Stone Temple Pilots – Crackerman

Ok, two drum covers in a row of some basic drumming but this song has sat in my list for a long time and now was the perfect time for me to complete it. That’s because next month’s drum cover is going to be an epic track with some great audio that I’ve been working hard on get it dialed in! It might be one of my best sounding to the original kit I ever made….even better than the Black Album kit! Hard to believe, I know.

I almost did not cover this song because that dude  @TreyBDrums  already did an amazing, high energy cover of it already, but since I built a decent sounding STP kit, I figured what the hell. I did not follow the original track 1:1, so this is all free playing. And with the drumless backing track, you can really hear my fuck ups. ???????? And to make things more interesting, I got rid of the kick cam for this one and did a side view camera just to spice things up a bit. Hope you enjoyed it and have a great rest of the month!

Drums Only Sample

Drum Cover

Avenged Sevenfold – Doing Time

Leave it to me to do a drum cover of probably one of the least favorite Avenged Sevenfold songs they have; or at least their most obscure song from an album with mixed reviews on their style shift. I dunno, I always enjoyed the “Hail to the King” album. I love the solid, straight-forward style drumming Arin did on the record because these are the tracks I like to cover; nothing overly flashy but still ROCK HARD!

You know how when you practice a song for a bit and you think you got everything worked out, then you go to film, and once that camera turns on, everything goes to shit? That happens to me all the time and this one was no fucking exception. It’s not a hard song but I made one mistake early in the filming and then that fucked me in the head for the next 4-5 takes. I finally got a good take and added some outtakes at the end for your enjoyment.

Nothing too crazy with the kit, just using the Death SDX again (two covers in a row!).

Drums Only Sample

Drum Cover

Mick Mars – Right Side of Wrong

Mick Mars, yes the former lead guitarist and co-founder of Motley Crue, is coming out with his debut solo album next month (February 23, 2024); which this track was one of the first singles released. When I heard it, I immediately fell in love with it and knew that this was going to be a drum cover from me, eventually… I didn’t think I would get it out this quickly, but hey, that’s a great problem to have. I pushed my scheduled January drum cover back to February because I wanted to be the FIRST person to release this drum cover on YouTube. (at least at the point of scheduling this on January 13th)

I researched who is playing with Mick on this album and to my surprise, Ray Luzier (drummer from Korn) tracked all the drums! I love Ray and his style. He is definitely one of my most favorite drummers right now and I am glad to say I finally have a drum cover by Ray under my belt. ????Although not a very difficult or technical song, it does have a solid groove straight through and the drum fill at 1:32 and coming out of the solo at 2:22 is so fucking tasteful!

As for the kit sounds, I built a new preset using the Death SDX in Superior Drummer 3 that I think might make it’s way into to future songs as well. Hope you guys enjoy the track!

Drums Only Sample

Drum Cover

Flys, The – Got You (Where I Want You)

Another fun tune with a great drumless backing track from the Drumless YouTube channel.  I was challenged to not play this song perfectly or a 1:1 match with the original.  So that’s what I did for the 2nd half of the song.  It was fun and easier than I thought because I can do the drum fills however I wanted instead of learning someone elses.  🙂  I built a great sounding kit with The Rooms of Hansa SDX that I’ve had for a while but I never even really used this library on anything.  But this song fit perfectly for it!

Drums Only Sample

Drum Cover

Silverchair – Straight Lines

Let me start off by saying that this is not a difficult drum cover at all…almost boring in fact. I love Ben Gillies drumming on every song for Silverchair and he even said about this song, “Straight Lines is a complex song, with simple parts, executed well.”  I love the song, love the band, and I wanted to do a drum cover of it; even if it’s simple!  So with that, I needed to make up for it in other ways which I decided to focus on the visuals and the audio.  I grabbed another drumless backing track of this song from Marcos over at the DrumLess YouTube channel and went to work on creating a similar sounding kit that Ben used on this tune.

I think it turned out way better than I expected and I didn’t even have to use many other of my other libraries to get the sound.  The Rock Warehouse SDX was used as an additional layer for the toms but everything else is straight from the SD3 Core library. Let me know what you think!

Drums Only Sample

Drum Cover