Our goal was to get drum tracks completed for three band songs. Two of the songs were fairly straight-forward, but one of the newer tracks has a pretty ambitious drum part.
My plan all along had been to play drums myself (like on the last CD), but after a couple of weeks of practice (and lots of stress), I decided it was best to just hire a pro. I know a number of players around town, but, as fate would have it, I ran into an old friend after a gig a few weeks ago...
Mike Hinton is an accomplished live and session drummer in the Atlanta music scene. I met him about 10 years ago when he was teaching lessons over at Atlanta Pro Percussion. I learned quite a bit from him and have enormous respect for his talent. Over the years, we lost track of each other, so it was great to run into him just when I needed the right person for this project!
Anyway, we met over at Groove Tunes Studios in Alpharetta and got to work. I was excited because I was able to focus all my energy into producing, while Mike used his talents to just kill the drum parts. Here's a quick video of Mike and I working together...
At the end of the session, we had drum parts for all three songs.
This stuff sounds really good.
I can't wait for you to hear it.
Marc
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Thank you for this post, it is really cool and interesting to share this video...and hear a bit of a new song ;-)...Great ! (Steve_PH)
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