Post your age, yearsplaying and five songs you can CONFIDENTALLY play.

[Mr. Grill]

Stole this from the PDF, but it seemed like a cool idea.

Age- 14 (15 in February)
Time playing- 2 years
Songs:
1. As I Lay Dying- Forever
2. Metallica- Master of Puppets
3. Metallica- One
4. Mudvayne- Death Blooms
5. Deicide- Homage for Satan

[We_Love_Lime]

Age-14(15 in December)
Time Playing-3 years
Songs:
1) Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
2) The Hardest Button to Button - The White Stripes
3) Steady As She Goes - The Racontuers
4) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
5) Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz

....
I hope you know this is a joke.....

















































I can't really play those songs.

[ludvista29]

Age 13
Time playing- 5 Years
Songs:
1. The Ocean-Led Zeppelin
2. Strange Deja Vu-Dream Theater
3. Euology-Tool
4. Fire-Jimi Hendrix
5. Blood of the Scribe-Lamb of God

[puppet.master]

age 13
time playing coming up on 3 years
um i really dont play songs so its hard to give 5 that i could play when i dont play any

[Carn]

indeed, it seemed like a cool idea.

[Mr. Grill]

indeed, it seemed like a cool idea.

Wait, what? This isn't a joke. Seriously.

[Carn]

what's confidentally.

[Bonham#1!]

Age 14, 15 in about like 4 days hooray
Playing for about 3.5-4 years.

1.The Ocaen-Led Zeppelin
2.Hand of Doom-Black Sabbath
3.Keep on rockin in the free world-Neil Young
4.Killing in the name of-Rage against the machine
5.When the Levee Breaks-Led Zeppelin

[keaton_86]

Age - 19
Playing - 10 years

Songs

Under the bridge - Chillis
Achillies Last stand - Zeppelin
Parabola - Tool
Cassandra Gemini - The Mars Volta (yeah, i got the whole thing down, yay!)
Juneau - Funeral for a Friend

[Futuro]

6 years.

The only song I can play is DJ Shadows number song.

[Carn]

I think I never played a song "confidentally".

[Sammy_L_D]

Age: 18.

Years: <1/4.

Songs: I can play a mambo and marcha!

[Mr. Grill]

what's confidentally.

Typo, meh.

con‧fi‧dent  /ˈkɒnfɪdənt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kon-fi-duhnt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. having strong belief or full assurance; sure: confident of fulfillment.
2. sure of oneself; having no uncertainty about one's own abilities, correctness, successfulness, etc.; self-confident; bold: a confident speaker.
3. excessively bold; presumptuous.
4. Obsolete. trustful or confiding.
–noun
5. a confidant.
[Origin: 1570–80; < L confīdent- (s. of confīdēns), prp. of confīdere. See confide, -ent]

—Related forms
con‧fi‧dent‧ly, adverb

[Futuro]

I think I never played a song "confidentally".ITT: We point out spelling errors :)

[Seafroggys]

Age: 19 (20 in several weeks)
Years playing: 7

Songs I can play confidentially....actually, I don't really know that many. For that manner, me playing a song = grooving on top of it, without a care to the original drum parts. Though I can kinda 'match' up to these:

Fire - Jimi Hendrix
Who are You - The Who
Oh Darling - The Beatles
Flight of the Rat - Deep Purple
Back in Black - AC/DC ;)

[Berk]

Age: 13.

Years Playing: 3.

Songs I Can Play:

Underoath - The Impact Of Reason
Dr. Acula - Shocker On Shock Street
RHCP - Dani California
RHCP - Uunder the Bridge
Opeth - In My Time Of Need

[HeLLmO]

Age-15(16 on the 9th)

Time Playing-5 Years

1.Any AC/DC
2.Mr.Brownstone-Guns and Roses
3.Rose of Sharyn-Killswitch Engage
4.most RHCP
5.most Rage Against the Machine



i really should try lookin' into some more difficult songs....

[We_Love_Lime]

6 years.

The only song I can play is DJ Shadows number song.

Haha Dj Shadow is awesome...

[Carn]

well in that case, with the right amount of booze I can play basically everything in an confident manner.

[Futuro]

well in that case, with the right amount of booze I can play basically everything in an confident manner.

Post of the thread :lol:

[goalieman92]

Age- 15(16 in Feb.)
time playing-on the kit 2 years, in band percussion 4 years
5 songs.
White rabbit- jefferson airplane
Lola- The Kirks
Hey Joe- Hendrix
Moby Dick- John Bonham
Battery-metallica(to the best of my ability without a Dbl. Bass pedal)
Master of puppets-Metallica( again to the best of my abillity w/o a Dbl. pedal)

Oops, that's 6, I coulda give you several more though.

[Carn]

please do. I`ll get another beer when you type out another list of amazing musical works.

[crazyguy832]

Age - 16
Years playing - 1.5
Songs I can play confidentally -
Every single song by Tool

<_<

>_>

*nose shoots out 500 feet*

[Mr. Grill]

Age- 5(16 in Feb.)
time playing-on the kit 2 years, in band percussion 4 years
5 songs.
White rabbit- jefferson airplane
Lola- The Kirks
Hey Joe- Hendrix
Electric Funeral- Black Sabbath
Battery-metallica(to the best of my ability without a Dbl. Bass pedal)
Master of puppets-Metallica( again to the best of my abillity w/o a Dbl. pedal)

Oops, that's 6, I coulda give you several more though.
The double bass in MoP can be done pretty easily with a single pedal.

