Best Drummers of the World

31 07 2008

Same ranking with “Top 10 Best Drummers ever“:

http://www.the-top-tens.com/lists/best-rock-drummers.asp

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31 07 2008
Toomin (18:47:08) :

so yoshiki is the number 2 eh? can’t say i’m surprised. rock on

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18 08 2008
the rev (23:36:30) :

The Rev should be at least number 3 i think he’s insane!

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23 09 2008
Nunjo (17:28:07) :

Yoshiki is the Best!!

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9 11 2008
Staal (19:21:12) :

Are you people mad? It is an un-entertainable fact that Chris Slade is by far the best drummer in the World!!!!

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23 12 2008
sandra (00:35:11) :

Neil Peart is the best drummer in the world!!! you would know if you saw hisdrum solo in Rio you wont believe it!!!!

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28 12 2008
gemma (15:34:59) :

Tré Cool by far

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31 12 2008
Diego (14:04:41) :

Buddy Rich y Gene Krupa are the best drummers in the history of the music, obviusly that are other very very very good, but, Gene and Buddy are Gods…

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15 01 2009
Adam (04:58:24) :

In my opinion the Best drummers are David Mckintosh, The Rev, Tony Royster jr, Joey Jordison and Neil Peart. I cant decided who is the best out of those because they are all just as good as one another just in different ways.

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15 01 2009
Randy (23:39:44) :

Niel Peart … case closed!

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19 06 2009
Max (01:27:38) :

Your right

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28 01 2009
bali web design (05:16:10) :

Travis barker is the best

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12 02 2009
Isaac (21:38:00) :

Akira Jimbo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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2 03 2009
C-BEAR2010 (18:25:59) :

John Bonham is the best drummer who ever lived!!!!!!!!!! Led-Zeppelin is the best band ever created!!!!!!

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12 03 2009
Éric (20:08:30) :

come Steven Adler is the best rock drumer of time Guns and Roses rocks

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17 03 2009
Tyler (03:09:35) :

Are you people mental in the head, Dave Weckl is the best by a landslide. You ain’t heard nothin until you listen to the talent of some jazz drummers. So shut your yap on rock drummers until you hear some of them.

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29 04 2009
Joey (00:20:36) :

joey jordison is the best

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29 04 2009
mike (07:12:19) :

Gorilla Monsoon

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30 04 2009
scott (04:50:05) :

I agree about the Jazz drummers being underrated. Billy Cobham immediately comes to my mind first in the Jazz/Fusion category. I favor Buddy Rich as the prototypical and revolutionary greatest of all time, if not for skill and chops that were at the time never before seen or challenged seriously (with the exception of Krupa), then for the revolutionary technique and styles that came from this man and can be seen and heard in drummers of all styles today. Gene Krupa is of course the very worthy runner up as the drumset master of all time alongside Rich. Aside from Cobham, Rich, and Krupa, my personal favorites are Neil Peart, Carter Beauford, Dave Weckl, and Matt Abpts in no particular order, and not necessarily for level of expertise, but overall technique, versatility, and sound. Scott Johnson, Ralph Hardimon, and similar artists all top the list when it comes to rudimental drumming and corps. Evelyn Glennie is certainly one of my favorite concert/orchestral percussionists, especially on Marimba / Vibraphone / Xylophone / etc; not only is she a master percussionist, she has been profoundly deaf since before she was 12!

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13 05 2009
r4ve (01:27:18) :

THE REV awesome style of drumming!

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17 05 2009
Tony (04:49:28) :

At one time I thought Rock Drummers were all that there was to listen to?? Man Was I wrong. I finally woke up and began listening to this so called drummer by the name of Buddy Rich. That did it for me. I threw all my rock and roll drummers out the window. They are nothing more than boring over rated drummers. The man I listen to now is Buddy Rich. Reason why? Very simple Buddy Rich played so much better than all the rock drummers. Buddy was heads and shoulders a better drummer in ideas in phrasings and shadings. By this I mean that Buddy Rich could play soft very very soft and then build his drumming up like a ocean wave. Its not how loud you play (like Rock Drummers how pound and play extra loud) Buddy Rich played the finest drums without blasting a set of drums. My pick and my favorite drummer is Buddy Rich. Just take time out and watch a video of Buddy Rich behind a set of drums. Or better yet just listen on a compact disc of any Buddy Rich Big Band material and you will see how tremendous of a drummer Buddy Rich was. The finest drummer ever. Buddy Rich

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25 05 2009
James (02:04:47) :

