MDF 2013 - Benny Greb - Full-Length Drum Solo 

I know so many of you will disagree. But this is the best solo I've ever seen and heard. It's the first solo where I watched all of it.

Possibly one of the best groove focused drummers out there! Love me some Benny!

Anytime I feel unmotivated I search "Benny Greb Playlist" and press play. Never fails to inspire me. It was a pleasure to watch, learn and meet you at the Toronto clinic a couple years back.

His drumming is so perfect. The story he tells is coursing through his soul and it just manifests itself into the most amazing drum solos, every time. Simply unparalleled expression

This artist is such a beautiful blend of world level chops/phrasing/sounds. I will begin studying from his book/DVD. It's now my new goal to attend one of his drum camps (in this country or Europe) sometime before I pass away. Being as I'm 58 I'd better get on it!

61 people didn't like the "i don't need a microphone for the cowbell" joke.

I have the utmost respect for drummers like Greb who don't just flamboyantly show chops constantly and firstly just lay down a groove. Of course he has some incredible chops, but if there's no groove then what's the point?

Been playing drums for 44 years...this was the most amazing solo I have ever seen...absolutely brilliant..

What can one say but that solo was ingenious. Excellent display of technique coupled with creativity. He kept the solo interesting for 18 minutes. No small feat in itself. This is the first time I listened to Benny Greb. I am now a fan for life. I'm in awe just like the Drum Professor. And btw Drum Professor, relatively speaking, you can cruise for the next 5 years as I am 63!

Benny makes art for you ears. This guy is a modern master.

thanks to Benny, the floor tom was resuscitated and lives a full life

here is EVERYTHING.

This is why he is my favorite drummer. He's got all the intangibles but it's his unique interpretation of rhythm that I love. Thanks for sharing your talent with us Benny.

He seriously has the deepest pocket I am hearing today.

I think this is the best drum solo I've ever seen (playing for 20 years). 18 minutes all-killer no filler. Very musical. Fun to watch. Independence. Just crazy.

I love the sound of his drums. Perfect tuning ...and playing, of course. Goose bumps.

Dat floor tom. Sounds better than my bass drum

The dancing hi-hat made me happy. Hahaha.

An expressive genius, without the need of much. He's on another level a drummer- exploring musicality beyond the beat itself.

Amazing, I love when you watch a drummer play and can just feel their soul through the instrument. This solo is beautiful!

I love the way he puts such passion into what he does. He's able to try incredible things with the different sounds, as if he's never seen a kit before, but his immense skill allows him to use that experimentation as part of his flow. Truly inspiring.

Probably the best Drum Solo I've ever heard.

This is one of a the best drum solos I have seen. I have seen a lot but this is outstanding.

Every time I watch Benny solo I am always waiting for him to play his signature groove. He is such an awesome drummer.

What a huge artist! One of the best solos from history! A totally storytelling with all parts of the drum

The thing I love about Benny is that he makes use of every single thing on his kit. He does techniques and things on the toms and cymbals that I could never even think of.

By far the most creative solo I have seen in my life.

Absolutely fantastic solo, such a nice blend of grooves and carefully layed out fills.

I have been watching Greb for years. And I have figured it out...what makes him such a stand out. He is perhaps the best I have seen at letting YOU hear...what he is hearing in his head. The ability to fluently translate...the grooves, and the strikes he is thinking of. I really believe this. There are guys out there with more chops and maybe speed and limb independence...but Greb gets the message over so damn good. He is musical. Melodic in a percussion context.

Benny makes me think of 'where earth and drums meet'. He brings out rawness in a way that makes you want to be creative on a whole new level, and that's what I love about him, plus he's so down to earth while being so crazy gifted and well versed in so many directions. I own and love his Language DVD, and it will never stop challenging me.

I find something new every time I watch this. Benny Greb is a master of his domain.

hahahaha Benny is a friggin' GENIUS! I love the way he finds a way to incorporate every single little nuance into his drumming! It's incredible I mean the floor tom thing...plus the scratching of the cymbal with the tip of the stick - hilariously GENIUS! What can I say, one of my fav modern drummers no doubt!

He has so much style. He's never to much and when he goes in he gets right back out and keeps on with the groove. Very solid.

I really don't see how it gets any better than this.

Benny Greb knows his drum kit very well. Which may sound stupid, but he knows what he gets out of it. Every sound, feel etc. This is what makes him so good as well as his range of dynamics and hand-feet co-ordintion. Well Done Benny

You are the poet of drums, Benny Greb.

That's the best that kits ever had!!! Hahaha no one makes love to a kit like Benny! ;-)

holy shit... innovative, fresh, total independence, .... I'm floored

I love the way Greb set a pattern then break it. And there's always some new trick in this solo. Congrats!

Simply put, the most beautiful Drum sound ever! And of course one of the most musical/tasteful players out there.

