It’s Going To Be A Little While Longer

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When I released my drum cover for Griftwood back in May, I mentioned at the end of the video that I would be taking the summer off and would return around September/October.  Well, I am going to push this back until November.  I am very close to finishing the project that I have been working on and will begin to release it the day after Thanksgiving.  Look for an official announcement on October 31st via YouTube and Instagram.  I am really excited for everyone to check this project out, it’s some of my best work!  😁

 

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Cirice Makes The Last Post For A While

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Today a new re-visit drum cover was released that was recorded back in mid-March.  I felt I needed to go back and redo one of my earliest Ghost drum covers (2nd one released in my attempt to having a consistent YouTube channel) but with a little twist.  Cirice has always been one of my favorite Ghost songs and this time around not only will it sound & look better, it is also ONLY ME on the drums!  Yup, this was a drumless audio track that I found and completed all the additional timpani’s sounds as well.  I think it turned out great and really proud of it.  Don’t mind the silly story at the end.

As I mentioned in my previous video, I am on a break from releasing YouTube drum covers until late September/early October.  I am still working on somethings, just at a much leisurely pace, some of which might never see the light of day.  Give me a follow on Instagram:  redgearmusic_

I plan to delete the forum pages here on the site and just clean it up a bit.  I thought people from the SD3presets site I ran would follow over to here but that never happened.  I’ll also finish getting my Superior Drummer 3 projects uploaded on the download page.  Ok, signing off for a while.  I’ll try to post some things on my YouTube community page and on Instagram to let ya’ll know I’m still alive.  😂

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New Drum Cover & Getting Overwhelmed For Underwhelming Reasons

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I am really excited for this drum cover release.  Not only is it a new Ghost song from their most recent album, Impera, but it’s a cover that has hardly ever been covered on YouTube.  As of Today, I’ve only found two videos of this song.  One from SallyDrums, who is amazing at getting good-quality Ghost drum covers completed quickly, and another which was good, just not the most accurate.  I decided to step in and try to nail this one as close to the original as possible -tell me how I did!  If you stuck around to the end of the video, you might be wondering what’s going on…

Lately I have been starting to feel overwhelmed with things going on in my life.  Nothing major or serious.  Just projects I have going on with work, home improvement stuff, YouTube stuff, softball nights, and other projects people ask me to work on.  I am trying to bust through like I normally do but things are taking longer than I would like them to be.  I have one more drum cover queued up for June’s release but I REALLY need to put more time into my BIG project (there I go again talking about it again) than I am.  So, I may take most of the summer off from releasing drum covers and focus on all this other stuff.  See…underwhelming reasons.

In other news, I did finish my drum tracks for another YouTube collab and they were sent off overseas.  😎  I’ve also added me to the waiting list for the eDRUMin 10 midi module for my e-kit.  This will allow me to ditch my Roland module and expand my kit with more triggers.  This will be a long work in progress but I think I am going to do it…That’s all for now.  Enjoy and have a great summer!

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April 14th: A Day To Remember Peter Steele from Type O Negative

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April 14th is a day I tend to listen to a lot of Type O Negative and now I pay my respects by releasing a drum cover on the anniversary of Peter Steele’s death.  This year, I chose the middle section of the song ‘We Hate Everyone‘ to be a little different; plus it helps me continue work on the other projects I got going on.  The one thing about Type O songs, the drums are usually never in the forefront of the song -that’s all reserved for Peter!  I found this middle section had it’s challenges at the end with some pretty quick double bass parts.  I am no double bass master or anything, so this was a little tough for me to do.  Hope you enjoy it and play some Type O Negative today!!! 

Not much else going on that comes to mind that I have not posted previously.  I’ve been noodling around with the idea of reworking my electronic drum kit; maybe doing an A2E (analog to electronic) conversion.  I want to expand on my kit some more. 🤣😂  Maybe adding an additional floor tom, a different rack, different layout with the cymbals. 

The problem is that if I am going to go out and do that, I might as well go big and start over.  I love some of the A2E conversion kits I have seen posted and specifically Fake Smile Revolution‘s kit!  That’s what I want right there, maybe too many cymbals.  LOL.  Anywho, I doubt this will ever come to fruition but that’s all I got today.  Enjoy the cover!  RIP Peter!  🙏 

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Another Well Respected Drummer Passes 😭

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It’s been a week now since the passing of Foo Fighters’ drummer Taylor Hawkins at the young age of 50.  Like many people, I am still in shock that he is gone, especially after watching the mock-horror film from the band entitled Studio 666.  At first, I thought it was some kind of joke as Taylor’s death coincided with the release of Dream Widow (Dave Grohl’s solo death metal project from the movie) the day before.  But no, it’s just true utter sadness.  Taylor was an amazing drummer.  He was well respected among his professional peers and to us layman drummers, he was the drummer we wish we could be.  Talented. Gifted. Passionate. Beastly. Technical. Inspirational.  Just some of the adjectives I can use to describe him.  We’ll miss you forever Taylor. Hope the rest of the band and family close to Taylor all the best. 

I felt the need to upload my Superior Drummer 3 project file that I completed for Foo Fighters – Arlandria, so go check that one out!  Additionally, I added Ghost – Absolution to the downloads section…I’m kind of shocked I waited this long to publish that one.  My bad!  😬  Going back through these old project files is kind of funny.  Some of the mixes I did and kit piece selections I chose had me scratching my head; but I left them as they were to show the differences in my progress.

In other happenings, I have been contacted again to do another collab with some YouTubers which I have accepted and will start work on that at the end of the month, hopefully.  🤞  Another collaboration with Heavy In Hawaii is pretty close to be complete; just waiting on vocals from another YouTuber.  So there is no time table on when that will be released.  I have two drum covers already uploaded and scheduled to be released on April 14th and May 6th.  So be on the look out for those!  Progress on my own personal project is coming along.  I am very skeptical that I will get it done in the timeframe I set for myself but I think it will be worth the wait.

That’s all I got for now..looking forward to some better weather here in the midwest.

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