Okay ... I'm rendering the video right now ... so NO MORE ENTRIES!!! 

Here are the solos that I have:

Hannah Ford
diddle
Jim R.
Ryan
Shoeless
Gaetano Nicolosi
Felix
Sphykik
Drum Count
New York Frank
Antman
scarmike67
Rhythm Stop
Nathan
Varbed
Drum4JC
nuttydrum1
Nick
Dave Heim
David Crigger
and myself

That's 20 entries ... plus I did two solos (one on Djembe and another on a hybrid drum set-up). Total solos: 22

I basically put all of the solos in the order I received them. The exceptions being that I placed Hannah's first because she was the last entry, and it was easier to add to the front of the project ... plus she's got some funky moves that set-up the whole thing rather nicely.    David Crigger closes out the solos ... no surprize there, it's David Crigger ... but when you hear what he played, you'll understand another reason.

Since some people had pick-ups to their solos, and others chopped off the end of their solo, I moved a few around to take advantage of the situation. I mixed the project the best that I could with the limited amount time, and the fact that all the solos were at different levels. I hope everyone will be pleased.

I'll premier the community solo on DCTV as soon as I can get everything rendered and uploaded ... hopefully by later tonight.

I have seen and heard it.

It's tons of fun!

Let's do it again!   

Uh yeah. Never would have thought of his approach to this but I absolutely loved it. There was some great playing in this solo. Good job guys.

Very cool work everybody! 

And thanks Bart for putting it all together so well.

It’s great to hear them all together, and Felix.. This just once again proves why you are ‘da man!’ 

Cheers

 

N

Too cool, awesome job everybody!

Great job, everyone!

It's always amazing to me how creative our community is here. Everyone had the same track to play to, but there were so many very interesting different sounds and feels.

Thank you to all the participants for making this year's solo a smashing (crashing, thumping, banging) success!

It was incredibly fun having the videos to watch, too.

Next year, I gotta do video.

Bart - most outstanding editing. 

Great job everyone! That was a blast!! It was very cool to listen to all the grooves and ideas.

Thanks for all your hard work Bart! Very nice editing and I really dig your scratchy cymbal on the djembe sound.

Despite some complaining about the mics, I think many of you could make a career out of the cool snare sounds you’re getting. That was a fun part; listening to each snare sound.

I loved everyones effort. I realized again that playing to a click/part is not that easy, and then many of you like Bart, Gaetano, David, and others show how its done, and play right in the pocket.

One of my favorites is Shoeless, cool linear sounds in groups of 3. Also, NY Frank you passion comes out in your playing and your smile! Nick, that be reserved, but I still want to thrash my head to it.

I've had a few questions about the "drum" set-up I used for my second solo. The Kick drum was an African drum about the size/shape of a 14" Floor Tom. The Snare was a Pork Pie 6x10 "popcorn" Snare. The HiHats ... bottom cymbal was a 7" Splivet (homemade w/two rivets), top cymbal was an 8" Sabian AAX Splash. I didn't do any close micking or EQ; if I had time I would have liked to ... but it was a last minute solo that I wanted to do; recorded it yesterday afternoon.

Probably obvious to many, but the drum groove was a hybrid "Cissy Strut" feel that I wanted to try.

It was interesting, especially since he played it as straight sixteenths as opposed to the swung feel that the bass track had. Just goes to show that if you play with conviction ... it can work.

Yeah, Bart, that kit really cut thru the mix nice.  Good playing as usual bro!  LOLz!