Drum Solo XIX: How to Have Fun... and Destroy Everyone's Hearing in a Twenty-Yard Radius
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- čas přidán 6. 01. 2024
- It's been two years since I last uploaded a drum solo (!!!), so I figured I'd improvise once again and see where that gets me :P
The biggest takeaways are that my left side has gotten weaker and I need to pump up my double bass again... and find more time to practice, of course :P - Zábava
Great drumming!
Thank you so much!! :D
Buenos ejercicios
Muchos gracias!
Good job! I hear some Mike Mangini influence in there...not so easy to do.
Thank you so much!!! Mangini's been my main influence since 2011 (yes, I also joined the DT bandwagon around then lol), and his tips and approach have been nothing but super-helpful for my chops and everything.
That was 25:21 well spent!
Like the other comment, I hear Mangini in there too - so many parts (not to mention of course the set up…up to DOT, at least). He’s also been my main influence since 2011. I find every one of his drum parts teaches you something, which is very rare from any other drummer. So sad he’s out of DT.
I didn’t notice any weakness on your left side. I’m sure we’re our own worst critics, but it doesn’t really show. Case in point, 08:41-about 10:00, triplet 2s, mostly led with the left with RH improv. Awesome! Also, the 4/4 3s on the kick 10:30 onwards - the improv over those is NUTS, as is the snare work from about 12:00.
The skin presses….more Gavin Harrison? 14:33….DEFINITELY the one and only Neil Peart. Right?
And the one handed rolls around 15:15…again, Mangini, and, again, nuts! The paradiddles from 18:09 are insane! The 5/7 pattern with the kick (starting on the toms around 18:16) is freakin brilliant! Again, Mangini. The 19:50 2 x hh pattern over the 5/7 kick is incredible!
Don’t know whether you noticed it, Ben, but you/this definitely warms up throughout the 25 minutes. It starts off good, and finishes on fire!
The way you sustain the 5/7 kick pattern throughout all of that improv is incredible.
Happy new year to you too mate! 🔥🥁🔥🥁🔥🥁💯💯🤘🤘🤘
Dude, your analysis is amazing!
14:33 -- who else? :P
18:16 -- strictly it's like 3/4 or 6/8 or even 4/4 if you want to have the rotating rest throughout the bar
I've listened to Gavin a bit here and there, but his taste and groove have influence me a bit as well, yeah!
8:41 - I'm surprised it hasn't sounded worse, tbh! I'm much more out of practice than I was before grad school 😅 One of these days I'll just stop working, get all my blisters, and then pick up like nothing happened... hopefully hahaha
Agreed on your comment about MM!! I'm upset that he's out of DT as well -- I loved the music he made. Wasn't ever really stale IMO (S2N and IT are my top favorites of the Mangini era at the moment).
Seriously, again: Thank you so so much for this!!
@@BenMichalowicz 😁 14:33 Yep, soooo NP. What a guy and what a style!
18:16 - sorry, I didn’t mean the time signature, I just meant where you’re playing 5 against a count of 7 😁. I remember in the first two Mangini DT tours, he played solos where he did the same thing - playing 5 beats with one hand and 7 with another. It wasn’t exactly what you were doing, but it reminded me very much of that. By The Astonishing of course he was too busy to solo 😆!
Yeah, frankly, I’m gutted mate. I think with MM they were the best they could be, but I try not to get into it online too much. It’s very polarising the whole MP/MM thing. I’m just glad we’ve still got 13 years of his playing in this band.
It was my pleasure really! Amazing skills man. You could/should make a career out of this. All the best. 🤘🤘👍
@@deantalbotdrums-- Ah, gotcha!!!
Oh man, RIP NP. I had a chance to see RUSH during the R40 tour and I just had too much going on elsewhere to see them. Like Taylor Hawkins (RIP) said, his soloing was songwriting.
As for 18:16 -- My bad!! I know what you're talking about though!! The weird 5/8 (5/16?) Thing I've been doing was derived from MM as far as I recall...? Tbh, I thought it just sounded cool :P
Same w.r.t MM/MP. My rationale is the following: I'm a simple guy: I see DT music, I listen to it, I enjoy it :P (and the same applies to any group/artist I listen to). I'd LOVE to make a career out of this at SOME point, or even a side gig, though I'm equally as happy pursuing my current studies so I can still keep it as an avocation (in my case, computer science research and fun with supercomputers). As long as I remember to practice!!! XD