Driven
Date: Early 2003
A few years ago, Joey Kramer of Aerosmith recorded a sampling CD featuring hundreds of drum loops. I got the CD as a Christmas gift. The performances are outstanding as you would expect. With Joey's CD in hand, I took some of my favorite loops and wrote the piece "Driven."
While I love his drum loops, I eventually gave up using them for writing music. Drum loops are too limiting; you're locked into what the drummer is doing. Fortunately, Joey included individual samples from his drum kit. With these, I recreated his drum kit with my sampler and can now write my own drum patterns using his sounds. While not as life like as his live performances, they do the trick. It's the drum kit that I still use today.