Metal Drummer Reacts to Riccardo Merlini | Fastest Hands in the World
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You guys are amazing. Thank you so much!!
OHHH YURRRRRR!!!
#drums #fast #drummer #fastest - Hudba
Ohhhhh Yurrrrrrrr!!
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How was this 3 days ago
@@nelly6016 I think he uploaded it to youtube 3 days ago, commented this, then had it be visible to view today.
I feel sorry for his wang at those speeds! Ohhhhh yyeeeaaahhhnnnnnooooooooo!!!!! ouch!
Would like to see him on a drumometer. See if he can beat mangini's old 1247 BPM record. Which he had at what 1203 first?5hen Tom Grosset at 1208?
I noticed something at the end where he is wearing the Pearl shirt. He is involving his thumb a lot. Almost moving the fulcrum behind his thumb so that small movements of his index finger and/or thumb create a modified push pull. That's probably why he can play on a pillow or water with brushes. He creates his own rebound in a way that doesn't use much energy and very little movement.
Thanx Man đŁ what a huge honour đđ
Daje RiccĂĄ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sei un grande !!! đđ€Łđ đđ»đđ»đđ»đđ»đđ»
Grande Riccardo!!đ€đż
I like your style, dude
'rcamadonna come fanno ad essere dei singoliiiiiiii! Sei una bestia! đâ€
youre just insane man
You've got it right: he's actually not moving his hands at all because he instills fear in the drums. So, as he makes the drums tremble in fear, he just holds the sticks close and takes advantage.
hahahaha! love it
am ras :))
lol
Oh now I understand, and here I sat wondering how he did it! Thanks for clearing that up! :)
Someone send Slow Mo Guys to Riccardo's studio and record his technique. The man is a legend, this talent must be preserved.
Thatâs a seriously good idea if Iâve ever heard one
Absolutely YES for this - Slow Mo Guys to Riccardo, PRONTO
LMAO, this is actually the best comment. I can literally hear it now
"Oh mah gord Dan.. Dan look at his fingas all wiggling"
Yes plz.
That IS slow mo đ
I'm not even a drummer, but your content is very entertaining. Mr Riccardo is a beast!
"He's blasting the wateh!" Lol
He's Blastoise
@@joachimlarsen2k lmao
@@joachimlarsen2k lmfao
@@joachimlarsen2k lmfaos
So this is who "records" the drum parts for Infant Annihilator
Infants of Saturn
@LessâąOfâąMyselfâąToâąKill Yup exactly
@LessâąOfâąMyselfâąToâąKill it's a joke fuck me
â@LessâąOfâąMyselfâąToâąKill that's...why he put quotes around "records"
He's the guy that programs the drums programing with his drumming
Dude, in the absolute best way possible, I'm not a drum guy, not remotely interested in who can drum how and you just entertained the everliving crap out of me! Loved seeing your love of awesome technique. God bless you, man! đ„
wow dude THANK YOU so much!!!
He is a BEAST! He uses wrist then switching to finger technique which is faster! He mastered the art!!
Right? Could you imagine him using a whisk with that speed?! EGG YOLK ANNIHILATOR!!!\m/
@@tpocain Damn, no butter at home again. Give me the milk.
Drummers love him. Women fear him.
SENSUALLY THEY FEAR HIM
I'm a drummer and I fear him
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Married drummers hate him. Women love him.
BlastClit
Making the 'drums go Brrrrr' meme totally obsolete.
The scariest thing is how calm he is, like you said playing like butter lol. People go nuts on the drum kit and he's like sitting in Sunday Church while playing these insane beats and tempos
Edit: High thought, I think his technique is something along the lines of two strokes with finger for the rebound and after the rebound of the second stroke is the wrist slamming it back down for the rebound for the finger technique again so three strokes in damn near a single rotation
Heâs incorporating a controlled nervous twitch, basically. Tighten up certain muscles just right and the nerves just make them buzz. Heâs perfected control of that. Awesome.
that's exactly what it is yeah.
