@@TheSageCookieuwu he's hitting the snare only on the 4th beat. Normal snares are on 2 and 4, sometimes only at 3. This doesn't mean he's off tempo, off tempo means he's playing faster or slower than everyone.
@@europeanian4205 pft Lars doesnt suck he's a pro drummer and been gigging for decades, some of you guys just take it to far Lars ain't the choppiest grooviest drummers drummer but he backed some legendary original songs and held it down with a legendary successful band. Thats more than most all of his haters have accomplished
Seen a few of those drummers who miss the Snare and drop the sticks every 30 seconds. I would have took over but the bands were always playing terrible radio songs
As a former high school jazz band drummer who hasn't touched a kit in 20ish years, I can confirm there are dozens of us, Lars included. Hell, I was staying in tempo with my finger drums on my desk watching this...
I love how with 40 years of experience playing drums professionally around the world he hasn’t learned that you can add kicks to your fills, doesn’t just have to be snare & toms broski lmao
@@bxhrbr4940 …well let’s not get ahead of ourselves 🤣🤣🤣 He was definitely a beast on the first 5 albums, and he was pretty solid even up through St. Anger (his drums sounded like ass but his playing was actually great). It was right after st anger where things fell off.
@@jams7781 Everyone here talking shit on Lars' drumming either isn't a drummer or is even more basic of a musician than Lars is. Most of these fills are mostly on, albeit most of them annoying to my tastes. Still on though. The quick cutting between clips definitely makes them stand out a lot more. Lot of arrogance here.
The only thing that is wrong with any of these fills is that some of them are noticeably out of tempo but that’s extremely common for drummers to do especially when not playing to a click. Lars gets a ton of completely unjustified hate. Yes he’s not technical like modern metal drummers but why would you expect him to do anything else than what he’s gotten good at?
While simplistic, a lot of the fills are fitting and actually a core component to the overall Metallica sound. Some are just bad and/or poorly played, though.
I realized that when I played guitar hero Metallica on the drums, now I can’t unhear it ever again. Although it also made me realize how good he can be when he wants to.
He was actually very good on The Call of Ktulu,, his drumming was unpredictable and very complex. I bet nobody can cover exactly the drum part like the record even lars himself.
someone apparently listened in on james' monitors in his ears that was playing at one of his sets and believe it or not all evidence actually points to james being the one who keeps the rhymth of the band, as in lars is following what james does and not the other way around
@@paddypenguin8895There’s history of dodgy timekeeping in metal bands as far back as Sabbath tho. Bill Ward played along with Geezer. He described himself as “a percussionist”.
@@user-sf7kl9uh7k One of modern metal's pivotal moments was the time Slipknot's Joey Jordison and Slayer's Dave Lombardo filled in for Lars Ulrich during Metallica's set at Download festival in 2004. Unable to appear due to a health emergency brought on by exhaustion, Ulrich's no-show left the band's set in doubt.
They are successful because of the period where Lars was actually good, when they released their best albums, not because of the last 30 years, so you're not really wrong 😅
ok some of these are super painful but he also write a TON of iconic parts and led untold thousands to pick up sticks. I have a lot of respect for his creativity.
When are the drums the iconic part of any metallica song? He always plays the most boring beginner level rhythms that he could possibly get away with, at best he's decent enough to not be too big of a distraction from the actual iconic parts played by the rest of the band.
When I see truly exceptional drummers, like Thomas Haake or the late Vinny Paul, I am always amazed at how they can be so percussive but precise at the same time, like every stroke is perfectly practiced and calculated to wring the best tone out of their drums. Then I see Lars and immediately think of a toddler banging on pots and pans while his parents consider adoption.
@@OrphanMartian simon phillips too, there are a lot of absolutely great drummers (Ie musicians). scott travis from judas priest, marco minnemann. they're solid. tom hunting from exodus. see, i got carried away.
@@JiihaaS Dave mustaine did a blood pact & summoned the devil on their show. He was flying around the rafters... up by all them hockey and basketball banners.
@2 Other well I didn't think Lars would be staring at the ceiling for no reason unless there was something up there. It was the devil and Dave flying around the basketball & Hockey banners.. thanks for the thumbs up I appreciate that
Lars is by far the most influential metal drummer. The guy's innovative kick drum fills were the speed metal pearls of the eighties. Loved to listen to them then, and I still do.
I think the entire decade of the 2000’s up until 2012 might have been Lars’s worst period of drumming. The level of laziness and his inability to play his drum parts like the albums really shows in the time period. I did read somewhere that James and Kirk finally had a come to Jesus meeting with Lars’s live performances. After Metallica played the Glastonbury Festival a few years ago is when they told him he needs to tighten up. Lars literally and completely screwed up the timing of Creeping Death and played the first section of the song twice leaving James, Kirk, and Rob lost and confused. Luckily James being a good frontman and leader managed to save the performance and song without stopping and making it look too obvious. In Lars’s defense now, I think his live drumming has improved and is much better than it was back in the 2000’s and early 2010’s. Clearly his best days of drumming are long behind him but he has been doing a much better job since the release of 2016’s Hardwired to Self Destruct. What I find completely astonishing is that Kirk is the one making mistakes live by screwing up his guitar parts.
One of the recent ones I watched was TGTF from maybe three or four years back. It was horrific. Fluctuating tempo, rushed fills, and completely neglecting the drum flourishes that makes that song great. The comments were all positive though so I think I'm in the minority in finding it unlistenable.
