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[feedingear]

Dave Grohl has some of the most ridiculous recording credits and true musical talent of any session musician going around. Just take a look at the amount and variety of projects he has worked on... if you think he is a one trick pony, you are mistaken. I didnt say Grohl was a musical standard. The quote was an appropriate one for the topic.

Anyway.

Being reflective and analytical of your music is always a good thing, and it sounds like you know what you want. And there is a very fine art to making someone want to listen to your piece over and over again, certainly an art I am yet to crack! I'm sure your musical desires will change as you develop and you find what is important to you in your music - my main point was if you want to write something with a complex melody, then do it. Keep trying until its working out the way you envision. Try not to settle for something you arent happy with because its too difficult, it will result in an unsatisfactory piece of music. Know that feeling firsthand.

I mean your snare is lacking a bit of presence in the top end - if you have an eq cutting out some of that info, ease off it and let the snare come through. It could possibly just be a balance thing though. I think it would pay for you to reference music thats similar to this, or at the least, the drum sound, and pay attention to the stereo image and what makes a kit sound like its in a room. I've just started to engineer drum sessions, its a very steep curve but getting the image sitting right is a huge part of it, and has me thinking more about my drum arrangements for 'acoustic' style pieces.

[MBTC]

Originally Posted by feedingear

Dave Grohl has some of the most ridiculous recording credits and true musical talent of any session musician going around. Just take a look at the amount and variety of projects he has worked on... if you think he is a one trick pony, you are mistaken. I didnt say Grohl was a musical standard. The quote was an appropriate one for the topic.

Foo Fighters have had a few decent tunes, and I'm not saying Dave Grohl is talentless at all, I'm just saying that had Nirvana not been in the right place at the right time, you would have never heard his name because there are hundreds of thousands of other equally talented artists out there that never (or haven't yet) gotten their break simply because they haven't had "the fluke" that gave them the spotlight. He is extremely fortunate to have gotten his name in lights as a result of his involvement with Nirvana, and he's even more fortunate that Kurt Cobain killed himself, because that is the real kiss of success that ensures a band goes down in history and achieves legendary status. There was a lot of good stuff coming out of Seattle right around the same time. Bands that had WAY more talent than Nirvana's simplistic playing and mumbly lyrics. The mainstream pop audience was getting tired of the existing sounds and their ears needed something different; Nirvana just got lucky in the sense that they were the first of many to reach the ears.

I remember watching the news around the time of Cobain's death, and Grohl and Novoselic being interviewed were talking about how one of the reasons Cobain was so bummed is because he knew they were never going to able to feel the rush they did with Nevermind again and that repeating the success would be impossible.

No shit! hehe..

Anyway my point was not whether Grohl was a good musician or not. My point is that using Nirvana's path to success as some sort of music career roadmap would be foolish, because it's not their refusal to conform that put them on the map. That's all I was really saying.

Back to the OP, it sounds like, as I suspected he does want to reach more ears and make it easier to follow his melody. Sometimes that can be harder than it sounds but there is definitely a sense of accomplishment that comes with knowing others enjoy your craft.