Whiteboarding the arrangement pt. 2 -- "Hey"

[PopTodd]

This is another one that I whiteboarded the whole arrangement before heading into the studio.
This one was directly inspired by working with ProTools for the first time. I knew that I wanted a bunch of polyrhythms happening over this very, very simple (hell, simplistic?) song. So I devised this sort of theoretical studio experiment, where I worked out having 4 simple 1-measure drum patterns, one after another, then looped and duplicated onto other tracks to create a sort of percussion fugue.
Drums in rounds!
I tried to explain this one to the old band too, but none of them, even drummer Dave, had any idea what I wanted until Dave and I started piecing it together in ProTools.
It was super cool because I actually saw the moment when he finally GOT it! I saw that look on his face when almost see the proverbial light bulb turned on!

http://hoponpop.bandcamp.com/track/hey

Now dig this.

[cjdenecia]

[Peevette]