[Carn]

yeah but it would probably sound ****ty.

[We_Love_Lime]

Yeah.
I can play MoP without a double.
Except the part AFTER the solo.
But I havn't played that song in a while...

[Josiah]

Hmm ok i'm 23, been playing for 19 years.

I don't learn songs in the fashion you are refering too, while I think it's a great learning tool. It's something I simply don't do any more. I perhaps have learned and played live a few hundred different songs, and have been asked numerous times to learn a bands cd to play for them live, or record material.

[Futuro]

1. Captain Greg - Straight to the can tuna fish
2. Peoples drum circle - We can't play this song live
3. Nostril - One inch to hell
4. Zajj - Telemarketing polymeters
5. Millard Mulch - The Boy with a Perfectly Square Butthole strikes back!

[goalieman92]

I can do it, It's just doesn't sound as good as if I could have two feet working on it

[Carn]

its almost like saying "well, you can play that fill with ONE HAND".

[We_Love_Lime]

yeah
I dig...
But since I dont have a double pedal.
I'm in not much of a position to be able to chose one over the other.
So single it is..

[Ronald McRaygun]

age:14 (15 in jan.)

playing:2 years

1.venom-welcolm to hell
2.almost any song from the door's
3.the beatles-hard days night
4.social distortion-ring of fire
5.D.R.I.-All for nothing

[Sync0pation]

age - 17
playing - just under a year

Guns n Roses - sweet child of mine
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
Kanye West - Crack music
Most RHCP
Kelly Clarkson - behind these hazel eyes :(

[Josiah]

age - 17
playing - just under a year


Most RHCP





wahahaha it's stuff like that, that just shows people really don't know what "playing a song" is.

[FL3P]

I guess confidently means that you can get through a song without making to much of a mess? At least that's what I am getting from this.

[HeLLmO]

wahahaha it's stuff like that, that just shows people really don't know what "playing a song" is.

yea man, chad smith is hard to emulate because you can't just play the bare bones of what he's playin', ya got to dig in and groove like a mother****er

[Cocaberry]

I think confidently means you can play the song with great feel and authority.

[Sync0pation]

Yeah no sht I can't play it like Chad Smith, there's no way I'll be able to play it and sound like Chad Smith. But what I can play is Chad Smith's grooves on paper.
Sorry then, I can't play any songs with confidence, since I don't have the exact feel of the drummer.
I know groove and feel. I groove as much as I can and try to make it sound like him, but yeah obviously it's not going to sound like him. Can you play it confidently then?

[Zildjian]

im 17, been playing for 10 yrs

Home - DT
Stream of cossinnes - DT
The Ocean - Zep
Lateralus - Tool
YYZ - Rush

[keaton_86]

I think confidently means you can play the song with great feel and authority.

In that case, scrap most of my list. I mean i can play them, but i'll be too busy thinking about what im playing to make them sound good.

[FL3P]

It's no offense to the people who really try and learn by playing along to some of their favorite drummers. The thread starter should have left the word "confidently" out of it considering they haven't been playing for very long and claim to be able to play some very complex songs.

[TTTSNB]

Age: 18
Years Playing: 4 1/2
Songs:
Sepultura- Inner Self
Sepultura- Mass Hypnosis
Morbid Angel- Fall From Grace
Morbid Angel- Summoning Redemption
Slayer- Raining Blood

[Damo]

Age- 31
Time playing- 16 years
Songs:
1. Grind to Metal - Black Steel
2. Slaughterhouse - Black Steel
3. The Friars Lantern - Syzygy
4. Atmosphere - Syzygy
5. Mercury's Tears - Syzygy

[NewMetman]

Age 15
Time: 4 years
Songs:
1. Fly By Night-Rush
2. Closer to the Heart-Rush
3. Animate-Rush
4. Spirit of Radio-Rush
5. The Trees-Rush
I like to play the original beat of the song, but change the fills around, cuz its pretty hard to emulate some of Pearts fills. And is any one else ever bothered by people asking you to play the hardest song you know, while no music is on?

[Zildjian_man]

Age:14
Playing:2 years
songs:
1. aint' talkn: bout love:van halen
2. cant stop loven' you:^
3. rock n' roll all night:KISS
4. noone like you:scorpions
5. peace of mind:bosten

[moogoogaipan]

Age: 20
Playing: 8 Years

Songs: I'm with Josiah on this one. I can play any number of songs... not verbatim, but you'll realize as you mature as a musician that the beauty of drumming is keeping the groove while improvising.

[Josiah]

Ja!

Can I lay down RHCP stuff? Sure, if I took the time to learn it. Would it sound like chad? Nah, I'm not chad.. I could attempt to emulate his feel, wich requires a lot of effort as he is a very lively player.

It's not so much like "oh i can play this". It's just, can you play. I've played TooL, RATM, RHCP, etc live many times. I've had to go and learn the parts, the grooves and fills. It's just playing...

You either can play solid, or not, regaurdless of the groove you are playing.

[puppet.master]

i didnt even know there was double bass in MoP

[spike9908]

Age: 16
Years playing: 3(I think)

Songs: I only ever really took the time to learn 2 songs. Needles by System of a Down, and The Pass by Rush.

[Patrick323]

The Black Page (rubato) - Zappa
Stars and Stripes Forever - Sousa
that song frum durmline on marching snurz nick cannon lik
They're Coming to Take Me Away - Napoleon XIV
Rock Show - Blink 182

[Moon Flavor]

Age: 17
Time playing: 10 or 11 months?

