Bang Your Drums
This is my 18th DTM works. As the song track, it is 8th one. Called as “Bang Your Drums". Please take a listen to it. Thanks.
(2023-12-30 the remixed version has been uploaded.)
(In English is the upper, in Japanese is the lower.)
I wrote this song in younger days. In that time I had participated in a blues-rock band that my role was the lead guitarist / sub-composer / sub-vocal. Other members than I were big fans of The Beatles. So, this band had played not only the blues covers but also The Beatles covers except our own compositions.
In younger days, I had been a stubborn boy. Every my old friends who were connected via the music was saying that The Beatles was phenomenal, game-changer and the best rock-and-roll band. Two band-guys whom I had played with in that time were saying the same. So, I had kept from listening The Beatles in younger days because I was a twisted boy.
In one day in the tenure of that band, we had decided to put The Beatles cover into our repertories. So, I had started to listen The Beatles reluctantly. But it had not took a long time to be blown my mind by The Beatles music. Especially I had shocked by Mr. Ringo Starr drums. If The Beatles has no Ringo drums, I might be attracted to The Beatles so much. Always the spotlight has been on Mr. John Lennon, Sir. Paul McCartney and Mr. George Harrison. But the beat and the sense of timing of Ringo Starr is the unchangeable axis of the music of The Beatles. I had felt so and now I still believe it is true.
This song was the first one I expressed straightforwardly The Beatles affection to my composing music.
Lyrics are below.
Bang Your Drums
When you have got judged the time to go
When you lift you head up and shut the door
When you find yourself not be free
And bang your drums loudly
Goodby world, say to be
And goodby world, say mightily
Feel it’s not the time to disappear
It is caused by your cowardly
For no one, I don’t want this ground
Only run around
Life is looking for the place to die
Or looking for the reason to hide your lie
When you have got judged the time to go
When you lift you head up and shut the door
When you find yourself not be free
And bang your drums loudly
Goodby World
Hello little one turns on me
And but you don’t exist
When you hold me tight softly
In my arms is only air
For no one, I don’t want this ground
Only run around
Life is looking for the place to die
Or looking for the reason to hide your lie
When you have got judged the time to go
When you lift you head up and shut the door
When you find yourself not be free
And bang your drums loudly
Goodby world
When you find yourself not be free
And bang your drums loudly
When you find yourself not be free
And bang your drums loudly
Goodby world
The credit is below.
Bang Your Drums
Song and Words Written by Naoto Sawamura
Arranged by Naoto Sawamura
Recorded by GarageBand
Engineering / Mixing / Mastering : Naoto Sawamura
Drums / Bass Programing : Naoto Sawamura
Guitars : Naoto Sawamura
Vocals : Naoto Sawamura
Naoto Sawamura used :
Guitar / EVH Wolfgang Special
Amplifier / EVH 5150 ICONIC SERIES 6L6 40W 12×1
この曲はかなり若い時に書いたものです。その頃は、私の役割がリードギタリスト兼サブの作曲家兼サブのボーカルだった、とあるブルース・ロックバンドに在籍していました。私以外のメンバーは、二人とも大のビートルズファンでした。ですから、このバンドは、自作曲の他にカバーも演っていたのですが、ブルース・ナンバーのカバーだけではなく、ビートルズのナンバーもカバーしていました。
若い頃、私はとても頑固者でした。音楽つながりの当時の友人たちもみんな、ビートルズの音楽は驚異的偉業であり、時代を変えた、最上のロック・アンド・ロール・バンドだと言っていました。当時私が一緒にやっていたバンドのメンバー二人も、同じことを言っていました。そのため、ひねくれ者だった私は、ビートルズは聴かないようにしていました。
そのバンドの在籍時のある日、とうとうバンドでビートルズのカバーをやろうという話になってしまい、私は気が進まないまま、ビートルズを聴き始めました。けれど、ビートルズの音楽に夢中になってしまうのに時間はかかりませんでした。特に、私はリンゴ・スターのドラムの衝撃を受けました。もし、リンゴのドラムがビートルズになかったら、私はそれほどビートルズに惹きつけられることはなかったと思います。いつも、世間のスポットライトは、ジョン・レノン、ポール・マッカートニー、そしてジョージ・ハリスンに当たっていますが、リンゴのビート、タイム感は、代えのきかない、ビートルズの音楽の軸だと、当時そう感じましたし、今もそう信じています。
この曲は、私がビートルズから受けた影響をとても素直に表現した、最初の曲です。
歌詞、クレジットともに上述しました。