Tony Royster Jr - Drum Solo

You know... Ive been playing the drums for 7 years now and one thing that ive learned is that drummers are the most jealous people in the world and will do anything to make themselves seem better than someone else. Its sad really. I hate drummers and i am one so what does that say? If you were a true drummer you would see that this kid is pure talent. And for those of you who see that, i respect you. I play jazz, i play heavy metal, i play funk, i play latin, i play it all, and to be honest with you its all difficult. It just depends on what you prefer but you cant deny a good drummer when you see one. C'mon you guys were all in this together. We all like to drum, so why cant you respect eachother? But seriously, this kid is so freakin awesome!!!!!!!!

"Tony Royster Jr. is only 18 years old and has been playing drums for 15 years now."

Directly from the website you quoted and dated 2005.....
If you don't beleive me look for ur self

www. tonyroysterjr .com/bio.htm

Tony Royster Jnr. is now 25 years old .. for those who didn't know.

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He doesn't seem to keep the rhythm. The whole point of drums is to achieve rhythm.

wawawa.... u did great, keep it up.

i have been playing drums for 36 years now.. and this kid is realy fucking good :D

anyone who has anything to say about Royster JR. other than.. HOLY SHIT! is a jealous bafoon.

this guy is proof of past lives...

all you drummers can go green with jealousy as is obvious from some of the bullshit written below... but this guy is undeniably one of the great drum talents of all time..
god blessed him... and god bless him

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this little man 's gettin it cant stop laffn

Wow, Tony Royster Jr, is some of the coolest people I've ever seen. I'm a girl who's 15, and I really dream of being good at drumming. does anybody have some good websites with tricks, or can you recommend some good dvd's for those who wanna play drums? it's sad, that you have to to start playing drums very early if you want to be very good. I didn't knew much about drums before I was 14, and sometimes I'm a kind of giving up on playing, because it seems so hopeless... could need someone to cheer me up :)

This kid is seriously amazing. No wonder he plays for dw now and has dvds out. he just has pure raw talent and you can tell how much he puts into playing drums. amazing.

I have been playing drums for 30 years from 10 or 11 years old to 40 years old and I`m not a every day drumer. I might only play 1 time every few months or a year even. All I know is STICK CONTROL is what its all about. My brother would let me play his John Bohnam set only after I did my LL RR LL RR LL RR for 1 hour. He liked his drum heads and and wanted me to hit them right. So I did it and and all the other rudaments. Well I`ll tell you I know of many drumers that think that play`n a beat to some guys 6 string is being a drumer. And it is but do it knowing what numbers you can mix up to come up with what you need in the end thats a little bit more then a beat. Its Stick control and math Well Mr. Royster Jr. has all that then some... I know I`m all wrong but thats all good Every one to beats to a diffirent drumer.

That was awa some, Boy you are the great.
Although, you about my age now, i need inspirations from you when i was 12.
Best Performer i'ave ever seen.

I am 12 and i wish i could play like that! im good for my age, but that is off this planet. Good luck!

I've been reading all these comments from kids bagging / praising Tony on his skill in this video...then they follow it up with..."I've been playing for 5 years...10 years ..... "Well guys, I'm a professional drummer in San Diego, and I've been playing for over 20 years, and have played in Death Metal bands, Jazz combos, Latin groups, Country bands (even got a degree in percussion performance) .... and this kid is a smokin' soloist. Very very impressive. I'm interested to see how he plays in a band situation. I know a lot of talented solo drummers, but when but in a combo situation, they are sometimes sub-par. Not to say that Tony is...I've never heard him play in a group setting. It would be fun to see. But his technique reminds me of Tony Williams, the gentleman he mentioned at the begining of the solo. Williams was an eclectic drummer himself ... sometimes not making much sense in the tunes he played with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Let me know if there is a video of this kid for purchase which shows his prowes in a band setting

Ok so maybe i came in half way through and havent got the full idea of whats goin on. But Tony Royster Jnr at 12 years of age was outstanding, and nobody can knock him. I have been playin Drums for nearly Twenty years, started of playin Big Band stuff, Orchestral, then Jazz, and now i play in a Punk Rock band, lets say i have played quite a few styles and the transission was not easy, i dont play heavy metal, for one reason, i dont dig it, but that doesnt mean its any worse than any other style, its extremely complex drumming, and would require alot of time and patience to change to, and when u dont dig somethin well that makes it more difficult. The point is, dont dissrespect other Drummers just cause u dont like what they do, if we all did the same thing it would be pretty boring..

