Alex Rudinger - ARC ASCENSION (by MEGA DRIVE)
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
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Anyway, on to THE VIDEO! #MEGADRIVE is a super rad electronic artist I started listening to many years ago (I've done one playthrough to a song of his before - "Converter", from one of his earlier albums). He & I have become friends over the years, & when he was gearing up to release his latest album, '200XAD', he reached out to me & asked if I'd like to do a playthrough to one of his new songs!
Naturally I was like "KIDDIN ME?! HEK YEAH!" (Lol). So here's "ARC ASCENSION" from his new album. I'll put a link to the album below, too - check it out if you haven't! It's also available for streaming on AppleMusic / Spotify / all platforms!
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In general, composing drums to electronic music always seems to inspire some cool ideas for me. I also really wanted to challenge myself here - it'd been awhile since I wrote parts that are uncomfortably difficult, & then forced myself to learn them (Lol). I enjoy doing this though, & I think it kinda helps keep me on my toes (so to speak). Writing something I can't play or have never tried before, & then stubbornly working on it until I can. It can be a lot of work, but it's also quite satisfying. There're some tricky fills in here that took me a long while to get tight, & some very odd 5-tuplet fills / sections (particularly during the bridge, but also a bit earlier in the song too). Anyway - I just really dig composing tough-stuff to electronica. Lol.
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I love how hard he hits with precision. New ink too!
I listen because I can't stop myself from going from video to video to video. It's been years but the flame still burns!
This was insanely technically proficient yet groovy as fuck! And the section from 3:05 - 3:33 is just fantastically written holy shit. Well done as always Alex!
Technical, groovy and very nice to watch 🤘
His precision is insane.
Damn them toms sound good! Also. What a huge flex.
Cool song & great precision drumming 🤘🏼 That kit is sounding like an absolute unit Alex, rock on 💪🤘🏼🤙🏼
Incredible as always! Still the best sounding drum mixes on the internet.
That Bass Drum from 03:33 onwards is just perfectly placed. Well done, Alex!
Damn that was tight!! Effin A bro!
Oh boy please do more covers like this
The ONLY critique I have... This didn't go on forever :) That was wild!
This is like if Gavin Harrison and Eloy Casagrande had a love child! The combination of stick work, rudiments, and power is uncanny!!!
That was exactly what I didn't realize I was thinking lmfao
Awesome 🥁👏👍
Absolute brilliant, as allways - THANK YOU, Alex - I love it watsching you playing!
You're one of the best drummers alive today. Incredible precision, articulation, a lot of power and passion during playing + an amazing drum sound also.
Mega Drive himself was impressed!
jesus damed wtf what a cracy song to play respect my feiend you are so f.... good this is abdrum p or n xxl❤👍👍👍
Holy fu..... that's some solid and precise shit!
This one was absolutely sick! Great job dude!
awsome pluggin bro, congrats
Awesome once again!
Sick chops
Hell yeah brother
Alex, you're truly amazing. Holy smokes, dude, you shred like no other. Keep on rockin', man.
This was tight! I love watching you drum!
Holy fuck man, you are a beast! Thanks for blessing my ears! And especially with MEGA DRIVE!!! I love synthwave 😮
Can’t wait to explore more of your videos. I haven’t seen anyone else drum this stuff before except the videos that Gunship puts out. Thanks man!!!
Edit: I didn’t realize you played drums for Threat Signal, not that it makes this any less amazing 😅
Sounds super cool! This might be one of the most technically interesting videos I've seen from you.
This is soooooo good!
3:46 the toms following the synth, nice.
Love the epic reverb on the cymbals too!
Man this was so precise. The kicks man. Incredible
MASTER
wow 😮!
нормально так бомбы заряжает !!!
This is so sick man. You’re incredible. This is the type of shit that makes me continue to work so hard at drumming. I see it and I want it. I wanna give others the same feeling when I play that you give me when you play.
Realmente impresionante, brutal
You're a machine Rudi! The china riding towards the end hits hard when it's contrasted against how eclectic the rest of the song is.
This is the way.
Hella good.
Perfection, absolutely awesome.
Wow!!!
Intense!
HELL YEAHHH! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Just listened to the original on spotify and i have to say you made this sound like a completely different song!!! Chef's kiss
Very cool, Alex! The kick is mixed nicely.
You're reaching Peart levels of badassery Alex.
Unbelievable how good this guy is....
whats up with the mr robot snare :D . AMAZING TRACK RUDI
Éste sí! Me encantó el tema, la ejecución es simplemente perfecta. Bravo
No one else sounds like you. I love it
Holy dang, dude. Precise chaos happening with this one. You hit all the things, in the best way possible. You may or may not have turned into an octopus at some point. Might wanna' get that checked out 🍻
Brilliant performance!!
Fuggin sick, bruh. That kick drum at 3:40. 👌🏼🔥
Wake up to this.....oh its gonna be a great day. Ripper tune too!
Sick as always bro 🤘after listening to the mega drive original, I think you have done an awesome job.
I love mega drive dude! This is freaking awesome
Sick
NIIIIICE, love that. epochalisticly 🙂
Amazing drumming!!!!!!!!!!!! (as always) 👋👋👋
Chorus is so good where you alternate on hats and ride 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Pleeeeaaaaassseeee just do a collaboration ep with Mega Drive 🥵
'Rock Band' score 99%. Alex always killin it!
What a nice drum part
The only person who can top Alex is Alex himself, sheesh this was insane lol.
Also, I hope one day we can see some insight into how the audio is done for your videos. I know they're mixed by someone else, but I think a video describing how the videos are recorded and mixed would be quite a hit. Or if the Fairview kit is being utilized, that's be some good marketing as well.
Keep up the sick work, and that snare you made sounds killer! 🤘
You're easily one of my favourite drummers. Would love to see you do a playthrough of Suspyre by Ne Obliviscaris
Absolutely sick; would love to see an arrangement over a Fearofdark or Heosphoros track!
Noice!
Awesome!
I'm keen for an official release version with a balanced mix in contrast to a drum-enhanced playthrough version. Would be incredible. 03:05+ is just insane.
Love mega drive!! You kill it bro! Have you done anything by dynatron?
LETS GO BABY HELL YEA
Well Done!
Love the part from 0:00 - 5:00. Think Alex finally made his evolving to "god of drumming". i. f***ing. love. this. guy. what a brillant boi!
Fair enough. 😂😂😂
👍👍👍
I think that everybody here wants in the futur a mix master with big balls guitar bass added
MEGA DRIVE
😮
Buddy Rich vs Alex Rudinger vs Estepario Siberiano .................................. FIGHT!
I was gonna say it's surprising Meinl hasn't invited you to make videos, but apparently they did...years ago...
That’s superb! Let’s connect?
That's not talent, that's freaking millions hours of practice
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GREAT !