My Drum

Ryan on Feb 5th 2010

When I feel the aggravation
When I feel the old frustrations
I go into my room and hit my drum
(hit it)

When I feel the time approaching
Deep inside a big explosion
I pickup my sticks (pickup my sticks) and hit my drum
(hit it)

I don’t need no tranquilizers (no oh yeah)
When I’m down the doc advises
If my sickness calls, I miss my drums

Nanananananannanannannanananna

When I lay me down to sleep (oh yeah uh come on)
There one thing I wish to keep (oh yeah uh come on)
Keep em within my reach, my set of uh drums, uh drums, uh drums

Hat tip Chad Clark.

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Big Bass Drum.

Ryan on Feb 15th 2009

tuning the bbd circa 1940s 1950s jpg 236x300 Big Bass Drum.

Nothing says I love you more than a 60″ Bass Drum. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

Loop #12

Dry, compressed, reamped and plenty of bass drum.

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130 BPM

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Time to cut the ribbon up in this piece.

Ryan on Feb 2nd 2009

ciexhibit1 Time to cut the ribbon up in this piece.

When 2009 rolled around I made two New Year’s resolutions that were long overdue:

1.) Build a recording studio in my house.

2.) Create a blog to share and transfer drum loops and musical ideas.

Well, 32 days into 2009 and I seem to be on track (these might be the first resolutions that I’ve ever followed through on). The recording studio is up and running (primitive but functional) and ryangruss.com is finally making it’s debut on the internets. My goal is to record and post at least one track a day while providing a quick, flash audio preview and a download link to the original, multitrack Logic files. Ok ok, enough background on the site. Now onto some music…

Loop #1

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This is a pretty straight ahead funk groove. Sonically, I was going for something a bit trashy and low-fi. I’ve recently rediscovered Tom Vek’s debut album from 2005, We Have Sound. This record is chocked-full of overdriven loops and bitcrushed beats and I’m sure it influenced the recording of this track. To achieve this sound, I relied heavily on room mics, cheap, thin cymbals and a good dose of extra gain.

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100 BPM

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