Less Than Jake – Look What Happened

Not many people know that I am a huge Less Than Jake fan, thanks to my good friend Bruce. He introduced me to all the ska/punk stuff -Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, Blink 182, & Kemuri to name a few. This album right here from LTJ is probably one of my favorites; so many awesome songs on this one! This song that I am covering today is the one that brings back all the memories for me. Sitting in my parents basement during the fall of 2000, working on my Online Gaming Leage (OGL) team website for Day of Defeat, all while listening to this album. Even to this day, I sing the chorus loud & proud when it comes up on my playlist. Enjoy and have a great New Year everybody! 

Nothing crazy with this kit except I used a little shaker element for the bridge section with the Latin Percussion EZX.

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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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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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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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