Muse - Uprising - Drum Cover by Josef Holmes

[ajaime8]

Wow! You inspire me to practice harder!

[magicianandyoyoer]

I have an electric Yamah set that I've had for quite a few years, and I just can't get a good tone. any advice?

[ayetoday]

Amazing but this appears to me be the audio from the original sound track? No doubt you are playing it but surely the audio is not coming from what you played. How do you get the different snare sounds throughout the track, like at 1:20? Just curious.

[meerkatdrummer]

@ayetoday Hey, thanks for watching!

I mixed the audio from my kit probably a bit lower than I should have compared to the track, I've now realised having re-watched it!

I think I just wanted it to sit nicely in the track, rather than just overpowering drums. So what you're hearing is both the original and my drums, as I couldn't find a drumless version.

As a result the snare you hear alternately in that section is just the original snare sound spilling over.

[ayetoday]

@meerkatdrummer Got ya. Wish I was still in Brighton, would love to meet up for some lessons. Picking up my first kit at the weekend...TD9 also. Will subscribe for inspirational purposes :)

[avalanche257]

holy shit that was a perfect cover. good job man

[flexpint]

Nice cover. Did you mute the sound from your module?

[meerkatdrummer]

@flexpint Cheers! Yeah- to record I turned 'Local Control' off, and had the feed coming from Superior Drummer to my headphones, along with the track itself. Hope that answers the question!

[polarstrat]

this is a fucking great cover mate ur doing fucking sweet mate keep up the good work

[Branster88]

All right your great.

[BAILED231180]

Mate that an awsome cover getting my electric drum kit off santa in 2 more days have played before about ten years ago in school but went to see muse at old trafford in september and i feel its just somethin i must get back into...... again you looked flawless hopefully someday i will be able to do the same lol Merry Christmas :-)

[meerkatdrummer]

@BAILED231180 hey, hope you've been playing the kit loads since Christmas! Muse were amazing, went to see them in wembley on the same tour. Dom's a fantastic player. Hope you have fun learning, it's such a fun instrument to play! Happy new year too, Joe

[mrbeigan]

Awesome Cover Dude, Loved it!!!. You have got yourself a new subscriber.

[KissMyAstmha]

dude !!!!! awesome !!!!! tht is all!

[kurthish]

You almost got it right dude. Check out how Dom plays the shuffle in the beginning. A bit different to how you play it.

[Eexpire]

perfect cover, wat kit are you using dude?

[meerkatdrummer]

@Eexpire hey! thanks- it's a roland td9 with mesh heads. thanks for watching!

[theoriginalJASONXYZ]

u make it look so easy, nice drumming.

[meerkatdrummer]

@theoriginalJASONXYZ ah thanks! that's a nice compliment, cheers for watching!

[neodanji]

sounds great!!! you just sound "in" the mix, BTW...

what preset are you using in the SD2?? or...

can you share SD2 preset please??

thanks in advance

[meerkatdrummer]

@neodanji hey thanks man!

I really haven't done that much to change the sound, I used the standard kit in Superior Drummer (I think it's called NY Avatar?!), and think I used the 'super squash roomy' preset for the mixer.

A good tip to sound 'in the mix' is to try to tune the snare so that it either matches or harmonises with the main key of the song. I tried to match it in this video.

Same goes for any recording you might do, it makes the kit sound like it was meant for the song!

[AnesthetizedDrummer]

great drumming! You nailed the part! Amazing feel and that is by far the nicest sounding Roland V-Kit I've heard on youtube.

[meerkatdrummer]

@AnesthetizedDrummer thanks for the compliment :)

[ransisua]

Nice. Is this Superior Drummer?

[meerkatdrummer]

@ransisua hi! it is indeed! connected the kit via midi to logic with superior drummer as the plugin.

[shouta1910]

Great!!!

Thank you for teaching:)

[tomasverdi]

Nice headphones...how do you like them? Do they pick up all the dynamics of the Roland kit?

[meerkatdrummer]

@tomasverdi hey! thanks :) they're a little tour worn as I used to use them for festivals before i got in ear monitors! They're still going strong though..

Also they're great for the Roland kit, pick up low and high end nicely.

They seem to give the effect of mastering to everything :)

[LexsterFly]

Nice vid dude ;)