Kaz Rodriguez Hears Primus For The First Time

Take a sneak peek into the mind of Kaz Rodriguez – drummer for Chaka Khan and Josh Groban! Watch as he listens to "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" by Primus for the very first time and attempts to play along. What is he listening for? How does he immediately craft an appropriate drum part? Tune in and find out!

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Active Listening
02:29 - Song Analysis
06:12 - Performance
09:21 - Performance Analysis
09:55 - Listening To The Original
11:11 - Final Thoughts
11:28 - Outro
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[CptSoundBeard]

"Here, Kaz is practicing active listening."
Kaz: visibly confused, possibly no longer breathing

[teagueanderson]

Never noticed how much the drums really fill the space in Primus songs. Every person in that band is a wizard.

[Gwynstborn]

No one is ready for Primus the first time

[brennank]

I love that he does the whole session in leather jacket and scarf like he just walked into the session after getting coffee

[Ratsofat]

This is absolutely one of the most, if not THE most, challenging challenges you've challenged a drummer with. Cruel and awesome.

[gabrielgarcia]

I'm always amazed how well these drummers do. Real professionals.

[TheManhattan]

Drumeo : Here, Kaz is practicing active listening
Kaz : what the fuck

[JUNKO____]

This might be the most clothes I've ever seen a drummer wear behind a kit.

[SeanofAllTrades]

This is probably the most impressive one of these so far.

[AlexCollyard]

Making the outro breakdown a double time to half time doom metal SLOG was insane. I love this series so much.

[the_mochiking]

Hell yes. Hearing those isolated tracks really accentuates how important the drums are in Primus.

Kaz basically got dropped into the middle of some sort of alien noise ritual and did a fantastic job of turning it (back) into a song.

[CardAlchemy]

That final take is magic. Really incredible how well he “heard” that without hearing it. 🙌🏻

[ModernBuilds]

The fact he said it was like south part 🔥🤯🔥

[Skeleton_Dork]

The fact that he was able to roughly approximate the actual drum parts just from listening to the other instruments and effectively rewrite the part perfectly is the mark of an incredible musician, homiedawg

[normiewoo]

So many of these drummers are such cool people. This guy is no exception.

[johnpower]

I may have missed it, but it would be nice to have the drummer introduce themselves and tell us a bit about who they are and their musical background.

[KyleMc]

I really liked the structure he did of normal time, double time as Jerry speeds up, and then half time after the crash. Nice storytelling!

[jeffwise]

Making people listen to Primus without a drum track is unhinged

[conorfitzpatrick]

I think it would be really fun to see some of the original drummers react to the new versions of their songs. Like if Drumeo has them in the studio for something else, it would be fun to see what they think of the new take.

[seamusburke]

What's funny is that, for the most part, Kaz's playing is very similar to the original. But then 8:20 he starts going off in different directions and it's really interesting.