Drum Cover - Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

[andicerbo]

GREAT JOB DUDE...AWESOME DRUMMING

[blackzeus298]

Dude nice work! Could you explain the "Gavin Fill" please? Thanks in advance.

[danjohnmosa]

@blackzeus298 From a comment I wrote 9 months ago:

The sticking is (K being kick drum):

R-L-R-R-L-KKR-L-R-R-L-KKR-L-R-­­R-L-KK... and then after that I kind of play by feel.

So, you play the hands as 16th notes, and the two kick drum notes as 32nd notes.

The first R-L-R-R-L-KK is played (S for snare, H for hi-hat) S-S-S-S-H-KK, then (T for floor tom) T-S-S-S-H-KK, then for the final part back to S-S-S-S-H-KK. Hope that makes sense.

Let me know if it needs more explanation. :)

[RuneGERPlayer]

@blackzeus298

@danjohnmosa

In Google, type in "fear of a blank planet fill" and then go on the first link (askgavin harrison).

There the fill is transcripted.

[nevermindrock]

Great work! i'm actually preparing a cover of this song but in guitar

[familysnapshot1]

the gavin fill is fantastic, how is the sticking?? great job!

[setman69]

dude sweet



[Jimbomiles]

Really nice playing! I've been learning this song recently, just done the fill today, still trying to get it up to that speed though! :)

[Mart1nwalker]

Nice work.

Just using overheads?

[danjohnmosa]

@Mart1nwalker Nope, was using my Zoom Q3 - although it features two condenser's set up in an X/Y pattern, so kind of like overheads without actually being 'overhead' haha! I'm putting together a small recording setup at the moment... it will have two overhead mics, along with a kick and snare mic.

[l00t1]

Requesting MOAR!

[Kruemel952]

Amazing!

[TheFabsification]

Look at those socks XD

[danjohnmosa]

@TheFabsification They are lovely aren't they?

[13KHiHats]

How did you get that fill down? That's pretty sick! I already know the fill as well, but apparently I misread the transcription by Terry Branam. You are a major help in my drumming. (Now I can finally record the song at some point as a cover.) Thank you for this video. Oh yeah, the rest was good too. I personally don't do as much "open hi hat" during the 5/8 ride pattern only because I'm just following the exact song drumming, but this way, you spawn new ideas of how to play certain patterns.

[danjohnmosa]

@13KHiHats I practiced the sticking of the fill very slowly until I felt comfortable with it, then tried fitting it into the song. Once you get it into your 'muscle memory' it doesn't even take that much effort to play.

Most of the time when I'm playing these covers I normally just try and get the general feel of the beats and patterns, so often you find I won't play the parts exactly as they are in the songs.

[axedstoninst]

@danjohnmosa Dude what drum kit is that? i love the sound.

[danjohnmosa]

@axedstoninst That is my old Mapex Mars Pro. I've since sold it and bought a Mapex Saturn Birch/Walnut kit.

[GodspeedYouBlackEmp]

I would marry you, if you could explain the sticking of said "Gavin fill"...

And what are these bells, that you use? They sound really smooth and harmonic. Great :)

[danjohnmosa]

@GodspeedYouBlackEmp

The sticking is (K being kick drum):

R-L-R-R-L-KKR-L-R-R-L-KKR-L-R-­R-L-KK... and then after that I kind of play by feel.

So, you play the hands as 16th notes, and the two kick drum notes as 32nd notes.

The first R-L-R-R-L-KK is played (S for snare, H for hi-hat) S-S-S-S-H-KK, then (T for floor tom) T-S-S-S-H-KK, then for the final part back to S-S-S-S-H-KK. Hope that makes sense.

As for the bells, they were cut from old cracked ZBT crashes, I think one 14" and one 16".

[aaronedgardrum]

Dude, badass!!

[NedMcPhie]

TIIIIGHT! :D

Mad double kicker action there! Brrrrrrrr-om-boom-boom!

[Wade0Nixon]

so awesome to see the AAXplosion in these vids :D

[danjohnmosa]

@Wade0Nixon The AAXplosion and my 16" HHXplosion are my go-to crashes for pretty much every gig I've done since I've owned them.

[IDontDoDrumCovers]

awesome cover deffently do some opeth stuff soon :D

[Dorianedrums]

Great job again ;)

[qiqiqo4]

Where do you get your partitions ?

[danjohnmosa]

@qiqiqo4 Not sure what you mean by partitions? If you are talking about how I overlaid the video of my feet, I used Sony Vegas.