TOP 20 DRUM INTROS EVER 

Hey guys! Remember that I need you to write your top 3 drum intros on the comments! The goal of this video would be to try and find common ground on this subject, lets see what your list looks like, we'll take the most liked one as the TRUTH! Also, sorry if there are any mistakes or songs that i left out. i tried to learn all of them on my trip to Meinl Cymbals so i really couldn't practice them properly! Don't forget to leave a like and some comments if you want to help the bearded guy!

He played toxicity so perfect, that the youtube's algorithm catch it like the oryginal song and muted it for breaking copyright

YT muted Toxicity. Boooo. Boo YT, Boo.

Deep Purple - Pictures of Home has a cool drum intro and is a pretty underrated Deep Purple song Also Death - Scavenger of Human Sorrow. Richard Christy had such a wild and crazy style on that album :)

For me, the most iconic drum intro by far : In the air tonight - phil Collins. It's not the hardest, or very technical, but everyone will know after the first hit on the drum and it was the sound track of that decade

1 - Territory - Sepultura 2 - You Could Be Mine - Guns N' Roses 3 - Where Eagles Dare - Iron Maiden

1) Van Halen-Hot for teacher 2) Dire Straits-Money for nothing 3) Judas Priest-Painkiller 4) Queens of the Stone age-Song for the Dead

When the Levee Breaks. All time, but just as much about the production and tone as Bonham’s groove. No matter how well you play that, it just won’t compare.

I’m glad you included Painkiller. My all time favorite.

Fun fact:The intro for Song 2 had two drum tracks. One was played by drummer Dave Rowntree and the other was by guitarist Graham Coxon.

Some from the prog rock/metal scene: 3. Dream Thrater - 6:00 2. Tool - Ticks & Leeches 1. Rush - YYZ

You are truly one of the greatest drummers ever, you not only went to rock, to metal, but you went to electronic music , that is something to appreciate your list is accurate cheers from Mexico

What a fun video. Thanks for sharing! A lot of new ones for me. Some favorites, in no particular order: - Rush - Animate (live was much better than the studio version) - Genesis - Behind The Lines/Duke's End - they mirror each other to open and close the album Duke - Phil Collins - I Don't Care Anymore

Stargazer by Rainbow - Cozy Powell's intro to that is legendary!

1. Where Eagles Dare - Iron Maiden 2. Stargazer - Rainbow 3. Rock n' Roll - Led Zeppelin 4. Pictures of Home - Deep Purple 5. Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller

Drum intros that I loved to play in high school…. The Offspring has so many; “Gott get away”, “Come out and play “ and “ Gone away” Unforgettable great tunes!

Tool - Ticks and Leeches is one of my favorites and took me long to learn… Gracias por tus videos! 🫶🏼 Me inspiran siempre 🙌🏻

1. Digital Man - Rush - Neil Peart 2. In a Big Country - Big Country - Mark Brzezicki 3. Ticks & Leeches - Tool - Danny Carey

First off thanks for this video and your others I love em and I watch as much as I can. As far as my favorite drum intro, it's john Bonham for me with, when the levee breaks. Only john had that old school revolutionary rhythm and feel. Love to see your take on it.

Surprised the Purdie shuffle from Rosanna was not on your list - iconic drum opening. Great list and excellent job on Hot for Teacher

1- My Hero 2- (sic) 3- Sunday Bloody Sunday

1. Pull Harder on the Strings of your Martyr - Trivium 2. Painkiller - Judas Priest 3. Art of Dying - Gojira 4. Beast and the Harlot - A7X 5. Fall into your Hands - Trivium I know, the most are simple but i love them

Play with me - Extreme Land of confusion - Genesis Nowhere to run - Martha and the Vandellas I heard it through the grapevine - Gladys Knight Call Me - Blondie

3) Honor Thy Father - Dream Theater 2) The Alien - Dream Theater 1) 6 o'clock - Dream Theater Honorable mention: YYZ - Rush

Good Times Bad Times- Led Zeppelin YYZ- Rush Song For the Dead- QOTSA Wooden Jesus- Temple of the Dog You pretty much got all my favs. A pleasure watching you interpret correctly. Love those chops, man.

