MONSTROUS Drum Solo by Mario Duplantier of Gojira

[@Tritoness]

Your top 3 metal drummers of all time? At this point for me: Duplantier, Carey, Haake.

[@snovi1]

Danny Carey, John Densmor(The Doors), Canek Flores(SLIFT).

[@Tritoness]

@@snovi1 funnily enough, I revisited a KEXP session of Slift today after quite some time! Love his simple approach and his kit sounds killer indeed.

[@snovi1]

Well, the slift rhythm section is about a very clear and harmonious synergy, which serves as the basis for the guitar@@Tritoness

[@omegjonneboy4027]

Duplantier, Haake, Dirk V from Scarve, Elliot Hoffman from Car Bomb, might count Buster O as an honorable mention

[@STIXAHOY]

Something about him He's just a splendor to watch

[@shankerramesh9673]

the precision is off charts🔥

[@STIXAHOY]

@@shankerramesh9673 Also choice of notes.......and phrasing

[@maureenwagg5305]

Super Mario Duplantier is a god. He just makes it all perfect up there. Joe says "Go!" and Mario...he goes and goes and into overdrive he goes. Perfection as always.

[@BrianGodsell-yq1kc]

One badass MF'ER, his chops are insane

[@jordanjoestar8839]

Jesus christ. Just ordered a CD signed by him I'm pumped.

[@shantanudhiman8194]

Bleeding Gojira....

[@ashxc]

this man is a fucking artist

[@plaiddragonfly]

Saw Gojira open for Mastodon in Portland, OR. They stole the show and had the crowd eating out of the palm of their hands. Mario put us in a trance with his solo. It was...transcendental

[@KTUIU46]

Animal on the drums 😆🥰🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@shizzlepecks]

Mario has been the best metal drummer EASILY for lowkey the last 20 years. He’s the Lebron James of drumming. He somehow finds ways to be better despite the age. It’s unbelievable.

[@jordanbenson2980]

Haake, Mario, Carey. When Eloy builds more of a legacy, he'll be up their too

[@remol-controto]

I think eloy is the best metal drummer in the history of metal drumming . 😊 I love Mario though

[@PauloPierrassse]

For me Mario the best creativity of this guy is flawless

[@Tritoness]

@@jordanbenson2980those are the 3 for me actually.

[@jordanbenson2980]

@@Tritoness I think with more time, Eloy, Garska etc may get there. Problem is with all these incredible modern drummers, I can't see them contributing as much as the likes of Haake, Carey, Mario etc. Don't get me wrong, Eloy is probably technically the best metal drummer, and Garska is just super human, like Spencer Prewitt is, I just can't see them getting to the level of the 3 I named as musicians.

[@stevenscott6658]

oh damn he's doing the hertas from Meshuggah's bleed at like 00:33 onward with pauses for fills. I feel like it must have been something he heard and wanted to learn and then just used it as a fundamental groove to get started.

[@ambrooks5]

I didn’t realize that at first but you’re right. That was such a cool groove

[@badge6211]

Esoteric Surgery by Gojira has hertas in it, and that was released the same year as bleed so he wouldn't have heard it before he wrote the song. Mario has also been using hertas in fills since terra incognito so it's nothing new to him

[@stevenscott6658]

Just checked that track out and you're right, so cool thank you! The tempo in esoteric surgery is a bit lower than bleed but that's clearly not a barrier for Mario@@badge6211

[@badge6211]

@@stevenscott6658 Yeah it's a bit slower but I find it grooves better. Bleed just hits you like a truck (in the best way possible)

[@shantanudhiman8194]

He's not Mario, He's Super Mario 🤘🏼😈

[@alexanderschoenbrunn6696]

Evil Mario actually

[@soldierside365]

Mario careful on the chicken neck grooving, damn near pop a vertebrae out

[@droid1008]

anyone else hearing a bit of into the storm in the beginning

[@qwerty.4450]

It is, he’s said in interviews that many gojira songs start with using drum beats Mario comes up with on his own

[@hommerecorder7003]

Great solo!

[@iuliusalbert]

The first pattern turned out to be a riff in the latest album Fortitude

[@Sicknessfr]

Extrem Bleed by Gojira

[@Ominous89]

Bleed, but played by Mario.

[@eliassalgado193]

Esoteric surgery by gojira i guess

[@antoinelafarge9217]

Is he the only drummer where people do cirlce of death during drum solo ?

[@ambrooks5]

You know he’s in boss mode when he’s shirtless lol

[@gabrielallert]

woooah ive never realised that he is playing an upcoming song in the beginning. It's the doublekick pattern from into the storm, right?

[@Tritoness]

I don’t think this has a pattern off a song of theirs in it to be honest. Just a solo he practiced and mastered for the 2018 tour. It’s absolutely insane, feels like 2 drummers playing at the same time.

