Let's See or Hear You Play!

[Tripsleft]

Here is something a little different. An Irish trad group I get with sometimes. A lot of fun. Forgive the sound quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkwUtA8idXM&feature=channel_page]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkwUtA8idXM&feature=channel_page

[Erk]

Here's a new YouTube from The C-Note in Hull Mass. I wish there was more bass gutiar in the mix but I guess it's half decent quality for a YouTube!!

If you watch it directly on YouTube remember to click WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY to clear up the video a bit!!

Young Neal and The Vipers - I Want You to Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk6_HKvQUP0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk6_HKvQUP0

t

that sounded great dude, great job!

[moveable toy]

Hey everyone, I'm new here, and I've got 3 sources of music I play in.


My band is called Cyeniic Apparatus, and we have sort of a rock fusion sound.. or something like that.

You can hear us on Facebook here:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Cyeniic-Apparatus/18561221178?ref=ts


and Myspace here:

http://www.myspace.com/cyeniicmanifold



The Myspace page only has 5 songs while the Facebook has 13; eventually though, both pages will have our 15-track album up for download. Anyway I'd appreciate any feedback and I'm (obviously) the drummer. Also, here's a video that shows my setup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDuBT3ezTpo

^The artist, album, and song in that video are all fictional, just so you know.   ;)



Since this is a drum forum it's worth mentioning that we play in a ton of weird time signatures.

[David Aldridge]

Figured I'd post, as I finally have something to share.  The band's name is 'Daybreak Desire', and we're four amateur 30-somethings-with-day-jobs that are simply playing for fun.  Our  http://www.myspace.com/daybreakdesire]MySpace page  has 3 original demos we recorded ourselves in December and just had mixed by a local engineer.  While rather simple songs (essentially matching our skill levels), we all think they turned out rather well.

For anybody interested, we recorded in our practice space (a AAA storage unit with as horrid acoustics as you'd expect) using the following "pro-sumer" level equipment (I have the original individual tracks if anybody is interested in the "before mix" sounds - PM me, as they are deliberately not publicly available):

- Macbook Pro (late 08 model) using Logic Pro 8
- Presonus Firepod
- Various Shure mics on the drums (Beta 52, SM57, KSM109s)
- Bass DI'ed out of his amp (I forget the details)
- Guitar DI'ed out of his amp (some smallish tube amp most haven't heard of - Koch, maybe?)
- Vocals into a Sennheiser 835 (hand-held mic for live performance, basically)

Everything was recorded live/together in one take per song, with overdubs for the few guitar solo bits done afterwards.  Mixing was done by Tim Dolbear at  http://www.eclecticarecordings.com/eclectica-studio.htm]Eclectica Studios .  Kick was sample-replaced and bass was re-amped on one due to too much clipping (whoops, guess we layed into it too much after setting the levels too hot).  Guitar was doubled/delayed.  Everything else was just "cleaned up" with standard compression/etc. techniques.

Comments/questions welcome.

-David

[Bart Elliott]

I was digging through my archives and found some old video footage of me that I thought I'd share.

This was the final piece I performed on my junior recital back on May 4, 1985 (I was 20 years old at the time) at Mary Moody Northen Hall on the campus of, what was then, West Texas State University (WTSU), now known as WTAMU.

"Tambourin Chinois" (Chinese Drum) was original composed for violin by Fritz Kreisler. This arrangement is by legendary xylophonist, George Hamilton Green.

I'm playing on a 4-octave Deagan Xylophone (c.1908) which I no longer own but thoroughly enjoyed; what a beautiful sounding and looking instrument!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-CGzDsk7yg

On one hand I can't believe this is from 24 years ago; time flies. But on the other hand, so much has happened in my life that this seems like an eternity.

[donelk]

Look how young and skinny!

Nice musical playing.

[felix]

That's great playing bart... especially for being so young.

Here's a thing I did for the SPV record label contest I entered.

It's a very long and slow boring song, so don't listen to it if you don't get the whole texture thing or are in a hurry to get out of work for lunch.

http://www.myspace.com/typicallynegative]http://www.myspace.com/typicallynegative

[dizz]

First of all I have really enjoyed the posts above.  Some very interesting wonderful drumming happening.  great stuff guys.  Riot I love your energy


Well guys I finally have something I can post up here, since I put together the whole video thing for the community solo, I made this clip to sample (as was requested) the Paiste 2002 Heavy Hi-Hats 80's vintage Im selling on ebay.  Heres a couple ramblings.   This will probably be boring for most of you but it's all I have to post.   I've been enjoying playing to this song for a few months now.  It came off some Holiday playalong CD.  There are about 4 other pretty cool tracks on it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oJ5dhwz6p4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oJ5dhwz6p4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzxjNXqJhFk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzxjNXqJhFk

[felix]

great touch dizzy  :)

[dizz]

Thanks man :)  Nice Sig by the way lol

[Tim van de Ven]

Hey Dizz, are those 15" 2002 Heavy hats? I picked up a set a year ago from Donn Bennett and they have become my go-to hats for everything.

[dizz]

No  those are just the  14's.  But they are great sounding cymbals.

My favorite hi hats at the moment are new style K on top and an old zildjian amir heavy bottom hat cymbal.  I say my favorites, but it's not like I had my choice of anything I could get.  Those are the favorites of my collection.

I also have a mastersound bottom cymbal but its slightly warped.  I dont know what to do with that cymbal.  Its not bad for harder hitting playing and foot play, but quiet to moderate levels it sounds a little hollow being slightly warped.

[Bob Bartley]

This was our Worship last weekend 6/07/09. Now I normally just play percussion because we have enough drummers but nobody who can play AP. The drummer who was scheduled was at practice on Thurs. that week but was not feeling good. He ended up in the hospital the next day, he is fine now. So Fri night I got the call to cover both drums & percussion. So after switching gears and a little rehearsal before the Sat night service I think it went pretty well. I especially like the acoustic version of " Ole Rugged Cross" 3rd song in.
http://media.woodsidebible.org/WC20090607.htm]http://media.woodsidebible.org/WC20090607.htm

[Tim van de Ven]

Dig it - a little 5/4, 4/4, and 3/4 ...with vocals  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU-u0whFoxE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU-u0whFoxE

[NY Frank]

And then, of course - there's - Amanda's shoes.   ;)

[Matt Self (Gaddabout)]

Tim, do you normally play open like that? I don't normally find open playing as challenging as people seem to make it, but a good feeling shuffle is a different matter entirely. That thing felt GOOOOD.

[Nathan Cartier]

Cool tune, Tim.  I like the open-handed technique, too!

[Tim van de Ven]

Tim, do you normally play open like that? I don't normally find open playing as challenging as people seem to make it, but a good feeling shuffle is a different matter entirely. That thing felt GOOOOD.

Yeah, I've been playing open (or left hand lead) for more years than I care to remember. A looong time.

I really appreciate what you said. Thanks! That just made my day!  ;D

[Tim van de Ven]

And then, of course - there's - Amanda's shoes.   ;)

Nice!  ;)

[Mark Counts]

Yeah, I've been playing open (or left hand lead) for more years than I care to remember. A looong time.

I really appreciate what you said. Thanks! That just made my day!  ;D

Very nice, The other drummer at my church learn to play open hand.  I guess there was a teacher in Louisville that
only taught that style. You do very good work with it. Thanks for sharing.