The TEN Greatest DRUM INTROS | RANKED | with examples
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Ian Paice is always overlooked but to me he is one of the all time greats in any genre, so really grateful you included him, and for another killer drum opening it has to be You Fool No One from Burn🤘🏻
Look up Ian Paice doing a one-handed buzz roll!
I have a pair of his signature sticks signed by him. Nobody rolls like Ian❤
Fireball and Pictures of Home also come to mind. Paicey is one of the best!!
@@vinividivelcropictures of home for me👌👍
Burn.
No one ever mentions Bill Bruford's drum intro to South Side Of The Sky, so I will!
Bill is always overlooked
That's the first one that came to my mind. We might have to pull Andy's prog card, for a couple of days.
I was just listening to that a couple days ago. It’s like he’s falling down the stairs. Phenomenal intro.
@@andthensome512 Yes! I'd like to have seen Mr. Edwards play that one off the top of his head! Yikes!
Oh ya... You are right to bring it up.. Love how he steals time just a little bit..
Gary Mallaber deserves a mention for "Take The Money And Run." Classic drum Intro with great feel.
I concur
@@Peter-f1zI agree with you concurring
Swingtown is great too. Anything he played on was $$$$
@@MrRoundwound I am in accordance with your concurrence.
Yes! Bonham definitely took the intro to "Rock n Roll" from Little Richard's "Keep-a-Knockin". But hearing it isolated, I just realised how close it also is to "Something Else."
Really enjoyed this video, Andy! 👏👏
The story with Ian Paice and Fireball is that he used Kieth Moon’s drum set for the intro which happened to be in the same studio at the time
your whole "i think im better than i am....." explanation describes me perfectly, in every situation
You can definitely tell when you get Stargazer right. So good. The sound with Cozy's drums is spot on.
The drum intro to Zappa’s Peaches En Regalia is one of the most recognisable. One for next time?
Peaches and Regalia sprung instantly to mind ❤. Great vid Andy!
"IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT COUNTS" in drumming, in music as a whole, in life generally speaking
"It's about the feel." Amen. One thousand times.
"I've tried me best"
Drummer here. Great watch! In my former pub band, we'd sometimes do a spontaneous, drunken drum-intro quiz with the punters and I'd play some of the songs that you played there. Not so well-known, but I always enjoyed Take The Money And Run by Steve Miller.
Big smiles for the Missing Persons love Andy.
Great to see "Somethin' Else" on the list- I just love the drum playing and the way the drums are recorded on that track- they just explode out of the speakers.
One Little Victory by Neil bloody Peart.
Beethoven called, he wants his hair back..
fluffy
Hey, at least he still has hair and not a cul-de-sac.
I just remembered, “Lust For Life” by Iggy Pop, don’t see anyone mention it in the comments. The song has been a bit overplayed since Trainspotting came out, but still a legendary drum intro.
So glad you did Stargazer. Well done. Really enjoyed the video extras.
Mick tucker from Sweet, balllroom blitz was cool intro.
The song I thought of first was 'Overkill' by Motorhead. When I did my Top 100 singles of the 1950s 'Something Else' was my number 1.
incredible drumming from PAT
I'm so glad US Drag is on this list, I used to walk around NYC listening to that one and watch the nightlife get sleazier and sleazier. So many great memories with Missing Persons, I always thought I was a ponce listening to them but I knew underneath it all was some phenomenal musicianship. Cheers, Andy
Andy I give you a lot of credit for putting yourself out there I think you did a great job and I have been playing the drums for 50 years great job
Billy Cobham on the beginning of Vital Transformation song with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Lila's Dance also The Mahavishnu Orchestra, it's Narada Michael Walden at the 2nd half of the tune around the 2 minutes and 40 seconds mark, wow!!! I suppose those are of the Fusion Jazz Rock category tho. Rock has some great intros like Van Halen - Hot For Teacher, Alex Van Halen drums sounds like a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to me, awesome!
Hot for Teacher yeah, but check out Billy Cobham's Quadrant 4 - it may sound familiar!