Songs:
Thursday-Understanding In Car Crash
Fall of Troy- Just Got This Symphony Goin'
Converge- Concubine
Sikth- Peep Show (although I BS the hats n such in the verse part)
Rx Bandits- Dinna-Dawg (and the Ineviteable Onset of Lunacy)
Fishbone- So Many Millions

The last 2 sound so sweet compared to anything else I can do (groove-wise)...but that's pretty much all I've bothered learning completely.

[Sean]

Age: 17
Years Playing: Almost 4

I usually don't learn other band's songs...I like to make up my own sh!t. But, yeah, I learned quite a few before I found it completely repetitive and boring. To name five, though, I know The Crowing and Delirium Trigger by Coheed & Cambria, Question! by System of a Down, and Judith and The Outsider by A Perfect Circle.

[LittlePound]

Age 17
Playing for 3 and 1/2 years
I haven't really spent much time learning other bands songs, When i do it's only becuase we covered them for a show and then i just forget them. Most of the songs i can play are my bands songs so i don't have a list that anyone would recognize.

[Electric Requiem]

Opeth - In My Time Of Need

If you can play the fills well then Im impressed. If you play your own fills and just the main beats then w/e, its a great song.

age: 16 almost 17
years: just over 1
havent really taken the time to learn many full songs worth mentioning...
songs:
In the Court of The Crimson King - King Crimson
thats the only one Ive learned recently, but Ive played numerous black sabbath, ccr, GnR, and a few megadeth songs with my band.

[Undisco Kidd]

Age: 14 (15 in a month)
Years playing: about 5.

Songs I can play? I play jazz. I don't learn songs, thats a waste. I improvise.

[Quinto]

Age- 15(16 in Feb.)
time playing-on the kit 2 years, in band percussion 4 years
5 songs.
White rabbit- jefferson airplane
Lola- The Kirks
Hey Joe- Hendrix
Moby Dick- John Bonham
Battery-metallica(to the best of my ability without a Dbl. Bass pedal)
Master of puppets-Metallica( again to the best of my abillity w/o a Dbl. pedal)

Oops, that's 6, I coulda give you several more though.


no offense but i dont believe you can play moby dick for a second.

[TheBandlehars]

age 15
years playing 7

I can play a huge slew of things but full songs that I could play straight through with the right fills and everything would be the following:
1. Wipeout- The Ventures
2. Simple Man- Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. Paint it Black- The Rolling Stones
4. La Grange- ZZ Top
5. D'Yer Mak'er- Led Zeppelin

[Bluewolf]

age 17
Playing time: Well, I've known HOW to play for 9 years. However, I haven't played all 9 of those. I've taken breaks and such, thinking that I was done drumming, but I keep coming back.
Songs I have worked on recently -
Cochise - Audioslave
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm (don't know if the drum part is different in the original)
This Love - Maroon 5
and I'm learning Awake by Pillar. This song is a lot of fun to play... well at least the parts I can play.

[Permanent Solution]

and I'm learning Awake by Pillar. This song is a lot of fun to play... well at least the parts I can play.
Pillar's drummer is pretty underrated, he's very solid. Their old stuff has a real nice Funk feel/groove to it often times and it's real fun to listen to.

[rohbit]

Lets see:

Age: 21
Years Playing: 3

In Bloom - Nirvana
Californication - RHCP (I can play the grooves... and I add my own fills in, but I'll never get that buzz roll sounding like chad :( )
Hypnotize - System of A down
Say it Ain't So - Weezer
Where is My Mind - The pixies (I get to sing and play this one!)

[Sabian4015]

Age:16
been playing for bout 6 years.

and honestly I can't name 5 songs I can play, because I usually don't learn a song front to back, unless it's a church song. And I couldn't even tell you the names of those songs...

[FockerTheLopper]

I'm currently learning Herbie Hancock - Hello Young Lovers, I can play it but I still can't play it with Tony's feel(or as close as I want to be to it)

[krazydrummer121]

Age:15
Been playing for about 2( almost 3) years
1.Smells like Teen Spirit- Nirvana
2.Lip Gloss and Black-Atreyu
3. Dread and the Fugitive Mind- Megadeth

and i can almost play Confined- As i Lay Dying although i have to work on the timing for the end with the db part....

[static]

14 years old.
5 years playing.
Inno A Satana-Emperor
Home-Dream Theater
Horns ov Baphomet-Behemoth
Mirror, Mirror-Blind Guardian
Closure-Opeth

[some jive turkey]

I'm 31, (old)
I've been playing since I was 11 or 12, but I didn't play much during college (no time, no space, no inclination) so it's a little hard to say how long i've been playing. Instead of drumming though, I studied classical guitar and music theory while in school, so it wasn't like I gave up music. Fortunately, though I saw the light.

I'm kind of in the same boat as a few others on here, in that I never learn songs note for note, unless it's something I want to study from a transcription. I mostly like jazz anyway, these days.
I used to learn a lot of songs in drum lessons from transcriptions though, like: Steely Dan: Kid Charlemagne, Black Cow, I've got the News,....old old rock stuff: the ocean, dyer makr, stairway to heaven, sweet child of mine, Rock of Ages, Miracle Man, One, Eye of the beholder, Purple Haze, Consider me Gone(sting), Roxanne, Don't stand so close to me, Owner of a lonely heart(yes), Harder they come (jimmy cliff) , Epic (faith no more)....and a lot of other crap I can't remember.

