Someone posted me this link yesterday so here you go.

This is totally not what I was expecting. I was figuring it would be some crazy Korean metal drum solo.

Funny this is, I'm watching/listening to Alison Krauss and Union Station on the ACL YouTube stream right now and when I pressed play on this video they actually played together nicely for a good minute or so.

Cerebus said:

This is totally not what I was expecting. I was figuring it would be some crazy Korean metal drum solo.

Funny this is, I'm watching/listening to Alison Krauss and Union Station on the ACL YouTube stream right now and when I pressed play on this video they actually played together nicely for a good minute or so.

The headbang made me laugh out loud!

That's funny, but I also was expecting something else.

You know, maybe he's so emotive while drumming because in traditional Korean drumming, there's a lot of movement - in fact, korean dancing classes involve drumming and vice versa. Dancing while drumming makes the music/rhythm very kinetic, which is the general idea behind eurhythmics. I read somewhere that people who have a great sense of rhythm are often better at math, so there you go.

Check this out, kids playing a pretty standard easier rhythm (picks up speed at about :58)

http://www.youtube.com/wa...VtCk3pG6bI

This is kinda long, there's a 1:08 clip that shows a similar thing, but I thought I'd bless you w/ this 9 minute one. You can try to ignore the high-pitched horn, if it bothers you, and focus on the rhythm, which is very complex and changes tempo a lot. I've gotten used to the horn, it's kind of like a middle eastern sound, which is more familiar to westerners. I've seen performances w/ just percussion too, I actually prefer those. And the women drummers - man, do they kick ass! Anyway, I'd highlight here at :30 the acrobatics; at 4:45 the tempo change; at 6:20 more acrobatics; and at 6:50 a solo dancer w/ a super long ribbon and he's jumping rope and doing gymnastics to the ribbon on his own head.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ZF8GDpwuH8

I actually do admire dude's heart though. He truly was feeling it. Most drummers do anyway lol