Thursday, June 25, 2009

Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump



This song is awesome. One of my favorite Beasties songs, and one of the best ones on Paul's Boutique. Lots of neat drumming action in this one. 95% of the keysounds are sampled from the song. It's probably not even worth trying to play this one with the keysounds turned off. It took about a week to do. I didn't rush or set any particular timeline for myself. It was kinda like "it's done when it's done". I was sick for the making of most of it, so that was probably for the best. I hope you guys enjoy playing it as much as I enjoyed making it. Make it funky. Free James Brown!

Download:

http://www.billkwando.com/sim/beasties-shakeyorump.zip


Comments and snacks are appreciated.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Hyde - Masquerade



It's finally done! Another awesome drumming song from Hyde. This one has a lot of cymbals. Though not shown here, there's a dual lane & a right lane-only version. I'm hoping this will be the first one I don't feel the need to tweak. It took the better part of 2 days

Download:

http://www.billkwando.com/sim/MASQUERADE_v1.zip


Comments are welcome!

Monday, June 15, 2009

They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Shine? (Live)




This is They Might Be Giants' cover of a 50's educational song. The live version is super energetic and nothing like their studio version (or the original). It's a highlight of every TMBG show, and I've been to quite a few to see.

A really bright cheery rock song. It's another relatively easy song to play. Great for practice & warmup, or to impress the laydeez. Give it a chance & you'll likely love it.

Download:

http://www.mediafire.com/?nbqtymm0t3z

http://rapidshare.com/files/243701499/TMBG_whydoesthesunshine.zip

More TMBG on the way. They have so many good drum songs it's hard to know where to start.

Monday, June 8, 2009

TETSU69 - A Wonderful World




Here's another fun song.

I watched the video a couple times on YouTube and then it got stuck in my head.....so I made a DTX! This is by Tetsu from L'Arc~en~Ciel, one of his solo songs. It's a nice, relaxed, summer-y song.

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dxzwizzlwmw
http://rapidshare.com/files/240949936/TETSU69_-A_WONDERFUL_WORLD.zip

This is a great practice song for folks like me that have a hard time with faster alternating snare/hi-hat patterns. It's 100bpm, so it's not too fast, but fast enough to be tricky if you're not used to it. If anybody wants an easier version, i'm pretty sure I can pull off a playable one for this.

I still can't play the hi-hats parts & the bass drum at the same time, so it's not quite as easy as I hoped it would be.

Download it, toss it into your list...play it as a 1st song warmup, right after Oranges! :P It grows on you.

They Might Be Giants - Oranges



Fresh squeezed!

This is a short, silly song. It's sort of a joke commercial recorded for the designers of the TMBG site (at the time), The Chopping Block. It's always made me laugh, and I thought it would be a fun warmup DTX. An added humorous bonus is, if you watch the video with headphones, it sorta feels like the oranges are talking to you (due to the fact that John's voice is panned to the right channel).

E-solutions for E-verybody!

Download:

http://rapidshare.com/files/241889176/Oranges.zip
http://www.billkwando.com/sim/Oranges.zip

Comments/impressions are welcome.