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Here is a snippet of what kind of drum sound I'm "twisting up" in the studio.  It's fresh from this weekend's past work.

Let me know what you think of my sound?   ;D  This is mixed thru the muckie so things should be a bit more "sparkly" when I get my new board.

I'm using the 12 strand equalizer wires on my snare *Yes I thought they were 16 until I counted them!

http://www.woolyinc.com/Sound Files/My death snip.mp3 (http://www.woolyinc.com/Sound Files/My death snip.mp3)

(I only have dial up, so if the first time you try to download doesn't werk, wait about 10 and you should have it- sorry and thanks)

Sounds cool Felix. Love the toms.

I was messing around with different mic positions recently, just experimenting with heights and angles and I got sick of playing with just a click. I threw down one of my favorite “drumless” songs to play along with and here’s what it sounded like.

Landslide.mp3  (http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ckkod/Landslide.mp3)

High and dry.  What's your rig?

Just my little home recording thing. The mic I was messing with was a Marshall 603s overhead.

That's a pretty kick ass recording for one microphone.

Thanks dude. Doesn't compare to what you're getting though. What do you have on the toms there?

You know, I think they might be remo ambassadors but honest to Pete- they are the stock heads on my delite toms.

Believe it or not, it's true.

How about mic wise?

Radio Shack  ;D

Here's a clip of my current band:

www.garageband.com/artist/dahlgrenprophecy or

www.myspace.com/dahlgrenprophecy

Here's a song I did with my old band, it got some heavy local radio play:

http://www.rev9music.com/mp3s/rev9_seraphimsong.mp3

As you can tell, one is heavier than the other, I went back to my roots and went as heavy as I could :)

Ok, I recently created a myspace site just to post songs and clips, so here you are.

www.myspace.com/inertia123

the first song was a recording of a band rehearsal, it's a song we wrote a few years ago and we were teaching it a new bass player. the recording was done in my basement, using no mics(except vocal). everything was in a small Mackie mixer direct, so yes, these are my home made EDrums on this recording. This is a very rough recording, but it's the only one I have right now of this song, this is my favorite song my band has written.

The second track is my little experiment. This is me playing my acoustic kit using 5 mics, a little mixer and Acid 3.0. This is also me playing my new Hamer bass through a Line 6 Bass Pod, both of which  I got about a week ago. I haven't played bass in about 7 or 8 years so forgive the shoddy playing, the drumming is not with out it's mistakes either. this is simply a rough recording of the drums and bass to another one of my bands songs. The idea is fo me to do drums and bass and then send the stuff to my guitarist to do the rest.

Hmmm... Good vocals, sounds really familiar?

i did this messing about in my home studio about a year and a half ago using reason and then playing along with it. it was more an exersice in the process than anything else..
untitled snippet no.6 (http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/cml/sounds/untitled06-short.MP3)

this is the demo one of the bands i play in finished a few months ago. indie rock. we're planning on hitting the studio to do our debut album next month.
Ghettoblaster. (http://www.ghettoblaster.ca)

here's a track from another group i was playing with. it gave me a chance to play really quietly which i quite enjoy.
lazy river. (http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/cml/sounds/lazy.mp3)

If your reffering to Rev.9, yes he is a phenominal vocalist, very wide range. I quit that band for the simple fact I was driving to another state for practice, and touring every weekend and not making money. We had a good fan base from South Carolina up to New York on the east coast, so that may be why it sounds familiar. We got heavy rotation on the metal station in New York, as well as locally here in DC/Maryland/VA area on DC101. They got a new drummer who is a great drummer and a friend of mine and are still going. They are recording some new stuff right now.

If you were refering to my new band, unfortunatly he isn't in the band anymore, he had to move to Cali for a job. We got a new guy who has a broder range and is a good songwriter himself, so he has been able to bring a little more to the plate. Our new stuff is even heavier than the old stuff, lol.

I think that all of you are great.  Different styles and different music tastes.  I really like Felix's first song on this thread.  Kind of like what I am into these days.
I haven't been on this site long but I have been working all day on a solo with a 4 track digital recorder and two mic's in The Nutty Drummer's Cave.  I am going to put it on the web site I am building.  I will post the link on here.  So many good drummers.  This is not going to be as good Q as some of you have displayed as far as recording.  Maybe I should put a song on there  that is studio? OK I will.  Was great to hear your all's music.  That is how we talk in KY. Sorry!!!  
                                 Nutty

Thanks Nutty for the kind words on my work.  I for one am really glad you are here.  

No one will ever bag on you for being cool and posting sound files or images that are positive and from an honest place.

The guerrilla recordings are best that everyone submits and I'm sure yours are going to be just stellar!!!!

Hey Felix,
I have an IT guy putting my web site together.  Explain to me about these type of recordings and how do I put my stuff on here?
When I got on this web site I contacted Bart to see how to import
a wave file to the picture spot.  He told me it wasn't capable of that
yet, so I started to open a free web site.  If you go to my page and
click on The Nutty Drummer it will take you to a web page that I started.  If you click on the red block that say's add photo, a pic
of me doing a two class 25 year reunion is in there.  The free site wasn't able to do enough, so I am doing a real nice site now.  I hope
that I haven't said anything wrong here?  Yesterday I wrote a message and now Mr. A's Pic is here twice.  I listened to all the material that was here and I never said a negative word about any of it in fact, I enjoyed most of it.  I just singled your stuff out because it really reminds me of some of the styles that I am working on. I am playing with a group on Sunday night that play's mostly Joe Satriani and My friends originals.  That beat you were playing reminded me of some of the Satriani stuff that I am doing. Rubina, Cryin', Crush of Love, Hordes Of Locust, Always with Me Always with you, and Echo which is 4/5 time.  The Quality of your material sounded like it was recorded in a real good studio.  Was it a home recording or done some where else?
                                       Nutty

really good pink floyd sound...... i like it :)

here is a small piece of video of me and my band "KinetiK" playing "fear and panic" a new tune of ours. shay, matt's girlfriend caught it half way thru but ya. the sound quality isn't the greatest but.......
http://sonicpoets.com/fearandpanic.mpg

Pretty good but i had to keep restarting it to get it to work ::)

Nice Drums set.  What kind of equipment are you playing?
And, it kind of looked like a custom paint job too?
My knees hurt just watching your singer.
                                 Nutty

http://www.abbysomeone.com/asovideo.cfm
Here are a couple clips from a dvd shoot from Spring 2004.  
This was my first gig with my DW kit.

