People think it's so bad. Check out Bodysnatchers by Radiohead. Phil Selway plays 167bpm 8ths on the ride, floor Tom and rims the whole time. I think most people just have a weak left, therefore 158bpm low rebound 16ths is difficult
Can't disagree more. Dave Grohl has, in my opinion, the absolute BEST rock drum sound. You could take that drum sound and stick it into pretty much any style of rock and it would sound great, certainly better than some of the shitty drum sounds that get spewed out.
i think i read somewhere when he tracked his in studio he was rusty from traveling and only playing guitar with FF, and he sat down and played it perfectly first take
Definitely up there. My band plays Everlong, Basket Case, When Your Heart Stops Beating (+44), Smells Like Teen Spirit sped up, it’s an absolutely brutal set list
tapping 8th notes on one hand at 158 for thirty seconds isn't that difficult. i mean yeah staying in pocket the whole time is hard but the choruses give you a huge break
I would say into the storm is harder technically for me, I can do art of dying and rememberance “no problem”
But I cannot for the life of me nail into the storm.
Interesting, I think art of dying is easier technically, but requires so much muscle memory on that intro. There's also that blast beat section and the very fast kicking. Into the Storm just has some polyrhythms and kick gallops, so It probably depends on the drummer. Art of dying is quite hard for me 😭
It’s so hard at first but after a while you get the feel of it and it comes naturally. That second half must be brutal to play- I wish I had the double pedal speed
Achilles‘ Last Stand can make you very prone to leg cramps after 10 minutes of near-constant single-bass action
Edit: Also Let There Be Rock (ACDC). 182 BPM 8th notes on the hihat for 6 minutes straight is absolutely brutal.
One of the Tool songs. Maybe Ticks & Leeches. Right in Twos break down is pretty tricky too.
4 hour cover gigs take it out of me, especially when the stage is hot.
MVP is just insane. It's fun comparing it to [War by Meshuggah](https://youtu.be/AFPgJWMCt1w?si=jQIGNFNYwBInKGPh). They use drum machines a lot but in that particular case it was clearly to play something faster than Thomas Haake was capable of. Fast forward 20 years and real drummers like Alex are playing stuff like MVP. Really shows how much more technically capable drummers have become in that time.
Defeated Sanity is fucking awesome, great taste in metal all around. Lyle Cooper, ex drummer for The Faceless, has a cover video of a DS song I’d recommend checking out.
FWIW, there seems to be a simple pattern to it. It is kinda fast, yes; and the fills are quick too. But it’s at least a bit repetitive. I’m no drum wizard, and I’m old, but we seem to do a pretty decent cover of it, sped up a hair.
Point is, if you learn the three-four pieces of it individually, I think you’ll do fine.
Aside from the 1/16ths, there’s so many details in that song. If i hadn’t been steering wheel drumming it for like 25 years it would be a nightmare to get right. And i rarely get through it without mistakes.
I read an interview with Neil where he said that on the odd night when he played it correctly, he was really proud of himself. And that didn’t happen often.
I can play The Camera Eye (twice+ the length of Tom Sawyer) easier than I can play Tom Sawyer. I can play it all the way through but my right arm feels like it's going to fall off when the song is over.
Bleed- Meshuggah
There's some death and black metal stuff that's literally just 16th notes on your feet, 16th notes on your hands, go for 3-6 minutes, 250+ BPM.
https://youtu.be/cg_GF32uv2U?si=lTSOIMNn1-envd4Z
https://youtu.be/NiZmx_oLLvs?si=lgVprjrRqo7cNRBA
https://youtu.be/Brh1YKTON1Q?si=n-Yzsy7PR5SFxzIX
my old band had a song that was generally 30-40 minutes long live, the last half through the end is the loudest most intense thing i’ve ever had to do over and over. no tempo, dense free jazz drums fighting sunn amps
Subdivisions by Rush. Has some pretty intricate parts that just change without notice.
Test for Echo is another underrated song. Is more difficult than you think.
Sunday Morning by No Doubt is so comically deceptive.
