Meinl Cymbals - Derek Roddy - "Ordovician"

[@zooby11isbambam]

Derek roddy still showing the youngsters how it’s done 🤘🏽

[@seitsen]

Is it just me or has Derek Roddy upped the interestingness of his drum arrangements by, like, 200 % in just these recent years?

[@Godless1369]

The raw facial expressions of Derek Roddy is enough to tell you how much he enjoys his craft. \m/

[@VladShpiro]

Derek puts as many notes in this one piece as I haven't yet in my entire life, cheers

[@GuidoPerdomo]

damn love how seamless his switch of blast beats between right and left hand is.

[@gp19]

Dear Meinl, we know you are a cymbal company, but a foot cam wouldn't have killed you ;_;

[@treefrog3560]

I know right!

[@vacateistheword]

Watching Derek play is like coming home. Reminds me of the days when I was a long haired college kid smoking up and tripping on Derek’s drum solos, his work on Black Seeds of Vengeance and some other sick stuff like Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel and Obituary. Good old Tampa Bay !

[@OldStudentNS]

I love watching this guy play! Had the. Bance to meet him. Incredibly cool dude!

[@lucekthesatan4690]

I'm a simple man, I see Mr. Derek blasting, I leave like :D

[@Sickdrummermagazine]

Some great cymbal work in there, but especially from 2:30 - 2:50.... Hey Man!

[@DerekRoddyDrummer]

hey man!!!!!

[@luciferincestus]

FUCK YES, DEREK! We need an album of this stuff!

[@Rafa8189]

Monster of blast beats, amazing drummer !!

[@KRIMHDrummer]

That's how you play death metal!

[@BionicleSaurus]

There seems to be a severe lack of foot-cam in this video.

[@kylezehtabi5452]

BionicleSaurus he's advertising cymbals

[@KateKuziakina]

amazing drumming :) And yes, very beautiful cymbals :)

[@olavvandenhogen5951]

Still one of the best out there...would have been great if he commanded the Morbid Angel drumthrone ;)

[@alairhatatlantortenelem]

I think this is even better.

[@davidcaminatalandriel5341]

Excelente como siempre! Motivación absoluta para seguir progresando!!

[@kaiul2967]

Derek is the happiest looking extreme metal drummer while playing and it's somewhat comical in a way but awesome!

[@danbilotto7785]

Derek is still my favorite! a legend!

[@MusaTariq25]

Finally, a Derek Roddy vid! Been looking forward to it. This ruled.

[@JoanElPeruDrummer]

The quality of sound and video are really nice, awesome Derek!!

[@jonesy3663]

Love this guy! Always so damn happy when he plays!. I'm kinda wishing I had stuck with my byzance instead of switching to 18" mb20 medium heavy crashes now!

[@TheSunMoon]

He looks like a kindergarten teacher who goes "Hey kids, wanna learn some blast beats?"

[@GGDrummer]

Sensational Derek!! Great job. Congrats Meinl

[@keyringer]

Derek is a monster on the drums! Love the kit.

[@petetherock9900]

Tech perfection. & cool cymbals. . . Derek rules. . . Rock On!

[@Erix77]

Nobody blasts like Roddy👊 Sure there are fadter drummers out there, but Roddys internal dynamics in his blast beats is so on point, the energy is like nothing else🤌

[@barad-dur9236]

His blasts have a very distinct sound, for sure

[@darrenfeelgreat]

Who wants to bet he only needed one take?

[@BuHeTy]

Mr. One Take :)

[@miguelelasmar]

Holy Guacamoly D. Somehow you manage to out-do yourself everytime. Great stuff brother.

[@ARDrummer]

Amazing drummer!

[@iandubson2305]

Three words: Hell fucking yes!

[@WhelanDrums]

Agreed Ian. Amazing performance!

[@catslikethief]

Man he's hell of a beast!!

[@robertomontes3416]

Mega nice job! Awesome!!

[@swaggyp1219]

Louis like a drum set most people couldn't afford

[@rizalnurrokhim8159]

the master is back!

[@23ograin53]

Roddy should be the most in-demand metal drummer on the planet. Not only for his technical ability but because his drumming is so freakin tasteful and inventive. I feel the same about Dirk Verbeuren and Van Williams (Nevermore).