 ;D hope you dig my drum set rig

http://www.youtube.com/?v=fKKDQvSAkgY

Pretty cool grooves, what kinda set up is that?  It seems rather interesting, some very cool sounds though!  Props!

Wish i had that kind of fluid movment around teh drums.

i play a sonor force series kit with a gibralter v-rack and sabien b8 cyms. i costom painted "hot rod" flames on them about 3 months ago, i had stained them before that.. ya lewis gets crazy... sorry bout the bad video feed.

Wow, how random.
Must be having much experience:) Great job.

Pretty cool, i wish i had a cowbell.

I am sorry, but while its obvious you have skill, my ears did not enjoy the tones of your drums.  It was hard to point out the cool grooves vs the random noise.

Hey Felix,
I E-mailed you a sample of something I put together last Thursday.  Don't think it is ready for a web site yet but I thought
I would share it with a few of you to get some feedback.
I don't have my web site ready yet so I don't have a way
to provide a link to anything yet. This formate is about 3 meg and it is about 3min and 48 seconds long.  
                             Nutty

OMG!!! :o   We just got broadband!! OMG! :o   >sorry<  ;D  I'm about peeing my pants being able to see everyone's kit and hearing everyone play! Wow!  I guarantee we had slower dial-up than anyone else on this board, and now I can actually download stuff--and it takes seconds!

*whew*   Christopher, your rendition of "Landslide" was really nice--a big improvement, I think on FM's drumless original. And Leedy, you're right--your kit sounds phenomenal, esp. the toms. I really liked your little "snippet."  Thanks everyone for sharing! I'm in cyber-heaven! ;D

robyn

Funny.  I had to do a little arm-twisting to get Mrs. DaveFromChicago to go along with my plan to take over the world switch to DSL & wireless.  

Now that we're there she gives me grief for not making the switch sooner than I did.

You really do get more out of this forum with the high speed connections.

I've been wanting to reply to this post for ages. My band The Brent Flood is from Ireland and we're now based in London. We play a kind of guitar based indie rock and we've just recorded a demo this week and here are two of the tracks:

http://www.thebrentflood.co.uk/The_Brent_Flood_-_A_Jolly_Good_Rant.mp3 (http://www.thebrentflood.co.uk/The_Brent_Flood_-_A_Jolly_Good_Rant.mp3)

http://www.thebrentflood.co.uk/The_Brent_Flood_-_Jethros_Baby.mp3 (http://www.thebrentflood.co.uk/The_Brent_Flood_-_Jethros_Baby.mp3)

I've been playing for a few years but only started to take my drumming seriously round about last summer.  I think it's a little bit scrappy but I think it's the first time we've gelled on a recording as a band. I'd love to know what anyone thinks!  ;D

Thanks,

Chris

this is from a show we did in early december, recorded by taking a line out from the soundboard into my iRiver, so please forgive the clipping.  singers mic went out toward the last part of the last chorus too, but hey we're to listen to drums, right?

i was pretty happy with how the toms on my new Gretsch Catalina Birch kit after fitting them with Evans EC2 on the tops and G1's on the bottoms.

Long Story Short - Weincarnate (http://analoglove.com/gusbustafunk/LSS_PRP/01%20Weincarnate.mp3)

  Re:Let's Hear You Play ...
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2006, 11:07:31 AM »  

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rev9drummer

Here's a clip of my current band:

www.garageband.com/artist/dahlgrenprophecy or

www.myspace.com/dahlgrenprophecy

Here's a song I did with my old band, it got some heavy local radio play:

www.rev9music.com/mp3s/rev9_se...eraphimsong.mp3

As you can tell, one is heavier than the other, I went back to my roots and went as heavy as I could"
end of quote

I REALLY DIG THAT LAST NUMBER ;D :D
it's heavy....and really nicely done :P
benny b 4 I did enjoy the percussion kit, and the concept is very cool....which i often do with my TD3 8)

Hey Junglelord,
Some pretty good stuff.  Sounds like you have been practicing some Neil Peart. Some good drum work. Double bass work and quick rolls.
                               Nutty

Hi guys.  You all sound great!!!!

Here are some of the alternating hand/ foot quads that I've been working on.  I guess you could play them 1+1+1+1.

Anyways short file 1.3 meg.

http://www.woolyinc.com/somequads.mp3 (http://www.woolyinc.com/somequads.mp3)

Your kit sounds real good felix.  Some really good foot work.
I like the speed up slow down.  Nice!!
                     Nutty

yeah, playing quads always makes me happy  Nutty.   They are easy and fun.  I'm all about easy and fun.

Whenever I am sad I practice quads;  I just love to move lots of air- gets a nice breeze going.

My, Felix, you're really snapping those along!  Crap.

Here's a quick clip of me hastily sitting at the get-up I posted in the "Show Your Kits" thread.  The idea is to highlight the bass drum, a 14 x 5".  The snare is 3 x 13", the cymbal an 18" thin crash.

Clip's over here (http://fff.fathom.org/pages/Joe_K/14bassbrush.mp3)

he he he.  Retro sounding would be an understatement.  

I like when you groove with both brushes on the snare.

I have to say it is so worlds apart from my style and sound that all I can say is "cool"

Get some of that Clayton Cameron crap happening man.

