Drumming

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iTOREtheSKY

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I know..I was at a club where they'd have various Jazz bands locally play on the weekends & some dude was doing that in one of the songs they played & my jaw was on the ground 'cause I couldn't see what he was doing,but could hear it..and was like wait..his other hand is over there on the ride..what the??????? Does he have a little monkey underneath his throne with a mini-snare drum & some sticks?? Sweet n Sour Chicken!!!!! lol
 
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dyingeveryday

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Okay Tore, now if we could just get a few other people in here with different opinions and styles we would have something here. :D
 
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iTOREtheSKY

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Well,I think once Ugly sees this thread he'll throw in his 2 cents...there's an older dude who just joined the other day that used to be a drummer...and Zaoman is big into music,although he's only a bass player...lol (j/k bro)
I never even thought to start a drumming thread,just because it doesn't seem like many people would wanna discuss it. Oh wait..I think that dude zerotolerance is a drummer too.
 
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dyingeveryday

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Powemm said:
Okay here ya go

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Awwww Yeeaahhh Boyyy! Actually I have no idea what this is. I have to go look it up. lol. Your links come on a list and when I hit them they don't play so I have to type it in. I'll get back to you.
 
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iTOREtheSKY

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dyingeveryday said:
Awwww Yeeaahhh Boyyy! Actually I have no idea what this is. I have to go look it up. lol. Your links come on a list and when I hit them they don't play so I have to type it in. I'll get back to you.
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That's 'cause she sends them from her blasted phone..lol happens to me too when she sends me stuff...but she's my Cat,so I let it slide. LOL (j/k Cat!) :)
 
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iTOREtheSKY

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Because woman rock too & Sheila E. is one of the greats![video=youtube_share;FQu2XwipenA]http://youtu.be/FQu2XwipenA[/video]
 
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iTOREtheSKY

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Stewart...IMHO the ONLY reason the Police are worth listening to!
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dyingeveryday

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I never knew she could play like that. I remember way back she was a pop singer or something. I remember one time they had put sensors in her suit so she could drum on her clothing on stage. That was way back so I never knew if she could seriously play or not. So this answered that.
 
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iTOREtheSKY

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Yeah,I saw her do a solo once doing double bass...standing up & I was like "SWEET N SOUR CHICKEN!" she soooo did not just do that. lol
 
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Kisses1990

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I'll share one piece of advice: if you are a drummer, LEARN TO PLAY TO A CLICK!!!! I can't stress this enough. I've been in bands for years and if you have any desires for playing in a band of any style, you are only as good as the limit of your talent. Drummers are supposed to be the time keepers. If you ever wanted to play anything with samples, like what many industrial bands do, it's even more important.

LEARN TO PLAY TO A CLICK TRACK!!!
 
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iTOREtheSKY

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Ummm..yep. lol I never had any problems with keeping time in all the years I played in bands..no complaints. But a click track you have to get used to ,many times you'll use them in the studio.
 
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lil_christian

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I wish I had the finances and the time to learn drums. I so would.
 
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iTOREtheSKY

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lil_christian said:
I wish I had the finances and the time to learn drums. I so would.
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Get some sticks & a rubber drum pad. How much is a teacher? They don't charge that much do they? I am self taught...even learning how to read drum tab is easy enough.
 
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Kisses1990

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iTOREtheSKY said:
Ummm..yep. lol I never had any problems with keeping time in all the years I played in bands..no complaints. But a click track you have to get used to ,many times you'll use them in the studio.
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You'd be very surprised. Sometimes timing issues are not even noticeable by the naked ear. You could be off by a tenth of a second and not even notice. So what does it matter then? You might ask. In your 3:30 min song, if you are off a 1/10 of a second, every second, it adds up. If you are jamming live, you and the band won't know. On a recorded song, it will be as clear as day. That's if your a good drummer. Someone far worse won't be off by 1/10 of a second. They will be off by a LOT more.

Get a click track and learn it as a second nature. You will be far more useful to any serious band. It is NOT just something for recording studios. ALL major touring acts will have a live drummer that uses a click. In their in ear monitors they will have the music in one ear and the click in the other. They can change volumes and settings accordingly. A band trying to become pro will never make it without a tight drummer that can play to a click.
 
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iTOREtheSKY

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Yep I hear ya'. My days of being in bands is over now. Playing is just a hobby these days. But yes...learning from a click track is a good tool for sure.
 
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dyingeveryday

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Kisses1990 said:
You'd be very surprised. Sometimes timing issues are not even noticeable by the naked ear. You could be off by a tenth of a second and not even notice. So what does it matter then? You might ask. In your 3:30 min song, if you are off a 1/10 of a second, every second, it adds up. If you are jamming live, you and the band won't know. On a recorded song, it will be as clear as day. That's if your a good drummer. Someone far worse won't be off by 1/10 of a second. They will be off by a LOT more.

Get a click track and learn it as a second nature. You will be far more useful to any serious band. It is NOT just something for recording studios. ALL major touring acts will have a live drummer that uses a click. In their in ear monitors they will have the music in one ear and the click in the other. They can change volumes and settings accordingly. A band trying to become pro will never make it without a tight drummer that can play to a click.
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I'm coming from a side where that doesn't matter. lol. When I jam with people we put pauses in that shouldn't naturally be there but they feel and sound right. So how do you deal with that? I can say it bums me. Because using a drum machine it is really difficult to be free in this expression. I don't like to be so rigid in music. I don't record with a click track usually. It's a new concept with a drum machine, but I adapt well on guitar because I am best at guitar. I have always recorded live in a studio miced up. We would do the vocals later but the music was live in studio.
 
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Kisses1990

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^^ oh, you can still have pauses! Just because you are listening to a click in one ear, doesn't mean you have to be playing the entire time. It's entirely how you as the band decide to write the song. If you want a 10 beat pause from drums, fine. But having the constant click track in one of your ears will let you know to come in on beat 11. You'll know EXACTLY when the 10 are up.

Drum machines are perfect, but they don't look as cool on stage! lol
 
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dyingeveryday

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I don't know about all of that. I enjoy the talk but I can't really add anything to that. I hear what I hear and I can play it. I can create it. I can't write it down. I don't worry about the small things. If it sounds right to myself and it has and it seems to sound good to everyone else. Then I'm good. I'll leave the technical stuff to all you drummers. I play drums but may not be a drummer.
 
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