[@allanyoltic5691]

I have been missing new videos from Derek Roddy, not too common since years ago

[@drumrnva]

That was just sick.

[@SylarTheBest]

The way he says "Byzance" ... *eye twitch* :)

[@spacegaiden]

I love seeing the fingerprints where he cymbal choked

[@whiteprivilege2665]

DerekRoddy straight killed it!

[@RIKDDY]

Brother is inhaling gulps of air. I was watching his drumeo on breathing techniques. In 4 bars, Out 4 bars. And hydrate!

[@Philtoid]

still one of the best

[@rogerivy2919]

Those Cymbals!!!!

[@atopermusic]

0:50 creepy sound man lurking

[@BeniTheKid]

Is it because I have a cold or does the guitar sounds too muffled? Great Drumming btw

[@RScottJohnson]

Hey brother! Sounds good and looks good.

[@TheManglerPolishDeathMetal]

Great drummer

[@SamirMamude]

Phenomenal!

[@sowelldon]

My God this brother here is sick.! Wow

[@SimoneArcOndAPiras]

Grandioso!!!!

[@macdrummer4984]

glad he didn't join Dream Theater :) huge inspiration and a great person !

[@zgabiz95]

Mac Drummer kinda glad too, he would do so much good for Dream Theater they would sound completely different with Derek as a drummer (in a good way), but would alienate most of the Squimish fans. Maybe i'd even like Dream theater if they'd accept him as part of the band.

[@j.d.7208]

He doesn't fit their style at all and was unable to play their complex odd time signatures so speed his impressive as hell but just one peice of the pie Mike the master Mangini was clearly the best

[@marcofrassini9172]

@@j.d.7208 I love Derek but I Kinda agree with you. Derek, thomas Lang, Mike Mangini, Virgil Donati, Marco Minneman, they all were great drummer but I think Mangini was the best choice. Don't me wrong, I think that Derek is a phenomenal drummer but I don't see his style fitting dream thetare very well, not as Mangini's. Speed and odd times are two different "difficulties" on the drum.

[@j.d.7208]

@@marcofrassini9172 right on there were a lot of phenomenal talent at that audition I'm so glad Mangini won I absolutely love his style, enthusiasm , work ethic, and virtuosity

[@metallicaguy123]

zgabiz95 dream theater was too much for him to handle, as evident in the drummer auditions

[@RenoSanada]

Kereen 🤘

[@MirkkoDeMaio]

awesome!

[@WorldSoundTraveler]

What band and album is this song from?

[@i.kaminskiy7563]

MONSTER!!! \m/

[@alifionarendra7960]

What a fucking beast!

[@Styzer.]

good old beast derek

[@_ahimsa_]

Master!! 🤘

[@markjackson785]

Monstrous...

[@attilagal6672]

My wife says her favourite bit was just that little stop.

[@scruffydanny]

Wow!

[@alairhatatlantortenelem]

Master

[@struhanykvolodymyr9852]

Fuck, it's amazing!

[@rpetersky]

sounds good :)

[@waynetaylor7886]

Miss you in Columbia nothing but little girl music guitar players with bracelets that don't heart it

[@paulspointofview]

Fucking awesome!

[@adsonricardo5331]

MONSTER!

[@parcoforer3335]

Meinl rules !

[@cristianchavez8712]

2:14 simple bass and floor tom!

[@swaggyp1219]

When you get a new drum set addition

[@johncrouch3119]

I really wish he would have hooked up with more bands after Nile. His work with them is some of my favorite drumming of all time and his youtube stuff is always fun , but really Hate Eternal never really moved me in general.

[@Lycanthony1]

If you like death metal, check out his work on Malevolent creation"s "In cold blood" album (first gravity blast in DM history on Nocturnal Overlord), "Redemption" by Divine Empire, all Serpents Rise album and Revealing Damnation by COuncil of the Fallen. His live work with Nader Sadek is great too !

[@rodrigosarmiento7136]

God! 🙌🏼

[@GorcStew]

Holy Hell :o

[@swaggyp1219]

Cool though

[@mrtc29]

Evans?

[@CapellaOnDrums]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@pvhep4036]

Ordovician? OrdoVICIOUS!!!

