@@illogicmath I love how i show people that video and they just go "oh yeah so?" he makes it look so effortless they get fooled. His band songs are good too! (before anyone ask is called The Cost)
I enjoy that El Estepario Siberiano will show just enough of the cover tune to show that he can do it - and then to make it entertaining and show his skills he kicks it up to another level. I know alot of people are upset that he doesn't just play the song the way the original artist played it - but there are hundreds of those videos already - and he is not trying to be another drummer... he is trying to be himself and his own showman. And when playing his own tunes, he doesn't overplay - he only plays what the song needs. He knows when to do both. Glad you liked it.
This dude definitely is in the top 100 of living drummers. Top 100? Yeah, I am being humble on his behalf...also it is a subjective artform to a degree and in some ways. He is a GOAT. Eloy Casagrande is another excellent modern drummer. As are many others, known and unknown.
Eloy Casagrande impresses me for a different reason...his groove stylings and knowledge of local and global music history is amazing. He is way less flashy, yet absurdly chill. If you want someone to mix a dilla shuffle with some drum and bass and obscure brazillian rhythms and groove...that is probably a first good choice. (Also he can play metal. Very well. That is basically his chosen genre. Those beats in between beats is an underated skill, and variable tempo is very difficult.)
To me one of the best videos from Estepario, is the one that shows his limb independence, by holding 4 or 5 different tempos and with a geometric graph following the pattern of each one, those are really nice.
…and he made it himself along with remodeling his studio and property and started 3 companies with the guys he went into business with and reside on the property. It’s like the El Estepario Siberiano compound. Lol The guy is a freakin genius in more ways than one.
My favorite drum is a plastic coffee can lol. I would give up playing lazy poor people drums if I heard this dude play the same plastic coffee can. (Not really. I would learn via osmosis.)
For real tho, once you realize that drums are a potentially innate instrument(that is ingrained in the human experience)...the world becomes a drum kit to a degree. A coffee can or a djembe from 100 years ago or a rock or fallen tree out in the forest. Different yet same same.
