Last night at the Democratic National Convention, Alicia Keys performed “Girl On Fire” to introduce Hillary Clinton.
Our Dylan Wissing recorded the drums for that song back in 2012. This song ended up becoming the lead single for Alicia’s Grammy Winning, Platinum Selling, #1 record “Girl On Fire”. Here’s a video on how that performance and sound were achieved.
This week’s #1 Rock Album (and #2 on the BillBoard 200 Chart) is “Hard Love” by NEEDTOBREATHE, which features our own Dylan Wissing on drums! You can hear Dylan’s playing on the single “Money & Fame” and the song “Great Night (ft. Shovels and Rope)”. These were recorded at Germano Studios in Manhattan, and produced by the mighty Dave Tozer.
Here’s “Money & Fame” by NEEDTOBREATHE!
Here is a little behind the scenes from the tracking of those breakbeats, featuring our GMS DRUMS Super Vintage Kit and custom made 4″x15″ All-Maple Piccolo Snare with eight solid brass tension casings, single flange hoops, and Aquarian Heads.
And here is the moment when we took the 4″x15″ snare out of the box!
Howdy, folks! We’ve been busy these months at Indie Studio Drummer recording drums for various beautiful artists.
Dylan Wissing played drums on “Home”, by UK artist Ella Eyre, with the awesome Dave Tozer (John Legend, “Love In The Future”) producing. The track was used in the show Grey’s Anatomy and will be appearing on her August 14th release “Feline”, on Virgin.
Dylan also tracked drums for another UK-based artist, Galia Arad. You can hear his playing throughout Galia’s album “This Is Lost“, produced by Riley McMahon (Spottiswoode and His Enemies). Galia is currently touring the UK and Europe supporting the legendary Jools Holland.
Finally, Dylan also tracked drums for Behr Paints, working with composing house Human Worldwide. Production notes called for “Questlove playing with Robert Parker”, and the finished track was due just 90 minutes after we received it!
Eminem’s “Shady XV” has been certificated Gold in the US! Our very own Dylan Wissing played on the single “Detroit vs. Everybody” (produced by Katalyst), tracking drums at Triple Colossal Studios.
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Eminem’s “Shady XV” is the #1 Rap Album this week, and we’re thrilled to announce Dylan Wissing is playing drums on it! You can hear Dylan’s playing on the single “Detroit vs. Everybody”, along with producer Ken Lewis, playing old school breakbeats (which is becoming a specialty of the house over here). Drums were tracked at Triple Colossal Studios in one late-night, last-minute session, as these things tend to be…
Ladies and gentlemen, we’re extremely proud to announce an amazing contest in conjunction with Modern Drummer Magazine. It’s the “Great ‘Girl on Fire’ Snare Drum Giveaway!” We’re giving away the GMS Brass snare drum Indie Studio Drummer’s very own Dylan Wissing played on the Grammy-winning hit song by Alicia Keys, plus a whole lot of other awesome prizes from Sabian Cymbals (including the splash cymbal that Dylan used on the recording!), Aquarian Drum Heads, Pro-Mark Drumsticks, PureSound Snare Wires, Audio School Online, and Drummer’s Resource.
Check it out, enter early and enter often!
Besides recording non-stop at Triple Colossal Studios and writing and shooting Product Close-Ups for Modern Drummer magazine, Dylan Wissing also had time to become a proud Sabian Cymbals endorser, and to check out some beautiful products from his other awesome endorsers, GMS Drums and Aquarian Drum Heads.
Dylan has been using Sabian Cymbals since the early 90’s, so he’s definitely happy to be part of the Sabian family since July 2014.
Here you can see what the wizards at the Sabian Custom Shop are capable of!
Also, we were lucky to have the GMS Drum Co. vice-president Rob Mazzella drop by for a chat with Dylan on drumming, drums and why we have so many of them in here!
Finally, here’s a two-part video review on Aquarian’s awesome Modern Vintage drum heads showing why they quickly became our favourite, go-to heads here at Triple Colossal Studios.
These past months Indie Studio Drummer’s Dylan Wissing has been making some time between takes to write some Product Close-Up reviews for drumming magazine Modern Drummer. His Product Close-Up for Bosphorus’ Lyric Series Cymbals can be found on the September 2014 issue of Modern Drummer (and online here!), while his recent Product Close-Up for various De Gregorio Cajons (and an Ahead Armor Cajon bag) can be found on the December 2014 issue (and here!).
Shot and edited at Triple Colossal Studios, these videos give a glimpse into the reviewing process!
Disc Makers interview Indie Studio Drummer’s own Dylan Wissing about how he got back on his feet after that one time a hurricane destroyed most of his studio. This one is an absolute MUST read for any serious musician. You can check it out HERE!
Alicia Keys has just won the Grammy for Best R&B Album with “Girl on Fire”! Indie Studio Drummer’s Dylan Wissing played drums on the title track. This makes the second Grammy win for Wissing, with four career nominations to date. Of course, this makes the zillionth Grammy win for Alicia Keys – congratulations, Alicia and crew!
