Listening one of the technical/sporadic sections of Periphery's "Zyglrox", swapped the blast beats for a solid groove with just a straight pulse (because I can't play the proper one hahaha). Snares on the all the accents, Halpern style.

Zyglrox groove

For my band "A Desolate Ship". Just to showcase the fill leading into that big crash part, the groove with the 2:3 polyrhythms on the stack. Second part is a variation on the previous groove, most of the kicks are omitted, the accents are now on the snare rather than the stack, added some ghosts, and displaced a couple of the kicks.

A couple of tricky new drum parts

Recently became obsessed with the 5 over 4 polyrhythm, so I chucked this together.

5/4 polyrhythm groove

Intended to be in no way taken seriously.

Master Sword GET

Started out with the metric modulation near the end of Periphery's Insomnia, ended up just messing around with it. Whole thing is 4/4 at 140bpm, sounds weird with a metronome haha!

Polyrhythmic fun

Quintuplet fun

Last week, I was asked to play drums in a day of lectures for degree production students at ACM. These are a few choice excerpts from the last lecture, after a day of tweaking the drum sounds. The kick is a wee bit loud, but this is currently pretty much unmixed. I was asked to stick to straight ahead simple grooves for the most part, but in the last 2 clips I got to have a bit of fun!

Chunchunchun