Drums.
June 14, 2011
Here’s a video of me laying down some drums for “The Finches,” The Ladies of Sport’s next single.
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Usually the drummer is the “driver” of the band. This is to say, the drummer dictates the groove of the song to the other musicians. It’s easy to pick up the feel when there’s a guy with sticks hitting things forcefully. For this reason, drums are usually among the first things to be recorded.
In the case of The Ladies of Sport, we usually record the song as we’re writing it, so we do things kind of backwards. We use samples of real drums, usually a program called Addictive Drums. These sound so real that they can fool most drummers. But, having a real human being moving air in a room always gives it double the character, as far as I’m concerned. So, for “The Finches” we wrote and recorded everything, and put the drums on when we realized that they would take the song to the next level. I believe we’ve succeeded. Stay tuned for the single in July.
