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...
Type: Posts; User: JohnnySticks; Keyword(s):
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...
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...
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.
I should have mentioned that a working drummer will have more than one set of brushes, to accommodate different playing situations.
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...
https://youtu.be/3e7FToRhcTE
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
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...
I really like the paradiddle-diddle for the kit. When you move around to the different drums and surfaces, it sounds pretty cool.
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...
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.
The Dan loved musicians. They hired the best and let them play. Aja is a pop drumming clinic.
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...
Worlds greatest living Big Band drummer--Jeff Hamilton
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...
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...
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...
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....
There must be tons of online free music 101 tutorials that will teach time signatures.
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.
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...
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
I miss the thread trees at the top of the page, which were useful for quick navigation
The link was lost in the OP. Here it is
https://youtu.be/xeF1Snk0zOQ
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...