[cliffisanarcissist]

age=18
Years playing? I think 5

Eria Tarka-The Mars Volta
The Remedy-Abandonned Pools (aka tight Josh Freese parts)
Concubine-Converge
Tom Sawyer-Rush
A Crow Left of the Murder-Incubus

[oliv_da_skinmasher]

Age-16
Years Playing-3

Phantom Of The Opera-Iron Maiden
Highway Star-Deep Purple
Moby Dick-Led Zeppelin
Got The Time-Anthrax
We Are The Roadcrew-Motorhead

I generally play what would be considered classic rock with a little bit of thrash metal thrown into the mix. I didnt wanna have to pick 5.

[maniac0796]

I'm 15 and been playing for 5 years.

I know how to play too many songs..., but here are the most recent one's i've learnt, mostly for fun.
Pinball map - in flames
Bat country - A7X (lame and i'm not proud...)
Blood in Blood out - Bloodsimple
Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
Panic Attack - Dream Theater

And george, i see you can play mirror mirror by blind guardian. I play along to the live version and it completly knackers me legs, so much double bass work...

[GhostNote]

Age: 14, (15 in december)
Years playing: 4
Songs:
- COTE, Karnivool
- The 'Notic, The Roots feat. D'Angelo
- You Got Me, The Roots feat. Erykah Badu
- Still Dangerous, James Morrison
- Even Sieben, James Morrison

Can nearly play: SoulJive, Andrew Fisenden

But really, all of the stuff i play is improvised grooves and playing along with my cd collection, not just perfecting particular songs, the ones listed above are just some i'm able to, but i rather prefer playing my own grooves from other ideas i've pulled from other drummer's syles and groove, then used them to develop my own sort of style if you know what i mean?.


-GN

[Corkofski]

age: 16
years playing: about 2 or 3

Keasbey nights, catch 22
RATM, geurilla radio
RATM, Know your enemy
SOAD, Toxicity
and am currently learning south of heaven by slayer

[pitchfork]

age -17 (18 next june)
years playing - 2 I think (maybe more)
Top 5 favourite songs I can confidently play (from many):
Can't Explain - The who
Im so glad - cream
Rock n roll - led seppelin
Fire - Hendrix
Red Red Wine - Tony tribe

[Vannaroth]

Age: 17
Playing: 2 years

Rush - YYZ
The Eagles - New Kid in Town
The Eagles - Hotel California
Gary Moore/Phil Lynott - Out in the Fields
Rush - A Passage to Bangkok

[Talos]

Age - 15
Years Playing - 4/5

Songs I can play - These are the only songs ive ever attempted to play as my band contemplated covering them.

1. YYZ - Rush
2. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
3. Enter Sandman - Metallica
4. Holiday - Green Day
5. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

I dont learn songs unless its for the band and those ^ are the only songs ive been asked to learn so I did.

[Sync0pation]

Ja!

Can I lay down RHCP stuff? Sure, if I took the time to learn it. Would it sound like chad? Nah, I'm not chad.. I could attempt to emulate his feel, wich requires a lot of effort as he is a very lively player.

It's not so much like "oh i can play this". It's just, can you play. I've played TooL, RATM, RHCP, etc live many times. I've had to go and learn the parts, the grooves and fills. It's just playing...

You either can play solid, or not, regaurdless of the groove you are playing.

I know. I've spent countless hours playing along to Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Stadium Arcadium, Californication, and By the Way. I know the drum parts, and have played along to the CD many, many times.

If I meant "oh I can play this" I could have added Weezer, the White Stripes, AC/DC in there.

RHCP is the band that I play along to allll the time. I know most of the drum parts (from the Chad Smith era), and even the fills from listening to them so much.

[Loser]

I'm 17, I've been playing about 6 years, and I can play Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, but it gets kind of tough at times.


Also, in reality, I just don't play songs

[We_Love_Lime]

wahahaha it's stuff like that, that just shows people really don't know what "playing a song" is.

I think what he's getting at is that.
If the drum part was put out on a peice of paper. He would play it, note for note without messing up.
No one can duplicate another person's drumming...
Why don't you get on somebodys case for playing Bonham. Or Mitchell. You can't tell me that those drummers were famous just for the notes they played...

*I'm probably really late in this argument*.
*Probably should have kept his mouth shut*

[Bonham#1!]

Loser I thought you were older.

Limes right.

[Drum Monkey]

Age- 31
Time playing- 16 years
Songs:
1. Grind to Metal - Black Steel
2. Slaughterhouse - Black Steel
3. The Friars Lantern - Syzygy
4. Atmosphere - Syzygy
5. Mercury's Tears - Syzygy
Haha nice one :lol:

One of the first Black Steel songs I heard was Relentless Force and it has a pretty cool sound to it, as in fun to play!

-DM

[mysticalyeti]

I'd say that Damo wins this thread and that most others are a tad overconfident.

[stevensonmat2]

age-17
playing time-9 months
songs-
Alive-Pearl Jam
Over The Hills and Far Away-Led Zep
When the Levee Breaks-Led Zep
Fly Like an Eagle- Steve Miller Band
Cocaine-Clapton

these are just some songs my band covers

[saars]

Age: 14
Number of Years Playing: 1
Songs: Umm...
1. Unholy Confessions - Avenged Sevenfold
2. Note to Self - From First to Last
3. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
4. Seperate Ways - Journey
5. Subdivisions - Rush

[Seafroggys]

I'd say that Damo wins this thread and that most others are a tad overconfident.

