Russ got a call from top producer Jack Puig to tackle a track that 19 other drummers had already tried - and failed - to ace…

Russ Miller says:

“Jack Puig said ‘I’ve got this track, I’ve had 19 drummers on it’. I’m like, ‘Who are they?’ He says, ‘Curt Bisquera, Abe Laboriel Jr, Vinnie Colaiuta...’ He reads these names and I’m like, ‘Well, what do you want me to do, man?!’”

“The song was called Show Me The Real You. It was a really good lesson at finding the pivot points in the tune. They dug where I decided to put those pivot points and I ended up doing the rest of the record. On that tune I used a 14"x9" copper metal snare drum, wide open, no muffling. I tuned it to the pitch of the song.”

“Another trick I did on that track was that I got the snare to last for one beat in time for the tempo, then you don’t really need a reverb on the snare drum because it fills the whole space up. That track was hi-hat, kick and ride, that’s it.”