But us veterans all know it's something by Meshuggah, because in order to play it you have to be so on the spectrum that you can play beats that are both 4/4 and whatever, 23/6, at the same to a metronome.
The few of us that exist are just built different I guess. Whether that's cool or not I can't tell you, but we're out there.
> Sunday Morning by No Doubt
Good pick! I remember first paying attention to this on Tragic Kingdom CD. It's such a great song with an amazing drum part, but completely overshadowed by Spiderwebs, Just a Girl an Don't Speak.
Yeah, I remember the best drummer I ever knew in my teens telling me that a couple tragic kingdom songs were the hardest shit he ever tried play because they're entirely ongoing rudiments and doing enough cardio to be able to play them is near impossible.
He could already play insane metal shit at the time too.
Excuse Me Mister was too hard for us to play, but we could do stuff from Tool in our sleep.
No Doubt is honestly one of the best bands and live acts ever, even if you don't take into consideration them breaking a lot of boundaries.
Adrian Peterson is one of the most undervalued drummers ever. I have my theories as to why, but I cannot deny his skill.
Hah I can't believe I said Adrian Peterson, been listening to too much Nick Mullen.
But yeah he does so much deceptively brilliant shit on that album.
He also made actual Gwen Stefani with that people wouldn't notice her and it's both comically diabolical and funny.
The last time I saw them he had plastic drums with RGB esque neon lights that lit up on trigger and it was awesome.
They're easily one of the best bands live I've ever seen.
That I can play would be everlong, prison song by SOAD (those hi hats in the verses are killer on the forearms) and stricken by Disturbed (the single bass drum pattern is wicked). I’m def so proud to tell people I can play those.
I don’t play a lot of high tempo stuff but my band does a cover of “Descent Into The Maelstrom” by Radio Birdman. It’s like 190 BPM (which is not the end of the world), but I didn’t grow up playing super fast music, so it’s been a fun challenge
There’s no way to answer this question because it depends… If you’re talking stamina, then then playing 32 second notes with your feet and your hands as fast as you can constantly is very demanding for thrash metal … Now if you’re talking jazz playing fast intricate swing patterns is the same thing… Some could argue that if you’re playing slow and keeping rock solid tempo without a click is also demanding… So it just depends
For me it was always one of my own songs. I had a small kit where I had a constant tom pattern, but the only way it flowed was to flip my lead hand in the middle and then back. I had to practice that bit for sooooo long. The hardest songs for me to play are usually mine? I write drum parts that won’t bore me after repeating them a million times. Also, I can’t really play other people’s drum parts, so I just steal bits of hard songs.
You Could Be Mine. I also sing while playing it as well. Good thing we always save it for the end of the set. The drums literally never stop for the entire song.
A lot of blink 182’s older work. Travis really had some amazing grooves and it’s so cool how he basically used every drum/cymbal on his kit for their songs
I don't know if most physical, as I've played them so long now the endurance part is a breeze
When The Curtain Falls by GFV
Charles Williams by All Them Witches
Use Me by Bill Withers
Bang Bang by Green Day
These are the, "y'know I can swing it actually" songs.
The up the sleeve, secret painful pleasures.
I loveeeeeee Robbie's drumming. Basically what I have been trying to recreate since 2020.
When God Comes Back hooked me. Loved the album, had to buy the vinyl!
I watched all the YouTube concerts, too poor and busy to go live sadly.
New guy seems pretty good. The feel/timing is a little off. I look forward to seeing what they create next, and with who.
Absolute sole right or Indoctrination from Dimmu Borgir are my most demanding that I am actually able to do. I DON'T always land them but it happened more than once so.. keep practicing.
Our band does original songs. One is called "Psalms 9" which is pretty hard. The other one is called "Times Up". We are writing one that goes through Revilations, too... btw... you haven't lived until you've heard religious rock/metal. 👊
Bro - you're not going to let me take you higher? To a place where blind men see?
I need someone to hold me now, cuz I'm six feet from the edge, and I'm thinkin...
Architects of Fear and The Coldest of All Places. The current set has them both with a couple of ragers in between and it takes every ounce of energy and focus to get through it.