I guess you could say im a drum prodigy. i never took one lesson or had neone tell me shit. ive been jammin for about 4 years now and watching this video just pushed my commitment level through the roof. everytime i watch this video its like seeing it for the first time and kinda makes me wanna cry cause i try so hard the only im gunna get THAT good is wit time. i wish i was that kid :P keep on drummin

UNREAL!!!
THIS IS ONE HELL OF A DRUMMER

No matter what style of drumming you play or prefer. This kid has skills!!! He's probably better than 90% of you hacks out there. Were any of you this good at 12 years old? I doubt it.

Well, first of all, Id like to say Joey Jordison, is an average drummer, there isnt anything special about him, and thats coming from someone who use to listen to Slipknot, Ive since matured and have come to the conclusion that theres just so many better bands and drummers, and also, you must be an idiot to think that Lars Ulrich had any sorta talent, hes a classic example of poser!, and sell out and i was told from a pro Metallica fan that the "One" double Kick was done on a drum machine? Cause he couldnt cut it, hmm? Since i have stumble across a vault of much more talented Metal drummers, like Derek Roddy from Hate Eternal, Flo from Cryptopsy, Hellhammer, Trym from Emperor and Zyklon, Ryhno from Manowar, Richard Christy from Iced Earth and Death, and for all who dont know, check out a band called Spatik Inc, the drummers name is Bobby Jarzonbek, omg, seriously, thats some robotic shit. Also please, listen to a band called Absu, album Tara, song stone of destiny, its a bit hard to listen to, but just imagine, a 3 piece band from Texas, the drummer is the singer, and omg, thats amazing. From a pro metaler, who is in an Iron Maiden cover band playing bass guitar, playing the drums in another band doing Children of Bodom, sinergy, and Manowar covers, i respect him so much. He is a truely talented musician. One thing that he has over alot of drummers, is feel! Thats normally a genetic thing. So to all who think that hes not great, eat S@#$ and die

dude I've been druming for 11 years and i have never seen any thing like this I'm 17 and man you can move. i love the one hand playing that was out standing. I give you all the props and congradulations e-mail me some time K.

This is the best drum solo i have ever seen in my life!!!!!! He is klass especially 4 a 12 year old!!!!!! Pure klass.

como puede tocar asi de machin ese morrillo,,, deberia de dedicarse a darle con grupo primavera o intocable para darles un levanton..... imaginen a los tigres del norte con ese perrillo, machiiin heee!!!!

ive been playing 4 about 6 yrs and that is probably the best thing i have seen or heard. wish i was that good.

i want someone to find me another drummer better then this kido right here. if you can then good on you.

he has to be the best for someone playing that fast that lose that well
at his age
he is the best

this kid is amazing. id like to hear him now. he ranks up there with thomas lang (buy his Creative Control DVD it will piss you off cuz hes the best drummer in the world), dave weckl, mike portnoy, and danny carey. and to all you drummers out there who think he would suck on a traditional kit, the double bass patterns hes doing are a whole lot more complicated than you might think. and before you go putting down this solo id like to see you do all that. youre just saying all that cuz youre mad cuz you will never be as good as him (neither will i). plus hes coordinating all of his limbs and incorporation dynamics all around the kit. tony royster jr. is simply amazing.

When I was playing myself, I had the privlage to see the great Buddy Rich perform. I gotta say, this kid blows him away!!

omg that drum solo is like the best drum solo i have ever come across its like watching a mini joey jordison i know tony royster is now alot older but i just wanna know how he got that good at 12 yrs of age nice 1 c ya

Ok heres my 2 cents, one you all are right for some reason or another. but at the same time the jazz people are wrong and the death metal people are wrong. I have played in many bands and many styles, including death metal and jazz and from my experiences it goes like this. They are both amazingly fun and complex styles and reguardless of your preference you should see that they are both hard as fuck if you are serous about them. I think that it goes like this jazz is more cerebral and more of a test of timing. Death metal took me a long time to learn for two reasons, one its fast as hell and just learning how to do some of that stuff i had to stop working out during the day, two i had to program myself to operate on a greater variety of timings. In the end theyare both very hard and very fun. and as a final note dont go telling people that their style sucks just because you dont like it. thats not cool everyone has their own preferences, so dont try and be pretencious, maybe if you listened to the other style for longer than 2 minuets you would see that anyone that can play either style well deserves to be respected.