Nah, I can play Fire, my band does it live, the bass and guitar and vocals are way easy and they can never get them down :lol:

My playing style matches Mitchell more than anybody's, actual. It's not hard for me to 'emulate' him cause I sound like him!

[Perroquet Magique]

Age: 16
Played for: 3 and a bit years
Songs I can play and like playing along to:
Mellowship slinky in B major - RHCP
Killing in the name - RATM
**** Religion - Propagandhi
Come on (let the good times roll) - Jimi
Smoke on the water - deep purple

[Bloodlust]

Age: 16
Years Playing: 1.5
Songs I can Confidently Play:
Dead Stale Endings- Job for a Cowboy
Sugar were goin down- fall out boy(yeah idc haha)
Undefined- AILD (expect for that stupid fill after the breakdown thingy)
uh.. do my bands songs count? haha

[daku]

Age: 14
Number of Years Playing: 1
Songs: Umm...
1. Unholy Confessions - Avenged Sevenfold
2. Note to Self - From First to Last
3. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
4. Seperate Ways - Journey
5. Subdivisions - Rush


That's impressive for 1 year.

[trysthedrummer]

Im 17. 18 in May. Been at it for...about 4 years now. (1 year was just at school using a kit)

I could give anything a try. I don't play with tracks frequently, I did Muse stuff ages ago, but anyone here should be able to do what Dom does.

[FL3P]

It's good to see the diversity being shown by some young drummers.

[Aaron]

Age: 20 years, 6 months, 26 days
Years playing: 6 years

Pendulum - Through the Loop
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Strange Meadow Lark
Tool - Stinkfist
Porcupine Tree - The Start of Something..
Rise Against - Prayer of the Refugee
Diversity FTW!

[Dave*Grohl]

Age: 16
Played for: 3 and a bit years
Songs I can play and like playing along to:
Mellowship slinky in B major - RHCP
Killing in the name - RATM
**** Religion - Propagandhi
Come on (let the good times roll) - Jimi
Smoke on the water - deep purple

That song is called "Haillie Sellasse Up Your ***". A f*cking awesome song!

[ThatOneDrummer]

age-14
played for-two years
songs-
1.dream theater-as i am
2.dream theater-home
3.the killers-mr. brightside
4.blink 182-stockholm syndrome (please no flaming)
5.avenged sevenfold-sidewinder

[Bonham#1!]

Flame Flame. As I am is a dope song though

[goalieman92]

no offense but i dont believe you can play moby dick for a second.

I was bored one week and and was in a very Zepplin like mood and that's all I worked on. no offense taken. It is hard to believe. It isn't note for note the same, and I take out the timpani part seeing as I don't have one, but is really similar. Believe it or not.

[DillingerEscp]

age: 20
years play: 11

Dillinger Escape Plan - sugar coated sour
Dillinger Escape Plan -panasonic youth
Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt

Meshuggah - autonomy lost
Dream Theater - Honor thy father

I dont know... If I listen through almost any song a couple time, I can get it.

[slim_jim147]

Age-15
Time playing-maybe 3 or 4 years (I don't really know)
Songs
1.One-Metallica
2.Master of puppets-Metallica
3.Home-Dream Theater
4.The Dance of Eternity-Dream theater
5.The first part(before the slow part)Paradigm Shift-liquid tension experiment
5½. The part before the solo or Acid Rain-Liquid Tension Experiment

I can play a lot of little part from a lot of song like
-Under a glass moon -dream theater (the double bass riff)
-Chris and kevin's exelent adventure - liquid tension experiment(the main riff)
-Universal mind -liquid tension experiment (the 7/8, 8/8, 7/8, 7/8 riff)

and many more

I dont know... If I listen through almost any song a couple time, I can get it.
If you have good ears and After 11 years of playing, I guess it is normal !!!
(correct me if I'm worng)

[ThatOneDrummer]

Age-15
Time playing-maybe 3 or 4 years (I don't really know)
Songs
1.One-Metallica
2.Master of puppets-Metallica
3.Home-Dream Theater
4.The Dance of Eternity-Dream theater
5.The first part(before the slow part)Paradigm Shift-liquid tension experiment
5½. The part before the solo or Acid Rain-Liquid Tension Experiment

I can play a lot of little part from a lot of song like
-Under a glass moon -dream theater (the double bass riff)
-Chris and kevin's exelent adventure - liquid tension experiment(the main riff)
-Universal mind -liquid tension experiment (the 7/8, 8/8, 7/8, 7/8 riff)

and many more


If you have good ears and After 11 years of playing, I guess it is normal !!!
(correct me if I'm worng)
can you play all of the dance of eternity? that last part is confusing as hell for me, and i have the sheet music too >.<
and yea, Bonham, as i am is probably my fav. song to play :D

[Seahawk]

Ag3 16-
playing five years
1. Tom Sawyer - Rush
2. Carry On - Kansas
3. A ton of other stuff. I have to play most of this stuff for rock orchestra. goin on tour in 3 months.
4. most System of a down
5. some children of bodom and gwar

[FockerTheLopper]

age: 20
years play: 11

Dillinger Escape Plan - sugar coated sour
Dillinger Escape Plan -panasonic youth
Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt

Meshuggah - autonomy lost
Dream Theater - Honor thy father

I dont know... If I listen through almost any song a couple time, I can get it.

