When I start the Summer Set’s “Lightning in a Bottle,” I like using the rim. In the recording, it sounds like there’s a hi-hat, but when I play it live, I change it up. I like to add ghost notes with my left hand to fill it out a little bit. The ghost notes add a little more to the verse. In the second part of the verse, I change again and go into the hi-hat beat to bring it up a little bit dynamically. To do a fill for that, I play an open hi-hat hit with the snare drum. I continue ghost notes throughout the whole verse. When I go into the pre-chorus, I’m opening it up by going into a tom rhythm. I think the tricky part about it is there’s one part where you are hitting both toms at the same time, and I think that […]

February 2022 Issue