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Very kind of you to say, thank you very much!

Yes, definitely a few changes from the original in this production. Still had the moving platform shifting downstage for a few moments, but the entire band was on this one!

Yeah I think this was filmed a couple of months into the run, and I usually try to get off the book by then. This score isn’t too crazy so wasn’t too hard for this one. Interestingly though, a lot of other productions of Jersey Boys don’t actually allow the musicians to have charts on stage, so you’ve got no choice but to memorise it from day one!

@@MikeMcDrums Thanks! Really enjoyed the video

@mikemcdrums - glad you liked it!

Really appreciate the kind words, and so happy it helped with your arrangement!

Thanks man, really appreciated. The last song was from Jakub Trasak’s show. He’s a fantastic violinist from the Czech Republic, and the song is “I’ve had the Time of my Life”, from Dirty Dancing. Really great show to be a part of.

Thank you for the kind words buddy, appreciate it. Yeah I have a PDF of this somewhere - send me a message through the “Contact Me” form on my website with your email address and I’ll shoot it over to you: www.mikemcdrums.com

Hmm... that would depend what you mean by “against the click”. I would say in general it’s only there as a guide, and we don’t need to be burying it perfectly every time. Particularly in something like this where the only thing on track is a little bit of Backing Vocal, it’s much more important that the band are together and grooving as a unit. Sometimes that might push the click, sometimes it might drag against it. But if the whole band is doing it together it’s still going to sound great out front.

Haha, well that’s a lot of pressure. I hope I didn’t let down the tradition!

@@MikeMcDrums ..not at all !!!!!

Drason Meerrkat oh he was fine. His pride was hit hardest!

Richard Stone thanks for the kind words, very much appreciated. Yes - the audio here was taken as a direct feed from my mixer, so what you hear on the video is exactly what I was hearing in my IEMs. So the count in voice and clicks you can hear were all for the band live at the time.

MikeyJay thanks so much for your reply. As an amateur drummer for many years (mainly as a hobby in covers bands) I find it fascinating how the whole musical production works on these shows. Appreciate your info about the mix and what you hear, very interesting, thank you.

Shy Guy Epic this tour finished a while ago, but the MD was a guy called Matt Abrams. You can see him most of this video top centre of the screen. Also check out our Keys 2/ Assistant Musical Director, James Beal here: czcams.com/video/0eUkeXbmb4g/video.html - much better quality audio recording of the play out!

Thanks the MD has great keyboard skills!

Hey, sorry this took a while, but I finally got around to writing it out for you. I pretty much changed that bar to something different every night - so I couldn't remember exactly what I did here, but pretty sure it's along the lines of this: static.wixstatic.com/media/2718db_112300d3ce6c4690a76d4ab42bbfd4b9~mv2.png Basically two "blushda"s at the start (with a bass drum to fatten out the flam), into a pretty stock 16th note triplet phrase for the last section. The blushdas here are notated pretty square and rigid as 16th notes just for clarity, but in reality you have to kinda smush them around and give them a bit of a lazy feel, or else its going to sound a little too mechanical. Let me know how you get on!

@@MikeMcDrums Dope!

Thank you man much appreciated!

Cant get more gay!

he kinda looks like stephen taylor lol

DWmusic the one on stage? For sure, you’re right, but really it’s an old knackered one found out rusting out back somewhere. The heads were a hundred years old, and for some reason the reso head had a big hole take out of it where it looked like someone had tested out cutting a bass drum port hole on it or something. It was never gonna sound great - just there for a bit of novelty fun!

张子雯 glad you enjoyed it!