"Out of tempo"? Nah, you just don't understand his "Odd time signatures".. annnd, neither does anyone else..(Including, and perhaps especially Lars). 🤣
His playing here 0:39 looks like the nightmares I have playing drums at a live gig where my limbs move at 1/8th the speed they can in real life and I have to play songs my body can’t physically process
Like Gene Simmons w kiss!! Take the easy road for a buck!! Lars needs a serious slap in the EGO! After which he'd suck his teeth for a half hour while making up excuses for the fact that he's a lousy drummer!! And he really always has been,,go back and listen to the old stuff,,,, nothing to write home about and it's only gotten worse!! All about the money.
My theory is that Lars originally got to jam with Metallica as part of a Make-a-Wish Foundation wish fulfillment in the early 80’s, and, astonishingly, he made a full recovery! …unfortunately, the other guys in the band were too polite to tell him that playing with them was supposed to be a ‘one-off’ thing. 40+ years later, Lars is still sitting behind the drum kit bashing out arrhythmic fills like a chimp on trucker speed.
I`m not any particular fan of Metallica, but even i have got to admit that James, Kirk and Robert must be very skilled musicians to be able to keep in rythme and feel despite having Lars as a drummer. can`t even hate Lars for it really, he has managed to steal a living as a drummer for one of the most important metal bands in history, he set himself up for life with Metallica, so congratz for him for successfully managing to pull of this scam.
@@jamesarmstrong88 I heard that Lars recorded song sections separately and they spliced it together like Frankenstein to sound coherent on And Justice For All
I think a big part of Lars' problem is that even in the early days, when they were originally recording some of their big hits, he was a wildly inconsistent drummer. Listen to Master of Puppets; he almost never plays the same bar twice. He just can't help but throw in random crashes and fills. And now, all these years later, it's no wonder he can't remember how to play them. Now, not only does he just throw in random fills, he can't even keep them in time anymore. I think that's why the Black Album was so popular; it was just back to basics. Most songs on the album Lars just plays a standard beat with bass on 1 & 3 and snare on 2 & 4. Which let the rest of the band have a bit more fun with it. But now he can't even play those songs right.
thats the first thing a beginner drummer does to impress - add random crashes and fills. i mean, what else is he gonna do to mask up the fact that he can't really drum? the problem is that this strategy actually works on most non musicians.
He's so in between Time signatures its like hes playing right into the idea that he sucks but i bet this is just high brow jazz improv on display. I mean this IS a guy that sips champagne well selling art for millions of dollars okay. He's not dumb, he's... special. :)
idk lars isnt a great technical drummer but his ability to make music is undeniable the reason why hes so successful get basically writes all of the songs
@@spaghettisauce445 correction, Lars helps to arrange the music ... most of it is written by the other members, first and foremost, one of the best lyricists ever ... James Hetfield. Without James, there would be no Metallica. Lars would go crawling back to Dave Mustaine without James.
But if he hits the wrong notes accurately every time, does that mean he's doing something, right? So he just rewrote all the drum tracks for every Metallica song every single time he plays it? 🤔
@@user-py3py5sx2f Yeah I know mate, I was probably a little harsh with my words.. But we weren't watching a jazz quartet with a virtuoso drummer presenting his final arrangement for his PhD candidacy or the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra tuning up for a world performance at Royal Albert Hall.... It's a rock/metal band, where 99% of all drummers ain't arranging their drumming based upon the key signature and the selection of the correct note frequency from the chromatic scale. They're laying down a back beat for the most part and staying well away from the melody. Plus it's Lars, a little too much criticised for my liking, but he's not part of the
I’ve been saying this for years- he literally sounds like someone who has been playing six months yet has the confidence of a rockstar. I don’t get how he hasn’t been pressured by the band to refine himself.
to me it is incredible how for years they bullied jason newstead, how lars fucked up and justice for all out of being shitty with the new guy, and still plays like this with confidence lmao
David Nwokoye I’m only getting pissed when he is unnecessarily filling when playing slower songs like one/welcome home/ nothing else matters... kills the mood everytime
@Potato Man According to him , between kill em all and Ride the lightning he took drum lessons And thats why it improved a lot between both albums plus touring Also i think he really practiced then , just see the progression till 1989 .
Hands up any of you drummers out there who have never overplayed or lost track of the tempo, especially during mad practice jams (like @02:19)? Lars still a much better drummer than I will ever be...
YES I REMEMBER THIS = "SAD BUT TRUE" - At around 55 seconds - they changed the Album version TRIPLET into QUARTER NOTES for the S&M orchestral concert. Somehow, Lars NEVER went back to the original Triplet thing because he always started the song too fast in the first place, making the whole vocal and guitar and bass thing impossible, and his drumming to be IN BETWEEN somewhere between a triplet and quarter note. call it a "3.6666666" in that case. Hey, I love some of Lars' creations. I do. Just pointing that out.
Reminds me of these guys from the audience you allow to play just one simple song on your kit, who hasn`t played in years. And watching suffering your band mates, you think "Damn hopefully he won`t break my kit." This is Lars Ulrich Style.
He formed them, that's the only reason he's in the band at all. If he auditioned even a couple months after Hetfield and some other person formed Metallica, he would not have gotten the gig.
agree and most drummers find it hard to follow his weird fills, i have a band back then our drummer has no problems with slayer songs but metallica gets him pretty heat up because of the unexpected fills that is not uniform to the next platform.
@@renegadusunidos6151 i agree with that, sometimes live versions of songs get a bit weird, but i think for the most part they fit in a weird kind of way. it's just an out of the box way of playing, and i feel it gives life to a good majority of the songs live but in some cases it is out of wack.
He's so self taught it's crazy. You can tell no one told him how to play, he just went with it and did his own thing. Like him or not, nobody plays like him and I know I'll miss him badly the day he's gone.
