Session Review Of Alex Dudley Drums- 7/05/14

I took part in Alex Dudley's recording session as a performer, he asked me to perform drums on his track which is a chilled electronic track which is the 3rd track on our EP, the drumming wasn't too challenging there were some bits of the track which were off putting whilst drumming because of the glitchy nature of the track.
When i arrived at the studio, Alex D, and myself were setting up the drum kit when we discovered that there was no snare drum, this was a major problem as we would need it for our recording. Alex D told Harriet that there was no snare in the studio and then suggested we use the new snare as long as we were careful with it. Our second problem was that we did not have enough clips for the microphone stands so we had to take the screw out of a C1000s clip and screwing it into a clip for a Shure Beta57.
When it came to recording the drums, Alex told me what he thinks the drums should sound like and include some fills to make the track interesting and so i had one run through to make sure i had to tempo correct and was playing along to it well,  when we came to record the drums, the first take i played the drums quite mellow so that they would not over power the track, i went a bit out of time during the track because we had the click going and in the track there are some beeping sounds and it threw me off a bit but i recovered well from that, the second take was much better as i did not get thrown by the beeping sounds and i believe it was a much smoother take. The third and final take, Alex told me to go wild on the fills because he wanted to see how it would sound, so during the third take i was not mellow at all, i still played the same groove and pattern but i decided to spice it up a bit by playing them on different parts of the drum kit and playing with a bit more vigour.
Overall i believe my performance was very good and Alex was happy with my drumming for his track.

Me Drumming