Let the drummer debate continue!

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Well?

Dave K
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2%
Matt C (the first)
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Dave A
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Jimmy S
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Jack I
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Matt C (the second)
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He nailed it. :nice:
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OMG, is that Teen Wolf drumming?
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Okay, serious question for harmless or other drummers not crazy about mym. Where in that performance do you want to see more of?
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stip wrote:Okay, serious question for harmless or other drummers not crazy about mym. Where in that performance do you want to see more of?
I just started to write you out a long post and then accidentally deleted it. So you won't be getting a long answer from me, sorry. I'll just say I pretty much prefer everything he's doing. You'd have got that in detail but not at the expense of my sanity.
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To be fair though, as well as what he's doing, it's what these drums sound like. They sound live, with lots of resonance on the snare drum and the toms (Matt's snare sounds dead flat, and he hardly even uses the toms, if at all), and loads of thrashing around on the cymbals. Matt goes to the ride cymbal (?) for the choruses, whereas this guy gets it, and keeps time with the crash. There's no space for a ride cymbal in this kind of song. If you're gonna play a ride or a splash, you may as well be in the corner tinkling a triangle. Slight exaggeration, but yeah, if it were me I'd only use the ride as an accent cymbal on this one. The other thing I remember from the original post I deleted: I really like the fill > 'flam' going into the first "mind your manners" pause. I don't remember whether he does that again. But yeah, just generally his fills are cooler, and longer. There's a great one later in the song (can't remember what time) which is more complex, and goes longer, than any of Matt's.
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rickson wrote:
Well, that was actually pretty cool.
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harmless wrote:To be fair though, as well as what he's doing, it's what these drums sound like. They sound live, with lots of resonance on the snare drum and the toms (Matt's snare sounds dead flat, and he hardly even uses the toms, if at all), and loads of thrashing around on the cymbals. Matt goes to the ride cymbal (?) for the choruses, whereas this guy gets it, and keeps time with the crash. There's no space for a ride cymbal in this kind of song. If you're gonna play a ride or a splash, you may as well be in the corner tinkling a triangle. Slight exaggeration, but yeah, if it were me I'd only use the ride as an accent cymbal on this one. The other thing I remember from the original post I deleted: I really like the fill > 'flam' going into the first "mind your manners" pause. I don't remember whether he does that again. But yeah, just generally his fills are cooler, and longer. There's a great one later in the song (can't remember what time) which is more complex, and goes longer, than any of Matt's.
Ahhh, okay. I thought it was a verbatim performance.
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stip wrote:
harmless wrote:To be fair though, as well as what he's doing, it's what these drums sound like. They sound live, with lots of resonance on the snare drum and the toms (Matt's snare sounds dead flat, and he hardly even uses the toms, if at all), and loads of thrashing around on the cymbals. Matt goes to the ride cymbal (?) for the choruses, whereas this guy gets it, and keeps time with the crash. There's no space for a ride cymbal in this kind of song. If you're gonna play a ride or a splash, you may as well be in the corner tinkling a triangle. Slight exaggeration, but yeah, if it were me I'd only use the ride as an accent cymbal on this one. The other thing I remember from the original post I deleted: I really like the fill > 'flam' going into the first "mind your manners" pause. I don't remember whether he does that again. But yeah, just generally his fills are cooler, and longer. There's a great one later in the song (can't remember what time) which is more complex, and goes longer, than any of Matt's.
Ahhh, okay. I thought it was a verbatim performance.
Nope, he definitely makes plenty of his own choices, and they're often cooler than Matt's IMHO. He's a little shaky and probably not as technically proficient as Matt, but I'm only guessing that because Matt's in Pearl Jam and this guy is in a gorilla mask and y-fronts. This performance of MYM is one I'd prefer to be hearing on the studio version.
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(Matt's snare sounds dead flat, and he hardly even uses the toms, if at all)
By dead flat, what do you mean?



What can you say 'bout this drum sound/drumming style, do you like it?
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taffer wrote:
(Matt's snare sounds dead flat, and he hardly even uses the toms, if at all)
By dead flat, what do you mean?
No resonance, no ring on the snare. Like bashing a cardboard box as opposed to, well, a drum. 'Dead' is just English for 'really'.
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What can you say 'bout this drum sound/drumming style, do you like it?
I don't really enjoy Korn anymore, but yeah, I enjoy their rhythm section. The drums aren't produced to death, and there's that high treble on the snare and hard bass drum that I like. It's a bit more Dave A. than Matt.
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But Korn bear absolutely no resemblance to PJ and haven't done for almost twenty years so it's hard to talk about them in terms of PJ.
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harmless wrote:
taffer wrote:
(Matt's snare sounds dead flat, and he hardly even uses the toms, if at all)
By dead flat, what do you mean?
No resonance, no ring on the snare. Like bashing a cardboard box as opposed to, well, a drum. 'Dead' is just English for 'really'.
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What can you say 'bout this drum sound/drumming style, do you like it?
I don't really enjoy Korn anymore, but yeah, I enjoy their rhythm section. The drums aren't produced to death, and there's that high treble on the snare and hard bass drum that I like. It's a bit more Dave A. than Matt.

kinda disagree, you're refer to MYM drum sound i'm assuming?

To me the only flat drum sound were on aud-2004 boots, yeah, really shitty sound

As i stated, album versions of daughter and small town have been sounded a bit duller,

hell to much to say, but... :D

About K. its a just a reference to a drum sound,

thats kinda a like to vs/vitalogy but a bit louder (can't find the proper word)
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You're allowed to disagree all you like, 'tis a free forum.

Edit: I don't listen to boots. To compare a studio song to a boot is silly as Matt's drums nearly always sound even worse.
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harmless wrote:You're allowed to disagree all you like, 'tis a free forum.

Edit: I don't listen to boots. To compare a studio song to a boot is silly as Matt's drums nearly always sound even worse.
As you're a true fan of DA, its kinda hard to argue :D

To each his own, personally i'm glad that's Matt is here and still drumming for teh BAND

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And now, the undermime

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Well, I'm a big fan of 'teh BAND' and I always have been, so I'm glad Matt is drumming in the sense that PJ might not exist if he wasn't. But I'm not gonna lie about my preferences.
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harmless wrote:Well, I'm a big fan of 'teh BAND' and I always have been, so I'm glad Matt is drumming in the sense that PJ might not exist if he wasn't. But I'm not gonna lie about my preferences.

can i ask you a question?

Is it Matt that bad, and his drums sound so dull and dead flat?



to compare to SNL/Vitalogy?
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I don't really want to do this anymore.
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harmless wrote:I don't really want to do this anymore.
I was hoping you'd explore the technique of that Brazilian cover band's drummer.
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EJ wrote:
harmless wrote:I don't really want to do this anymore.
I was hoping you'd explore the technique of that Brazilian cover band's drummer.
Amanhã.
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