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!

 

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Our Lady Peace – Somewhere Out There

I have been a fan of Our Lady Peace since their first record was released in 1994. I loved the drumming Jeremy Taggart did while a member of the band and the vocals of Raine Maida are just phenomenal! This song has always stuck with me and I needed to do a drum cover of it. I started this drum cover project in 2019, hoping the project band I was in would cover it, then it just sat there partially done. So now I finished it! I worked on a new snare drum sound, I think I like this one. Let me know.

This track uses a majority of my regular preset kit but as mentioned aboved, I tweaked the hell out of the snare drum, layering in a snare from the Rooms of Hansa SDX.  I also switched to using the 15″ Sabian Artisan hi-hats from the Rock Foundry SDX.

 

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Bon Jovi – You Give Love A Bad Name

With is drum kit, I knew I had to start with the snare sound first. Coming off the Pantera drum cover, that snare cut right through the mix, and I knew that’s what this song needed. Ironically, this snare was also used in the Psychedelic Furs drum cover as well…so The Rock Foundry SDX was the library of choice. Once I found the snare, I started playing with the toms, the reverb, and the kick was the last piece to fall into place. The crash cymbals were easy, but, the ride was kind of tricky. I couldn’t find the correct bell tone, so I tuned up the closest one in the Rock Foundry library and away we went.

As I was working on the song, I found the drumless backing track was missing some of the orchestra FX samples. I was able to create my own sample from another drumless version of the song that worked out perfectly. 

 

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Pantera – Drag The Waters

Vinnie “fucking” Paul!  The man is a legend for some brutal ass drumming over some of the most killer riffs of the 90’s and early 2000’s.  I am a huge fan of Vin’s drumming and I really wanted to do a tribute to the guy in the only way I know how -drum cover!  Of course there are many songs I could of chose that would of been a better tribute, but this song right here fits my playing style to a T.  I had a lot of fun playing this one and took my time with it.

I created a new kit for this Pantera track and I think it matches really well with the style that was used on The Great Southern Trendkill album.  I could not find a cowbell in any of my EZX/SDX libraries that fit what was used, so I created my own sample from the original drums only recording; this is included in the download.  I love the toms sound in this preset from the great Darkness SDX.  Hope you guys dig it!

 

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Ghost – Jesus He Knows Me

This right here! This is why I love Ghost so much. They take a song from the prog-rock great Genesis and turn it into something amazing! The irony of choosing to cover this song is just perfect. Ghost is a satanic themed group and this is a fun punch in the gut for all the preacher lovers out there. Fuck yea! Once I heard this track, I knew I had to cover it. The kick pattern is awesome, the riffs are slayin’, and the vocals are screamin! I pushed back my other scheduled drum covers to get this one out today for the release of Ghost’s 5 cover song EP called Phantomime. I had A LOT of fun recording this one and I have not done a Ghost song in a while; so what perfect timing.

As of recent, I have been trying to limit the number of EZX & SDX libraries I use in each song.  It’s a nice challenge but sometimes, you just need to use one library for that one layered snare to get the sound you need; and that’s what happened here.  I was contemplating on removing the additional layered floor tom in this one since it’s the only piece used from the Metal Machine EZX and the floor tom is not even feature on this song.  But it’s the way I designed the kit, so I left it.  The snare on the other hand, I had to leave that in to keep the sound how I wanted it, so be sure you got the Rooms of Hansa SDX.

 

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