Drum Teacher Reacts: SARAH THAWER | Zildjian LIVE! | (2021 Reaction) AMAZING! 

Sarah’s timing is just next-level, incredible ensemble performance too.

🤩🤯 Sarah is amazing! She is, as Andrew likes to say, A MONSTER!

She’s pretty killer. My Canadian heart is swelling with national pride. 🇨🇦

7:34 Drummers, there's your drum lesson. Kick on 1, Hat on 2, Kick on 2-and, Snare on 4. Classic Indian rhythm. And the crowd shots tell you everything you need to know.... people groove hard to that feel.

It never ceases to amaze me when drummers can pull off mind-blowing chops in heavy clothes. I need to drop everything and strip a layer if I'm even slightly overheated whilst playing, lol. Regardless, Sarah is such a kickass player and a radiant and endearing personality to boot!

Sarah Thawer is a genuis, this was the one of the best ever!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜

She is having to much fun! What a drummer! What a talented group of musicians!

Well man, as a drummer I cryied out all the emotions such a performance can create! What can I say! Either I am too centimental or this is just beyond perfection!

That level of excellence and musical joy makes my eyes water!

So, I've now deduced that every drummer who has ever lived is better than I ever was. I'm not bitter.

She’s one of the best and very creative. Amazing hands. I think she has some vids of Indian rhythms too. All these musos are killers!

This is the third straight video of her I’ve watched and never heard the name Sarah Thawer before today and I’m blown away.

Hands, dynamics, ghosts, accents. Yep!

Damnnnnn....that was amazing. I think I matched your excitement in listening to this. Such an incredible collection of musicians. Shout out to Canadian drummers!!

Hey Andrew! Thanks for treating us to this - so nice to see YOUR video pick - amazing, absolutely stunning level of musicianship 🤘🏼

Sarah's great! She really enjoys her craft and it shows. Love her playing.

Yes man, I love the production of these videos as well. Remarkable every time. Great reaction. She is phenomenal

I'm actually lost for words ! so I'll try , Holy Schmolee ! . Peace and love brother 👍🏻☮❤

Sarah’s the bomb and glad she’s being highlighted. thomas pridgen is also a must watch on the live videos

YES!!

Beast mode=ON!

You’ve gotta watch all the Zildjian Lives, they’re all too good

Theres such a hilghlight onto the drums that if she would make a mistake it would be super noticeable and she is outstanding to nail this

Wow..that was quite good(hey,it's Understatement Saturday here) :)

11/10 AGREED; she is fantastic. So many great drummers male&female out there. In one week Mclaughlin and this. I do not know what's next that will top this.

the Zildjian live vids are awesome! their mixes are ridiculously good.👊

Thanks for clueing me into these Ziljian Live sessions. Really something special.

Makes me smile 👊😎

You're right Andrewm, those Zildjian live are INSANE!

Yay , go Canada! Great to see some home bred talent ! Wow 👏

Incredible chops, incredible groove. Just delightful drumming in every way. Tremendous stuff.

Sarah is Absolutely Incredible!!!

LOVE how she uses space.

She’s able to make the whole drum set just vibrate in all frequencies and then pick out and accent any note, in any subdivision.

I knew it wouldn't take long for you to find this!

Ohhh yeah!!!

I can't wait to see Sput and Ghostnote again. Soooooooooo F'n Funky!

FYI I checked out that band Ghost-Note after watching this and they are killer! Percussion based jazz, really interesting.

Sarah 🇨🇦Larnell 🇨🇦Toronto water 💧??? Sarah 🤔🤪🤯🤯🤯🤯mind blowing 🤯🤯🤯🥂

That was ridiculous! Haha

I actually downloaded this last year and ripped the audio. I listen on my mp3 player all the time. Along with most of the other Zildjian artists that year. I also contacted Zildjian and asked where these were recorded and if I could get tickets. As I remember they said it was all done in a weekend I think during NAMM. not including rehearsals. Ghost Note is also a real band and they have shows in the NY area.

Smokin'🔥💨💨💨!!!!

She is just supremely talented. I don't know if I could sit in with these cats at her level.

HOWDY FROM NEW ENGLAND....SIMPLY AMAZING....IM SPEECHLESS WHICH IS A RARE CONDITION FOR ME...SEEMS LIKE THESE JAZZERS (INSPIRED AT THE LEAST...) ARE ONTO SOMETHING....PERHAPS CAN YOU DO A VID ON SEAN KINNEY FROM AIC OR DAVE GROHL...? KEEP UP THE GOOS WORK...PEACE...

