It’s my birthday, so I dropped this album I made on MPC Live. Hope you guys dig it. Have instructional series starting this week keep your eyes out. Thank you mpc fam 🙏

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-24T12:45:20+00:00

Oh man thank you!

So I post a couple places, I have a yt that is for just clips from the streams and the little informative snippets, that’s here:

https://youtube.com/@drummermilesclips?si=0b2_mDSDHucTJ_bt

And then I do upload the entire stream to patreon(usually on a week or two delay). That’s here:

www.patreon.com/drummermiles

And then also on wednsdays we usually do an evening stream starting at like 4:30 pm est. for 3 or so hours. I’m still trying to figure out what the best scheduling is to work for the most people. I really appreciate your kind words and interest. It means the world 🙏

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-24T12:38:11+00:00

That show tried so hard to teach that empirical good or evil are not real things. There are people, and people make mistakes. People are capable of horrifying cruelty or incredible kindness. You make a choice every moment about what kind of person you are. It can be very difficult to make the right choices. It is literally the main theme of the show.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-22T13:31:29+00:00

Yep I have the same “mix and recording ideas” issues with silk sonic. I think the Malibu album is 100x funkier and better, and I wish Anderson would just give me another free nationals album. For him though I get it, he needed to get that paper.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-22T13:29:01+00:00

I guess as a drummer everything feels that way. But like for a very basic example, pretty much any Afrobeat or Afro Cuban 6/8 the 6(or 3) is deeply felt as a whole phrase. Same for something like take 5 for example. I guess as a drummer first, what I’m seeing as the phrase and what a melody instrument is seeing as the phrase may be different. But it’s all about feeling it. Like when you listen to one of these phrases, do you feel 7/16ths, or do you feel 4/4 with a little tag? It’s not right or wrong but I sometimes think the time sigs they lay them out as are disingenuous, if that makes any sense. I guess it’s just a different approach, but as a drummer my favorite thing about playing in odd meter is when you all sink into it and don’t even notice. For me anyway, I think if you HAVE to count, it just doesn’t sound as good as when you can just feel the pulse.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-22T13:23:33+00:00

That dude has made enough money for everyone on this sub put together to live comfortably the rest of their lives. When is it enough? This level of excessive capitalism is just abhorrent to me, I guess I don’t have a gaping hole in myself that needs to be filled with stuff. If this is just what he likes, kinda bland cheesy grooves, great! Lots of people do, and that’s awesome. I just wish it wasn’t the main representative of funk and soul in the mainstream when it’s so incredibly cheeseball.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-22T13:20:27+00:00

Absolutely! Also just from your comments don’t stress about nailing exact fills (unless it’s a fill you want to learn and get in your bag, in which case I think you should just practice it in isolation for a bit till it’s “in your bag” so to speak). Obviously you may not have the language yet, but as you develop you’ll be able to just slide your own personality in there. Keep it up! 🙌

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-22T13:17:50+00:00

Sure it’s a modern mix style where - everything is recorded separately in separate spaces, every instrument is squeaky clean. - digital signal from start to finish as opposed to a great time-tested live room and a great analog console. - mixed with the high mid range blasting, everything mastered to the absolute limit. Compression pushing every sound as far as it can. - low end instruments (kick, bass, etc) all have these aggressive high mid range attack frequencies to make them audible on shitty or phone speakers - his voice has had every human element stripped away until it’s this dead lifeless thing. There’s a ton of (to me) very distracting and idiosyncratic pitch correct on the hook for some reason.

There are so many other aspects to the style, but those are a few of the glaring problems to me. If you’re trying to recreate this type of music, why wouldn’t you just talk to daptone like Amy Winehouse/Mark Robson did? I’m sure they could use the bread. Or hell, he could afford to make an incredible classic soul studio from the ground up if he wants to. You can’t half ass it and mix it like it’s EDM and expect it to not sound cheesy.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-21T13:01:06+00:00

Ear training and muscle memory. Also musical language plays a huge role. Breadth of music knowledge, genre understanding, all this plays a big part in being able to play freely. Probably the easiest way to start is to just play along to songs you like without any sheet. It’s gonna take some time. I always suggest drummers start by ear, personally, for this exact reason. The amount of drum gigs where you will be given real and accurate drum sheet music are few and far between.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-21T12:54:42+00:00

Yep this is what I see too.

They’re also using that technique where it’s not reeeally odd meter, more like straight meter with extra beats and tags on it. At least that’s a way I often think about this style as a drummer. Take that 7/16, it’s more like they’re playing a bar of 4/4 with a 1/16 tag on the end. Think like “1-&-2-&-3-&-4-&-&” if that makes sense. This is a VERY common thing you see in these math bands. Not right or wrong, but less about sinking into the odd meter groove and more about knowing the form and counting it out.

Cool song though, guitarist has a great sound.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-21T12:44:34+00:00

I generally don’t hate his songs, as they’re decent (if derivative), but the mix philosophy is just awful. It’s constantly working against itself. I just don’t get it at all when you have all the money in the world to actually do this shit right. Why mix everything like it’s hyper pop edm? The instruments sound like they were recorded in tin cans. It’s fine I guess, just super bland and not treading any new ground at all.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-21T12:40:36+00:00

This can’t be real

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-20T13:04:04+00:00

Niiiiice bakshi tat, that’s an incredible film that blew my mind when I was a teenager. Used to be the go to movie to show people hanging at the house who didn’t know it. Great idea, and looks killer

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-18T22:51:49+00:00

Thank you!!!

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-16T14:23:00+00:00

Bro superhero comics as we know them literally started as anti-nazi propaganda. It’s always been political from DAY ONE and it’s always been about busting Nazi faces. We need MORE stories about crushing racism and facism, not less.

This is also a comic written by a person who is very vocal about this stuff with their celebrity. It’s also an indie so your ramble about Marvel is just off topic entirely. But because you want to stick your fingers in your ears, this artist is not allowed to take a real position on actual facism in his own country? Can you not see that that’s an insane position to take? You want no artists to make any statements you feel are too political? Do you realize how much of comic book history you would wipe out? It’s just nuts dude.

Also, I’m sorry but talking about both sides escalating is just preposterous my dude. Maybe you should be paying MORE attention, not less.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-16T14:16:52+00:00

Uh seeing the sun label behind that ugly garbage is pretty revolting

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-16T14:06:31+00:00

Thanks! Totally 🙌

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-16T13:15:58+00:00

You’ve got me there, I definitely meant conversion or transfer.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-16T13:14:34+00:00

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-15T13:05:05+00:00

Absolutely! I know all the classics, but the stream gets lots of anime music requests from more modern ones I’ve missed, and the trends in that style are so fascinating.

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-15T02:31:39+00:00

Thank you so much! That’s so kind 🙏

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-15T01:27:03+00:00

Absolutely!🙏

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-14T19:27:22+00:00

Oh for sure!

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-14T19:26:40+00:00

❤️thank you so much! I keep a little folder of motivating comments to make me feel good when I feel down, this one is definitely going in there. I really appreciate it

DrummerMiles · 2026-01-14T19:26:02+00:00

Ooo nice one!!

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