Lars Ulrich Drum Fails (with Sheet Music)

Interviewer "Do you think Lars is the best drummer in the world"? James "Lars isn't even the best drummer in Metallica".

Metallica is the only band where the rhythm guitarist/vocalist actually dictates the rhythm and stays in time, and not the drummer.

Lars makes me feel like I can play drums

Lars is the definition of 'Practice does not make perfect' after 40 years of drumming

"Try a more solid beat" James was slightly pissed.

Sucks to be his bassist lol.

1st time: "Why don't you try getting a more SOLID beat?" 2nd time: Proceeds to play the same but with a crash.

Lars is living proof that you don't have to be good at the drums to get famous.

1:16 He’s either eating his boogies or he’s recycling the cocaine.

jame's furious downpicking is a result of holding in his anger towards lars

Give him some time, he’s still young and still have so many things to learn

Hetfield must be an excellent father since he has been babysitting Lars for almost 40 years

Nah man, Lars is just trying to be more progressive with his drumming. The problem is that he doesn't tell the rest of the band

"Lars is a terrible drummer. I know people like to shit on Ringo but Lars is in a league of his own"- Dave Mustaine

0:41 Jesus that gave me an aneurysm. "Hey you know what'll go great with this straight forward guitar riff? A snare hit on the AND of 2, and nowhere else." How James, Kirk and Rob put up with his drumming is beyond me.

Lars is 58, Danny Carey is 60. Danny can still play every single song to (almost) perfection. Lars barely manages to play 4/4 patterns without blaming the band for messing him up.

Every band has a Lars but only one band has Lars.

Lol “get called out” signature

0:40 this has got to be the single most atrocious beat any drummer has played in history. Like you would be hard pressed to play a worse beat even if you were fucking around in the practice room. Maybe you could if you intentionally tried to make a worse beat. Maybe. The placement of the notes seem to be just about perfectly off in a way that triggers some primal, visceral reaction in your brain. It must be the same guttural evolutionary instinct that cavemen of opposing tribes were attuned to that made them recoil at the sound of their enemy tribe playing a drum fashioned out of slain mammoth skin, signaling a time of conflict. Its the antithesis to everything that goes into making a good beat. Think about the most perfect groove a person could lay down. Think about your reaction to it. The head bobbing, the feet tapping, the face stankin. Now take all of that and flip it on its head. The exact opposite of everything that was just described perfectly encapsulates this beat. As a drummer myself I can say with one hundred percent conviction that no other beat has evoked as much pure, unbridled hatred in me as much as this one has. It literally makes me want to blast my face off with a shotgun. Fuck this im going to go watch some clips of Nate Smith before I have a panic attack.

0:59 I can feel James's pain. He has had to put up with this for long time