Watch Adam Betts get trigger-happy in insane Drumbones drum playthrough video

Adam Betts is an absolute monster multi-tasker. Not content with playing some of the most mind-boggling beats in modern prog-fusion-jazz-rock with Three Trapped Tigers, he's now gone and launched his own solo career.

Colossal Squid is Betts' debut, an organic hybrid of electronic and live drums that was recorded entirely live in the studio. And in the video above, Betts shows you just how he does it on album track Drumbones, triggering live from Ableton using Roland's SPD-SX Sampling Pad.

What's more, what you see and hear in the video is the actual take from the album. Recorded live on video. Mental.

Not sure about you, but we're exhausted after watching that. For more of this sort of thing, check out Colossal Squid when it lands on 25 November.

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Mike has been Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com since 2019, and an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict for far longer. He has a master's degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and 15 years' experience writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as 20 years of recording and live experience in original and function bands. During his career, he has interviewed the likes of John Frusciante, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, Tom DeLonge, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, Polyphia, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young and many more. His writing also appears in the The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock as Maebe.