Walling did some pretty cool parts, for example in Smoke and Mirrors there's a whole bunch of fills in the verse where the main pattern is continual 16th notes with the feet, it then goes into a 16th note triplet pattern which is SBBBSBBBSBBBSBBB
and that is a difficult exercise to get tight at that speed. Of course, anyone who's been playing longer than 10 years I would expect to be able to do that
. Especially since I've been playing just under 10 years, don't practise nearly enough and I can do it
I was only using the 3 toms to simplify things for the transcription, FYI
. In regards to the 3 snaredrum hits at the end, I see what you mean. I listened to that bit in particular several times and the problem is that if you add that extra tom hit, you're adding too many notes into the fill. If you tap your finger along as 8th notes you'll hear that the last hit of the fill is between the 8th notes, where my 13 note interpretation fits perfectly whereas yours leaves that last note a 16th late
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So I guess until one day we get an official word from Jason we're probably never gonna get it
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There's no 16th note pattern played on the bassdrum, unless he plays it differently live. I know he does the fill differently on the LoTEoF album, it's more like:
3ss2ss3ss4s5(S5)
Which also supports my 13 notes interpretation
. Dammit, why couldn't he play that one on the original recording? So much easier to interpret
