Megadeth – Foreclosure of a Dream

Today’s cover is a classic Megadeth song, ‘Foreclosure of a Dream’ from the great album ‘Countdown to Extinction’. I am not a very good double bass player but something like this is doable; thanks for making an easy song for me to play Nick! Speaking of Nick, yea, one of my favorite drummers of all time. The power he uses behind the kit! Man that’s the way I like to play! When I heard of his passing I wanted to do a cover for him, but I was looking more for a RedGear band project and nothing ever panned out; so here we are with my tribute to him- almost 5 years later! ?

This cover would of been out sooner, but I was struggling to find a different sound for the drum kit within Superior Drummer 3. Eventually, I gave up and just tweaked my preset like I usually do.  Trying to mimic the classic Countdown to Extinction drumset is pretty difficult.

 

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Downtown Fiction – I Just Wanna Run

Decided to cover the 1 hit wonder, The Downtown Fiction’s ‘I Just Wanna Run’. I’ve always wanted to cover this song, it’s simple, but it just rocks -in a weird tweeny kind of way. Maybe it’s the 16th note patterns on the hi-hats during the Chorus or just the solid playing by Eric Jones? I dunno, just deal with it.

Not too much going on with the kit for this one.  Just some different EQ on some things…

 

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Sepultura – The Hunt

This song came up on my playlist while driving in the car so I decided to go back to the fall of 1993, when I was a junior in high school and my garage band would play a lot of the songs from this CD; very poorly I might add. ? So I dedicate this song to Joe, Jim, & Tom as well as all our other friends who hung out with us -Dave, Kris, Mark, Kevin, & Stas. Thanks for the memories boys.

Not a whole lot changed with this kit, except for an additional hi-rack tom used from the Metal Foundry SDX and a different ride than usual for that big beefy bell at the end of the song.

 

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Collective Soul – I Don’t Need Anymore Friends

Not gonna lie, I was pretty lazy with this cover. I have a lot going on with work & home projects but it’s been a while since I put something out. I didn’t do too much with video editing and the mix is just ok. It’s an easy, boring song on the drums but the cool part is that we are actually covering this song and you can hear a rough mix of it right here.  The drum kit preset is very basic, my standard Red Gear preset.

On vocals is a subscriber of my channel and I asked him if he’d be interested in collaborating; he said he isn’t much of a singer and would give it a shot. You sure in the hell could of fooled me -he sounded amazing! I feel bad we don’t have the song fully mixed yet however where it stands now still sounds great!

 

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Quietdrive – Time After Time

We got another “revisited” drum cover for you today, this time it’s Quiet Drive with their cover of the Cyndi Lauper song ‘Time After Time’. I thought they did a fantastic version and it’s one of my favorite songs to play. Simple beat but it suits the song very well.

I originally did this song in April of 2008 on my old Roland TD-7 kit and the drum cover was not very good. So I am making it right and doing it the proper way…maybe in 12 years I’ll redo it again. You can check out the old video here: https://youtu.be/H___SvdFC4Q

 

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