From the course: Advanced Drum Recording Session with Josh Freese

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Listening to the demo song

Listening to the demo song

From the course: Advanced Drum Recording Session with Josh Freese

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Listening to the demo song

(music) - In a situation like this where I'm gonna be replacing drums that have already been demoed with specific parts I'll play the track down for the drummer so he can get a feel for what the song is doing. (music) When we play the song down for the first time the session drummer will typically make himself a roadmap for the song so he knows what's going on and doesn't have to rely on his memory of hearing it only once or twice to know what's happening. (music) So do you always write out a form? - I do, I know and it's like it's the opposite of someone that went to music school and studied properly (laughter). it's like my 6-year-old could have done this. But it's just a simple map. I'm obviously not writing out any sort of notation. It's just for me to remember the intro's four bars, the band's in for eight bars, the verse is 16, the chorus eight, and I break up the second part of the chorus in two different parts because the feel changes up halfway through the chorus and the last…

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