HEY! TEACHER! | Worship Drummer Reacts to "Teacher, Teacher" by JINJER 

Tatiana said about this song quote "The idea behind the song is about people that dictate their agenda by means of their status, position, or just their Internet claim to fame in order to impose their opinion on to others but those opinions aren't based on experience nor knowledge." so its not aimed even at religion particularly just at anyone who speaks an oppinion on a topic and tries to impose it on others witout good knowledge.

Tatiana went to University and has a degree in Literature and was in line to be a teacher. Instead she followed her music. She said in an interview years ago that her mom really wanted her to teach.

Yes, this is the studio track cut together with live footage from several performances. There are lots of layers in the vocals and guitars.

Another journey brought to us by Jinjer! I love how they don't follow any rules or standard structures when they write songs, every one is different and all are amazing!

The band's bassist said that he buys special strings for his guitar only in one place in Milan. These are very rare strings.

You should watch the interview that Elisabeth of The Charismatic Voice did with Tatiana. She said that the other three come up with the instrumental music in a way that she finds completely tedious, so she doesn't take part in it. Instead, she gets demos of the songs, and (after a lot of procrastination) she comes up with vocal lines and lyrics that she writes *in Russian*!! After that, she translates the lyrics to English that in some magical way fall into place with rhymes and all. Amazing!

Saw Jinjer live a while back in Pensacola in a small club type venue. They were f'ing awesome.

Jinjer plays in Drop A with the exception of The early EPs and First Album (Cloud Factory) which were in Drop C tuning.

"What does her shirt say?....Utah....?" Lol Stay Metal 666 I laughed unreasonably hard when you said "...Utah?...."

It's nice to see that finally someone has both a deep understanding of what's going on, but at the same time obviously really enjoys the music. Especially that as a drummer you clearly enjoy the drums but at the same time appreciate all the other instruments. For me, you are the most balanced reacteur on RU-vid. Would subscribe again if I could ;) Keep up the good work!

Yeah you gotta watch those Jinjer 'Endings' they can catch you off guard. Till the logo comes up, they aint done.

IIRC Vlad did compose many elements in their latest album, not just the drum parts. I think Roman the guitarist was the main composer for their previous albums.

This is my favorite Jinjer song. I hope it's in their set when I see them in a couple weeks.

The tuning of the guitar is probably Drop-A (A-E-a-D-F♯-B). But you can't just detune a standard guitar! The strings would flop around like wet pasta. You basically have to add a very thick string for the low A and move all other one space down. Also for a defined and crisp tone, it helps to have a lot longer scale, that would be called a baritone guitar. If you look closely, you'll notice that Roman is playing a custom built fan-fretted guitar with o longer scale at the bass side, and a standard scale at at the treble. It's the best of both worlds with good definition for the tick strings and smaller string spacing for chords and soloing at the thin strings.

Watch the actual video for Vortex and Judgement and Punishment

I wish the backwards stick debate went on at our church. We play in a 100+ yr old sanctuary and we do everything to keep the drums from overwhelming everything else. Hotrods or brushes, shields around the cymbals. At least we got rid of the full fish tank drum cage.... Another great reaction thanks, Matt.

Pink Floyd. "We Don't Need No Education"

That coda has a little "Tarkus" vibe. Love that...

Love your breakdowns. Jinjer never fails. Thanks! The drum playthrough for, As I Boil Ice, is very good. By the way, I agree 100% with your opinion on religion. Another reason I like you. Cheers!

U are probably the only one that got what Eugene was doing at the end lol they always says what is making that noise! Great reaction

All of their stuff from their King of Everything album onward has been in drop A. Roman's guitar strings are 14-68 gauge to compensate for the lower tuning tension.

You should to check out Bloodywood, I think you'll love the drums, Indian folk metal with rap elements.

As you have noticed, they switch to other genres like jazz in the songs. Here you get some hip hop flavor. Try Judgement (and Punishment) for another one, I won't spoil it by telling you what that genre is. Music video or Tati vocal one take video. The only video I can think of, off the top of my head, where the drummer uses the sticks backwards, is "Only Love Can Save Me Now" by The Pretty Reckless feat Soundgarden's Matt Cameron and Kim Thayil. And , yes, Matt is using the backward stick in the left hand only, on the snare.

Nice reaction, Jinjer lyrics are always pretty deep and meaningful and often tackle authoritarianism (check out Home Back which has a Bossa Nova section) but also mental well-being (as you have found with Pisces, Vortex and Perennial). As a suggestion you might want to try out Aric Improto’s play through of Copper Wasp. Also check out Matt Gastka’s play through or Red Misso or Monomyth and anything by Gojira with Mario Duplantier. Prog metal has some epic drummers including Brann Dailor of Mastodon and Baard Koltstad of Leprous (not as heavy as the name suggests) plus the Goat of polyrhythms Danny Carey of Tool. Enjoy and keep the reactions coming.