Lots of people play like him, most people don't know that because it is only for a short period of time until they actually develop. I apologize to Lars if I am wrong but I seriously do not believe he is a good drummer nor a unique one, only thing outstanding about the guy is that he managed to keep playing like someone that just started drumming last month for decades now
Plenty of people play like him. They're mostly teenagers who piss off their bandmates by playing beyond their skill level just just for the sake of being "creative."
That was exactly what happened when Lombardo subbed in for them back in Downloads ages back. They were so used to Lars fucking up the Battery drum break but he dragged them back right in time.
I mean, if he manages to stay in tempo it’s a win. So the fact there are drum fills at all is kind of impressive in its own way. Also, Kirk’s expressions are the gift that keeps on giving…appalled, sad, angry, relieved…
I mean, yea... It's alright. He serves his purpose in the band, no doubt about that and their success speaks for itself. That said, it could be literally anyone there even you or me. Only think I give him credit for is for writing some of the drums and songs, maybe we wouldn't be able to do that, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
You would think that Lars would be able to figure out how to improvise fills on songs that HE WROTE with 40 odd years of playing in Metallica, but he’s Lars so…
At least he sounds pretty unique, there's no other drummer quite like him, for better or worse. That fill at 3:22 was pretty decent though, I'm stealing that.
This kinda implies he's super talented / very well-trained, it'd have to be рооr and uglу реорle saying lооks and mоnеy don't matter otherwise (as if they were соріng)
And you're so amazing at ??? The world wants to listen to you cus...??? That's right. You don't have anything the world wants to see or hear. Lars does. You don't.
I love lars, I am 43 and picked up drums a year ago. I can play a bunch of Metallica songs with double bass, makes me feel like I am getting somewhere. Now time to move up to a ac/dc back in black song.
I sincerely apologize for 2:19
As many of you stated, I am wrong there.
Anyways, beer?
amazing
Retsina u mean
I don't know, It kinda sounds off, but, I don't know, It might be a Out of Tune Guitar, Just Slightly, I don't know, I'm not an Expert.
@@TheSageCookieuwu he's hitting the snare only on the 4th beat. Normal snares are on 2 and 4, sometimes only at 3.
This doesn't mean he's off tempo, off tempo means he's playing faster or slower than everyone.
@@JawJX I was talking about the Guitar. smh
Lars is without a doubt one of the drummers in the world
One of the what?
@@wubonkald322 The joke that flew over your head
@@wubonkald322 one of the drummers.
Me too 😃😃
I'd also say that he is one of the drumers of the history.
This young man has only been playing for 40+ years. Let him find his sound guys.
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It literally makes zero sense for someone to play any instrument for as long as Lars and still suck ass.
You'd think after 40 years, he'd find his style. That is the beauty of Lars Ulrich.
@@europeanian4205 The beautiful thing is that he used to be really good but he somehow got worse
@@europeanian4205 pft Lars doesnt suck he's a pro drummer and been gigging for decades, some of you guys just take it to far Lars ain't the choppiest grooviest drummers drummer but he backed some legendary original songs and held it down with a legendary successful band. Thats more than most all of his haters have accomplished
"Ok, so I have to play this fill in 3 bars... I'd better play it now, what if I forget later ?" - Lars' thought process
Probably exactly what went through his head
Ive seen a drummer screw up a Soundgarden song (easy ballad) after the band had played it LITERALLY every week for 4+ YEARS.
Lars plays like he's in a garage band and no one else wanted to play drums so he started learning a few weeks ago
Seen a few of those drummers who miss the Snare and drop the sticks every 30 seconds. I would have took over but the bands were always playing terrible radio songs
Man, if I had to play the same songs every night for 40 years I would fill the shit out of them
even if you receive infinite amount of love and millions of dollar to do that?!
@@ariamehr3339 yeah.. It's his. Let him do what he wants. He owns it.
To be fair yeah, of I was playing the same set list for my whole life I’d just try to play each one completely differently
He cant fill
Vítor Martins people pay big money to hear their favorite songs from band, not fills from Lars lol
He's like an uncle who hasn't played in years, but still remembers some tricks and shows off on a family reunion xDDD
Shit it's very funny LoL
According to your math, I AM Lars.... *BASS SOLO TAKE ONE*
That is literally his skill level
Bahahahahahahahahaha so true
As a former high school jazz band drummer who hasn't touched a kit in 20ish years, I can confirm there are dozens of us, Lars included. Hell, I was staying in tempo with my finger drums on my desk watching this...
I love how with 40 years of experience playing drums professionally around the world he hasn’t learned that you can add kicks to your fills, doesn’t just have to be snare & toms broski lmao
You've gotta be a drummer to point that out lol. So true
lmfao
He knows adding kicks to the fills is surelly another point of failure.
Cracking up at "snare & toms broski"! lololol
Fuckin beat me to this comment
Decades of drumming and it doesn't show even a bit. Amazing.
He doesn't practice or take lessons. No care about improvement.
@@suburbanindie Yeah he knows he can get away with it because he's Lars Ulrich. That's his thing.
so stupid
I like the songs they’re playing though
Imagine this band...Lars on drums, Sid Vicious on bass, Yoko Ono on lead vocals, and Lil’ Wayne on guitar...
Look up “My pal Foot Foot” by The Shaggs. Closest we’re gonna get.
@@Bebe-hl1zx hahahaha! Way ahead of ya! A buddy of mine showed me them years ago. That band is rediculous!
Hahahhaaa! Rough, dude.😂
Fuck yeah😂
LOL!
