Tony Allen

[Yamaha Rider]

Man they do sound so sweetly tuned and wide wide open. That's a good drum sound.

How do you tune for "wide, wide" open?

 

[Arkansmay]

How do you tune for "wide, wide" open?

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[Yamaha Rider]

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Yep, serious. I'm a learner - and I'm not sure how you define 'wide open'. No damping/muffling?

 

[Arkansmay]

Yep, serious. I'm a learner - and I'm not sure how you define 'wide open'. No damping/muffling

Sure. Yes.

 

[someguy01]

Talented people need techniques and equipment though, just like us mortals.
Just noticed Tony uses the butt end of the stick to hit those toms ...

Yep, but what they don't need is a mess of post production to clean up their sound. That's what I mean by talent.

 

[Yamaha Rider]

Sure. Yes.
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Missed the question mark off my reply!
I am infact a learner, and I still don't know what "wide open" means.
And associating Jennifer Lawrence with 'wide open' is wildly distracting

 

[Rock Salad]

He talks about coming up, and you can hear his toms in a live room with zero post production

 

[jda]

still don't know what "wide open" means.

single ply heads top and bottom no holes no muffling

 

[Multijd]

Missed the question mark off my reply!
I am infact a learner, and I still don't know what "wide open" means.
And associating Jennifer Lawrence with 'wide open' is wildly distracting

Tuned higher than usual modern toms. Tuned for resonance, sustain, a wide range of harmonics.

This is an African aesthetic. Where the drums are melodic rather than just purely rhythmic. And this is where African music differs greatly from Jazz. Jazz having melody and harmony in the European instruments. African has melody in the drums.

 

[jda]

 

[jda]

this man 's music was hypnotic

just what the doc ordered

 

[Local Oaf]

In my mind, this is the one true Tony Allen.

 

[Yamaha Rider]

Hypnotic!!

 

[Push pull stroke]

I have to admit, that tom sound isn’t really my thing.

 

[Tiges]

Hypnotic!!

I love that groove.

 

[Yamaha Rider]

The more, and louder, you watch this - better it gets. Wow!

 

[Rock Salad]