Animals As Leaders - The Brain Dance (Drums, Piano, Trumpet cover)

Here's another cover of an Animals As Leaders song, which at first was meant as a drum cover only. But as I started learning the piece, I thought It would be more interesting to play all of the guitar parts myself as well (turned out to be quite the challenge :D). So, Tosin's part with the trumpet and Javier's with the piano, mostly. Some parts are doubled, as you'll hear.

For learning the drum parts, I purchased sheet music from Matt Garstka's website, so these are played as close to original as possible. Other parts I learned by ear and made some minor adjustments, but stayed true to the original as much as I could.

Gear:

Natal (Maple)
20" x 18" Bass drum
12" x 10" Rack tom
14" x 14" Floor tom
16" x 16" Floor tom

14" x 6,5" Snare

Cymbals
14" Meinl Byzance Traditional Medium Hihat + Broken splash on bottom
10" Meinl Byzance Traditional Splash
19" Bosphorus Thin Traditional Ride
22" Meinl Byzance Vintage Sand Crash-Ride
18" Zildjian A-Custom Medium Crash
Stack: 22" Wuhan China + 12"(Cut) Paiste Formula 602 Crash

Trumpet: B&S Challenger II 3137/2 w/ Gary Radtke 66M mouthpiece

Piano: Estonia Grand Piano from the 1950s

Filmed at my old high school(Rapla Vesiroosi Gümnaasium) over a weekend in April 2017
Recorded, performed and mixed by Aivar Surva
Additional crew: Joonas R. Parve, Mart Reimund, Mihkel Makus

Hope you enjoy! :)

[ThalisUmobi]

Wait... waaait.. wait wait... it's the same guy playing all the instruments? Damn son!

[duffeknol]

The drum cover alone would've been impressive. Damn.

[officialjustdatdood]

The only thing this video is missing is millions of views.

[rollinfever]

Unbelievable that you can play this many instruments at such an expertise

[alexanderhamilton]

I love how AAL's compositions are pretty much just modern jazz voiced for a jazz fusion/metal band. So good!

[ArtOfDrummingHQ]

This is the culmination of the most crazy amount of effort by one person ever in a music video.

[xeliosphere_]

The piano parts resemble something Tigran Hamasyan would write and play. Truly exceptional that you've recorded all three instruments by yourself. Wonderful cover!

[tailshadowwolf]

This is incredibly impressive. I was expecting a group of kids poorly attempting to play a song way above their skill level but this surpassed my expectations for miles

[avoqado]

I'd like to hear more Trumpet versions of AAL Guitar Solos.

[blendernoob]

the opening trumpet actually sounds like the sun rising wishing you a wonderful morning. One of my favorite covers ever.

[philiplechner]

This is my first comment on youtube. After all these years i sweared myself to never comment on youtube. But this is just too good. I can´t resist.
I want to congratulate you on this fantastic piece of art. And i admire your skills on all those instruments.
This is true musical genius - i´m speechless!

[problemsolvent]

I have been making multi-instrumental videos for 15 years, all instruments. What you have done here is one of my favorite things I've ever had the pleasure to listening to and singing. You did the whole song... you are absolutely amazing, beyond comprehension. You must have put so much work into this.

[UnderworldGrim]

I'm speechless. It's insane how good this is. Well played, well mixed, and the fact you played all 3 instruments would leave even AAL in awe. Good freakin job dude!

[AvAfanfromfrance]

Mostly came here to hear a version with a different drum sound, found a whole other atmosphere. None of what I expected, exactly what I wanted

[robintarket]

The soft part literally brought me to tears... Grooving to the heavy parts to an extreme extent...This is one of the best covers of this song I have ever heard, hands down!

[paralasalud]

this is incredible and speaks so much to tosin's writing... and also your capabilities as a musician. damn.

[DefCatofficial]

I'm more impressed with he arrangement then anything. fantastic playing but without such great arranging skills it would have meant nothing. Fantastic work friend.

[kylecurran]

I don’t think I’ve ever been more astonished by a single musician in my life! This is inspiring

[TheDayisMineTrebeck]

pretty sure you just invented a new music genre, Djazz. This is incredible. 👏👏

[spurvlek]

I never have high expectations when i watch people cover songs, but this was seriously incredible!