Category: drums
acoustic and electronic drum kit and percussion.
I move my body to move the surfaces that move the air to move the people.
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Street Drumming, 2023/July/20
Motivation: Weather was beautiful, so I decided to drag the suitcase-kit out for some street-drumming. On the way: Dragging the suitcase up to subway platform, I heard this woman blasting “Green Onions” on her phone. I dug it, and we started chatting.She eye-balled the suitcase, and I told her it was a ‘traveling drum kit.’Pointing…
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GEARing up to get the most out of drum practice : fundamentals to luxury.
Motivation: Getting into drums is a tricky affair… To play them requires sticks, hearing protection, and (usually) something to play along TO. The drums themselves are large, loud, and complicated. And that’s just getting them in the room. all that hitting and sweating leads to broken sticks to replace, grimy cymbals to polish, and replacing…
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Muscle-study for Moeller-ism on the foot-control of kick-drum pedal(s)
Motivation… Working with drum students, I find myself having to (repeatedly) explain to kids and adults how to think of their drumming as a concerted effort of separate motions. Controlling sticks with hand muscles is one thing, but learning to control the kick drum pedal(s) is another challenge altogether. It is often clumsy to…
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Working with drum trigger godfather/innovator Dan Dauz to (try to) improve (one of) his products.
Motivation Since 2005-ish, I’ve had a frustrated love-hate relationship with electronic drum pads. This was even part of the passion for musical interfacing that carried me through grad school, but now I’m finally putting my ideas and tools to test a design that remains dynamic even under hard playing in loud-vibrating environments. Product Tech and…
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spontaneous drum circle !
I woke up from an afternoon nap to the sounds of hand-drums and percussion… so I put on pants and joined the circle.
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Alesis SamplePad Pro: thoughts and application of features
Personal experience, feature comparison, and other product-review thoughts on the Alesis SamplePad Pro, the newest (and cheapest) self-contained electronic percussion pad that supports using your your own sound files.
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(re)building “Jet” Snare drum: VIDs !!
video supplement to my re-build of a “jet” branded wooden snare drum.
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more subbing at School of Rock
Got another call to sub at SOR; this time two seperate days. It was exciting and refreshing. Also, I’ve been pestering the General Manager to help out in other ways… fixing the abundant run-down cables, speakers, drums, etc…or even setting up a workshop to teach the Guitar class kids how to solder their own…
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(more) Drumming w/ LaTreice Branson and LADIES !
My friend LaTriece Branson has really got something going with her regular jam-sessions around Philadelphia, including Drum Like a Lady, growing Drum Like a Lad the Jam Jawn, a somewhat-weekly Tuesday thing at West Philadelphia’s Dahlak Paradise. Had a blast at LaTreice’s Jam Jawn for featured drummer (and birthday boy) Corey Mark. Thanks again Corey…
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presenting: VIDEO from my AES demo on drum triggers at AiPh
Last summer (09/2016), I led a workshop at the Art Institute of Philadelphia on drum triggers, covering: electromechanics of the piezo trigger sensor playing MIDI with a full human body tricks and inspirations from various sound parameters. …see my initial photo-post HERE. Several students happened to shoot video of my presentation, and over the past…