Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante learns the drums to the blink-182 song “MORE THAN YOU KNOW” in the latest video from Drumeo.
As opposed to its “Hearing Songs for the First Time” series, which asks drummers to come up with their own parts to a song they’d never heard before, the YouTube channel recruited Benante for the “Learning Songs as Fast as Possible” series.
In that one, Drumeo gives drummers a song with the drum parts included, which they have to learn, you guessed it, as fast as possible.
In giving Benante “MORE THAN YOU KNOW,” a cut off blink’s 2023 comeback effort, ONE MORE TIME…, Drumeo notes that it’s “the first recorded example of [Travis Barker] playing double bass.”
All told, Benante finished his final take of the song at just over 28 minutes.
Benante will be hitting the road with the reformed Pantera in August while opening for Metallica.
“There’s this style of beat called ‘blast beat,’ and I will say that the first time ever that type of beat was recorded and played on a record was on this S.O.D. [Stormtroopers of Death] record that we did in 1985.
And I’m tired of people not crediting that that was the first time. And, of course, people perfected it and play it way better, but that was the first time that a blast beat was on record.
If you can prove me wrong, prove me wrong, but I believe that that was the first time. And, like I said, other people have mastered it and done it way better, and I never took it any further — that was it.
It fit in that song ‘Milk’. Like, when we would play it live, the more I played it, the more I started to develop a different way of playing it.
Because I would always play it with a single kick drum, and I would either reverse it, which I think Paul [Mazurkiewicz] from Cannibal Corpse played more of that style of blast beat.
I would play it either with the ride or I would play it with the hat, reversing it. When S.O.D. would play more and more shows, I would always develop it and not just do a single kick — I would throw in a double.
And then I discovered that some of the black metal bands, later on, were doing it [slightly differently]. So it was being developed even more.
And then when I heard the Dimmu Borgir record Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, Nick Barker’s drumming on that record was, to me, one of those moments where another door opened and he took the blast beat style to a whole other level.”
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