Lars has progressively been unlearning drums over the years.
I think he just stopped practicing some time in the 90s. Nowadays he's truely a shit musician and Metallica is weaker because of him
Lol, he's been forgetting how to play for years
Have any of you watched any of this years live stuff? He’s playing better than he has in years.
@@percrunner1433 Jk, Lars is a good drummer.
@@bxhrbr4940 …well let’s not get ahead of ourselves 🤣🤣🤣
He was definitely a beast on the first 5 albums, and he was pretty solid even up through St. Anger (his drums sounded like ass but his playing was actually great). It was right after st anger where things fell off.
When I was 9 years old, Lars was my favorite drummer. Best thing I can say about the guy.
I later became a Rhythm Guitarist, which is when I figured out that the real drummer of Metallica was James.
@@user-ws7di2qo4t Lmao
When I was 9, Mr. T was my favorite actor. 😅
I actually quite like the fill on 1:33. It is a simple fill that actually works.
@@jams7781 Everyone here talking shit on Lars' drumming either isn't a drummer or is even more basic of a musician than Lars is. Most of these fills are mostly on, albeit most of them annoying to my tastes. Still on though. The quick cutting between clips definitely makes them stand out a lot more. Lot of arrogance here.
@@Explosivo11 Everyones got a hate boner for Lars, there's a place for more basic fills.
The only thing that is wrong with any of these fills is that some of them are noticeably out of tempo but that’s extremely common for drummers to do especially when not playing to a click. Lars gets a ton of completely unjustified hate. Yes he’s not technical like modern metal drummers but why would you expect him to do anything else than what he’s gotten good at?
While simplistic, a lot of the fills are fitting and actually a core component to the overall Metallica sound. Some are just bad and/or poorly played, though.
@@Explosivo11these fills are poorly played or/and out of tempo. Furthermore the problem is not that these fills are simple, but that they mostly suck
Lars is such a good drummer that the same song will always sound different every time he plays it.
Yeah he's quite versatile that way.
It's the Yellow Ledbetter syndrome.
@@gwarriorfromhell funny
Well Keith Moon did the same thing - difference is Keith was actually good.
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He isn't out of tempo
He's just playing in 6/19, while his band mates are playing in 4/4
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Therefore not on beat
2:05 Kirk is definitely thinking that he isn't being paid enough wah pedals for this
Maybe has something to do with the value of the wah coin at the time?
Dude definitely loves hitting the snare and a crash at the same time
I realized that when I played guitar hero Metallica on the drums, now I can’t unhear it ever again.
Although it also made me realize how good he can be when he wants to.
All my fills are necessary
angry lars ulrich heeeey!! Lars it’s me! Lol
Needs more cowbell (?)
Those drum fills are the foundation of Metallica's sound! I wouldn't want it any other way.
Try to play fills only.
They represent america.. represents freedom. It cant all be the same, because then they arent different
I swear to god his fills are literally what you play when ur jamming and cant think of what to play for a fill
IVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOREVER
Lol nailed it
I was gonna say, I feel guilty watching this knowing I do a lot of similar stuff when I'm just jamming on an off day
Tube's Got Talent.
@@user-pz5bg3zz5g thats not a good thing
He was actually very good on The Call of Ktulu,, his drumming was unpredictable and very complex. I bet nobody can cover exactly the drum part like the record even lars himself.
oh, he definitely cannot
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🤣 omg.
Unpredictable for sure
Man, this guy gives me confidence that I too could play in front of thousands. Wow.
Mad respect for the rest of the band to be able to keep rythm despite Lars.
someone apparently listened in on james' monitors in his ears that was playing at one of his sets and believe it or not all evidence actually points to james being the one who keeps the rhymth of the band, as in lars is following what james does and not the other way around
@@paddypenguin8895There’s history of dodgy timekeeping in metal bands as far back as Sabbath tho. Bill Ward played along with Geezer. He described himself as “a percussionist”.
😂😂😂👍
@@gm3043 Link, or it didn't happen.
@@user-sf7kl9uh7k One of modern metal's pivotal moments was the time Slipknot's Joey Jordison and Slayer's Dave Lombardo filled in for Lars Ulrich during Metallica's set at Download festival in 2004. Unable to appear due to a health emergency brought on by exhaustion, Ulrich's no-show left the band's set in doubt.
I've always believed that having a good drummer is essential for any band to be really great and successful. Metallica has proved me wrong
Underrated 😂
They actually have a very good drummer, named James Hetfield (who said once that he was playing playing drums on a guitar)
They are successful because of the period where Lars was actually good, when they released their best albums, not because of the last 30 years, so you're not really wrong 😅
@brugges he was never good honestly. Everyone else in Metallica is just so good, that it counterbalances Lars' terrible playing.
@@michaelzamora8056 "hE wAs nEvEr gOoD" stfu lmao. he absolutely was, cut the crap. And oh yeah...
He still is good enough for Metallica. suck it.
ok some of these are super painful but he also write a TON of iconic parts and led untold thousands to pick up sticks. I have a lot of respect for his creativity.
Mention an iconic part that a student can't play one week into lessons.
When are the drums the iconic part of any metallica song? He always plays the most boring beginner level rhythms that he could possibly get away with, at best he's decent enough to not be too big of a distraction from the actual iconic parts played by the rest of the band.
The drums on dyers eve are by far the best part of the song.
@@AlexDogwalker1234 the one right before the blackened harmony
0:30 Lars, my guy. I mean this nicely but its to just shave it all off
He´s a truly fighter.
He´s been fighting against good drumming and tempo for decades.
