Good Morning/ Afternoon/Evening; where this finds you all. I wanted to put up a post about Recording Drums ; I’ve been doing this in the last week. This last 4 months or so have been woven with the exciting song writing I’ve been taking part in with Almatic. We’re a new hip hop project from Bristol. With Zac Gregory from Carnyvillains, Katie Riddle from Ys, Olly Hobaps from The Inexplicables, Tamsin Elliot from Solana, and myself from Feral Mouth and The Gin Bowlers. It’s been alot of fun and like any intense songwriting session ( we set the deadline to record and booked the studio time before the songs were finished ) it had moments of intense excitments, and moments of intense frustration.

Recording Drums is fun. And Hard. And really rewarding. And liberating.

It pulls together aspects of personality that work well in the group, and highlights aspects that don’t. This forces upon you all an opportunity to to craft self-development, compromise your values for others, increase you solidarity with things within yourself you find truly important, and above all, make a beautiful thing that was the process of doing just that.

I love writing with new people because it puts you and your comforts apart and sets you up for a fantastic challenge; in particular when you only have 2 days. Setting up, recording the material, compile and complete edits, and do any overdubs, and then get a mix everyone is happy with, then get a basis mastering of the material sorted.

That’s a lot for 2 and a half days in a studio. Props to Francis at Music Ape Studios in Montpelier, Bristol. Recording drums is different in ever space.

This is the studio I teach from, just behind the position of the camera is The Cave in, Studio A, at Music Ape; that’s the room I work out of with people. If you want to come and give drumming a go, get in touch at

lessons@positivedrumtuition.com