Deftones - Beauty School (Drum Cover)

Band: deftones Song: "Beauty School" Album: Diamond Eyes (2010) Drum Cover: #30 (c) deftones' "Beauty School" is the Copyrighted property of it's owner(s). This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. No profit will be made by the video creator. "Autumn Forrest" intro photo shot by Paul Gerritsen and used with permission. http://www.irishviews.com/autumn-fore... Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?i... Or search: "Octoberdays Drum Covers." This is a drumming and music discussion facebook page. Not a fan page. I do a lot of rambling and video posting and expect the same from my friends. So come and talk with us! I am a cancer survivor and am not the young healthy guy I used to be. But I am improving slowly but surely. Always feel free to visit this site for updates if interested. http://tonybostonfund.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There is a lot to say about this guy... (Sometimes I call my drum cover projects "guys." Don't ask me why.) So maybe business first: Again, one of my cameras crapped out on me while filming: this time the foot angle mercifully. Again though, it doesn't look we lose too much on seeing how it's played by losing that angle. I wish they (my 'lil cameras) wouldn't keep acting up though! Oh well. Btw: Both the audio and all video footage were filmed simultaneously with multiple cameras. All drum audio was recorded from one mic and not edited at all other than with volume EQ to compete with the song. I have 4 cameras set up at all times in my room so I can record all angles at once. If I were healthier and more physically capable, I might be doing multiple takes and just moving one camera around each time. But I simply can't physically manage that. But I feel by recording this way, I present the cover as accurately as I possibly can. It's all one take. (My God I sound full of myself with all this "I -- I -- I" crap. I just love talking about drums and music. I love discussing details. So this loooooong description is meant for people like me who are interested, drum/music nerds who like to geek out on this stuff. =) As far as the cover goes: Something occurred to me while playing this song. I have been playing open handed without really thinking about it lately -- which is really exciting to me! It's like learning another language and having dreams in that language. That's when you know you are learning it. My left hand has been naturally gravitating to do HH work lately, and that's great because that's what I've been working towards for a long time. And with this song it's pretty easy to do as there are such distinct changes from riding on the ride to the hats. Also lately, I have been making little cliff-notes of music for my covers. It has been helping me to learn the song much faster and more accurately by mapping everything out. I posted a scan of the "cliff-notes" at the end of the cover if you're interested in seeing it. Again, as I say on my homepage, I like to play these covers as close to the original song as I can manage because it throws me out of my comfort zone. I think playing your own style over songs is a great tool and should definitely be done often, but I like to challenge myself to get covers as precise as I can. By doing that, it puts rhythms and fills and patterns in my mental toolbox that I may have never come up with on my own. As always, I made a few mistakes in this cover, but at least the parts are about as accurate as you can get. I certainly do not play the song perfectly. I'm no Travis Orbin. ;) by the way, go watch this guy. Incredible.    / shaftninja   The deftones were my first major crush on a band. I got their first album when it came out in '96. I was a freshman in high school, and their music changed my life. Hardcore, yet soaring vocals. My crush only intensified with Around the Fur and White Pony. By then it was an all out affair. I flaunted it. Hahaha. I am a huge self titled fan as well and even love Saturday Night Wrist. But this newest album was a huge let down to me at first. I liked Rocket Skates and Diamond Eyes enough when they were released, but the album as a whole seemed pretty tame compared to what I was used to. Only recently have I finally started to appreciate this album more and more. And it's caused me to go back and listen to everything deftones for the past week or so. I don't see it ending any time soon. I like the newest album enough now to keep it in a regular rotation which means that I bet I'll like it more and more each time I listen to it. Just because Diamond Eyes (the album) is an acquired taste to me, doesn't mean I can't learn to love it. I'm on my way. I'm starting to see it is a more mature approach and progression to their flavor of music. And I can dig that.