Every Breath You Take - The Police (drum cover) drumless track used
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 Published On May 13, 2017

Drum cover of "Every Breath You Take", a song by English rock band The Police from their 1983 album Synchronicity.

Written by Sting, the single was the biggest hit of 1983, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks which was the band's only number-one hit on that chart and the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. It also topped the Billboard Top Tracks chart for nine weeks.

The song ranked number 84 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. It also ranked number 25 on Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs.

Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it is about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. "One couple told me 'Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!' I thought, 'Well, good luck.'] When asked why he appears angry in the music video Sting told BBC Radio 2, "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite."

According to the Back to Mono box-set book, "Every Breath You Take" is influenced by a Gene Pitney song titled "Every Breath I Take". The song's structure is a variation on the Classical rondo form with its AABACABA structure, a form rarely found in modern popular music.

Triggered a kit from Steven Slate Drums 4.0:
Kick: OC Basswood
Snare: OC Ash
Toms: OC 10", 14" 16"
Hi-hat: 14" Mastersound
Ride: 22" A Custom
Crashes: 17" & 19" A Custom
China: 19" A Custom

Sticks: Vater 5A Keg

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Apogee Ensemble audio interface
Canon HD VIXIA HG20; Nikon D90 cameras
Movie '11 video editing
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