Mike Plays Drums On:

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Mike Plays Drums On:

Out of touch
Forever Devoted
Frenzy
Nothing without You
Salt is Good
Chicken Neck
On the Down Low
Crazy Eights
Out of Egypt
Nevertheless

Style: Rock Instrumental

Looking at the pictures, you can see there are 2 hihtas on each side of the kit. The ones on the top are fixed opened or closed, and the bottom ones are operable via cables. The left hand hihat is operated with the right foot, and the right is operated with the left foot. This means, when the left handed hihat is being played, the bass drum must be played with the left foot. Likewise, the right foot plays the bass drum when the right hihat is played.

Mike Plays Drums On:

Arrows
Stones
Don't Open That
My Little Guys
Lion Face
Snowy Day
Groove Cakes
We're Going Home
Take the Land
Armed for Battle

Style: Rock Instrumental

Audio

Don't Open Intro played w/22"Oriental under Crash of Doom.
This groove is in 13 8

Groove cakes 4 hihat chorus & verse in simple, contemporary instrumental landscape
4 hihats played with a mix of hands/feet are used

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See Form on Take the Land

Take the Land to 2nd Verse

Stones Movie: Form, 2 word Description, Take

This kit is Mike's Birch 02-06 Clinic Kit.

Both the Nevertheless & Great Exploits sessions were a total of 8 hours in length each. That included getting sounds, learning songs & recording them.

Each song was prepared by Sal & Tom Waltz with scratch guitars, keys and drum loops. The order of recording was as follows:

Mike was given the forms (right) to look at. A short explanation of stylistic approach was given, then Mike wrote a 'Block Form' in rows & columns describing the song form in his language of 'V' for verse etc. Mike then went into the kit room, tried a couple of ideas, then did a 1st take. Sometimes it was kept, other times Mike took notes, talked to Sal, and played a take with the new ideas. Pretty much, they tried a few times of each at most, then moved on to the next song.