Oh my life that kid is amazing , , , , jake dude thanks for showing me that!

any of you who put this kid down should have your head examined, he is a truley good drummer at 12 years old, enough said, dont read in to all the junk, most of you probably dont drum and you wish you were half as good as him, so get a life slobs

i cant believe that some people can say that this young dude is tallentless and that he has no skill even rating him against john bonham is criminal and john would say so himself (ime speaking from experience here) you people that mentioned the racist thing really need to stop thinking that way we really dont need these comments ok!! this guy is truly amazing i met him 2 years ago while touring in florida and the best thing about him he really doesnt believe he is that good a truly humble guy who can wipe the sticks better than most in short just the nicest drummer in the world!!

This kid is so awsome he roks so hard i wish i was him!!!!

I have never seen a drummer play this good, KeEp up the good work and how do u move ur hand so fast?

come n dude it aint that hard my nan can play it for crying out loud and im not jokin either

I know a few gd drummers were i live but u cud drum them all into space cool video cant believe u were only 12 then even my nan cant believe it lol gd luck in the future u rule dude

it sounds like raccet to me, it looks like any1 can play tht,

I just recently saw the 12 year old Royster video and he blew me away.I shall purchase your pure energy video to see what you can do now! You are very versatile and that is hard to do!.From Jazz to R & B.More power Tony.You have a long way to develop that already awesome talent!

i'm drummer at my church but after seeing this video, it just makes me look like i suck

Wow!! I have been drumming for like 5 years and I almost quit drumming because of you Tony!! lol I have never seen a better drummer ever before
I'm wodering what Mr Roysters up to now!

this kid is really giftd, cool he has the rythm in him thats wat to say exclnt stuff..

WOW! AMAZING

i have been playing drums for nearly 7 years now, and id like to think i can recognise talent (true raw talent) and this guy can really drum, he is better than my all time favourite - travis barker maybe?
let me know if you think he's better!
Big James...

I didn't think anyone could ever outplay Lars Oreck from Metallica until I saw this clip. I can't believe a 12 year old boy now has my attention on the drum line. This is a truely talented kid and I'm sure he only got better as he has gotten older. God Bless you kid.

Yoshiki Hayashi = the best.
But he is very good as well

THIS KID HAS MORE SKILLZ THAN A SKILL TREE!

At 12 Tony was not as good as Krupa at his best, he seems to be there now! I haven't heard a drummer this good in a long time.

ive seen alot of stupid posts, i mean shit

death metal drumming = offtempo 32nds blasted threw a bass drum.. woo.

as for the apparent racists comments, that wrong man, you a fucking tool


and now the kid, that was some cool shit!!!

I see there is some contraversy over Tony's age. He was born Oct. 9,1984. I'm posting this on Dec. 10, 2005, so that would make him (drum roll please): 21!! I hope this settles the argument. Check out his OFFICIAL stats at www. tonyroysterjr. com
Thanks

Did mom and dad go crazy before you turned two? Did I not see you on Leno or something years ago. I hope you continue to do well at drums... Hate to see you ever become an accountant

I rekon it's just played fast because his hands jump and u can't slow it down .

Holy crap he is awesome

that was freekin amazing brotha!!!!!!!

dude his name is flo monier two *joke*, what a amazing little... i can't believe it, amazing, awesome, don't now, come to me and we start a band, wow...

im so much better then him in my dreams lol

This is an example of a total mind-blower, haven't ever seen such playing ! I, also a so called drummer (beem hitting the cans over 20 years) am sooooo far away from that display...keep up the GOOD work !!!

WOW

I cannot believe that only two people so far have mentioned Yoshiki Hayashi. I would like to hear what this guy can do in some kind of band context before comparing him to Yoshiki, but still, his 8 minutes on the drums at The Last Live...

Well, he's 21 and that's it. I had the great chance to meet him 3 weeks ago and believe me- he was awesome when he was 12, so imagine him performing now...amazing!

Perfekt!