Open Mic Week 41 - The Walding Family Drum Shredthrough
I'm very close now to recording a new song for my band, The Walding Family. My bandmate @emelanson has an account too, although he hasn't used it at all yet... hopefully I can get him to start Steeming soon.
This song has some of my favorite drums that I've done in a while. Whenever the composition of the drum grooves gets really hectic and reckless, like it was with my older bands Good Citizens and Oculesics, that's when I feel most at home behind the kit. It's been a real blast jamming out some new tunes with this band and so why not shred it for open mic?
You might recognize the first groove if you've listened to some of my other posts... but the rest of this is brand new.
Hope you enjoy!
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Ahh, love those patterns! As a beatboxer, I love to do some technical drum patterns aswell, so I can definitely feel the grooves and rythms. Nice!
Thanks a lot @benja! Beatboxing is a really neat way to re-think drum sounds and grooves, I can dig it.
Dude, when you play drums you remind me of Animal from the Muppets. So cool to hear you jam.
funny, i had the same thought, but maybe a bit more in control than Animal, unless he started noshing on the drumsticks off camera! awesome session Matt, look forward to hearing the song with the whole band. The Walding Family is the name of your band?
Thanks so much! Ya The Walding Family is the band, we're going to be releasing a bunch of music in the fall. Theres some stuff already out over at https://soundcloud.com/thewaldingfamily
cool man, I will check it out. Were you listening to the rest of the band on the track on your headphones?
Yeah, just a Guitar Pro midi file, not a live recording. But it's super important for crazy music like this, I'd never be able to keep track of where I am in the song without some of the other parts to play along with.
yeah man, you got some cool rhythms going on there!
haha I've heard that one a few times. Maybe one day I will be as good as Animal.
Nice drumming man, I can dig it. Looking forward to hearing the finished track.
Is Polite Cop a reference to Nervous Cop at all?
Nah BUT Nervous Cop is a cool band, my favorite drummer Zach Hill is in that one!
Zach Hill is my favorite drummer too. I think the only other drummer that comes close to him in my list of favorites would be Brian Chippendale. Or maybe these guys:
Now you've got me thinking that I should do a drummers edition of my Music from the Underground series.
Dude, I can't believe you're on the zach hill kick too! No wonder we get along so well. I am seriously obsessed with that man's music, from Hella to Death Grips and whatever else. Chippendale is sick too although I haven't delved into lightning bolt so much.
This video is crazy man haha I've never heard of this duo before.
Yeah man, Zach Hill is definitely one of the greats, so prolific and pretty much everything I've heard from him has been gold. I don't listen to Lightning Bolt as much as I should but every so often I like to stick on one of their albums just to scratch that noisy itch, same with his Black Pus stuff. I just love Chippendale's energy.
And, yeah, I found those guys from watching a La Blogotheque video where they show up for all of about half a minute, I thought they were fantastic so I had to try and find more music from them. I don't listen to them that much but I still think they are brilliant.
Pretty nice session.
thank you
Really nice drum chops, good luck this week Brother!
Thanks a lot @brimax appreciate you checking it out as always :-)
Always a pleasure Brother. Great chops!!!!