- Oh hi.
Didn't see you there.
All seven cameras of you, hey.
You caught me in the middle of my trash canning.
What is a trash can, you say?
You know, it's like a song ender.
Think of it this way, you run a football into the end-zone,
touchdown, you spike the ball into the ground,
you know what I mean?
We gotta do this in music, too.
Alright, there's a story arc to it.
Let me use another metaphor I know nothing about.
Now let me talk about cooking, alright.
I'm gonna give you steps for how I trash-can
end a song, alright, we start by simmering the pan,
alright, then we add the meat and potatoes, okay?
Let's start getting that seasoning in there, alright.
Then we bring it, uh...
Then we bring that to a full flame, a full cook,
alright that last final garnish.
Ding, the meal is ready!
You know what I'm saying?
Let me put this in drum terms for ya, alright.
Step one of the trash can, simmer the pan,
here's what I mean, we land on the last notes of the song,
We're just welling on the cymbals, right.
Resist the temptation to start flailing on everything else.
We'll get there, we're just simmering the pan right now.
I might even stand up as I do this.
That's my opportunity to egg people on in the
retirement home that I'm play in say,
'is that all you got?'
(booing sound effect)
That one's actually...nevermind.
When they're on their feet, you're nice and simmering.
Now we can add that load in, alright.
Once you've basked in the glory of the end of the song
for a second, now we're bringing in those kicks.
Let me put that in context for you.
Are you starting to see the arc of the story flow here, ok?
This juncture is your opportunity, by the way,
if you're getting real weird, if it's the last song
in the entire night, you might even cross over the hands.
This is your one chance to do that.
Are you digging it so far?
What do we need next, we need the seasoning.
Alright, we need variety of flavor here, okay?
So I'm gonna start to fade in the toms, can you dig that?
Check it out in context.
Where can we go from there?
Alright, we're burning so fast at that point
that we gotta kinda bring it to a climax here
and start slowing those strokes down and really have
the artistic weight to it, give the sense that
we're pumping the brakes on this train, we're about to
that's a mixed metaphor
we're adding weight to it, we're slowing it down,
we're indicating to our fellow band mates,
we're indicating to our fellow band dudes and dudettes
that we're coming to a final moment here, alright.
Check it out, move from the toms, fast strokes,
to the snare slower and slower strokes, right.
Are we done? No.
We gotta give it that last garnish,
that last punctuation, okay.
I'm gonna doing this by throwing it to the kick for,
wait for it, wait for it, wait for it,
before we put on that final flam punctuation
of 'this is the moment', okay check it out.
(drumming topping off with the kick drum)
Time is suspended in thin air at this point.
Everyone's looking at me wondering, 'what's next?'
Got everybody's attention with that snare hit.
I'm out of breath! (exhales deeply)
I've got everybody's attention with that snare hit
and now is my final opportunity to seize the moment.
I might even call out a number of hits,
I might say five and we go for ding, ding, ding, ding, ding,
dinner's ready, you know what I'm talking about?
Call out how ever many hits you like, check it out.
Here's the full arc.
But we're still ringing, right, is that it? No.
The final 'ba-dump' like a burp complementing the chef
at an Italian restaurant on the countryside
after a good meal, okay.
Just a little 'ba-dumpf' I like to do that,
a couple on the hands, a couple on the feet,
whatever gives you that 'ba-dumpf'.
(tom kick drum combo)
And then we're done-zo,
we threw our sticks into the crowd,
not half the crowd, okay, we don't want lawsuits
for bleeding eye sockets, I speak from experience
when I say that, just a light toss into the crowd, alright?
So let's take it from the top, dude.
I present to you, the full trash-can.
Three?