Sheer musical genius and skill!
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CMonster
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I know nothing of what it takes to play the drums, and I'm usually not blown away by drum solos, but that was entertaining. I really liked the cymbal work from about 0:30 - 0:50. There were certain sections he mostly used his right hand for snare and left on the hi-hat and others where he reversed that; I'm guessing there's a reason...
CMonster
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So I just watched this video again, this time in the HT. One, it truly is fantastic. Two, I'm pretty sure the left and right channels are f'd up. I didn't notice it on the computer but the high-hat and cymbal on his left side come out of the left speaker instead of the right which would align to the visual. No biggie, I just shut my eyes and cranked it to reference level...
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...unless you picture yourself sitting in the drummer's seat looking out over the kit. I noticed the same thing and just assumed they were doing it that way on purpose - capturing the drummer's perspective in order to sell more drum kits to drummers who are watching the video. It is, after all, a Pearl promotional video.CMonster said:
There is a constant debate on which stereo perspective an engineer shoud use for a drumset. Some argue the drummer's perspective for studio recordings, as that is what the artist hears and contributes to the composition. Meanwhile live recordings tend to place the stereo image from the audience perspective which is the opposite of the drummer's. So, both perspectives are completely acceptable, but flipping back and forth with the camera angle has proven to never work, despite some interesting attempts to experiment with it in the late 1990s as full-bandwidth surround sound was being played with.
Ultimately, you just have to accept whatever the producer went with on the recording.
Ultimately, you just have to accept whatever the producer went with on the recording.
I am not entirely sure chewing gum out of beat to the drum pattern really matters. Chewing gum is usually completely involutnary when something else is occupying your mind. Much like breathing, heartbeat, and any other such thing (even the pace of walking), the fact chewing gum isn't in beat with what one is doing with four (or in my case, five) limbs isn't really that big a deal.
If you want to see more of it, David Grohl chews gum while playing, too.
If you want to see more of it, David Grohl chews gum while playing, too.