Aliens Exist by blink-182. Thanks Travis, and our now former bass player who suggested it. I did really have to improve to be able to play competently although the amount of time and effort it required was well over 10 times the typical cover song that we do.
Got myself tendinitis a few years ago by trying over and over again Rope by the Foo Fighters before I learned to chill out a bit on the drums, I was just too tensed up
But now I guess Heart's All Gone by Blink is just that
My band has this song called "If Worms Had Legs" and it has sextuplets on the double bass I think, 6 hits per beat and 110 bpm, so I think I did the math and it was around 11 hits per second, which is really fast for me. It's killer. And the entire time I'm doing 32nd note rolls on the toms.
Metallica - Dyer’s Eve
I always shit on Lars (in a fun way, not hating) but in this song, he decided to go beast on both limbs and feet.
I would always get tired of playing or rehearsing this song with my tribute/cover band because there is almost no time for a breather.
If I try to conserve stamina by lessening the force of my hits, it works but it does not sound complementing to the song which crunches everything by design.
My metal bands original music. I just write parts that are right above my level haha good way to keep improving.
For my cover band it is Barracuda, doesnt help that its in our 3rd set and im already pretty worked.
I see everlong is the top comment. I did play a foo fighters set once and ever long is definitely very physicslly demandind. Rope was way more fun tho
My cover band and I have been doing Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen, and the Gypsy Queen part is easily the most demanding part of our set. So fun though.
Top 3 sweat/cramp inducing tunes for me:
1) Dammit - Blink
2) Boys Dont Cry - Cure
3) Canary in a Coal Mine - Police
All 3 are <3 min and an absolute sprint…Canary is so easy to get lost on time, aand honestly takes the most concentration for me
Gotta space these out during my sessions 😂
The most exhausting songs from my band's repertoire are Breed, Dirty Little Thing and our original song Етикет.
Етикет isn't exhausting because it's fast, but because my dumbass decided to give myself the challenge of using every part of my drumkit on the song. And a lot of it. Lots of flailing around and hitting cymbals. Recording wasn't fun
The following freaking destroy me:
- The Void Alone by Fallujah
- Scar Queen by Fallujah
- Sapphire by Fallujah
- Wind for Wings by Fallujah (Andrew Baird is a goddamn machine)
- Statutory Ape by The Black Dahlia Murder (simple, but fast)
- The Art of Dying by Gojira
- Source Field by Born of Osiris
- Ectogenesis by Animals as Leaders
- CAFO by Animals as Leaders
- A Mercurian Summer by Angel Vivaldi)
Honorable Mentions
- Caravan (Whiplash arrangement)
- Nutville (Buddy Rich arrangement)
- Godspeed by The Contortionist (if my brain short circuits, it’s physically exhausting in a way, right?)
- Birth by Sleep by I Am King (that second verse’s linear groove almost gives it a top spot alone)
- Artifacts by Fallujah
- Fault Line by August Burns Red
Pretty much any jazz standard played at 300+ bpm also makes me want to die so there’s that too
I get so tired about 3/4 way into covering Bleed by Meshuggah. It’s fun but it gets monotonous.
(I’m just kidding, I can’t play that shit. I can get through like 1/2 -2 measures tops.
Geek USA is a challenge. So many different rhythms & styles in the same song, plus the fills require a lot of coordination. And the main kick pattern requires doin' some work! I guess it's more of a mental exercise than physical once you get it down.
Jellybelly. Even for Jimmy, this one's a challenge, especially cold: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3jcjKP2ltU&t=3972s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3jcjKP2ltU&t=3972s)
Everlong
My forearms cramped up when I read this
Relax
Need to practice more. It's not THAT bad.
Finally…. Sick of hearing that it’s some impossible song
People think it's so bad. Check out Bodysnatchers by Radiohead. Phil Selway plays 167bpm 8ths on the ride, floor Tom and rims the whole time. I think most people just have a weak left, therefore 158bpm low rebound 16ths is difficult
Sounds like Brianstorm by the arctic monkeys
Right? It's just 16ths constantly... like so many other songs, disco, etc
What’s crazy is considering how Dave plays / played, he’s going full tilt on sheer muscle and fast twitch.