@@Reverse2057 yep not really impressed
@@chrisw5742 And you work at McDonalds
@@edithboozy1000 No but I could probably do that too pal. WTF Not really too impressive to me.
@@chrisw5742 hmmmm....problahbly?
âHeâs smiling while playing it!!â
Because heâs in his place, Samus. Heâs in his happy place.
it's awesome seeing Sam humbled and not being completely sarcastic.
this guy is legit anyone who says otherwise is insane in the membrane. he literally sounds like a robot hes so good . mind blowing
Iâve never seen a guy play so many single strokes that the cameras frame rate interfered with how the strokes appear. Like helicopters that match frame rate to rotor speed so it looks like the rotor is stationary. So cool.
Physiologically - I think he has to turn off his muscles faster than most humans in order to get that fast. It's just not the muscle contraction, it's the relaxation phase that has to be so so so fast. That was very enjoyable to watch you react!
It's not real
@@jasonbates2687 I can do it so it's real.
Some insects use resonance to send fewer electric signals to their wings. He may be an insect. đ
This comment is very accurate. Drumming speed is ultimately a function of genetics. Think of it like the autism spectrum, you have people at one who have profound difficulties dealing with people and communicating and relating to them and at the other extreme you have truly empathic people with high emotional intelligence who are formidable communicators and influencers. With the physiology of drumming you have people at the far end of the spectrum with cerebral palsy who cannot relax their muscles and there is even a treatment it using Botox to allow kids to walk better, and on the other end we have people like this guy who can contract and relax his muscles extremely fast. The build up of lactic acid is proportional to the ATP release so there Fore he must also be both very efficient in his movements to minimise work done plus very efficient in moving lactic acidosis away from the muscles being used. No matter how much the average drummer practices and no matter how good their technique, performance will fall along a probability distribution curve where those at the extreme speed end have by chance received all the genes in the right combination to make this speed possible.
...exactly...the release not just the tension...
This guy, El Estepario and Samus need to all collab and make the most technical song in the world
El Estapario is super awesome but heâs also a rusher
@@adamn.202 what does that mean? sorry, Im dumb lol
@@cruzin8056 he often falls out of tempo
@@adamn.202 ehhhhhh I dunno
Archspire already exists
I've never seen any of your videos, I've never watched the types of vids but this was on the home page. Honestly bro, you are so genuine and just love drumming and I love how I can tell you absolutely love what you do :) Awesome man Thanks for the content
thank you SO much!!!!
"Italian drummer, fastest hands on the planet, graduated at Conservatory, student of Mike Mangini (Dream Theater) in Boston." Well, that last bit certainly explains it.
đ heel toe lost me too haha
Yo troy!!! Mad respect!!!!
Troyyyy!
So, Iâm taking lessons with the Drum Technique Academy and the hand technique was presented by Ricardo. A 4 week challenge called â4 Weeks to 340bpmâ. Itâs a rotation of the wrist. I canât share the video as it is the Intellectual Property of DTA. But Iâm currently practicing his technique at⊠90bpm (đđđ)and struggling immensely!! But I can say that it is definitely in the wrist first. With a bit in the fingers. The development actually starts with your hand on the pad. Before even using a stick. The camera cannot even show how fast the wrist is actually moving. We mostly see the fingers. But it is mostly in the wrists.
If you properly tense the muscle group responsible for the hand, it will start to vibrate - you can control the frequency by gentle movement. He probably practiced it every day for many months. I practiced, because in some pc games you have to mash one key quite quickly - a useful trick
I just commented about this being a useful skill in gaming to đ€Ł
Interesting, could you please share a lunk or what to search for?
I tried, but all results I got were for vibrating hand syndrome.
Millions of lonely teenage boys are reading these comments and searching the interwebs for information on fast twitch muscle coordination. đ€Ł
@@archiehebron8944 Thanks!
@@galaxya40s95 I don't know what you have to enter to find it properly. I figured it by myself when I had to mash "X" with hold ctrl to use cheat for gold in Warband (1000 gold for one x)
Itâs both in his wrist and his fingers, he blends the two and thatâs why heâs the fastest.