A few interesting intros - Alice In Chains : no excuses Power Station : some like it hot. Shelia E. : the glamorous life The police : walking on the moon Bob Dylan : lay lady lay. Duran Duran : Rio 🤗 Not (necessarily) the most complex but memorable imo and each sets up the songs nicely.

You sir are a god among drummers. Love your stuff. I dabble on the drums, and these videos keep me going back to my kit for more.

1-Territory Sepultura 2-in bloom Nivarna 3-Cherub rock smashing pumkings

I have no idea how Danny Carey missed this list. Ticks and Leeches drum intro gives me goosebumps still to this day

1. Raining blood - Slayer 2. Territory - Sepultura 3. Hot for teacher - Van Halen

Can't argue with Hot For Teacher. Here are some more 'drums-only' intros I'd add to the list: 1. Over The Mountain - Ozzy 2. Where Eagles Dare - Iron Maiden 3. I Don't Care Anymore - Phil Collins 4. 50 Ways To Leave your Lover - Paul Simon 5. Welcome to The Club - Vandenberg (deep cut)

just discovered your channel. Love your skill (top tier) and your taste and analytics are fantastic man,

for blurs song 2, The song also featured two drum kits, with Dave Rowntree and Graham Coxon both banging on the drums simultaneously, so what you're hearing is two drummers playing :) and as for eyeless, it was actually sid doing the DnB intro, he used an old drum n bass track called "ease yourself" by a group called "the collective" :)

1) painkiller 2) eyeless 3) the bongo song played a live

"Demanufacture" - Raymond Herrera (Fear Factory) "Territory" - Igor Cavallera (Sepultura) "13 steps" Vinnie Paul (Pantera)

Perfect list. That particular Manowar song that some might feel is missing from this list, is just pure drumming for way longer than an intro.

Gojira - The art of dying Death - Flattening of Emotions Rainbow - Stargazer by the way if we can leave the rock/metal world, listen to the first 3 minutes of Autechre's LCC, it's insane, and around 2:30-3:15 it gets completely out of this world

My top 3 1. Judas Priest - Painkiller 2. Judas Priest - Exciter 3. Iron Maiden - Run to the hills

my #1 favorite intro ive ever learned on drums and im so happy it was featured and others think alike Hot for Teacher!

Thank you for being one of the most interesting people on youtube. Keep going brother I love you.

Respect for picking "Good Times Bad Times" for the Bonham into. The intro to the first song on the first Led Zeppelin album. That first song changed rock and roll forever. And if you go just a few bars in you get the first Bonham triplets, which is also part of his legend. Just awesome.

1. Walk This Way - Aerosmith 2. Trust - Megadeth 3. Sunday Morning - Maroon 5 4. Easy Lover - Philip Bailey 5. Motorbreath - Metallica This would be my most memorable drum intro. Really inspiring me to write songs in such fashions.

Digital Bath - Deftones

1) Honky Tonk Women - Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones 2) Ain't That a Shame - Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick 3) La Grange - Frank Beard of ZZ Top

Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2 is one I think should've been on the list. Mullen's military style drumming that represents the gunshots I feel really lays the feel of song. Also, this is more of a personal one, but I really like Ian Paice's intro in Smoke on the Water. The roll on the hi-hats and then the addition of the snare I feel builds upon Blackmore's riff spectacularly and is integral in creating a hard rock classic.

1. 50 ways to leave your lover 2. Africa 3. The Spirit of radio

I love this idea! In no particular order, mine are: - Flashlight (Parliament) - All Along the Watchtower (the Jimi Hendrix version) - When the Levee Breaks

My top three: 1) Sepultura -Teritory 2) queens of the stone age- song for the deaf 3) slipknot- eyeless 4) pearl jam - go! 5) Dream Theatre - Ytse Jam

Bullet the Blue Sky - U2 - defenitely a signature intro! Love that one, great sound and it sounds so wiiiiide open. Brilliant!

Rock 'n' Roll - Led Zeppelin Hot for Teacher - Van Halen Indians - Anthrax

In the recording of song 2 , their signer is actually playing another drum set to add to the beat , and that's why there's a snare , hi-hat and tom at the same time

1. Hot for teacher. 2. Money for noting. 3. Painkiller I would like to see you do some of Santa's songs like Soul sacrifice & Jingo Please.