"I'd have to see how wiggly their strings are" 😂😂😂 I'm gonna have to keep that one and use it! I've got wiggly strings!! Ha! I never noticed that offbeat trash China before! Noice! Now I'll always hear it. Alice Cooper did "School's Out," Pink Floyd did "Another Brick In the Wall" ("Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!"). Jinjer are the masters of "beat shifting" as you call it. Nobody is better. It's so intriguing, so different, so unexpected and in a way mysterious. Like you said, "Not gonna try and keep up with it" (but with a smile). That's honestly one of my very favorite things about Jinjer. They do it in virtually every song, extensively. And yeah, when Vlad and Eugene drop into that sick backbeat in the chorus, leaving all that empty space between beats, letting Tatiana drive the rhythm with her voice... Chef's kiss! That is so groovy it makes you move your head like a chicken. It's disgustingly good. BTW that 9 had a 4 underneath lol. Of course it did. Neil Peart used Promark 747s, which have butt ends on both ends. He did it for a couple years lol. Like 40. He managed to draw a lot of nuance out with the butt ends. Maybe he liked the balance better? This is always one of the first few songs that the Jinjer Army wants reactors to react to. It's just a great song. But the message is intriguing. You'll see others here relate how Tatiana describes the lyrics. It boils down to "be your own person." They have Ukrainian Orthodox and Russian Orthodox, and it's a whole thing. Almost like the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. You could say it's religious and cultural genocide. Because it is. But that's another topic. Wait till you see Home Back. Amen to you on what Jesus came here to do and to say! 100% agree. I think that's part of what Tatiana is saying here as well, in terms of commentary on organized religion. I like how you're distinguishing worship from religion. There is a difference! But that's a different conversation! Nice reaction dude! Keep up the Jinjer, we love it! Why do I use so many exclamation marks! 😂😂

Maybe next time some old school Jinjer?: with five members, Tati with dreadlocks, another drummer, more straight to the face, Kiev underground, just for fun, to know were they came from and rapidly evolved into a world class frontrunner (Outlander, Cloud factory, Scissors, Sit stay and roll over, etc). Fine reaction again.

This song is about tells on the internet... social media... that gain followers... she's saying be careful who you follow because they may be fools... Great song. Great reaction. 😊

Tyrion Lannister on bass? LOL! (Eugene). Yes, Tatiana was a teacher. Pink Floyd nod "Another Brick in The Wall Pt.2"

Awesome reaction! For a drummer reaction i would actually have suggested to start with Teacher, Teacher. And now i will ear even more the "china offbeat" that i was liking without really knowing it was there. Really cool that you are the first one that i've seen bringing up the chords on the Bass.

If I can recommend a non-Jinjer drum playthrough that might be interesting, it would be "ANKOR - Darkbeat [Drum Playthrough by ELENI NOTA]". You could look for the official music clip first to react to the song, then look for the drum playthrough and watch Eleni, the official drummer, play. She's a monster on the drums, it's unreal.

We've heard and seen Vortex before. IDK about others, but I'd be interested in your reaction to it even if it's only audio (it's one of my favorites from Jinjer).

Shirt says Stay Metal 666. Im sure you know that by now. I have that same shirt and wore it to my first Jinjer concert and Tatiana said to me, i hate that shirt. Lol. 😂 why i dont know. This was in Albuquerque in 2021. Then saw them again in 2022 in Phoenix. This year i wanted to see them in Tempe this Thursday but couldnt make it. Great reaction. Hope to see more. 🤘🔥

I think they are tuned down to A...

Drop-A ;) o_O Spat out a little of my tea when you tried to give "Another Brick in the Wall" to ALICE COOPER?!!... then I realised your mind had slipped to Cooper's "School's Out", so I let you off with it! LOL See, I'm so old I was alive when Floyd released "The Wall", I own all their albums, & still listen to some of them on the regular.... hence my tea-spit of disbelief at anyone not knowing "Another Brick in the Wall" immediately. Not for a reaction vid, but for your own knowledge & enjoyment, *please do* check out Eugene's bass playthrough vid for "Vortex" - it really is a 5-string drop-A #MasterClass - *all* the techniques, both-hands-always-busy-yet-always-in-service-to-the-piece, casually fingernail-raked chordals, glissandos-a-plenty to create that vortex wooziness, even some slap where few would think to place it. It really shows how a deeply musical bassist can make a single-guitarist heavy band sound HUGE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iBdZI_u3zP0.html This is well worth 4mins of attention from *any* musician imho ;)

A good one with just the drummer is Under the Dome drum playthrough

Guitar is tuned AEADF#B and the bass is AEADG

Respect for the religious nuance, spirit (no pun intended) over letter

Tatiana has a diploma as a teacher of literature. But as far as I know she didn't work as a teacher actually. Except some educational practice I guess. Tatiana said once in interview that she can't be a good teacher for those who have seen her singing with the band. She's either teacher or singer and she chose the last one.

