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Crazy Mangini 4 Outcry’s Simultaneously

Do you want to know why I posted this?

I grabbed FOUR live videos of OUTCRY and put ALL of them at the same volume, two I never ever watched, then put them together for humor for myself. I thought Channel followers might enjoy this. Here was my goal: to dig deep to give every, single, solitary audience my best after I decided on the part for a song.

Actually, someone in ‘a past band’ once said to me, “in the old days, a musician showed up for an orchestra gig and had to read parts EXACTLY as written, or they could not be part of the performance.” So.... I played the parts exactly as written as you can see.

I would’ve loved to “wing” it, or play with no video production click track, but the job was the job. I hope that offers CONTEXT to my doing this. It was 4,787,924 times MORE DIFFICULT to play DT to a click than when I did that without out on the ADToE tour. Not all songs were to a click track on that tour, but the consistency and accuracy of the entire band, as well as some of my past bands, was simply staggering. What a joy to have played with so many great musicians.

HERE’S THE POINT: It was another zillion X’s more difficult to remember every single drum hit for 2-3 hours and place it exactly in time. If you want to learn HOW I can do this, then be a part of my RK LAB. I am active in it. I am actually reading, responding, reacting and providing solutions for any and every member that asks me anything.

I posted it because I can share with people HOW I do this; how I remember all the notes; how I write the parts; how I can time it and how I execute it the same way each night.