Vinnie Colaiuta | Transcription | "Actual Proof" Solo

[@Rokfish27]

Dont know Who is a bigger beast here, Vinnie or you with this transcription.

[@TimBuell]

Rok Fish vinnie ALWAYS.

[@theavenger3363]

@@TimBuell Incredible transcription..

[@TimBuell]

@@theavenger3363 Thanks so much!

[@thisoldditty]

I held my breath through the the whole section, almost passed out, amazing

[@90Aga]

Me too!!! Just incredible, Vinnie is God.

[@Frank1979Zappa]

This Old Ditty Ha! Me too!! Epic!

[@andersdo2925]

I’m not sure how anyone can dislike this video. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@TimBuell]

DLA Drums hahaha. Appreciate that man!

[@andersdo2925]

Tim Buell no problem

[@grooveclinic]

Cause Vinnie's playing was so unbelievably amazing, it got them depressed. That's why...😥

[@bopiusa]

I guarantee it's all guitarists.

[@DrumsTheWord]

Superb! Amazing transcription!

[@TimBuell]

Thanks so much!

[@ACLOCKWORKDRUMMER]

TRUE IMPROVISING...NO TRICKS ..NO BS ..NO STICK TWIRLS..GOING FOR IT WITHOUT A NET!!!

[@sethwexler6910]

He’s an absolute beast. No wonder Zappa liked him so much.

[@TimBuell]

Couldn't agree more!

[@Tranarpnorra]

Man, I love Vinnie. He's the master of our time and will go down as one. Every day he's around is a great day. 50% crazy, 50% cool, 100% talent. 150% you say! Well, that's Vinnie for you. I'm happy to have him as an inspiration since the early 1980's and onwards. You go Vinnie!

[@noelmartin419]

Amazing work transcribing! And thank you for making it available for download! Very kind of you! Greetings from Ireland 🙏

[@TimBuell]

Thanks so much for checking it out!

[@rogerringold616]

Vinnie was 60% of this miracle...the bass keys ALWAYS GIVE A get ready cue...eyes...ears...they are working surgically together.....ITS NEVER JUST 1.

[@TimBuell]

Agreed!

[@eddy71454]

I love how Vinnie found the split second in which to push up his glasses as they were falling at 0.45.

[@shamadana1]

Stumpy Joe!!

[@mossmonaco9061]

Your transcription is flawless! Thank you.

[@nicklangmusic]

Insane solo, and EXCELLENT transcription!

[@marielamartinez2840]

Brillante excelente demoledor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sajawhite]

Amazing Job. Thanks

[@TimBuell]

Glad you dig it!

[@MattHobsonDrummer]

incredible, just incredible. Well done!

[@ferruccioparrinello_drummer]

Nessuno suona come lui... Vinnie è 2 spanne sopra chiunque altro!

[@marcofuentes9099]

Vinie Colaiuta el mejor baterista del mundo

[@JCarlosOrtiz1]

Thank you for doing this! Hard work! Great job!

[@TimBuell]

Thank ya!

[@ZebFernandezzz]

Legendary

[@TheSkeffdog]

That's just nuts!!!

[@TimBuell]

Vinnie is a Mad Man!

[@wolfonterra]

your transcription is excellent. thank you so much for it! Wolfgang Schüler

[@TimBuell]

Thanks for checking it out! Glad you dig it!

[@dimitriskaraganis]

wow!!,,amazing

[@TimBuell]

Appreciate it!

[@IkechiUkazu]

The cymbal flams alone! 0:38 whaaaaaaaaa

[@tdrum21]

Craziness! Nice work

[@Jeroenvrolijk]

Well done indeed! Thx for posting

[@MStrucken]

Incredible work !! Thanx for that , finaly I got the Kicks !

[@echasoemantri]

Superb!

[@PeterGregoryDrums]

Wow. Thanks, Tim!

[@TimBuell]

Just doing what I can! Glad you enjoyed!

[@reformedstoic1581]

Wow. Fierce.

[@jimbarcelona1078]

Bravisimo Vinnie , one hell of a job!

[@drummer375]

Sick.

[@TimBuell]

Thanks so much!

[@carpediem4179]

Only vinnie

[@bigstef2010]

amazing drumming there

[@hoyayer091]

Crazy este hombre...

[@FinnlabelNYC]

When you like a video before watching

[@TimBuell]

hahaha. Glad ya dig it!

