Mauricio Extreme Drums | Metal tutorials, from Norway

There is a particular kind of drumming video that is genuinely useful: not a performance, not a flex, but somebody patiently showing you how a difficult thing is actually done.

Mauricio Weimar has built an audience of over 400,000 drummers making exactly that, and he does it with a sense of humour, which in extreme metal is close to a public service.

Here is one of the most useful people on drumming’s internet.

Who is Mauricio Extreme Drums?

Maurício Weimar was born on 16 April 1980 in Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

His musical training is not what you would guess from the channel name: he was trained in violin by the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, which is an unusual foundation for an extreme metal drummer and audible in how he thinks about phrasing and composition.

He moved to Norway in 2015, where he teaches at the Kvinnherad Culture School alongside running the channel — a working music teacher with a global side career.

Drumeo’s voters gave him Instagram Drummer Of The Year in 2023.

Extreme Drums

The channel is the thing. Over 400,000 followers, built on drum tutorials, gear reviews and covers aimed squarely at metal drummers.

The formula is straightforward and rare: technical speed combined with actual teaching, delivered with a sense of humour about the genre. Extreme metal drumming content skews earnest; his does not, and that is much of why it works.

He is also a Toontrack artist and has worked with a range of drum brands — which for a creator in this space is how the business actually functions.

What Mauricio Weimar actually does

Speed, cleanly. Blast beats, gravity blasts, fast double kick — all articulate rather than smeared.

He explains the mechanics. Foot technique, heel-toe, swivel, the practical stuff about how to physically produce these patterns. That is much harder to teach than it looks.

He is a hybrid player. Triggers, samples and electronic elements are part of the setup, as they are for essentially all recorded extreme metal.

He is funny. Deliberately. It is a stylistic choice and it is the reason the channel grew.

He is a real teacher. The Kvinnherad post is a day job, not a title.

Mauricio Weimar’s setup

• Drums — Tama, where he is a listed artist.
• Software — Toontrack, where he is also an artist.
• Electronics. Triggers and samples throughout, as the genre requires.

His full current specification is not published in the sort of detail we would be willing to reproduce line by line. If you have it, the Rig Vault takes suggested edits on every page.

Everything we can verify, with buy links, is on Mauricio Extreme Drums’ Rig Vault page.

Want the sound without the rig?

Extreme metal drumming is the one style where the gear genuinely matters, and the reason is triggers.

Trigger the kicks. At extreme tempos an acoustic bass drum simply cannot articulate every note into a mix, which is why essentially every recorded extreme metal album uses triggers or samples. This is not cheating; it is physics. Our electronic drum kit guide covers what you need.

Then get your pedals set up properly. Low tension, close beater, and a proper heel-toe or swivel technique. Our heel-toe technique lesson is the place to start, and our direct-drive pedal guide covers what the pedal itself changes.

The Gear Guru will spec a metal kit to a budget.

Where to start

• His technique tutorials. The genuinely useful part of the channel.
• His gear reviews. Aimed at metal drummers specifically, which is rarer than it should be.
• The covers. For the speed, and the jokes.

Final thoughts

The best thing about the current era of drumming is that a working music teacher in rural Norway can teach 400,000 metal drummers around the world how to play a gravity blast, in his spare time.

Weimar is one of the people making that worth doing. The technique is real, the teaching is clear, and the humour keeps people watching long enough to learn something.

See Mauricio Extreme Drums’ full rig in the Rig Vault, or read about 66Samus and George Kollias — two more extreme metal drummers who teach as much as they play.