Thats a very intresting bass sound, never heard one like that before. Pretty cool

www.myspace.com/texasisonfire

thats my old band, i quit about 2 months ago due to the fact that they were dicks, and just got worse.

but my drumming you can hear best on "natural disaster" and "your so going to hell"

lemme know what you think.

also, the other two songs for the full length were recorded in july, and natural and hell were recorded in december of 04.

i had an accident on tour where i tore my calf muscles, so some of the db i am working on getting back, and improving, i really messed up my legs and technique.

but through that it made me realize a lot of things i had missed and not studied, so all in all ,even though it seems like i took two steps back, it will help.

anyway. yeah.

nice druming....how can a band name them selves "texas is on fire" if they aren't even from texas?



<---- texan

Nice Drumming and good foot work.

Lynyrd Skynyrd's song "Sweet Home Alabama" was about Alabama but they weren't from there.

Was Kansas from Kansas or Boston from Boston?

Yes.

Thanks Dave,
I really didn't know that.
Oh well, it is just a name.  People come up with all kinds of stuff.
I still say it was fun listening to some of his drum licks.

Three guesses where the band Chicago was from.  ;)

Poughkeepsie?

Close.  ;D

now thats a drumer kutos

Here's a recent track from my son, Adam...

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=35941609 (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=35941609)

Click on the song, "Pools".  I'd appreciate your feedback.

Adam's Dad

In the beginning, I can hear the greetings to Bailey and Guaraldi:  " 'Evening, Vince, Colin.  A pleasure to see you."  The precocious, youthful snare drum is bouncing around in the middle of such a dignified meeting: "I can be a cymbal too!".  Everyone looks on and claps, though not insincerely as you would a friend's untalented nephew, for it is talented and thus the clapping sincere.

Then we have the whistling synth.  What is that whistling synth?  I must know.

Then we meet the substance of the tune, a relaxing, calming groove that, while melodic and exciting in portions, is respectful to the listener.  The piano's chords and arpeggios are lush, spaced, and considerate.  The electric bass doesn't whine.  The bass drum, while demonstrating a deep thump, still presents a vestige of its high-pitched bop predecessor—as sure as someone's daughter has their parent's nose.

A very good record.  Good for a double-listen in my case, as we speak.

Here's something I want you to hear and to tell me if you like it.

for those who want content lisen to it by 1:30.

http://www.mytempdir.com/448416 (http://www.mytempdir.com/448416)

Hi Rich.

Great anthology of some of your work.  You sound really versatile.  Loved the drumsounds, especially in the last song "Consequences".

Peace and I hope you stick around.   8)

LOL... ok, take your time.

 *see guys, always compliment the newbies playing * LOL too funny

Seriously, nice drummin' man- you get it.

ok, this is just a small recording from last nights session.
This is a clip of our song ''Falling angels''.
http://www.upload2.com/?cmd=_viewer&file=5208ba081db1270fe4fecca995ce9ce6.wav&s=6d0c2

enjoy :)


edit: keep in mind that i only used 1 mic to mic my drums and it was just a vocals mic so the sound quality aint great

You guys all sound great...from metal to jazz.  A great mix! You guys are giving me new ideas to steal...er...borrow...

Here is our band's myspace.  We did all of our own recording (protools) in a small room in our local church...took a long time, but was fun.  Pretty straitforward pop-rock (lite rock to the metal guys) but very satisfying  to play.

I can't wait to play with my new Yammy's (MCA's!!!!)

www.myspace.com/thefairsaints (http://www.myspace.com/thefairsaints)

don't be afraid to become our friend!

jeremy

nice, in your song city on stilts, your guitarist used a riff from headstong by trapt :D

Thanks listening to our stuff and the comment! ;D


Actually, after we recorded the song, we realized it is "borrowed" from "insignificance" on Binaural (2000)  from Pearl Jam, a little time before Trapt, but, yes, very similar.

My friend Sam Wilson on the lead. We used a synth bass line. I did the drumming. This is an old recording. Let me know what you think. http://www.upload2.com/?cmd=_viewer&file=334cb69514fe3845643ba9dbe6b77a07.mp3&s=33111 (http://www.upload2.com/?cmd=_viewer&file=334cb69514fe3845643ba9dbe6b77a07.mp3&s=33111)

I had some fun tonight with ghost notes, let's see what you guys think about it.

http://www.upload2.com/?cmd=_viewer&file=25742c3dd1b69c32abec644c6dd18d19.mp3&s=9a7b3

really nice stuff here. 8)
a wonder group of talented drummers and cool people.
really nice to hear other stuff.
nice ideas about music and drums. ;D
i must get some thing posted for mp3 clips as i have pics of the kit posted now, and i just got a new Pearl 2002B (belt) Eliminator double pedal for myself...love that blue cam.
put my 10 year old Pearl 1002 on the student kit....rudiments for the feet. :D ;D
great stuff guys...great stuff.

Liked your band's stuff Jeremy! I also liked the comment about how your bassist is "the pancreas of the band"--I'm still mulling that one over... ;D

robyn

Thanks, Robin!  Very much appriciated. :D

If you pm me a mailing address, I can shoot you a cd (nice artwork, yada, yada)...or you can download the songs from the website.

Next month we are working on putting an album together...will probably take all summer with gigs and such.

Again, thanks for listening for the kind words.

Jeremy

Wow jermdogg you guys sounds great.
Thats a pretty good recording for a "small room and protools"
Sounds killer!
I like the playing, nice and tight.
Kudos!

-RHS

Thanks RHS! :D

I'll let our guitarist know you liked it.  (he spent many nights up late mixing down, in headphones no less!)

We are very happy with how it came out.  I have cd's availible if you or anyone is interested...or you can simply download the songs of of myspace.

Thanks again!

Hi.  I had posted here in the past but forgot my password!

This is a video of me trying different things that I've been working on.  Thanks.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpt915W0_s8&eurl=

Depressingly fast, Kevin. There are metal bands out there crying for you to play w/ them. And I mean that as a compliment! If I can play half that fast in my lifetime I'll be thrilled!  ;D Nice job!

robyn

kevin that made me want to punch myself in the face and quit drums. I was praying you were over 18...not answered. Your very talented I wish I could play like that, makes me really regret not getting a teacher when I started in 2000...im going to eat a @$%# tub of ice cream now.

