{"id":30597,"date":"2021-09-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=30597"},"modified":"2022-08-22T09:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:04:34","slug":"we-recorded-a-song-using-only-household-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/we-recorded-a-song-using-only-household-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"We Recorded A Song Using Only Household Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kbKrziRo0v8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>We were so busy trying to figure out if we <em>could<\/em>, we didn&#8217;t stop to think about if we <em>should<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know that common story you&#8217;ve heard about drummers starting on pots and pans, right? Most of them eventually bought a drum set. But imagine if they never did. What if all you had to whack was the stuff around you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if we can build a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/thrift-store-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drum kit out of household items<\/a> and make it sound good in a pro studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the heck will a garbage can bass drum, bucket snare\/toms, and pan\/sawblade cymbals sound like? And is that a microwave?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/gene-hoglan-think-for-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gene Hoglan can make a boat propeller and cannon shell<\/a> work on a drum kit, you bet we&#8217;re going to see how far we can go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recorded the &#8216;junk kit&#8217; over tracks from Michael Schack&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/drumshop\/electrify-your-drumming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Electrify Your Drumming<\/a>&#8216; course, added EQ, reverb and compression, and made a song that <em>just might reinvent the EDM genre.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or not. You be the judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s the weirdest thing you&#8217;ve added to your kit?<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some drummers start out on pots and pans. So we wanted to see if we could make household items into a playable kit. Here&#8217;s what happened&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30597"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30615,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30597\/revisions\/30615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}