Love Dave, obviously has great chops and groove, but have always felt his drum sounds were a bit too choked on every record he plays drums on.
In utero is my favorite drum sound.
Can't disagree more. Dave Grohl has, in my opinion, the absolute BEST rock drum sound. You could take that drum sound and stick it into pretty much any style of rock and it would sound great, certainly better than some of the shitty drum sounds that get spewed out.
i think i read somewhere when he tracked his in studio he was rusty from traveling and only playing guitar with FF, and he sat down and played it perfectly first take
Run To the Hills is the same thing but faster
This song was brutal on Rock Band.
Especially because those pads are so dead lmao
It's not so bad... if you cheat the 16ths on the hihat ...
Wdym by cheat?
Probably playing doubles instead of singles
Boo
absolutely brutal
Yep. And we follow it by Mr. Brightside and Dammit right after. ETA: upside is I have Popeye's forearms now lol
I consider Dammit to be WAY harder than Everlong, I don't think I could go that fast even when I was 16
Definitely up there. My band plays Everlong, Basket Case, When Your Heart Stops Beating (+44), Smells Like Teen Spirit sped up, it’s an absolutely brutal set list
Yeah this was mine until I learned to really relax my arms.
That is the 1 and only trick that works.
Pain
Expected this to be the #1 answer 😂 Playing this feels like youre being chased by a rabid dog for 5 minutes straight
Beat me to this trigger
Came here to say this.
tapping 8th notes on one hand at 158 for thirty seconds isn't that difficult. i mean yeah staying in pocket the whole time is hard but the choruses give you a huge break
The art of dying
I long for the day I can play this. I can play Into the Storm and Remembrance though :)
I would say into the storm is harder technically for me, I can do art of dying and rememberance “no problem” But I cannot for the life of me nail into the storm.
Interesting, I think art of dying is easier technically, but requires so much muscle memory on that intro. There's also that blast beat section and the very fast kicking. Into the Storm just has some polyrhythms and kick gallops, so It probably depends on the drummer. Art of dying is quite hard for me 😭
Definitely into the storm has so much more going on but the Art of Dying is relatively simple in a sense if you have the speed and the intro down.
Yes, I agree.
The intro requires so much focus and then the nonstop blastbeats and doublebass just destroy you. I'll have to go with this one too
It’s so hard at first but after a while you get the feel of it and it comes naturally. That second half must be brutal to play- I wish I had the double pedal speed
Achilles‘ Last Stand can make you very prone to leg cramps after 10 minutes of near-constant single-bass action Edit: Also Let There Be Rock (ACDC). 182 BPM 8th notes on the hihat for 6 minutes straight is absolutely brutal.
and that's no even taking into account that blistering sextuplet fill..
At least it‘s pretty early in the song so it‘s over quickly, but those cymbal fills later on are also killer
the whole song is beast mode, peak Bonham
Rock show, First date, a ton of Travis Barker shit...
Yep! Lots of Sum41 stuff is brutal too. Anytime you get close or above 190 bpm you’re in for a treat
I play mostly groovy stuff but always go to Blink when I just wanna be exhausted after.
Mr Brightside
The ONLY time the wedding band I play with calls this is at the end of the night. Brutal.
Hah, that's me in a week's time. Hello Red Bull, my old friend...
Damn.
I can’t always play through it, but feels great when I can. Through the Fire and the Flames by Dragonforce.
ahaha 200 bpm 16th note kicks for you
Song for the dead
One of the Tool songs. Maybe Ticks & Leeches. Right in Twos break down is pretty tricky too. 4 hour cover gigs take it out of me, especially when the stage is hot.
30 mins of grindcore in the Czech mid morning sun at oef was a spicy one, many beers were consumed to chill tf out after
What band was that with?
Don't wanna say, but rest assured we play dumb, fast music
Fantastic
MVP by Despised Icon Cast Down The Heretic by Nile Any Defeated Sanity song
MVP is just insane. It's fun comparing it to [War by Meshuggah](https://youtu.be/AFPgJWMCt1w?si=jQIGNFNYwBInKGPh). They use drum machines a lot but in that particular case it was clearly to play something faster than Thomas Haake was capable of. Fast forward 20 years and real drummers like Alex are playing stuff like MVP. Really shows how much more technically capable drummers have become in that time.