Thanks guys.   :)

Hey Kevin!

I can tell your putting a lot into what your doing and its paying off.

Way to be!

"Hi.  I had posted here in the past but forgot my password!

This is a video of me trying different things that I've been working on.  Thanks.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpt915...W0_s8&eurl="
Hi Kevin,
Some real nice work going on in there.  Sounded pretty good.
                            Nutty

Hey Piratepig,  This was great!!!
"kevin that made me want to punch myself in the face and quit drums. I was praying you were over 18...not answered. Your very talented I wish I could play like that, makes me really regret not getting a teacher when I started in 2000...im going to eat a d**n tub of ice cream now".

I just went to Kevin's profile page and, is this right? 15 years old??!!!
Man, Very impressive for 15?? Keep it going Kevin, You have the makings of a great drummer.  I do an open mic night everyonce and awhile and you are better than most of those drummers
and they have been playing for years.
All these people are right, there are good bands that are out there that would think of you as a great catch.

 Piratepig, Take it easy on the ice cream, Man, it won't make you feel any better. From feeling terrible.  Check some of his combinations out and then go and try to do them.  I can learn somethings from Kevin!!  I can learn something from anyone.  
There is alway something good in everything!!!
                                  Nutty

Just eat a little.

Here's a clip of me playing a song by Bleach: http://www.bldg8.com/sun.mp3 (http://www.bldg8.com/sun.mp3)
I played everything, and used a single room mic for the drums. I also didnt use a bass, I played the bass line on the E string of my guitar and pitched it down an octive. Keep it gentle, I'm 15 and recorded this in my living room, haha.

I guess its my turn to post, i can't say im super proud of this. I had a camera checked out from school for a project and thought it would be a good opportunity to record me playing drums just to see my major faults. I found two grooves i thought up while jaming and thought i'd post them up. These are the type of grooves i really love playing, there not rock solid and theres a glitch in the tape that caused the sound to break out. Also the sound is low quality since it was recorded with one dynamic mic sitting on the ground. With all this said i'm open for some constructive criticism.

http://www.purevolume.com/nickbrandeau

i made a purevolume account for this after you tube wouldn't accept the quicktime file which was 1mb which is well inside the size requirements. I don't really want a purevolume account for myself what would be a good program to post an mp3 or quicktime file up with.

That's nice, Nick. Were you playing a cymbal bell at the beginning or a cowbell? The only suggestion I can make, IM(very)HO, is to watch your tempo. Maybe practice regularly w/ a click?

robyn

Thanks, yah its an LP salsa cowbel (the larger one). I hear you on the tempo its very unstead. I'm sure part of the unsteady feeling is based on the fact that i was just jamming out and this came to my head so this is the first time i've ever played this but i do plan on playing it to a click next time and perfecting it. I'd really like to hear everyones input.

It sounds live and for live that is OK,I have heard much worst live.
                                     Nutty
I hit the 300 mark on my posts tonight and today was my birthday,45,and it is 36 years of playing drums for me.  This is a very significant day to me. Makes me just plain nuts!!!!!!!
                                                 Nutty Again!!!!!!

In general what part of the drumset sticks out the worst as out of time or just not played in the right spot?

Let me listen to it one more time.  Give me a min?

It is live and I don't see but maybe a blemish on timing.  I could get real critical on my stuff too but really listening to what you are doing, it will work with a band.  You are working on that beat?
Again, it is live!!! You can tell you didn't really rehearse a drum solo! Just a beat.  It is fine!!!
                                Nutty

Coo, im going to work on it with a click track. Working on throwing the down beat onto toms ala gadd and keep that flowing groove ala steve jordan. I'll record it better this week maybe and repost it.

That is my favorite cowbell.  It is the main cowbell on my kit too!  

Pirate - Nice groove.  I don't have a cowbell...but I might need to get one!  I agree with nutty, in a live situation with nothing else going on, it is easy to pick apart a drum track...that is how I felt just listening to my drum track w/o other tracks!

If I had to be specific, the hi-hat wasn't as consistant as it could have been, of course, this is coming from someone who doesn't keep time with the hi-hat (something I'm working on), so take that for what it is worth!

Overall = very groovy!

jeremy

I think you have to be a member of zildjian.com, but here's mine!

http://www.zildjian.com/EN-US/zClub/shareYourChops.ad2?posID=9

Hi all,
I am new hear, and would like you to have a look at my bands website as we have video and three tracks in mp3 format for you to hear, we are a blues band, London based.

www.blues-is-truth.co.uk


Please tell me what you think ok?

Thanks folks
 Spirit

I guess this is OK?  Click on drumnut1, Click on TheNuttyDrummer on my profile page, Click on Services and turn it up.  It is a solo I did called Off The Cuff.  I did not Rehearse for this. I hit Record and sat down and started playing with Two mic's in the room.  Hope you like it?  It starts out kind of soft with some cymbal work so turn it up and be calm,  It will build!
                                     Nutty

I'm with you Pirate.  Nice work Kevin!  Nice Rabb technique!

www.myspace.com/chokinghazardrock (http://www.myspace.com/chokinghazardrock)

Me with my band. No singer as he kinda had a bad throat. Also, one guitarists amp was tiny, and the other was broken, so only people you can hear properly are me and the Bassist. I make a couple of mistakes during Gone Away (which is the best one). I only been playing for a year!  ;D
Any hints I could muster?

Thanks!  

word.  me too.

http://www.basementband.net (http://www.basementband.net)

This is my band.  Please let me know what you think.

