just a little bit a playing

[dom]

well here is a little video of me playing. It was firday night and i had a cold and well felt like crap but i had to play. the timeing gets a little off and such and its not that great of a video either. The main reason im putting it up is because somewhere 39 40 or seconds into it, i scare my girlfriend who is filming it and it cracks me up so listen around there if anywhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFmFsyL1cZU

[Tyr]

Cool video! Are you playing at a basketball game or something? Thats the wierdest thing I've ever seen! haha Looks like a blast though!

[dom]

Cool video! Are you playing at a basketball game or something? Thats the wierdest thing I've ever seen! haha Looks like a blast though!

yes it was at a home basketball game, its pretty weird im set up at the top of the bleaches and the band is below me and infrount so during play its really easy to not hear them anymore

[somedrummer]

That's strange... every time I've ever palyed with the pep band, the drums have been in front of the band. They are a non-directional instrument, while every other instrument (almost) in the band is. They are blowing away from you. You should be in the front. Tell your director.

Pretty good playing. Relax a little, though.

[dom]

you cant really tell but we dont have a big gym. the pep band is in the bleachers and im set up on a stage at the top. no room for me anywhere else it does suck but it is really good spot to watch the game

[dom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyFWK31yzH0 here is another

im in jazz band witch is the last class of the day and concert band plays pep band 2 hour so we do maybe once a week in jazz band. my teacher decided to play a song i havent had a chance to play yet this year. so he tells me there is a solo in it too and i will be fine so i play it. when my solo is suppost to be over because there is still time but not enough to start a new song he extends it, threw me off but its funney if you are loud fast and look like you know what you are doing everyone will think you are great

[somedrummer]

you cant really tell but we dont have a big gym. the pep band is in the bleachers and im set up on a stage at the top. no room for me anywhere else it does suck but it is really good spot to watch the game

Could you put the stage on some of the lower bleachers? Or is it even movable? In any case, relax!!! I can practically see veins popping out of your neck!

[dom]

no its not moveable, your right about needing to relax though, ive been working on it for some time now. it would be scary to see me playing last year. the vein thing wouldnt suprize me im a red cross nurse fantasy with veins the are huge and poping out no matter what im doing its weird.

[Drummerboy3940]

Try to change up your fills. You are using alot of eighths and sixteenths. Maybe try to put some rests in at different spots and maybe try triplets or something. Some of the fills sounded kind of repetitive to me. You were pretty solid though. Good Job!

[dom]

Try to change up your fills. You are using alot of eighths and sixteenths. Maybe try to put some rests in at different spots and maybe try triplets or something. Some of the fills sounded kind of repetitive to me. You were pretty solid though. Good Job!

i know what you mean. its sad when you feel like you do the same thing over and over again. ive gotten in the comfort zone with fill and with speed and it is really proveing to be a hard wall to break through.

anyone have any suggestions, practice tech or books that i should pick up?

[maddrummr]

Sweet playing man.
I wish my school used set during pep band.

[Drummerboy3940]

just listen to different drummers and hear how they dont just play all the way through a fill. A teacher would help too because they know alot of easy fill that sound good.

[dom]

i have a teacher havent had a lesson in a while tho she is on vaciton till the 16th. listening isnt the best for me im more a sight reader if i can read it i can play it, but if i listen, it takes twice as long.