In The Shadows - The Rasmus - 10th Anniversary Drum Cover by Keith B.

This video posting marks the exact 10-year anniversary of the launch of my drum channel with my cover of (the now blocked) “Fire” by Jimi Hendrix. So why did I pick the obscure Finnish song “In the Shadows” by The Rasmus for my anniversary?

First as background, drum cover channels like mine are possible due to the advent of technologies based on digit music. It’s not only how we obtain the recordings of the songs we play along to, but digital downloads have radically eased learning the songs. It is so much easier on digital than on a CD or vinyl record to go back and listen over and over again to a tough passage, and to pick out what the original drummer is playing.

Ok… while that may be (slightly) interesting, you may still be asking, why “In the Shadows”? My introduction to digital downloads coincided with my first iPod in the early 2Ks. Back then every week Apple would make available a song or two to download for free. One of the early free songs was, you guessed it, “In The Shadows”, which I downloaded. Thus, it’s been in my digital music library for many years, including on the iPad I currently use for my drum covers. I always thought it was a good song and I liked the main beat that starts the song and is used in the choruses.

Thus, I thought it would be fitting to use “In the Shadows” for the Anniversary post in order to pay tribute to the advent of digital music downloads and their importance in my ability to have a drum cover channel.

By the way, the song was released in 2003 on the double-CD “Dead Letters”, and was in the top 10 on 21 charts in Europe, include five at number one. It never charted in the U.S.

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