I remeber, back in the day, that I went to a drum clinic with Mike Mangini and Riccardo Merlini. We laughed through the whole clinic tbh because what we saw was pure insanity on drums. And not just the speed, everything was comically insane: from insane odd timing like 19/7 to crazy independence stuff. And I brought my girlfriend to that drumming nerdfest, I can't believe she's still with me lol
19/7 as in 19 over 7, right? Not 19 seven notes, right?
@@GoatMee not really sure what you're asking lol. You know the standard 4/4 rock beat? Well, they showed us an entire 20 minutes solo on a 19/7 time signature
@@alemutasa6189 but that's the thing, there is NO 19/7 time signature. The bottom number can only be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 etc.
@@GoatMee nah man you're mistaken. Odd times like this can always be divided. For example, a x/7 metre can always be divided in a x1/4 + x2/2 + x3/1, or x1/2 + x2/2 + x3/2 + x4/1 and so on. The pulse it's going to be all over the place but it's theoretically possible
@@GoatMee en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signature#Irrational_meters here, take a look at this. I don't understand it in the slightest but theoretically you can use every time signature you want, even something outlandish like 62/63 or, in our case, 19/7
Even at that speed, he was being dynamic. Amazing.
He has mastered his muscle control at a micro level.
Man, I had the fastest hands in the drumline in high school (and we had a good drumline), but holy hot damn, Batman, this guy's got at least 50% more speed and 400% more stamina than I ever had... Props to him. I know that took a lot of time and effort and good mentoring to get to where he is, and it's incredible to see people who are THAT good at a particular skill.
Very talented dude. And yes. Crazy stamina too. I was watching his video and my hand started aching for him!
I seen a dude in a drum line whom was much faster than this dude
@@chases3314 cool story bruh
@@scootaymildo1070 learn to spell bro you illiterate fuck
@@scootaymildo1070 Very cool story, we wil do exactly nothing with it. Archived it under category BS.
Funny thing is this video is closed with one of Jim Carrey's famous dialogue "Take Care Now, Bye Bye Then" from Ace Ventura When Nature Calls
Fascinating insight....
You must be like some kind of genius.
He said it In the first one as well....
Holy shit!!! This guy is an alien from another drum world sent here to share with us the extra terrestrial drum techniques of another planet.
You rock dude. You are very entertaining to watch and I appreciate your humility to the talent you witnessed. Thanks for doing this video.
thank you Jonas!!
I just recently discovered 66Samus. Does he remind anyone else of a metal Weird Al?
Yes.
Thinking more of a Stevie T of drums.
Yes! Lol
Most definitely he talks and looks just like him. His upbeat quick witty personality is just like weird Al's
I thought it was weird al staying in character
He can even blast beat on water, he's truly the Jesus of drum
He does it so effortlessly, he doesn't break a sweat.
The absolute biggest mystery is how this dude managed to get an E-kit to respond that fast lol
Was thinking the same thing, my edrum would never detect this machine gun assault hahahaha
We need this recorded at 120fps and replayed on a 120hz monitor to even attempt to follow, itâs all just motion blur at this framerate, so impressive
Slo-Mo guys to the rescue with the 1000fps cameras.
He's amazing and you are extremely honest about giving him respect that he deserves. Thank you!
I am completely blown away. I somehow found this vid and I am sending it to every drummer I have ever played with.
There are truly no words. Incredible. Thank you for the vid and Blessings from Kansas~ Wow.............
thank YOU Steve!
lmao the way the drumsticks move remind me of the rubber pencil trick everyone did in middle school
His technique vaguely resembles Hannes Grossmann's "Hybrid" technique, though with lots of finger motion.
Also his stick position changes slightly compared to Hannes'.
It might seem subtle, but that little bit of wrist motion makes all the difference, especially in power, it's absolutely insane.
Also, he's a very musical drummer that can apply phenomenal chops to the kit.
Like the whip.
You nailed it, Sam.
Observing what this guy can do should light a fire under all of us students of drums, especially those of us who think we've reached our limit.
