Musora is a music education company in British Columbia. I know them from their Drumeo brand’s YouTube channel where famous drummers teach drumming. What I like, though are the videos where these famous drummers try to play along to songs they’ve never heard before. Basically, they listen to a song without the drum track and have to make up their own drum part on the spot. It’s a fun way of showing off the musical talent of the drummer while also showing their human side.
Now Musora itself has a series of videos riffing off the Drumeo idea, with an artist coming in to their studio, listening to a song they don’t know (or don’t know well) and covering it on the spot. The latest video is pop duo Fionn (also from BC), made up of twin sisters, covering System of a Down‘s “Toxicity.” Obviously the song is outside their wheelhouse and only one member of the backing band is able to identify the song to start.
So the group gathers in the studio, listens to the song and then rearranges it. The twins have no idea what the song is and half the fun of these videos is seeing how the artists react to a new song. Watching Fionn try to figure out how to play it is also a lot of fun as they try to put their own spin on it and struggle with different parts of the song.
Though Fionn never really deviate from the vocal melody, the pace is dramatically different and the vibe is obviously very, very different. It’s fun to see the process of a group of talented musicians as they try to make sense of a song they don’t know by another group of talented musicians with very different influences. Check it out:
