World's most accurate Rush Drum Cover Recreating iconic drum sounds Subdivisions, by Chris Lucci

Another in the series of Neil Peart tribute covers. This track was also made with the Moises.ai app, removing the original drum track and then replacing with Chris's which was recorded in the room you see. He is again trying to nail Neil's original part as closely as possible, beat for beat. This is not an easy song to duplicate! We can humbly say, after listening to many, many of YouTube's other Subdivisions covers, that his most precisely nails the beats, the timing, the tone of the drums and the nuances that made Neil what he was.Show more

Chris: "Neil Peart was the most important of my influences, when I was a beginner drummer. Though I have my own style now, I tried to emulate my favorite rush songs and his tracks to this degree because of the tremendous respect I had for his hard work, precision and creativity. To get this song right, you can't just memorize the notes. Neil had an incredible sense of making fills sound urgent and intense without losing the groove. His fills, hi-hat work and cross-over technique have to be practiced in terms of the accents, grace notes and dynamics other than just playing the notes. That is what makes the sound he created. My hat is off to Neil, these are some of the best fills he ever wrote. The upbeat china ride pattern at the end is especially cool."

Neil's sound changed a little bit from the days of Permanent Waves and then Moving pictures. we think he went for a little more open / less dampened sound on Signals. You will notice some difference between this track and the YYZ sound we got on the first in the series of Rush drum covers, and once again with room treatment, miking technique, mixing, and mastering, we think Chris absolutely nailed Neil's original tone here.

Cheers

Mixing: Chris Lucci
Backing tracks: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, via Moises app
Video editing: Clint Wilson.

For those of you that have asked: the super-cool looking absorber/diffusers in corners are GIK Alpha series 5.625" deep panels. Remainder on the walls are three GIK 244 broadband panels and four GIK 2" panels stacked on top of each other, with 2" air gap between panels and ceiling built into a frame.

Recording setup is using Pearl, custom fiberglass kit, Remo Pinstripes on toms and coated CS batter on snare. Focusrite Scarlet OctoPre, running into Logic Pro, latest edition.
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