{"id":40522,"date":"2022-12-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=40522"},"modified":"2022-12-29T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T23:03:11","slug":"tommy-aldridge-crazy-train-ozzy-osbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/tommy-aldridge-crazy-train-ozzy-osbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Aldridge Breaks Down &#8220;Crazy Train&#8221; By Ozzy Osbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/973yEBynCsg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Former Ozzy Osbourne drummer Tommy Aldridge shows you how he played &#8220;Crazy Train&#8221; live. And it&#8217;s not what you&#8217;d expect!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;If anyone led me up the primrose path, it was Randy Rhoads.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tommy is known for many things &#8211; playing with Whitesnake, Motorhead, and Yngwie Malmsteen to name a few &#8211; but he arguably made some of his biggest impressions backing Ozzy Osbourne in the &#8217;80s, joining Ozzy&#8217;s band for the 1981 <em>Blizzard Of Oz<\/em> tour and tracking drums on 1983&#8217;s <em>Bark At The Moon <\/em>and several live recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A heavy-hitting rock guru through and through, you can imagine how Tommy translated Ozzy&#8217;s songs to the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video, he walks you through some of the key &#8220;Crazy Train&#8221; components before playing the hit track. You&#8217;ll notice this performance is a lot more &#8220;drummistic&#8221; than Lee Kerslake&#8217;s original studio recording. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The songs are so driving, they really play themselves\u201d he says, adding that Ozzy guitarist Randy Rhoads was always asking for him to go heavier, so Tommy took a more &#8220;vicious, hair and teeth&#8221; approach with his live performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fills, one-handed cymbal chokes, double bass licks&#8230;it&#8217;s not what you&#8217;re used to hearing on the &#8220;Crazy Train&#8221; recording. But you&#8217;re going to love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know you can get the full transcription and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-find-and-use-drumless-tracks-and-play-alongs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drumless track<\/a> for this song (and thousands of others) in the Drumeo members area? Get access to it all, plus handy practice tools, courses, documentaries and much more with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free 7-day trial<\/a>.<\/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>Former Ozzy Osbourne drummer Tommy Aldridge shows you how he played &#8220;Crazy Train&#8221; live. It&#8217;s not what you&#8217;d expect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":40704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4016,4021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-songs","category-performances-and-playalongs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40522","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\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40522"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40703,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40522\/revisions\/40703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}