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Paramore – That’s What You Get

Lots of nice snare fills.

Vesuvius – Promised Land

Cock rock track with synths and all kinds of fun stuff. Tom fills.

Modest Mouse – Float On

Great hihat open-close training. Fills with hihat open-close.

L7 – Pretend We’re Dead

Pretty standard, straight rock track. Some nice multi-kick sections. Plenty of snare+kick fills. Fun tom+kick fills towards the end.

Lit – My Own Worst Enemy

“Standard” rock track. Some nice snare fills. Good ongoing kick-separation to build kick-only muscle memory. Chorus is straight, quavers on the ride with crash on each bar, and some snare/cymbal fills. Snare and Kick/Crash fill before the final verse is nice and simple, but flows in nicely. There’s some good Crash+Ride cymbal action towards the [...]

Learning drums with Rock Band: The Return

In honor of the amazing Rock Band 3 announcements at E3, I’ve decided to start back at the beginning of my Rock Band Tour so I can use it to teach me a new musical skill: Hihat pedal. I’ve been playing Rock Band with a midi kit for over a year now, and its trained [...]

Music Video: Flamingo Crash – Sister Sister

We recorded Australian electro-indie-rocksters Flamingo Crash live at Game On Night 5, and it looked so great that they asked if they could use the footage for a music video to go with the track “Sister Sister” from their new album “Triangle Island”. We replied: “Totally.” Flamingo Crash – Sister Sister from Jaymis on Vimeo.

Game On Night 5: Final Round!

The second-last in the series of Game On nights was to be our last Herovision performance for a while. So no crowd-hyping was required. We had a lineup of sexy geeks pumped up and ready to go! After the biggest performance yet from the Dark Side, with a whole stage of Sith, and the Dark [...]

Game On Night 4: Little Scout, More Empire, More Rocking, More Awesome

Game On Night 4 was kicked off by beautiful Brisbane popsters Little Scout, who made us super happy, and then stomped on a camera. Little Scout – Dead Loss (Live) from Jaymis on Vimeo. Fortunately our cameras are rockstar proof, so we were able to continue with the Rock Band/Herovision out-rocking, with some enjoyable (if [...]

Game On Night 3: ZeroPunctuation and GameDamage + The Empire is Back

Game On Night 3 started with the fast-talking, 2d-animating Yahzee of Zero Punctuation discussing game reviewing and punditry with the Yug and Matt of Australian Gamer. This was followed by another invasion from the Storm Troopers (with a full-band of Empire soldiers), and some dark, jazz-club style rocking: Photos from the night at Flickr.