Without a doubt Buddy Rich was way ahead of his time. Every time I see a television show that has a drummer on playing he usualy has a hard time using his left stick. Its really simple rock beats that sound like a machine that is broke or stuck in one pattern. Buddy Rich would make his complete drum set a choir of musical sounds. Each and every one of his cymbals had a definite tone. All of his drums were tuned perfectly. You could hear music coming out of his drum set. I get a kick out of rock and fusion and heavy metal drummers today. They actually pound on the cymbals and play so darn loud that their drums are really cardboard boxes. No music there just a lot of thunder and noise. You can say in all sincerity and honesty that they dont make drummers today that can play one percent of what Buddy Rich did or Gene Krupa did. They dont play clean precison rolls or clean rudiments they just bang bang and bang some more. Also take note drummers today dont even use a set of brushes or use brush work at all. And as far as ride cymbal co ordination and bass drum playing off beats and using co ordination??? Forget it. Just a flood of loud loud extra loud noise. Once again got to agree with Buddy Rich. Buddy Rich had it all. Class Drummer who could play soft soft soft and then build up to a loud sound but them coming back down to soft. His drums were a musicians dream. Today unfortunately its nothing but layers and layers of noise and more noise. Buddy Rich the Greatest Drummer there will never be another Buddy Rich.

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25 05 2009
Ashley (04:10:32) :

Bob Bryar My Chemical Romance

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5 06 2009
ron (20:29:39) :

my favorite drummers:
tetsu kikuchi
yukihiro
sakura
minato masafumi

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14 06 2009
Walter (12:53:24) :

Super descriptions of Buddy Rich. The one thing about Buddy Rich that impressed a lot of people was that he surrounded himself with great musicians who could really play. You get guitar players who play ear splitting loud and props like flashing lights and extra loud amps you hear drummers today that have no where to go but just exhibit noise and nothing to do with drumming. Buddy Rich and his Buddy Rich Big Band had all the ingredients of great musicians who played class music not noise. All those drummers today do are just play easy easy rock beats and really theres nothing there at all just repeated drum patterns. Saw Buddy Rich play drum solos and every single beat on a cymbal a snare a tom a bass drum was musical not noise. He had chops and his rolls para diddles were smooth even and precise. Buddy Rich also blended his drumming to the musicians he was playing with. Every drum in Buddy Richs drum set sounded like a musical instrument. Have to agree Buddy Rich was the Greatest Drummer Ever.

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19 06 2009
Max (01:25:43) :

Neil Peart-Rush
Best drummer ever

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25 06 2009
therevowns (04:55:33) :

the rev is #1 and thats it!

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29 06 2009
Edmond (20:50:19) :

If you would put the Reverend and Neil Peart on a stage with their complete drum outfits and all the extra bass drums and toms and loads of cymbals let them play and play on and think they are great? A big big Joke. In comes Buddy Rich and makes them sound and look like children. Peart and the Reverend and Lars and Travis and the list goes on are really the same carbon copy type of drummer. Buddy Rich could and would out class them in every way. First Buddy had a cleaner drum sound. His ideas were heads and shoulders above all the Rocker Drummers. Its a total waste of time to watch and listen to the curent list of drummers. They all sound and pound alike. Buddy Rich was simply the Greatest of the Greatest Drummers ever.

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7 07 2009
James (09:56:21) :

Yoshiki definetely one of the greatest drummers of all time. Moreover he is one of the most talented all around musicians of our time. In the (29 min – 34 min live) song ‘Art of Life’ which is btw a semi heavy metal song he played the drums for about 15 astounding minutes, but then went on to also play a 9 min piano solo in the same song too. Furthermore he also composed the entire song. His drumming alone makes him a fantastic musicians but throw in the pianist side and the composer, and he is simply astounding.

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9 07 2009
Henry (05:23:32) :

Sad way to see a hotel in our town get torn down? Buddy Rich Big Band played there in 1985 and I can remember it just like it was yesterday? There was a Lounge Band playing some Fusion Heavy Metal Rock and Buddy came in the lobby wearing shades and the rest of his Band were all ready set up and ready to go.? Buddy gave this Rock Heavy Metal Band a Dirty Look and you could see that he disliked their playing?? Anyway the Heavy Metal Rock Group stopped their nonsense and Buddy and his Big Band Kicked off with a Chart called Ready Mix. His drums were tuned so Perfect and his Big Band sounded like a Huge jet airplane just warming up. I noticed one thing that night. Lots of young people in the Audience getting a close up of the Worlds Greatest Drummer. What an experience that was. I shall never forget seeing and hearing the excitement Buddy Rich brought out of those Slingerland Radio King Drums and his Out Standing Big Band. Buddy Rich the Worlds Greatest Drummer.