Not to mention VT is in 9/8
Vital Transformation was the very first thing I thought of when I saw the video title.
That was fun!! Thank you Andy : )
Fireball Ian Paice!
For fng sure.
Pictures of Home
Ian Paice
@ I was going to mention that one too!🤣
How many of us have switched from air guitar to air drums during the intro of “Smoke on the water”? 😂
It's always nice seeing a youtuber that can actually DO something
He is a real musician trying to be a (good) youtuber but listen him to IQ Frequency or Frost* Milliontown ... the man can play really well!
The first drumming that impressed me was "Wipe Out" by The Surfaris. I was 10 or 11. Also the first rock band I ever saw live was a local band that played a lunch time gig in my middle school cafeteria when I was 12. They did a bunch of surf instrumentals and I thought how neat it would be to be able to do that. It took a while but eventually I did--not in the cafeteria, but in other venues.
Now THAT'S an intro!
@@Kieop I agree with that because it was my first introduction to drumming and I still listen to "Wipe Out" all these days later.
The Bonham-intro actually starts on "3 &". It's hard to rewire the brain to hear it correctly, but not impossible.
Yes, 3+!
it‘s like the Intro of „Johnny B Goode“ from Chuck Berry -> Rock’n’Roll.
Just sing the guitar line to Bonzos drums, and there you have it.
Cheers//Friesenhahn
With Painkiller the whole band rocketed into a higher gear, driven by this blistering drum intro.😮❤
Yes! Yes! Yes! More drums! So good...
Personal fave - Mitch Mitchell's intro to Hendrix' "Little Miss Lover", particularly the BBC version, influenced everybody who heard it, particulary Bonham, Ward and Powell.
P.S. - the young motorcycle cop who identified the body ejected through the taxi windscreen as Eddie Cochran was Dave Dee, then a probationary officer on his first call. Wonder if that's why he called his first hit "Hold Tight". P.P.S. Gene Vincent's next U.K. tour was managed by a young Don Arden employee named Peter Grant who himself drove Vincent around rather than trust taxi drivers
Mitch had a few good ones. If 6 were 9 comes to mind, but the standout Mitch intro for me was always 'I Don't Live Today', mostly because, in my brief foray into drumming, it was one of the few signature lines that was achievable for a novice like I was. Simple, yet still unique and recognizable.
Good stuff Andy. In the early 80s my mate and I attended a Paiste cymbals drum clinic featuring Ian Paice. When it came to questions, my mate asked how he did Fireball. He laughed and said he cheated and had used an extra bass drum. He then said he'd got better since then and blasted it out on his single kit. The other thing I remember is that Paiste is prounounced weirdly. Pie - stee. cheers.
Btw, that extra bass drum belonged to John Bonham. Led Zep had been recording - or was bound to start recording - in the same studio.
Your "Stargazer" playing is spot on Andy!!
Cozy was great on that
You have an AMAZING feel AND sound Andy!
Thank you kindly!
Great video Andy, and I liked your story about Eddie Cochran. As a former resident of Chippenham where Eddie's accident happened in 1960, I feel I must just point out that the road was the A4 (the M4 hadnt been built) and he died St Martins hospital in Bath. Both places have memorials to him and are visited by his fans on the anniversary of his death. Its important to me as its Chippenham's only claom to fame, lol!
"It's about the feel." Amen. One thousand times. I ll remind my mates!
I drove myself nuts trying to figure out 50 Ways as a teenager. 30 years later and I still don't think I've ever done it correctly but the effort I put in certainly improved my playing. Glad to see it on the list!
My favourite intro When the apple blossoms bloom in the windmills of your mind i,ll be your valentine by ELP. Across the border by ELO has a truly spectacular outro
Great jazz Rock Fusion song by ELP also the opening of the sheriff by Carl Palmer😊
Tremendously entertaining. You are more than a critic. Bravo, bravo!
Ron Selico's drum intro to Peaches En Regalia from the Frank Zappa album Hot Rats is still my all time favorite.
'Where Eagles Dare'-Nicko McBrain
Iconic drum intro....