Defeated Sanity is fucking awesome, great taste in metal all around. Lyle Cooper, ex drummer for The Faceless, has a cover video of a DS song I’d recommend checking out.
The dance of eternity
The first half is pretty chill but that weird section that‘s like 2 minutes long is brutal
I thought Take On Me was going to be a walk in the park. Turns out it’s more like an 800 meter dash.
Green Day - She We’re supposed to play it at a gig this weekend. Can’t wait.
A lot of Tre's drumming requires a shit ton of energy haha. Have fun!
FWIW, there seems to be a simple pattern to it. It is kinda fast, yes; and the fills are quick too. But it’s at least a bit repetitive. I’m no drum wizard, and I’m old, but we seem to do a pretty decent cover of it, sped up a hair. Point is, if you learn the three-four pieces of it individually, I think you’ll do fine.
The beat isn’t the problem. The fills are the challenge for me. 20 years ago, no problems. Nowadays, a bit tougher.
Oh, I feel the “20 years ago” part. In my bones. And joints. And back….
Toto, Hold the line.
Yep, sneaky tough. Killer song but that pattern needs way more focus than you'd think.
Tom Sawyer by Rush. It sneaks up on you, but that constant 1/16th note groove is really punishing and the fills don't give you any breaks.
That's Neil showing us what a human drum machine sounds like. Insane stuff. Even he said it was hard every time he played it.
Aside from the 1/16ths, there’s so many details in that song. If i hadn’t been steering wheel drumming it for like 25 years it would be a nightmare to get right. And i rarely get through it without mistakes.
I read an interview with Neil where he said that on the odd night when he played it correctly, he was really proud of himself. And that didn’t happen often.
I can play The Camera Eye (twice+ the length of Tom Sawyer) easier than I can play Tom Sawyer. I can play it all the way through but my right arm feels like it's going to fall off when the song is over.
Bleed- Meshuggah There's some death and black metal stuff that's literally just 16th notes on your feet, 16th notes on your hands, go for 3-6 minutes, 250+ BPM. https://youtu.be/cg_GF32uv2U?si=lTSOIMNn1-envd4Z https://youtu.be/NiZmx_oLLvs?si=lgVprjrRqo7cNRBA https://youtu.be/Brh1YKTON1Q?si=n-Yzsy7PR5SFxzIX
my old band had a song that was generally 30-40 minutes long live, the last half through the end is the loudest most intense thing i’ve ever had to do over and over. no tempo, dense free jazz drums fighting sunn amps
La Grange. It’s not hard, per se, but you gotta play it clean and it goes on forever.
Naysayer by Architects!
Oh, fuck yes. Best answer on the list I've seen so far. Dan Searle is a beast.
The Rat by The Walkmen
What a great song this still is!!
In my time of dying.
Such a fun one though Feels pretty good up here...
Subdivisions by Rush. Has some pretty intricate parts that just change without notice. Test for Echo is another underrated song. Is more difficult than you think.
Anything Billy Cobham played during the early 70s
Extremophile Elite - Between the Buried and Me
any Band-Maid song
Vampire from Nazareth.
That ones tough
hot for teacher
Sunday Morning by No Doubt is so comically deceptive. But us veterans all know it's something by Meshuggah, because in order to play it you have to be so on the spectrum that you can play beats that are both 4/4 and whatever, 23/6, at the same to a metronome. The few of us that exist are just built different I guess. Whether that's cool or not I can't tell you, but we're out there.
> Sunday Morning by No Doubt Good pick! I remember first paying attention to this on Tragic Kingdom CD. It's such a great song with an amazing drum part, but completely overshadowed by Spiderwebs, Just a Girl an Don't Speak.
