Videos

TESTAMENT DRUM COVER

Posted at July 11, 2023 by chusmaestro in Music ⋅ News ⋅ Videos

I wanted to pay tribute to this wonderfully and immaculately composed Testament song from an album that blew my mind back in 1994 “Low“. It features John Tempesta on drums, who also played in two other great albums I adore:…

GRINDCOLLAB

Posted at June 4, 2023 by chusmaestro in News ⋅ Videos

I wanted to pay tribute to one of my fetish genres: grindcore. And I do it playing along this masterpiece of the extreme music “The Inalienable Dreamless” (2000) with my battle partner Iván Durán (aka @GuitarParalympics) an exceptional and precise guitarist…

THE CURE: DRUMS + BASS COVER

Posted at June 3, 2023 by chusmaestro in Music ⋅ Videos

Although hackneyed and turned into a caricature of themselves because a popular over-exploitation, The Cure is a band that has always been with me from a very young age when I watched their videos on MTV in amazement and terror….

AEGRI SOMNIA

Posted at February 4, 2023 by chusmaestro in Music ⋅ Videos

Aegri Somnia is a neofolk band from Madrid made up of members of As Light Dies and Autumnal that adapts songs from the Iberian oral tradition in an avant-garde way with other modern music such as black metal or darkwave,…

Pantera drum cover

Posted at January 18, 2023 by chusmaestro in Videos

As a celebration of Pantera’s “reunion” I decided to record my favorite track from their album “Far Beyond Driven” (1994). Pantera was a game changer and had influenced tons of metal and hardcore bands since then. Phil Aselmo’s outstanding vocal…

TAXI DRIVER

Posted at September 23, 2022 by chusmaestro in Videos

Since I saw Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) I fell in love with the soundtrack of my beloved Bernard Herrmann, especially obsessed with this jazz/funk tune and the tasty sax solo. I wanted to give it a try and get…

Singing “A Strange Kind of Love” by Peter Murphy

Posted at September 11, 2022 by chusmaestro in News ⋅ Videos

Peter Murphy, singer of Bauhaus, is probably my favorite vocalist (in the podium along Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance and Michel Gira from Swans), bragging one of the most beautiful and expressive voices I’ve ever listened to. I’ve been “singing” this…

3 new videos / 3 different styles

Posted at April 7, 2019 by chusmaestro in Videos

I’ve been working recently on some techniques which I could apply by playing songs from different genres (almost opposed) boosting the contrast-based versatility. From the 70’s funk of The Bamboos full of nuances, rudiments and linear drumming rhythms… …

More polyrhythms with Meshuggah

Posted at June 8, 2018 by chusmaestro in Videos

New drum cover playing an old groovy Meshuggah song from their 1994 EP “None”. The drum beats have an interesting progressive/fusion approach plus their signature polyrhythms: More videos at Chus Maestro’s youtube channel

Dinodrummer!

Posted at April 29, 2018 by chusmaestro in Videos

Just having fun stuffed inside a dinosaur costume practicing ambidextrousness. John Stanier from Helmet has an unique style and sound which was the reason to play this tune. The main rhythm may seem simple and mechanic but is groovy and…