Author: chusmaestro

updated gallery

I’ve updated my image gallery with some photos I’ve taken over the last few years traveling the world. Animals have fascinated me since I was very young, and one of my favorite hobbies is venturing into nature to observe them…

FLAMENCO?

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…

SNAPCASE

Back to 1997…what a great year for hardcore: Hatebreed‘s “Satisfaction is the Death of Desire“, Strife‘s “In This Defiance” and Snapcase‘s “Progression Through Unlearning“, where they took Helmet‘s sound (and snare ping) to a new level, recording a masterpiece from…

LAMB OF GOD

I’ve never been a Lamb of God or Chris Adler fan, but this song is funny to play and this was supposed to be a collaboration video with a student for my “VS” series, but he never recorded his part…

GHOST NOTES & RUDIMENTS

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…

HALLOWEEN

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…

SNOT

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…

MESHUGGAH…AGAIN

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…

KILLING JOKE

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…

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