Nik Furious: Brilliant Shower: Street Drums
Brilliant Shower artwork by Shawn Atkins
I'm a little embarrassed to say this... but I just now taught myself the difference between the 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures. And I'm happy to say that I can proudly claim Street Drums to be in 6/8 time.
This song is just drums. Well, drums and a juice bottle.
INTERMISSION! Street Drums on SoundCloud:
But wait... didn't I say something about a juice bottle?
While recording, I decided that I wanted to give this drum track a more unique flavor. I remembered a Marvin Gaye biopic where they told the story of the Got to Give It Up recording session. According to legend, Gaye plays a half-full bottle of grapefruit juice among the many layers of percussion.
I decided to steal a page out of the master's book and play a juice bottle of my own on Street Drums. You can first hear it at 0:54 and again at 1:47. (It's weighted towards the right, in case you're having trouble distinguishing it from the cymbal.)
NEXT: A sample of a friend's electric guitar turns into a digital symphony.