Impressive although I don't like that music.

[ofDooM]

im 15 and ive been drumming so far half my life.

Opeth - Deliverance

i dont practice songs really.

[FockerTheLopper]

im 15 and ive been drumming so far half my life.

Opeth - Deliverance

i dont practice songs really.

I'm jealous...

[CHRSHARE]

Age - 16
Time playing - 3 years

5 songs:
Audioslave-Cochise
The Clash-Should I Stay or Should I Go
Nirvana-Talk To Me
Alice in Chains-Man In The Box
Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit

[Futuro]

Alice in Chains \M/ One of the only rock bands I like nowadays.

[BSU_53]

Age 20
Time playing 2 1/2 years

My only background really is in jazz and blues, so I don't know many rock songs, although i can play most of the ones i hear. And jazz and blues most songs are a lot the same in tempo and structure but very different in feel. So being as i can adapt to most jazz song's feel...I will list 5 of my favorite songs to play(each from a different artist)

1. Travel John - John Scofield Trio (the whole enRoute CD is very fun to play to)
2. Strange Meadowlark - Dave Brubeck Quartet
3. Nature Boy - Alex Riel
4. Shoes of the Fisherman's wife - Charles Mingus
5. Afro Blue - John Coltrane

[Tim]

18 years old will be 19 on the 28th of this month. =)=)
been playing for a little over 2 and a half years. self tought.
dont know too many songs on my own i usually practice out of advanced funk studies the book or random grooves i see on drummerworld or drum vids so i dont really try to play covers but i do know:
1.tool-shcism
2. tool-sober
3.tool-stinkfist
4. cky-escape from hellview
5. cky-sink into the underground (first song i learned about 2 weeks into my drumming)

[MyShrimpDied]

Age: 18

Years Playing: 6 years

Songs: Death - Spirit Crusher
Primus - John The Fisherman
Rush - Limelight
Rush - Red Barchetta
Frank Zappa - Keep It Greasey

[We_Love_Lime]

That song is called "Haillie Sellasse Up Your ***". A f*cking awesome song!

That's an immature song title.

[The Chemist]

Age: 19 (20 in several weeks)
Years playing: 7

when do you turn?

anyways
19 (20 on January 12th)
Years playing: 7ish on kit

songs:
Get this right! - Raised Fist
This Curse of Days - Death by Stereo
Middle Fingers - Death by Stereo
Clayman - In Flames
Episode 666 - In Flames

[Seafroggys]

November 26

[Little Android Man]

15 (just turned on october 10th)

about a year and 2 months

SOAD- Toxicity
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Freebird
Nirvana- Smells like teen spirit
Led Zepp- Stairway to Heaven
Led Zepp- Dazed and confused

[Dave*Grohl]

That's an immature song title.

It still kicks butt

[Elmo McCheese]

Age 15, playing for a year an a half (played guitar for 3 years before that, so I picked it up rather quickly)

5 Best songs I can play well I'd say are

Schism by Tool
Laid to Rest by Lamb of God
Final Product by Nevermore (not perfect, it's hard)
Andromeda by Hopesfall (band covered it)

Uh that's it for covers really, 99% of the stuff I do is for my band or just messing around


Age 13
Time playing- 5 Years
Songs:
1. The Ocean-Led Zeppelin
2. The Glass Prison-Dream Theater
3. Euology-Tool
4. Fire-Jimi Hendrix
5. Blood of the Scribe-Lamb of God

Requesting video of you playing all 13 minutes of the glass prison.

[Murd_666]

Age: 15
Years Playing: 2 years

What the World Will Never Take
One Way
Light
Tell The World
Bless The Lord
-All United Live

I know those songs with some small changes in our own discretion from playing in my youth band. I also know small bit's of song, I can play Children of Bodem - Living Dead Beat by tapping, when I get a hold of a double we'll see how it goes on the kit!

[ofDooM]

I'm jealous...

kinda obsessed with that song so i had to transcribe it. i lost the papers... (bad short term memory; paper and pencil are required)

[ludvista29]

Age 15, playing for a year an a half (played guitar for 3 years before that, so I picked it up rather quickly)

5 Best songs I can play well I'd say are

Schism by Tool
Laid to Rest by Lamb of God
Final Product by Nevermore (not perfect, it's hard)
Andromeda by Hopesfall (band covered it)

Uh that's it for covers really, 99% of the stuff I do is for my band or just messing around




Requesting video of you playing all 13 minutes of the glass prison.
lol, I didnt see cofindentally on the top, I gotta edit it.

[FockerTheLopper]

kinda obsessed with that song so i had to transcribe it. i lost the papers... (bad short term memory; paper and pencil are required)

Not even that, it just takes alot of double bass chops and its one of the only good songs that really "overdoes" double bass.

[Josiah]

I've seen pro's struggle through schism. That's a HARD song. No way people are actually playing it after such short times...

[ofDooM]

i dont know if i can still pull it off anymore. back before summer my feet were on equal par with my hands. i practiced less than 5 times in summer due to a few issues.

im trying to regain my control i had.

and its one of the only good songs that really "overdoes" double bass.

thats martin lopez for you...

[FockerTheLopper]

17 playing almost 3 years, I can play...
The Heats on - Count Basie
Coconut Champane - Maynard Fergueson
Rock And Roll - Zeppelin
Santaria - Sublime
The Police - Message in a Bottle

But the point isn't that I can play those. I can play almost any song in the style so this thread is kind of pointless since we don't have a melodic instrument where you need to learn a song note for note or its going to sound sour. If get 2 guitarists and 2 drummers to go for the same gig, the guitarists will play the same thing exept for the sounds of the guitar, the drums will be 100% different.

