A severely underrated drummer. Definitely up there with Portnoy, Orbin, Yoshiki, and the rest. Animals as Leaders is full of world class musicians. One of my new favorite drummers.
I love the sound of snare ... even if serves only to be enhanced by effects, in the editing fase.weirdly reminds me police snare sound XD. and this guy is perfect ... nothing more to say
this is just one of the youtube videos that you can watch over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again and still find it just as entertaining and jaw dropping as the 1st time watching it. I think im going to watch it again.
To everyone who feels the need to argue about times signatures: Any song can be rewritten in any time signature. It's just a matter of notation. Sure, it may help with phrasing to think about it in a certain measure, but to a computer or someone who is going to play exactly what's on the page, it will literally all come out the same.
"You liked this video. We'll use this to improve your recommendations." Don't lie to me RU-vid, you won't. Unless you somehow make Navene make more videos there is nothing you could recommend.
This guy's one of the best new drummers to have a moderate degree of success that's come around in quite a while. At least, to my knowledge; no one's arguing that this guy and his band are just phenomenal.
between you and orbin, rudinger, novalis,mayer, harrison, Iam going too be out a lot of cash....my son loves you guys and now has developed a pricey taste in drums and cymbals....well at least he has good taste...thanks for sharing ...wyatt and daddy...
My favorite thing about this video are the Tabla sitting behind him. I can't wait for the new AAL record, where supposedly Navene is going to live track the drums (after they've been "written" by Misha and Tosin) I think its going to add a whole new dimension to the sound, and if we're REALLY lucky they'll get Evan Brewer to play bass!
I read people commenting about how insane the drumkit sounds. WTF! This drummer is one who could probably make a 250$ drum sound like pure genius. It's not the drum set, who's awesome, it's the drummer.
That's some excellent drumming. The reason the drums sound so clear and crisp is because they're properly mic'd up, unlike in the vast majority of RU-vid videos.
@Mp5Drummer For the record, technically it is a cover, all the drums were programmed, and was completely done without Navene and as far as I know, prior to his or Javiers joining to the band. But this video is beyond breathtaking. Perfect execution, and a snare sound you would set fire to yourself for.
the most impressive part to me is keeping track of the wierd ass time signatures, holy shit its confusing MAAD respect this guy's an influence for sure
haha wow I didn't know it was possible to play the drum parts on this album. Way to go man, I'll be seeing you dudes next time you stop through Illinois!
Navene is the rock-star version of Chuck Norris. When asked where my God is, I reply, "Probably swatting away mad groupies and fans from every angle, drinking brews and winning bar fights, accidentally setting fire to any instrument he touches with his military precision and blistering speed, or any combination thereof."
I'm very interested in drumming but I don't have many chances to practise. Yet I think it would probably be very satisfying to be able to play these patterns through. Great job, I love AAL.
At Emo's?! Hell yeah!! The first band, everybody was all hxc dancing and shit. But once you guys came up, everybody got emotional and awestruck. I almost let out a tear, but hey, quicklikeabunny let out a shit. Amazing Band!!!
damn dude you are aiding my inspiration i'm a drummer of 9 years, trying to take off in the industry with a few bands, getting myself somewhere, recently decided this instrumental shit is what i want to do. true inspiration.
I was always caught up in listening to Tosin, wasn't until I saw this video that I realized the insane amount of time put into the drums tracks for the album... Truly amazing.
It is a cover. He joined the band after the song was composed and the drums programmed. He simply played with them live and wrote the 2nd album drum parts. But this is the first album with the drums programmed by Mansoor.