Here it is drummers- me playing with my band, Blues is truth.
We are a london band playing the blues, you can here me and my band  playing both live and in the studio, for the studio recording I used my Roland td8 and live I have used my Pearl Export, tell me what you think guys, the website is:

www.blues-is-truth.co.uk

We have a guest book so please pop in and sign it, let us know ok?
Thanks all and keep a drumming!
Herman

Hi Spirit,
Real nice work on the Blues.  I don't think I have ever heard, You better leave that Little Girl alone sung quiet like that but I dug it pretty well.  Drum work was good and your players are not bad either.  Good strong bass and the guitar was nice. Nice work!!!

If you get around to it check out my unrehearsed solo? Click on drumnut1.  Click on TheNuttyDrummer and go to services and turn it up. Let me know?
                                     Thanks,
                                                   Nutty

Hey Nutty!  

I just checked this out right now.  Nice playing!  And, before we go any further, let me say that I am EXTREMELY jealous of your cymbal setup...   :o

What kind of kit are you playing?  Overall, great playing, great website, AWESOME cymbal setup and sound.  I'm really glad we had the "showmanship" exchange, otherwise I probably wouldn't have checked this out  

Ryno

Thank you man,
I think this is very nice of you to pay me that complement.
I really have no idea technically about what I am doing!
But I like to play technical music and I play by feel.  I talked to Ranman, (Randy) tonight for about an hour and he plays a different style than I do and I think I learned somethings with this conversation with him.  I now know how uneducated I am on a drum set!!!I have been playing with bands since the mid 70's but I really don't technically know what I am doing.
I just play by feel and I learn by listening and playing with it.
I take great pride in trying to pull it off as close to the song that I am playing. Vocally speaking also!  It all about having fun
to me!!Thanks again Ryno, I enjoyed talking to you!!!
                                  Nutty

Man I hate to make another post tonight because I have to work tomorrow!  OK my set up is a 6 piece Tama Star Classic kit that is a natural Maple finish(Gold with wood grain) and maple shells, I have the Paiste 2002's Mostly, and Sound Formulas and a Signature China, and Paiste 3000 Nova China, two Hi Hats. 15 cymbals all together. A set of Roto Toms that are 30 years old and a cow bell, set of Chimes, Wood block, and a Tambereen that mounts on the Hi hat and I invented a marocca that mounts on a Hi Hat too.  Thanks man!!!!!

If you were wondering how you would have found the drum solo,
I will bet that no one else here will spend the time listening to it either!!!  Oh well, thank you for listening.  Ryno, I hope your gig went well tonight?  I have to work every other week so, I am out of commission 50% of the time, but It does give me time to practice when no one else is home!!!! I am also able to set up and move on a Friday that I am off!  This works out real well.  I hope you liked the song I sent you?
                                        Nutty
                                              Nutty

Loved it mate!
Well done, great kit and man you can play well- Keep it up!
added you as a buddy so keep in contact!

Loved it mate!
Well done, great kit and man you can play well- Keep it up!
added you as a buddy so keep in contact!

Thank You Spirit,
I thought the same of your playing. I have heard some real good stuff in this thread.  
                    Nutty

http://www.hurkweb.com/

Information pertaining to the clips are all on the site..


- Hurk

Hey Hurrikane,
Nice site and I like your music.  Works real well in today's modern music.  Sounds like some cool drum work too.
                          Nutty

hey. new here. Never thought of joining a drummer forum.
here's my band, http://www.myspace.com/galoremusic

I'm playing a 1971 set of white marine pearl ludwigs, 22,13,16, recently I picked up an early 50s (I think) WFL 26" bass drum that's also white marine pearl, thin mahogany shell, nickel lugs that I spent many hours cleaning the rust off of, it's the sweetest sounding bass drum I've ever heard.
Spent many years in the back of a van in Canada and the US.

That snare sound is gorgeous! What snare do you have and how did you get it to sound that good????

Hi Apollo.
Thank you very much for the complement.  I am glad you enjoyed it!!!
The answer to your question:
" That snare sound is gorgeous! What snare do you have and how did you get it to sound that good????".

My snare is the snare that came with my Tama Star Classic maple shell kit.  Just a standard 5 1/2 by 14 maple snare drum
The snare it self is what came stock, and the bottom resonant
head is the stock Tama head made by Evans.  The top head that you hear is a Remo Fiberskyn3.  I had only had this head for about one week before I recorded the solo. I do a few things for mildly muffling it but you can over do this like anything else.  No need for big pieces of duct tape or anything like that. I take a very thin piece of cloth about 3 in. wide and stretch it under the middle of the top head and then tighten and tune.  No other muffling should be needed unless you want to cut your volume and tone.  A Zero O-ring works OK and I have heard of some kind of jell like gupe you can use. All I am using is a thin piece of cloth.

This is what you hear. You can spend some time with tuning to your desired taste but I like to have my bottom head the same as my top head on the snare and medium to tight.  I want good bounce.
I have seen people put a cloth on top in the studio but I don't.
This is all a matter of what sound you like and are looking for.
I have had drummers come up and say the same thing you did and they want to start looking the snare over real well to find out what I have done and I have had drummers ask me if I really liked that sound, like they really didn't.  I don't like the sound of a metal snare? I have always been a big fan of wood snares. Even more so now that I have had this one.
Apollo, thank you for asking and I hope I have helped?
                                Thanks Again,
                                      Nutty

Hey Hurk! I listened to you sample on your website. All were good, but "FLOOD" is my favorite! Very nice guitar work! I LOVED the reverse verb on the opening licks. Very melodic and it really captured my attention! Nice work to your picker and the producer! The overall performance on that song is great! Top knotch song too! The lyrics are very cool and the vocals very well done! Overall that song should be on the radio bro! Having been in the broadcast business over 20 years, I think you could have something right there! Get your people to push it! That's my two cents!

I have added a few tunes to listen too.  First Turn Your volume up!! Then click on drumnut1. Then Click on THENUTTYDRUMMER.
Click on the TriggerFish page and Voodoo Chile will play automatically.  The first page has Love Me Two Times That plays automatically.  These were both recorded live. No Dubbing!!
Hope you enjoy?
                                 Nutty

How are you guys recoarding this?

