Classical Composer Reacts to Pneuma (Tool) Live-Drum Cam | The Daily Doug | (Episode 131)

it's the daily dog hey all what's going on thanks for being back with me for another edition of the daily doug so uh i i did a video earlier today and i was all set to to move on to other things but i got a call from my brother and he said dude um today is danny carey's 60th birthday and you know what you have to do and i said yeah i think i do know what i have to do. so today we're going to react to the numa by tool drum cam video and just celebrate the awesomeness that is uh danny carey so i i have shied away from doing this one before because i've seen it so it's not going to be a true reaction uh i i am enthralled by this song i think it's awesome but i've never really given it a true critical listen so i want to see if we can pick out some elements of it that we can lift up and uh more than anything we're just going to rock out and enjoy this unbelievable drum cam video uh featuring danny carey and the band tool so this song numa is off their newest album uh fear inoculum it was released in 2019 and i have the the lyrics up here as well we're gonna do a real reaction to the entire song not just the drumming and uh like anything else i think tools lyrics are are deep and sort of spiritual in a humanist way and pneuma itself is a word that means um the vital spirit soul or creative force of a person and i think what the the lyrics are and what the song is calling us to is to wake up and to be released and to find our true potential to be the best versions of ourselves to reach that pneuma in all of us right so uh the uh the whole polyrhythm and the uh just the feel of the entire piece the power of it is just uh there's a reason why it can just lift us up right so so uh let us wait no longer here is danny carey and the guys doing numa live and concert the vic firth uh drum cam video here we go okay [Music] first of all how cool is it that he has all of his own monitors and all of his own stuff back there what an amazing group of toys i've seen drummers practice this too this gradual uh slowing down that's a rudimentary thing that drummers practice it's just every stroke once he starts slowing down gets slower by the same mathematical ratio and he's as good at it as anybody [Music] i love the electric drum pads too that he gets with those i believe is that i believe that's a polyrhythm his left hand is doing this quarter notes and the right hand was doing uh the divisions of three 16th notes [Applause] okay y'all [Music] so [Music] the macro pattern is an odd number of eight notes as i'm bobbing my head when they get back to around i'm bobbing on the offbeats so that's one of my ways of trying to figure out if this is an even number of overall beats in a in the macro pattern or if it's micro [Music] the hard part is figuring out when it starts again at its core it's just combinations of three uh short notes three eighth notes or sixteenths depending on how they're counting it versus two patterns of threes [Music] about [Music] one word [Music] this is just a straight four-four section that rocks as hard as anything i've heard for a relatively slow overall tempo and i want to figure out a second i want to figure out what that instrument is behind him do you guys see that that big uh it looks like it's laid out like a piano or a keyboard uh we have pitched percussion instruments like uh xylophones marimbas that sort of thing that are uh designed in the same way that a piano is designed that looks like it's electronic and it looks like it's curved a little bit that may be just uh you know an optical illusion but i would love to see what that sounds like too we're going to back up just a hair and keep right on rolling okay [Applause] [Music] i'm gonna give this a shot i'll wait for him to help me out with the accents [Music] that's the pattern that i think is going on okay that's the pattern that i think is going on i think it's two measures of six eight a measure of five eight another measure of six eight and then two measures of five eight i can't do math that fast six plus six plus five seventeen plus another six is twenty three plus ten is thirty three thirty three eighth notes in the pattern is what i think is going on i want to back that up a little bit and try again [Music] oh [Music] it's hard it's amazing isn't it [Music] such a fascinating and interesting group just to uh to push us forward in these sections it's really amazing and then he adds a polyrhythm on top of [Music] it [Music] we are all born of one breath one word [Music] just makes your heart go we can do it y'all i had no idea larry's birthday [Music] by the way i think it sounds like they're in d minor uh they may have tuned down to uh the d tuning drop d tuning uh for this uh but it's just a power d minor sound sounds like [Music] it sounds like groupings of three 16th notes in his right hand [Music] and then groupings of like a quarter note in his left hand that would mean they line up whatever four measures 3 16 over 4 4 pretty sure [Applause] [Music] those of you that have listened to this a lot more than i have if i get stuff wrong help us all out it's a community effort uh to figure out what these guys are doing and why we react to it in such an emotional way [Music] i think it's awesome that he's still drumming like this after these many years that they've been doing this [Music] and the synthesizer sound is something that i really think adds a lot to their their overall aesthetic [Music] [Applause] [Music] the thing that i find interesting about how they're building these complex patterns is that they they normally uh keep uh a consistent uh faster note and then they're just dividing up uh the uh the groupings of of how they're um of how they're stressed and normally they're doing either groupings of three or groupings of two and it could be like four or whatever but it's it's um it's a way just to uh play with uh really complex uh mixes of groupings of threes and groupings of two while keeping this fast sort of note undergirding everything consistent for everybody [Music] hypnotic it's like a trance [Music] and this is an 11-ish minute song the pacing of it is [Music] excellent it's as good as it gets [Music] so so cool [Music] i wonder uh once they learn the song once danny learns this song does he have to count and stay really really focused with his brain to uh to really count every single measuring bait to make sure that he's on it [Music] help me out how do you guys do that does it ever become just natural in the way that you move are you still just trying to make sure that you keep yourself just exactly in the hook especially when you're going back and forth between measures of sticks and measures of five [Music] also kudos to vic burke for setting up and putting out this video uh this hd drum cam with the mixing and everything is one of the coolest drum videos i've ever seen person behind him has a cool haircut that's it i want to go back uh if i can figure this out where was it where they started this um and see if i have this little section right or not really amazing [Music] that's it that would be six plus six plus five plus six plus five plus five [Music] that's the repetition that i think i hear [Music] it's unbelievable it's unbelievable um you know uh i every time i stop and really pay attention to what tool is doing it uh it always impresses me every single time um i know that uh they're a vaunted vaunted uh and well-respected band but i think they truly deserve every accolade that they get uh what a remarkable song and remarkable band uh with longevity and and like this is their newest album and it sounds fresh just as fresh as they always have and uh i'm enthralled by it uh danny uh happy birthday dude uh from uh a new member of the tool army um awesome work awesome work uh thanks to the band thanks for uh vic firth for for showing us some truly monumental drumming so great stuff thanks you all for being with me today like i said in the comments if you think i'm totally off the mark let me know i can take it it's fine but that's how i heard it and uh i'm i'm pretty happy that at least got that far [Music] so uh that's it for today and we will see you next time on another edition of the daily dog

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Length: 19min 8sec (1148 seconds)

Published: Tue May 11 2021