Now I am highly motivated to shatter my obstacles.
You know who the real winner is? His wife đ
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He's so fast my voice coils in my desktop computer speakers were getting tired!
Clearly, this guy is one of the most skilled drummers ever - watching a master at work is pretty awe inspiring
Itâs so cool to see how youâve branched into such a complete CZcams channel. I remember seeing you play with Decrepit Birth in a lineup involving Rings of Saturn, Decapitated, & Fleshgod Apocalypse at The Whisky back in 2012 when I was 18 and it was one hell of a show.
He is using his fingers and his wrists just like his ankles he clearly understands the connection. His nervous system is apparently not hindered by doubt which causes hesitation. A concept well understood by Bruce Lee, his teacher and many other martial artists currently and historically. In fact there is a Chinese drummer who teaches similar finger/wrist techniques. One of his students is A-yeon. Riccardo you stomp ass my brother was a pleasure to see you do your thing.
That's crazy. It's like he's not even moving anything and the sticks are going nuts. As a guy who started learning the drums I have a lot of appreciation for skilled drummers. I'm having a blast learning but man it's hard!
I really like how he applies it to the kit too and doesn't just pad out for every video. Dude's an absolute monster.
This dude could play original rings of saturn drum machine tracks haha
Fucking aye!
Dude this is amazing đ much loveâ€
Holy shitaki mushroomsđ 66Samus, you made me LMFAO all day & night longđ Btw Ricardo is f**king incredibleđźđ± Greetings from Piekary ĆlÄ skie, Polandđ
He is the chosen one to play Infant Annihilator live
If they ever do play live. Aren't they all in their 40s now?
@@avatar19822 nope
@@daniels999 how old are they?
@@avatar19822 31, 31 and 27
Samus: "that is super motivating"
Me: "i guess i'll start playing country music"
I'm going AC/DC man...
@@insertmetalusernamehere heading towards the white stripes bro...
@@TheDoomGuy420 one day lol
@@insertmetalusernamehere great profile pic too man!
It's a certain way of tensing the muscles in the forearm. I have been developing similar techniques as a percussionist for the last 20 years. But only a video in which he explains his technique, showed me that if you turn the hand outward it goes even faster. What is very funny I discovered as a child is that if you tense the muscles that move the eyes in the same way you can make the whole world dance for you so fast. It also works for the basedrum, here it is the upper muscles of the thigh that are tightened in this way.
I learned the same thing as a kid with my eyes. I would freak people out making my eyes move side to side super fast. I can still do it almost 40 years later. I never learned how to do that with any other part of my body though.
Your videos always make me laugh, never change dude! đ
He can go back in time with this speed
you can clearly see on his smiling face he absolutely enjoys and loves drumming more than anything. love it
Though fingers may be involved, the whole support system for this is the wrist and the larger muscles in the arm, including the triceps and biceps. Mangini has been developing this technique for decades, and barehanded practice is an important part of developing it. Ricardo is obviously taking it to a new level!
Yeah this video is focusing on wrist or fingers, but it's more like a full-system, elbow shoulder muscle-twitch technique to get that fast. The control of it is the trick.
Wahahaa. The lip brrrr at the end. That's how I feel with a lot of musicians. With affection and appreciation that is. I played crappy bass a lifetime ago for a couple of years and had heaps of friends playing all the intruments one can buy. And I remember enjoying it then and I still do. Keep on making this kind of content. Music does not make sense on any logic scale and it is what makes us all human. Even if you have AI creating it, you still need a human to enjoy it.
I mean this as a compliment, but you seem like the amalgamation of Weird Al and Professor Dave wrapped in a metal exterior. Just discovered your channel. Really enjoying the videos and the music youâve released.
He is using the vibrations that forms the world we live in to vibrate the sticks he is holding in a perfect symbiosis.
I hope this is a joke.
Props to Samus for spreading love to other fantastic drummers such as himself đâïž Very cool đ
'But, can he play a blues shuffle?' LOL! AMAZING and with groove!
He needs to get together with the Slo-Mo guys and have his technique recorded.
