Rise against drum setup

Zildjian - inch K hi-hats; inch K crash; inch K ride; inch Constantinople ride; inch Constantinople Flat ride. Pearl Percussion fibreglass congas and bongos; Pearl Percussion gong drum; Pearl hand percussion; home made shakers, coil chime, spring table; Leiva Percussion. Yamaha Oak Custom drum kit: 12x8-inch rack tom; 13x9-inch rack tom; 16xinch floor tom; 18xinch floor tom; 24xinch bass drum; inch Gregg Keplinger snare. Tama StarClassic maple: 22xinch bass drum; 12x9-inch rack tom; 16xinch floor tom; 14x8-inch snare drum.

DW Jazz Series: 24xinch kick drum; 14xinch rack tom; 18xinch floor tom. DW Vistalite kit: 26"x14" kick drum, 14"x6. DW: double kick pedal, hi-hat, single kick pedal for E-kick, custom-designed rack system with cymbal booms and no leg snare baskets, and mic stands. DW Clear Acrylic: 12"x8" rack tom; 14"x12" floor tom; 16"x14" floor tom; 22"x16" bass drum; 10"x6" Pacific Blackout snare drum; 14"x5. Remo Coated Ambassadors on snare batters; Ambassador Snares on snare bottoms; Clear Emperors on tom batters; Clear Ambassadors on tom bottoms and front kick; Clear Powerstroke 3 on kick batter; PureSound snare wires and speedball beaters.

Ludwig Classic Maple series: 26"x14" kick drum; 14"x11" rack tom; 16"x16" floor tom; 14"x6. We only get two or three months off, so yeah, we pretty much play every day. The days have always had a lot of drumming for Barnes, who comes from a musical family that stretches back a couple of generations. My grandparents were both musicians and performers.

By the time they were both 18, they had their own well-known radio show that came from Chicago and went coast to coast. After that, my grandma worked for my grandpa in his band, the Will Back Orchestra; they played dances and stuff. We kept listening. I dabble on piano and guitar. I took lessons and stuff, but never got into it the way I did drums. I like Mitch Mitchell, John Bonham, and then the metal drummers, too. Lars Ulrich — those were the drummers that were easily accessible to me.

I was a music major at one point — I switched later — and I had lots of classes. Well, okay. This stuff is fast, and that means chops, but stylistically speaking, Barnes has hidden away all his jazz vocabulary and speaks in only fierce rock and punk tongues. On the new disc, Barnes is helped by a great production team that happened to include two of his heroes. Bill played in Descendents and Black Flag and all these punk bands. He can tune snares extremely well.

I knew his stuff from before; I used to go see him play when I was in high school, and listened to his records since like eighth grade.

It was neat to get to meet him. Barnes and the producers tried a revolutionary approach to tracking drums: they had fun. Listening to live recordings of us as well helps pick fills that are powerful and come across live.

Drummers learn that as they tour a lot. You want to pull everything off throughout the whole show. We play an hour and 45 minutes and by the end of it you still need to be playing well. That comes through locking yourself in the basement and practising before a tour to make sure that you can get through the songs.