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Drumsong (Drum Solo Contest Entry Tape, mp3)  Click to play or right click and ‘save as’ to download.

Fairly recently, I ran across the original entry tape to a drumming contest I was in a few years back.   Ok, quite a few years back. 

The extended drum solo this is NOT, I was actually attempting to put together something more accessible and actually…song-like.  You know, with a theme, and then some variations on that theme.  So most of it was improvised based around the original groove.  I remember recording this live with my first 4-track recorder and two inexpensive room mics.

This is the original cassette mix, in all of it’s low-volume, tape hiss glory.  Still, it’s fun for me to listen back to this little snapshot, so I thought you might like it too.