Metallica - Enter Sandman drum cover - Crappy Beginner Drummer

Welcome (or welcome back!) to my mid-life crisis. I have been playing this song for months (ever since I posted a video of the first two minutes of it ages ago) and I want to stop playing it for a while, so I figured I should do the whole thing and then forget about it. Unfortunately I was having one of those days where everything I tried to play came out crap so it's not great even though it's a pretty easy song. But I think it's probably good enough to give anyone who is trying to learn it some ideas about how I approached this song, and I think the fills are fairly faithful. I massacred the end though, since it's so random and kinda boring to play that I never learned it properly!

Anyway, there you have it. Maybe I'll try to do it better one day, but I'm not going to play it for a month first.

A note on dates: I started playing drums around Christmas 2010, so I have owned a drum set for about 6 months. But I didn't play at all in March and April as I was on the road, including an emergency deployment to Japan after the earthquake/tsunami. This sucked since I had to start over with the blisters and muscle burn and stuff when I got back. But I am not going to claim to having played for 4 months or 6 months or whatever, since I don't want people saying "Life's tough. I have to walk the dog every day, the kids are a pain, and the missus makes me mow the lawn instead of drumming" and so on. So I will just say I have played for 2 months, then not for 2, and then played for 2 again. I leave it to you to figure out what that means.

The set is a Roland TD-4KX with additional CY-8 crash cymbal (I know, I know, but I live in an apartment). The kit is a custom one that I made to try and get the toms sounding all deep like Lars. I may have overdone it! Sound is mixed on Sonar 8 Producer's Edition (EQ-ing the kick and hi-hat on the original track down) via Soundblaster sound card input, and then added to video from my cheap digital Sony Cybershot camera with Windows Movie Maker (which really irritates me, but at least it's free). Audio and video were re-synced using Avi Information, a handy little program. The sync is not bad on my computer, but it always seems to get screwed up when I upload. Let's see if it happens this time too.....

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[espokid123]

love it dude! my kits the yamaha dt3xtreme series. its pretty awesome. just need to get it serviced ahaa :) i'll be putting up some more performances of the band I'm in. we do weddings so its mainly mellow, calm stuff. I'm not gonna be playing drums but will be playing a cajon. your awesome!

[CrappyAssDrummer]

@espokid123 Just googled your kit. Nifty! I like the idea of having a billion sounds. Mine has like a hundred or something. Which isn't bad, mind you :-) I had to google "cajon" too...I always thought the technical term was "wood box that people sit on and hit like a drum". ;-) You learn a new thing every day, eh? Funnily enough, I was auditioning the wooden boxes I have around the house yesterday! Cool stuff! Look forward to seeing your videos, and thanks for the great comment!

[RaulTheJoker]

i like it (from spain)

[CrappyAssDrummer]

@RaulTheJoker Thank you! (from Indonesia)

[MrTubinit11]

nice job! now do the one solo!

[CrappyAssDrummer]

@MrTubinit11 Metallica's One? Yikes! Serious footwork there. Maybe in another few years? Thanks for the comment and for watching!

[CrappyAssDrummer]

@Jordison1 Thanks very much for the nice comment. I am glad you think I got the intro right. I did my best in listening to it and trying to figure it out, so that's nice to hear. Thanks again!

[CrappyAssDrummer]

@MoonlightGTA Thanks for watching, and for your nice comment! The three tom settings (I guess you mean the top 2, but I'll give you all three) are:

Tom1 (high) Wood 12" Volume: 87 (although you will want to make this relative to the rest of the setup, of course) Pan: L2 Tune: -180 Muffle: 6

Tom2 (mid) Wood 13" Volume: 88 Pan: 2R Tune: -240 Muffle: 6

Tom3 (low/floor) Wood 16" Volume: 84 Pan: 4R Tune: 0 Muffle: 4

Hope that helps!

[MoonlightGTA]

Nice cover bro, just one question;

could you give me your 2 tom settings?

Thanks.

[CrappyAssDrummer]

@1995jet1995 It's a fun song to play, eh? Funny you shoud mention the idea of a montage...This song would take me a LONG while to learn on guitar (the solo is WAY beyond me at this stage) but I DID do a montage of a much easier song a few months back....I put it on a new channel - search for the CrummyMusician channel and have a look at the Cult song. Let me know what you think! And happy drumming!