Imagine a band where every member was able to play this fast. He must get asked to do drum rolls for everything.
Edit. Thank you for the likes !. I think this is my most liked youtube comment.
We didn't even get to see him do 2 or 3 stroke rolls
just listen to some origin haha
@@okeedokee3131 he doesn't need them lol
Lol Archspire. Enough said :)
He can use a single stroke roll as a buzz roll
"HE'S BLASTING THE WAAARTEH!"
Itâs a very subtle what heâs doing. Keep an eye on his thumbs. I think heâs integrated some push-pull. Heâs not relying much at all on the natural rebound of the pad for the up stroke because he used a brush on liquid with speed. No rebound there. Super human technique.
Plot twist, Ricardo is The Flash and he's actually slowing it down for us
That hammer seg was probably part of the training đđ
The same as in dodgeball.
This video progressed soo perfectly, when samus said âI wish I could seeing in a blast beatâ and then dude shredded deathmetal blast beats like cabbage, soo sick!!! Great video of a video haha
This video was suggested to me in the ALGO... and wow, I'm REALLY happy it did :)
Youâre the funnest to watch!!! I freaking love you
thank you Kimberly!!!
I found a recording of Riccardo in my house. It was hidden in that small springy door stop in my roomđ€
You get good at something, anything, maybe you get really good. Then you see the best in the world and think, "why do I even do this?"
I just tried this and my wrists were absolutely done after 5 seconds. He is not human.
That was the funniest videos you ever made yet nice one I laughed my ass off.
Hey Samus, the way you felt when you watched Riccardo play single strokes with wood blocks is exactly how I felt when I watched you play the ending of By Your Command with Devin Townsend
Yup... Ya boi Ricardo done broke Samus you guys!
ââŠand according to the internetâŠ!â
That is also my favorite source for sourcingđ
Wrist and Lord Marcoâs flying finger technique. Amazing
Man you give me Weird Al vibes and I mean that as the highest of compliments! Subbed!
haha thank you Paul!!!
My first thought the first time I saw Samus. And I canât shake it. Look so much like brothers
i was just thinking that.
this was such a good vid!
WOW! I am blown away . This dude is SICK!!
The dude's drumsticks are going as fast as effing hummingbird wings....
Riccardo Merlini: *exists*
Spencer Prewett: âFinally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!â
he said that? Spencer sounds unoriginal and unfunny.
Well, since so many people are brain dead and do not understand sarcasm, this comment is me pointing out the unoriginality and unfunniness of the original comment. Absolute morons.
@@jamisonandrewmanhorvaththe1124 LMAO. Really?
@@henrik640 ok
@Big Riff no, tomorrow is. Get better at reading sarcasm
you're all idiots
That's crazy fast!!!!!! Very impressive to say the very least. WOW
Someone needs to get him in front of a high speed camera to see exactly how he is doing that.
Holy fuck... I've played drums for a while, I'm pretty good.... but what the fuck, I watch some of these dudes today and I swear they're from a different dimension. Not only fast as hell but accurate too....My brain can't even comprehend how these dudes get to this point. I sit here with my mouth gaped open ,,,, just , wtf.... đČ
I remember a snare player once said about another pro player: "sometimes a guy just has another gear."
âHe just threw the sticks awayâŠ. WITH HIS HANDS!â
HEAL TOE NOW!!!!
The 3fingers working in time with his rist or 4+1 it works like a type writer together đ€đȘđ
Why haven't I found your channel sooner!! Oh my fuck you're hilarious!!
When you witness something so mind blowingly incredible, all you can manage is a loud goofy ass laugh đ
He is the brand new T-1000.
I'll be back
The good vibes coming from this video is what youtube is for.
Now that is a mastered technique!! Wow !!!!
I feel like Marco Pitruzzella could pull this off... Most of this sounds like Braindrill anyways.
I bet that he could play the hi-hat/snare part of Fear Factory's "Powershifter" intro one handed. It's nuts.
âHis finger technique is out of this worldâ
Riccardo Merliniâs wife
Sheeesh that fill at 8:28 was clean