I thought some of you might want to come join (or just read) this cool discussion
about invented and found alternative beaters for drums at the weird percussion tribe.
you don't have to join to read the thread but it would be great if you wanted to.
tribes.tribe.net/weirdperc...aa50d0ee0c
yours, Rick, the moderator
about invented and found alternative beaters for drums at the weird percussion tribe.
you don't have to join to read the thread but it would be great if you wanted to.
tribes.tribe.net/weirdperc...aa50d0ee0c
yours, Rick, the moderator
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wow, a full tribe of drummers and no one is experimenting with anything
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alreeeeedy, one more try:
Has anyone seen the wonderful drummer with Mari Boine's Band (she's the Norwegian Sami multi-kulti singer)
He uses a huge 26" marching drum that he leans in his lap with a brush in his left hand and a felt bass drum beater
(with the typical skinny metal shaft) in his right hand.
He plays a hybrid style of percussion using the brush to make snare drum sounds; whisping sounds like hi hats
using his arm on the drum to mute and unmute the huge bass drum to create ersatz tom tom sounds.
Adtionally, he has one of the hippest actual bass drums (played by foot) I've ever seen and I immediately ripped off his idea
and made one after I saw him play (thanks!!!)
It is a 14" roto tom with so much black gaffing tape on both sides of the drum that it is completely muted.........then it is
tuned down as low as it will go. It sounds like paper from a foot away but if you put your ear right up to it, it sounds like
and immense TR 808 analogue rap subsonic drum.............an amazing sound.........just a quiet one.
He told me that he has his sound engineer put a special parametric equalier on the drum and he emphasizess not only the fundamental
frequencie of the drum but also the frequencies two octaves below it and CRANKS THEM UP in the mix.
What is so cool is it sounds like godzilla stepped onto the earth and yet it has a relatively short envelope.
The trouble with a lot of subsonic bass drum sounds is that their envelopes are so long that they mask all the other bass frequencies
in a song..................this precludes being able to do much intricate kick drum work as well.
With this thing it's a shorter envelope but an incredibly deep sound.
It reminds me that back in the 70's and early 80's I used to use a Synare drum synth that I added on to my kick drum.
I set it for the lowest note possible and then made the envelope impossibly short.
It just really added cajones to the kick sound when I wanted a huge kick sound and I just turned it off when
I wanted a normal kick sound. The funny thing is that audiences never even got that I was augmenting the kick with an electronic
synthesizer signal............................tres cool.
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i recently i recently decided to build a cajon(sort of a box that sounds like a full kit minus the cymbals) , and realised that there wasnt a beater particular to the cajon,
so i took it upon my self to make one, i decided to make it similar to the beater used with the bodrhan (an irish drum played verticatlly) because it is a very versatile piece of equipment, i decided to make it even more versitile by hollowing out a hole through it near one of one end side, then put a screw in into get a sharper sound if you strike something with one side of the end and a softer sound if you strike something with the other side of the end.
i great swiping noise can be achieved with this by striking with the side that makes the soft sound then quickly twist it to make a pfffttt noise so i call it a rotary swipe beater
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