10 Greatest Drum Performances In Rock Music History

There's always the common trope of drummers being known as the dumb one in every group they're a part of. Here are a group of musicians that have to memorize different scales and be able to string a coherent melody together, so the guy who's sole purpose is to hit things for a living is always going to be the more neanderthalic by comparison. The drummer has all the power though, and God help you if you have to change time signatures like Danny Carey.

Going through Tool's discography, you could practically find any song where Danny is annihilating his drum kit, always hitting you like a smack in the face with a backbeat that is constantly shifting beneath your feet. While songs like Schism or even Forty Six and Two have their moments of difficulty, Lateralus is almost a calculus level drum lesson in just over 9 minutes, as he keeps dropping and adding beats in at every other bar.

Written around the concept of the Fibonacci sequence, every element of the music seems to go along with the idea of adding different beats on, so you're never quite sure how to count everything unless you had it actually tabbed out. Most rock songs seem to just stay at a fairly consistent tempo throughout their runtime, but even some expert drummers might need a few sheets of paper to just keep track of what part of this song they're actually in.