Dude, you just got owned by a 12-year old...
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there's gear, and music - and opinions. and then there's shit like this, something you simply can't argue. amazing.
W
Amazing. Wonder where he'll end up.
That video is quite old. He's 21 now, and a pretty well-known drummer.
http://www.tonyroysterjr.com/
If you have aptitude, and have Dennis Chambers as your teacher, you'll do pretty well in life, drum-wise.
-CR
Please don't make me listen to any more drum solos. Please.
Foolishly following the link to his homepage will take you to a world of jazz funk fusion drum solos, where dry toms pan eternally around the stereo field, over DX-style 'notecluster' solo chirping and twittering.
Aaargh panned drums!
No, mr mix engineer I do not want to be situated in a position 1 foot above the drummers head. Why that weird mixing fashion remains prevalent I just don't know, separation can be acheived much more pleasantly.
Sorry, I just have a thing about panning techniques in general
No offence to Mr Royster.
I'm all with you there. My number one pet peeve is stereo micing a piano with the left mic over the bass strings and the right mic over the treble strings. I can't stand sampled piano because it's all like that. The only person that hears a piano like that, and even then not really, is the player. The audience hears a nice mixed stereo image reflecting off the soundboard.
But I can't stand panned drums in general. I tend to run all the mics right up the middle, and use a narrow stereo field for the overheads.
-CR
Yeah, drum solo... yawn. Double kick drum peddle... whatever. But, still, that's impressive. I think when I was 12 I was still struggling with a bar chord and hadn't moved beyond 4/4 time. And the kid has a good sense of dynamics, which is more than you can say about half the drummers out there.
Once Chester started playing with Genesis, I think it's safe to say that the world could have done fine without the first iteration, let alone a redux.
(How does one make the transition from Zappa to Phil Collins? That's like Daryl Jones playing with the Stones.)
-CR
Kinda like going from Zappa to Missing Persons.
(except I kinda like Missing Persons...)
c.
Personally can't stand them, but even at their worst, they don't suck as hard as post-"3 Sides Live" Genesis.
Or Zappa to the David Lee Roth Band. That's not a lateral move.
-CR
Well, this guy has chops, no doubt about it...but does the world really need another Chester Thompson?
he's not even a guy. he's a kid.
But yeah, I agree, it's too bad every decent drummer in the world is eventually lost to jazz.
W
I don't usually dig drum solos but that kid has talent.
Awesome drum solo..... Really talented at 12.
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