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- Sat Mar 09, 2013 1:49 am
- Forum: Drumming Chat
- Topic: Questlove
- Replies: 36
- Views: 24034
- Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:09 pm
- Forum: Drumming Chat
- Topic: Best and fastest way to learn how to read music(?)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10342
Re: Best and fastest way to learn how to read music(?)
Along with all of the above, start transcribing. I'd pick a tune you might play on a gig, something simple. First lay out the form, then pencil in the main groove(s), and key events. Writing is a good way to improve your reading, because as you write a given word or figure, it becomes part of your ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:04 am
- Forum: Drumming Chat
- Topic: Best and fastest way to learn how to read music(?)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10342
Re: Best and fastest way to learn how to read music(?)
I don't know about anyone else, but even after doing a year+ of theory, I can't have a sheet of harmonic stuff thrown down in front of me and have it made sense enough for me to have it be useful on first glance (I'm also a pure drummer, meaning I have no proficiency at any other instrument besides ...
- Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:03 am
- Forum: Drumming Chat
- Topic: Reading against the quarter note
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9118
Re: Reading against the quarter note
I'm with Mark on this one-- looking at the bottom number in the sig works when reading. It is different for me in different situations: -When I'm playing an odd time with a band, I try and hear it (as I am sure 99% of drummers do) -When I can't hear it, I ask what time signature it is in -If I am re...
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:28 pm
- Forum: Drumming Chat
- Topic: Tempo Issues-- Help!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8880
Re: Tempo Issues-- Help!
Thanks everyone for the great, thoughtful responses—I’ve never come across another site where you can ask such a question and get back such professional, well-reasoned and experienced-based feedback in such an insane short amount of time. First off, the aforementioned feedback that everyone gave hel...
- Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:44 pm
- Forum: Drumming Chat
- Topic: Tempo Issues-- Help!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8880
Re: Tempo Issues-- Help!
Thanks everyone for the feedback! I will post more this weekend after the show opens-- just got back from a preview and I am about to hit the sack, so I'll save it all for later. I actually know that one of the sound people has a video recording of the rehearsals, so I will be able to cue in on the ...
- Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:05 am
- Forum: Drumming Chat
- Topic: Tempo Issues-- Help!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8880
Tempo Issues-- Help!
Two-part question for the pickle that I'm in: The backstory is that I am playing in a musical that opens this week. It's a four-part band with five-actor/singer cast. The show is essentially all 90's boy band music and the singers all have extensive choreography. According to the feedback from the M...
- Sun Dec 23, 2012 1:08 pm
- Forum: Drumming Chat
- Topic: Cindy on Dennis's drums....
- Replies: 47
- Views: 25618
Re: Cindy on Dennis's drums....
This thread has gotten quite silly. Someone sits in on someone else's drums and doesn't sound good and it is worth 46+ posts? Drums are most likely the most personal instruments in the world, based on the number of variables one can change. Therefore, it is a surprise that someone struggles when pla...
- Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:21 pm
- Forum: Drumming Chat
- Topic: MP's rage outburst on stage.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 31795
Re: MP's rage outburst on stage.
In this clip the drummer is the victim >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F33V34o0OwE Teach drummers a lesson about not showing up wasted for a show (or as the story goes, two weeks worth of shows). Granted, in the real world the boss doesn't throw your monitor across your cube, but whatever-- gott...
- Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:10 pm
- Forum: Drumming Chat
- Topic: Big Weckl announcement?
- Replies: 278
- Views: 136503
Re: Big Weckl announcement?
Okay, I gotta stick a sock in this "it's all for the art" bullsh*t. It isn't about the art here, it is about marketing and making money-- you know, that thing that we all do for at least 8 hours per day? Yeah, Weckl's got to do it too-- he ain't Dave Grohl sitting pretty on multi-millions....