Bring the shred

Ah, springtime… Not only are many a young man’s fancy turning to love, but sports fans have plenty of athletic action to keep track of. With countless fans watching their favorite basketball and hockey teams with bated breath to see if their team will get eliminated (or if their favorite baseball player will crank a home run today), I find myself constantly tuning in to ESPN to check out the highlights of the day’s sports action.

What does that have to do with this month’s free drum track, you ask? Simple: if you’ve ever watched sports clip shows, you’ll notice they always have music playing in the background. I’d assume this is to keep you excited and interested in watching, since the clips are fast-paced and the TV powers that be don’t want you to start getting bored if you’re not watching highlights of your favorite team.

But there’s a very specific type of song that goes along with these clips: guitar shredding rock. If you pay attention next time you’re catching hockey highlights, you’ll hear an endless number of Joe Satriani sound-alikes setting fire to their fretboards and cranking out tons of “Summer Song” clones to back up the hat-tricks and home runs that provide the visuals.

Naturally, I thought there would be nothing better than to see if I could write a shreddin’ sports clip song, something that SportsCenter would be banging down my door to try to license from me. Seems like it would be a fun line of work, playing guitar solos to accompany slam dunks. But what would my six-string heroics be without a solid, thumping back beat to drive the chunky power chords? Nothing, that’s what! So for this month’s free drum track, I’ve conjured up a seriously rockin’ beat worthy of some heavy guitar work. Of course, because this is DrumsForYou.com, this drum track is once again played by a top studio musician here in Los Angeles–so I was not at all surprised when it turned out sounding perfectly huge.

We’d love to hear what sort of songwriting you can come up with for this free drum track. Think Satriani and split finger fastballs!

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