Fantastic to see and hear you, bravo. I'm positin,g 'I never glid before' Pierre Moerlin' from Angels Egg, it just popped in me 'ed.
That name sounded really familiar - wasn’t he Mike Oldfield’s drummer? - and, sure enough, my memory isn’t totally shot (yet). I’m pretty sure I saw Pierre on Oldfield’s Five Miles Out Tour, but every member of that band was fantastic. One of the tightest bands I’ve ever seen.
Ireally enjoyed this one, i keep nipping off to spotify and getting distracted...stumbling accross 'Reasons to br cheerful pt 3' in the process.
The second base drum on Fireball is Keith Moons , borrowed for the original recording
The concept of learning the spirit instead of just trying to mimic exactly is so important. This is how we get new original ideas, and styles!
Nothing wrong with learning things exact or making best effort (instructive for technique, ears, vocabulary) but gotta take it further just like you did.
And you sound great!
Super interesting and informative (and enjoyable!) video, thank you!
Great news that you might be getting the mighty Simon Phillips on the channel!!!!!
When I saw the title of this video I first thought of Narada Michael Walden's Led Boots, and at a close second Richard Bailey's Scatterbrain which would definetly be on my list. For me, the drumming on Blow By Blow is sublime, and to think he was just a teenager when it was recorded!
Keep A Knockin' was Charles Conner on drums, drummer with Little Richard's road band The Upsetters. He also played on She's Got It and Oh My Soul.
Earl Palmer played on almost all of Little Richard's other 1950s hits.
Palmer, in his autobiography, said... by trying to compliment Little Richard's frantic right hand piano technique...he switched from a shuffle to what we know today as 8/16 rock drumming.
The first drummer to really establish that beat.
Little Richard always said he invited Rock 'n Roll 😉
Hugely entertaining video, and great song choices. I was already a big Jeff Beck fan when Wired came out, and I was blown away by the fizzing hi-hats of Narada Michael Walden in the intro of Led Boots. Had the pleasure of seeing him play with Jeff again during the 2010s in Glasgow.I tried to learn the solo from Rock'n'Roll early in my drumming journey; not very successfully, but loads of fun.
Excellent…
By the time you are done with all of the disclaimers, I'm convinced this is a DIY home improvement video.
Great video - playing the intros really brings it to life.
I would add these:
I Don't Live Today (live) - the JH Experience (Mitch Mitchell)
Genetix - Stranglers (Jet Black)
Atrocity Exhibition- Joy Division (Stephen Morris)
Overkill - Motorhead (Phil Taylor)
Weathercode - Creatures (Budgie)
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow (Dave Barbarossa)
The Spirit Of Radio by Rush, now that's an intro with drumming of cosmic proportions!!
A special mention for the drumming on the intro of Sweet Love by Anita Baker too, blinding drumming!!
That's a band intro, the title of the video is DRUM intro...as in drums ONLY intro. Get it?
@@ArchStanton19966
Excuse me, but there's definitely some strummed muted guitar going on in the intro of 'Something Else'
and I swear I can clearly hear a lead synth riffing under Billy Cobham's drums on the intro of his song!!
I didn't bother checking out the other 8 songs on Andy's list, but I'll take your word for it!!
Consider me told!!
Fantastic - more of this please!
I'm not a drummer so obviously bow to your superior knowledge on the subject. Not known for his intros but I'd like to give a shout out to Jaki Liebezeit, even his name literally translates as love time. Deceptively simple but very hard to sustain. Along with Klaus Dinger from Neu a pioneer of the motorik beat, a staple of Krautrock. Jaki was actually a Jazz drummer originally but changed the way he played to suit Can's style. I love his opening shuffling beat to Future Days.
