Total Drumming

Total Drumming is a collection of loops and samples by Mick Fleetwood, released on October 2, 2001. The release is a compendium of over 800 drum loops, intended for the purchaser to use for their own projects Fleetwood is featured as the only performer on all of the samples and the loops are formatted as WAV files. The project was produced by Mike Scheibinger and Jonathon Todd, and was released by Sony Creative Software.

Background
Before work started on this project, Fleetwood listened to some of his older material to determine what he would record in Blue Moon studio with Scheilbinger and Todd. It took three hours to unpack all of Fleetwood's gear, which included drum kits, wind chimes, talking drums, udus, timbales, a gong, and various hand percussion. The gong Fleetwood played on this project was previous used for The Dance album from 1997; Todd had the instrument shipped to Blue Moon studio specifically for this purpose.

Over the course of two days, Fleetwood spent over 30 hours in the recording studio tracking various grooves, one-shots, and "an assortment of percussive sound bytes". Several microphones were used to capture Fleetwood's instruments, including four Sennheiser MD421s on the tom drums, a Shure SM81 on the hi-hat, and an AKG C460 on the ride cymbal. Two ADK A51Ss served as stereo overhead microphones and two Milan VIP50s captured the ambiance of the room.

Track listing
All songs written by Mick Fleetwood
 * 1) Mysterious Echos
 * 2) Straight Up
 * 3) Dry Grooves and Fills
 * 4) Grooves and Fills
 * 5) Oneshots
 * 6) Percussion
 * 7) Vocal Bites

Personnel

 * Mick Fleetwood - vocals, drums, percussion, cowbell, toms