10 Hardest Drumming Songs In Hard Rock

10. Hot For Teacher - Van Halen

When it comes to a band like Van Halen, it's pretty easy to get overshadowed when you have someone like Eddie behind the fretboard. Hell, Michael Anthony is probably thankful that he even managed to get any screentime in the videos in between David Lee Roth's antics and Eddie annihilating the guitar at every single moment. In the back of the stage though, Alex Van Halen had his own taste for theatrics on Hot For Teacher.

Then again, it's almost easy to dismiss something like Hot For Teacher as not being that difficult for drums at all. After all, the sounds of a diesel truck turning on for the first minute or so of the song doesn't really leave the percussionist with very much to do. That is, until you realize that it's actually Alex behind the kit, playing these syncopated tribal drum beats in time so precisely that they seem to blend together after more than a few listens.

Alex doesn't even give you a minute of let up either, choosing to go straight into the verse rhythm, which can only be described as the traditional rock and roll drum beat if it were given a healthy dose of adrenaline. Even though the Van Halen faithful are willing to shower Eddie with praise, there's also another virtuoso at work from the back of the stage.