Matt Garstka's 'Freestyle' With Music by Alastair Taylor
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- My own composition written to accompany this incredible drum solo from one of my favourite drummers. Video filmed and produced by Meinl Cymbals.
Original video:
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I feel like I just took some acid while watching a Matt Garstka solo. This is fucking crazy on a deep level that I don't fully comprehend. Mind blown.
Thanks so much, I'm a huge fan of you're videos!!!
Hey I just became a fan of what you just did, and what you can possibly do in the future! Perhaps we could collaborate some day :)
Hi Wei, that would be amazing. I'd be well up for that mate!
I did take some acid and this is great
Art Of Drumming HQ
Dude, i swear on my fucking head, i’m blasted on acid rn and i was about to make a comment about those wobbly effects being fuck sick and perfectly in sync with the music
This is pure fucking amazement and thank you Alastair fucking Taylor cause you’re indirectly fueling it haha
I just realized that this was a stand alone drum solo and you wrote music over that..... mind blown
Are you kidding me? This is unbelievable!!!
Whoa! Incredible composition! Not everyone can do what you just did. Seriously, this take great talent, amazing ears, and creativity! Bravo/amazing job! Respect!
Carlito
Oh my god, thank you. You're drumming is unreal! I've just seen your septuplet flam exercise and it blew my mind. So glad you liked the video. You're insane!
Alastair Taylor man anytime! Seriously love this! You’re super talented! Hey if you ever want to throw a track my way I would love to give it a whirl. Incredible stuff!
Second this 100%... This is absolutely incredible. You clearly poured your heart into this. Must have taken hours to get just right! Everything is SO tastefully orchestrated... Respect +1, man!
Wow I thought this was Matt playing over a song at first, and then I realized this was composed OVER A SOLO. This is unreal levels of awesome, great job.
Cheers :) glad you like it
I never noticed before, maybe it's because I wasn't very familiar with the concept yet, but there is a part made noticeable by your piece that shows Matt very clearly doing some Metric Modulation in his usual style. If you listen to the stuff he's been doing lately with Joshua De La Victoria (Modern Value is the Best Album of 2018 LOL) he talks a about metrically modulating using accent patterns, a method he learned from Efrain Toro, as opposed to the usual methods. It's at my favorite part of the video too. At 6:10 he starts a groove in 7 counted as 4433 (1234 1234 123 123) and it becomes much more noticeable at 6:17 then at 6:35 he Modulates to 5 counted as 3322 (123 123 12 12) That makes me appreciate this video even more. Had it not been for the piece Alastair wrote I wouldn't have even noticed that at all and would've just looked over it as just a groove in a solo. Thank You again Alastair and keep up the good work. I'm also curious if you ever considered doing Richard Spaven's Solo from the MEINL Drum Festival.
The most insane linear phrasing and time changes...unreal....I swear he isn't human...
What's crazy about this is that it reveals a lot about Garstka's composition and phrasing while soloing. You can hear structure and maybe what he's thinking while improvising. Great stuff!
Yeah you’re spot on, writing this really helped me to understand the solo on a much deeper level. He is a beast!
Dude, the Meshuggah covers on you're channel spot on by the way. Impressive stuff man!
just thought the exact same thing...
Wow thank you so much! This video of yours blew me away and gave me some song writing ideas.
Saw one of your plini drum covers Simon. Very nice! :)
this is the evolution of the human species.
agreed!
funny you mention that. watching this i legit thought "this is music of the future" and honestly the more i think about it the more it makes sense to me haha
I've always wondered what a band like AAL would sound like if it was centered around the drums instead of guitar. This is it, this is what that sounds like. Awesome job.
Thank you! :)
Nice keywork ;)
it sounds like arithmophobia haha those drums were written first
Exactly
thats kind of what the newest album is like. very drum focused
Dude, Matt, you're a fucking hero. Best percussion of our generation.
Just watched it again for the 7th or 8th time. It never gets old!
Glad to hear it, thanks :)
This is absolutely ambitiously incredible. To take a highly complex drum solo and compose a high quality composition over it is just amazing. I can't imagine the level of skill and creativity it took to make this. Matt Garstka needs to see this!
Thank you, I’m really glad to get so many positive comments like this. Matt has seen it actually, I sent him an email when I uploaded it, he replied back the other day and shared it on Facebook both on his profile and on the Animals as Leaders page. I couldn’t believe it!!
Alastair Taylor that must have been incredible for you bro, you completely deserve it
He must have been impressed for shure
Thanks a lot dude, yeah that was a good day haha :)
After so many months, I still come back to this video. Love every second
I must make a confession. I think this is my favourite RUclips Channel.
Wow, thanks so much mate :)
Coming from the Virgil composition to this.... i can confirm I am in love with your harmony
Haha thank you mate, glad you're enjoying the videos :)
Matt really needs to see this. This is sick!
