Total Drumming | ||||
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Released | 2002 | |||
Studio | Blue Moon | |||
Genre | Rock, loop | |||
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Total Drumming is a collection of loops and samples by Mick Fleetwood. The release is a compendium of over 800 drum loops, intended for the purchaser to use for their own project [1] Fleetwood is featured as the only performer on all of the samples and the loops are formatted as WAV files. [2] The project was produced by Mike Scheibinger and Jonathon Todd, and was released by Sony Creative Software. [3] A special limited edition of Total Drumming was also released that included a signed booklet from Fleetwood. [4]
Before work started on this project, Fleetwood listened to some of his older material to determine what he would record in Blue Moon studio with Scheilbinger and Todd. [5] It took three hours to unpack all of Fleetwood's gear, which included drum kits, wind chimes, talking drums, udus, timbales, a gong, and various hand percussion. [6] The gong that Fleetwood played on this project was previous used on The Dance album in 1997; Todd had the instrument shipped to Blue Moon studio for the 2001 recording sessions. [5]
Over the course of two days, Fleetwood spent over 30 hours in the recording studio tracking various grooves, one-shots, and "an assortment of percussive sound bites". The loops were recorded using the ACID recording software, which was developed by Sonic Foundry. [6] The samples were recorded and released as WAV files. [5] Several microphones were used to capture Fleetwood's instruments, including four Sennheiser MD421s on the tom drums, a Shure SM81 on the hi-hat, and an AKG C460 on the ride cymbal. Two ADK A51Ss served as stereo overhead microphones and two Milan VIP50s captured the ambiance of the room. [5]
All songs written by Mick Fleetwood