Tbh lately he has been pretty good
He was actually amazing on their second and third albums
Live shows from 1986-1989 prove that he was once a good drummer, he was never the best but during those years he definetly could hold his own.
@@kalil4133 he was pretty good on ajfa too
I love you Mike M.
Out of all the drummers on the planet, Lars was one of them.
Was? 🤣
@@MichaelDionneDrummer For 10 minutes in the late 90s.
@@MichaelDionneDrummer "was" sounds right
Wait. He‘s a drummer?
that joke is also burnt.
Lars is the epitome of a guitar player saying “hey bro can I play the drums for a little bit?”
When I see truly exceptional drummers, like Thomas Haake or the late Vinny Paul, I am always amazed at how they can be so percussive but precise at the same time, like every stroke is perfectly practiced and calculated to wring the best tone out of their drums. Then I see Lars and immediately think of a toddler banging on pots and pans while his parents consider adoption.
don't forget danny carey and tommy aldridge, who is like 98978 years old and still has it.
@@susrev88 Great choices, Tool is one of my all time favorites.
@@OrphanMartian simon phillips too, there are a lot of absolutely great drummers (Ie musicians). scott travis from judas priest, marco minnemann. they're solid. tom hunting from exodus. see, i got carried away.
Lmao and yet their songs sound amazing.
@@susrev88 i think Marco minnemann is a bit better than "solid" lol but I get your point
Lars is absolutely stunning and talented drummer. As a deaf man myself I really appreciate his artistry.
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Okay. Wait.....you as a what????
Funnily enough. Deaf people enjoy music mostly for the rhythmic vibration. Meaning, deaf people would probably be MORE annoyed with Lars' drumming lol
@@mikaelthebard5068 😅😂 oh gosh
kirk: noooo you cant just randomly hit the snare when playing in front of a large audience
lars: hehe drums go tatatatatatatata
It's a jazz improvisation. Lars has really evolved stylistically you see he's simply unpredictable.
@@leviathan3630 hahahahahaa
@@leviathan3630 lmao wat
Ur profile pic lmao
(Laughing)
Some people say Lars Ulrich is the best drummer in the world. They have yet to realize that Lars Ulrich isn't even the best drummer in his band
oh what an original joke, congratulations
What I hate about Lars's fills is he criminally constantly uses 3/4 fills (or 6/4 ones for that matter) in 4/4 tempos. WTF?
4/4 doesn't say anything about tempo (it's a time signature), but yes
it's called a style
James: What songs are we playing tonight?!
Lars: Let me fill you in.
Thx you made my day
ayyooooo
I see what you did there.
James: What songs are we playing tonight?!
Lars: Let me fill you in.
Kirk: wah wah😜
Kudos to you Mr Turkentorque for best comment and definitely weirdest name.
i like how lars is having the time of his life while the others are on their frayed ends of sanity
That's what is odd. He seems to have NO idea he's not playing well. Indication he has an enormous ego.
of course he's having a good time. he doesn't have to play with lars.
Drum kit supplied by Dunning-Kruger
Because of him lol
@@mikerogers9387😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He always looks like he's about to have a very serious conversation with the hi hat and the snare
Lars has always been the square peg in the round hole of drumming.
Tempo: *exists*
Lars: HE FOCKIN’ LEFT DA BAND
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Nice
Damn hahahahaha savage
Underrated comment
LMAAAO SO GOOD
3:29 My favorite is when Kirk looks angry at nothing, then James looks there too.. but there is nothing.
Then lars is looking at the ceiling.
Maybe they're possessed by demons?
@@JiihaaS Dave mustaine did a blood pact & summoned the devil on their show. He was flying around the rafters... up by all them hockey and basketball banners.
Dead End I don’t ta think tatata he tata has t* AD tatatata D tatatatatata
@2 Other well I didn't think Lars would be staring at the ceiling for no reason unless there was something up there. It was the devil and Dave flying around the basketball & Hockey banners.. thanks for the thumbs up I appreciate that
I think Lars is trying to find the right beat from the ceiling.
Metallica is the only band where the mixer says: "Alright, now let's bump up the bass so he can carry the band throughout the song"
Lars is by far the most influential metal drummer. The guy's innovative kick drum fills were the speed metal pearls of the eighties. Loved to listen to them then, and I still do.
No one:
Lars every 3 seconds:
tatatatata PING
From the same creators of brr brr DENG
Oh how I lol'd
Lars during ride the lightning with china: CHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCH
i would agree but you made a no one joke so it's a no for me
I think the entire decade of the 2000’s up until 2012 might have been Lars’s worst period of drumming. The level of laziness and his inability to play his drum parts like the albums really shows in the time period. I did read somewhere that James and Kirk finally had a come to Jesus meeting with Lars’s live performances. After Metallica played the Glastonbury Festival a few years ago is when they told him he needs to tighten up. Lars literally and completely screwed up the timing of Creeping Death and played the first section of the song twice leaving James, Kirk, and Rob lost and confused. Luckily James being a good frontman and leader managed to save the performance and song without stopping and making it look too obvious. In Lars’s defense now, I think his live drumming has improved and is much better than it was back in the 2000’s and early 2010’s. Clearly his best days of drumming are long behind him but he has been doing a much better job since the release of 2016’s Hardwired to Self Destruct. What I find completely astonishing is that Kirk is the one making mistakes live by screwing up his guitar parts.
Lars starter pack:
- Tongue out
- Occasional duck lips
- 90% fills, 10% rythm
- Tempo lagging or leading by few BPM
Rhythym
And looking hella lost all the time
@meow bastard Leave my basement room out of this would you?
