The Police - Message In A Bottle (drum cover by Christal ft. @DaveRucci )

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Slightly late, but nonetheless a happy 2021 to you fine folks! This one is a bit different from my usual drum covers - it's a full cover with vocals, bass and guitar parts contributed by @Dave Rucci and a tiny bit of backing vocals by yours truly. This is the drum cam version, check his channel for the original collab with his edits.

I'm particularly proud of this one for a couple reasons. Stewart Copeland's drumming is not my usual style so it was a challenge to begin with, and I soon realized that he played the song slightly different in every single live version (as compared to the studio version too), which gave me the impression that he was probably just improvising. A proper cover would, then, I reasoned, be to do likewise! So this bit o' drumming is the result of studying a whole bunch of his live shows and trying to emulate a similar vibe with my own vocabulary (and more cowbell. Just a little). I hope I've done it some justice!

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