I think the male vocals in the gang vocal section is Max Morton, their producer, who is also a singer in his own musical projects. Not 100% sure, and her vocals are also layered in that part but Max does directly work with Tatiana on vocals in studio so I assume if there is a male vocal and not a pitched vocal of hers, its more than likely Max Morton

I think the song is in drop A

She can be my teacher anyday infact i might have learned something.

My man. Yes sirrrrr

Having learned this song, it’s drop A.

it's drop-a. has been since the KoE album. the 2 albums before that were in drop-c. yes, they do make some use of supplemental backing tracks (a harmonizing vocal here , a layered guitar section there ; but only supplemental) ; hence why you'll always see a laptop as part of Vlad's rig. Eugene has talked a little about how regardless of whatever experiments they play around with in the studio or the practice room , they always keep their minds on "but can we do this live?" and yes, Tatiana did go to university for teaching .... and then promptly decided she hates teaching 😂 even as a non-religious person, i can totally understand how the surface-level reading of the lyrics could be read as somewhat problematic .... _however_ it is indeed a metaphor with a much broader intent towards any sort of sanctimoniousness. final question: so i take you'll never buy/own a set of double-butted sticks? 😂

Tuning is A E A D F# B

A lot of people say the backward stick is about the snare sound... but I think it's just as much about cymbals. Isn't it a lot easier to hit _through_ a cymbal with the heavier butt of a stick? I've also wondered if it's drummers with a marching background, since marching sticks are so chonky and thicc. Though Vlad _definitely does not_ have a marching snare background, lol. Far from it. Clay Aeschliman, drummer for Polyphia, did play in Drum Corps, though... and I never see him play backwards, that I can recall. Still, a lot of metal drummers play with backwards sticks, though, or alternate. I also think sometimes it's just because of needing to end a stick trick early, or one going slightly wrong, and you catch it backwards, or stop the spin backwards, and just have to play that way. Like, I've seen Ray Luzier (drummer for Korn) playing normally, then do a stick trick and be backwards for a while, then flip it back around to normal when he has time. I've even heard of a few drummers who specifically get double-butted sticks. Evgeny Novikov, drummer for Slaughter To Prevail always plays with the butt... but he beats the everloving crap out of his cymbals, especially his china, which is kind of where I started to suspect it's about cymbal hits.

Sticks backwards...sometimes you have to suffer for your art!😂

I always coming back to that 11:30 - 11:45 remind me on Skunk Anansie / Skunk..!

Hey mate, dunno if you have seen the video before, but one I would highly recommend is 'Godsmack - Drum Battle HD - Sully Erna vs Shannon Larkin' (it's on Vlad Zibluk channel). It's the vocalist and drummer from Godsmack on two separate kits on stage. Definitely recommend doing that one if you haven't seen it before.

check out OPETH- Harlequin Forest at the Royal Albert Hall

Would love to see your reaction to Vortex - even if you have to blur it. I think most people who watch reactions these days understand the copyright dance

Please consider a reaction to El Estepario Siberiano drum cover of Blinding Lights by The Weekend. Not sure if you've seen him yet but hes arguably one of the worlds top drummers today. Thanks and God bless.

I only ever hold my snare stick backwards to side stick with my stick tip and palm on the drum head because I like that sound better.

They play in drop A. I'm pretty sure the guitarist uses a baritone guitar with an extended scale length while the bassist uses a 5 string to keep the tension. The first drummer I know of who used the butt of the stick as the striking end was Mike Portnoy. I tried doing it... my left hand could not handle the vibration when I hit the snare. Also, kept destroying cymbals I hit with the left hand lol

Hi was watching your Aurora vids and wondered if you had heard of "Eivor" Trollabundin, or Falling Free, live at the old theater in Torshavn then go down the rabbit hole, like to see your reactions.

3:46 - Well, if you consider drop D to be low then their drop A tuning must feel super low to you. However, it's not, it's merely the drop D of baritone tuning (or B standard). The low tuning purists don't even consider it low enough. 🙂 12:56 - That's not a mosh pit, it's called Wall of Death. 😉

Also: I don't think the recommendation had much to do with religion or lack thereof. This is one of the usual follow-ups for people who are getting into Jinjer and want to see more, especially people who appreciate a bit more complex song structures than the venerable Pisces.

