The Midnight - Days Of Thunder

My submission for a Reddit drummer's forum challenge to record a short piece under the premise of "What if Drummer X had played for Band/Artist Y?" This week's challenge was "What if Danny Carey of Tool had played for James Brown and the JB's?" Made me laugh so I had to try. Under the rules, you have 10 minutes from the time you accept the challenge to upload the file to keep people from cheating or using software to craft a polished track. It's just for fun and meant to get feedback as quickly as possible. Lots of varying odd-meter measures paired together plus some a recurring funk motif. I'll share a 2nd track that shows me briefly working out some ideas that appear in this draft. Recorded via Roland TD-25KV 6 piece kit, triggering custom-made virtual drums in Superior Drummer 3, using FL Studio 20 Producer Edition DAW. Used a DW-5000 single kick pedal (I've never been great at double kick technique-Ha!) and Questlove sticks. No quantizing, no samples, and no loops used. 

Dull Monkeys.wav

Several little sketches rolled into one rough draft. First takes only. 

Smiley Smiles--multi grooves in 1.wav

I use SoundCloud as my sketchbook to store works-in-progress of my drumming. These are *only* rough drafts, and nearly all are first takes except where noted. I like to work out themes and riffs. If a 10 minute track is posted then I'll probably only end up with a few seconds of something usable that I like. But that's how I work. 

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