He has, I sent it to him when I uploaded it. He really enjoyed it. :)
Best drummer alive today. Hands down
So I have seen this video about 10 times, and I just now realized that he wasnt't playing to a track at all, and that this was written to the drums. Incredible work!
Thanks man :)
Someone get Matt to see this! Your understanding of the complexities of Matt’s rhythm coupled with your melodic sensibilities is stunning
Incredible man!!! You're freaking genius!!!! Fuck, this is the best ever composition!!!!
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed the video. More coming soon!
BRAVO! Honored to say I played many , many Gigs with this Human!
Thanks mate, wow that is an honour I'm sure :)
Wei Lung Wong bring me here... and now I'm locked into this video like a infinite progression
It's a vortex to another dimension
Hahaha, thank you mate I'm glad you're enjoying the video. :)
Time for the weekly appreciation day for this mind blowing composition. Cheers man
Haha, thanks dude :)
i didn't plan on getting then stoned but then i started watching this...
Found this by mistake and I'm so happy I did! This is so amazing!!!!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I didn't realize what I was watching until it was over and I read the comments.. Superb job on this Alastair Taylor, I hope Matt sees it!
Thanks a lot man. Matt has seen it actually he shared it on facebook :)
Ok good :)
THIS MADE MY LIFE
We are going to only experience this ones in are lifetime.
Holy shit, I thought he was playing this with the recording and just realised this was overdubbed after watching the whole thing... what the hell dude, this is awesome!! :D
Haha, cheers mate. Glad you enjoyed the video :)
You are a thankless composing beast! I hope all the work you put into your passion gets properly rewarded by life in the future. Superb!
Thanks so much mate for the kind words, glad you're enjoying the videos dude :)
Amazing work. I could listen to hours of this.
Cheers mate :)
ok now this is getting somewhere, just imagine a collab with him would be amazing lol
Really amazing job bro, this song its like a 12 minutes animals leaders song and that is wonderful
Haha, thanks man :)
I know nothing about time signatures or drumming whatsoever. I really dont. But even while I dont understand it at all, this is insane. It´s amazing, the composition with the other instruments is just out of this world.. Shivers down my spine.
Wow thanks a lot mate, that's really great to hear. I want these videos to be for everyone not just drummers so that's great news. Cheers.
I really dropped my phone and clapped after this. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Its so good.
Oh my God! I had no idea that this wasn't his composition!
simply, compositionally astonishing alastair.
Thank you! :)
Insane! I’m a huge fan now. The timing alone is incredible
Thanks man :)
Holy shit, Matt needs to see this!
He has dude, he shared it on facebook haha :)
A true monster 👍👍
I hope Matt has seen this already, incredible! Great job my friend.
Thank you? Yeah he has seen it, and he liked it! I've got the master's approval.
Nice tune to hum while walking down the street on a lazy afternoon...
Simply amazing
Thanks man :)
Quite possibly one of the most underrated drummers of all time. This guy is unreal!
why underrated?
jc matias he’s not mentioned all that often when it comes to people talking about great drummers. Seems that way from my experience anyways.
The more modern younger generation of drummers know who this guys is for the most part, he's pretty young in the scene and has been quite successful despite that I'd say
Of all time? Hardly.. lots of underrated drummers out there since the invention of drums
This is absolutely amazing
Cheers :)
Wow man, GREAT job! This is so creative
Those end grooves are probably harder then they look, and they look bloody hard already
Speechless! AMAZING MUSIC! AMAZING SOLO!
I actually thought these drummers were given the composition and wrote the solo around that not the other way around. Amazing work, very talented!
Haha thanks dude, much appreciated :)
WOW!!!! Wizard of time changes!!!
You gotta play this live sometime, although it would be so dam crazy to learn all of those variations done on the spot, but man it souds awesome!
Thanks man, that would be really cool to try and pull off!
This was fucking great. I thought his freestyle was good before, but this brought it out and highlighted the dynamic parts of the freestyle
Wait, I thought HE was playing to the music, not the other way around. I really cannot believe how perfectly you accompany and highlight the feel of the solo. This is not something I have experienced before.
Thanks a lot man. :)
Definetly deserves more views. Great job.
Holy shit I also just realized you did the composition on top... incredible work!
Cheers man :)
Genius.
Have you ever heard anything like it??? His creativity is in a class of it's own... 🙌
difficile de ne pas oublier de remercier Mr Alastair Taylor pour cette compo avec une telle performance!!!!J aimerais bien que Marco Minnemann s'y colle...respect to Alistair ans big up for Matt,thx dudes
Hey thank you for the kind words. Yeah I love Marco Minnemann, might be worth doing in the future for sure :)
I can't believe how perfect this is. Awesome!!
This is ABSOLUTELY incredible. What you did with this is VERY impressive (understatement really).
This just became my new favorite video. You best believe that I'm gonna be listening to this nonstop. This deserves infinite likes and Matt is my favorite drummer...Incredible stuff bro. My favorite part for sure has got to be from 6:10 to 7:30 especially with groove change at 6:38 the bass at 7:07 . Just don't stop man, you've really got something great going on here.
