Forum: General Discussion
05-22-2013, 04:35 AM
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Replies: 101
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Forum: Drum Technique
05-16-2013, 05:40 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 796
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Forum: General Discussion
05-15-2013, 04:17 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 6,722
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Forum: General Discussion
05-14-2013, 12:38 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 745
Re: Does your family understand?
Yes, both of my parents have given me full support, they drove me to gigs and still go to gigs regularly. We did have the music major discussion but they since have accepted because they know this is...
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Forum: General Discussion
05-05-2013, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 83
Views: 1,994
Re: Meshuggah - now my drumming seems trivial :(
Your drumming could never be trivial because there's no one else in the world that can play drums like you. Your sound, your touch and your expression are totally unique. The rest is just practice, a...
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Forum: General Discussion
05-04-2013, 03:04 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 919
Re: How to develop touch and tone on the drumset?
I agree 100% with larry, touch is directly related to your hand/foot technique. It's important to leave nothing to chance and analize every detail of your playing to pull out the sound you want. Of...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-29-2013, 01:44 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 825
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Forum: Drum Technique
04-24-2013, 03:47 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 510
Re: semi-quavers over 6/8 clave
It should still work cause the clave pattern is implied in the cascara pattern I posted, just take out the "and" in beat two and the "a" in beat four and you have the clave.
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Forum: Drum Technique
04-24-2013, 01:37 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 510
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Forum: Drum Technique
04-23-2013, 01:32 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 510
Re: semi-quavers over 6/8 clave
You can phrase the 6/8 clave as 16th notes (instead of thinking in triplet terms) and that should make some of the passages easier. Remember that the clave and latin music in general is often "in the...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-22-2013, 07:04 AM
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Replies: 81
Views: 2,636
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Forum: General Discussion
04-21-2013, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 625
Views: 18,536
Re: ...for the jazz cats ...
I never really got how important feathering was till I saw a group live, the bass player was having trouble with the mikes and you could barely hear him, fortunately the drummer was feathering and it...
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Forum: Drummers
04-18-2013, 01:17 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 938
Re: Dylan Elise
I've seen his videos on youtube, that famous drum solo from when he was a kid and some more recent one of him playing in the street at some sort of festival. I would like to hear him in a more...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-16-2013, 01:02 AM
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Replies: 83
Views: 2,017
Re: The social stigma attached to Metal...
Growling is just a voice effect, one which in my opinion fits the music really well, there's nothing worse than having a great heavy crushing riff being followed by some wussy clean singing. If every...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-16-2013, 12:22 AM
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Replies: 625
Views: 18,536
Re: ...for the jazz cats ...
I stumbled across something online, a master graduate thesis about Elvin Jone's playing style. It's basically a very in depth analysis, discussing his time feel, ride pattern and approaches, complete...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-08-2013, 03:45 AM
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Replies: 625
Views: 18,536
Re: ...for the jazz cats ...
My teacher passed me the Nickel sessions last week, actually he gave me his expansive hard drive and told me to go to town with it so I went a little bit overboard jaja. I still haven't listened to...
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Forum: General Discussion
03-29-2013, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 625
Views: 18,536
Re: ...for the jazz cats ...
Great posts guys, thanks for the great history lesson 8mile. Furious rubato, I really like that term jaja. I have yet to check out Coltrane's later stuff, maybe that'll work as a good starting point....
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Forum: General Discussion
03-27-2013, 06:02 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 128
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Forum: General Discussion
03-26-2013, 11:47 PM
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Replies: 625
Views: 18,536
Re: ...for the jazz cats ...
I was hoping to start a discussion on a particular style of jazz playing that I haven't seen discussed very often. I'm talking the almost open rubato tunes where everyone is sorta playing on their...
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Forum: General Discussion
03-23-2013, 05:43 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 411
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Forum: General Discussion
03-22-2013, 08:52 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 115
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Forum: General Discussion
03-22-2013, 06:15 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 97
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Forum: General Discussion
03-18-2013, 03:40 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 88
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Forum: General Discussion
03-17-2013, 11:02 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 88
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Forum: Drum Technique
03-16-2013, 06:56 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 1,303
Re: Good jazz books
Check out this great lesson by Justin Faulkner on how to work on that groove http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCgh8VyHh9E
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