[@AlexanderBlastBeats]

This has heavy nods to Decrepit Birth's - "Hieroglyphic" song.

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

let byzance be byzance.

[@ayusharipirala3121]

Nice jazz music 😂

[@neonblack211]

im probably going to piss some people off... I love Derek's playing but I wish he would pick and choose his battles and songs a bit more.... his level of drumming should come with the same level of musicality and band membership

[@TheGears999]

If you aren't making the face at 1:33 when you're drumming at all times what the hell are you even doing

[@TheShitpostKing]

Needs more cymbal...

[@BoutThatAction]

Fuckin drum God And where is this song???

[@1drumdog1]

Killer.

[@CamiloMoyaBaterista]

Mmm

[@c2_EXPERIENCE_]

#iNSaNe! 🤟🏾😎👊🏾

[@Barmaley_UA]

Я ждал 4 минуты пока он начнет играть... Так и не дождался...😒

[@jdgutier]

Otro más que se vendió a DW

[@MultiSkyman1]

Metal sure has evolved since the 80's!! Sorry though, I just don't like this lick after lick speed stuff. Going back to Weckl now.

[@andyham6094]

Not a big fan of blasters and that kind of metal. Much prefer Matt Garstka from animals or Matt halpern from Periphery and that style of groove djent metal. This blasting style definitly takes endurance and speed and takes a long long time and a lot of practice hours to get good at but this kinda drumming just doesn’t do anything for me. It’s impressive but after 10 seconds I’m sick of the same beats the entire song entire album. It’s awesome when some drummers use blasts occasionally like Alex rudinger but ALL THE TIME is just annoying to me. But anyways about the meinls, I have his serpents ride and picked out a lighter one out of the average weighted serpents ride and it’s my GO TO ride cymbal for live shows. That big bell cuts through ANYTHING and since mine is lighter I still get an amazing crashability on the edge but still retains the stick definition on the body which is the perfect ride cymbal I’ve always dreamed of having and much prefer this serpents ride over the formally known as heavy bell mb20 ride which has no crashability and too heaving sounding body stick definition with no beautiful wash under it or now it’s called the byzance heavy bell hammered ride or something but essentially it’s the same exact cymbal as the mb20 since they only kept the popular mb20 cymbals like the crashes, china, and ride I think. But for practice my favorite is the 22 inch extra dry medium ride or 22 inch sand ride, or 21 inch transition ride but those cymbals just don’t cut it for a loud rock/metal band I’m in so for shows I switch between the 22 inch traditional medium ride sometimes but mainly almost always I choose the 21 inch serpents ride. It’s so reliable and isn’t harsh and annoying to the ears like some metal/rock geared cymbals. It’s still a byzance so it has that beautiful dark undertones but man that thing has the perfect volume and sound.

[@Bnat36]

This is just a tip of the iceberg of what Derek can do. blast is only one thing. He is well versed in many styles and timings.

[@iandubson2305]

There's always gotta be one of you guys on every blasting video, doesn't there?

[@msparks85]

Agree 100%

[@TheColebyArnett]

You never know man. Might grow on you one day. I use to hate it. I guess I just didn’t understand it. Now I’m obsessed and now I totally appreciate Roddy more than ever. All the drummers you mentioned are great though. Probably my favorite drummer to watch or listen to is Mark Guiliana, definitely dive in to his stuff if you haven’t yet. 👍🏻

[@flkfnd]

Ian Dubson There ALWAYS is and I'm beyond tired of them.

[@wesc6755]

I can respect the skill, but just spazzing out with blasts gets really old and numbing after a few seconds. No texture, just a wall.

[@chacehart7286]

Imagine if you had some more melodically interesting guitar players to shred with.

[@msparks85]

I respect the technicality, but blast beats just don’t sound musical to me.

[@MusaTariq25]

Roddy is among the rare few who can take blast beats and play them this tastefully.

[@EverythingisFire]

To each their own.

[@ExtremeDrumFight]

yes man totally agree, the new generation of hyperblast drummers with snare trigger or hypersoft touch novadays don’t sound musical at all BUT yes RODDY is one who have an acustic power touch and speed , he is able to make what he play wery tastefully.

[@Nathan-mg7ho]

great drummer, great cymbals, awful fucking drums

[@carlosfuentes4026]

awesome!!!!