One of the greatest drummers of the 1980s playing Zappa's brilliant piece, "The Black Page", without any other instruments - note for note...
And how is sounds with a full band...
This is one of the most difficult pieces of music for a drummer ever written, and yes, it was written. The term, black page, is a composer joke about having so many notes on the score that there is more black ink on the music sheet than white space. Also, notice that there are not just triplets, sextuplets, and 16th notes. There are phrases with 5 notes per beat, 7 notes per beat, 9 notes per beat, and so on. If you are a musician who can read music, imagine learning to play that, then memorizing it note for note and playing it without the rest of the orchestra.
And how is sounds with a full band...
This is one of the most difficult pieces of music for a drummer ever written, and yes, it was written. The term, black page, is a composer joke about having so many notes on the score that there is more black ink on the music sheet than white space. Also, notice that there are not just triplets, sextuplets, and 16th notes. There are phrases with 5 notes per beat, 7 notes per beat, 9 notes per beat, and so on. If you are a musician who can read music, imagine learning to play that, then memorizing it note for note and playing it without the rest of the orchestra.
(Seriously, the more difficult preludes, etudes, ballades... people claim that some modern music is complex but they have no idea what's come before)