[LoneStarDrummer]

age - 19 (20 on the 12th)
playing - hard to say really. i'ved owned a drum set for a while but never really took it seriuous until about three yrs ago, so i'd say somewhere less than 5 yrs.

as far as songs go, i've never actually taken the time to memorize an entire song. i used to enjoy grooving along as best i could to deep purple, led zeppelin and taking concepts from peart, but never memorized an entire song from another band well enough to cover it.

[jttdrummer14]

14, 2/12 years

YYz by rush
Limelight by rush
closer to the heart (with Glokenspiel) by rush
no one knows by queens of the stone age
smells like teen spirit by nirvana

[sportsfan4427]

Age: 19 (20 in several weeks)
Years playing: 7

Songs I can play confidentially....actually, I don't really know that many. For that manner, me playing a song = grooving on top of it, without a care to the original drum parts. Though I can kinda 'match' up to these:

15
3 1/2 years


Fire - Jimi Hendrix
Who are You - The Who
Oh Darling - The Beatles
Flight of the Rat - Deep Purple
Back in Black - AC/DC ;)

that's what i do too haha so much funnier


but i do know a lotta Zeppelin like Immagrant Song, Whole Lotta Love, Heart Breaker and Black Dog

Then i know some Tool...actually only 2 Lateralus and Schism

[slim_jim147]

can you play all of the dance of eternity? that last part is confusing as hell for me, and i have the sheet music too >.<



yes I can play all the song but there is some part that confuse me but I can play them :smoke:

[Inkstar]

Age: 16
Played for: 8 years (only serious for about the past 2 or 3 years though)
Songs:
1. Home - Dream Theater
2. Sacrificed Sons - Dream Theater
And many jazz pieces (pretty complicated arrangements - good Stage Band) including:
-Big Spender
-Zoot Zoot Riot
-Fever
-Tangerine
-Beyond The Sea
-Fantasy

And stuff. Can play more DT and some hardcore stuff but I don't normally listen to hardcore. It was to jam with my mate.

[isp_of_doom]

1. Captain Greg - Straight to the can tuna fish
2. Peoples drum circle - We can't play this song live
3. Nostril - One inch to hell
4. Zajj - Telemarketing polymeters
5. Millard Mulch - The Boy with a Perfectly Square Butthole strikes back!

I haven't heard of a single one of those. Says something about my listening :(

As for me:

Age: 18 (19 in June 07)
Years playing: 3 in February 07
Songs:
1. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
2. Dream Theater - Hells Kitchen
3. Rush - Bastille Day
4. Tool - Lateralus
5. Tower of Power - Soul with a Capital 'S'

I'm also with Josiah on this one. But I think its too early for me to just get used to a songs structure and play over it...

[isp_of_doom]

Quote:
Originally Posted by ofDooM View Post
im 15 and ive been drumming so far half my life.

Opeth - Deliverance

i dont practice songs really.
I'm jealous...

I have to say... I'm jealous too. But on one of those really, really good days, I was able to play through deliverance quite well. One of the greatest songs written imo.

[FockerTheLopper]

I have to say... I'm jealous too. But on one of those really, really good days, I was able to play through deliverance quite well. One of the greatest songs written imo.

Heh, I'm listening to it now(in a long while) and even the grooves seem complex... But they fit, and groove, Martin is a genious, anyone know what hes doing now?

[TormentorScott]

I don't learn songs very often, but I do it often enough so that I can remember what it feels like to play a song, part for part, as its a good tool. I usually just jam over music though. Eh.

[Dave*Grohl]

I might as well join in:

Age: 17 (18 on the 9th)
Years playing: 3 years seriously
Songs:
Foo Fighters - For all the cows
Foo Fighters cover: Pink Floyd - Have a cigar
Nirvana - Scentless apprentice
Nofx - Linoleum
Jimi Hendrix - Little wing

[rohbit]

I might as well join in:

Age: 17 (18 on the 9th)
Years playing: 3 years seriously
Songs:
Foo Fighters - For all the cows
Foo Fighters cover: Pink Floyd - Have a cigar
Nirvana - Scentless apprentice
Nofx - Linoleum
Jimi Hendrix - Little wing

Ha! The Intro to "For all the Cows." That was the first beat I ever learn how to play!

[Dave*Grohl]

I love the song!!

[SparBZ]

15 - 16 in January
Playin' for almost 3 years.

1. Chameleon - Herbie Hancock
2. Frankenstein - EWG
3. Moondance - Van Morrison
4. Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
5. In Walked Bud - Thelonious Monk

[Trivium616]

Age: 15
Years playing: 2
Songs:
1. Dream Theater - Under A Glass Moon
2. Dream Theater - Home
3. Dream Theater - Overture 1928/Strange Deja Vu
4. Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity
5. Opeth - Master's Apprentice


That's just some, I like playing songs. I've got all of those 5 down perfectly though.

[FL3P]

This I would like to hear.

[rohbit]

I love the song!!

Same! It's the song I remember most from my first Foo Fighters concert. It's so mellow and then it just KICKS! I remember bouncing up and down with the crowd and singing at the top of my lungs.... man, good times!

[Futuro]

This I would like to hear.

