componant, replaced every light with led or hid lighting, installed a new sound system, with 13 speakers, a big touchscreen deck, and a monitor in 4 headrests, so every passenger had their own screen, which was able to show 5 different things. I installed a heated 2nd row set of seats, and fabricated the power buttons for them, into existing knobs on the back of the center console controls for the rear climate/stereo. I'd changed a tire before that, maybe done an oil and air filter change, but other than that, nothing like it, which I can say about every thing listed so far. I went into it all blind "yup, i did that" and just sort of "fake it til ya make it" until I usualy ended up being the guy the boss left in charge when he was away, or just became the boss. My drumming though, that's the one thing I can truly say I am very good at doing. Wasn't always the case, as for us all, but I put the work in, hours and hours a day for years. This is pre ekit days too. My poor poor parents lol. My point is, these are all things, I'm not supposed to be able to do, let alone be proficiant at! A blind guy, can't even go get his customer's cars for test drives, runs the whole department, and is 3rd in line for general manager, at a 300+ cars sold a month dealership, after 4 months in the industry? A blind guy is the ONLY worker other than the company owner who is allowed to paint the clubhouse twice a year, at the 7 Eagles golf club, each time a week before the PGA tour plays there. A blind guy, who builds his own furniture, and get commisioned by people to build there's, or sells them out of his store. A blind guy who builds his own computers, and repairs everryone's electronics. A blind guy who with no prior knowlege or experience brought a big ass Suburban home on a flatbed, gutted to the frame, and in boxes turns it into one of the most beautiful and tech loaded 2003 GM big ass gas guzzler 254 passneger vehicles ever in that body style. My step son was horrbly upside down in a truck he got screwed on, so I gave it to him, and with it, he was able to get out from under that truck, with nothing tacked onto a different ride. Basically a shady car lot gave him $8500 for it in real money. Of course they said they gave him $15,000, but I know the real numbers, I used to inflate them myself lol. Oh, I've also accomplished these things, not only with the disadvantage of poor eyesight, but also, with a raging huge drug addiction to a drug that you become ill from every 8 to 12 hours wihtout it. That's a whole gang of issues in itself, plus the depression it caused due to the guilt of knowing how much I squandered because of the addiction. This whole self indulgent "look how cool I am" rambling forever back pat party I just threw myself was just to make a point. I've kinda forgotten that point, lost it about 6 chapters ago lmao. The point is, you CANNOT hold yourself back! Blind people don't use power saws. Says who? If I'd told myself that, then I'd never have discovered how fullfiling it is to turn a stump into a masterpiece "in the eyes of a very few select group of people with somewhat questionable taste lol". If I'd have listened to everyone who told me that jumping into that truck would be a monumental waste of time and money, well I'd have not lost so much time and money lol, but wouldn't have gotten "it" with regards to car guys. I totally see why they do it now. Looking at that thing, then at the before pics, I'm just like "I did that. Before it was a shell with a bunch of boxes of stuff stuffed inside, now it's a classy beautiful rolling piece of art. Using my Yukoburbiladeahoe as an example, I'd never installed carpet before, so didn't know to start from the center outward. I just started on the passenger side, and went to the driver's side. As a result, the hard plastic section that is supposed to be under the gas and brake pedals, is kind of just under the driver's seat halfway, and about 6 inches from the entry way trim piece "trim piece #24653 cost $42 color code 0703" but under a floor mat, not noticeable. I got discouraged at that point. I'd paid $400 for that carpet! I walked away, but came back a few days later, and mended things, and made it not even matter, becaue no one knew about it but me. That same scenareo happened a good 3 dozen times during that build. I have to remove all of the outer most interior panels probably 5 times total, and had to replace several retention clips each time. But I kept at it, because I loved what I was doing, and I loved the thought of being able to look at it, and say "i did this, even though by all rights, I should not have been able to." I'm 46 now, and somewehre along the way I lost that part of myself. Jaded, depressed, and self loathing i suppose. I lost my passion, until I ran across freakin Jake Thomas' videos on Drumeo. Jesus man, what the hell am I over here throwing myself this epic year long pity party for? If he can play Slipknot with one arm, what's my excuse? I understand what you meant by being somewhat concerned by that statement, but to me, that's the most powerful thing I've heard in years, and it's what has started me on the challenge of pulling my ass out of the dumpster fire, that my head has been lately. Thanks Jake, I needed you man. Yeah, i'm putting this on his original video.

[@lukamarkac6706]

Yeah whatever, no cowbell - 2/10 On a serious note, no words for that guy. Insane.