Alex Rudinger - Between The Buried And Me - "Obfuscation"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2021
- I recently transcribed 'The Great Misdirect' Drum Transcription Book for Blake Richardson (if you've attended a #BTBAM show recently, you may have seen it at their merch table!). I always love transcribing Blake's parts - they're so well thought out & well executed. With every book I've done for him (this is the 3rd!), I end up with so many new ideas & perspectives - just from picking apart his playing (& of course, I also end up stealing a lick or two. Lol!). What can I say - Blake's just a SICK fuggin' guy, & a SUPER sick drummer (furreal bro idk if you'll ever read this but you're hella sick dude).
Blake sent me some isolated stems (which always helps when transcribing), & I asked if he'd be ok with me using some of em' for another cover. Always loved this song (I vividly remember watching his OG TH-cam vid for it - 10 years ago now!), so it was fitting to cover this one. So HERE ya go - "Obfuscation", by BTBAM.
Let me also say for the record: I definitely DID NOT do this in one take. LOL. Honestly ya'll, this song was hard as hell. I tried to do it without punching in, but god dang... trying to nail a 9+ minute song with crazy parts, without messing up at all, is TOUGH! That said - ya'll know by now that I'm not all about that miming stuff. Whenever I do a punch, I switch the camera take(s) / files to match (I.e., whatever you're seeing is always the actual take you're hearing, too. I'm kind of a purest about that crap). So despite the fact that it looks like I nailed this song in one take, I wanted to make it abundantly clear that I did not. There're already enough things on the internet that set unrealistic expectations (Lol). Not trying to add to that. PLUS, it would detract from the fact that Blake somehow manages to play this song (& many others that're equally crazy) ALL SICK, night after night. I mean god dang. Ya'll, let me tell you. The more I've worked on / learned Blake's parts, the more I truly believe he is the GOAT!
Mix for this video was done by Declan White! Declan's been doing quite a bit of mixing for my videos as of late, so you'll definitely be hearing more from him. I've been fortunate to have a lot of killer engineers mix my stuff over the years, & Declan is no exception. Love this mix - I honestly can't believe what he's able to pull out of the drums that I track here at home. All natural sounds (well, aside from heavy EQ/comp, obviously). Except for the kick, which is a blend of the mics & the sample straight from my 2Box.
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This album personally has my favorite drumming of all time. It's crazy how Blake tracked all of the drums in less than 3 days without a single scratch track. He did it all to a click. Phenomenal.
Dude is a beast, I caught one of his drumsticks last time I saw them play. Incredible stuff.
I remember watching Blake's original drum playthrough of this song; he comes up with such unique and powerful drum parts. Great performance, Alex!
I don't think my brain has the capacity to store that many drum parts. That's a full set in one song.
😆 I kno right! Imagine the math equations in their head to be able to play this stuff
The crazy part is they can play their full albums front to back with no pause
i remember that drum playthrough, blake is a madman - excellent work dude!!
I remember looking for undertale music and finding your stuff! glad to hear that you enjoy both rudy, and the masters that are, BTBAM. Much Love!
Been playing music for years and I can't even fathom learning a song like this. This is like I'm watching aliens play. Amazing.
Of all the BTBAM songs, I'm most excited you posted a playthrough of this one 🤘
Same. I wish he played Mirrors as well though. :D
Fellow drummer here: It's hard to put into words, but this video reminded me why I make music and what us musicians put in all the effort for. Truly inspiring!
Never stop trying to achieve musical excellence, this is proof right here that it is possible. Inspiring to watch!
Freakin bravo dude 🙌🏻🔥🥵 still a dream of mine over 10 years to do a cover of mirrors and obfuscation back to back (one take) lol one can dream! You slayed it
Dude blake is that dude. New record rips too. Great cover
Wow! I didn't know anyone on this planet could cover Blake so flawlessly. Bravo!
This has to be the greatest cover on TH-cam now surely. You’re a god Rudi, amazing work brother
My guy, covering the track that got me into BTBAM. 🤙❤️🤙
Btbam has been my favorite band of all time since I first listened to them back in 2009. Sick playing as usual.
they are good. i got into them back then as well. do you agree some of the magic is gone though?
