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    Re: Double Stroke Roll technique question

    The double stroke roll is the gateway to all other rolls. Emil Scholle's book The Roll has you doing each exercise using double, triple and multiple bounce rolls in turn. Control the two, then...
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    Re: Tuning the snare drum- newbe question.

    Be bop jazz tends to tune everything higher than, say, Big Band. Also, if you plan to do a lot of playing on the snare with the snares off to give you another tom voice (especially if you have a four...
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    Re: How to practice the Stick Control book

    I will add that one should play at varying dynamics. One time play mf, the next time play pp, the next time ff. You need all the dynamics at your command.
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    Re: Snare--Heads / Brushes

    I should have mentioned that a working drummer will have more than one set of brushes, to accommodate different playing situations.
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    Re: Snare--Heads / Brushes

    I like Aquarian texture coated as it's pretty durable.

    Brushes have different materials and different gauges of materials. Mainly there are wire and nylon. Past that there are different...
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    World's worst drumming advice

    https://youtu.be/3e7FToRhcTE
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    Re: Gator drum bags

    I use Drum Seeker for my toms and snares, and a Tuxedo for the bass--mainly because the Drum Seeker bass bag is pretty darn heavy
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    Re: Protective Drum Bags

    Agree--I really like my Drum Seekers. But I will say I just bought one to replace my Tuxedo bass bag and when it came it was way heavier than I'd imagined. I sent it back for another Tuxedo, (because...
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    Re: Top ten rudiments

    I really like the paradiddle-diddle for the kit. When you move around to the different drums and surfaces, it sounds pretty cool.
  10. Thread: rudiments

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    Re: rudiments

    If you get tired of practicing rudiments, try getting a book that makes you use them in different ways. It takes away some of the boredom. Like Joe Morello's Master Studies.

    Also, a kind of fun...
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    Re: How to practice the Stick Control book

    This is dumb in so many ways, but I call BS on it, as I know damn well that you understand the difference between warming up and developing drumming skills.
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    Re: RIP Walter Brecker

    The Dan loved musicians. They hired the best and let them play. Aja is a pop drumming clinic.
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    Re: Decent Jazz ride?

    I searched for four years for the "perfect" ride, which had to be good for jazz. I ended up with the Zildjan K Hybrid 20". It's got a controlled stick sound, a great bell sound, and is very...
  14. Re: If you could have a private lesson with a legend who would it be?

    Worlds greatest living Big Band drummer--Jeff Hamilton
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    Re: Kick drums: To pillow, or not to pillow?

    I use the Aquarian Superkick 1 and the Aquarian Regulator for playing a wide range of music in a couple of community bands indoors and out, and that gives me just a little resonance which is exactly...
  16. Re: If you could only have ONE cymbal which one?

    This is absolutely true. You can crash it and ride it. it's biggest weakness is that when doing soft mallet rolls it doesn't really speak well at dynamics of mp or below, but it's fine from mf and...
  17. Re: Who makes quality single braced hardware?

    I was at Sam Ash again, looking at the DW's, and a local, older bop drummer said he has them and loves them. They fit into one bag and probably weigh the same as my hi hat. I would have to really sit...
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    Re: Free drumset notation software.

    MuseScore is versatile, powerful but has a steep learning curve. Lots of instruction videos on YouTube. Once you get good at it you can use the shorcuts to work pretty fast. It has a dot-org url....
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    Re: Learning time signatures

    There must be tons of online free music 101 tutorials that will teach time signatures.
  20. Re: Who makes quality single braced hardware?

    I saw these and honestly I felt like they were maybe TOO light. I might use the cymbal stand but I didn 't like the HH and snare stands at all.
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    Re: What's the best gig you've ever played?

    The avocational orchestra I play with did a gig at Cleveland's Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Orchestra, and the highlight was a piece called Alzheimer's Stories, by Robert Cohen. There were 5...
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    Sticky: Re: Rogers Drums Discussion

    Do you know what year that is? It looks like it has the same hardware as mine, though I cannot zoom the photo to get a better look. Mine's 1968
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    Re: Drum Chat Facelift

    I miss the thread trees at the top of the page, which were useful for quick navigation
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    Sticky: Re: Tuning to the Shell Timbre (DWs John Good)

    The link was lost in the OP. Here it is

    https://youtu.be/xeF1Snk0zOQ
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    Re: Trying Grover snare wires

    If you look at the Grover site, it says the jazz one is for thinner drums, like less than 5". They also have a chart that shows volume versus sensitivity. The jazz wires are lowest volume and highest...
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