What U All Workin On?

[FlamTriplet]

Oh yeah, I'm 36, and have been playing for 23. [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/music.gif[/img]

[matricks]

That's great about the WFD but i have a question. Where do you place as far as the WGD... worlds' groovinest drummer. Hmmm, just a thought.....

[Derek DeFields]

How's he supposed to respond to that? I'm sure he can groove just fine.

chops doesn't equal bad feel, never has, never will. (shit, does that rhyme?) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[FlamTriplet]

Hey,

Sorry about that post, it was kinda lame. It was under the influence of alchohol. I just don't like assumptions.
Anyway,I probably don't place in the WGD. And I don't play with any famous musicians, but I love to play.
Of course being technical is a drummer thing, and in the real world, it doesn't mean much. That's why I have my own band, so I can play a whole bunch of crap that I like that works for our music.

[matricks]

All i was saying was that making the music feel good is important too. I am impressed with techniqiue just as much as the next guy, i love working on it. I wasn't being a jerk or anything, in fact Flam's next post was really cool, props to him for that one, made me wanna eat my words. Technique is great, so is feel and groove, so is musicality. I guess playing over the bar groupings of 17's in 11/16 is just as valid as grooving your ass off, it just depends on how you look at it i guess. I am currently on a groove tangent right now and am a technique basher, but next month i am sure will be back doing the technique thang and dissin' the groove as being too simple, then back to the groove... you get the picture. Props on the post Flam, sorry for sounding like a d*ck!

[FlamTriplet]

No man,

You weren't being a $%^&. It was funny.
Grooving is an art, keeping correct tempo, especially when the band leader counts off a wrong one is a challenge.

I just thought my post was a very diarrea of mouth kinda thing.
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[matricks]

Right on bro... hey, goes to show drummers do get along better than other musicians. Imagine if this was a guitarists forum... this would've never gotten settled!

[matricks]

Trying to work on something really practical which for me, i am finding, is chart reading. Going though some chart reading work books and some stuff from the "real book" that has some standards in it. Setting up some figures or just playing the melody of the tune on the drums, trying to make it sound like the actual song (to the best of my ability). Then on the technical fun side (not so practical side) i am working on, for example, the Marco Minnemann "Extreme Interdependence" book. I will, for example, not play what is written for the right hand and instead SING the part while playing what is written for all the other limbs. Then i will do the same with the left hand, then right foot, and then left foot. If there are any linear parts i will sing them also while not actually playing it physically but playing the other remaining non-linear parts as written. This really helps me get the parts down because when you vocalize something, well, it is more precise than when you play it. It really helps me to nail the parts because when i add the limb i am singing it totally is tight and in the pocket, my brain knows where to put the notes because i have sung them accurately already. Once i get the pattern down and have sang every part and the pattern sounds right on and grooves then i will play it as written but sing a repeating odd pattern. Example being: singing every 5th sixteenth note or singing every 7th sixteenth note. Like singing the "1" and then the next note would be the "e" of "2" and then the "&" of "3", the "ah" of 4, then "2" and so on (that is if singing every 5th sixteenth note). A kick ass brain-frying thing to do is to sing let's say dotted eighths and at the same time sing every 5th sixteenth note and also sing every 7 sixteenth note. Each of the three patterns will have assigned to it a different sound that i sing to represent it. When the dotted eighth pattern falls in unison with the 5th sixteenth note pattern, it has one specific sound that i sing to represent those falling in unison, when the 5th sixteenth pattern falls in unison with the 7th sixteenth note pattern i have a different sound i sing to represent that one. It goes on from there. It sounds like a total mess, me making all these sounds while playing but it REALLY does a number on the brain. I am really into trying to train my brain to be able to be twisted into knots while i am playing and still not loose the groove, and still hopefully know what is going on. Also i will take the "New Breed" melodies and sing them over complicated patterns. Train the "5th limb"... not THAT ONE, the voice i am talking about!!! Making the brain work overtime is a good thing too.

[ladanny]

OK, back to the original topic... I'm working on playing 1&3 on the kick, 2&4 on the snare, 8th notes on the hihats, and making it feel REALLY good. :-)

But just for fun, my friend and I wrote out 5s on left hand, 7s on right hand in two measure groupings, just to see if we could play it. Sounds kind of marchy, but it's kind of fun to count the 5s then the 7s...

Danny

[drwalker]

I;m currently working with:

Stick Control By George Stone

New Breed By Gary Chester..

And having a blast!

dw