DRUMMER CAFE

So get back to practice!  

now, there is a good idea... kids are in bed ... wife is at the coffee house ... it's tumbao time ... yippy!!!!

Listening to it now... Love the shika shika hand brush technique there in the middle!!..  

I'm just percussion  

Oh well, they make great lamp posts eh?
 

I have a question about Barts frame drum solo:
Is the fade out in the end played or made by editing...?

Bart...?
oh... and what kind of drum is that exactly??

NOT a fade out by editing ... I played the fade. Some people call it dynamics.    Sorry couldn't resist.

The drum is a bodhran ... an Irish drum typically played with a small stick called a tipper. I have the drum tuned high so that it resembles an African frame drum. The bodhran has a wood cross piece which allows me to mount it on a snare stand ... thus freeing my hands and feet to do whatever I want.

I'll post a clip of me playing that whole set-up, which will make sense to you once you see it. The frame drum clip (above) is just a spontaneous, improvised solo. At the end of my seminar, Carlos asked me to play for a few more minutes ... and the solo you saw was a result of that.

Ok,
first of  if I have said ... "dinamics in the end of a clip" that wouldn't sound right. If I have said ... "what about that diminuendo..." that could have been wrong term alltogether  

so I think fade-out is a acceptable compromize.

I suspected that it was played but didn't want to stick my neck out and be wrong.

Just want to say it's things like that that separate the "sheep from the goats" or pros from the ammatures ... I realy apriciate the hand control that it takes to do that.

SECOND: I really have NO PROBLEM with percussion parlor or DC, I just felt like mopping or may be couldn't find better subject to discuss... hence my comment about wasting cyber space.

So far I got great answers to questions I had, there are certainly a lot of knowlegable  and expirienced people here at the forum so in short ... there is nothing to complain about really ...

so STOP telling me to go away and start my own forum... I am not going anywhere...     (see I am all emotional  again now...  )

P.S just in case... some of the above was in silly kind of "ha-ha" tone   I am not angry or anything. Sometimes I hate to comunicate through the forums

Oh ye ... Bart thanks for your answers and I realy apriciate your great contributions to this forum not to mention starting it up in the first place.
Still waiting for that video lesson by the way ... hopefully it will come today.

Yea, buncha EMOTIONAL percussioists 'round here, I feel hand perc. does convey the emotions, so maybe we are more emotional...

Though most of you guys are into hand drums and drumset stuff, I also like to do mallet work. Stuff like vibraphone is almost essential in a big band and Jazz group but usually there isn't a vibraphonist but if their is they'd probably love to have one play for them. I would like to become at least reasonable at this, so Gigs would be easier to find and it would help me as a percussionist. I am playing mostly marimba right now and I'm learning alot, It's really fun!  

 

well here is one I only play percussion I have congos,bongos,dembe,dumeck and cow bells,temple blocks, as well as all the shakers,clava and a heap of other gear, and I for one don't really think a dummer makes a good percussionist. it's a different way of thinking.
signed bongobilly