Everything that transitions into that groove at 2:16 is SO sick! This is my new inspiration.

He sitted as a drummer and raised as a legend.

I cannot get enough of his floortom haha

Christ this man's art is ridiculous. he's incredible. ive never heard a more dynamic drum solo before.

As with everything he does, I think this is a great example of Benny telling a story through drums. I interpenetrated it as the emotions he has experienced throughout his life, the highs and lows, and at the end, when he uses his hands on the snare in a slow swing, almost like someone taking footsteps away from his be-loved kit, and uses the butt of his stick to mimic a closing door to his life's work. Or it's just a bad-ass fucking solo. Either way, this guy knows how to capture an audience.

Such a cool video. His interaction with the sound engineers shows his true knowledge of his craft.

Man I wish he goes back to this drum set-up here. I love how open his cymbals sound and let splashes be splashes and crashes be crashes.

king of the grooves.incredible solo

Absolutely brilliant!

Benny has taking the 'dynamics' in a drum solo to another level. I liken it to the way the late great Jeff Porcaro grooved & the musical approach to every note he played, its infectious!! Plus I loved how he told the sound engineer to turn down the gate on the bass drum!! Awesome :)

I'm always so amazed with how genius Greb is.

very creative and original idea for a solo, a super shock hands come up!

Absolute Great Solo!

Man what a badass! The way he closed out that solo was perfect!

Such talent he always gives us something amazing. Great minds think a like a drum with those shoes too!

78 people need a microphone for the cowbell.

I just love the way he incorperates every single voice he possibly can into his drumming

Amazing.... The use of the kit... Unbelievable 👏👏👏👏

Thanks to Dave Weckl to have shown the way : have the best possible technic to put it in the service of musicality, intelligence and creativeness of speech, fineness of nuances, fluidity and visual beauty of gestures and movements, perfect position of the body for a maximum of efficiency, correctness and precision of striking for a fabulous quality of sound. The result is called BENNY GREB and as Gavin Harrison or David Garibaldi, is part of the best and most precise drummers of the world. (And there, even percussionists must be jealous !)

Man, can you imagine the kind of pocket that would be created if this guy were to jam with Victor Wooten? I would be ecstatic to hear what those two do together.

That's how you do it. I'm going to have to come listen again because my brains melted a bit right now

Favorite drummer right here. Ugh. My god.

So musical....a breath of fresh air.

All I can say is Wow!!! Bravo Maestro!!

I was hoping he wouldn't pick up the sticks again. That hand solo was beautiful.

damn, that was one of the best drum solos i've ever seen! he's not just a drummer, he's an artist. i loved the solo from a technical, sonical and creative point of view, just tonname some aspects. he even managed to get some comedy into it by making funny faces :-D i'm looking forward to seing more videos of benny!

If ever I am in need of inspiration I just put the name Benny Greb into my search bar and press enter.

That fill he does from 4:46 to 4:49 is so fucking awesome. When he choke the splash and hits the ride by itself it sounds so cool!!!!!

I love his storytelling. Drum is drum. Music is music. Not circus. Not technique. This guy shows it.

WaaaaaaaaaaW !!! This guy is CRAZYYYY !!!!! that drove me totally maaaad !!! Awesome stuff !

Groove and total control over the kit. Greb is a great specimen of what a drummer should work towards. Groove on greb!

I just love his stroke. It seems that he is gripping the sticks ever so lightly.

That hand percussion blew me away!

This man is my drumming idol

Very creative and good technics!

F*ck yeah. That is all.

thank you Benny! Amazing...

I enjoyed the story!! He really communicates!

I love you benny greb you are my number one favourite drummer of all time

Grebb plays very musical, love his spacing

Bennyy greeb. Un gran musico de los mejores. Sin palabras.

This man is Too much.

Genial esse Benny greb monstro eita pegaaaa toop lembra-se bateras unidos jamais serão vencidos 🥁.

there's something almost therapeutic about listening to benny greb's solo's.. i feel like i've just had a massage haha..

that snare is awesome! and so is benny!

AMAZING!

Astonishing solo.

so many ideas ......amazing

Most musical drum solo in the world

I love that 16" floor tom...very nice

Brilliant.

Bennys gotta be one of the coolest guys on earth!

Groove + technique + outside the box creativity = the perfect drum solo by Benny Greb!! (notice i left out chops - wasn't needed!)

amazing. and a lesson for us all.

What blows my mind is if you keep tempo from when he stops blowing in the hole of the drum to when he begins playing again, its right on the 1. FLAWLESS

Why is it that whatever benny greb plays is so appealing to my ears and seems that i can play that with enough practice. Some other terrific drummers play and it just look quite boring , lineal, i don't know is just that you don't feel like learning what they play. Greb's style is so good.

awesome!!

His kit always sounds AMAZING. He must just flat out hit a drum better than I do. LOL

This man is a genius!

even bennys hi-hat starts to groovin.. just amazing