And stand up as often as possible so the crowd can see you.
and after you the song ends, stand up and swipe your arm from left to right, expressing that you are done.
I learned how to play drums by listening to Lars. That was 25 years ago thank goodness
Respect for drummers with no feet, like Lars Ulrich.
The fills aren’t the problem. The problem is the sloppiness and inconsistent tempos.
It’s also the fills
Yes. Exactly
The sloppiness and out of tempo come when he sits in the stool with his knees above his hipbones. It’s mechanically and physically impossible!
Agreed. I can't watch any of their live performances anymore because of his ability to completely kill the groove stone dead.
One of the recent ones I watched was TGTF from maybe three or four years back. It was horrific. Fluctuating tempo, rushed fills, and completely neglecting the drum flourishes that makes that song great. The comments were all positive though so I think I'm in the minority in finding it unlistenable.
It's actually harder to play out of tempo for so long so very impressive
HAHAHHAHA
hhahaahahahahahahahahahaahhahahahahaha a positive statement. you sir are intelligent. not like all the idiots how hate and dont know shit about music.
"Out of tempo"? Nah, you just don't understand his "Odd time signatures".. annnd, neither does anyone else..(Including, and perhaps especially Lars). 🤣
he's probably deaf too
mmmm
I love how Lars looks like his just chilling in his own universe.
His playing here 0:39 looks like the nightmares I have playing drums at a live gig where my limbs move at 1/8th the speed they can in real life and I have to play songs my body can’t physically process
Lars is literally holding the band hostage
hahahahhahaha damn that was a good one
Yeah. Imagine where they'd be with a better drummer. So held back.
@russell lane so in other words it's like being in an abusive relationship with a rich person
@russell lane money
Like Gene Simmons w kiss!! Take the easy road for a buck!! Lars needs a serious slap in the EGO! After which he'd suck his teeth for a half hour while making up excuses for the fact that he's a lousy drummer!! And he really always has been,,go back and listen to the old stuff,,,, nothing to write home about and it's only gotten worse!! All about the money.
My theory is that Lars originally got to jam with Metallica as part of a Make-a-Wish Foundation wish fulfillment in the early 80’s, and, astonishingly, he made a full recovery! …unfortunately, the other guys in the band were too polite to tell him that playing with them was supposed to be a ‘one-off’ thing. 40+ years later, Lars is still sitting behind the drum kit bashing out arrhythmic fills like a chimp on trucker speed.
Lmao
It’s a possibility! :o
Is this thing a copy pasta? Funny af 😂
LMAO he just sounds rusty tbh
@@jjhayaNope. - just the thought that popped into my thinkin’ meat.
Lars is definitely slacking but I can never forget Creepin Death in Woodstock 99. His song writing was superb and so was the performance.
I`m not any particular fan of Metallica, but even i have got to admit that James, Kirk and Robert must be very skilled musicians to be able to keep in rythme and feel despite having Lars as a drummer.
can`t even hate Lars for it really, he has managed to steal a living as a drummer for one of the most important metal bands in history, he set himself up for life with Metallica, so congratz for him for successfully managing to pull of this scam.
As a kid you'd hear from teachers/coaches etc that just showing up and being committed had more value than talent. They should use Lars as an example
Insane. Their songs sound amazing. Nobody cares about this.
I love it when nobodies say things like this.
I can’t play drums, so everything he is doing is outstanding.
I can't play drums either but even i have some kind of understanding that I could probably play them better
@@jamesarmstrong88 I think he quit practicing and lost interest years ago. At least that's what I'm guessing.
@@jamesarmstrong88 I heard that Lars recorded song sections separately and they spliced it together like Frankenstein to sound coherent on And Justice For All
same
@@anthonyc1515I believe it bc he never plays his fills on blackened live and they’re so good his drumming on ajfa was insane
3:00 Lars signature cymbal hell.
He's such a drummer of the world!
I think a big part of Lars' problem is that even in the early days, when they were originally recording some of their big hits, he was a wildly inconsistent drummer. Listen to Master of Puppets; he almost never plays the same bar twice. He just can't help but throw in random crashes and fills. And now, all these years later, it's no wonder he can't remember how to play them. Now, not only does he just throw in random fills, he can't even keep them in time anymore.
I think that's why the Black Album was so popular; it was just back to basics. Most songs on the album Lars just plays a standard beat with bass on 1 & 3 and snare on 2 & 4. Which let the rest of the band have a bit more fun with it. But now he can't even play those songs right.
The guys from BTBAM and Car Bomb have like half of his experience and still remember their crazy ass shit though. 😹
also, they way they recorded the black album: bar by bar and pieced them together. heavily edited
thats the first thing a beginner drummer does to impress - add random crashes and fills. i mean, what else is he gonna do to mask up the fact that he can't really drum? the problem is that this strategy actually works on most non musicians.
Lars creates rhythms and fills that never existed before xD
The Fill That Should Not Be 😂🤣
He's so in between Time signatures its like hes playing right into the idea that he sucks but i bet this is just high brow jazz improv on display. I mean this IS a guy that sips champagne well selling art for millions of dollars okay. He's not dumb, he's... special. :)
@@wariokhabib245 that’s sad but true
Um desses vídeos é o primeiro que eu vi do Lars. Presumi que o que ele fazia era normal, e sinceramente até hoje gosto muito dele.
Hes misunderstood. This is free jazz with avant garde influences
Lars Ulrich gives me hope of being a rich and famous drummer.
And you don't even play the drums yet, right? Lol !!
