Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple (Drum Cover) drumless track used

Описание: Drum cover of "Smoke on the Water" a song by the English rock band Deep Purple released on their 1972 album Machine Head.

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I triggered the Heavyier Rock kit from the Rock Warehouse release from Superior Drummer. Also added a track that triggered the Session Drummer kit from Native Instruments' Studio Drummer.

The song was ranked number 434 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, ranked number 4 in Total Guitar magazine's Greatest Guitar Riffs Ever.

The lyrics of the song tell a true story:

On 4 December 1971 Deep Purple were in Montreux, Switzerland, where they had set up camp to record an album using a mobile recording studio rented from the Rolling Stones at the entertainment complex that was part of the Montreux Casino (referred to as "the gambling house" in the song lyric).

On the eve of the recording session, a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre. This was to be the theatre's final concert before the casino complex closed down for its annual winter renovations, which would allow Deep Purple to record there. At the beginning of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire when somebody in the audience fired a flare gun toward the rattan covered ceiling, as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line. The resulting fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers' equipment.

The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song (credited to bass guitarist Roger Glover, who related how the title occurred to him when he suddenly woke from a dream a few days later) referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the burning casino as the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their hotel. "It was a huge building. But, when it caught, it went up like a fireworks display". The "Funky Claude" running in and out is referring to Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival who helped some of the audience escape the fire.

sticks: Regal Tip 9A

I used a chart to learn the fills, but in the end, I just played it my way based on the original fills. A chart for this song, and may other songs, can be found here:

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