Solo Composition – ThumbOfRule – ‘Saw The Devil’
This is the first song from my developing second solo effort ‘Bad Hair In The House Of The King’ – it represents the end of a long creative drought. Lockdowns are good for something, right?!…
Recording Indie/Acoustic Drums for Blackborough (London) – ‘Liberty’
Doing what I do best: playing for the song. Every time I sit down to record for a client or myself, I discover something new about sounds, mixing and how I play the pocket. I’m…
Recording Cinematic Drums For Sample Library
I got a quick job in to record a little segment for a 70s Italian cinema-style composition. What a nice change of pace, I could get used to this. Here I’ve used my DW Collectors…
Remote Recording Dirty 80s Pop-Style Drums – Anonymous Client (London)
I was recently tasked with recording a deceptively tricky song that had to flow simply but had a lot of weird offbeats. I have actually grossly mangled the track here to disguise it, but I…
NOFX – ‘Leave It Alone’ – Drum Cover
I just love this song, it’s not especially difficult but playing along with that chunky guitar in the refrain is just the best.
5 Reasons To Play Drums Instead Of Guitar!
Obviously I’m kidding but I’ve had all my best experiences from learning and playing drums. So because it’s Friday, here are 5 reasons to choose the drums over guitar as your main instrument!
Remote Recording Prog-Alt-Rock Drums – ‘I Was A Moth’ – GRANDO (Canada)
Matt from Canada got in touch with a full album’s worth of material and this was the first track. Absolutely loved playing this – lots of different sections, interesting fills and transitions, double kicks and…
Remote Recording Alt-Rock Drums – ‘Kalifornia’ – GRANDO (Canada)
Matt from Canada got in touch with a full album’s worth of material and this was the first track. Absolutely loved playing this – big open grooves and fills, heavy tones, hitting hard but musically…
Biffy Clyro – ‘Tiny Indoor Fireworks’ – Multi-Instrument Cover
Biffy Clyro are one of my absolute favourite bands ever. This song accidentally became my anthem for 2020, and so instead of just a drum cover, I thought I’d attempt the whole shebang, because of…
Remote Recording 70s Funk Drums for DJ Jaguar Skills (UK)
“Lots of fills and crashes please” was the client brief for this one. Sir yes sir! Tracking some extravagant funk drums for Jaguar Skills last week. Added some towels for that retro sound. Full track…