Monday Drumday: Thunderstruck

I have @dickturpin to thank for the inspiration for this video. He tweeted a video of a performance of AC/DC's Thunderstruck by hundreds of drummers.

https://twitter.com/dick_turpin/status/1589612430736384001

- dick_turpin

So I had to have a go at that. On Youtube you can find drumless versions of some songs and this one also includes the drum 'tab' that shows you what to play. I had that up on my tablet to follow along.

I do not know how many hundreds of hits on the high-hat this song has, but my right hand was struggling a bit. That hand has some nerve damage and so the muscles are a bit weak. I also struggled a bit with the timing on the first half of the song, but I managed to lock in for some of it. I will say that I slowed the video down to 0.75x so I could keep up. I would need more than the one practice I did to get up to speed. It was still fun. I hope I can look back on this in a year and be able to play it much better by then.

The song is unusual as the bass drum switches from being on beats 2 and 4 at the start to the standard 1 and 3 later on.

I am playing my Yamaha DD-65 drums. Some of the sounds are great, but the floor tom sounds a bit electronic for my tastes. Maybe I will get something better eventually, but this is okay to learn the basics and see if I want to keep drumming.

The cover image was generated with DALL-E.

Rock on!

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