@@David-rj1ru Meh. Every album since Future Sequence has been so different and has their own sound, but I wouldn't say they lost the magic. They just released their newest album Colors 2, which was amazing They're definitely one of the best progressive metal bands of this generation.
Blake Richardson and Alex Rudinger. Two of the best to ever do it!
Killer as always. Blake is SOOOOO underrated and under known. He's been one of the best metal drummers in the game since the Glass Casket and Alaska days. I've purchased two of the books you've done with him and I'll buy the new one on the new tour!
The art of playing 70 songs in one ! Dope!
Blake Richardson would be proud 👍🏼
This is literally a song I thought was damn near impossible to replicate, and yet here we are. Damnit, you’re so good Alex!
I'll never forget Blake ripping this recording on the TGM making of footage
I’m convinced this is the best song Blake’s ever written, which is really, REALLY saying something when you look at his entire catalog. It’s splitting hairs, but this song is phenomenal, and you crushed it as always 🤘🏽
I dunno, the P1 three song EP is next level shit
@@Greasonn yeah like I said, splitting hairs. Parallax 1 is arguably his best front-to-back effort, but for an individual song I'd pick this one
@@antnyneveruploads Honestly, Obfuscation is probably one of their most well written songs period.
BTBAM is my favourite band and I do love the jump-around style they have with 99% of their work, but this song is different. It has a certain musical motif that seems to be prevalent throughout the entire song, which holds the whole thing together so goddamn well.
@@flagmuffin1221 Honestly Obfuscation would fit almost perfectly with the Coma Ecliptic songwriting style
best song the bands ever written as a whole
My most favorite BTBAM song ever! I used to watch that old video of Blake recording this almost daily.
This is by far BTBAM’s best record. I’d love for you to play Swim to the Moon. You are an amazing drummer! 🖤🖤🖤🔥🔥🔥👍🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽
This really is their best album. Colors 1 and 2 and parallax 2 give it a run for its money but this one take it IMO.
@@stris4nubs Yes absolutely! I haven’t heard Parallax II in its entirety but I’ve heard all of Parallax 1 and it is one of my favorites.
Bruh i loved track and spent months learning the drums. But if you haven't listened to colors 2 yet.... stop everything you are doing right now and listen.
btbams first 2 albums are superior to anything theyll ever do. their 2nd best album is colors. everything after colors sounds like they want to be dream theater. they had their own original sound and then went full prog\dream theater. boring. funnily their heavier music was more melodic. and when they tried to be melodic they just ended up sounding like a dream theater rip off. selkies, mordecai, ants of the sky, more of myself to kill... all superior songs to any of this over the top boringness. and I'm a guitar player who loves instrumental music.. i love john petrucci.. i love prog.. but btbam doing prog is garbage. well not garbage.. it just boring. voices of trespass was decent and colors 2 has a heavier feel to it, and definitely brings back some of the heavier riffing style that made them. i hope they abandon prog one day and just go back what put them on the map. but... its a money thing, i understand. theyre trying to make money while not completely selling out and dumbing down their music. so instead of going pop.. they went prog. so lame
@@GonnaGetYouBoi bruh. just stop lmao
This shot me straight back to High School when I'd have this song on repeat. So dope to see you play it here.
One of the best drummers playing one of the best songs ever 🔥
The sense of achievement on your face at the end is what made the video. Epic sauce man! Epic sauce! 👍👍❤
You played this song better than I ever have.
But you wrote these masterpiece drums :) also awesome playthrough by Alex of course!
I’m about to go see these guys here in a few weeks in Charlotte North Carolina
Perfection!
Trying to find a BTBAM song w/o vocals to show my friend who 'hates' metal is what brought me to Alex's channel, with the 'Ectopic Stroll'. I became an instant fan. If that wasn't enough, he then joined my other favorite metal band, Intronaut, do lay down one of the best drum performances I've ever heard, and the Legend was cemented. Good sh*t homie, you're an inspiration to us all!
Blake is one of those drummerS that makes you toss your sticks in the trash and give up! GREAT JOB ALEX!
This has got to be the most pleasant surprise from youtube for a long time
3:39 is such a sick transition.
Your little flourishes and personal interpretations are so good because they honor the real part and Blake’s creativity while also showcasing your own. Superb work!