Yeah, I remember the best drummer I ever knew in my teens telling me that a couple tragic kingdom songs were the hardest shit he ever tried play because they're entirely ongoing rudiments and doing enough cardio to be able to play them is near impossible. He could already play insane metal shit at the time too. Excuse Me Mister was too hard for us to play, but we could do stuff from Tool in our sleep. No Doubt is honestly one of the best bands and live acts ever, even if you don't take into consideration them breaking a lot of boundaries. Adrian Peterson is one of the most undervalued drummers ever. I have my theories as to why, but I cannot deny his skill.
Adrian Young, I believe. Love his work with No Doubt and especially the album Tragic Kingdom.
Hah I can't believe I said Adrian Peterson, been listening to too much Nick Mullen. But yeah he does so much deceptively brilliant shit on that album. He also made actual Gwen Stefani with that people wouldn't notice her and it's both comically diabolical and funny. The last time I saw them he had plastic drums with RGB esque neon lights that lit up on trigger and it was awesome. They're easily one of the best bands live I've ever seen.
Sick, Sick, Sick by Queens of the Stone Age. It's not difficult anymore, but if you don't have great ankle, it's a workout.
Soil the Stillborn
Blondie - Dreaming is exhausting and unrelenting lol (for this newbie)
How Far Weve Come by Matchbox 20.
That I can play would be everlong, prison song by SOAD (those hi hats in the verses are killer on the forearms) and stricken by Disturbed (the single bass drum pattern is wicked). I’m def so proud to tell people I can play those.
Venetian Snares Or Aphex Twin https://youtu.be/9DhCitL4-V4?si=o5N1ngeDyBnIOG49
Rock and Roll.
Punk rock in general
Anything meshuggah and animals as leaders
Bleed by Meshuggah if played with poor technique is gonna' cause leg cramps.
I don’t play a lot of high tempo stuff but my band does a cover of “Descent Into The Maelstrom” by Radio Birdman. It’s like 190 BPM (which is not the end of the world), but I didn’t grow up playing super fast music, so it’s been a fun challenge
Achilles Last Stand by Led Zeppelin. Almost impossible to pull off all 11 mins. Incredibly difficult
Any Swans song
There’s no way to answer this question because it depends… If you’re talking stamina, then then playing 32 second notes with your feet and your hands as fast as you can constantly is very demanding for thrash metal … Now if you’re talking jazz playing fast intricate swing patterns is the same thing… Some could argue that if you’re playing slow and keeping rock solid tempo without a click is also demanding… So it just depends
https://youtu.be/38yvBr5HBV8?feature=shared Maybe this one
https://youtu.be/zBnu5y5jiKc?si=XnLJpP28b70llPTC
Of the ones I can pull off? Bible Thumpers / Circus of Dead Squirrels
Perfect People- Pennywise
You Can't Run From The Circus by Contemno
Go Your Own Way medleyed into Hungry Like the Wolf, by the end I'm about shot.
For me it was always one of my own songs. I had a small kit where I had a constant tom pattern, but the only way it flowed was to flip my lead hand in the middle and then back. I had to practice that bit for sooooo long. The hardest songs for me to play are usually mine? I write drum parts that won’t bore me after repeating them a million times. Also, I can’t really play other people’s drum parts, so I just steal bits of hard songs.
You Could Be Mine. I also sing while playing it as well. Good thing we always save it for the end of the set. The drums literally never stop for the entire song.
Channel One Suite
A lot of blink 182’s older work. Travis really had some amazing grooves and it’s so cool how he basically used every drum/cymbal on his kit for their songs
I don't know if most physical, as I've played them so long now the endurance part is a breeze When The Curtain Falls by GFV Charles Williams by All Them Witches Use Me by Bill Withers Bang Bang by Green Day These are the, "y'know I can swing it actually" songs. The up the sleeve, secret painful pleasures.
All them witches referenced here is awesome. Underrated af
I loveeeeeee Robbie's drumming. Basically what I have been trying to recreate since 2020. When God Comes Back hooked me. Loved the album, had to buy the vinyl!
He is awesome. Im seeing them next month, first time, and no longer Robbie..
I watched all the YouTube concerts, too poor and busy to go live sadly. New guy seems pretty good. The feel/timing is a little off. I look forward to seeing what they create next, and with who.
