Santana cover: Europa - Soul Sacrifice (drum Solo) - Damien Schmitt [Official Video]

A special hommage to Carlos Santana, one of my guitar hero inspiration ! This Video is recorded, produced, mixed and performed by a whole team of Damien with the kind participation of @ you, we had lot of fun !! Recorded @Musikland Studio Guitar & basse vidéo shooted at Bunker Studio / GDL specials thanks to Isma Hammond vidéo has been shooted and recorded at Studio Soult/ Paris/ Spécial thanks to my brother Pierrot ---------- FULL EQUIPMENT LIST BELOW: DRUM/ AUDIO Special Thanks to all my partners for their support !! ---------- Follow me here: - WEBSITE: - INSTAGRAM: - FACEBOOK: - TIKTOK: @damienschmittdrum - TWITTER: - SOUNDCLOUD: ---------- * MAPEX drums Model Evolution: - Kick 22“ - Snare 14: black panther Design Lab Metallion 14“ Rack toms: 12 Floor toms: 14/16 - Hardware SN/HH/Kick Pedale are FALCON ---------- * MEINL Cymbals: from left to right: HI HAT BYZANCE TRADITIONAL: 14“ MEDIUM HIHAT - B14MH CRASH BYZANCE DUAL: 16“ DUAL CRASH - B16DUC RIDE BYZANCE JAZZ: 20“ JAZZ THIN RIDE - B20JTR ---------- * EVANS drumsheads: Kick22“ Emad Toms: UV2 Coated Snare: UV2 Coated ---------- * D’Addario Strings Guitar Strings: Set Elec Gtr XL Reg Lite Bass Strings: SET 5STR BASS XT NKL 45-130 L ---------- * SLAPKLATZ black Alien damper gel on the floor tom ----------- *ANTELOPE AUDIO: - Recorded with the Antelope Galaxy 64 Audio Interface: - Pre amp MP32 Antelope Audio: - Mixed on Antelope Zen Tour: ---------- Thanks again to all my sponsors for your support !! SUBSCRIBE to stay in touch: ---------- *BIOGRAPHIE Born in a family of musicians, Damien first learned playing the drums with his father From the age of 4, he practiced as a musician directly on stage. His mother being a piano teacher and singer in the family band, he took an early interest in singing and learned to play several instruments including bass and guitar which quickly became his favourite. At 16 years old he produced, directed and released his first album under the name Yossoma. He sings and plays all the instruments on this record. In 2001 Damien moved to Paris. This is where he started playing as a live drummer on tour for the most famous French artists like Yannick Noah, Khaled, Gage, Alain Georges Jones, Emma Daumas, Zap Mama, Les Nubians ... He forged a solid reputation in the jazz fusion and played with Dominique Di Piazza, Jean-Marie Ecay, Hadrien Feraud. It also replaces Paco Sery in Sixun... Offering also his talents on records, he is featured on a lot of best seller albums (see Discography) with for example Jannick Top & Eric Lelann, Bireli Lagrene, brothers Raymond, Hadrien Feraud. He is also a member of of Jean-Luc Ponty’s band since 2007. In 2010 he started his collaboration with Alain Caron. They recorded 2 albums: “Septentrion(2010) Multiples Faces (2013) Since 2010 he’s playing in the amazing trio with Alain Caron and Frank Gambale In 2011 he created educative website with you learn with the masters: Virgil Donati, Thomas Lang, Andre Ceccarelli, Jean Philippe Fanfan, Alain Caron, Dominique Di Piazza. In 2012 Damien is called to be part, as a singer, to the well know TV Show: The Voice. He also members of the band the Brother of invention with Georges Duke and Jean-Luc Ponty. In 2013 his electro album ’Make Some Noise’ came out under the name of Electro-Schmitt In 2015 Damien will finally deliver The Dada Show’s album , electro/Funk/Broken beat album. In 2016 Damien introduce his new French band dam’nco to the world with a 1st Cd/DVD: « From Paris With Love » 2018 a 2nd CD/DVD called ’French Touch’ come out in April. At the same time Damien also integrate the Daily French TV Show - N’oubliez pas les paroles - as the house drummer of the band. Now is writing music for series and cinema and got a new Band with Jud called Cumbia Oui Oui.