OT: Ping -MIKE- drum question

Yes, it's normal. No, it won't effect the sound.

BTW, if those are promark sticks, last time I checked, they have a lifetime guarantee on the nylon tips. Every now and then, one will crack or pop off the end. If you send the pair back to ProMark, they'll send you a new pair, plus another pair to compensate for your shipping them back.

I can't remember if you read the drum tuning info on my website.... but you can get a lot great information by youtubing: "Bob Gatzen." He has a great DVD, but most of it has been on youtube for a while. Of course, I would prefer you buy the DVD, but you can get some previews on youtube.

Ok good. Thank you! And yes, I did check out your tuning webpage. Lots of good info.

Did you catch the polyrhythm thing(s)?

You do know that you to have undergo a separate brain implant to do that, right?

:)

I forgot to mention that they are Vater sticks (If I remember correctly - I'm out now)

My next purchase (after I get a job) for the kit are going to be new cymbals. The ones that came w/ the kit are beat to s*it already. The top hi-hat will actually invert sometimes when struck. :^(

Not sure what you a refering to, but I could definetly use a new brain implant. :P

Feel free to contact me when that happens.

For now, I would recommend Sabian XS-20

I ran across them when I was on a rental kit at a rehearsal studio (SIR) here in Nashville. I played them for a few hours and was very pleased that the rental kit had "nice" cymbals, for a change. I asked the manager when they started putting good cymbals on their kits. He said that they never did. So I looked them up and discovered they were a mid-level line.

Check them out when you're ready. They certainly are more expensive than the intro-level stuff you'll come across. But a LOT cheaper than high end stuff and they sound good enough to keep and play if he decides to stick with it and get better drums some day.

You know, I don't think I have a link to those on my actual web-site.

Anyway... I find for those kinds of exercises that OCD and ADD make very good bedfellows. :-)

Oh geez.... :-)

inferiority!

:)

Don't confuse musicality with technicality. There's nothing musical about that clip. :-)

Even three against two is pretty hard for a lot of drummers to grasp, but once you do it opens up whole new realms of possibility. I'd been playing for a good 8 or 10 years (a year or so of lessons, then mostly self-taught from there on out) before three against two even dawned on me; but it's a piece of cake for me now and I use it all the time. I can get though Mike's little exercise of five against three against two without too much trouble, but adding the seven in there would probably take me a while. I'm not sure what the hell I'd do with it once I got there though! :-)

Not ready for that yet. You know what though? It needed 'more' cow bell! :^P

Most guys use it without even knowing it, every time they play in 6/8.

You and me, both. I have no idea what to do, except add 11 with voice. :-)

Steve, we've officially passed the monthly total of percussion related posts of that percussion group you and I frequent. :-)

LOL! No doubt; the cowbell needs to move up to the five or seven spot! :-)

Cowbell should only be played at winter olympic events ...

Yep, it's a virtual ghost town over there. I'd bet we lost quite a few regulars in the recent wave of ISPs shutting down their news servers, in spite of it being relatively easy to find an alternative.

True. I think it was a 6/8 tune that first got me thinking about the concept.

The only way I'd be interested in listening to that is if you let me write the lyrics. :-)

Note to self: replace cowbell with woodblock.

Except for the village idiot posing as someone else trying to get some traffic on his youtube channel.

oops, wait a sec. :-)