You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder (Drum Cover)

This is a classic Stevie Wonder song. I played it many times at wedding gigs in the 70s and 80s. It’s funny, I never played it like the original record. We always did so faux bossanova groove which is implied, but the original lays a little more LA 70s studio/rock/pop Latin. I’m not sure who the drummer was ... it could have been Stevie? But I’m not sure.

Anyhow on my last and best take I let off some steam at the end of playing it close to the record, never exact! So you should skip to 2:25 and play it out.

Enjoy!


Equipment:
Gretsch - 8x10, 9x13, 16x16, 14x20
Ludwig Black Beauty - 5x14
Paiste - 15” Giant Beat HH, 18" Giant Beat Thin Crash, 20" Giant Beat, 20" Dark Energy MKI Prototype, 16" Signature Thin China

Logic Pro X
Presonus StudioLive 24.4.2
Seventh Circle Audio Mic Pres (2- J-99, 1 N72, 1 A-12)

OH - SM 81 pr into J-99s
Snare - SM 57 into N-72
Kick - Beta 52 into A-12
Tom 1 - e604 into Presonus
Tom 2 - e604 into Presonus
F Tom - e604 into Presonus

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