Drum machines were made to make crazier beats than any human could possibly play... Then this bastard comes along! Gotta love Jojo Mayer

10 years later, I came back to watch this awesomeness again :)

He plays the beats machines normally play. This guy IS a machine. True icon this man!

As a drummer I don't know how one can watch this video and not be inspired. Jojo is a master plain and simple. Whether or not you like his music, there is no denying his technique and his musicality. Truly inspiring...

Couldn't say it better myself! Jojo Mayer is the creativest drummer out there.

he's like a mad scientist. I love how much fun he has with all the different sounds you can make with one drum. Or a leprechaun with a bag of magic tricks

Unbelievable. Just pure joy to watch and listen to.

What he does on 8:32 to 9:07 is simply amazing.

Mg. He is a machine, Just... Fantastic, One of the greats, and will go down in history as just that. Still more to come! LEGEND!

The whole vid is simply stunning...

jojo ur awesome...great DNB solo..ur an awesome drummer...keep doin wat u do best..and sabian...u did great by endorsing ur cymbals to such a legend

he plays with immense amounts of finesse, but if you watch his dvd or read any interviews he talks about how he used to squeeze really really hard, just goes to show even the best suck once. I swear by Jojo's signature stick, I've been using it for the past year and a half without thinking of switching. love this video too!

This dude is one of my favorites

this man had such a big influence on me. i am absolutely grateful

jojo mayer is amazing thats all i have to say

one of the best out there...

jojo mayer is not of this world.....amazing!

As good as it is on video, it is better in person. This is for all practical purposes the exact solo he did at a clinic I recently attended. He went in great depth about his reverse engineering of drumming. He is a master in many ways.

exactly man inspiration is the what makes me keep getting up everyday!

iv only just seen this guy and hes fucken amizing!!! one of the best iv seen so far

Oh my God, that ride cymbal to his left sounds absolutely incredible. His playing is also flawless. Amazing

What a stunningly good performance.

lol, this is awesome.., didnt realized i watched the hole 10minutes, is so much fun to watch Jojo

one of the best ever

Not even a machine can keep up with Jojo. No programmer/producer could even dream up the figures he does in this master class. Jojo is brilliant.

this is the best solo i've ever seen!!!!

Whew! I just found my new favorite drummer.

Incredible!

breathtaking

oh my that is something else, he made that sound amazing

Man, you best! =) Respect to Sabian

most inspiring musisian!

i love the sound of his signature ride

jo jo owns , he has taste and awsome technique

Can't wait to have the chops and control to do this.

he s a god. Want that hand speed & endurance, must have taken years to develope such a perfect feeling

yup. you're right. that's what I was leaning toward saying, but you made it clearer. peace

Love it

@allmetaliswelcome quite simple. because he was on the 2nd snare. he uses the same stick on the hi-hat. he leaves the butt of the stick on the drum. so the motion is like cross-sticking, except he's hitting the hi-hat instead of the rim of the drum. i've seen videos of him doing this from another angle.

The sounds he can get out of that kit is just fucking amazing...

I first got into drum and bass when I hear Incubus. Hearing the dnb influences in what Jose Pasilas did was quite exciting. Never heard anything like that before. Then I hear Jojo Mayer and I'm damn! That is amazing.

You can imitate a lot of crazy drummers out there, but he is one drummer than is very had to imitate. Amazing!

ouch...cramp city. one of the best modern drummers. BR would be proud.

jojo rules,period...

My hero.....

the beginning sounds exactly like the solo at the musikmesse in frankfurt 2008 GREAT!

Heel-toe technique on right foot..amazing.

trommeln in absoluter perfektion!!!!

wow very good analogy i really love it. I love when people compare music to language, speech and expression etc. But just dont say that you want to quit playing because he is soo good.

amazing

this guy is unreal!!!!!!!!

