Meinl Cymbals - Aric Improta - “Blur-Lights in the Videodrome“

“Blur-Lights in the Videodrome“ by Meinl Cymbals artist Aric Improta On July 01, 2017, Meinl Cymbals hosted our Meinl Drum Festival at our HQ in Gutenstetten, Germany. Meinl Cymbals artist Aric Improta was one of the performing artists at the festival that day and easily turned in one of the most unique and memorable drumming performances to have been given in the history of drum festivals in general. Aric’s performance was over 40 minutes in length and was one piece. Prior to the festival, Aric rehearsed his performance from start to finish 100 times. He said he did this not only to commit it to memory, but just as importantly to be sure that he had accounted for every possible thing that could go wrong so that he was as prepared as he could be. That’s a rough cumulative total of hours that Aric spent preparing for this. That’s a lot of time, and it showed. Like all of our artists that day, Aric really hit a home-run with his performance. Just like all of o