We have here Orthodox Christianity in the east and all kinds of Catholicism in the west of the country. They have another song about religion that they wrote after the first Russian invasion. Being forced to leave the east and go to the west, they were struck by how religious people were there and how religion left no room for maneuver, and these impressions resulted in the song Sit Stay Roll Over.

Alot of drummers use double butted sticks. Ukraine and most eastern block countries are Russian Othadox but Ukraine has their own version if i recall correctly.

Her shirt says "Stay Metal"

I believe the usually play in drop A tuning

Thanks for the bit on the use of backward drumsticks, I found it informative. .. Yea you just got a bit crosswired with Alice Cooper "Schools Out" and Pink Floyd "Another Brick..." It is Floyd. Happens

Pink Floyd is we don't need no education and Alice Cooper is schools out for summer 😂

I will say that I have never been a big fan of Jinjer. But, I did enjoy listening to this song and I can certainly admire the technical and musical ability of everyone in the band. I think, however, I will stick to listening to them in reactions and not putting them on my personal playlist. That's just me. I certainly don't expect everyone to feel the same way.

I beleive here shirt says " metal 666"

Blurry is better than nothing (for Vortex) 🙂 we can still watch the original video for reference. 3:46 I think the lowest note is an A, so it could be a drop A or some other tuning with A 9:01 oh nooooo not Alice Cooper 😝 but then at least you half-saved it 😂 10:41 that section is pretty cool: starts with a 4-bar progression, but then they modify it to 5 bars (all 9th chords I think), then she comes in and they continue the 5-bar pattern 12:44 I doubt that he's playing chords, sounds more like a single note (hit with a special technique), max 2 notes, but I'm not really sure 16:12 I suggested it because it's a cool song - very quick voice switches (back and forth between clean and growl), catchy chorus, interesting different sections and patterns, blast beats, surprise ending etc 🙂 Like others said, it's not specifically about religion. She even sings "the school was all imaginary". But since you mention it, the main (but not exactly "official") religion in Ukraine is Christianity, and the main denomination is Eastern Orthodox. It's REALLY funny to hear you say religion is ridiculous. Of course, "religion" can mean different things (especially to different people), but in general, I think the concept of a "worship drummer" doesn't really exist outside a religion. Unless you're perhaps playing exclusively for non-denominational "grassroots" small groups with no organization or set of doctrines. But like you said, that's for a different conversation. Anyway, my next recommendation from Jinjer is "Home Back" - it's a heavy song about the war in Ukraine, and (surprise!) it's older than the 2022 invasion.

Are you falling in love with her yet? Lol...do Judgement & Punishment next!

I've never heard anything about Tati being a teacher... that'd be a new one on me. As far as I know, she's always been a singer. Ahhh, I think I found where the teacher thing came from. Some careless googling. Turns out there's a _different_ Tatiana Shmayluk, also from Ukraine, who is a dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher, who attended the London Royal Academy of Dance. So probably an overzealous fan found that and fanboyed all "OMG Tati is a dancer and a teacher too!?" Heh, she's an amazing performer, but she's not Dimash or K.O. xD

I believe the guitar is tuned to A.

Nothing bad about reactions on blurred screen. We wanna see your reaction. E/o.knows the videos.

Like for noticed Pink Floyd reference.😊

bro please reack Who Is Gonna Be The One (Live) | Napalm Records from jinjer, this is IMPRESSIVE

Tatiana and Eugene were both teachers at some point

I think this one is drop A tuning.

Jinjer is from Donetsk region of Ukraine originally, which is Christian Orthodox. I don't think she's been in a Catholic-like school. Like others said, this is more of a general critique of people who are fast to judge others. This is kind of a recurring theme in her lyrics. My personal guess is that being a metalhead in a conservative corner of a former USSR state kind of made people like that expose themselves to her. She's not really flowing downstream with conservative cultures with her style and attitude.

I see that Steelers logo behind you 👀 you as excited as I am for all the changes we’ve made this offseason?

Guitar tuning = Drop A

There are no schools with strict religious education in Ukraine. Most likely this song is about various dogmas that are imposed on children in any school.

Pink floyd*

The Religion is catholic but russian othodox i guess. Think catholic schools are very common in east europe.

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what's a worship drummer? is it like a gospel drummer? In a boys catholic school they do more than wrap you on the knuckles sad to say

Bro said drop D HAHAHAHA, they play in Drop A which is ridiculously low, only other band I know that plays in Drop A is cannibal corpse and I will not listen to that lmao

Yay!!! 🤘 I thought you'd like that 😊

You talked about the tuning of the guitars and wanted to see the strings. I think you can see that on one of them in the opening minute or so.

I personally, just wanted you to hear the song. It's great musically. So badass. By the way, I looked at your playlist, do you have any videos of you playing? I think we'd all love to see you play. 😊❤ Thanks for watching this one.