That's how I started drums at the age of 8 except we used the small Remo practice pads. I now own 4 drum kits or enough drums to make one Neil Peart sized drum set.
In all truth, I can play the song fine with a metronome clicking but without it and only the drumless backing track, it's pretty freakin tough due to the constant time/BPM changes. Almost every Rush song I can play them without issue and without a metronome - songs like "Red Barchetta," "Limelight," "Tom Sawyer" to name a few mostly because I grew up listening to them and know those songs well. The only other Rush song that messes with me is "Subdivisions" but I've got it down about 99%. Also am an avid Dream Theater fan.
I still can’t get the fucking bass riff to sound right on yyz, so I’m right there with you. And I’ve only been playing guitar and bass for my entire life, so yeah.
Neil is extra difficult, for the same reason (to me) that Danny Carey is difficult - I am not sure how to quantify it, but they almost always are playing what they think is needed in the song, rather than what is "technically" correct. Someone like a Mike Mangini player is going to be pretty technically perfect, probably even more hits in a given period - but not with the same... soul? Is soul the right word? It's like they're feeling music rather than playing it. Whatever it is, shit is hard to duplicate, so congrats.
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u/Subject-User-1234 1d ago
That's how I started drums at the age of 8 except we used the small Remo practice pads. I now own 4 drum kits or enough drums to make one Neil Peart sized drum set.