Magic Island - Dan Gerics, drums

This is Dave Weckl's tune. I learned it strictly for practice. No copyright infringement intended.

A different take on the tune. I found the drumless track and learned the tune without any reference to Dave's playing of it or anyone else's. Then when I finally went back and watched the many awesome videos of great drummers covering the tune I went, "Oh, I guess I'm playing it wrong. Oh well. It's different, anyway."

Comments welcome.

Recording, Ken Van Wagoner of the Good Beans Cafe (flint, MI)
www.thegoodbeanscafe.com

Mixing, Dan Gerics (.com)

Camera, Jeff Smith
http://www.youtube.com/user/hethunder

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Magic Island
• Drummming
• Cover
• Jazz

[dangerics]

Thanks Stephen T! True. No wrong way. I had such fun figuring it out myself and then checking out the original. Dave does more of a 7/8 funk thing.

A friend shot it in the studio of the Media Arts Department of the college where I teach. Funny, another friend was mixing sound for me so we had separate sound and image. But somehow they weren't in sync. One was SLIGHTLY faster so the beginning was in sync and the end was half a bar off. Weird. Had to do some tweaking.

Peace.

[tracykash]

Wow - very cool. Must have taken you hours to get this comfortable with it. Nice work!

[DrummerEtc]

I like! No wrong way to play something...just different interpretations. I like that you bring your own style to it. Where did you shoot this?

-Stephen T.