Author: chusmaestro

Let’s be clear: even though I’m Spanish, I’ve never listened to flamenco. But when my student Juancho (another music junkie), told me to listen to this iconic song because of the drums, I went nuts by the 6/8 rudiment salad, including…

This song popped out randomly while I was driving last fall across Schwarzwald in southwest Germany and I was instantly haunted by its vibe and especially the drums: all those ghost notes and rudiments beautifully arranged and used in a…

Clowncore is the best thing that has happened to music lately and I needed to worship this crazy duo with a special Halloween cover. It’s been a HELL (with no TOILET at all) to play these songs, but we all…

I wanted to dust off my old piccolo snare, so I chose this frantic Snot track to let it shine with this sixteenth-note salad seasoned with accents, ghost notes, drags and flams. Drum wise is tastily crafted with also awesome…

I’ve been working on this song for more than a year and finally I’m very happy to show the result to the Meshuggah fan community, as it is the first full drum cover on the internet (at this moment). It’s been a…

Since Geordie Walker passed away last year I’ve been wanting to pay tribute to Killing Joke, a crucial band for me. There are no other bands sounding like Killing Joke, and part of that is because Geordie’s guitar playing, his…

Chat Pile‘s “Cool World” was my favorite album from 2024, so I wanted to worship it by playing my favourite song, which makes me feel like a Brachiousaurus moving slowly with no mercy playing those monolithic rhythms accompanied with that…