I think I'm gonna have to pick up my jaw from the floor after that one! Holy crap🤘🤘
Alex, knowing Blake as I do and knowing what Blake can do, you sir, have covered his playing extremely well. I applaud you! Good drumming and also, I applaud you for taking on Blake as to me and millions of others, one of the best Metal drummers in today's Metal scene. BTBAM are tops in my opinion and they're all great guys and brothers to me. Keep on keepin' on!
A pleasure as always! So easy to mix drums hit so well 😎
Dude. You absolutley smashed that! Such hard work will never go unnoticed.
BTBM is simply amazing and a great cover from another amazing artist
👍🏻😁
Dude, I'm blown away. Thank you!
Thanks for covering my favorite BTBAM song!
I honestly don't think anyone other than Blake could've pulled that off as well as you just did. Bravo, super-chief!
Such an interesting awesome track! And holy smokes, the clarity of the mix is top notch. Great work all around, you never disappoint
I'm a simple man, I see one my favorite drummers covering my favorite drummer and I hit like
I beg for a blotted science cover Alex!!! If there is any man capable for that you, you are the Man.
One of my favorite drummers covering another one of my favorite drummers. Not sure how I havent seen this yet. Today is a good day.
Such fluidity. I love watching great drummers covering other great drummers. I can't imagine learning this song.
God I love this song and played by you just damn bro, damn! So tight! This song on drums is just insanity and you made it look so easy bro!
I remember barely passing this on expert on Rock Band
This song was fucking insane on rock band.
Took me a while in practice mode to learn the part at 5:55 but damn, this song was so satisfying!!
Glad Harmonix brought all of their songs from RBN to Rock Band 4. Obfuscation is the best one.
This is still probably my best guitar 100% FC to date. I have it on my channel if you give a shit.
I still play it, only on clone hero on pc, using a roland td-17kv, it's one of the hardest I've ever tried for sure.
This is just fucking impressive and those meinls sound so good.
You were already the best, and somehow you’ve leveled up even more. Just unreal Rudi
I heard all "The great misdirect" and saw the video of Blake playing Obfuscation in 2011, i was like 22 y.o., started playing drums 4 years before, i was self thaught and just like you i was watching the video of Blake standing in awe in front of the screen. Then all of a sudden i said :"you know what? i'm gonna learn it anyway, whatever it takes! " .
It was long time ago but i think it took me like 2 weeks to learn it by ear and remembering all of that stuff, then i took my shitty electronic drums (which was all i had at that time) and my shitty camera and recorded all the song in one take (not the first, obv XD) and put the video here on youtube. (link at the end of the comment if you're interested in what came out, i need to clarify that i'm not linking it in order to get views, i do not absolutely care about that.)
This reminds me of that time, so many memories, all the commitment and the struggle to achieve something that you don't know nothing about but you WANT to, and no matter what it takes, you will arrive at the end of that...maybe :D.
One of the most inspired moments of my study. lol.
You unblocked me a memory, so, thanks a lot!! :D
OH, and btw, EPIC PLAYING as always, killer sound and motion.
( link to the crappy cover : th-cam.com/video/ni7qCnJTv24/w-d-xo.html )
HELL YEAH
Just getting better and better!
Absolutely amazing. After just being able to see Blake play this song live, you nailed it right on the head.
the best thing of blake's drum parts is that there are a lot of obvious fills and parts that he enjoy playing. It feels like he's having fun playing his stuff.
One of my favorites. I can get on a kit and play this all the way through any day! Sounds amazing bro 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I've often come back to your playthroughs over the years you've been on TH-cam. It usually happens when I find myself listening to your own body of work, or any drummer you've covered, and end up thinking how the actual f#$& does he do that?!? It's very refreshing to see an elite drummer like yourself showing humility and being transparent and admitting a track was too difficult to do in one take. It fosters a greater appreciation of you as a person and drummer, and for the artist that you're humble enough to admit is a notch above. I'd love to see you cover more of Blake's work some day, especially Lunar Wilderness. I think a lot of folks that dive deep into BTBAM and focus on listening to Blake's drumming agree with your thoughts that he's one of the best in the world today, period. Regardless of genres.
One of the greatest albums of all time.
Easily one of my favorite drummers to watch!