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12 07 2009
Carmen (04:43:16) :

Back in l966 saw Buddy Rich play at a local school campus on stage. I was studying music and earning my degree. The talk of the entire school for over seven months that Buddy Rich Big Band was coming to teach us a lesson in Big Band Jazz? I heard so much about Buddy Rich and how great his Big Band was and this was my chance? Oh man. Oh WOW. what an evening of pure music excitement. The thing that stood out most for me that night was the way Buddy Rich comanded a set of drums. He had young players in his Big Band and I thought these young players would over Shadow him and make him sound like an old man behind a set of drums. I was dead Wrong. Buddy Rich was like a huge Electro Generator that never ever stopped he just kept driving and forcing his Big Band to play better and better. His Ride Cymbal Work was Clean Virgin Clean Precise. Each of his drums his snare was crisp his toms floor and small toms were tuned perfectly. That BASS Drum of his was a joy to hear. He would punctuate all the brass figures from the trumpets saxes and Buddy and his Bass Man would really put a punch in that Band. The crowd went nuts. I remember them throwing all the spot lights off and he did this chart. Called Channel One Suite. at the end of the First Set . We went off to try and talk to him but he went back to his Bus for a Break. he came back did another great tremendous set and ended on a drum solo on a chart called West Side Story. We went to all the music classes for the next following months and all we talked about for days was Buddy Rich and the Buddy Rich Big Band. Local Vinyl Record shop sold out of any and all Buddy Rich material. To this Date I can not hear one drummer out there who could play with the Precise Expertise of Buddy Rich. Still the Greatest Drummer to Draw Breath. Buddy Rich

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19 07 2009
Alex (05:56:36) :

1968 was the Year. All the local newspapers kept advertising that the Buddy Rich Big Band was supposed to play at a local Howard Johnson Motor Lodge. My fellow musician buddy and I were always wanting to hear and see this Buddy Rich drummer man that was featured on Johnny Carson so much. So we saved up money and bought the tickets and had a supper dinner package and two sets of the Budy Rich Big Band. I can remember seeing these White Slingerland Band stands and Richs Set of Drums set up Front. It was sort of like waiting to see Mohamd Ali come into the Arena for the Big Fight or seeing Mickey Mantle Hit a Home Run out of the Park. All the guys in his Big Band were wearing Navy Blue Double Breasted Blazers and Buddy came dressed in a Sweater and pair of Slacks like he was going to a Casual Picnic. I could not figure that out?? But when he got behind those Slingerland White Marine Pearl Drums and kicked off this Chart called Ready Mix I swear he played so Fast and Clean and Accurate it sounded like a Concord Jet Taking off and Soaring thru the Air. His hands were a Blur but the Band was Tight and Buddy was the King. Most Definitely the King of Drums Period. He ended both sets with long drums solos but those Drum Solos were just not ordinary ordinary drum solos they were percussion story books complete with a begining middle and end. You could say that when you heard Buddy Rich take a drum solo live it was kind of like Watching a Spreading Fire Storm. He started those drum solos off so delicate and serene but he would gradually tell a story complete with a punch line and dynamic unpredictable ending that had all the super power of a thousand and hundreds and hundreds of never ending poly rhythms and susper outstanding grand finales of percussion. I have seen so many drummers attempt to play a drum solo but they fall short on ideas and excitement. With out a Doubt Buddy Rich surpassed all the drummers out there yesterday and today. Buddy Rich the most gifted drummer ever.

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7 09 2009
joey (11:46:10) :

The best drummer in the world is joey jordison

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11 10 2009
Lonnie (05:09:03) :

Joey Jordison really is playing what you hear in a high school drum line snare line. All high school drum lines play those warm ups and Joey just adds his two bass drums. Really there is nothing special to his drumming. But you have to take into consideration he needs special amps and stage effects. This is not drumming this is just a circus prop. If you put a drummer behind a small standard set of drums and let him play straight time and tell him not to depend on loud guitars and amps and just let him be imaginative. I seriously dont think many drummers out there today could hold your imagination. There was a guy called Jimmy Vincent who played with Louie Prima back in the l960s. I saw him play a drum solo one time on the side of a wrist watch. He did not need two bass drums or one hundred cymbals. Its not how you play behind a lot of drums its how you swing and how you syncopate a drum. Remember Loud does not mean better.

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19 10 2009
Gary (05:19:13) :

All of the comments and fans really make this a nice place to describe drummers and styles. Granted each and every drummer have played magnificent drums. Got to give each drummer a chance to express himself. At one time I remember hearing old style corny drumming in Dixieland type and I did not care for Dixieland Drums. Then I heard be bop and progressive Jazz and then Rock drumming came into focus. Different generations have different styles and you got to accept each generation for what they like. Give every generation a chance. But I will agree that Buddy Rich really was the Greatest Drummer ever. No matter what style or what type of music Buddy Rich could maintain his title as the Worlds Greatest Drummer.

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24 10 2009
No One (17:41:52) :

You guys have way too much time on your hands. Worlds best drummer is an opinion and relative to who your favorite band and type of music is. To me, it’s all about pioneering and being able to stand the test of time. Only one person holds both titles in those dept. Buddy Rich. Sure, there’s tons of modern day rockers that can bang the hell out of the skins at a million miles a minute but, Buddy Rich is by far the all time greatest. Not just the greatest drummer but, one of the greatest musicians of all time.

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