Ken Hada Daily Drums Recording and Songwriting is a music creation diary. In fact, I started this daily drum discipline back in April 2022. Oh yeah, and I stopped playing the drums for 20 years. But, that’s another story. Equally important, I have learned many unexpected things along the way. Therefore, follow this journey. Especially if you love the drums.
Not a drum virtuoso, instead a daily drum journey
Ken Hada Daily Drums
This drum vlog has given me the opportunity to work on drum styles. Further, Triplet fills have always been an overlooked thing with me. In fact, they were so overused in the 1970’s I did not have an interest in them. And then I heard Tony Williams and wow that guy made them cool.
A handful of men have had a huge influence on my life. My father, John Stamos, Roy Burns, Murray Spivack, Joey Grijalva, Jeff Porcarro, and this Man Vic Peloquin.
I haven’t seen Vic in 40 years (he is the guy who created Skatopia). After sitting and chatting with Vic and his wonderful family I can now see why I recollected Skatopia as such a paradise. The man who created it is a visionary, and has a passion for experimentation and creation.
He told me about how the land for Skatopia was acquired. How the half pipe was made. Who designed the Skatopia logo. Why he closed Skatopia. We also talked about drones, and even flew a drone.
Vic Peloquin, Linda Emery Peloquin, Kristi Newsome
Imagine a Skatopia reunion with these three at the helm! Stay tuned!!!
Christmas Land by Shoot The Moon. In the first place, I was at a point in my life where the feeling one gets from the Christmas Season began to fade. For the purpose of, remembering a good holiday season I decided to write a set of Christmas songs. Equally important, I asked my friend and bandmate Joey Grijalva to join me. Ultimately, we called our Christmas Album Moon Christmas.
Furthermore, the working title for this song was Christmas Land, looking back I probably should have called it Christmas Show. As a matter of fact, my original intent when writing this song was to make a story about remembering and hanging on to the good parts of Christmas. Furthermore, to sort of go back to that person you were when you really loved the Christmas holiday
As far as I remember, I composed this in Studio Visions (one of the early DAW’s). I remember mapping out the song with keyboards. And asking Joey and John to play along to the recording. In fact, they are amazing musicians because many of these tracks did not have click tracks. The wonderful backing vocals are Julie Van Duren.
Cover photo was made by Dave Sparks. Cassette sleeve created in Pagemaker. And we had this album pressed at Rainbow Records.
Recording gear used
Christmas Land by Shoot The Moon was recorded in my (home studio) garage, on an Akai MG1214 aka Akai 12 track (the same unit used to record the U2 album Rattle and Hum). Additionally, used an old Studiomaster mixing board (I bought off Chad Wackerman or John Wackerman), Studio Visions DAW, Quadra 650, assorted 421, 414, sony, and Shure mics, Alesis compressors, timecode machine, assorted keyboards, Yamaha spx90.
Photo by John Stamos
Im a father who likes to play the drums, skateboard, photography, code websites, and engineer audio. I created this blog in the hope to keep track of the methods of my varied interests.