Legendary. More BTBAM!!!
I've been waiting for you to cover this tune for so long! Thank you!
Goddamn dude, you NAILED it.
I just don't get how I'm still so freaking impressed every time as if you don't completely kill everything you put out. Great work as always, Alex!
This is my favorite btbam song on drums. So glad I get to watch your amazing ass cover it. 👌
what an amazing song, just remembering all those parts is crazy, and he makes it look so good- super badass
Couldn’t have done this better myself 😜 Another joy to listen &watch. Tx 👏👏👏
Wow this is fantastic! Blake is a monster!
One of the best written drums, it is like a detailed story beside detailed story. Thanks you Alex for reflecting clearly this beautiful music of Blake.
Unbelievable work Rudi 🤘🏻
I have been waiting 12 years for you to play this one... good stuff dude
Same!!
Beautiful man, one of my favorite songs by these guys. Awesome performance!
Wow that was amazing! Such an intricate song and you nailed it. The mix also sounds really good!
Such a perfect drum set up.
What a tight performance, this is beyond insane. The amount of work in here is colossal :o
I'd love to see you cover The Sky Is Red by Leprous , this song in your hands would sound so huge.
18" on the far left. Interesting placement.
Great playing. 😎🔥🥁
Amazing work Alex in every second, complexity but with great musicallity, unbelievable skills improves your huge love for drumming!!!
I've been watching your videos for several years now and I've always been impressed with the sound quality. But to my ears, this mix is easily the best I've heard from you!
I think this is one of the most impressive covers I’ve ever seen. Great work!
Definitly the best mix of Alex’s videos that hasn’t been mixed by nolly. All the other mixers you can hear a huge difference between nolly mixed videos and all the others but this mix is right up there
Amazing performance as always, Alex! Been a huge fan of both you and Blake for MANY years now. Can only imagine the work you put into this, holy smokes haha
So much awesome in one video. Great work!
That kit is dialed in. Amazing production as always! Great work on this cover!
Always great to see a drumming legend cover another drumming legend, nailed it bro!
Just an amazing play through. No idea how you did that. Bravo! 👏
Phenomenal! You killed it, great job!
That snare is SICK!
Rudi playing some Blake Richardson seems like a recipe for the known universe to implode
Black is such an awesome drummer. He composes the drums like a chromatic instrument. Each section has a purpose and follows the guitars so well that it sounds like its leading. It sounds like Paul and Dusty write to the drums but the guitars come first.
Such a masterpiece from a master drummer!
Covering Blake Richardson's drumming is incredibly impressive. You killed it.
So damn technical
Holy shit dude, absolutely amazing performance 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 and that snare sounds unreal.
Not fair how awesome Alex is. One of the best drummers out there. Just so consistent and precise. Some of the best sounding drums as well. Damnit. So fucking good.
What a powerhouse!! Great job man. I know those parts are pretty tough..
I wasn’t planning on watching the whole thing, but I did. Great work man.
Such great writing and playing from btb&m. Great as always Alex 🤘🏾.
Oh man, that clean shave takes me back to the first time I ever saw you play Section 8 on your channel. It's definitely been a minute! Great cover dude!
Man.... how good was Rudi’s ‘Section 8’ cover? Love watching him play through anything by ‘Whitechapel’ and can’t wait to hear what they sound like with Alex writing the drum parts on their next album.
Epic relentless drumming man! Never stop
I LOVE how much background you give us in the description about the process and people involved. Thank you Rudi!
Hey no prob, dude !!! It's nice to know that *someone* reads them. LOL!!! I kinda figure most people don't tbh 🤣. But I'm glad you enjoy em', dude !
Blake Richardson's playthrough of this was one of my favourite drum vids back in the days. You tend to do some really nice and interesting covers this year, everything from Nasum to Haken, a midtempo Nile song.
PS: Nice one-foot blasts from 4:40-4:48 ;)
Beautiful kit !
Beautiful cover !
Amazing, note by note!! Perfect
You madman! You nailed this, note for note. In my opinion Blake Richardson is the best progressive drummer in the game right now. The drums have evolved as an instrument over the last 20 years, and it's been fun trying to keep up. There are others, but he has kept the dream theater groove alive for me more than the others.