Daft Punk - "Giorgio by Moroder" (Drumless Track - Drum Interpretation)

1 - I did not have a metronome going during the entirety of this song. I've covered half of it before, so I had some idea of the tempo. Thus my coming into it wasn't 100% confident as it took me a minute to hear the music underneath his oration.

2 - If you remember the original, a click is actually occurring here. See FN #1. Again, no click. I'm doing my own click with the sincere hope it lines up. (It just nearly does, thank goodness.)

3 - One of the smartest things I've ever done with my kit is having this auxiliary hi hat. I can just groove out in full without worrying about getting limbs and sticks out of the way (e.g., the regular hi hat.)

4 - Generally, this is about as linear as any fill I'm ever going to play is ever going to get. I'm not a big fan of linear fills. Just a preference.

5 - W/r/t FN #4, I am, however a fan of making a mistake or three in each video. :)

6 - I'm a cross-referencing machine in these footnotes! W/r/t FN #4, again...it's not that I won't do linear fills, I just won't stay there when it comes to choosing fills. There's a time and a place and it's not all the time. But, it does have its purpose and often very subtle ones work out in this piece of music. Or my interpretation of it, that is.

7 - This sort of degradation modulation with the bass drum - 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1 - was during a practice session I had with the song. I wasn't paying attention and stopped a beat early and only missed a beat, but came back in and it dawned on me to try it and...well, it made the cut. Is it poetic? I don't know. It just is. It's there.

8 - Okay, this is really important for anyone who wants to be a keyboard warrior and tell me I didn't play Omar Hakim's parts. THAT'S THE POINT. And literally why this footnote falls on the words "you can do whatever you want; nobody told me what to do and there was no preconception of what to do" - so enjoy the rest of the song AS I FELT IT.

9 - I don't solo. I'm not a huge fan of them mostly because I just don't write that way. So, what you hear is what I felt like doing at that exact moment. Of course, with a few practice sessions to get down the length of each section.

10 - By this point, I knew I had done a reasonable enough job to keep this recording. And thus, happy.

11 - Stay hydrated.