Yeah, she’s the real deal. There are no drum modules which quantize out-of-the-box (at least in the time-correction sense you seemed to be implying). You’d have to take MIDI out and then pump it into VST software on a laptop.
For another amazing young drummer, also check out Avery Molek. He has several hundred covers in several genres he’s been posting since he was 3 or 4. He’s 12 now, and quite skilled.
All these kid drummers teach me something every day, and I have grandchildren nearly their ages!
Here’s Avery’s version of the same “Hot for Teacher” from when he was just 6 yo!
Yup, that’s exactly right. I love when people evangelize for some new drummer I haven’t heard of yet. I’ve discovered more great new (and old!) artists that way.
I’m not sure about that. The few times I’ve played on an electric set, I’ve had 32nd note’s I tried to swing brought back on beat. There’s definitely a clock sync. That said, watching the movement, the control is there. It’s not the kit.
You play at all? I always loved this drum part, and I’m a guitar player. Lots of drummers I know love this drum part.
There’s a lot to love, and rather less to hate about Eddie’s career of guitar playing. I even really enjoyed “Balance”.
Now, as to the lyrics, I don’t really listen to the lyrics to songs much. So perhaps that’s why I’m also willing to play Van Halen apologist.
A band that doesn’t have such slick riffage to appreciate, and so needs better overall songwriting and lyrics and such to appreciate them is Aerosmith. I swear to god, I can’t listen to another Aerosmith song about getting laid. Fuck Aerosmith.
I dunno. Maybe some of the older ekits with slow clocks did. I can’t remember where I saw this factoid, but I seem to recall all the current Roland clocks are below 64ths at 240 bpm. I have a mid-tier Roland TD-11, and I can’t detect any clock effects. Anyway, there’s no intentional quantizing going on, for time-correction, the way a VST can do that.
You very well could be correct. I haven’t taken sticks to one in over 7 years. Was just an observation, and I only brought it up to say that it wasn’t what I saw in the video anyway. Glad to hear the electronics are getting better. (they always do.)
We agree. This girl keeps great time. Her musicality is remarkable for her age, as well. As ever, young drummers need dynamics and groove, but they’re all so far ahead of where I was at their age (and often, ahead of where I am now). It’s a wonderous time to be young.
For context, from the comments on that YT video: “The thing that makes this so great is Joe Flaherty who plays Count Floyd in the old SCTV episodes and is the Dad here…did the intro’s for Rush’s The Weapon during the 1982-83-84-85 tours. He is very fond of Peart personally and this was indeed a major hat tip and inside joke courtesy of Apatow.”
Lovingly signed,
A Rush Fan Since 1981 When I Saw The Moving Pictures Tour as my First Big Stadium Show If You Don’t Count Isaac Asimov A Couple Years Prior
Not a drummer, but have played around with electronic drum kits and very much into electronics and midi.
I suppose it’s possible to quantize notes that are played early but there’s no way to sync notes to a measure that’s already been played, not without delaying every note first which would not work in a live setting and
drum modules don’t really sync to a clock for live playing, sounds get trigger based on an analogue input, any delay should be caused by how fast the module takes to respond to any individual trigger.
Not saying you didn’t really experience this, but there might have been some other factors involved, like bad triggering on the pads, but it’s certainly not something you hear on most modern electronic drum kits.
Drum Machines Have No Soul
Neither do humans, or guitars for that matter, feel comes from somewhere else.
Edit: the IC that polls for the analogue input of the triggers is not tied to any time signature, in order for us to notice a delay between the drum hit and the sound coming from the speaker, because of the way our hearing works, a 5-10 ms delay is pretty much indistinguishable from instantaneous.
there’s no way to sync notes to a measure that’s already been played
No. That really wasn’t what I was referring to. It was a matter of being able to “slop” a bit around faster than a certain rate, and the machine pulling it back to a nice tight grouping at the fastest tempo it was apparently set for.
(Individual notes, not a measure.)
I hate to bring it up now, but the dynamic response was actually more annoying.
right there with ya. i first saw them in 1982 or 83, i think. and i knew all that about the great Joe Flaherty and the connection to Rush. all hail Count Floyd : )
I’ve experienced this too. I kept trying to play fast flamadiddles and flamaratamacues on an electric tom and it kept turning them into plain old paradiddles and ratamacues (yeah yeah, I’m a Firth guy. I know… lame). Double stroke rolls where I would let the left had drag for effect (which usually sounds kinda like a swiss triplet mess) would come out as a smooth roll. I was playing on Roland PD drums with a TD-6V.
edit to add: If I played on two drums, this didn’t happen. I ended up setting them both as the same tone to get the sound I wanted recorded.
