We have a local jam here on Sunday nights from 5-9. Its very low key, many of us that are regulars know each other and have played with each other many times. We still invite others who aren't in...
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We have a local jam here on Sunday nights from 5-9. Its very low key, many of us that are regulars know each other and have played with each other many times. We still invite others who aren't in...
Nearest GC is 2.5 hours from here. I'm not good enough to do such a thing, tho I'd be interested in watching some of it.
Turns out a young guy who plays in bands around here just posted on...
Seconding this!
Years ago, I dislocated my shoulder. Had to have the arm in a sling, no activity, blah blah blah.
After about two weeks, I took the foolish sling off and started playing drums...
Agreed!
If I'm stressed or in a bad mood, I get behind the practice e-kit, turn up something really loud in the headphones, and fire away, usually adding more fills than I ever would playing it...
Exactly how long does it take to assemble a beast like that?
3 hours, with a crew? 4? 6?
Amazing to look at. I don't know what I would do, sitting behind it. He is amazing, certainly.....
I go 2 up, 1 down currently, 12", 13", 16", 22". I have a 14" that I don't use, mostly due to size restraints.... I'd rather have the space for cymbal stands versus the tom stand. If I ever convert...
EyePea, do you have a website (or can recommend one) that illustrates those positions? I'm having a particularly difficult time envisioning the "snare at a click or two lower than 90 degrees"...
I use a 48" SKB case, affectionately (or not so affectionately at loud out) known in our band as "the coffin" :icon_lol:
It's big. (Fits across the back seat in my sedan tho...) It's heavy, but...
So......?
How'd it go?
I like my aquarian spring, but I haven't used it long enough to notice any ill effects on the china. I will definitely watch for it.
Works both ways....
I gave up playing in my twenties, for the career and family. Picked it back up after the kids were grown, in my late 40's.
Wish I had never stopped. Wish I had found a way...
I have a pair, for just that reason....gig's where you need to keep the volume down. My biggest issue with them is the sound I get from my snare, and from my ride cymbal. My snare sounds like an...
We play in most any of the benefit gigs that ask, so long as they are local and are backlined. If all we need to do is drop in, play a set, and then get to rub elbows with other musicians and shoot...
Sneakers. All-white (boring, my kids say) Nike's are what I usually buy.
If I'm doing a dressier gig, I wear my all-black Nike's that I wear to work.
Maybe it was John Bonhams, and signed by him or something.... :icon_wink:
I haven't had much luck yet getting a sound I like with my extra cymbals, either. I've heard some combinations on YouTube recordings and such that make a sound that I think I would like to have, I...
Another thing to consider, don't go selling off cymbals as you replace them, at least not all of them...if you can afford to hang onto a couple that you like currently. Sometimes you might find that...
The only issue with doing that for my floor tom is the legs are long enough that they stick up higher than the top of the drum. It will still probably fit inside the soft case that I use, but I'm...
The other two main players in our band (we rotate a second guitarist in for some shows) both tend to gravitate towards southern rock style clothing (flannel shirts over t's, or vests and such), and...
In our little town, there is an outdoor concert series during the summer that attracts some pretty big name acts, both rock and country. (Dave Mathews, Van Halen, Luke Bryan, Journey, lots of pretty...
Oh. My. Word (edited to be PG-13). :dancing:
I am whicked excited about this!!!!
Ringo and His All Start Band just played here about a month ago, what a great show.
Our current band covers a variety of different things, depending on the venue we are playing at. We're primarily in the classic rock/southern rock vein, but we play some stuff that is a bit on the...
I'm using the Audix FP series, their budget entry.
It's good for a starter set, something you don't have to spend a ton on while you decide what you want to do, and how often you really need to...
Interesting thread.
I may not play as much, or as loudly as others here, but I've never had a tip come off a stick before. As someone else mentioned, I do chew up the sides a bit :icon_mrgreen:...
To me, the key is practicing it enough that you don't have to think about it. Anytime that I'm struggling to remember a song or even a section of it, I'm "thinking while playing" and my playing...