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if you're a fan of tool and Danny carries drumming then you come to the right place because here
we're diving into some of Danny's mind-bending drum grooves and I'm going to be breaking them
down so you can start jamming with some of your favorite tool songs with that let's Dive In
to start off we're looking at the opening track from the album Lateralus this is The
Grudge and this one has some crazy drum Parts in it so make sure you check out the track if
you haven't heard it already here we're looking at the outro where Maynard comes in with that
classic scream that you hear in the studio version now this is a four bar Tom Groove we've got three
bars of five eight and one bar of six eight and we're using a Swiss Army triplet based sticking
with the flams played as Unison strokes and if you know Danny's playing you know that he uses
this sticking pattern all the time and you're going to hear it in tracks like Rosetta Stone
and pneuma as well both of which we're going to look at later on so stay tuned for that
right now let me play it for you slowly all together so you can see what it sounds like
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so for me the toughest part about this one is right at the beginning of the four bars
where you play that crash on the downbeat you move to that bottom floor tom and then
you're back into the groove for me that's a bit of a tough transition so make sure you
start that slowly but right now let's bump it up so you can hear it all put together
thank you next up we're looking at the verse Groove from sober off of the undertow record
from 1993 and we're looking at that open hi-hat Groove that's just a classic Danny Carey part
we've got the open hi-hats happening up here we've got doubles on the kick and we have our snare on
two and four now with this one the one thing to pay attention for probably the trickiest part is
making sure your hi-hats close right on each beat you want to make sure that's clean and precise
just like the way Danny plays it let me show it to you slowly first and then we'll bump it up after
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recorded sober on their 72826 EP and you can hear Danny playing a slightly
different Groove in the intro with the open hi-hats on the downbeats instead
of the upbeats so check this out it's close but it is a little bit different
next up we're looking at the bridge Groove from eulogy off of Anima from 1996. this is up there
as one of Danny's most famous drum groups and what's cool about it is it incorporates a four
over three polyrhythm now before we go too far let me just demo what a four over three polyrhythm is
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now I don't want to get too technical here but just know that for this one
you're going to be playing a 4-4 Groove and the hi-hat part is going to outline a three
note grouping of 16th notes so just looking at the hi-hat pattern this is what it sounds like
so one thing you may have noticed there is there were a few breaks where Danny goes to play the
BackBeat follow along with the notation you'll see where all of those are but right now let's
put it all together slowly so you can see what the whole Groove sounds like foreign
once you've got that let's bump this up to the album tempo
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thing I will mention is if you want to dive deeper into how all of these polyrhythms work my good
friend Aaron Edgar has an incredible course inside of drumeo called the polyrhythms of tool and you
can check that out if you want to dive deeper into how all these polyrhythms actually work
okay so here we're back with another track off of Anima this is 46 and two one of the band's most
famous songs and here we're looking at Danny's part in the chorus we've got lots of symbol shots
happening we've got a similar hi-hat pattern to what we played in sober as well so you'll
already be familiar with that let me play it for you slowly and then we'll bump it up after
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we're back with another track from lateralis this is the opening Tom Groove that Danny plays on the
song ticks and leeches this whole Groove is played with the snare wires turned off and
Danny's just playing single Strokes there's no doubles there's no triples or anything like that
just straight singles with a bunch of accents placed throughout as well now also note that
when Dany plays this live you'll see him play the very last two accents just on the snare but
the one we have notated here is what you hear on the record which goes between the snare and the
rack Tom let me play it for you slowly so you can hear what this sounds like foreign
once you've got that let's try this out at a faster tempo
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next up we're looking at Schism one of Danny's most famous drum grooves off of Lateralus this
song is phrased in groups of five eight and seven eight which you hear outlined in the bass part but
if you want you could also just think of this as longer phrases of 12 8 or even six eight totally
up to you how you want to count this out so in the clip you just watched you'll see Danny is playing
those triplets on the hi-hats all as single Strokes so he's literally playing right left right
left you could try out some other stickings but that's what Danny is playing in that clip Daniel
will also Move This Groove around the kit over to his wave drum he has like an original 1994 wave
drum over here he'll move it around to the mandala pads to the toms and really this is just a master
class in how to orchestrate a Groove around the kit right now let's check this out at a slow tempo