Hi Red head,
I will get more information for you on the exact software!!
My bass player is an engineer. He is really intelligent. He never
comes to practice, or a show with out his sound meter. I really like the band to sound balanced. The mix is really important and if the band has been together long enough, things seem to fall in place.  We are working on 4 years now and there is nothing we really sound bad on!!! We use 2 mic's that record in a heart shaped pattern. We have a very padded room. My basement!!
Jerry has a computer that is deticated to only recording!!!
Seems to be doing a good job?
                    That is it,
                     Nutty

Hi everyone

Please check out some tracks from my CD which should be out in a month or so. The CD is called Max Roach Park , which is a park in London where I live. I thought it was cool that they named a park after a drummer and it I love the mutli cultural influences of where I live and my music has a lot of different influences. The album I would describe a groovy global music with Jazz influences. Let me know what you think!

1. Mr MD
http://www.jazzdirect.co.uk/blog_assets/Mr%20MD%20.mp3 (http://www.jazzdirect.co.uk/blog_assets/Mr%20MD%20.mp3)

2. Zuni
http://www.jazzdirect.co.uk/sounds_assets/Zuni.mp3

3. Vuleka
http://www.jazzdirect.co.uk/sounds_assets/Vuleka.mp3

ATB Mark

www.jazzdirect.co.uk

Hey,

Good playing everyone! Some of your guy's kits sound amazing

WOw!!! been a long time since i came here at least over a year.Nice to see familiar names, and you guys still groooving...sweet!

Anyways here is a link to a spontaneous drum solo i did with my buddies after a praise and worship gig at Belleville Onatrio (Canada)couple of months ago. Let me know what you think... my facial expressions...ouuuu! lol

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6dTHl0nq1Ng (http://youtube.com/watch?v=6dTHl0nq1Ng)

Wow. I am suddenly a lot worse than I thought I was. Thanks! That was great!

Hey everyone, I don't have any videos, but go here:

www.alphabetcitymusic.com

and then go to the audio section.
The mixes are pretty thick so sometimes the drums don't stand out that much, but you'll get an idea. The song "Beautiful Machines" probably has the most diverse drumming, and "Spun" is the most fun.

I hope you like it!

--Chris

You guys have a Cure feel, which I like. It so happens that my wife and I will be in Gainesville on the 20th. We'll try to check you guys out.

Keep it up!

I think I just cried. That was beautiful...

Kofi, you are indeed the man. Excellent!

have you ever listened to the band "vhs or beta" cuz i get that vibe from you guys.

I just posted a clip of me just messing around, since I have been trying out some recording in my house. I put it here
 www.myspace.com/dougthedrummer  (http://www.myspace.com/dougthedrummer)
, this is the latest rendition of my Pork Pie kit with the new Paiste Giant Beats and Sig Hi Hats. Recording sounds a little thin in the MP3 format. I just mic'd it up and started noodling around.

Well ok if you insist!

Follow this link to our music page and have a ball, we have several tracks to listen to and a few videos of live play, Tell me what you think guys and gals, I am proud of what we do as a band, we certainly have a following, check our gig dates, uk and abroad and pop along if you are near!

Pic of me and my kit- here http://www.blues-is-truth.co.uk/herman.htm

Hi everyone.  I'm a noob on the forum, so hello. :)

I have a sort-of-solo I did and converted it into mp3 format.
But before i post the link I'd like to clarify it a bit...

My father is an old-school drummer from the 60's and 70's.  He used ur basic Ludwig kit with the red sparkly colors.  So one evening he and I were talkin' drums and I told him he should check out a double-kick sometime just for fun.  We went on about it for several minutes and he ended up saying "any drummer with a 'good foot' can do that stuff with one foot".  Of course I had to laugh at that and thought to myself...I'll show you!   ...So being that we lived in different states, I went into the little studio where my drums were set up and just threw some stuff together.  The purpose was to prove him wrong with a double-pedal. heh

So anyway...It may sound a bit heavy metal-ish, but i actually prefer to play r&b/funky/latin type stuff.

The recording is a bit bassy....so you may want to lower your bass.  Hope you like. :D

http://www.irgraphics.net/download/mysolo.zip (http://www.irgraphics.net/download/mysolo.zip)

I set up a myspace page just for this (well, I've been meaning to set one up for awhile)

www.myspace.com/disciplesofbrian (http://www.myspace.com/disciplesofbrian)

"Dead Flowers" is the Rolling Stones song that I recorded for a friend that wants to cover it.  The timing is ever-so-slightly off because that's how the original was.

The other songs on there don't have drumming:

"You Still Believe In Me" is a Beach Boys song I recorded.  That's me on the percussion, what little it does have.  Actually, other than vocals and the MIDI horns, I played all the instruments.

"In My Childhood" is a song I composed inspired by "Pet Sounds."  All MIDI, so no parts were done by me.

And here's my band, The Fondells:
www.myspace.com/thefondells (http://www.myspace.com/thefondells)

We recorded the first 3 at our singer's house, the last at mine.

I have added some music to listen to.  Click on drumnut1 and click on TheNuttyDrummer and go to "Music of the day".  There are 4 live songs to choose from. As long as you have Media player it will work.
                                   Nutty

Hello my drumming brothers and sisters.  First post to this board.  A little about me:  I have been playing for 17 years, completely self-taught, never had a lesson, which I regret to this day.  Everything I play I've learned by repetitive listening and imitation.  My technique is not "proper", it's whatever is comfortable to me.  I'm a leftie player on a righty kit, I play open-handed, which means I lead with my left hand.  My main kit is a 12 year old 8-piece Artstar, which I still love and will never get rid of.   Influences include Portnoy, Paul, Lombardo, Van Halen, Bonham, just to name a few.

