Meinl Cymbals - Aric Improta - "Blur-Lights in the Videodrome"
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2018
- "Blur-Lights in the Videodrome" by Meinl Cymbals artist Aric Improta
On July 01, 2017, Meinl Cymbals hosted our Meinl Drum Festival at our HQ in Gutenstetten, Germany. Meinl Cymbals artist Aric Improta was one of the performing artists at the festival that day and easily turned in one of the most unique and memorable drumming performances to have been given in the history of drum festivals in general.
Aric's performance was over 40 minutes in length and was one piece. Prior to the festival, Aric rehearsed his performance from start to finish 100 times. He said he did this not only to commit it to memory, but just as importantly to be sure that he had accounted for every possible thing that could go wrong so that he was as prepared as he could be. That's a rough cumulative total of 66.67 hours that Aric spent preparing for this. That's a lot of time, and it showed. Like all of our artists that day, Aric really hit a home-run with his performance.
Just like all of our artists' performances at the festival, Aric's was recorded for posterity, but more importantly for sharing with the rest of the world through our social channels. Unfortunately the recorded audio of Aric's performance was corrupted in various places throughout.
Given how absolutely unique Aric's performance was and how much time he invested into it, we knew we had to do record it again. And fortunately Aric was eager to do so. So after Aric rehearsed the piece many more times, we brought him to Nashville, set him up in a studio here and had him film the entire piece again.
What you see here is one take only.
Sure, we recorded multiple takes, but we didn't stitch any of them together. Aric played through the entire piece while in the studio at least five times, but the one take you see here is the one he chose to share with all of you. There's no video trickery or mixing trickery. It's just a good sounding room with good mics, and a really good drummer. I was at the festival in July and watched Aric's performance from start to finish and I was at the studio and watched this performance from start to finish. What the attendees at the festival witnessed is what you are now about to witness.
We uploaded this to RUclips as we usually do, but because of its length, they will insert ads into it and that will break up your viewing experience. So we uploaded the full length to our Vimeo channel as well so that you can witness this in uninterrupted glory. We hope you enjoy this as much as we do. Aric really gave this his all.
- Chris Brewer / Meinl Cymbals
"Blur-Lights in the Videodrome" - Co-mixed by Zakk Cervini
Aric’s Meinl Cymbals setup from left to right, if sitting behind the kit, is as follows:
14” Byzance Traditional Medium Hihats
10” Byzance Traditional Splash
18” Byzance Traditional China
22” Pure Alloy Medium Ride
20” Classics Custom Dark Crash
12” Classics Custom Brilliant Trash Splash (stack top)
16” Byzance Vintage Trash Crash (stack bottom)
18” Classics Custom Dark China
18” Pure Alloy Medium Crash
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Here we are 4-5 years later and still haven’t heard anything close to this. This is a full album of the future of music.
For the first time in the history of "youtube" drummers we are presented with true art. This is NOT drumming. This is like Stravinsky or Picasso..Mindblowing amazing !
So glad to call Aric my friend. He’s pushing the creativity limits and is just an amazing musical mind. Bravo my man!
If this doesn’t make you want to practice then nothing will.
I can't believe one dude with a drum set and a few electronics was able to take me through such an incredible array of emotions through a 40 minute experience which transcended music and visuals and became something even beyond what words can explain. This is truly something historic and unfortunately our current world isn't capable of fully appreciating this masterpiece. We are the few and privileged so rejoice.
Guy at the mixing desk: “I just asked for your kick drum, Aric....”
This is by far the coolest drum solo I've ever seen.
This is what happens when you unchain the animal from the muppet show.
You just can't drop a Aric Impronta 40min drumming video like this.People need to brace themselves. This is really a step forward in drumming.
holy hell. get this man an Olympic medal
I am totally humbled by this. I spent 30 years, 6 hour daily devotion to the drum. As drummers we should rejoice. He's the chosen one.
If this video were audio-only, I would definitely have thought Aric Importa was a band.
My favorite part is
When I was little, I watched videos of John Bonham solos. That turned into Terry Bozzio, turned into Thomas Haake, turned into Matt Halpern.
This is the best drum solo ever performed by a human being.
I love how creative Aric was for the entire 39 minutes and he didn't rely on insane time signatures for this. Having fun and pushing himself within and around 4/4. He's such a great composer and improvisor.
Thought I was gonna die at the Gene Wilder section. ☠️ Incredible Aric; this is an absolute masterpiece.
It amazes me how he's memorized all 40 minutes of this crazy piece
Movement timestamps!! (titles taken from Spotify)
I don't know what just happened there..that was a journey like I've never been on before. Honestly...it had to be the most incredible thing in music that I've ever seen. Thank you so much Aric Improta for putting your gift out to the world so that everyone could experience it.