Mr. David Haynes has a slightly unorthodox way of playing the venerable and much-maligned pads on an Alesis HR-16B. He places the unit perpendicular to his body, giving each hand veetical access to a row of pads. He controls the hi hat position with a pedal, but the kick is assigned to a pad. In case some of you older folk who were around for the birth of Alesis think your ears and memory are finally going, don't worry, the HR-16 and 16B never had such nice samples...I'm sure he's MIDI'ed to that MPC on his desk.

The next time your drummer rips on pads and samples, ask him to play these parts.

VIDEO LINK

Oh, his MySpace site has some more really nice stuff, including him playing in 7 on a real drumset.

LINK

That is amazing. It never occured to me pads could be this well played and sound that good.

Check out Futureman (Vic Wooten's brother) with the Flecktones sometime.

This guy tears it up. Bad ass.

+1 on that Futureman recommendation.

That was tight! The drummer has some serious finger control.

Dave

Woah!

That was something else.

I can't play at all. Anybody want to buy all my basses?

Word.

Nice.

Cool. thanks, 0-9!

Let's start talking prices, big boy...

Peace.
--Dub $$

Forget about that Fodera guy, these cats are jamming!

+2!

Man, I am really diggin' Alvin Mills tone. I can't see what kind of bass he's playing...I don't hear any frets, but then I don't hear any mwah either. Fretted or fretless? It really has a nice cutting "honk" to it.

Any guesses on his approximate EQ settings? Or is he one of those guys where "the tone" is completely in his hands?

Dave

Wow! Nice