Posts I like
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Source (by request): X-Men Origin: Jean Grey (2008) #1
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“I am the greatest swordsman that ever lived. Say, um, can I have some of that water?”
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In the paint booth working on this mappa burl snare.
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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keep calm and carry on. (by br0-mantic)
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Unemployed librarian employs herself by collecting donated books and setting up make-shift libraries around Brooklyn. Proving that you may need a...
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11 posts tagged drumming
The Amazing Slow Downer
Learning some tricky drum parts. Downloaded the Amazing Slow Downer iPhone app. Most useful music app I’ve bought by far. Earns its name (and its purchase price, which is a little steep for an app at $14.99). Highly recommended.
Watch Kendrick Scott and Oracle perform “Cycling Through Reality” live at the Berklee College of Music, then hear the whole concert from WBGO.
Kendrick Scott, on drums, is the bandleader. The drums come in at just over four minutes into the song. There is a lesson here.
Also, Scott begins by playing the resonant/snare side of his snare drum. (That is, he’s playing it upside down.) At around 5:35, the camera focuses in on the bass player. Scott breaks his rhythm down to the ride cymbal and then a few beats of rest, before snapping back in at full force, having flipped the snare over while off camera. He’s the David Copperfield (Scrubs, not Dickens) of drums.
I like that he explores his instrument by playing the “wrong” side (see also: Dave King), but also I think that this would be a great exercise in playing softly. Snare-side heads are as thin as they come. If you overdo it, you’re going to have to buy a new head and, honestly, when’s the last time you replaced your snare-side head? How’s that for stick-control motivation?
“I’ve been paying a lot of attention to drummers lately, and McAllister knows how to beat his kit with vicious authority. He also knows how to mix it up and follow Weiskopf’s muse, whatever that may be from moment to moment.” Criminy.
Mini-Drum Solo of the Day: What is this? A drum kit for ants?
[vvv.]
Awesome mini drumkit performance. Really tears it up.
inb4: Foot technique needs some work.
Soopy and co. playing Super Mario Bros. themes and more
(This guy also makes a Pearl Rhythm Traveler kit sound good—no easy feat.)
Early Bird Special: A NYC subway busker performs the hell out of Adele’s “Someone Like You.”
[refinery29 / thanks anon!]
Stick around for the end.
My percussion instructor showed me this… Actually our whole drumline.
In case you were wondering how it works
Hmm … this reminds me that there was something I was meant to be doing.
Cinema - Skrillex - Drum remix by Luke Holland
This needs to be heard.
… and seen. The throw at 1:34. Holy Jedi drumming, Obi Wan.
(via thatweirdmusickid)
