Alex Rudinger - JARED DINES - "Speed Run" (ft. Ingi Porisson)

#JaredDines Play-Through number 3 (of 5)! "SPEED RUN" from Jared's new album, 'The Grey'. The album is now officially out & available for streaming & purchase on all platforms (links below!):
Spotify: spoti.fi/3Eja2W8
AppleMusic: bit.ly/3u02x1P
Bandcamp: bit.ly/3ArtvTt
Jared Dines' RUclips Channel: / @jareddinesdjents
I think "Speed Run" is actually the song I changed the most drum-wise (well, relative to Aaron Smith's original programming ideas). I kind of deviated significantly from his programming at times, but he actually loved it so much that we decided to do things like this in the future (when / if we ever write some more stuff together. Which I'd imagine we will... sooner or later!).
Bit of information on this album - I didn't drum on the WHOLE thing, only 5 songs - the 5 that were written (or co-written, I think?) by Aaron Smith. Aaron is a great audio engineer & guitarist - you may recognize his name from other video descriptions, as he's mixed some stuff for me here & there over the years. He also used to have a band called 7Horns7Eyes (still technically a band, I guess. But they haven't put out any new music in a hot minute). At ANY rate, *someday*, whenever he finally gets around to doing another 7Horns album, we've talked about my drumming on it (as I've continually expressed interest in doing so over the years, LOL). I love what Aaron writes - it's SUPER heavy, atmospheric, & just all-around SICK!
So ANYWAYZ - Aaron was working on this stuff with Jared, & at some point suggested having me play on the songs he wrote. Jared was into the idea, & BOOM: The rest is history!
The 5 I played on are...
1) Dreams That Will Never Be
2) Insidious Majesty
3) Speed Run (this song!)
4) Piercing The Darkness
5) Blood Letter
& yes, I recorded playthrough's for all 5. So there're 2 more to come! I will note however that the drum videos are NOT the same takes as the album takes - by the time I got home from the last tour I did with Light The Torch, I only had limited time to get the tracking done for these songs. So I opted to not do video for the actual tracking; instead I just learned the songs well enough to punch my way through. THEN, a couple weeks later, after continuing to rehearse them / get them tighter (or, get them to where I could do them in one full take), I re-recorded all of them (Lol), & filmed video for it. Hopefully that all makes sense. Probably doesn't matter to most people, but for any super-nerds out there, I figured I'd mention it!
Some other credits: Obviously, shoutout to Aaron Smith (!), who wrote the songs (as well as the initial drum ideas - he honestly writes SICK drum parts. I just changed things a bit & added embellishments). Aaron also mixed the album version(s) of the songs! Follow Aaron on Insta using the link below!
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This DRUM VIDEO version of the song(s) was mixed by GOOD BUDDY / super-sick-guy-&-audio-engineer, Declan White (thanks DOODE!)!
Alrighty, let's move on to KIT SPECS!
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18" Pure Alloy Custom Medium Crash
14" Byzance Traditional Medium Hi-Hats
12" Classics Custom Trash Splash
10" Classics Custom Extreme Metal Splash
19" Pure Alloy Custom Medium/Thin Crash
18" Pure Alloy China
22" Byzance Heavy Hammered Ride
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Toms - Clear G2's (batter), Clear G1's (reso)
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Kick - Clear EQ4 (batter), Smooth White EQ4 w/ port & Tama Logo (reso)
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