BAND MAID - WITHOUT HOLDING BACK - DRUMMER REACTS 

I love that she has custom-made maid-themed drumming shorts.

Its so awesome how one single band maid video has made so many of mine and many others days, not even this song or angle in particular, theyre just magic.

Akane serves the music. She plays her drums with the same skill as her fellow band members. She writes out her music for each of her limbs long-handled. She not only plays her instruments she also composes the music in partnership with her band mates.

I hear some musicians have simple memos and some don't write anything. Akane said writing down every single note she plays is her style.

saw them live in Detroit let me till you sir they are incredible Po!!! Akane on the drums 🥁🥁 hits you like a wave a Misa on bass is a badass Miku on rhythm guitar and vocals she the founder of the band she is incredible Po!!! Then Saiki is the lead singer aka the Ice Queen when she tells you to jump you have to to listen to the Queen lol then you have the GOAT on lead guitar Kanami she is awesome best band in the world BAND-MAID!!! I’m from Canada 🇨🇦 too my sister and I drove to USA 🇺🇸 Detroit to see them live it’s worth it they are amazing 🤩 Po!!! 😊😊😊👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸🥁🥁🥁🥁🎵🎵🎵🎵

She said she has supported jazz bands in the past and likes to listen to jazz, so she must like the subtlety and darkness of K Zildjian's hi-hats and ride.

Akane's double kick drumming is insane, it's rapid fire and so impressive (to me at least). I was also listening to Misa's thundering bass in the background,. A solid rhythm section is the bedrock of any band, and in my opinion Akane and Misa are Band-Maid's secret weapon 🤘🤘

What I like about Akane's drumming is it's musicality, she's not just a metronome she play music with her TAMA kit.

The complex combination of bass drum and fillin is divine.🥁🥁🥁😆👍⚡️

If I'm not mistaken Akane also does snare rim-shots at just the right moments - pretty cool.

You know, I have never thought of a musician that way, but I see Akane like a Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan. You can tell that she puts in the 14 hour days, shooting 5,000 foul shots or range balls a day, so she can be technically perfect without a second thought so she can inject her, let's call it style, and be transcendent and utterly enjoyable. I suggest looking at some fancams and seeing how she is able to interact with the other band members while literally never missing a beat. Reminds me of how Buddy Rich could slam and still engage and entertain.

Really enjoy anything bandmaid but especially love the akane focus!❤ Afterlife is a great one too!

Akane never plays boring phrases or monotonous repetitive phrases.

A-chan A-chan A-chan!

Akane is so precise whereas a lot of drummers are sloppy and they click the rims and her footwork is flawless too. She is amazing!

John Bonham was (AFAIK) one of the first drummers to realise the importance of the kick/pedal and use it for much more than simple back-beats, often as a major part of his fills/rolls. It's now a stand-out with all the best drummers and Akane is just so frikking good with that double pedal. She (and other really good drummers) often display the serene swan effect where they're seemingly languidly using the sticks while machine-gunning interpolated (?) patterns into the stick work with the pedals.

Great analysis! 15 secs into the song and I’ve already learned a lot that I wouldn’t have noticed otherwise! Keep it up :D And I hope you find a video player that works for you, I can tell you have a lot you want to say and sucks to have technology limit yourself.

Very nice thorough analysis on my favorite instrumental by the Maids! Some of Akane's best drumming hands down! Keep doing your thing! Just a helpful tip for future Akane vids, her name is pronounced Ah-Kah-Nay :) or just call her Gorilla lol

Professionals power through. Rock on DN!

In English, we often put an emphasis on a syllable and our ending "e" silent. Japanese give equal emphasis on their syllables, and the final "e" pronounced either on its own or combined with the consonant before it. So, her first name would sound ah-kaw-nay (A ka ne), each part equal, no emphasis. Last name hee-row-say (Hi ro se). In Japan the custom is to put family name first....Hirose Akane. You might hear various endearments, especially for females, "-chan", "-incho", "-kun" get added to part of the name. So, friends or family might address her as Achan or Akachan. Formal discussions you don't do that, in fact, an honorific is attached to the full name, mostly to the family name, Hirosesan. And maybe to the first name, Akanesan.

I knew Akane is great drummer, but I could deeply understand how she is great with your analyze.

I really have yet to hear anyone like Akane. Certainly before I found The Maids, but also since. She seems to think different. Definately WAAAY different than my playing has ever been. I loved your take on how musicians are like athletes. While you were saying those things, I was thinking "fingerprints". We all have unique fingerprints. It's amuch more fun to put your own "stamp", or "fingerprint" on some one else's composition. Not only more fun, but inevitable, really. Thanks much, man! 🕊

You said what I suspectedfor some time- that she swaps what the hand and feet are doing in the groove.

...and, she also plays trombone.

You and the comments are knocking this one out of the park ! What superlatives are left to describe Akane ? ...As the coach said to the goalie after getting hit in the groin with a slap shot..."Keep your d*** on the ice ! " Stay well Colin !

I'm not a drummer, but what strikes me as amazing is that in the live videos, it looks like there is no tension in Akane. It's like she's sitting back and relaxing in an easy chair while she produces some of the tastiest drumming around.

Good job!

The bridge is so tasteful … I can’t recall anything other that high end jazz or classical music that can make me react like that.

Banana-Powered!

Use VLC for the video playback...works much better :-)

The only downside of the overhead drumcam version is, in the original mv you get the occasional footcam.

Oh, good one! Gorilla fierceness! 🤘🦍🍌🍌🍌

"I'm reluctant to pause." LOL. Since when?

Might want to try the VLC player. I use in place of the Windows player. I do not do YT videos but enough media work that I like the simple but very stable and multiple file type friendly way it works. Oh, Its free too ;)

Nowadays I put like only to professional reactions. This is,one of them.

Just found your Akane drum reactions and watched them all - great videos! - and you havn't even done what i'd consider her top 2-3 best drumming songs :) Hope you keep doing more. P.s Not sure what video player your are using (is it vlc? its a great player but it sure likes to crash lol) but if you are playing a video in a video player in future reactions, in my experience it isnt PAUSING the makes them crash- you should be fairly safe pausing all you like. Its making the player SEEK a lot that crashes them usually- i.e skipping about a lot.

My first kinda big concert was RUSH. They are as good ...

Lars is a tool. Akane would destroy the little whiner. Misa on bass would give Trujillo a run for his money too, and I've been a fan of Rob since Suicidal and Infectious Grooves.

Ah-Ka-Ne! Not A Cane! Here, this will help you pronounce her name properly . . . . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MxBZUdDVtLk.html

With regards to Lars, Rick Allen is better drummer than Lars and he only has one fucking arm.

use a different video player, native ones sucks,

This guy stop video too much