Two of the Best Finger Drummers on the Planet

Are the days of the drum kit numbered? Probably not. But samplers and drum machines have become instruments all their own and some musicians have gotten pretty craft at playing them live without sequencing. Here are two guys that are amazing at working within the limit of 16 buttons:

Justin Aswell from the group Mr. Invisible has some of the illest MPC routines I’ve ever seen. Pretty incredible what he’s able to get done inside the box without a laptop. Recently though Native Instruments threw the Maschine at him to see what he could do with it. Results Below:

Drummer David “Fingers” Haynes focuses more on triggering organic drum sounds on a laptop. Oddly enough his controller of choice is an Alesis HR-16 drum machine in a lot of his early videos. Amazed he’s able to get this expressive with this 80’s drum machine.

Korg stepped to Haynes with their nanoPAD and and his playing is equally as astounding on this entry level controller:

Guess 16 pads is more than enough!