Coldhardsteel
Gold Member
This saturday is actually my first ever paying gig! I'm confident about my playing in this situation despite the fact that I only have one more out of two rehearsals on thursday, mostly because I have a pretty good chemistry with the piano player/director and my sight reading was good last week.
However, I do have a problem.
The director re-wrote a number that's very soft and fluent, and changed the drum chart and wrote out the piano completely. I'm supposed to be using brushes, and the one thing she kept saying throughout that section of the rehearsal was that she wanted more brushes - in particular "More swirly!" I understood what she was getting at, but I wasn't at the time sure how to go about producing more response from the drum. So, I assumed it was my technique with the brushes.
How do you play more loudly when sweeping with brushes? Is it a matter of pressing more deeply into the drum, or is it a matter of how quickly your sweeps are? Is there a particular pattern that would produce more of the textural sound or not? Am I doomed, seeing as I'm using Steve Gadd sig brushes and a coated Emperor and old snares, and I can't get new heads soon? How do I approach the drum to get 'more' with brushes?
However, I do have a problem.
The director re-wrote a number that's very soft and fluent, and changed the drum chart and wrote out the piano completely. I'm supposed to be using brushes, and the one thing she kept saying throughout that section of the rehearsal was that she wanted more brushes - in particular "More swirly!" I understood what she was getting at, but I wasn't at the time sure how to go about producing more response from the drum. So, I assumed it was my technique with the brushes.
How do you play more loudly when sweeping with brushes? Is it a matter of pressing more deeply into the drum, or is it a matter of how quickly your sweeps are? Is there a particular pattern that would produce more of the textural sound or not? Am I doomed, seeing as I'm using Steve Gadd sig brushes and a coated Emperor and old snares, and I can't get new heads soon? How do I approach the drum to get 'more' with brushes?