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These are same people in the band and audience that you had recently. I remember the band and the cute woman in the audience with pink hair. As always, great picks, Andy !!!

4:16 - thought my screen was a mirror for a moment

I usually watch the faces you make during a reaction but this time I almost forgot you were there, sorry.

You might recognize she has some inspiration from Trilok Gurtu

Definitely check out the Vic Firth VFJams series from a few years ago if you like these. Similar vibe.

Oh. I could play the drums behind Ghost-Note. They are so beat'y that they can give seizures to the audience being backed by me tapping on a pillow, as half the members are on rotation with Snarky Puppy, doing sessions in other constellations (it is impossible to keep up unless one quit the day job). And here is this lady that I ignorantly had not even heard about. I can tell you who told me that girls can drum. I was around 15, I guess, and this dude called Prince shouted at me: "Ladies and Gentlemen - Sheila E." None of my upbringing had really informed me that girls could do percussion in rock (whatever Prince is?). In a sense, I knew that the bassist on Beatles could play the drums pretty good before I really got that girls could do it at all. I tip my hat to Prince, since while enjoying girls he never slacked on musical competence as a cheap pick-up line or trick. And here I am 35 years later, watching all this awesomeness happening at the absolute peak of human abilities. It is bloody fantastic. Not because it is a woman, but because it obviously can be. At my age I love a floor being level. And since I grew up as a "hippie-social democrat" in Scandinavia it is great to not need to hear the term "pretty good - for a girl" any longer. It is a nice reminder that opposite to popular argument - things DO change (ever so slowly). And as a function of that, I get twice the goodies. Getting ALL the talent instead of just half, based on the criteria that one can not drum (or do something) unless one has experienced the experience of getting a testie caught in a zipper or whatever. At the other end of the scale, we have Danny Carrey who is picking apart the myth that one loose the dexterity/power sum too much after the age of 45. To MCU fans, Thor and Loki are not really real, they are the consequence of some old pre-Vikings being a bit carefree with reality. Just like the dudes in the eastern parts of the Mediterainaian and beyond, making stuff up. Girls can not be priests. Girls must wear stuff. Girls may not vote. Or own bank accounts (not that long ago even in the most progressive corners of our planet) Well - at least we have figured out that they can play the drums by now. It is only 35 years since I discovered that women could punish a drum set in a stadium setting. We are slowly collectively learning. Competence is a way too rare thing to tarnish with colours or gender or such subsequent irrelevant things. I have no idea why I ended up with this long rant. I think I meant to compliment you for sprawling your videos out wide (while focused) instead of becoming a "Peart-shrine" (he deserves all the shrines). I think I meant to compliment you for going wide on genres - getting me involved in genres I surprisingly do not love much (like "dark" metal that I should love as a Norwegian). I am not even a drummer, though I can resolve the odd odd meter on my thighs. Your appreciation for the "musicality" and the talent it is played with is awesome. Thank you for that. Sarah Thawer - she does not even have a Wikipedia page. People who got kicked out early from some "reality show" based on f-ing your ex-partner/stranger 2 decades ago on TV have Wikipedia pages by now. Priorities in this world are weird (while moving forward, partly through your channel. Competence matters).

damn....

I came across Sarah Thawer just a couple of weeks ago and let her go by the wayside. Why? Well, she's clearly got chops. She has rhythm, and she has energy. But she also seems to be trying to impress by overplaying, and it just rubs me up completely the wrong way! I like musicians who hold back, and who let the air and spaces speak as much as possible. Classic example would be Ash Soan's performance in the Zildjian Live series - SERIOUS HEAD F*CK STUFF!! And I agree - apart from the Ash Soan video (not sure why) but the micing, mixing and overall audio production are oustanding.

Check out drummer Helen De La Rosa's cover of Tigran Hamasyan's "What the Waves Brought" sometime. Amazing!

The crack of her snare tho...

Please watch David Diepold. His latest cover. Hes insane.

Sarah reacts to herself.

who wrote this sick arangement? perfect /write if you know/

Gurtu influencia

oh great now nintendo is gonna come after andrew now. you watch :(

with covid going on why would you wear headphones that everyone else touches ?

There are quite a few weak moments in this performance IMO.

She has amazing talent, But it goes way over her head way to much. She’s not the greatest drummer this world has ever seen.