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Originally Posted by Jeffsounds
Cool tune! Nice guitar work. My only real nit is that sometimes the drums are a bit too busy for that particular part of the song. Other than that, nice job!
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Thanks Jeff!
This was destined to be a busy drum song from the moment I sketched out the framework using lots of world percussion, especially in places like 1:43 when the "Sansa" (kalimba or thumb piano) starts clanking out a 3/4 thing after the song's been in 4/4 all along.
Also, while I played the drums mostly in a single take, I did double track them for a bit starting at 2:24 using an alternate hihat and lots of tom fills ala Trevor Horn and Seal's production of "Future Love Paradise".
It was fun getting my buddy Dave T. in on this song. He and I were rival drummers in high school, but then he started playing other instruments and became the bass player for a seven year US tour that I scored right out of high school backing up a guy who had been Conway Twitty's opening act for years. Then in the 80s he became the keyboard player in our highly successful local classic rock band and another bluegrass country band we both played in at the same time that launched Vince Gill's career. Since then he has been the guitar player in two other local bands I've played in.
I've worked professionally with Dave for about 44 years now, and he is very the person who got me to venture out into playing other instruments besides drums. I saw him do it and thought "I can do that!".