New Play-Along release!!

Hey everyone! Would love to know your thoughts on the new playalongs. They are unlike ANY of the play-along content SDS has done in the past. Better tracks (in my opinion), charts to show song form, drum demos to give you an idea of what parts you could start with, practice tracks, and chart talk downs to talk "big picture" ideas about creating drum parts for each track.

I had a TON of fun editing and mixing them. The tracks were made by a producer in town named Johnny Bertucci, I mixed and edited them, and then also tracked drums on the "drum demos" for them.

Check them out! Stephen, Grant, and I are SUPER pumped and proud of them. They are also a very useful tool not only for working on your ability to think up and work on drum parts of your own, but also using them as "musical metronomes" can be a great way to better learn whatever exercises you are working on in whatever lesson track you are spending time in right now.

First, the concept is great, you really have put on our shoes to make them more useful. With all the tools you provide it's just a matter of us putting in the practice time. I just can't think now on how to improve them; maybe I will have some ideas once I start working on them, but for now , they look perfect.

I also quite like the songs selection, that's an additional bonus as I guess I'll go through them many times. And the sound is so good and the production so clear that it's easier to focus on the musical keys than in the mainstream music.

Finally, the gooves and fills are both new and challenging, giving me that exciting thrill of new goals to conquer, event for Level 1 🙂

So thanks so much, and congratulations for the great work.

Just started working on "Crazy". I first learned the snare/bass pattern (L1) and was pretty easy and groovy. The snare-bass-silence-bass-snare is also there in a two bar groove I learned for a song, so it was pretty strightforward to get it going. But I acknowledge from that experience, that it is at first a bit tricky both the silence and the simetry.

For no particular reason my next move after playing with and without the click, was using 16th notes on the high hat. I thought it could sound nice, but I only half succeeded with coordinating it. But even my flawed results sounded promising.

I'm already thinking if some of the basic fills would fit in somehow. I'll have to give them a try 🙂