Paul Hindmarsh | Family DNA

Описание: This video ended up going in the exact opposite direction it was supposed to. Originally it was intended as a very quick jam session to see how fast I could write and record something. It was meant to be purely for me, but then it became a work thing and took way way too long!!

Jan 2021 - I had some new low noise cymbals (Istanbul Mehmet X Ray Silence) and just wanted to have a jam about on drums.
I also wanted to start making videos quickly, so I thought I would just stick the camera on and play.
I did one drum take with no idea what would go over the top. The video colours ended up being a bit messed up because I had installed some new light bulbs that I thought looked nice. My camera didn’t. So I ended up making it black and white.
I started writing some guitar and bass parts later that day. They were written, filmed and recorded in a few hours.

A few days later I started jamming some lead parts over it and came up with a ‘chorus’ melody line I quite liked.
I recorded some rough guide audio and forgot about it.

Months later I needed a track for a Line 6 video and thought it might work. It was time to get serious about some lead guitar. I did a bunch of takes and comped them together. I would have preferred not to comp them, but I wanted two camera angles and I currently only have one 4k camera.

I then started going down a rabbit hole and end up spending way too long on graphics and trying to make it look pretty for Line 6, as well as demo a bunch of overdrives.

Parts of it were used for the official Line 6 'Helix Family' video in summer of 2021.

A year later and with even more work it’s become this.

Why am I telling you all of this?

Just because I wish I had spent longer on the drum part!! LOL.