Uploaded October 2010 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Can't resist uploading this - I had got the kit about a week earlier and was (am) still getting used to the damn thing! So this is just a bit of fun :-)
I am not a drum solo person - I detest drum solo's as a rule, and never play them at gigs. To my mind, a drummer has plenty of opportunities to show his/her skills whilst playing with the rest of the band - why bore the audience to death with a drum solo? If your audience is full of drummers, that is different of course!!
Anyway, please don't get hung up on the way this has no structure, does not flow, has some serious flaws / pauses / unintended stops and other such errors. All I am doing is having a blast with my new drum kit, and making it all up as I go along :-)
What is interesting to ME, is that all of a sudden I feel like I can play with double bass drum pedals. I do stuff in this solo I had no idea I could do. Same with the snare work - I have never been able to HEAR myself doing this before. I put this down to the far, far better sound / tuning of this electronic kit compared to my well documented incompetence at acoustic drum tuning; AND the fact that I can really 'let fly' and hit everything without trying to keep the sound levels down.
Let's face it, how often have you seen Jouxplan actually hitting any cymbals with real venom?!!!! NEVER! Equally, I never really lay into the bass drum pedal, and my technique such as it is suffers as a result. So, suddenly, with this Roland, I can really 'let go' and slam those pedals. It's great fun!
I am slowly getting the hang of the Roland - it is now a week after I recorded that solo and 'Fly On A Windshield', and I now have 6 different drum kits of my own saved and I seem to be finally getting to grips with things like the mixer, memory, instrument settings, kit settings and everything.
I tell you what, playing along to some of my favourite Genesis and Police stuff in recent days has been a real blast with this - I may have to re-record some of these on the Roland for you!
For those that have not seen it please do have a look at my latest Genesis cover 'Fly On A Windshield', and comment on the Roland. Do you like the Roland, or not? Your feedback will determine which kit I use for future videos :-)
Can't resist uploading this - I had got the kit about a week earlier and was (am) still getting used to the damn thing! So this is just a bit of fun :-)
I am not a drum solo person - I detest drum solo's as a rule, and never play them at gigs. To my mind, a drummer has plenty of opportunities to show his/her skills whilst playing with the rest of the band - why bore the audience to death with a drum solo? If your audience is full of drummers, that is different of course!!
Anyway, please don't get hung up on the way this has no structure, does not flow, has some serious flaws / pauses / unintended stops and other such errors. All I am doing is having a blast with my new drum kit, and making it all up as I go along :-)
What is interesting to ME, is that all of a sudden I feel like I can play with double bass drum pedals. I do stuff in this solo I had no idea I could do. Same with the snare work - I have never been able to HEAR myself doing this before. I put this down to the far, far better sound / tuning of this electronic kit compared to my well documented incompetence at acoustic drum tuning; AND the fact that I can really 'let fly' and hit everything without trying to keep the sound levels down.
Let's face it, how often have you seen Jouxplan actually hitting any cymbals with real venom?!!!! NEVER! Equally, I never really lay into the bass drum pedal, and my technique such as it is suffers as a result. So, suddenly, with this Roland, I can really 'let go' and slam those pedals. It's great fun!
I am slowly getting the hang of the Roland - it is now a week after I recorded that solo and 'Fly On A Windshield', and I now have 6 different drum kits of my own saved and I seem to be finally getting to grips with things like the mixer, memory, instrument settings, kit settings and everything.
I tell you what, playing along to some of my favourite Genesis and Police stuff in recent days has been a real blast with this - I may have to re-record some of these on the Roland for you!
For those that have not seen it please do have a look at my latest Genesis cover 'Fly On A Windshield', and comment on the Roland. Do you like the Roland, or not? Your feedback will determine which kit I use for future videos :-)