1) Rock´n´Roll - John Bonham 2) Fireball - Ian Paice 3) Rosanna - Jeff Porcaro 4) Dance With The Devil - Cozy Powell 5) Don´t Bring Me Down - Bev Bevan

1) 6 o’clock Dream Theater 2) Honor thy Father Dream Theater 3) Nightmare Avenged Sevenfold

Joey was always my biggest inspiration for me to learn drums when i was 19. I couldnt continue, life got in the way. Im 39, still desperately wanting to play again. Im curious if you could break down some of Disturbeds song. Mike has changed over the years and his drumming is still awesome

1: Sunday bloody Sunday. u2. 2:: pride(in the name of love) u2. 3: the backseat. The gaslight anthem.

"Welcome Home" - King Diamond. Everyone knows this is the best drum intro.

1: Hot for Teacher 2:Toxicity 3:My Hero - Foo Fighters (such a good intro)

I always loved 'Trust 'of Megadeath. So clean, so easy, so consistent!

3 songs not mentioned in the video that were top 3 to me: 3. Stargazer - Rainbow 2. Honor Thy Father - Dream Theater 1. We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister

1) Sepultura - Ratamatahatta 2) Led Zeppelin - Good times bad times 3) System of a Down - Chop Suey

My top three: 311- Transistor Deftones- Digital Bath Rush- Spirit of the Radio

Great video I only missed some Rush!!

Amazing video man!!!! By the way, what drum kit is that? Beautiful!!!!

I always liked intro to Sunday bloody Sunday by U2. The characteristic sound of those drums is pulling your attention from the start

For me, Davidian by Machine Head is the best drum intro of all time - it blew me away the first time I heard it and I still love it to this day. What a way to open an album! I also love Pure Hatred by Chimaira as a drum intro but nothing will ever match the power of Davidian for me.

One of my favorite drum solo's is one my dad showed me when I was a kid was Pictures of Home by Deep Purple. Such a great song with a quick easy but crazy catchy intro.

Great list, always amazing to watch you play. Personal favourite drum intro and maybe overall intro would be Leave Them All Behind by Ride.

My "atypical" drum intro list: 1- Fireball - Deep Purple 2- YYZ - Rush 3- We are an American band - Grand Funk Railroad 4- Eye of the Tiger - Survivor 5- For whom the bell tools - Metallica

My top 3 1. Honor Thy Father - Dream Theater. Mike Portnoy is absolutely amazing. 2. Beast and the Harlot - Avenged Sevenfold. Love that drum intro all the way up to the verse start. 3. Paradise City - Gun 'n' Roses. So simple. Once you hear that kick and snare. You know what youre in for

This was a perfect list of intros. Some of these I would've personally picked, but I didn't think anyone else would. I'm delightfully surprised.

3 of my favorites (not because they are especially complex but just iconic and recognizable) are "We're not gonna take it", "Painkiller" and "You could be mine"

1. You Could Be Mine (every drum intro video seems to ignore it) 2. Honor thy father 3. Down with the sickness There are so many amazing drum intros out there, but these 3 are just some that aren't in this video, so we definitely need part 2 🤘😎

Nice I love how you point out that everyone can play it but very few can write it. And thats what shows me the true talent of musicians !!!

Of these, Chop Suey, Song 2, Money for Nothing and of course Smella Like Teen Spirit are the ones that I can instantly recognize by the first few seconds of the drum part alone, so perhaps those ones.

I’d have to say Rush - The Spirit of Radio intro is one of my top favorites. There’s nothing super difficult to it but it’s just a great groove to the ears and I believe Neal Peart is one of the best percussionists of all time.

I'd go with : - Pneuma by Tool (Danny Carey) - Walk by Pantera (Vinnie Paul) - Sad but True by Metallica (Lars Ulrich)

I won't lie, I was expecting Down With the Sickness to be on this list because even if you don't really know the song, or only know it for the memes, the drum intro is very recognizable and sets the tone for the song.

