From the Desk of John (Head Transcriber)
“Being basically a keyboard/drum sample song, I took a few liberties with the parts.
The guitar covers some of the more guitar sounding parts, and the keyboards cover as many key parts as I could put in there without growing a third arm/hand.
The drums were crafted from several samples, which I combined into a normal drum kit.
The bass is all synth, so I adapted that for 5-string bass.”
Drums
Verse Break Down
They’re are no drums in the first verse, LAME, so we are gonna skip to the 2nd verse.
Example 1
Main beat not only of the verse, but that kick pattern is used in the chorus as well.
Example 2
Tricky thing here is moving to that open-handed position to get the mid tom in there. Easier when they program out the beat verses actually having to play it as a drummer. This open-handed idea will show up in the chorus as well.
Here is a video breaking down these 2 ideas