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Teddy Campbell
(August 2005 Issue)
Backstreet Beat After working as
drummer and musical director for 98', Teddy Campbell was asked to join
The Backstreet
Boys band by Ricky Miner, who put both bands together.
Campbell and The Boys have been touring constantly, with dates
booked
well into 2002.
When Campbell got the gig, one of the first things he did was figure
out how to expand his
setup so it would adequately fill the stage space
and catch people's eyes. "I have three jazz-size rack toms - 8x8,
8x10,
8x12 - then a 10x12 on the left side of my hi-hat," Teddy explains. "Plus
I'm using 14" and 16" floor toms. I have
three snares - a 5.5x13, which
is my main snare, a 5x10 to my right, and a 4x10 to my left. I use two
sets of hi-hats and
about twelve other cymbals. And the rack for all of
this is massive, it curves all the way around me."
Then there are
the electronics, which Campbell has managed to cut back
since the first rehearsals. "In the beginning," he says, "I had to
play
a lot of sampled sounds - kick, snare, rimshots. But I found a way to get
rid of most of that stuff before we went out. I
scaled it down to only
having to trigger some snare sounds on a few songs. I was using a
sampled kick on a few songs in
rehearsal. But when we got on the road,
the house engineer told me he wasn't using the kick sounds in the
house
anyway, so I was able to get rid of that. Then I was able to get rid of
the rimshot sample by using Yamaha's
Groove Wedge, which is like a
cool-sounding woodblock that you attach to your rim."
Robyn Flans
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