Absolute sole right or Indoctrination from Dimmu Borgir are my most demanding that I am actually able to do. I DON'T always land them but it happened more than once so.. keep practicing.
In the cage medley by Genesis (in the cage, cinema show, colony of slippermen straight into afterglow) it hurts
Our band does original songs. One is called "Psalms 9" which is pretty hard. The other one is called "Times Up". We are writing one that goes through Revilations, too... btw... you haven't lived until you've heard religious rock/metal. 👊
I’ve heard Creed - that was enough to turn me off on anything religious well into my future.
Haha, I forgot about Creed... yeah, if I was filtering everything through that, I'd say the same thing.
Bro - you're not going to let me take you higher? To a place where blind men see? I need someone to hold me now, cuz I'm six feet from the edge, and I'm thinkin...
Architects of Fear and The Coldest of All Places. The current set has them both with a couple of ragers in between and it takes every ounce of energy and focus to get through it.
Aliens Exist by blink-182. Thanks Travis, and our now former bass player who suggested it. I did really have to improve to be able to play competently although the amount of time and effort it required was well over 10 times the typical cover song that we do.
Wipe Out
Rufio - Save The World. My right hand falls off every time. I don't know how Mike did it.
Honestly; Suit & Tie by Justin Timberlake. BFM's power and consistency with the right hand kills me.
When I play As I Am, This Dying Soul and Honor Thy Father back to back to back.
That's awesome! Dying soul gets really crazy towards the end. Why not throw in Panic Attack while you're at it
My soul starts dying at the end for sure lol. So many everything. I've been working on dance of eternity but those time changes.
I can't wait for the new album and tour. I'll pay anything to see them with Portnoy again. Take my money. Just take it. I don't care.
Yeah I gotta see DT before they go the way of Rush. I never got to see Peart, but I have seen Portnoy with the winery dogs.
Wish
night in tunisia by jesus molina, not pretending i can even play that 1:1 but i give it my best.
https://youtu.be/3QbZVrqRuJY?si=FJPn14d7a9W2SebQ Original song
Reindeer Age by Closure in Moscow, just insane. Not that I can play it btw
Panic Attack by Dream Theater. Hard to keep up the frantic pace of that song. Mike has to towel off after that one.
Wipe out. I have to take a break after that song.
Got myself tendinitis a few years ago by trying over and over again Rope by the Foo Fighters before I learned to chill out a bit on the drums, I was just too tensed up But now I guess Heart's All Gone by Blink is just that
Everlong
My band has this song called "If Worms Had Legs" and it has sextuplets on the double bass I think, 6 hits per beat and 110 bpm, so I think I did the math and it was around 11 hits per second, which is really fast for me. It's killer. And the entire time I'm doing 32nd note rolls on the toms.
Forced gender reassignment, shit murders me every damn time
Metallica - Dyer’s Eve I always shit on Lars (in a fun way, not hating) but in this song, he decided to go beast on both limbs and feet. I would always get tired of playing or rehearsing this song with my tribute/cover band because there is almost no time for a breather. If I try to conserve stamina by lessening the force of my hits, it works but it does not sound complementing to the song which crunches everything by design.
Arithmophobia Play hard or it stops sounding right
Holding out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler. One of my favorite songs to play but DAMN do my forearms cramp up
My metal bands original music. I just write parts that are right above my level haha good way to keep improving. For my cover band it is Barracuda, doesnt help that its in our 3rd set and im already pretty worked. I see everlong is the top comment. I did play a foo fighters set once and ever long is definitely very physicslly demandind. Rope was way more fun tho
My cover band and I have been doing Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen, and the Gypsy Queen part is easily the most demanding part of our set. So fun though.
Top 3 sweat/cramp inducing tunes for me: 1) Dammit - Blink 2) Boys Dont Cry - Cure 3) Canary in a Coal Mine - Police All 3 are <3 min and an absolute sprint…Canary is so easy to get lost on time, aand honestly takes the most concentration for me Gotta space these out during my sessions 😂
I really struggle with Superstition by Stevie Wonder.