[@KarlLatham]

Vinnie, is clearly the highest functioning drummer currently alive, lots of folks with lots of chops and concepts, but none has the mental capacity to put it together every performance like Vinnie, not even sure where to start in comparisons, but maybe if you put Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant, Mario Lemieux, Babe Ruth, Serena Williams, and Mike Tyson in the mix you might start to have a Vinnie

[@KarlLatham]

@tattoo39369 I mean it, I have spent a little bit of time with Vinnie here and there, this story is the one that I always share. I was randomly in Switzerland to hang at the Paiste factory before a tour, on the last day the factory was open before the summer break there. The AR person graciously picked me up at the train station. On the way to the factory, he said do you mind if we stop to pick up another artist, he is having breakfast at the hotel; Of course it was Vinnie. Also, I played often with Kermit Driscoll, a good friend of Vinnie's and the brilliant bassist, and a mutual very good friend of mine: Mark Egan. I had breakfast and spent the whole day hanging with Vinnie. He was in the cymbal room next to me trying the last prototypes for his Modern Essentials Cymbals. He would start with a couple of taps and before I knew it the most amazing solo drum performance was happening, over and over and over again, no audience. It was like watching an ecosystem come into bloom. It was at that moment I recognized his super intelligence. It is not like the rest of the REALLY, REALLY smart people that I am blessed to sometimes spend time with. After hanging at the factory, we went to a restaurant in Lucerne. open air, the soup arrived, Vinnie jumped in the air, banged the table and said "This soup is the shit"! It is Vinnie's super intellect combined with his Zen like child's mind, that takes him so far above: Genius combined with awe and respect and humility. There are no other current rivals to his ability, whether it resonates with you on a personal level or not, Vinnie is the greatest living drumset musician.

@@KarlLatham He's certainly one of the greatest to ever grace a kit. I don't believe any single drummer is best at all facets of drumming for obvious reasons. Guys like Vinnie, Weckl, Donati, Coleman, Dicenso, Novak, Sucherman, Smith, etc excel at their own respective strengths, but Vinnie is certainly an amazing mix of many aspects of drumming. It's surreal watching him play.

[@hugolafhugolaf]

Vinnie's good. But man, Weckl and Lang... ooff... these guys are something, too.

[@ryancox5097]

Virgil Donati.

[@KarlLatham]

@@ryancox5097 there is no relationship between their levels

[@ianhendrytube]

Daaaaaayum man good job!

[@TimBuell]

Thanks so much! Just doing what I can. haha

[@sanityinaseaofmadness7353]

I haven't tested this transcription, but on the surface it's impressive as hell. Thanks for taking the time to do it!

[@TimBuell]

Thanks so much Jon. Let me know what you think!

[@jimdefoe9235]

Wowwwwww

[@TimBuell]

Thanks so much Jim!

[@nanmusha]

Mama Mia !!!!!!!

[@trevormcmanis]

Geniuses at work and play….

[@ronaldothomejunior3702]

Herbie Hancock must be a Vampire... This guy never gets old;)

[@RyanRenteria]

well this concert is like 10+ years old, so yeah

[@elienailima01]

Vc é fera na escrita.

[@d.s.2986]

Holy crap... I never saw that much notes on a sheet, goddamn!

[@BamBam_PDX]

So, are you hearing those unison figures with the band on the “a” or the “&” of beat 4? I know according to the chart those hits are on the “&” and that how it is during everyone else’s solos, but the transcription moves by so fast and it seems like you’re notating them on the “a” and then half way thru I swear they shift it to beat 3 even in one spot. Just counting through some of Vinnie’s ideas can be a great exercise in itself. 😂

[@RafaOlewnicki]

Hi Tim! Great job, thanks for sharing! I've tried to transcribe this solo in the past but managed to do only the first 2 choruses ;) Where exactly can I find the PDF? I've looked for it on your website but haven't found it.

[@ProjectBeats_]

I don’t get the dislike here. Vinnie great, transcription great. What else do they want? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TimBuell]

Haters gonna hate! haha

[@MultiSkyman1]

Wish I could read.

[@Covesthur]

Here I am to visit the land of triplets, sextuplets and quintuplets. Also, is that nested tuplets I see? No, just the mutant triplets that include dem sixtenth notes invading their space and bad dam tss suddenly we have like way too many dots hanging together. Herbie plays some sorta synth stab, ouch another stabwound. Those ghost notes are haunting me.

[@terrytk9398]

Great transcription Tim! How long did it take? Totally beyond me! Congratulations,

[@TimBuell]

This was one of my first BIG and difficult transcriptions - it took a longggggg while.

[@terrytk9398]

​@TimBuell well done - you must be very proud. You have a talent and this is great work.

[@ciaradonnelly4627]

Anyone know what snare he is playing?

[@TimBuell]

I do not unfortunately.

[@chezchezchezchez]

Everybody just thinks Estafario is the only drummer that’s worth talking about. Unbelievable. I’ll take Vinny any day even though I do love Estifario.

[@TimBuell]

Vinnie is def one of my favs!