Same. I highly doubt it is perfect. Most people cant even keep time after 2 years.

[We_Love_Lime]

I know how that goes.

[Futuro]

I know how that goes.

It happens. :thumb: When I was drumming for 2 years I thought my time was Perfect! Now I listen and I see how much it really did suck.

After 6 years I still have tendancy to hit some kick notes a few milliseconds off. And my time still is far from perfect.

[FL3P]

We all thought we must have sounded amazing once we started learning how to play songs for the first time. Then we listen back and realize how annoying it must have been for our parents and everyone to hear us play crap and be so proud of it. That's just how it goes but some kids seem a little too confident.

[ofDooM]

Heh, I'm listening to it now(in a long while) and even the grooves seem complex... But they fit, and groove, Martin is a genious, anyone know what hes doing now?

so far no new news about him.

[FarFromElysium]

16
2 years 9 months

As I lay Dying- Confined
bleeding Through- Love Lost in a Hail of Gunfire
Trivium- Ascendancy
All that remains- This darkened heart
Unearth- Giles

if you couldnt guess, i like metalcore

[Trivium616]

This I would like to hear.

I can play them! I was in school band on snare and other percussion instruments from 4th-9th grade so I know how to read music and keep a beat and stuff just fine. If I had a digital video camera or something I would record some songs and upload them for you guys, but I'm broke and I can't really afford a video camera right now.

[FL3P]

I believe that you can play the songs and it's good that you challenge yourself. I don't mean any offense but i find it hard to believe you can make them sound anything like the original.

[Trivium616]

Eh, it might not sound exactly like the original, but it's pretty damn close. I could try to record just the audio of it and get it up maybe? I will admit, I do have some work to do on Under A Glass Moon after the guitar solo, but not much.

[FL3P]

I'm not trying to insult or pick on you. if you put up a recording and you prove me wrong then so be it.

[Trivium616]

Yeah, I understand that you're not. I suppose it is kinda hard to believe though. I'll try to get a recording of one of them and get it up here.

[Dave*Grohl]

Same! It's the song I remember most from my first Foo Fighters concert. It's so mellow and then it just KICKS! I remember bouncing up and down with the crowd and singing at the top of my lungs.... man, good times!

Foo fighters is one of those bands that i have to see live before i die or they brake up!!!

If they would only come to finland damnit!

[FooBuddy1989]

^^i couldn't agree with you more, except i live in america, i know every one of their songs because i love them so much, but anyway

17
been playing for 3 years and 5 months
1. Led Zeppelin- Ramble on
2. Foo Fighters- Low
3. Foo Fighters- Hell
4. Foo Fighters- FFL
5. Led Zeppelin- Trampled underfoot

I dont really learn songs to play em all that much anymore(except for the Foo Fighters), usually i learn em if my band's gonna cover em

[Inkstar]

We all thought we must have sounded amazing once we started learning how to play songs for the first time. Then we listen back and realize how annoying it must have been for our parents and everyone to hear us play crap and be so proud of it. That's just how it goes but some kids seem a little too confident.

So true. Especially Dream Theater. Even if you've got it down, the drums can sound **** without the other instuments. My folks are always like "why can't you play some proper beats or something".

[Dave*Grohl]

^^i couldn't agree with you more, except i live in america, i know every one of their songs because i love them so much, but anyway

17
been playing for 3 years and 5 months
1. Led Zeppelin- Ramble on
2. Foo Fighters- Low
3. Foo Fighters- Hell
4. Foo Fighters- FFL
5. Led Zeppelin- Trampled underfoot

I dont really learn songs to play em all that much anymore(except for the Foo Fighters), usually i learn em if my band's gonna cover em

One of the funnest foo songs to play along to is Everlong and Learn to fly

[daku]

18
been playing for 2 years and 4 months
1. Incubus - Sick sad little world
2. Incubus - Circles
3. APC - 3 libras
4. Red hot chili peppers - Venice queen
5. Deftones - Digital bath (SICK groove IMO)

[trysthedrummer]

Digital Bath is a brilliant groove. The drums are recorded very well. Very well done indeed. All the album.

[FooBuddy1989]

One of the funnest foo songs to play along to is Everlong and Learn to fly

definately yes to everlong, but learn to fly isn't so much my style, Aurora and New Way Home and My poor brain are so fun to play

[DW_]

Age - 16
Time playing - 6 and a half years or so.

I haven't tried learning any songs for a very long time, but the last ones I did learn are:
The Mars Volta - Son Et Lumiere/Intertiatic ESP
The Bled - My Assassin
and the majority of The Mars Volta - Viscera Eyes
oh yea I remembered I learned Incubus - Pardon Me and Agoraphobia a while back.

Yeah.

[Schmudiments]

Age - 15
Yrs Playing - 3

- In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 // Coheed and Cambria
- The Glass Prison // Dream Theater
- Paradigm Shift // Liquid Tension Experiment
- Charlie // Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Xanadu // Rush


:smash:

[isp_of_doom]

Age: 15
Years playing: 2
Songs:
1. Dream Theater - Under A Glass Moon
2. Dream Theater - Home
3. Dream Theater - Overture 1928/Strange Deja Vu
4. Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity
5. Opeth - Master's Apprentice


That's just some, I like playing songs. I've got all of those 5 down perfectly though.

I'd like to hear masters apprentice recorded. the others I can believe, as I had played for about 2 years when I learnt the Dance of Eternity... its really quite simple once you break it down into segments. I must play it again :\