One-Take Covers #3: Thrice - Deadbolt
Thrice is one of my longtime favorite bands and biggest inspirations for my own musical style - not just because their music is great, but also because of the variety of their decades-spanning catalog. Over their 25+ years as a band they've done everything from soft electronica to screaming headbangers. This one is probably their best-known song of the latter category. (So much so, in fact, that "Play Deadbolt" has become a meme at their live shows.)
I've played along to this song since I first started learning drums; it remains one of my favorite drum songs to this day. The trickiest part was the fact that there are very subtle tempo changes throughout the song; when I tried playing the whole song at the base tempo it just didn't feel right. So rather than take too much time and transpose them manually, I just did what no drummer should EVER do and played along to the original song with no click track. Aside from a couple of parts where I dragged a bit, it worked out okay. When they play the song live they add a neat little outtro at the end; I worked that in from memory as well (I did just see them a couple months ago so it was pretty fresh.)
As always, every part was recorded in a single continuous take with all mistakes left intact, and there is no pitch correction on the vocals, nor any processing other than EQ and compression.
Enjoy! 😎
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Sonic Poet North in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The song covered here is the copyright of the original artist and this recording will never be sold, monetized, made available for download, or posted anywhere other than this Youtube channel.