make sure your snare wires are also turned off for this one just like in ticks and leeches here we go
once you got that let's bump this up to the album tempo
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so this next one is one that I know many of you have been waiting for we're looking at Rosetta
stoned off of the 10 000 Days album specifically the instrumental section about seven minutes into
the song and this groove in particular is known in the drum Community as one of Danny Kerry's more
impossible drum grooves and honestly it really is insane and took me a very long time to learn even
just preparing for this video so we're going to start with how Danny plays it on the record and
then in a few minutes I'm going to show you how he actually plays this on the acoustic kit as well
because there's some really cool variations that he does this groove is in 3-4 which is outlined
by the hi-hat foot and the left hand back beat but there's a bunch of poly rhythms happening
too and that's what makes this really challenging the right hand is implying a four feel over here
on the mandala pads the kick is outlined doing a 516 bass drum ostinato which is totally insane but
let's start putting this together from the ground up and see how this all comes together so first
off we're going to be playing just the hi-hat foot and the right hand pattern together that's where
we're going to start we're going to play quarter notes with the left foot one two three one two
three that's going to repeat over and over now over top of that we're going to add in the four
feel or we're going to be implying the four feel over here on the mandala pads so I'm going to be
moving between this first pad and the second one so slowly this is what that sounds like foreign
once you've got that happening let's move on to adding in the left hand
and playing some Swiss Army triplets over top of that hi-hat pattern you're
going to do this slowly we're going to embellish this a little bit more later
on but let's just focus on playing that rudiment over the hi-hats oh
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so now that you're comfortable playing that rudiment over top of the hi-hat pattern we're
going to play the full hand pattern with the BackBeat with the official sticking
pattern and one thing to note here is you want to make sure your snare wires
are turned off as well just like you've done with a bunch of other tool groups
that we've gone over so far so let's try this out slowly and see how it goes foreign
so this is getting a bit crazy already but it gets even crazier and this is the part that
definitely made me throw a few sticks across the room and maybe it'll make you do the same
who knows but we're going to be adding in the kick pattern which is in 5 16. so the pattern
we're going to be playing on the kick one two three four five one two three four five one
two three four five so it's hitting every first and third partial of that grouping
so let's add this in this is very hard to do so take your time with it start slow here we go
and if that wasn't tough enough for you let's try this at the album Tempo wish me luck
so Danny does improvise within this kind of GrooVe framework but this
is the idea just to get you started now Danny has also been seen playing
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so Danny will follow the same idea as he does on the record which we just went over
how to play but In that clip you just saw he actually takes the right hand part even
further by using a four voice cycle that moves from floor tom 2 to the rototom to floor Tom 1
back to the rototum so just like we were playing that pattern on the mandala pads
we're literally just moving that pattern over to the acoustic drums and this is something you'll
also see Danny play on songs like pneuma as well let's see if I can do this foreign
all right the last Groove we're looking at is from the song numa off of the fear inoculum
record and this is another pretty crazy track and I highly recommend you go check it out if
you haven't heard it already there's a bunch of crazy stuff happening in there really cool grooves
fills polyrhythms and all that good stuff but here we're just looking at one section from the
chorus to get you started this part of the song Cycles between 12 8 11 8 and 10 8 and with the
notation on screen you'll see that we've just split these up into combinations of five eight
and six eight just to make it easier to read the toughest part about this one is definitely
the hi-hat openings because they're played in all these weird places but they line up perfectly with
the vocal so you want to make sure that those are spot on let's try this out at a slow tempo foreign
once you've got that let's bump this up and see what it sounds like up to speed
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so hopefully you enjoyed diving deeper into these Danny Kerry drum grooves and hopefully
you take some of these grooves to your kit and start working on them yourself now down in the
comments I'd love to know which one of these grooves was your favorite and maybe there's some
other tool songs that you'd like to see broken down as well so let me know if you'd like to see
another video breaking down more of these crazy Danny Carey drum groups I also filmed a video on
the genius of Danny Carey if you want to know more about what makes Danny such a unique and
important drummer and if you're looking for no for no tool transcriptions and you want the ability to
slow them down and practice with them we've got tons of those songs inside of drumeo including
songs like Numa Schism and The Grudge so just click the link in the description to check those
out with that thank you so much for watching and I'll see you all in the next video cheers
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