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Fourth of a fourteen track set-list that was filmed & recorded in a home-made studio that I designed and built entirely by myself. Wuh-pah!

Let me know what all y'all think smileyface.

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"Accidentally In Love" - Counting Crows
from the 2004 release "Shrek 2 Soundtrack"
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The fourth one. An absolute cracker of a tune, how can you not love this track? This was originally one of that tracks that was on my old band's setlist (2011). We never got to perform it live seeing as we only had bass, drums, and an acoustic guitar (and we would've needed an electro-nic guitarist too). Although we never got to play it live, we did practice it a lot, and so that's how it grabbed my attention for being in the setlist. Boom shake the room muthatracka.

Drum Talk:
This is arguably the easiest track on the setlist for drumming, there is nothing difficult about it in any way and it's fairly simple and straight-forward. Only real extra things worth mentioning... would be the little four-hit triplet snare rolls that lead into most of the choruses. Ooooo, I really enjoyed playing that half-time bit where I use a hand-to-hand pattern on the hi-hat & ride cymbal, no idea why, but that little tiny beat was an absolute hoot.

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I just wanna straight-up say that I dooooo pre-write my drum parts for the studio, and if I went into the studio to record this with the gents, these are the drums I would have played and recorded. I really dislike unnecessary drum parts (pointless fills etc) and my main goal is to 'serve the song'.
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I'd like to thank one of my best mates Ruairi Grew for helping me with the artwork, lighting, camera angles, video mastering, and teaching me how to do them so that I can competently do them by myself.
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Tech talk:
There are no mics visible because I record the video and audio separately, and I think it's silly to have them out just "for show" because of numerous impracticality reasons. I also only own two cameras, so my performances are pieced together from multiple takes (usually two from each angle).

Also, no triggering, layering, or any of that fancy stuff was used. This is a 1,000,000% acoustically recorded mix that was recorded, mixed, mastered, filmed, edited, and mastered entirely by myself. I don't think it turned out woeful, but some people might disagree; to each their own.

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My t-shirt says "When you wanna succeed as bad as you wanna breathe, then you'll be successful", and is a quote from the motivational speaker Eric Thomas aka, "ET the Hip Hop Preacher".

You can buy his clothes and check out other his motivational stuff at:
www.etinspires.com
And check out his motivational videos (they're free and they're not monetised), he's the guy who did the highly influential, "Pain is Temporary" speech:
www.youtube.com/etthehiphoppreacher

The t-shirt (as far as I'm aware) was made in conjunction with the clothing company "Sleep is 4 Suckers"; check out their merchandise.
www.sleepis4suckers.com

In full seriousness, I wouldn't be who I am or where I am without this guy, and I certainly wouldn't have been able to complete this project without him. Thanks ET.
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Thus it is again time for me to leave you with an awe-inspiring motivational quote that will touch your very core. This quote helped me through times of doubt, and so, I hope it does the same for you;
"I'm gonna eat you"- Fat Bastard.

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