The story of how this track came to be is very interesting. Quincy Jones had a tape with nothing but Michael's vocal and EVH's solo (with Michael beating 2 and 4 on a guitar case), and needed to reverse engineer the rest (no ProTools back then!). He called in Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro (session musicians/Toto). Steve created and played the rhythm guitar and bass parts, and Jeff laid down the drum track based on the bleed-through from the vocal mic on the existing track. There isn't much to the drum part, but what Porcaro accomplished was in fact much more difficult than it sounds.
@@iforgotthenamemate I do not know about reading, but Steve Lukather tells the story here: ruclips.net/video/zwWfm-EY4aU/видео.html The whole thing is worth watching, but the story starts about 4 minutes in.
"Michael beating 2 and 4 on a guitar case" Is that the "clap" sound you hear in addition to the regular snare drums? I've been curious about what that was.
A few things I want to know about: 1. Every odd snare sounds like a regular snare drum, (other than the 808 drums in the beginning), but every even snare sounds like a clap. (You even hear it in Thriller.) 2, Are there any older songs with that drum pattern, because there are several other pop/rock songs (mainly from the 80s) with that same pattern.
@@phillipvallance2197 Sorry fella you're 100% wrong there. Sugarfoot was always Michael's live drummer and played on some studio material, but all drums on Thriller were either Jeff Porcaro, Leon Chancler, or a LinnDrum (or a combination of the aforementioned).
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The story of how this track came to be is very interesting. Quincy Jones had a tape with nothing but Michael's vocal and EVH's solo (with Michael beating 2 and 4 on a guitar case), and needed to reverse engineer the rest (no ProTools back then!). He called in Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro (session musicians/Toto). Steve created and played the rhythm guitar and bass parts, and Jeff laid down the drum track based on the bleed-through from the vocal mic on the existing track. There isn't much to the drum part, but what Porcaro accomplished was in fact much more difficult than it sounds.
Very cool - thanks!
where can i read about it ?
@@iforgotthenamemate I do not know about reading, but Steve Lukather tells the story here: ruclips.net/video/zwWfm-EY4aU/видео.html
The whole thing is worth watching, but the story starts about 4 minutes in.
"Michael beating 2 and 4 on a guitar case"
Is that the "clap" sound you hear in addition to the regular snare drums? I've been curious about what that was.
nah MJ wrote the main bass and guitar riff, Lukather just laid them down
A few things I want to know about:
1. Every odd snare sounds like a regular snare drum, (other than the 808 drums in the beginning), but every even snare sounds like a clap. (You even hear it in Thriller.)
2, Are there any older songs with that drum pattern, because there are several other pop/rock songs (mainly from the 80s) with that same pattern.
thank you so much, this video saved me
Jeff Poracaro was the best drummer in the world.. everything he plays turns into gold
Yes - the Jackson's had a knack for surrounding themselves with the best musicians!
this is not Jeff porcaro and neither did he ever played drums for Michael Jackson.. But his name is Johnatan Phillip "sugarfoot" Morfett
@@phillipvallance2197 Sorry fella you're 100% wrong there. Sugarfoot was always Michael's live drummer and played on some studio material, but all drums on Thriller were either Jeff Porcaro, Leon Chancler, or a LinnDrum (or a combination of the aforementioned).
yo, sorry dude got myself wrong, this time, morfet was his live drummer of choice, but porcaro played drums in the studio..
my bad!
Please do bad next
0:39
Is this Lukather and Jeff??? Or did someone recreate the parts?
this is not the original, porcaro goes to the ride on the 1/4 note in certain sections
MJ was rick james on steroids
Bass sounds out of tune
that’s because it is. it’s tuned to drop D
@@se7ente3n Nope, it's tuned a half-step down.