Monday Drum Day: September in May

I am trying to keep up with my drumming lately. As I posted last week I have been doing a Drumeo course on independence that has a lesson five times each week. I need to get into it for this week. I had almost forgotten about the monthly student collaboration for May. The song is September by Earth, Wind & Fire. It is a fairly simple song with a few fills that I could not master in the time available. My main aim was to keep on the beat and get back to it after each fill. It is quite quick.

I was playing my Tama Club Jam kit. This time I fixed my tablet holder to the cymbal stand so that I could follow the notation. I was using the Drumeo earphones. I just recorded it on my phone, so I needed to mix in the backing track. I did that in Kdenlive and tried to get it all lined up. That is not always so easy. For some reason the Drumeo app would not give me a count in that I could use to line up the start, so I had to do it by ear. It may be very slightly off, but it is the best I could do in the time I had.

Someone has the fun job of cutting dozens of these videos into one. My video skills are not up to that challenge.

I am trying to do something musical most days to train my brain and body. I am not sure I have done the magic 10,000 hours overall, but it is all fun.

Rock on!