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Sounds to me like the quickest way to really screw up a beginner...or anyone else for that matter...unless they are already at such a level that things like that are all they have left to worry about. Biomechanics are almost inconsequential compared to creativity, timing, feel and taste. Perfecting a golf swing to get that last 5yrds out of a drive; then yes. To me, it would be like teaching a poet how to hold his pen in order to physically write words faster.
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For me, drumming involves the movement of the entire body, not just the shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers, legs and feet and to map out that movement bio-mechanically as a learning tool to improve ones technique would make my learning curve too steep. How can you map out "feel"? How many times as drummers have we heard the phrase "just feel it"?
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Interesting. Music is an art form. Does that mean the the technical side should be completely ignored?
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Good points tubbies. I don't think the technical side can be completely ignored since we have to eventually dip our hands into the technical side when beginning to learn beyond simply banging spoons, or pencils, on a table, but even tapping our fingers, or anything back in the day, we were learning. I just think for a beginner much more than learning their way around practice pad basics by strapping devices on them goes beyond what's needed. To some extent the sound creates the technique instead of the technique creates the sound, although both are true. The question reminds me of the Rocky movie series, Rocky used old school techniques, almost as an art form, to train and his Russian opponent used high tech science.
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wow this is beyond crazy! That's a lot of thinking involved, to much thinking for me.
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I used to be stubborn about new technology but I've lived long enough to witness it's contribution to the overall art form in many different ways. But yea, I would agree that too much of that early on could be a detriment. This is advanced stuff that should be worked in only at the appropriate time.
Thanks for sharing 10lug!
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wow this is beyond crazy! That's a lot of thinking involved, to much thinking for me.
I'm kind if with Spaz here haha.. it is interesting though. I'm not sure what the benefit of such a thing would be. Seems like it would work if the piece of music being played is suppose to have only one way and volume/force to play it... if that makes sense.... maybe i'm off track... not sure but my head is beginning to hurt thinking about it :bomb: