Drummer Ken Mary, who has been a member of House Of Lords, Flotsam And Jetsam and Fifth Angel, and has worked as a session and live player with Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons and others, recently launched his new video series, “The Neil Peart Experiment”. Part 2 is now available and can be viewed below.
This video chronicles the educational purpose of “The Neil Peart Experiment,” performed by session drummer Ken K Mary, and is Part 2. Neil is one of Ken’s drumming influences, and Ken is a great fan of Neil’s composition and performance. Here is the experiment: could a session drummer replace the existing drum tracks, that were not performed to a click track, and make the replacement parts almost seamless in tone and performance? Would the new drum tracks be able to lock to the existing musical tracks without any issues? Could the song sound close to the same? Could this be done all in one pass, like the original recordings?
For full “studio rules” for this recording, review “The Neil Peart Experiment” Part 1 below.
“One of the most challenging (and best) aspects of being a musician is you never stop learning and it’s often the legacy of the masters (such as Neil Peart) where lies the educational lessons necessary to assist in our desire to improve!” – Ken Mary
Part 2: “Freewill”:
Part 1: “YYZ”: