audio software lets you ‘layer’ tracks, effects, and individual drums and cymbals on their own channels so you can move things around, speed things up, slow things down, cut and paste, and much more.
Apparently, this part was created as a result of Ian Paice’s boredom in the studio. As they kept running the track, he played a solo in time with the chords – and everyone loved it. The song is absolutely bursting with energy, and despite the amount of fills, the drums don’t get...
Christopher Walken never would have yelled “more cowbell” onSaturday Night Liveif he’d simply helmed the session forHugh Masekela’s bell-laden 1968 hit, “Grazing in the Grass.” The song begins with 16th notes played on the cowbell, before the drums come in with a half-time feel and...
once again proving that chops aren’t everything in heavy genres. Indeed, he barely deviates from playing the groove with most of the fills played as cymbal accents and only a few of his trademark 32nd-note bass drums thrown in for good measure. It’s short at 2:45, and simple, but ...
s debut albumStealers Wheel.The album featured some great musicians, including Gerry Rafferty on guitar and lead vocals, Joe Egan on keyboards and lead vocals, Paul Pilnick on lead guitar, Iain Campbell on bass, Tony Williams also on bass, Rod Coombes on drums, and Luther Grosvenor on ...
With its engulfing, molten guitar intro and enormous drums, “How Soon Is Now,” which began life as a B side, grew to become a bona fide club hit for the Smiths. Guitarist Johnny Marr wanted a riff that would be inescapably recognizable: “When [it] plays in a club or a pub,” ...
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Here, he ingeniously flips all three of the “I Dedicate” tracks on Brandy’s debut album, using them all in distinct ways. One is stretched like taffy to allow for the loping bassline and the skittering drums while the others are chopped and sped up to accentuate Drake’s sing-songy ...
departed from the band, leaving Lifeson as the sole member of the initial lineup remaining with the group. In 1974Neil Peartreplaced Rutsey on drums. Peart joined only two weeks before the launch of the band’s first major tour, which had it performing atvenuesin Canada and across the Uni...
Paul Simon's masterpiece is one long build-up, from the curtain-raising piano on the intro to the cascading drums that bring it to a close. Art Garfunkel never soared as high as he does on "Bridge Over Troubled Water," simultaneously delivering one of his most restrained and virtuosic per...