Ghost – Hunter’s Moon

It’s nice to finally cover some Ghost songs again and this one was just fucking fantastic!  Featured in the ending credits of the new Halloween Kills movie, the song just has some great drumming elements that I could not pass up!

I started with my usual Ghost preset but found the snare was too loose and lower in tone, so I stole the snare I used on the Type O Negative cover as it was a more snappy crack to it.  The next hurdle was the use of high rack toms in the original song.  I imported the 8″x8″ & 8″x10″ Ayotte Maple rack toms found in the Rock Foundry SDX and tweaked them a bit with the ambience channels.  Finally, I think I found a ride cymbal that is my new favorite from the Drums of Destruction EZX -the Sabian 21″ AA Rock Ride!  I love this thing, just cuts right through the mix.  I also started using the 18″ Meinl Byzance china found in this same EZX because again, it’s just awesome sounding.

Thanks for checking it out!

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Ra – Broken Hearted Soul

Let’s travel back to 2002. Satellite radio started to become very popular and me being a tech guy, I had it in my car. I can’t remember the station name at the time but the channel number I think was 37. On came this band I never heard but the song was fucking killer; that band was Ra and the song was Do You Call My Name. They played this song quite frequently and it grew on me, so I bought their CD and I was mighty impressed. Every new Ra CD that came out I bought it and I loved every song on every CD. This drum cover comes from their Black Sun album which is the first track on the CD. It features this killer riff throughout the song and solid fucking drum groove! I did cut the acoustic flamingo beginning because it was too long for my video…

Quite a few changes to the typical preset on this one.  I used completely different set of toms by using the Yamaha Beech Customs from the SD3 core library for the rack toms and a DW Collectors Series floor tom from the Metal Foundry library.  Then I changed out crash cymbal #2 to a 16″ Zildjian K Crash.  Then the usual eq/mix changes…

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Megadeth – High Speed Dirt

For this drum cover, we’re going to go back to Megadeth’s Countdown to Extinction album (because it’s probably one of their best) and cover the song High Speed Dirt. I’m kind of in a pattern here, redoing a lot of old drum covers I have done with my Roland TD-7 kit just because I was never fully happy with my playing and the sound. So I am making it right; plus I never video recorded most of them.

This kit preset is pretty much the exact same as the Type O Negative preset

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Goldfinger – Mable

A quick little drum cover today from a favorite band of mine, Goldfinger. Interesting fact: me and John Feldmann (lead singer & founder of the band) share the same birthday, June 29th, and is one of the reasons I decided to cover this song. Another side note, one of my internet band projects did cover this song when I used my old Roland TD-7 drum kit.  You can find that track here:  https://soundcloud.com/mind-blender/mable-goldfinger

With this kit, I wanted to try and get that unique snare sound that was feature on the Goldfinger album.  Man, was it was tough to find something within all the Toontrack libraries I have, so I did my best.  You’ll need the New York Studios Vol. 2 SDX for the snare sound I used.  Enjoy!

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Royal Blood – Hole In Your Heart

This song I have been noodling around with for almost 2 years (August 2019) and it just sat waiting to be completed. So I decided to revive it and do a drum cover of it…

Royal Blood just released a new album and the song Boilermaker is phenomenal! Can you believe it’s only 2 guys in this group? Well I am doing one of their older covers and hope you like it. Ben Thatcher is a great groove drummer and he does all these little things in between that make his performances great!

The main kit is pretty much the same but I added a lot of effects for the claps, snaps, and shakers utilizing the Latin Percussion EZX.  Also, Ben used a very trashy crash/ride on this song, so I decided to use the Sabian Ozone Crash cymbal from the NY Studios Vol 2. SDX. Have fun with this awesome tune!

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