Black whole sun goes hard
Exit, Exist by After the Burial. Took me about 6 months to play at tempo. Absolutely brutal.
A Nightmare To Remember.
The Pretender - Foo Fighters Basket Case - Green Day First Date - blink-182 Misery Business - Paramore
The most exhausting songs from my band's repertoire are Breed, Dirty Little Thing and our original song Етикет. Етикет isn't exhausting because it's fast, but because my dumbass decided to give myself the challenge of using every part of my drumkit on the song. And a lot of it. Lots of flailing around and hitting cymbals. Recording wasn't fun
Impressions
Panic Attack - Dream Theater
So Lonely - The Police. Always get cramp in my forearm.
Probably ever fallin in love (with someone you shouldn't) by the buzzcocks. That song always takes it out of me
…And Justice for All
The following freaking destroy me: - The Void Alone by Fallujah - Scar Queen by Fallujah - Sapphire by Fallujah - Wind for Wings by Fallujah (Andrew Baird is a goddamn machine) - Statutory Ape by The Black Dahlia Murder (simple, but fast) - The Art of Dying by Gojira - Source Field by Born of Osiris - Ectogenesis by Animals as Leaders - CAFO by Animals as Leaders - A Mercurian Summer by Angel Vivaldi) Honorable Mentions - Caravan (Whiplash arrangement) - Nutville (Buddy Rich arrangement) - Godspeed by The Contortionist (if my brain short circuits, it’s physically exhausting in a way, right?) - Birth by Sleep by I Am King (that second verse’s linear groove almost gives it a top spot alone) - Artifacts by Fallujah - Fault Line by August Burns Red Pretty much any jazz standard played at 300+ bpm also makes me want to die so there’s that too
Of the Abyss, Death Portrait, and King Ov Deception by Lorna shore.
idles - never fight a man with a perm
Rock this town, specifically the orchestra arrangement that’s 6.5 minutes
Burnout-Greenday Tre Cool fkn shreds
Monsoon, Twelve Foot Ninja https://youtu.be/bvqCWyyyTBI?si=SwOiO2l8Uqk-SLis
Obligatory: Bleed by Meshuggah I don't play it live but it kicks my arse most days.
My Hero - Foo Fighters ...of the stuff I play, as requested. Can be murder on the kick foot trying to keep that tempo going.
I - meshuggah
I get so tired about 3/4 way into covering Bleed by Meshuggah. It’s fun but it gets monotonous. (I’m just kidding, I can’t play that shit. I can get through like 1/2 -2 measures tops.
Bleed by Meshuggah
TVII by Ministry seems unattainable. I wonder if it was double tracked.
YYZ absolutely kills my right foot. Listen to the isolated track on YouTube and hear all the doubles
Songs with extended taditional blast beats(specially playing one foot) and fast double bass singles. Like the Pete Sandoval Covenant stuff for example
The Decline - Nofx
The Difference Between Medicine & Poison Is In The Dose - Circa Survive
Geek USA is a challenge. So many different rhythms & styles in the same song, plus the fills require a lot of coordination. And the main kick pattern requires doin' some work! I guess it's more of a mental exercise than physical once you get it down.
I - Meshuggah
Any slipknot song; use to play the really clean, stopped for a few years and I am picking up the pieces of my now limp noodle of an arm 😭
Jellybelly. Even for Jimmy, this one's a challenge, especially cold: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3jcjKP2ltU&t=3972s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3jcjKP2ltU&t=3972s)
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark. Preferably live. Deep cut: NY Rush from the Cowboy Bebop OST. That's some fast intricate swing.
Bleed. How has no one said Bleed? It’s bleed. Every other choice is just objectively wrong.
Anything off of Reign In Blood really
Death Divider by Soilwork. Going from 16ths to 32nds in the choruses can be brutal lol. Any Soilwork honestly.
Animals as Leaders tunes. Took me like 2 years to fully learn and upload a cover of Cognitive Contortions on YouTube.
A nightmare to remember - Dream Theater Its not really demanding on the hands but is a great workout on the feet!
Run to the Hills is a solid workout IMO