Anyhoo, the only video of me is with the band at a recent gig.  The quality is crappy to put it mildly, but hey, it's better than nothing.

http://www.myspace.com/greymattermetal

Here's one song from my band from a recent concert in Jacksonville, FL. Hope you like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyvvleZvUPs&search=tim%20grisnik

timtim,
I enjoyed it.  Good timing and good flow.  Was that an original?
                                      Nutty

Conky,
I really enjoyed your solo.
"The recording is a bit bassy....so you may want to lower your bass.  Hope you like.

http://www.irgraphics.net/download/mysolo.zip

It was a decent quality recording for drums. Thunder!  Nice double bass work and some good work on the Hi Hat too.  
                         Nutty

Thanks drumnut. Yeah thats an original. We have about 11 songs right now and are about to start recording out first album, including that song. Glad you liked it, thanks for the comment.

hi,
a short brushes trailer

http://www.gwebspace.de/drums/brushes!.mp3 (http://www.gwebspace.de/drums/brushes!.mp3)

here are two videos
not very great quality, sorry

http://lorenz.freewebspace4all.de/movie/lorenz_schimpf_fill.mov

http://lorenz.freewebspace4all.de/movie/lorenz.mov

...more on my website !

 :-*

timtim,
I enjoyed that as well. My band is in Gainesville, if you guys ever want a gig here we may be able to work that out.

Thanks drumnut1. :)

Nice work on those classic tunes, as well as that overhead view of your kit. :D

I just recorded a solo. (and when i mean just, i MEAN just, as in 10 minutes ago)
Its totally random, i make a couple of mistakes, and i hadn't warmed up.
http://www.myspace.com/sisterblitz (http://www.myspace.com/sisterblitz)

Its on there!
Please tell me how to make it better, as at my first gig I'm going to do a drum solo, even though I only been drumming a year...

http://www.myspace.com/countdowntoecstasy

You can't hear me playing congas on FM (that's somebody else on the tambourine on that song) - in fact, you can't really hear the congas even on "Do It Again" due to the not-too-great live recording setup we had but, I'm on all the songs - on congas, tambourine, Roland SPD-S (love the handclaps on it!), bell tree, and cowbell.   You can actually hear the percussion parts played by one of our singers (who I am teaching) better than mine.  ;)

I'll try to get better recordings up soon.  

This is a FUN band to play with!

Al

http://www.liveatthegig.com/watch_01.php


This is my Cinco de Mayo show in Hollywood with WHIPLADS. We've done live streaming simulcasts before (viewable for a fee), but this is the first time I've seen it where they put it up and leave it for viewing later AT NO CHARGE.

Anyway, I wanted to post it up this one time.

This club is called THE GIG and is located in Hollywood, CA. They've come a long way since we first played there about 7 years ago and have become very high-tech.

That's got to be one of the coolest things I've seen, and it's pretty high quality as well!

The band sounds great; how long till Whiplads live on PPV?

maybe 20-30 years. somewhere around there :)

thanks!

Hi

You can hear me play one song on this myspace page. It is with a band called MC-Hár. This myspace place is the lead rappers place.

http://www.myspace.com/nielsuni (http://www.myspace.com/nielsuni)

Rani

Drumwild, which link do I hit to see your band... there are a bunch of links there and I'm confused?  Could you help a dumb person out?

I think his video is gone from that link.

At last someting to share!!!

Check these 2 demo tracks at the bottom of my new webpage.

www.daniel.roldan.tripod.com (http://www.daniel.roldan.tripod.com)

Two very different projects. In Astacio I'm on drums, while with Blokoto I'm doing all the percussion (at once - like on a live show). By the way, the Blokoto track was a one-take recording - everybody at the sametime in different rooms. The drummer and I where together.

Bart & James: Blokoto is the Afro-Caribbean group I've talking since I joined the Cafe.

Changed the Blokoto track for one with more percussion work. In this one I'm playing conga with a bare left hand and a VF Bashiri Johnson mallet on my right hand, so I could play blocks, cowbells and timbales as well - another mallet left over the timbales for quick pick-up. The riding cowbell on the choruses was mounted on a pedal (played with my right foot).

These recordings captured the sound (and errors ;D) of our live performances because they were recorded only once; no overdubing (except for vocals) or copy/paste here.

I have tons of tracks that are in the work's and some that are complete. I collaborate via the internet (tracking my drums in my small home studio)... I use a Tama OLD Swingstar set.. Use Cubase SX and 7 mic's to record. I have an M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound card and exchange files with folks from all over the world (wav's or ape files)  have tracked 3 complete cd's (of which 2 are in for master mixing stages) and one is done... I'm self taught, can't read charts *(SADLY) never took lessons. BUT by the grace of God I've been blessed with an ability to keep time fairly good.. You tell me hey?

you can hear snippettes of my work at www.myspace.com/jwoo10
or
www.jwoo10.com

Here's a Quick link to one I've finished recently.. this vocalist is 16 years old and she's JUST been signed with Sony. The A&R folks really liked this track.

http://www.jwoo10.com/media/fallaway1-21-06.mp3

OK Folks,
I finally got some live video of my band.  This Led Zep Medely is Heartbreaker into Black dog into Whole Lotta Love into a drum solo into Boogie Mamma and back to Heartbreaker.  If you have high speed internet and an updated Version of Media player you should be able to view it. http://www.thenuttydrummer.com/LiveConcert.html.
If this doesn't work, click on to drumnut1, click TheNuttyDrummer and go to the Live concert page.  Hope you all enjoy it??
                                        Mark T. Counts
                                     The Nutty Drummer

Hey all!!! This is my first post. With that, here's my introduction via my playing!!!
I'm a 19 year old from Calgary Alberta, heading to McGill University in Montreal to study drumming next September. Hope you enjoy!!!
http://www.putfile.com/andrewdyrda

OK, here goes...I'm nervous.

This is the first time I ever recorded myself on drums, and all I used was a single overhead mike into my PC.

I'm basically just keeping time to a bass track with a few fills, and no solo. Sort of boring, but I only had the mic and mixer for a day!

