I was messing around tonight...

[beyond dead]

with a buddy of mine, and we wrote this song. thought i would post it to see what y`all think of it. Im playing drums
[ame]http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=EJjPl9H5rqg[/ame]

 

[Erkan]

Cool! Well played

BUT ITS NOT DJENTY ENOUGH!!! IT HAS TO BE DJENT!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111 aiiiiiiiiieerggh!!!

... juuuuust kidding! =)

 

[beyond dead]

I totally agree lol can never have enough djent!

 

[MetalJonesy]

digging it

 

[LSD-Studio]

cool. good drumming!

 

[beyond dead]

thanks guys! found another guitar player and a vocalist, so hopefully we will make some killer thrashy tunes! Im pumped since ive been playing alternative / nu metal lately

 

[Glenn Fricker]

Tune your toms.

 

[beyond dead]

lol yeah dude, those skins are waaay too old lol they will def not hold tune anymore. not buying new skins till i move out, cause my room mates always play my drums when i`m not home lol. I also need new cymbals VERY badly. livin in the ghettoo (sung very shittily) lol

oz, ive been havin a bit of a hard time using my tama tension watch, do you mind if I pm u with some questions?

 

[Erkan]

Lol yeah as drummers, me and beyond can probably agree on a) It's not fucking cheap to change drum heads - b) You don't want people who don't know how to hit a drum, to hit your drums.

And about Tension Watch, I must say.... it's a great invention! I bought mine, used it once and then I found an even better use for it; to hold up my books in the book case!

Seriously, if I tuned after the Tension Watch perfectly, I had a perfectly non-tuned drum. Then I forced myself to train my ears and tune by myself, which resulted in pretty fucking perfectly tuned drums I'm not even sure where my Tension Watch is these days... I sure as hell don't miss it.

 

[beyond dead]

yeah, i gave up on mine too, found that tuning by ear was waaay easier. what a waste of 50 bucks lol

 

[Glenn Fricker]

If you've got old, dead skins, the Tension watch won't do shit.


Try tuning your toms to 65 top and 55 bottom.. should work fine.

 

[Metaltastic]

How often do you change heads Oz? (or anyone else, for that matter, I'm a total drum n00b)

 

[beyond dead]

ideally, probably once or twice a month, depending on how much ive been practicing. I like to change them after every show, cause i generally hit harder live. Ive had the skins on my kit for 3 months come on tax season!!!!!!!

 

[beyond dead]

Try tuning your toms to 65 top and 55 bottom.. should work fine.

thanks dude. for some reason, it never sounds right when i tune with the watch. it gets me in a ball park area, but i usually have to tweak tuning a bit afterwards. but you have gotten good results with it, so I must be doing it wrong or something.

 

[Metaltastic]

And cool vid Liam, nice playing! Though I'm laughably bad at drums, so I'm easily impressed The transition from the thrashy part to the nu-metal-esque groove is a bit jarring for my tastes, but I dig, and your double-bass playing is spot-on! And I think it's just fine without any djent, thank you

 

[Djabthrash]

Nice but the thrashy riff sounds kinda too slow at this tempo/with this drum beat.

 

[beyond dead]

thanks marcus! we are still fooling around with the arrangement. I`ll most likely let my guitarist choose which beats he likes best for each riff, then elaborate from there.

thanks for all the advice guys!

 

[Uladyne]

...cause my room mates always play my drums when i`m not home lol.

Ouch.

Yea, don't even let them touch new heads. I let this one dude play my kit once and after one song there was a huge fucking dent in the snare batter head. Like the size of a baseball. Seriously, how the fuck can you do that during just one song? I may as well have let a caveman play the kit with clubs.

Cool song though. Make me miss jamming out like that. That's the true essence of being a musician.

 

[Glenn Fricker]

thanks dude. for some reason, it never sounds right when i tune with the watch. it gets me in a ball park area, but i usually have to tweak tuning a bit afterwards. but you have gotten good results with it, so I must be doing it wrong or something.

Sounds about right.... a Tension watch will get you in the ballpark & then tune by ear from there. The more you work with the watch, the easier it gets to get closer & closer to final pitch.


BUt, it's gettting you in the ballpark that's the important thing.

 

[Erkan]

Fuck it man, with some forced practise for a few days you can get in the ballpark in a few turns... seriously I "researched" (surfed YouTube that is) about drum tuning, and I learned some nice stuff which still helps me! I know it sounds like I'm really trying to make you not use the Tension Watch, but it's not the case. If you want to use it, do it, but I believe a musician must be able to tune his shit by himself. What are you gonna do when you find that someone has fucked your floor tom up before a show back stage, and you don't have your Tension Watch with you, for example?

... and you think $50 hurts? I payed 1500 Swedish Kronor for mine back when I was like 15, and at that time, 1500 Swedish Kronors was like 150$ so... guess if I feel ripped off?

Haha you are quite insane if you change drum heads once a month! I am assuming you just jam at your rehearsal place and don't play live so often, but maybe I'm wrong? Only professional drummers should change their heads like 2-4 times a month. It's freakin' expensive with drum heads... atleast here in Sweden. And if you are a rimshot fanatic like I was before I forced myself to stop using it, you are probably buying a pair of new sticks every week too... that adds up quite quickly