My faves are 1. Confessional - Lamb of God 2. Two inches above main artery - Through the eyes of the Dead 3. War and Fidelity - Oldmans Child

- Fire -Mitch Mitchell - Where Eagles Dare - Nicko McBrain - Stargazer - Cozy Powell - Scentless Apprentice - Dave Grohl - Indiscipline - Bill Bruford - Intro the Lens - Alan White - Picture of Home - Ian Paice

King Diamond - "Welcome home" has a beautiful drum intro :)

My five are: • Journey - The Party's Over (Hopelessly in Love) • Foo Fighters - Hero • Aerosmith - Walk This Way • Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover • Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine

My top 5 is based on feel for the song In no particular order Ballroom blitz - Mick Tucker Stargazer - Cozy Powell Painkiller - Scott Travis Dissident aggressor - Simon Phillips Freeway mad - Pete Gill

Song for the Deaf also contains the drum intro of Slip It In by Black Flag. 1 Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies; the song is so linear but the intro moves away from forward. 2 Stranded in the Jungle - NY Dolls; it sounds like you're stranded in a jungle 3 Rock & Roll part 2 - Gary Glitter; the drums are hypnotizing. Cheers

Good list! Midlife Crisis - Faith No More, I am One - Pumpkins, Trip Away - Jane’s Addition

I would probably add Walkin' On Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves intro is instantly recognizable

Just wanted to throw some love Carcass' way for the drum intro to Corporal Jigsore Quandary. Not super complicated, but it's a phenomenal display of how drums shape the groove and drive a song forward.

Hot for teacher is still to this day the number one drum intro, EVER.

Anyone else get a glitch during Toxicity?

I'm grew up in 2000, so a lots of em comes from that era, my top 3 are : 1. Bullet From My Valentine - Your Betrayal 2. Avenged Sevenfold - Almost Easy 3. Versailles - The Revenant Choir (Bet no one knows the last one, but it's a drum intro that actually made me want to play drums)

On Blur’s Song 2, the toms were overdubs on the original recording. A lot of drums from the Britpop era were recorded this way. They recorded a basic backbeat, then they added tom fills and additional cymbals and percussion effects on separate tracks.

Territory - Sepultura 6 o'clock - Dream Theater Hard Wired - Dave Weckl Band

1: John the Fisherman - Primus 2: Cochice - Audioslave 3: Son et Lumiere/Intertiatic Esp - Mars Volta

Hola querido Estepario, I miss Rossanna by TOTO on your lineup. This song alone has an epic drum intro that I believe anyone who hears it recognizes Jeff Porcaro's amazing shuffle ability, with all those ghost notes on the HH. Love your work Un abrazo cariñoso desde Chile.

1. Squib Cakes - David Garibaldi Tower Of Power - Back To Oakland 2. Festival De Ritmo - Dave Weckl - Master Plan Album 3. In Flight - Dave Weckl - Hard Wired Album Of course, this is so very difficult given the multitude of fantastic drummers over the past 6 decades. If you asked about a few of the most famous drum intros: 1. Take the Money and Run - Gary Mallaber - Steve Miller Band 2. Fly Like and Eagle - Gary Mallaber - Steve Mille Band 3. Brick House - Walter Orange - The Commodores If you asked about one of my favorite percussion grooves, then I'd pick: 1. Rumba Mama - Ruben Acuna - Weather Report - Heavy Weather If you asked about one of my favorite live drum solo performances, then I'd pick: 1. Carl Palmer - Welcome Back My Friends To the Show that Never Ends Live (1974) in Japan (Starts at 11:15 into the show). Carl P, David G, and Neil P were all heavy influences in my early days (70's) drumming and percussion learning road...which is continuous today with the likes of Dave W, Carter B, Gavin H, Danny C, and Mike P...so many great influencers...

Kiss - strutter. One of my all time fav drum introd

some personal favorites in no particular order: 1. Involuntary Doppelganger - Archspire 2. Physical Education - Animals as Leaders 3. Remnants of the Tortured - Abominable Putridity 4. Hammer Smashed Face - Cannibal Corpse 5. Secrets Within - Car Bomb

Really love the respect for music that you show.

Not only are you the best drummer out there, but your knowledge of music and drumming is out of this world!

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