Wow thanks dude, I'm glad you like it, that section was so fun. I love the way matt changes between the different grooves so fluidly.
Alastair Taylor No, thank you. I'm Actually listening to it right now but I've been showing this video to all of musician friends and they loved it especially my drum friends. If I didn't tell them, they would've thought that this was the original video. I might've thought it was the original video if I hadn't already seen the solo.
+Alastair Taylor you are brilliant. Thank you for sharing this!
Incredibly well done! Imagine now if he could take your audio track and play to it the same! That would be epic on his part.
Cheers. Yeah that would be insane haha, I'd love to see that :)
This is honestly Amazing!
Thanks a lot man :)
Incredible job Alastair!
Thank you :)
@@AlastairTaylor77 Thank you Man!
I just thought in my mind seconds ago that there must be guys who turn his solo into an actual music piece, and this video popped up.
This is brilliant!
Cheers mate :)
Fantastic! It takes so much effort and talent to compose something as complex but musical and easy to listen like this! Awesome as in Virgil's video!👌👊🏼
Thank you, glad you're enjoying the videos mate :)
Alastair, you composition, made the drum solo not a drum solo anymore, its sweeter! this is mind blowing, Matt will be relieved to see at the end that his mistakes were nothing, he should stop doing those faces as they were not mistakes actually, you sorted them out nicely, well done!!!
Wow! I would love to be that good at anything
Insane job !!!
Wow, I thought the Nate Smith Pocket Change video was great...and then I saw this...definitely taking it up a notch, and then some. Alastair Taylor you have some serious talent! I'll be listening to this for a long time.
Thanks a lot James. :)
You never hear band do this level of insane! Awesome. Especially the part at the beggining where Matt's speeding up. Great work, great work.
Thank you :)
As always magical. Thanks
Thank YOU :)
had seen that solo, never imagined something like that could be done upon it. great composition bro. aweesome job
Cheers dude :)
u too man, I gotta admit I'm getting addicted to this compositions upon all these amazing drum solos. specially the one from virgils 4/4 , that one is unreal. this one is pretty awesome too.
DUDE kudos to you man, this is INSANE!!!!!
Thank You! Hey you're channel looks really cool just watched a couple of vids. Love what you did with Planeta Brazil, very nice tune! :)
Woah dude thanks so much for checking my channel out! I'm glad you dug it! Hit me up if you ever wanna collaborate :)
That's amazing I can say I went to school with him and we were friends. Even in elementary school Matt could play drums really good miss him
Amazing !
This is so good, it's scary. Genius. Incredible.. I'm finding it difficult to not pee while bowing down to the greatness of this composition... Flabbergastric anomalous brain power level space choochoo.... Hieroglyphics.......... oh mommy
This video changed me in a very good way... Thank you Alastair Taylor.
Hahaha wow thanks Stephen (I think) :)
I'm just an amateur drummer with a Dave Weckl background of study. But ever since I heard "CAFO" by Animals as Leaders I've been paying close attention to Matt Garstka... I love his next level approach to developing drum lines. And then you, Sir, compose this piece of music over his solo... it rendered me speechless, and opened a new avenue to study and have fun with music.... I am beyond grateful. tytytytytytytyy
Stephen Burke hey man, yeah Cafo is amazing, but it isn't Matt Garstka behing the drums of this first AAL album, it's another incredible Matt, Matt Halpern
Oh shit, you're right... just looked it up. I never knew that...
I love them both
Beautiful music!
amazing arrangements, love what you did there man! keep up the great work!
This is sick. Wish I could find a composer like this to play drums with.
Thanks mate, glad you liked it.
Andy Ham I'm not that good but, hi Andy!
hahahahaha you are crazy man, so much talented!
Thanks man :)
So genius.
Cheers :)
To all the underrated ARTIST: Cheers my friend.
the ideas and love put into it makes me wanna hear more like this.
Thank you, I am working on a second vid like this so keep an eye out :)
This is great stuff⚠️
MY GOD YOU ARE A GENIUS
Haha, cheers dude :)
Well, here it is, the best thing on RUclips.
Hahaha, cheers man. Glad you like it :)
This is a pretty cool way to come up with songs!
My initial reaction was that the premise of this was fundamentally stupid. I was _instantly_ proved wrong. This is fucking fantastic.
Haha, thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it :)
Holy fucking shit dude you’re a next level composer... those are some amazing, proggy licks. I love it
Must still be my favorite one 🔥
i only hope to write music like this someday.
This is such a cool idea. Great job!
Amazing job and composition Alastair Taylor! Congrats!
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GOOOOOOOOOOSSSHHHHHH !!!!
Fantastic, reminds me of early Genesis. Before Phil Collins hopped on the "Pop music" bandwagon.
this is bloody sick !!!!!!!!
holy moly dude never imagined the track was done after the drums until i read the description. fucking mindblowing!!
holy shit this is amazing! props man