Anyway, you asked for it, so please be kind!

http://www.putfile.com/chknguts

Hey Warren,
Sounds fine, nice groove.  You are in the pocket!!!!
Good to hear you? I think after awhile they don't visit this thread often?  I need to listen to the one in front of you and I have to admit,  I put my live stuff on here but
Haven't heard much feed back?  I try to listen to as many cafe folks as I can.  I don't comment on all of them but I try to listen!!!
                                         Nutty

Hi andrewdyrda,
You have really got the Jazz feel down.  Nice drums man.  Go for it and College would be great for a drummer like you.  Good to hear you!!
                                                    Nutty

Rylie- That track makes me feel like I'm playing a video game created and scored by Les Claypool. I wish I could hear the drums a little more than the bass, but It's definately cool. Got me groovin. I wish it was a real game. hahahah

Thanks. Right now, after only playing for 6 months, I'll settle for being able to keep time and stay in the pocket!

Thanks. I agree about the bass being a bit too loud, but when I finally get my mics and mixer all set up and learn how to record, and my confidence on the drums improves a tad, I should be able to open up a bit.

Thanks for all the recording help...again. Still trying to decide on the gear and budget.

This past Memorial Day weekend, we joined forces with another band and had one heck of a party out on the Tennessee River! The drummer for the other band is also the "Tech Savvy" sound guy for his band like I am for mine. So we both ended up mixing for each other's band! :P I'm not sure what the guitar players did during their "free time" LOL But fun was had by all and the owner and employees were ecstatic about the turn out and the performances! Both band shared gear. My drums and our PA. Plus our bass rig and guitar amp. Because they had 5 members and we're just 3 pieces, the keys and another guitar rig were supplied by themselves. We have another similar date with them in June. On that gig THEY will provide PA and backline. It's turned out to be a very nice partnership.
Mind you, we've known these guys for YEARS and loaning our gear out to just anyone is not something we'd normally consider. In this case however, the guys of Prowler are some very good and dear friends! ;)
Here's me being the "twist master"
(http://fisherdale.com/images/May20_05/S_gregg1.JPG)
I had the PA all the way up to 11! Yes it goes that high! It's MACKIE!
If you'd like to see more photo's of the event, click the link below.
http://fisherdale.com/may27_06.htm (http://fisherdale.com/may27_06.htm)

 

Hey Jwoo 10,
Nice work, Very progressive music.  I love the sound of an Ibanez played right.  Your drums sound really pro level and the style really fits the music.
Thanks for the samples.
                               Nutty

Nicely done, super solid drumming and a cool song as well.

Looks a heckuva a memorial day blow Greg.

Hi Nutty.  There is a guy in town here that sings Led Zep and plays the drums at the same time.  He's really good at it also.  I don't know how you guys do it.  

Thanks Nutty...any songs you've listened to were tracked in my home studio.. (the rest of the musicians are in different states and countries)..... I've never even met any of them ....ALL done via the internet.. The net certainly has made this a small world hey?

Well this is my bands website..http://www.myspace.com/enterthedarkasylum.

Bands named Dark Asylum..consists of me, my good buddies Kevin, and Ben.

It's really metal but...listen to Authoritative Dissonance.

I have a cool fill around 4:00 minutes into the song it's got an awesome phazer effect but it's hard to hear unless you got headphones on,

and if you listen close I screw up around 3:48 its a triplet pickup on the bass then a snare but I did it a beat early so i put another snare hit in there. lol

At our band's link below you can select three of our tunes to listen to. We're strictly covers.

http://www.clearblueband.com

Rubie (a la Steely Dan)
Spooky (a la Yellow Jackets)
She Caught the Katie (a la Taj Mahal)

Recorded in our bass players home studio. We'll have four or five more tracks ready soon.

Regards,

BigBill

Thanks Felix,
You have to just have a great love for Led Zeppelin and practice a bunch.  All of it is not doable because of Bonham's timing and sometimes Plant sang opposite the beat.  I feel like I can do a decent job of both, but together, you have to pick your songs. I have done Ramble On, Thank you,
Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker, Ten Years Gone and Rockin Roll and will try anything that a band wants to try but I am not ashamed to say it is not doable.  Robert Plant and John Bonham are hard to do right but I love it when it can be close.
                                 Nutty

Here's a new demo with my son, Adam Alesi on drums:

www.1800djdirect.com/music/freedomjazzdance.mp3

Recorded at Intrepid Sound Studios, Tarzana, California.

Adam's Dad

ABSOLUTELY SWEET!! Makes me want a martini and a cigarette, and I hate both!

Hi All
I'm in a project/band called ifbutforone and we do Christian heavy thrash with death metal vox.  We also have some melodic metal with clean vocals and a few different other styles in the catalog.  We did our upcoming cd on a computer using acidpro.  Pod for the guitar and Roland stageset with td-7 turbo module.  check it out.
http://www.myspace.com/ifbutforone

I think my head just started spinning ....

And those are just the ballads!

Hi guys,

There's a sound sample on my site of a session I did with a Hip-Hop artist who won Best Male Performer at the 2006 MOBO Music awards. His name is Sway Dasafo, and this particular track was recorded at Madia Vale for a live performance season of Hip Hop Artists.

Here's a direct link to the page it's on. Scroll down to SWAY and the sound sample is there...
http://www.markpusey.com/Mark%20Pusey%20Discography.htm (http://www.markpusey.com/Mark%20Pusey%20Discography.htm)

Please let me know what you think!!

MP

We have taken to recording our jams for the purpose of seeing what needs improved. Nothing fancy, just stick a mic in the middle of the floor and go to it!

This is a cover tune, which isn't really supposed to be posted, so I wont leave it there long. Only until we get some of our originals ready, but it gives you an idea of the stuff we play.

www.myspace.com/routethreeblues

Warren,
I love the pic of Stevie Ray playing Could Stand The Weather by your name.  Very cool
                       Nutty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_sQJIYm2EU

thats me and my trio in our 2nd rehearsal

Very nice work.  I have to agree with Warren. 
      &nb