Tag: drums
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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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Pad expression on live eDrum kit
Movitation I’ve been experimenting with playing live electronic drums for a while. For most e-kits that one can buy off the sales floor, I find there is limited expression for controlling the sounds while playing them, beyond using the dynamics of your hits to control volume, tonality, or switch between samples. I found myself wanting…