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.

Rap Chop - DJ Steve Porter

It's done. Fastest simfile I've ever made. Here it is. You can now chop to the beat right along with Vince. I had to do it. Consider it a tribute to the genius of DJ Steve Porter.

The drum sounds are mostly classic Roland 808 samples. The lasergun (Simmons?) toms were provided by Sleazy86, and the various Slap Chop samples were slap-chopped out of the dialogue from the original commercial (with my 9 yr old copy of Cooledit). No Slap Chops (or nuts) were harmed in the making of this video.

Download:

http://www.mediafire.com/?wq22uonzzm4

http://rapidshare.com/files/235475976/Rap_Chop_v1.zip

Tacos, Frettuccine, Linguine, Martini, Bikini...

L'Arc~en~Ciel - Vivid Colors

I decided to do a song from Hyde's other band (lolz). I was surprised that this wasn't in Meow's collection on GDAMania, so I figured I'd go ahead & remedy that. This one is pretty easy to play, but with blazingly fast fills. It will probably be easy to S, but hard to SS. We sucky people need easy songs too.

I used a mishmash of BaCkDrAfT's drumkits for this one. The toms are from his Solid Maple set. the snare is from the White Ash kit, and the bass drum is from the Coated Fat Boy set, and I believe I used the splash from the Solid Maple also. The rest are from my collection. I really tried to pick sounds that matched the song.

Both versions of the PV/Video are included. I used version 2 for the YT video.

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/232879006/Vivid_Colors_v1.zip
http://www.billkwando.com/sim/Vivid_Colors_v1.zip

Comments/impressions are welcome.

Hyde - Hello

I'd been overlooking this song because I didn't have the video/PV in my folder-o-videos. I tried to do all the singles first, and I forgot about this one. It's 99.999 perecent done, but as always, I'll probably go back & revise it once. It's a pretty straight forward rock song, but there are some tricky-looking hi-hats in there.

There's a small skip toward the end of the YouTube video that doesn't exist in the simfile. I tried re-encoding, but it just did it again for some reason.

Download:

http://www.mediafire.com/?znntzhiq5mj

http://rapidshare.com/files/231716064/Hello_v1.zip

Comments/impressions are welcome.

Yoshida Brothers - Rising

Ok, this one is finally done. Maybe. I always end up going back and revising.

If you've never heard this song, you really should listen to it once. I don't think it's possible to dislike it.

I worked really hard on the simfile, so I hope everyone likes it. I wanted to try to do the song justice, since it kicks so much ass.

I'll probably go back & tweak the keysounds and double check the fills.

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zmlznmjofzz
http://rapidshare.com/files/228860540/Rising_ver1.zip

Comments are welcome.

Hyde - Shining Over You

There are 2 selectable versions, the one shown here., and a version with both cymbals in the right lane (china & crash).

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/227985169/Shining_Over_You.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=cdece1ff19a71ae61bee9a6e9edd9c76af637f76cbacbd0a5be6ba49b5870170


It's been a while since my last simfile. I started this one a while back, but didn't have time to give it the attention it deserved. When I finally got my computer fixed I decided to finish this one since I wouldn't have to start from scratch. It's coming along really well.

This is probably the most interesting Hyde song I've done yet, from a drumming perspective. Many fills & interesting patterns. It's a really great song...one of the best on the album. Apparently it has some connection to Final Fantasy. I'm really proud of how it came out.

Comments/impressions are welcome.

Edit: Yoshida Brothers' Rising is almost done.

HYDE is coming to America with VAMPS!!!!!!!

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Yes!
Hyde is doing a limited tour of the U.S.A. (and various other parts of the world) this summer, with Vamps.

He's only played in the US twice before. Once with L'Arc~en~Ciel for Otakon, and a few shows at House of Blues in California for the Faith tour in 2006. This time, he's coming to the east coast too!

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=1001163280&blogId=480481663

Tickets for the Baltimore show went on sale this morning, and I already bought mine. I hope to go to the Warped Tour show as well, but it's only going to be a 30 or 40 minute set, so I'm still trying to decide.

I didn't die or get abducted by aliens....

Just wanted to let you guys know that I haven't posted lately because I'm having major issues with my PC. I think it almost have it fixed and should be back with a DTX of Yoshida Brothers' Rising soon!

This song is completely badass:

I won't be making a DTX of this. :)

Vamps new video, Trouble. Apparently, it's a cover. It's the B-side of I Gotta Kick Start Now, which releases on 3/13. Obviously the drum machines make it a less than ideal candidate for making into a DTX.

Anyway, sorry there's no new DTX this week. I've been waiting for my new drum brain/module to be delivered, and working on the setup on my drums. I got a Yoki DD908 to go with my Drum Rocker.

I'm still getting it set up, but I can say that it's nice to finally be able to do flams. The Ion midi app wasn't sensitive enough, which made Rush songs even more difficult.

I'll be back to making aimfiles next week. In the meantime, check out some of my favorite simfiles:

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Real Voice - Ayaka

Drink It Down - L'Arc~en~Ciel


Hanabi - Zone