|
|
| Author |
Message |
styles2281
Moderator
Joined: 23 Feb 2004
Posts: 6677
Location: Manchester, CT
|
 Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:57 am Post subject: Newbie Thread - Drum Links |
 |
|
Please use this thread to keep a catalogue of all good drum and drum related links. Newbies can use this as a research PRIOR to asking questions to educate themselves. Please feel free to ad good drum sites (and I'm talking info...I don't want your myspace music page or other crap like that. i will moderate this heavily!), Thanks for your time!!!
I'll start
How to set up your drumset
basic info regarding drum shells, heads, sticks, cymbals, e-kits, and hardware
Great site for rudiments, basic rhythms, videos, and info
great site for videos and reference on past and present great drummers
_________________
"One day I feel I'm on top of the world
"I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information" - Calvin of Bill Waterson's "Calvin and Hobbes"
Last edited by styles2281 on Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:03 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
radiofriendlyunitshifter
Emperor of the World
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Posts: 3327
Location: Richmond, Virginia
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
SketcHyRollin564
Lion King
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
Posts: 1380
Location: South FL
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject: |
|
|
also would like to contribute, this has helped me with tuning and other knowledge of drum heads
its videos, so it might be a little easyer to follow, basic idea, helped me a lot on how to properly tune, and seat drum heads, knowing when to get new ones, etc.
http://www.videodrumlessons.com/t1.htm
_________________
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
__Lewis__
House Cat
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Posts: 174
Location: Western Australia- The "Nothing ever happens in this part of the world" state
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: |
|
|
May I ask a question? I played along to "Song for the Dead" by Queens of the Stone Age a little while ago, and this was my real first time I'd "let go" and just hammered my kit. Afterwards, my right hand experienced just the slightest cramp just below my last 3 fingers.
Is this a bad thing? And is there something I'm doing wrong?
EDIT: I think I posted in the wrong place. Still, it'd help if someone gave me a straight answer. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pillardog
Little Guppy
Joined: 07 Nov 2005
Posts: 31
Location: Iola, ks
|
| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: |
|
|
your hand will fall off soon enough...............but really its nothin cause i get almost the same thing when i play for an extended period of time.
_________________
Music Lessons Every Drummer Should Know - Tips & Tricks to take your drumming to the next level - Includes Free Metronome!
http://shanesnave.fsn2006.hop.clickbank.net |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
__Lewis__
House Cat
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Posts: 174
Location: Western Australia- The "Nothing ever happens in this part of the world" state
|
| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:39 am Post subject: |
|
|
RIMSHOTS:
What's the deal? I haven't really looked into on how to do them, but what would benefit me by doing so? How could I use them compared to a normal whack on the snare? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
random white person
Emperor of the World
Joined: 19 Jul 2004
Posts: 3608
Location: New York
|
| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:05 am Post subject: |
|
|
rimshots are noticeably louder than a normal hit on the snare, so theyre great for accents.
_________________
| 007david wrote: | | Maybe RWP is really a crazy looking bird. You know, Coocoo for coconuts and all. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
__Lewis__
House Cat
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Posts: 174
Location: Western Australia- The "Nothing ever happens in this part of the world" state
|
| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Awesome, thanks. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
funki_chunki
Bear Cub
Joined: 06 Oct 2006
Posts: 608
Location: Australia
|
| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| i have a noticably weaker left ahnd then my right when i work on my excercises. like when i do parididdles ( or something, lol i dunno how to spell them) my left hand really struggles with speed. what do you guys think i could do to try to strengthen it up. it isnt noticable wneh i am playing but i think if i can make it stronger my playing will get stronger too... if you have any advice? please tell me thanks! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jdcaples
Big Pit Bull
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
Posts: 375
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:28 am Post subject: |
|
|
| funki_chunki wrote: | | i have a noticably weaker left ahnd then my right when i work on my excercises. like when i do parididdles ( or something, lol i dunno how to spell them) my left hand really struggles with speed. what do you guys think i could do to try to strengthen it up. it isnt noticable wneh i am playing but i think if i can make it stronger my playing will get stronger too... if you have any advice? please tell me thanks! |
no one answered this? ok. i'll give it a shot.
first, exercise it more. keep a steady beat using a stick and your weaker hand for 5 minutes more than you use your stonger hand, per day. if you can do more, go ahead, but don't get sore. pain is your body's way of saying, "knock it off."
next:
the goal: go out of your way to play accents with your left hand.
how to start:
i used to use flash cards (i have no idea what the australian version of a "flash card" is, but you're resourceful - you'll figure it out).
flash cards are usually 3 inches x5 inches in the states. that roughly translates to 7.62 cm x 12.something cm, made of thick paper, about the weight/thickness of a business card.
grab a card and write out a normal 5, 7 or 9 stroke roll, single paradiddle, double paradiddles, ratamaques, ruffs (or drags, whatever), etc.
mark an accent the first left-hand stroke on the first rudiment.
grab another rudiment and mark an accent over the second left-hand stroke.
make another card, accent the first and the fourth left hand strokes.... keep going until you have 4 or 5 cards.
you should have about 15 cards.....
shuffle the cards.
lay them out on the floor.
play the cards as they fall.
good luck. may the thwack be with you. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
funki_chunki
Bear Cub
Joined: 06 Oct 2006
Posts: 608
Location: Australia
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: |
|
|
thanks heaps for that.. lol we cal lthem flash card here too  lol hahaha but thanks heaps will definatly keep that one in my head and definatly give it a go.. thanks agai nfor answering.. lol i thought no one ever would!!! hahahhaa
thanks again!
xoox |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ayah-chan
Not So Newbie
Joined: 14 May 2008
Posts: 5
|
| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
great this would help me a lot.
nice post
t4p  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ 
Search 
Make a Donation 
Usergroups 
Contact
Register
Submit Articles 
Log in to check your private messages 
