Thank you Ricky for inviting me on this journey.
This is a special video for me as it is the very first drum cover I’ve officially been a part of. Absolutely happy at the outcome video, from editing to how to the drums sound. The work that Ricky did as an engineer is top notch and I have been blown away by the quality of sound he was able to extract from my takes, and to my surprise, no samples!
This video took about 7 days to put together from scratch and it was an absolute blast all the way through. Don’t get me wrong, it was quite the challenge but it was one I very much hope to do again. 1 day of transcribing, 4 days to learn, another to record, and lastly a day to edit. And just barely made it through.
While the figures in the song are not terribly difficult, I found, as anyone would considering this is a Meshuggah song, the permutations and accents to be the bigger challenge when it came to memorization. The second biggest challenge I’d say is the second guitar solo, which features a more involved drum composition with more room for error.
I also took a much different approach to the transcriptions, or rather lack of. Just in case I couldn’t make it through the challenge, rather than transcribe with typical drum notation, I chose to recreate the drums for the entire song on midi using the P4 GGD drum pack. This not only created a fallback but it also let me have the drums visible, almost as if they were notated note by note as I created a midi layout/mapping that closely resembles basic drum notation. Using this to my advantage I was able to read through quite a lot of the figures and had a much easier time deciphering all of the more complex orchestrations, rather than relying solely on the ears.
my very first cover, check it out!
Thank you Ricky for inviting me on this journey.
This is a special video for me as it is the very first drum cover I’ve officially been a part of. Absolutely happy at the outcome video, from editing to how to the drums sound. The work that Ricky did as an engineer is top notch and I have been blown away by the quality of sound he was able to extract from my takes, and to my surprise, no samples!
This video took about 7 days to put together from scratch and it was an absolute blast all the way through. Don’t get me wrong, it was quite the challenge but it was one I very much hope to do again. 1 day of transcribing, 4 days to learn, another to record, and lastly a day to edit. And just barely made it through.
While the figures in the song are not terribly difficult, I found, as anyone would considering this is a Meshuggah song, the permutations and accents to be the bigger challenge when it came to memorization. The second biggest challenge I’d say is the second guitar solo, which features a more involved drum composition with more room for error.
I also took a much different approach to the transcriptions, or rather lack of. Just in case I couldn’t make it through the challenge, rather than transcribe with typical drum notation, I chose to recreate the drums for the entire song on midi using the P4 GGD drum pack. This not only created a fallback but it also let me have the drums visible, almost as if they were notated note by note as I created a midi layout/mapping that closely resembles basic drum notation. Using this to my advantage I was able to read through quite a lot of the figures and had a much easier time deciphering all of the more complex orchestrations, rather than relying solely on the ears.