Bjorn Mendizabal "Peg" (Steely Dan)

[analyzingfunny]

This is great. But I think the hi-hat is overworked or doubled or something. Watch "The making of Peg" Great work. You are good.

[cobham83]

Really nice ,moved my drumming to the next level playing to steely-dan stuff! Nice playing ,,,,,,,,

[pollylodges]

The groove is dead-on. There's Great hi-hat work in this song.

Great Job.

[shpeke]

Nice

[blackflagskate]

impressive! great feel!

[markusjj85]

great job...nice feel

[ChesterRosario]

Great groove !

Love to hear this kind of drumming !

[bjornengineer]

@ChesterRosario

Thanks for the comment! It's a quite unknown style here in Spain unfortunately. Thanks ;)

Bjorn

[frankenshank]

One reaalllyyy tough groove to nail with feeling..

Nice job!

[bjornengineer]

Wow! That's nice to hear...although it isn't true all the way. I added more ghost notes than I should...i noticed later.

thank you for the comment;)

Bjorn

[kinshasaAPP]

Beauty Bjorn!

[bjornengineer]

Thank you so much!

Bjorn

[tattypatty]

loose, but awesome. I like the fact that Peg had so many players take a shot at it....

[bjornengineer]

Thank you!

Yes, it's unbelievable...just the guitar solo for instance, until Graydon layed it down.

Take care!

Bjorn

[jamo2006]

Music can heal, music is love....hope you got thru the times ;)

Cheers from Detroit.

[bjornengineer]

I Did get through that too, after navigating and returning within somemonths. Music was my escape and satisfaction for that moment.

Thanks!

Bjorn

[ds23efi2cv6]

Nice try Bjorn. For me though it shows how truly inspiring the original version was. So so sparse and subtle but oozing feel. It was wonderful stuff.

[turnerbaker7]

Great job, that 's the way it sounds on the record

[renttuk]

godd job, man. you got the feel of the tune.

to be honest though: you tend to play ghost notes in places where they indeed seem to feel great, when the song is played. but it doesn't sound too good. rick marotta's drumming on this track is so tasteful and minimalistic that every single nuance can change everything. if you get the hihat things happen and the

[renttuk]

... ghosts deleted, you really get close to the original. thumbs up!

[Smoothness4Music]

Hi!

You're absolutely right. The thing is I decided to record this tune only a couple of days before. I didn´t pay attention to the excess of ghost notes, and I noticed this inmediately when watching the vid afterwards. Same thing w the hi-hat openings, as downjones also said.

Thanks for the constructive critique!

Bjorn

[downjones]

You forget the most important aspect of Marotta's drum track on 'Peg': he opens his hihat slightly. Check the Steely Dan vid of the making of Aja. Marotta talks about it; it isn't just sixteenth notes on the hihat...

[bjornengineer]

You´re right! I noticed later. I think I´m only opening it on a couple or three sixteenth notes, but it should happen much more regularly. Good point, I had almost forgotten!;)

Bjorn

I´ll check the vid!

[pastapup]

Nice job Bjorn!

[massafe]

"Listening to Toto and so I started to get into the musicality criteria".

All drummers should get this.

[bjornengineer]

Well, at least I think it to be so in my case. Weckl and Lang, for instance, are great, as long as listening to them doesn´t make you overlook the essential groove and musicality concept. Thanks man!;)

Bjorn

[thehitmangilbert]

Great feel!!! I dug it!!!!!!

[jhanlon18]

great time keeping man!

[Smoothness4Music]

I agree. The whole cymbal work in the interlude is great and Bjorn's time keeping is particulary nice on this great tune.

I'd like to hear some nice cover of Deacon Blues on drums, with that dry and crispy sound on the Aja record.

See you, Bjorn!

[VAFREDO]

keep on drumming Bjorn! Don't waste youre time and energy on such people and comments like sunareylisa's ! Remember what Rick Marotta said: " The less is more!!!!!!".

[bjornengineer]

Marotta's got the right point! I've fooled around for such a long time working on the craziest things! Listening to Toto and so I started to get into the musicality criteria, which is the most powerful for me. Don't worry I wasted very little time on the local idiot hehe

Thanks a lot!;)

Bjorn

[kyokurider]

aupa esos donostis, cojonudo tio, me ha encantado el groovazo que te gastas, y ha los flamers que les den

[bjornengineer]

Muchas gracias x el comment!! El groove...huh, la caja esta baja en los backbeats (aunq sea un groove bastante mate de por si). Xo no caigo en quien eres...te conozco?

Un saludo! ;)

Bjorn

[kyokurider]

Je, no pero soy de Bilbo o sea que vecinos. Me gusta mucho el feeling que le das tio, en otro post te preguntaba que charles llevas, suena oscurito pero definido, me ha gustado.

[sunareylisa]

That guy is really fat, no life, stupid, and gay

[buckeyefan500]

lets see he plays the drums and hes not fat and hes not gay hes just trying to entertain i think your the guy who has no life

[bjornengineer]

Judging by your evident sense of irony (that being "I've got my own life, I'm intelligent and I'm heterosexual", which is true) I'll be so good as to thank you heartly for the comment.

You don't need to sponsor me that way though...;)

Bjorn

[drumerdued]

is that a man or a women i cant tell