New Drum Cover & Time Just Gets Away From Me Sometimes. . .

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Happy 5 years of being active on YouTube day!  Square Hammer was the first song I heard from Ghost thanks to my good friend Frank for telling me to check them out.  I went down a big rabbit hole and started to love all of their music; not sure if you could tell based off my drum cover choices.  😆😋  A great majority of Ghost songs fits my drumming style to a “T” and they have some crazy awesome hooks in their songs.  If I had to pick one of my favorite Ghost songs, Faith has to be it.  Such a killer riff!

As a band, I have recorded this song many times and every time, I played it incorrectly during the chorus sections.  I needed to make it right, make it sound the best I can, and that’s EXACTLY what I did with this release here.  Not saying the previous versions were terrible but I guess my standards were a little lower back in the day.  Interested in checking out the full band cover we did of this song?  Check it out on Soundcloud! 
I posted on the YouTube community messages that I would be releasing two drum covers for the month of March.  While I have filmed the 2nd cover already, I am going to hang on to it until May’s release to help me get more work done on the BIG project.  I am in the early planning stages for the April release, which is time sensitive, and I want to hit a specific date for that one.  So I was unable to manage my time correctly; or these covers are just getting a little harder than before.  The collaboration I have mentioned in previous posts is taking longer than anticipated.  Finding someone to do vocals is always the hardest…WHY, WHY, WHY?!

I keep mentioning this BIG project and you are probably wondering what it could be?!  I just can’t give it away and maybe I am building it up too much.  I tell you though, once I release it, I might be done with drum covers for a few months.  😏  I think that’s about all I got to talk about for now.  It’d be great if people left comments on these posts so I know I am not talking to a brick wall.  🎶🎵 “Hello brick wall, my only friend…” 🎶🎵

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5 Years Fully Active on YouTube, New Downloads, & Others…

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While I have had my YouTube channel for a long time (first video was uploaded September 2007), I was never really that active with uploading content on a consistent basis.  On March 13, 2017 is when I knew I wanted to start posting more videos regularly and I began to shape the channel to where we are now, posting videos monthly.  Well…most of the time.  😂🤣  To celebrate 5 years active on YouTube, I have a new drum cover scheduled to be released on that day and will feature the updated logo in the video introduction like you see here here on the site.  It’s the small things.  😃

I have also uploaded 3 more Superior Drummer 3 projects to the Downloads section.  You can now grab: Sepultura – The Hunt, Royal Blood – Hole In Your Heart, and Goldfinger – Mable.  I still have quite a few more projects left to upload, even some that I do not have drum covers for.  I will work on getting those uploaded as free time permits.

In other news, there is another collaboration in the works and my BIG project is taking shape very, very nicely!  With each milestone I reach within the project, I get more and more excited for you guys to see it.  However, I have yet to reach the difficult part(s) and that could make or break the entire thing!  🤔😣  Well I think that’s enough of an update for now.

Oh! One last thing.  Check out the live videos I posted on the channel of the recent Twin Temple, Volbeat, & Ghost concert I attended on February 18th @ AllState Arena.  It was such an amazing show.  Volbeat’s stage set up was incredible! I’ve never seen anything like it…and of course Ghost was top notch.  Twin Temple…yea, that was new for me.  Satanic doo wop music.  It was crazy.  🤣   

 

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Is This One of My Heaviest Drum Covers To Date?

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I have a new drum cover scheduled to be released on Friday, January 28th at 6pm CST.  The video & Superior Drummer 3 project file will unlock here on the website at this time as well.  It just might be one of the heaviest songs I have covered to date, leave me a comment and let me know if you think this is true or not.  I had lots of fun recording this one; even if those odd placed kicks in the fast section were giving me a hard time for a couple days.  I may have to skip a month or two of releasing drum covers to get the BIG project done.  Work is always progressing on it but it’s much slower than I want it to be. 

Here on the website, I have been working in the Downloads section a lot.  I never really like the thumbnail pictures I had for the Toontrack EZX/SDX products.  They were all blurry and mis-aligned, so I took the time to create proper ones that are much sharper & cleaner.  This means I had to edit every single download with the new images. 

Additionally, I added two more Superior Drummer 3 Project files to the download list:  Quietdrive – Time After Time and Skillet – Monster.  I’m getting close to getting all of the projects uploaded, if you don’t see the one you are looking for, just ask.

Lastly, I have refreshed the main logo on the top of this page.  My good friend Steve made many of the graphics that was used for our Red Gear band project and I am trying to redo them to my taste.  I have no idea how to redo the animated logo I use at the start of my videos so I just might have to hire someone on Fivver to recreate it for me.  🤷‍♂️

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Let’s Start Off The New Year With A Drum Cover!

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Today I have a new drum cover scheduled to be released at 6pm CST and if you are visiting this site before then, you will be the first people to find out what it is before anybody else!  This cover is a group I absolutly love and my most favorite song…Less Than Jake “Look What Happened”.  It’s not a difficult song by any means but I wanted to cover this band for many years and what better way than to kick off the new year?!  Honestly, I needed an easy song to cover so that I can continue my work on the “BIG” project that I am hoping to release by fall of 2022.  Today I was practicing for the next video in this project and I think I am ready to film it tomorrow.  I filmed the first video last week and the ONE person who saw it liked it; thanks Frank.  😎

Ok so what about another collaboration?  I’ve been in talks with Heavy In Hawaii to pick another song to collab on; we just might have something in the works.  It’s difficult because we both have very specific tastes in music and we want the performance to showcase what we are capable of.  For him as a singer, the tune has to be in his vocal range.  The song I chose, I think would work great, has a SUPER KILLER RIFF, and is a new release for a pretty popular band!  

I have already started the drum track and got about 75% done.  Maybe I will do the drum cover for this song for the February drum cover release…we’ll have to see how Heavy In Hawaii is progressing with the tune before I make that decision.  Aside from that, hope you guys have a great new year and love to hear your comments about this website!

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The Work Flow Is Flowing!

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My ultimate goal with the YouTube channel is to release a new video once a month.  I’ve been pretty consistent with that but occasionally, I will get into a funk where I do not want to play drums at all.  The collaboration with Heavy In Hawaii (where my work was pretty much done several months prior), I was able to gain some time and start working on drum covers for the future.  The Megadeth drum cover was done 2 weeks before I released it and I filmed another one last night to be released on or around New Years.  Now this will free up time for me to continue work on my “BIG” project and shoot video for what I have done so far.

I’m contemplating on doing a gear review of the IEMs (In-Ear Monitors) that I use.  I just bought another set of them and I am still amazed at how good they sound!  I just am not good with on camera talking and I will probably just look like a dork.  So maybe I post a review about them here and do a YouTube short letting people know to come here to check it out.  Speaking of this website…. why do I have one?  I dunno.  I’ve had websites ever since I started working with computers around 1996, remember Geocities?  Yea I had a website on there!  I just thought people might find the blog interesting (wishful thinking) and find the Superior Drummer 3 downloads useful in someway.  It’s all still early in development and we’ll see where this takes me/us.

Anyways, that’s all I got to say today.

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