@@TurboGTO288 I do actually.
idk lars isnt a great technical drummer but his ability to make music is undeniable the reason why hes so successful get basically writes all of the songs
@@spaghettisauce445 correction, Lars helps to arrange the music ... most of it is written by the other members, first and foremost, one of the best lyricists ever ... James Hetfield. Without James, there would be no Metallica. Lars would go crawling back to Dave Mustaine without James.
Lars is famous because his parents were famous tennis players. They invested in this band. Money begets money. That's always how it worked.
Playing tennis was his strong point.
I'm amazed how he can hit so many wrong notes with such accuracy it must take years of non practice to be able to do that ! 🤣🤣🤣👍🇬🇧
But if he hits the wrong notes accurately every time, does that mean he's doing something, right? So he just rewrote all the drum tracks for every Metallica song every single time he plays it? 🤔
hit the wrong notes ?? ... perhaps it's best you don't criticise drummers
@@aussiesurfer805Drums have notes
@@user-py3py5sx2f Yeah I know mate, I was probably a little harsh with my words..
But we weren't watching a jazz quartet with a virtuoso drummer presenting his final arrangement for his PhD candidacy or the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra tuning up for a world performance at Royal Albert Hall....
It's a rock/metal band, where 99% of all drummers ain't arranging their drumming based upon the key signature and the selection of the correct note frequency from the chromatic scale. They're laying down a back beat for the most part and staying well away from the melody. Plus it's Lars, a little too much criticised for my liking, but he's not part of the
I love his playing. Please share one of your videos
I’ve been saying this for years- he literally sounds like someone who has been playing six months yet has the confidence of a rockstar. I don’t get how he hasn’t been pressured by the band to refine himself.
Hed probably try to kick them out if they said something
Yeah or despite his sloppy drumming he cooks really fine meth
He's one of the founding fathers of the band...
His talent is actually scouting other smaller bands and stealing their music
to me it is incredible how for years they bullied jason newstead, how lars fucked up and justice for all out of being shitty with the new guy, and still plays like this with confidence lmao
I guess it's part of his style. I'm so used to hearing those fills that I don't even see them as too unnecessary.
David Nwokoye I’m only getting pissed when he is unnecessarily filling when playing slower songs like one/welcome home/ nothing else matters... kills the mood everytime
@@skinny_sam big facts though, his fills in nothing else matters are unnecessary
Sam Tanem yea that or when he plays over a solo like bruh it’s a solo for a reason
@@skinny_sam not necessary because on Slow songs you have more space
@@Nissardpertugiu if it would sound good at least tho
he's laughing all the way to the bank
2:05 "Don't mess with my Ride The Lightning solo"
Its the best Metallica solo imo.
conner adams almost certainly
WHERES RIDE THE LIGHTNING???
Isn’t he the cutest😂
The fill at 2:23 is good that said .
Vintage fashion 70's
Maybe Lars just wants to play some jazz.
lars is actually big jazz music fan for real. and i do think that influences his playing.
@Potato Man According to him , between kill em all and Ride the lightning he took drum lessons
And thats why it improved a lot between both albums plus touring
Also i think he really practiced then , just see the progression till 1989 .
Lol he has no ride cymbal
So he’s Ronald Shannon Jackson now?
Kairozart lol he couldn’t on his best day
Lars is a good drummer but an excellent songwriter along with James. They were super innovative with the time signature changes esp. on MOP & AJFA.
Hands up any of you drummers out there who have never overplayed or lost track of the tempo, especially during mad practice jams (like @02:19)? Lars still a much better drummer than I will ever be...
1:49 actually avant garde as fuck. lars is adding a drunk/hip-hop groove to thrash metal. absolutely unprecedented musical territory.
Lol
Accentuating the drunk in drunken grooves
Thats sound dope by the way
bro just put a different groove on for the fucks of it, it’s the tuning room.
dilla metal
I like the part where he hit the snare.
snare drum go brrrrrrrrrr popopopop
*R.I.P Lars. You were a so-so drummer.*
Lolz.. should make a profile Lars mouth... it's even funnier when he plays.
Lars makes me feel like a good drummer.
Lars Ulrich, master of the "I don't know what the fuck else to play" fill.
Every joke you’ve ever heard about “the drummer” was inspired by Lars
YES I REMEMBER THIS = "SAD BUT TRUE" - At around 55 seconds - they changed the Album version TRIPLET into QUARTER NOTES for the S&M orchestral concert. Somehow, Lars NEVER went back to the original Triplet thing because he always started the song too fast in the first place, making the whole vocal and guitar and bass thing impossible, and his drumming to be IN BETWEEN somewhere between a triplet and quarter note. call it a "3.6666666" in that case. Hey, I love some of Lars' creations. I do. Just pointing that out.
Reminds me of these guys from the audience you allow to play just one simple song on your kit, who hasn`t played in years. And watching suffering your band mates, you think "Damn hopefully he won`t break my kit." This is Lars Ulrich Style.
Trujillo must be thinking, “I spent all those years woodshedding bass just to end up in a rhythm section with THIS guy?” 😂
Went from shredding with ozzy to Lars must’ve been a huge change😂
I’ve always said he is the luckiest “drummer” on the planet. If he had to audition for Metallica today he wouldn’t even make the top 1000.
He formed them, that's the only reason he's in the band at all. If he auditioned even a couple months after Hetfield and some other person formed Metallica, he would not have gotten the gig.
And its crazy how people defend him to the very end like hes some god. Its embarrassing lol
@@gagelindell271 “he’s part of metallica, so that means he’s good” LMAO
@@gagelindell271 He's a 16 year old metal garage band drummer with 45 years of experience.🤣
He isn't as good as he once was that's for sure
With all the money Lars has you’d think he could pay for and take drum lessons.
