I remember thinking if I could only play drums like that, I'd be happy. I spent countless hours in my parent's basement, trying to pick up just a little of that style. What I lacked back then was a video like this in which the master gives away all his secrets:
There is a very cool series out there from the early 00's devoted to the making of several "classic" albums. I watched this one in its entirety:
Another favorite part of the title song "Aja" is the Wayne Shorter saxophone solo. You can skip right to 45 min 40 sec to hear about that.
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Always loved the Dan of Steel, and on many days it wins my lifetime best of all award. I never understood why it was ridiculed by some as some kind of YUPie negative. It's just incredibly good stuff - amazing tunes, well played by the highest quality musicians of their time truly doing their best to find perfection. On top of that, and best of all, it always makes me feel good and gets me movin'. Thanks for this post, and the videos. Love that drum work. It looks so easy for him and so impossible at the same time. How does a guy invent stuff like that? It's magic to me.
Interesting that they picked the Hawaiian sounding guitar solo over the other more traditional? sounding solos.
It just sounds so right after all these years, I wouldn't consider that it was just another competing guitar solo.
I think I understand.
In some ways it's like Photoshop pre adjustments from RAW (NEF with Nikon) The intensity of light, then the type of white balance. (white has a million variations) Then black intensity and mid tone intensity (shadows) then actual white intensity.
Then lens correction.
Then over to Photoshop proper and adjustments begin. More color adjustments if necessary, cropping if necessary, resizing, optimization for internet use, decision as to jpg or gif saving of file, etc.
Except this is with sound. This time I saw the drum as actual instrument and not just keeper of the beat, maintainer of the tempo. A layer of sound as photoshop works on the principal of layers.
Thanks to this post I noticed for the first time in my life that just because something is considered "sophisticated" does not mean it has to suck.
Still growing - still a life worth living.
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