First things first - grab your free transcription here.
I will admit this week’s video is a bit “gimmicky”, in a way I don’t usually make videos.
It was hard to resist this opportunity, though.
Seemingly out of the blue, Eric Moore messaged me asking if I wanted new drum heads. I guess he, or the folks at Aquarian, had suffered through enough instagram footage of the heads on the shared kit in my practice space, and decided to take pity.
It’s true that, now that I have a nifty overpriced-curtain-rod upon which to mount an overhead camera without relying on iota on duct tape or a staple gun, the heads on these drums have been “front and center” in more videos. And, as I describe in the video, a fair bit of “decision paralysis” had set in, preventing me from taking any action to replace them.
So it transpired that on one afternoon in early October, I noticed a large, flat cardboard box in the mail room of my apartment building.
Rushing it to the studio and tearing open the box, I saw Aquarian and Eric had sent me not one, but three sets of heads. (It probably helped that I only use a four-piece in my studio.)
So I thought - “gear review” - let’s play these new heads for the people.
Then I thought - do I transcribe an Eric lick even though it’s going to be a lot of work? Unfortunately, yes. (And youtube allows you to 0.75x the speed, so it wasn’t that hard.)
And that, friends, is how I ended up playing one of Eric’s “signature” licks on the very heads he plays in the video.
This has everything? Don’t care about heads but want to learn the lick? Watch the video! Don’t care about the lick but just want to see how much better new heads can make Nate’s kit sound? Watch the video!
Hope you enjoy!