Posted in Drumming, Ideas, Politics on Jul 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
An Old Sound in Harlem Draws New Neighbors’ Ire
Wow, the complexity of living in New York. So many issues all wrapped up in a tight ball here: tradition, cultural heritage, the evolution of a neighborhood, the right to quiet in one’s home.
[via Bill Lynn]
Posted in Drumming, Movies, Video on Jun 1st, 2008 7 Comments »
My 93 year old mother saw this last night. Raved about it.
The trailer made me cry. Twice. Looks fantastic. Drumming too. What could be bad?
[via Frances Wanderman]
Posted in Drumming on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Musical Furnishings
Wow, a table made of modular drums. Fantastic. Watch the videos.
[via David Darling]
Posted in Drumming, People, Video on Mar 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Very nice montage of a variety of drums, mostly middle eastern dumbeks, tars, riqs and more, all being played by one person (Rex) and in time with one another. Love it.
Posted in Drumming, People on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Buddy Miles, Hendrix Drummer, Dies
I saw Hendrix, Miles, and Billy Cox at The Hollywood Bowl and they were so good, the second band, The Allman Brothers almost didn’t come on. It was historic.
Posted in Drumming, Humor, People, Video on Feb 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Hilarious.
[via Steve Korn]
Posted in Drumming, People, Video on Jan 17th, 2008 No Comments »
This is a very nice video of Marla using two frame drums, freestyle. We took a workshop from Marla a month ago, it was fantastic. She has great energy, very nice teaching style as well.
Posted in Drumming, People on Jan 10th, 2008 4 Comments »
Ed Shaughnessy vs. Buddy Rich Drum Battle on Johnny Carson. Wow, great stuff.
Posted in Drumming, People, Video on Dec 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
David Kuckhermann instructs on playing two frame drums. Excellent instruction, great technique.
Posted in Drumming, People on Dec 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Irvington, New York. Anne and I went to a frame drum workshop led by Marla Leigh, a well known performer and teacher from California.
There were a dozen of us crammed into the living room of one of the students, all frame drum skill levels although many with serious music backgrounds and some with dumbek experience.
Neither [...]
Posted in Drumming, People on Sep 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I was reading an old New Yorker and noticed that I’d missed the tabla player Suphala at Joe’s Pub in New York in August but here she is on NPR. Fascinating story and an excellent player.
Posted in Drum Rhythms, Drumming, People, Video on Aug 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Layne Redmond gives an excellent tambourine or riq lesson. This is is an excellent video lesson, worth spending some tme with.
Posted in Drumming, Music, People, Video on Aug 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Lori Cotler sings konnakol* Glen Velez drums, Symphony Space, NY.
* slang name: Indian beatboxing
Posted in Drumming, People on Aug 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Glen Velez using a Cooperman Glen Velez model tar teaching finger rolls and snapping at a workshop.
Posted in Drum Rhythms on Aug 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Masmoudi is a middle eastern rhythm usually played on dumbek or tar but can be played on any drum. I’m using Glen Velez’s notation system. Here I’ve listed three variations of it:
Three-beat Masmoudi
|| D-D-D-TK D-TKTKT TKTKT -TK ||
Masmoudi sigir
|| D-D-TKTKT D-TKTKT TKTKT -TK ||
Soft Masmoudi
|| D-TK D-TK D-TKTT D-TKTT T-TKTT ||
Notes
D = [...]
Posted in Drum Rhythms on Aug 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Malfouf is a middle eastern rhythm usually played on dumbek or tar but can be played on any drum. I’m using Glen Velez’s notation system.
|| 1&2&3&4& ||
|| DKK TKK TK ||
A variation would be to repeat the above pattern 3 times and then add this ornament at the end:
|| DDT- ||
Notes
D = dum, bass [...]
Posted in Drum Rhythms on Jul 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Chiftiteli is a middle eastern rhythm usually played on dumbek or tar but can be played on any drum. I’m using Glen Velez’s notation system.
|| DD-TKT D-TKT TKD TKD TKT TKD-T ||
Note: This rhythm is similar to baladi, just drop the second part and add a TK bridge or connector.
|| DD-TKT D-TKT TK ||
Notes
D = [...]
Posted in Drum Rhythms on Jul 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Walking Macsoum is a simple middle eastern rhythm played on dumbek or tar or any drum. I’m using Glen Velez’s notation system.
|| 1234 567 8& ||
|| DKTK DKT TK ||
The last two notes might be left out in learning the rhythm leaving a rest instead as they’re played quite fast. These same [...]
Posted in Drum Rhythms on Jul 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
Macsoum is a simple middle eastern rhythm played on dumbek or tar or any drum really. I’m using Glen Velez’s notation system.
|| 12&3&4 5&6&78 ||
|| DD-KTKT D-KTKT-T ||
Notes
D = dum, bass note, strong hand
T = tek, edge or rim or high note, strong hand
K = kah, edge or rim or [...]
Posted in Drum Rhythms on Jul 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Baladi is a simple middle eastern rhythm played on dumbek or tar or any drum really. I’m using Glen Velez’s notation system.
|| 123&4 56&7 8& ||
|| DD-TKT D-TKT TK ||
Notes
D = dum, bass note, strong hand
T = tek, edge or rim or high note, strong hand
K = kah, [...]
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