[@skylar204]

Can you send me the transcription PDF I can't find it on your website

[@TimBuell]

Hey! The PDF is available here: drummerworld.com/Videos/vinniecolaiutaactualproofslomo.html sorry about that!

[@rickemoidrums2707]

Hi! I can't seem to find this on the web page. Could it be sent to me?

[@TimBuell]

Hey! The PDF is available here: drummerworld.com/Videos/vinniecolaiutaactualproofslomo.html sorry about that!

[@GazozMaciniz]

imho 1:06 is not based on triplets.it's quintuplets in 2/4 time.

[@Leosnare]

Gazoz Maciniz Vinnie bi baska deil mi Cengiz, insan dinlemeye izlemeye doyamiyor, seninde basarilarinin devamini dilerim ,selamlar

[@nomoreblitz]

Play it slomo and you can confirm that, even though it is five notes in a row, the snare hits have more space between them than the BD and tom notes. So, imo, Mr. Buell is correct. But I would think of the subdivisions more like Tim wrote: 8th note TRIPLETS with some further subdividing (not 16th note trips where you might still tap the straight 8th notes. Focus on the 8th note-triplet subdivision.

[@JcRichardLopez]

The best Vinnie

[@raincrowd]

Vinnie is like the #Superman of drummers. Gadd would be the #Batman. Lol

[@pcworks3147]

vinne can play in Pi timing

[@jasona1806]

Would just like to see where those obvious kicks land that they all come down on, how to count that. Just to simplify it a bit… all the notes in between are all improvised anyway. The transcription is sick, just still not that obvious where the kicks are , let me look again..

[@FKPDI]

anyone know if he uses double pedal here?

[@TimBuell]

Hard to tell. But he did typically have one.

[@jeffsavaryego2366]

You can see him using it around 1:15 for the sextuplet lick.

[@jeraldcuccurullo2497]

Yes he does have it on his kit he was my teacher in 1982 and made me what folks say that I am a monster behind the kit, but I am a very dilligent musician who knows vinnie well and he's very influence by Gadd but then again who isn't!!!And I am going to have to get the odd chart and I will know if that figure is his very fast right foot which he never gets credit for!!! And he never played dbl bass drumming for most of his career and he doesn't need too!!!

[@domenico_66]

Moster

[@estebanmiranda6737]

Mierda como entran en elnpulso

[@chrischoir3594]

good bass player

[@TimBuell]

Agreed! Herbie has always had some of the best players in the business.

[@jeraldcuccurullo2497]

I commented but had to laugh when reading a comment below that said he's better than Neil peart and I have to say vinnie at age 16 was 5xs better than Neil peart and didn't play dbl bass drumming then. He's like weckl are light years ahead of Neil peart but they don't write lyrics big deal. Watch Neil's solo on Letterman show you tube, it's like my student of 4 yrs who blows the sox off of Neil at ageb17 playing only 4 yrs with my teaching him! Gearge Bosnakis you will be hearing a lot about this now music teacher,full scholarship and I have to say that I I'm so proud of my lol protege! Neil's a great guy who is a very good rock drummer but thatscabout it! No funk, no great fills without his dbl bass drumming he's an average player just ask Bozzio who said in 1980 Neil's a good rock drummer that's it!!!!

[@TimBuell]

Hahaha I feel the same way about the LeBron vs MJ debate as I do this - to each their own! The “best” is so subjective. Love Vinnie and I love Peart. They both did such DIFFERENT stuff to change the history of drumming.

[@razacli4820]

As a teacher and a fan of vinnie and weckle and many others, you just dont understand neil peart's greatness. Listen again to some rush

[@bti529]

yep.. neil.. 16th's RLRL all the way... very boring

[@Stardrums]

@@razacli4820 RLRL

[@TheGenebeats]

That was busy but impressive

[@Xillaw]

Herbie thinks this is fun. Herbie must be insane. I'd just lay down on the floor and die if I had to play hits through this.

[@ronaldothomejunior3702]

Better than Neil Peart!

[@Tanildes]

Ronaldo Thomé Júnior Neil Peart is “just” a great Rush Drummer,period.VINNIE IS A DRUMMER DRUMMER’s.

[@ronaldothomejunior3702]

@@Tanildes my favorite drummer is Billy Cobham, and I love Buddy Rich and Bill Bruford. Colaiuta is the fourth to me. And I don't know the Peart position...

[@eddy71454]

@@ronaldothomejunior3702 - Billy Cobham in a magazine interview back in the late 90's said upcoming drummers should study Vinnie. I wish I could remember the magazine it was in.

[@paulgiacalone4471]

Neil Peart would need an extra limb to play like that .

[@dinodeluca6210]

These guys are all great musicians...the best of the best but the music is hard to listen to.

[@stixnfeet7818]

Oh, now I get it 🤪