I'm no drummer, but I get to program drum parts for the music that I write. This means that most of what impresses a skilled, professional drummer is lost on me if it hasn't got that out-of-this-worldliness that sets it apart within the context of the whole song and the sounds within. I'm also a massive Jethro Tull fan and, for me, the most astonishingly out-of-this-world drum intro segues into one of Tull's blandest tracks ever created in my opinion (sorry Mr. Anderson). The drummer is Mark Craney and the track is "4.W.D. (Low Ratio)". The outro is even more impressive. Now I know that most of it is studio trickery (effin' about with time and stuff, as Mr. Tony Visconti would probably put it while handling some newfangled delay unit), but this goes on to prove that, for an ordinary person like me, who is not as knowledgeable, virtuosity is not always key. (By the way, the live soundcheck version of the new "Bursting Out - Inflated Edition" Steven Wilson remix with Barriemore Barlow does away with both the into and outro completely.)
Oh Andy, I just love this! I had eaten crisps, drunk non-alcohol cider and also stuffed some rice-chocolade into myself and got tired and was meaning to turn to bed. Then I thought I'll take a look at this video and got hooked. I actually got goose bumps several times! Very nice to finally watch you drumming!
Great list. I enjoyed this a lot. Glad you included the Terry Bozzio Missing Persons track and Fireball by Ian Paice, a sadly mostly forgotten excellent Deep Purple track. I still listen to it often.
Hi Andy, great vid as always sir! J.R. Robinson is one of my favorite drummers and 2 of his little drum intros are: the drum intro to Winwood's "Higher Love" and then as well as Jackson's "Rock With You", both short and sweet intros but very memorable to say the very least, and i almost consider them both kind of a drum "riff" as well, if that makes any sense to you, but you being a master drummer as well i think you kinda get my point. with that said, Robinson was Chaka Khan's/Rufus' drummer back in the day when she was at her peak and he's one of the most recorded and respected session drummers there ever has been, i've always dug his style and truly think he is SO under rated as a lot of drumming musicians are like yourself my friend!! thanks for the great content Andy and please let me know your thoughts on it as well please, Thanks, Jerry
Your best video so far. And you don't rock back & forth too much either! 😁
Nice that you included Something Else. Just a simple old rock & roller that is so wonderful. Eddie's one of those guys we wonder about... what if he'd lived a little longer?
This got me thinking about the Great One - Keith Moon. He's not really known for intros is he? The only one that comes to mind off the top of my head is Bellboy from Quadrophenia.
I'm happy to see Bonzo on there twice (even though the Crunge is not one of my favourites). Hell, as you mentioned, he could be on the list again for When the Levee Breaks. Slow, uncomplicated but iconic.
Another slow, uncomplicated intro that I always liked was John Densmore's for the Doors' live version of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love that opens their Absolutely Live album. Keeping in mind I'm not a musician and don't really know much... I just like what I like.
I’ve been obsessing over the drums on Something Else for the past couple months. So heavy for back then. Glad you gave it the recognition it deserves.
Presented with passion! Really entertaining and informative, thanks.
I'd love if you tried Tommy Aldridge's intro to "It Makes No Difference" from Pat Travers's live album Go For What You Know. I saw Pat Travers and Rush in 1978, and still get goosebumps recalling Tommy's playing. And Neil, of course.
If you get Simon Phillips on I hope you'll ask him about his time with Hiromi.
Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed. You would have nailed it Andy.
It was sampled by the Prodigy for their song 'Breathe'
A brilliant, brilliant video Andy
Love your stuff Andy! Yes, I just subscribed and hit the like. It was so cool when you mentioned/demostrated lauching into Rock and Roll when everybody else was wondering what to do. At practice with one of my local cover bands back in the day we had a set of brothers that weren't very professional or focused. So I asked our drummer - a long time and dear friend (RIP Rimshot) - to launch into Rock and Roll when the two other guys were f_____g around and I would be sure to (on bass) to jump in. Worked beautifully.
Andy, your channel has become my fave on RUclips.
Keep up the good work 👍😁
Paice's drumming on "Burn" has always been a favorite too.
Andy, I had an obscure drum video come across my feed that explained the timing of the Rock and Roll intro perfectly. It's the drum version of Chuck Berry's guitar intro on Johnny B Goode. It starts on 'and 4 and 1". I never could figure that out when you just catch it on the radio and don't know it's coming. Once you think of it that way and you're counting it, you can't unheard it. Enjoyed your video. Thanks
Alan White's blistering drum cadenza during the introduction of "Sound Chaser" on the Relayer album from Yes is way ahead of its time and gorgeous.