[@jez_77]

Yes, it is Into the Storm pattern played on floor tom, youre right. Its actually pretty common for Mario, his solos are usually his mad practice excercises combined together into something extremely impressive. And as Mario stated in interviews, Gojira songs come to live by Mario playing things he came up with during practice to Joe and then Joe jams some riffs and they think about song structure after that. So both his solos and Gojira songs are born during Mario's practice therefore you can find a lot of his chops and rhytms from solos cleverly implemented into Gojira songs years after. Probably most of his crazy fills he plays he used in some solos years prior without any of us realizing that its the same thing but played in a different context. For example the syncopated snare intro at the beginning and before breakdown in Born for One Thing was actually played by Mario back in 2017 as an intro for his solo, you can hear it on Red Rocks recording. Its really cool that he somewhat recycles his own patterns into the songs, you can watch old live footage then and have those moments of realization that he actually teased the upcoming songs in his solos and nobody knew back then

[@gabrielallert]

@@jez_77 Yes that is so cool! Gonna check out the red rocks solo now. I think I've heard in an interview that for example the doublekick pattern in Toxic Garbage Island where he just plays 16ths but skips the last beat, that was just an exercise at first.

[@jez_77]

@@gabrielallert One of his most famous excercises turned into songs is the Art of dying intro ofc, Im pretty sure Ive heard him talking that he used to play it for years as a practice to train independence between limbs (constant 4/4 on ride and groups of 3's and 5's on double bass and snare). Ive heard about that double bass part from Toxic Garbage Island as well, I think it was an exercise to master switching between right and left as a leading foot during fast double bass sections as the missing beat kinda forces you to swtich from leading right to leading left. Its always so fascinating and inspiring to hear Mario talking about his practice routine and how he comes up with stuff Gojira plays, Ive learned and improved so much thanks to him

[@Tritoness]

I correct myself, I relistened and indeed the beginning sounds very similar if not the same as the intro of Into The Storm. Well spotted.

[@ElZorro-games_memes_stuff-]

0:49 is the very first time I think I might have heard some scruffy sounds of him. The more I hear it the more I'm not shure If it came out as intended...

[@Tritoness]

I remember also noticing that but didn’t think too much of it. Could have been intended, could have been a small moment of fatique and in a split second went for something easier, or just went blank for a split second. Imagine doing shows which could vary between 1h or almost 2 hours, almost every night when touring.

[@kamino8240]

One of the best drummers in metal history

[@alexribolli2971]

Not quite my tempo jokes? Anyone?

[@martymcglame7781]

Missing "From 2018" in your title. 😐

[@steveec9704]

Makes you realize how great Neil Peart was

[@siger4077]

Je suis pas fan de Métal, mais je suis fan de Gojira. Plus un public merveilleux à ce concert , Pol'And'Rock Festival 2018 kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4StpamNndCAfLM

[@scottturner1504]

This shit makes danny carey shake his head

[@mixedmeter]

🤡

[@mixedmeter]

@@scottturner1504 🤣Danny mastered sixteenths notes in grade school. The majority of this solo was a patterned sixteenth base, no mixed meter, etc.

[@sergiogualtieri9338]

E cosa ci sarebbe di "mostruoso" o eclatante in questo assolo ? È na bella zozzeria....

[@-212-]

Quelqu'un connaît le morceau en fin de vidéo ???

[@Tritoness]

C’est pourtant un groupe dont je suis certain vous connaîtrez, une idée? 😉

[@aoutii]

Bleeding - Godzilla (Gojira)

[@-212-]

@@aoutii Merci.

[@Tritoness]

@@-212-je voulais créer la surprise en disant que c’était aussi Gojira, car pas beaucoup de gens sont au courant de leur debut très death metal. 👍

[@-212-]

@@Tritoness J'avais reconnu Gojira, c'est pour ça que je demandais le titre et pas le groupe. 😉

[@Daniel-1-1-1]

What’s the song at the end?

[@Tritoness]

Very known band actually, does it remind you of a specific band? Take a guess? 😉

[@aoutii]

Bleeding - Godzilla (Gojira)

[@AlfPane]

I don't think so

[@dmoney3508]

Nick Menza was the best!!

[@predragcvetkovic6387]

Malo halena za početak

[@MrDezorg]

Οτι νάνε

[@theladycat9342]

And people still believe Travis baker is the best 🤦😑

[@RatSewage]

Travis isn't a metal drummer. He's a punk/marching band drummer. And within that category, he is arguably the best in the world.

[@TineEdong]

He’s better than Danny Carey. My opinion. Tool is so boring to me. Danny is a very cool dude though. Mario doesn’t get recognized as much because it’s metal while tool is, well, not metal.

[@Tritoness]

Tool’s last album totally won me over, i like the longer instrumental songs compared to their earlier work. As for Danny, different drummers, I love Carey’s playing actually. But Mario is such a powerhouse behind that kit.

[@killerpaja03]

those are 2 different metal subgenres

[@Dr4yer]

mh, hab schon besseres gesehen...

[@lazykiller3988]

Im the first comment

[@dandiegidio7729]

That was okay. Not the best.

[@ekap9440]

That kit sounds like crap. Not bad. More of a groove than a solo.

[@billnipp2309]

Eh. was just ok.

[@nicolasfranchini9206]

I can play much better than him.... and another ten lies you can tell to yourself even though no one believes you... neither you do

[@ashxc]

are you okay?

[@metalhenkie1962]

🤔 I'm not impressed🤷‍♂️

[@JoeyBullet222]

You're a nobody also. Lol

[@SushibarFan]

boring

[@JoeyBullet222]

No, that's your life.

[@adrianland9362]

He’s not that good. Simple solo. Quite basic😊. 😂

[@JoeyBullet222]

Coming from a nobody. Lol