Jharis Yokley - Guitar Center 2014 Drum-Off Finalist 

I just saw his Meinl video yesterday. And I've been following since.

I've had the pleasure of watching Jharis Yokley perform in person. I've been playing drums for 40 years. He is flat-out one of the best drummers I've ever seen.

#DrumOff 2014 finalist Jharis Yokley's performance from the big drum show… Have a look!

I get what everybody is saying about the octopad and I agree it takes away from creativity, but you also gotta admit it takes mad skills to do what some of these guys are doing with the octopad.

He's my section leader for the drumline at the band camp I go to, such a great guy to work with!

Jesus christ, he got robbed. Got a little sloppy here and there but it was better than 5 minutes of funk and gospel grooves on the octapad. The gravity blast part was insane.

No offense, he should've won.

this solo is amazing, my lord

Very unique

yyyeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh awesome stuff

If he had perfectly executed all the crossovers and everything, he would've blown the winner away.... Awesome performance!

This is subjective. But I still like his solo better than the winner. No dis but this guy tells a better story, in my opinion.

that snare sounds amaaaaaaazing

I remember him he won the Quarterfinals in IL. He did a great job. All of the drummers were great. Everybody could of won. It was very good to see some of the drummer's use less of the octapad. Shariq used it the most like most of you'll said but he still deserved to win.

This guy beat to make it to the finals and he deserved it. Great Performance bro

jharis is awsome

Think this guy will win next time

❤

2:36 bruhhh sooo nasty what patch is that?

cool! :)

What snare is that

Wow.

Had did he not win. Way better than the winner

01:00 quiero aprender a hacer eso!!

I'm beginning to think that the drum off turned into an advertisement for the octapad .. as far as I can tell there hasn't been a finalist or winner that didn't use it since they started having it as an "optional" accessory .. this dude does rip though .. but I can def do without that octapad ...

this kid should have won!!

I am waiting for them to have an electronic free drum off

What snare head is he using ? :)

how did this guy not win? he was way better than the "winner"

i think yea,,hes ready,for the big time...

Those judges are messed up man this was way more entertaining and more technical than Shariq's solo

Wow i guess the Judges were looking for more octopad. Because I like this guy alot better than the winner. But The winner was good to. They are all better than me haha

He had a great set but I see why he didn't win he had a few slip ups here and there so it cost him. To say he should've won when clearly Shariq had a basically mistake free performance and he killed it as well is crazy.

tell me he doesn't look like Bluprint from dragon house BluPrint01

jeeze, sound guy c'mon

tempo.

The electric pad gives them the option to focus less on the drums and more on creating a song. That option has to go. There's no originality to these GC solos anymore. Jerome Flood and Ramon Sampson were the last of the great GC solos, simply because they didn't have pads to relieve them of creativity and musicality on the drums. Juan Carlos Mendoza is the exception, because he could've won it even without the pad, and, from what I heard, none of the others could. Please, GC, for the sake of originality and the DRUMS, remove the pad from these solos.

Really dope concepts and winner quality ideas but i feel like he played with a lack of confidence. Maybe he was nervous which would make sense but his performance lacked that energy & enthusiasm.