@Genecidedrummer the thing is that jojo mayer is reallly reallly versatile so he can play many styles pretty well

I've been playing drums for 30 years. I've played with pop, dance, hard rock and even country bands and have played many gigs from private parties to city functions to dozens of dark and dingy bars. I have a beautiful Pearl Studio custom set with Tama hardware and a full set of gorgeous Zildjian A custom cymbals. And I'm going to put my drumkit out on my driveway, set it on fire, and never play again. After seeing this video, I have no right to ever play drums again. This is mind-blowing.

I thinks one of the geniuses of our time.

I love the fact he can take a drum'n'bass sound and make it 100% his own. Mayer is one of the best drummers around and simply put, if you dont like his work, then don't listen. But it's your loss.

finally a drum solo i can tap my foot to :) this guys my hero

@TheLiesette, idk, looks a little too big to be a 16" to me, i think it's an 18" but that's just my thoughts, and i tuned my pretty crappy(i muffled my kit, cuz my neighbors hate me) so when i put those thin rubber pads on my kit, i only put 1/3 on my floor tom, and use the 2/3 part of the head as a regular drum, but usually i would get some muffling rings, or something, or at least a pack of moongels

That groove at 5:41. So sweet

@SpankyWhispette i think you can see it the best when he is standing up at 3:00 that its not sped up. it looks perfectly natural.

jojo is so good it's almost scary at times...

The cymbal on the left is a Sabian AAX El Sabor Picante Hand Crash 18".

It amazes me how Jojo gets so many different sounds from each drum/cymbal.

now to be this is a drum solo! This is a lot better then all those solos where they just do fast chops on the snare or toms. This solo is a lot more musical and more enjoyable to listen to

@meowskull he was using his foot to apply pressure to the bass head in turn changing the sound of the drum. if you listen again you can hear it.

One of a kind.

he is a technical genius.

Jojo mayer and thomas pridgen have the best ghostnotes in the business

MAANA YEAHAEYAEHAYEHA! : P best drum n bass live act drummer i know GROOVING!

it blows me away how tight and mathematically consistent he is. Hes more drum machine than man

INSANE!!

its an awesome sounding ride! do you useually use a brighter more rock sounding ride?

Wow, this guy really kicks asses oO Really cool, a certain 5/5!

@MadmanMoon /word! Other drummers play a ten minutes solo which gets more boring at the time, but his solos are so entertaining at every pont of time.

Cant get enough!!! Sikk!

He's my master Drum N bass on tha drums !

OHH MYY GOOOD!!!

It takes him 4:49 until he hits the primary snare head directly! A good solo can't be rushed!

I agree totally!!!

really! thats really cool man how many people showed? did it sound alot better live?

i was research in very long time for about him and i reach the results: he's not human !!

lol its drum and bass guys stop complaining about the style if its not your cup of tea, this video was amazing!

every aspect of old school Jungle !!!! Mastered!!!! i think i broke my neck !

when he puts both legs in between the snare n floor tom is he alternating the feet on the bass pedal?

NUMERO UNO!!!!!

3:46 Hold on while I completely unscrew my hi hat, take off the top part and sit it on my 2nd snare. Do you guys mind if I keep playing the whole time?

oh my god!!!! now that was a solo!!!

he plays the most sick nasty beats ive ever heard

i can honestly say it was great to watch :) peter

dude's left hand is out of this world.

i met him yesterday... it was fucking awesome

check him out with depart, his jazz group or with janek gwizdala, "Dave Marks Bootlegs: The Janek Gwizdala Band Live in London" is a good vid on youtube, he plays completely different there.

king

hes really good =)

Last two minutes are something unreal

King

Jojo Mayer is the definition of drum n bass influenced. Just read his bio somewhere.

Is he a machine!

@HydraulicSandwich Changing the tension of the bass drum skin with the left foot and playing it with the right.

too f*ckin SICK love this guy

nikhilesh93: At 9:17 he starts a regular double stroke roll and then at 9:20 he only starts playing it faster. In a sextuplet feel. And spreads it to both snares with some hand crossing and stuff. So it's just a double stroke roll. Only completely insane. ;)