This drummer's skill level is OBSCENE!

[@robertpien8708]

What people dont understand Virgil donati also wrote the music too. This guy is a true musician.

[@Hansesc2]

He is also a hell of a piano player.

[@daveg5045]

And played most of the instruments

[@mhsandifer]

He is an alien from a planet where nothing occurs at the same time

[@darranschnepf8076]

OG the best drummer that's come out of Australia ever

[@auscryptocurrency1162]

He's regarded as the most technical drummer around rn, regardless of where he comes from... but yeah the fact he's Aussie is awesome too

[@clintonevans2226]

Virgil is like a gamer, I just need one more level...

[@allieandbo]

Calling that complicated is like calling the sinking of the Titanic a boating accident. Brain. Fried.

[@steveogreact]

😂 well put

[@paisteplayer1040]

Virgil is more athletic than most gold metal olympians The complexity and athleticism and memory needed to play at level boggles the mind.

[@SockerConny80]

This is the guy responsible for me spending at least an hour a day on my rudiments both on my hands AND feet.

[@Hansesc2]

He is the reason I spend one to two hours a day on polyrhythms.

[@ahmedrabie51]

I'am follwing virgil since this modern drummer 97 till today .. Virgil is from a different planet !! No drummer in the world till the moment have done such an advance complicated playing like him !!! I'am a drummer since iam 13 years old till know .. I played stuff for Dave ..vennie .. Dennis .. Billy .. Tony .. No problem .. But virgil … this is hard guys !! very .. I suggest for those who didn't watch him enough to reconsider…

[@giannrubio33]

Agreed same here, got to meet him at name, what a gentleman as well

[@poncianoPlay]

"it's like a swarm of angry hornets, it´s what this sounds like" 🤣🤣

[@fredlight]

Virgil is an Alien, the search is over :)

[@sanityinaseaofmadness7353]

"Fuck you"... Summed up Virgil's song and tune in the best possible way. He's inhuman

[@FusionHowie]

Thanks for posting. Check out ICE FISH with Virgil playing god like!

[@Michele-Elise]

Yep! This blew my mind! I love math. Watching you figure out the patterns in the time signatures and deciphering his technique was just so entertaining. I’m always impressed with drummers that manage to play multiple rhythms simultaneously. This gentleman is on a whole other realm. 😮 Just for fun, after I watched this clip, I researched drummers’ brains to understand how they work differently. Research shows that drum training induces long-term plasticity in the cerebellum and connected cortical thickness. In other words, thicker fibers transfer impulses more quickly (increased brain synapses). Their motor brain areas are also organized more efficiently (which probably explains the multi-tasking in drumming). Your knowledge, technical chops, sensibility and understanding of music beyond drums really do go a long way when analyzing and breaking down a song, Steve. Always enjoyable to watch. 😊

[@allieandbo]

Yeah...what she said. 😅

[@Michele-Elise]

@@allieandbo Yeah, I tend to geek out over music a bit, haha!

[@jonasnitz7678]

His skill is 10/10 and he always has incredible sound as well.

[@UR_Right24]

Virgil makes that Whiplash kid look like a 2 year old playing on a little tikes drum.

[@richardrejmer8721]

People who don't play drums look at Virgil Donati play and think "I would LOVE to play drums like THAT!!!" People who DO play drums look at Virgil Donati play and think "I'm going home to burn all my drums!!!"

[@guben1262]

This song is in 4/4 but he thinks in quintuplet most of the time😧. That's why it feels very odd when he delays in usual quarter notes. I also recommend the songs "Pinprick" and "The Quiet Place" from his newer record. Virgil said that he wants to have 3-4 hours of clinic for each song, so I think it'll be interesting if you react to them😁

[@reubennb2859]

This one is mainly in 7/8 I think. A lot of the main themes use 3 bars of 7/8 so I guess you could call it 21/8 if your eally wanted

[@SpencerBoatkey]

@@reubennb2859Yes. Sounds like 7 most of the time

[@flightgamer7849]

This is the drum version of how my wife's brain must work when we argue. In other words, I don't stand a chance, and shouldn't even try. Great reaction. thx

[@steveogreact]

😂

[@peterwilliams6289]

He was one of the drummers who auditioned for Dream Theater.

[@timwaterson]

Virgil nailed the gig but tried to throw in one his ideas

[@stefanogoatin]

posso dire il piu tecnico di tutti lui e un batterista molto jazz fusion quindi per me completo poteva essere molto costruttivo con i dream theater

[@stephenbolognese7949]

Sounds like you've never seen him play before. He is the most advanced drummer on the planet and has been for decades. Makes Thomas Lang look like a beginner

[@julioivancontrerassoltero9828]

He is a genius from this era

[@flightgamer7849]

I think you would enjoy Heilung - Anoana on this channel. Primal, atmospheric and a simple but beautiful melody that is kind of a brain worm.

[@arthur8284]

Due note ed ho subito capito che era il grande Virgil Donati!!! Stratosferico come sempre!!!❤❤

[@Dankmangolion]

His floor toms sound glorious.

[@Mr-Hansson]

My favorite drummer of all time! it's a shame he's not more popular to more of us simpletons. Simpletons, as in, drummers complared to him :P

[@astolithu]

so..regarding the music..the "style"..remainds me pretty much on the 3.album of the mahavishnu orchestra. that is called "apocalypse"..im wondering if virgil wrote the music. i think he had at least someone who helped with the orchestral parts. ..i was sure about the rhythmics but there are doupts..maybe someone could explain what meters/subdivisions/meterchanges/and so on..are going on.. ..my proposal was..that..for the first part it would be a quintupletgroove..but than i dont get the change..after the end of the first movement..inside the break i thought..he changes just the subdivision from quintuplets to septuplets..which is seven strokes per quarternotes..and the septuplets are now treated as 7/16thmeter..and three of those seven sixteenth bars are grouped together as a 21/16th bar..or meter..

[@Hansesc2]

Great reaction.

[@jimhaglund597]

he is the most brain-melting drummer...its wild

[@facelen4321]

My god you didn't know Virgil????? What????

[@stefanogoatin]

ascoltate quello che ha fatto con allan holdsworth un chittarista che rip era un genio in assoluto io per il momento una tecnica come virgil donati non lo mai vista unico un alieno

[@progrockjournal]

The drummer?!? He is VIRGIL DONATI.. Not the drummer

[@foghornleghorn809]

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[@ghostspex2182]

Awesome reaction!!! Thank you! Please keep this up!! ...also, if I may suggest... please check out YG's 4th gen girl group BABYMONSTER with their pre-debut song "Dream". Its been trending last 24 hrs with over 10 million views.

[@jakobks1]

Go home sweet dreams Steve

[@aaronsetzer9247]

Hell here's an idea ....do a 2 video back to back David diepold !!!!! That would be sick ...the Nile cover and the cattle decapitation songs

[@siloagrain2176]

It s unfair . 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@ByteTwiddler]

I usually like watching early Virgil stuff but this is not rational. I'd put an eye out with a stick and somehow it would be the kick's fault.