I went to their concert about 3 months ago and he has definitely improved. It was a phenomenal show.
M8 it's been 40 years, I don't think he's suddenly improved lmfao
@@vangoghsseveredearI love Lars and I’m not a hater but he has improved for a senior citizen😂😂
Lars is not bad, he's...abstract.
He just wants to live in the moment.
agree and most drummers find it hard to follow his weird fills, i have a band back then our drummer has no problems with slayer songs but metallica gets him pretty heat up because of the unexpected fills that is not uniform to the next platform.
He's not abstractly bad.
@@renegadusunidos6151 i agree with that, sometimes live versions of songs get a bit weird, but i think for the most part they fit in a weird kind of way. it's just an out of the box way of playing, and i feel it gives life to a good majority of the songs live but in some cases it is out of wack.
No he’s bad
0:56 That bald spot tho. 😂😂
piece of art
Hey was rocking the George Carlin 😆
LMAO 😂
Maybe he should fill it.
I think he should shave it all off, grow a full beard, start working out and, of course, start practicing again! Either that or leave
I'd like to know the title of the opening song in this video? Thanks!
Ray McDermott came in 3rd place over Lars Ulrich. Lars came in fith place during a drum competition in New York.
Lars is like your random friend who loves to jump on the drums and bash around and you just hope they get bored and leave
Haha exactly!
My friends do that to me all the time. It's like I'm the only person they know who has drums it's irritating was hell
That's me! Thump thump thump crash bang bash!
Then your friend sells 50 million albums
that is why i got my own drumset... lol
You have to give him credit as one of the driving forces of Metallica, no doubt.
But man, there are 15 year olds that bury this guy as a drummer.
There are 5 yeear olds that can drum circles around Lars
It isn't always about being great.
And they will be working 9-5 jobs when they’re older instead of being a founder member of one of the biggest metal bands of all time.
@@JP-yc1wp Nobody cares if he got lucky lol
I've never played drums but I bet if you gave me a drum set and like 2 hours I could figure out a Metallica song at least 95% lol
He's so self taught it's crazy. You can tell no one told him how to play, he just went with it and did his own thing. Like him or not, nobody plays like him and I know I'll miss him badly the day he's gone.
Lots of people play like him, most people don't know that because it is only for a short period of time until they actually develop. I apologize to Lars if I am wrong but I seriously do not believe he is a good drummer nor a unique one, only thing outstanding about the guy is that he managed to keep playing like someone that just started drumming last month for decades now
Plenty of people play like him. They're mostly teenagers who piss off their bandmates by playing beyond their skill level just just for the sake of being "creative."
0:16 Damn, that lick is ripped straight off of Black Sabbath's "Faeries wear boots"
Metallica has gotten used to Lars' fucked up drumming that if you put a real drummer it would throw them off
That was exactly what happened when Lombardo subbed in for them back in Downloads ages back. They were so used to Lars fucking up the Battery drum break but he dragged them back right in time.
Dumpster Player hahaha I was about to write the same thing! Most flagrant example out there haha 🤟🏼
@@dumpsterplayer5133 and same with Joey jordison
@@vltprn5820 Jordison was just playing unnecessary double bass all the time, just like Lars with the fills.
for real
I mean, if he manages to stay in tempo it’s a win. So the fact there are drum fills at all is kind of impressive in its own way. Also, Kirk’s expressions are the gift that keeps on giving…appalled, sad, angry, relieved…
He isn't staying in tempo that's the whole thing this video is criticizing
these drum fills are giving me anxiety..its like im praying it doesnt fuck the whole thing but somehow it ends up being fine wth...
What song is played in the video intro?
Lars is the reason why Metallica has such a Great rythim guitar
1:33 I actually like this fill.... I can’t be the only one
FREE DOG yeah you are not the only one 🤘
FREE DOG no some r fine
Gamejourney 1113 Yeha I don’t either! The second verse his drumming is a little much but it’s not to bad
I mean, yea... It's alright. He serves his purpose in the band, no doubt about that and their success speaks for itself.
That said, it could be literally anyone there even you or me. Only think I give him credit for is for writing some of the drums and songs, maybe we wouldn't be able to do that, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Nope. That full is awesome
You would think that Lars would be able to figure out how to improvise fills on songs that HE WROTE with 40 odd years of playing in Metallica, but he’s Lars so…
At least he sounds pretty unique, there's no other drummer quite like him, for better or worse. That fill at 3:22 was pretty decent though, I'm stealing that.
Hey, at least it isn't stock.
Totally agree dude. BTW I watch your videos sometimes in the morning-they’re recharging! But I do prefer listening to Lars in the evening:)
Lars Ulrich icon of Metallica members👍👍
STOCK to my ears
Fear of Status Quo
lol
rich people: money isn't important.
handsome people: looks aren't important.
Lars Ulrich: practice isn't important .
This is so true it's not even funny. Love the comment bro.
This kinda implies he's super talented / very well-trained, it'd have to be рооr and uglу реорle saying lооks and mоnеy don't matter otherwise (as if they were соріng)
And you're so amazing at ??? The world wants to listen to you cus...??? That's right. You don't have anything the world wants to see or hear. Lars does. You don't.
@@stringingitalltogether5773 Just accept that you're don't know a thing about music and Lars is bad, please.
why does it matter that he's not ultimately good? he started the band, it's HIS band.
I love lars, I am 43 and picked up drums a year ago. I can play a bunch of Metallica songs with double bass, makes me feel like I am getting somewhere. Now time to move up to a ac/dc back in black song.
Lars, making drumming look difficult for 30+ years