DrumEatDrum
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How do you feel specifically about double kick drum gospel chops?
Now that's some funny stuff.
How do you feel specifically about double kick drum gospel chops?
It's a bass drum ... not a "kick drum"
and nothing is more annoying than the term and the style of "Gospel Chops"
aside from maybe someone saying "kick drum"
and nothing is more annoying than the term and the style of "Gospel Chops"
How do you feel specifically about double kick drum gospel chops?
LOL
From my understanding, Jesus really digs ‘em.
Without jesus, there would be no double kick gospel chops. Let that sink in. He literally died so that we could do double kick gospel chopping.
Which begs the question, how many gospels could a gospel chop chop, if a gospel could chop chops?
Without jesus, there would be no double kick gospel chops. Let that sink in. He literally died so that we could do double kick gospel chopping.
Which begs the question, how many gospels could a gospel chop chop, if a gospel could chop chops?
It's a bass drum ... not a "kick drum"
and nothing is more annoying than the term and the style of "Gospel Chops"
aside from maybe someone saying "kick drum"
"Gospel chops" is just stupid.
They could have just abbreviated to BD - takes up even less channel tab space. These days, it's all digital on the channel name anyhow, but I'm still organised on a full mic setup BD - SNT - SNB - HAT - OHL - OHR - T1 - T2 - T3 - T4.Yeah, the "kick drum" thing used to bug me more but, as I'm sure you already know, the phrase came from engineers who didn't want to confuse it with the bass guitar when they wrote on their little pieces of tape stuck to the board.
From that POV, it's not as terrible for me.
It's a bass drum ... not a "kick drum"
and nothing is more annoying than the term and the style of "Gospel Chops"
aside from maybe someone saying "kick drum"
Never seen anyone kick a bass drum either
You don't need a metronome.
Play along with recorded music, and let the music be your timekeeper. Way more fun than a metronome, and it achieves the same objective.
And in this day and age of a metronome being an app on your phone, it's even worse. The first metronome app I downloaded kept abysmal time. I'd play and....go out. Start again, concentrating so that my brain hurt and...go out. Eventually I sat there just tapping in time with the metronome and...sure enough, it really was the metronome losing time, and not me.
...Iron Maiden is the nice girl you bring home to meet your folks; Judas Priest is the nasty skank you cheat on her with!
..The vocalist needs it at 73.6 bpm exactly..
..you know, standard stuff really..
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I guess I’m simply asking, despite the mass waffle above, is how do you practice purely time focused practice ie. exact tempos, fixing small tendencies, leading the time etc without the ol’ metronome?
I'm screwedcheesy fills.
I've always thought that the metronome advice related to practising. I don't record, so I've never needed to learn to work with a click track, which is a whole 'nother kettle of fish.
Somebody way wiser than I once posted on here that "time is in the room" (I think it was "Who Is Tony?"). It's an idea that I like very much - that it is the whole band's responsibility to keep time, and the drummer just highlights the pulse along with any other drummery duties being fulfilled.
When it comes to monitoring what the band is doing, I use LiveBPM. I don't have it on all the time, but if there are songs or sections where we are concerned that our time might not be what it should, I use it. I call it the rev counter. It makes it very clear what is going on without acting like a strait jacket.
For the sake of clarity - I'm not knocking playing to a click; I don't know enough to do that. If playing to a click is what you need to do, like to do or prefer to do, that's up to you.