Hey it’s me. I’m the drummer. It’s me. Good joke. Current. Anyway, some people might remember an embarrassingly short lived attempt I made at making playthroughs for PUP songs. Very short lived. Like one video (this one). I even wrote a theme song for it (this one). Suffice it to say, it was very time consuming to break things down like that. But now, I figure, you guys are smart. Well, some of you. And because I got some really nice feedback from some people about my Mabu breakdown, I figured I’d try for something a little less exhaustively explanatory. You can surely handle figuring the rest out on your own. In that vein, I have picked a couple of songs that I captured (which Nestor edited the videos and mixed the audio for) from behind the kit, to give the drummer-types a little clearer of an idea of what I am doing. I picked two songs for which I am particularly proud of my parts. Sleep In The Heat, cause it’s a classic tear-jerking rager, and spiritual sequel to Mabu. And Falling Outta Love cause I think it’s a banger, and it’s also brand new (therefore: more relevant).
SLEEP IN THE HEAT
So, I mentioned that this is a spiritual sequel to Mabu. My memory is fuzzy (depression will do that) so I am not sure if we together, as a band, decided that this was the direction, or if I was living solely in my own imagination. Could be either, honestly. Regardless, most especially because the feel was somewhat similar, my drum part pulls some broad shapes from Mabu. In particular having a frantic-ish intro, two distinct verse vibes, a crescendo-ing drum part in the bridge, and a bombastic closing section. In particular, I lifted the groove almost exactly from Mabu's first verse, for the first verse of Sleep In The Heat. Accounting for the change of time signature, of course. Thematic repetition across songs? I got that Progressive Rock dawg in me.
Also, sorry for the light show. The lighting person was, uh, having a lot of fun that night. And we all were. I think.
FALLING OUTTA LOVE
