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Drumeo
Why Neil Peart's “Tom Sawyer” Still Breaks Drummers' Brains
Drumeo's Brandon Toews opens the channel's Genius of series with Rush's Tom Sawyer, tracing how the song almost got cut from Moving Pictures, how Pye Dubois's scribbled lines became Neil Peart's lyrics, and why the one-handed 16th note hi-hat groove still trips drummers up decades later. It walks Peart's Moving Pictures kit down to the Old Faithful snare, the 7/8 to 7/16 to 3/8 turnaround under the guitar solo, and the two hardest fills in the drum solo, closing on why a song this technical still became a mainstream radio staple.