"Bloodbuzz Ohio" and "Squalor Victoria" by The National, plus "Lipstick Vogue" by Elvis Costello.
Don't expect to see them here, but they are my favorite drum intros.
Good one Andy your so funny. Humor is the antidote 😂 It was great to see you drum maun your incredible. Keep going music is a gift category aside!
I thoroughly enjoyed that Andy, one of the best videos you have done, giving us your take on it instead of just playing the track was brilliant, and your stories made it even more enjoyable. More of this please ❤️🎵🥁🎵❤️
Grand Funk-We’re An American Band! 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😊😊😊😊😊 number 15 on Rick Beato’s list!
Where Eagles Dare - Nicko McBrain
52 minutes of brilliance - thanks Andy 🙂
The simple drum intro into “I Feel Fine” (Beatles) gets me every time.
Wow! And they are all played authentically! Great List and Well Done on your playing, especially on Led Boots and U.S. Drag.
Thank you Andy! Honest and interesting stuff
This is great content. Love it
'Rock Candy' - Montrose/ Denny Caramassi.
A fine selection of beats and a well deserved #1.
I saw Steve Gadd with Simon and Garfunkel in Wembley Stadium . At the end of 50 Ways...he played a drum solo . It was a thing of beauty . No show boating or moving away from the groove , yet it built perfectly from the bass drum up .
Gadd is incredible .
Andy, would love to know what your thoughts are about B.J. Wilson.
I was born, literally, without the "copy" gene. It takes me 6 weeks to learn a Beatles song. The joke is that every song I play is unique.
John Bonham was an absolute genius and had control of both of hemispheres of his brain and use both sides - independently. You can hear it all over Led Zeppelin's live bootlegs.
I will mention Billy Cobham's intro on "The Life Divine" on Love Devotion Surrender (McLaughlin, Santana). Great drumming by the way Andy.
Love Cozy Powell's drumming. My favourite intro from him would be "Lost In Hollywood".
Worst drummer ever, no swing at all
Fantastic video Andy, one of your best so far.
Such a great story with Simon Phillips!
I played drums in my teens and loved many drummers
Henry Spinetti was magnificent as a Feel Player.
Charlie Watts was an enigma, his patterns were often basic, but very hard to copy.. “Honky Tonk Woman” as a prime example. The art of Swing…
Terry “Baby Snakes” Bozzio was superb as were all of Frank’s Drummers
As a kid i loved the original drummer from Split Enz, Emlyn Crowther…
Thanks for this! Love exploring these. (Dear Dead Days is one of my *favorite* tracks, but alas it's a non-drum intro.)
Ian Paice and Cozy Powell! Great examples!
My fave is I don't want to go to Chelsea.
I so enjoyed this! I truly hope you do more videos of your favorite drummers that include your playing, it's really gratifying to see and hear your renditions. Thanks Andy!
Excellent!!! I glad you included US Drag!!!!!
Glad you’ve included Narada Michael Walden Andy. I personally feel he is the greatest drummer because how many drummers can write fusion, love songs ( I Cry I smile) and dance music and be good enough to be the drummer for bands like Weather Report and The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
yes!!!!
Led Boots is a definite a Top 10 drum intro. Any list without it is not legitimate.
Thanks so much for “your interpretation “ ,or,approximation,of the rhythm. At the end of the day,that’s really all we have,and I would rather listen to someone’s “take” on it. There are some amazing drummers out there who can do BBB it spot on,but,what’s the point?!! I can put on the cd/lp and listen to the original! Bravo,Andy!! My “hats” off to ya!🥁🎶✌️
Personal faves:
1. Riding on the Wind- Judas Priest
2. Rock Music- Jefferson Airplane
3. Denim and Leather- Saxon
wow that Simon Phillips story sounds like a TAMA commercial from the 80s ...😀
Loved this video, hilarious at times!