I've watched a video of White Shadows live on Jools Holland show and there's some close-ups at the very start of Will playing, and during the intro it looks like he's hitting the floor tom, then snare, and alternating between the 2, before the hi-hat/snare combi that makes up most of the song. It also sounds like the floor tom, but on the album I can't make out the sound of the floor tom, only on this live performance. Can anybody else confirm this or am I hearing/seeing things? No clever comments please like "I'm the best drummer in the world and it is obviously..... that Will plays, I can't believe you can't hear that", cos there's far too many people like that on music forums and I don't have time for them, thanks :)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suAxei6KPaQ

This is how I play the intro--I think it's how will plays it... well, I think there's two ways Will plays it. The two just have slightly different bass drum patterns.

 

It's kinda hard to hear the bass and floor tom, or to distinguish the two in the album because his toms are tuned really low, so it's kinda all mushed together. Live is much clearer.

 

Live

 

Cr|X---------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
HH|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Sn|----o-------o---|----o-------o---|----o-------o---|----o-------o---|
FT|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oo|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oo|
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Ct|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Cr|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
HH|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Sn|----o-------o---|----o-------o---|----o-------o---|----o-------o---|
FT|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oo|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
Bd|o-o-----o-o-----|o-o---o---o---o-|o-o-----o-o-----|o-o---o---o---o-|
Ct|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

 

album

 

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FT|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oo|
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Ct|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Cr|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
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FT|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
Bd|o-o-----o-o-----|o-o-----o-o---o-|o-o-----o-o-----|o-o-----o-o---o-|
Ct|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|

Thank you Alyssa you are amazing!!! I didn't mean to come across stroppy in that first post, I'm just used to getting smart remarks off other boards whenever I post questions about instruments (I won't name the band's sites) ;) Thanks so much for tabbing that out for me, it's much clearer now being able to see it written down and relating it to what I'm hearing. Thank you so much again! :)