When I was 7, I was busy doing gross things with my gross friends. Catchin' snakes, eating things we found on the ground, playin' the kissing game with girls (even though girls were gross monsters from another planet...)
This is truly mind-blowing. A professor at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, who has built robotic musicians in the past, has created a piece of technology that can allow an amputee to play drums. In fact, the inventor himself claims that "the drummer essentially becomes a cyborg."
A guy from Romania by the name of Cornel Hrisca-Munn was born with no forearms, and only one leg but that didn't stop him from learning to play drums, and the dude ROCKS!
Some must be taught skills, while others seem to be born with it. The later holds true for the youngster known simply as Jonah Rocks. He is now 7 (or 8, the info on his website and YouTube say both), but he was only five when this video of him performing a drum cover of 'Toxicity' by System of a Down, went viral...
Think the drummer with one arm in Def Leppard is skilled? Check out this dude with NO hands playing along with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Just more proof that we're only limited by our own imaginations...
What Casper Band Has The Best Drummer...
Ah, the drum solo. One of music's most powerful, and (dare I say), sickest moments. You gotta give it to this kid. He only misses a couple beats while throwing up, and then gets back into it like nothing happened. I believe he is now ready to tour with the pros...
In the wake of drummer Mike Portnoy's departure, Avenged Sevenfold has added ex-Confide drummer Arin Ilejay to their line-up (touring, for now). Here's the official word: