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I started to play drums in September 2003 when I was 10. I started attending a music school where I had the opportunity to create my first rock cover band with my friend Alessandro. A few years later I joined several bands playing Rock and Heavy and Power Metal and in winter 2010 I joined to Steel Crow, a heavy metal band. I started to grow musically, playing continuously, studying and listening to a lot of different musical genres from heavy to death & black metal.
In July 2011 I had the opportunity to re-create the brutal death metal band Bloodtruth, improving my drumming style with fast double bass drumming, blasts, gravity and other fundamental techniques for the brutal death metal style. My musical growth has allowed me to offer myself as session drummer and I was getting in touch with Five Hundred Murders (metalcore) and Gor Morgul (black/death metal) with which I recorded some material.
Now I’m focused in preparing the material to recording of my first full-length with Bloodtruth and Steel Crow which I hope will come out in 2013 – meanwhile I’m searching for other bands for session works.
Giacomo Torti Interview:
SDM: How old were you when you started playing?
Giacomo: First of all, I started to playing acustic guitar but I didn’t like it from the beginning. Talking to my mum, she said I had to try playing drums and I started my first drum lesson in September 2013 and it was love at first sight.
SDM: Did you play in a school band or any drum corps?
Giacomo: I attended a music school in my city since few years ago. In my country there isn't a sense of music academy as in yours. At school, students only study music's history and in the better ways they can play flute (I did it :D). Now, the music school I attended has been closed for lack of fund… A country which not finance culture have not a future!
SDM: Who are your top 5 metal influences?
Giacomo: Nicholas Barker (for his insane drumming on Dimmu Borgir's Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia), Raymond Herrera (thanks to Fear Factory if I started playing double pedal), Tim Yeung (because I love his technical playing with Divine Heresy), George Kollias and Derek Roddy (because they were the first drummers I saw playing at such extreme speed and I suddenly fell in love with their drumming) and in the end Francesco Paoli (because he taught me that to get a goal you need to have just patience and hard work. We all know that the results he obtained by following these principles).
SDM: Who are some other of your favorites?
Giacomo: Johnny Rabb and Jojo Mayer above all! About others.. there are a lot of drummers that have a special characteristics that I like… too many to remember all, so I won't write no one.. lol.
SDM: Let us know 5 CD's that are in your current rotation
Giacomo: Malfeitor – Unio Mystica Maxima, Belphegor – Lucifer Incestus, Michael Kiske – Instant clarity, Mastodon – Crack the Sky (instrumental cd) and Saturnus – Veronika Decides to Die.
SDM: What do you do to warm up before a show?
Giacomo: Just play a simple exercise. I'll try to explain but it's hard: one bar of 32th of single strokes and a bar of 16th with right hand, than I restart with the left hand. For a better understanding that's what I play: |RLRLRLRL | R-R-R-R- | LRLRLRLR | L-L-L-L- | than restart. For foot I just play ankle down an imaginary tempo until I feel them burn, so relax and restart. Now I'm ready to go!
SDM: Do you read music? Regardless of answering yes or no, please tell us how it might have effected your playing?
Giacomo: Yes, I can read both music sheets and tabs. I found useful read music for the studies I've done and I'm doing right now as well as for my bands. Many times I get multimedial sheets written with software like Gruitar Pro and Cubase and in that case it's useful to know what's written on it or what's I have to write. Sometimes it's not enough learn the melody and your part by listening. Expecially with Bloodtruth, was crucial to read the music when I have to play odd times or changes of tempo. This also allows you do not miss the timing in case of errors.
SDM: Can you tell us about the gear you use?
Giacomo: I use a Tama Starclassic Performer b/b (Toms: 10”, 12” Floor Tom: 16” kick: 22”) with a Tama Metalworks Snare (14”), Evans Heads, Ufip Bionic and Rough, Axis Longboards pedals, Roland Hardware and Vic Firth's Nova sticks 5AN and 5BN.
SDM: If you could give one piece of advice to young drummers, it would be…
Giacomo: “..to YOUNG drummers..” Want to say that I'm old? Ahaha. Seriously, the advices are always the same: practice a lot with method and seriousness, listen a lot of music (every kind) and so on, but in my opinion playing with a band is what allows you to grow as a drummer and as a musician. Playing with other guys can teach you what books don't!
SDM: Who gave the best live performance you've ever seen?
Giacomo: Are you talking about best drummer or band performance? Well in the first case, one of the best I saw is certainly Adam Jarvis of Misery Index! About the band I had to chose Kreator! I saw them last year in Wacken and they made the heaviest festival's performance! So damn evil!
SDM: Aside from drumming, what else do you like to do?
Giacomo: I attend the last year of informatics university and I do martial arts (kick boxing, k1, muay thai) since I was young. When I have free time I like play videogames, listen music and cooking with my girlfriend π
Bloodtruth – Summoning the Heretics Video
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Π§Π°ΡΡ ΠΏΡΠΎΠ±ΠΈΠ»ΠΈ ΡΠ΅ΠΌΡ ΡΠ°Π· "Π²ΠΈΠ½Π΄ΠΎΠ²Ρ Π»Π°ΠΉΡ ΡΠΊΠ°ΡΠ°ΡΡ Π±Π΅ΡΠΏΠ»Π°ΡΠ½ΠΎ"ΠΈ ΠΌΡΠ·ΡΠΊΠ° ΡΠΌΠΎΠ»ΠΊΠ»Π°, Π° "ΠΈΠ³ΡΠ° ΡΠ°ΠΏΡΠ½ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ Π·Π°ΠΏΡΡΠ°Π½Π½Π°Ρ ΠΈΡΡΠΎΡΠΈΡ ΠΏΠΎΡΠ΅Π»ΡΠΉ"ΠΎΠ½ ΠΏΠΎΠ½ΡΠ» ΠΎΡΠΊΡΠ΄Π° "ΡΠ΅ΠΎΡΠΈΡ Π»ΠΆΠΈ ΠΊΠ½ΠΈΠ³Π°"Π΄ΠΎ Π½Π΅Π³ΠΎ Π΄ΠΎΠ½Π΅ΡΠ»ΠΎΡΡ ΡΠΈΠΊΠ°Π½ΡΠ΅.
>, ΠΠΈΠ½ΠΌΠ°Ρ "ΠΡΡΡΠ°Ρ ΡΠ°Π½ΡΠ°ΡΡΠΈΠΊΠ° ΡΠΊΠ°ΡΠ°ΡΡ ΠΊΠ½ΠΈΠ³Ρ"<Π² ΡΡΠΌΠ΅ΡΠΎ-Π°ΠΊΠΊΠ°Π΄ΡΠΊΠΎΠΉ ΠΌΠΈΡΠΎΠ»ΠΎΠ³ΠΈΠΈ Π±ΠΎΠ³ΠΈΠ½Ρ-ΠΌΠ°ΡΡ.
ΠΠ΅Π²ΡΠΉ ΠΏΡΠΎΡ ΠΎΠ΄ "ΠΊΠ»ΠΈΠΏ ΠΊΠ°ΠΏ ΠΊΠ°ΠΏ ΡΠΊΠ°ΡΠ°ΡΡ"ΠΏΠΎΠΊΠ°Π·Π°Π»ΡΡ Π΅ΠΌΡ ΡΠΌΡΡΠ½ΠΎ Π·Π½Π°ΠΊΠΎΠΌΡΠΌ, ΠΈ ΠΎΠ½ "ΡΠΊΠ°ΡΠ°ΡΡ ΡΠΈΠ½Π³ΡΠΎΠ½Ρ Π½Π° Π±ΡΠ΄ΠΈΠ»ΡΠ½ΠΈΠΊ"ΠΏΠΎΡΠ΅Π» ΠΏΠΎ Π½Π΅ΠΌΡ.
Π’ΠΎΠ»ΡΠΊΠΎ ΠΏΠ»Π°Π½Π΅ΡΠ½ΡΠΉ "Π³ΠΎΡΠΎΠ΄ ΠΏΠΎΡΠ΅ΡΡΠ½Π½ΡΡ Π΄ΡΡ ΡΠΊΠ°ΡΠ°ΡΡ ΠΊΠ°ΡΡΠ°Π½Π΄ΡΠ° ΠΊΠ»ΡΡ"Π΄ΠΎΠΌ ΡΠ΄ΠΎΠ²ΠΎΠ»ΡΡΡΠ²ΠΈΠΉ Π² ΠΡΠΉΠΏΠ²ΠΈΠ»Π»Π΅ Π±ΡΠ» "ΠΏΠ»Π°Π½ ΠΌΠ°ΡΠΊΠ΅ΡΠΈΠ½Π³Π° ΠΏΡΠΈΠΌΠ΅Ρ"Π΄Π»Ρ Π½Π΅Π΅ ΠΎΡΠΊΡΡΡ.
Π‘ΠΊΠ²ΠΎΠ·Ρ ΠΎΠ±Π»Π°ΡΠΊΠΎ Π΄ΡΠΌΠ° ΡΠ²ΠΈΠ΄Π΅Π», ΠΊΠ°ΠΊ "Π‘ΠΊΠ°ΡΠ°ΡΡ ΠΏΠΎΡΠ»Π΅Π΄Π½ΠΈΠΉ ΡΠ°Π΅ΡΡΠΎΠΊΡ"ΠΌΠ΅Π΄Π²Π΅Π΄Ρ ΠΏΠΎΠΊΠ°ΡΠ½ΡΠ»ΡΡ Π²ΠΏΠ΅ΡΠ΅Π΄ ΠΈ "ΠΠΈΠ½Π΄ΠΎΠ²Ρ ΠΊΠΎΠΌΠΌΠ°Π½Π΄Π΅Ρ ΡΠΊΠ°ΡΠ°ΡΡ Π±Π΅ΡΠΏΠ»Π°ΡΠ½ΠΎ"ΡΡΡ Π½ΡΠ» Π² Π²ΠΎΠ΄Ρ.
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