Drumming

notes and random ideas

Acoustics

See also Audio#Acoustics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrations of a circular membrane
• Circular Membrane Modes

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Drum_vibration_animations
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_the_shape_of_a_drum

Notation

See also Music#Score

• DrumBurp
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roRxEkhUmJo

which is best?

• http://drumsetfun.com/drum-notation/

• http://www.mninter.net/~thomasjp/book-HandDrumming.html

• http://www.drums.org/djembefaq/v5d.htm

• http://www.newview.org/salem/rhythm.html

• http://alternativeculture.com/music/notation.htm

• http://blog.x8drums.com/2011/08/djembe-rhythm-gun-dun-notation.html
• http://www.kunundrum.ca/page-1/drumming-notation

• http://www.drumlinemusic.net/education/notation/
• http://www.drummagazine.com/lessons/post/drumkey
• http://web.mit.edu/merolish/Public/drums.pdf
• http://www.contemporarymusicproject.com/musicexs/West%20Note%20Key.pdf

• https://files.maya.com/maya/mayans/senn/public/handout.html

• http://www.petelockett.com/pete%20new%20pages/Music%20&%20Percussion%20of%20Mahgreb.html - north africa

Software

• http://domoritz.de/drummy/

• https://www.drumscore.scot/

Instruments

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_percussion_instruments

• https://sites.google.com/site/acousticsoftombak/classification-tubulardrum

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_musical_instruments#Percussion_instruments
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African_drums

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_drum

Hands

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba_dance

• Hambone Bros Tutorial

Frame drum

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_drum

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhr%C3%A1n
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambourine

• http://www.petelockett.com/pete%20new%20pages/FRAME%20DRUMS%202013%20%20.html

Goblet drum

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblet_drum aka chalice drum, darbuka, debuka, Kratom, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, toumperleki, or tablah

• Darbuka Lesson 1 - position & strokes
• Darbuka Lesson 2 - maqsuum rhythm & variations
• Darbuka Lesson 3 - left-hand roll
• Darbuka Lesson 4 - belledi rhythm
• Darbuka Lesson 5 - malfuf & split hand technique
• Darbuka Lesson 6 - Slap & Rhythm revision
• Darbuka Lesson 1 (7) - Left-hand patterns -Int-
• Darbuka Lesson 2 (8) - Roll patterns -Int-

• The best street doumbek drum player in the world !!!

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonbak
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdtIXlCl7FA

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbek_rhythms

Djembe

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djembe

• http://www.djembe.org/
• http://djembefola.com/

• http://hawkdancing.com/Wooddrum/tuningadjembe.html

Ashiko

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashiko

Tabla

• YouTube: Ustad Zakir Hussain Tabla duet

Talking drum

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_drum

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0L2fhqFzKU

Idakka

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idakka

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t9RpshgbK0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p1loi5Q38Q

Block

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_block
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6RPRGZdK9U

Bell

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowbell_(instrument)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agog%C3%B4

Claves

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claves

Shaker

Samba Shaker, also called Chocalho (shu-ka-lu?) or Soalheira

• Playing the chocalho

• African Shaker - Learn How to Play Aslatua
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWUECIWmlqM

Friction

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction_drum

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu%C3%ADca

Boomwhacker

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomwhacker
  • http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090506133546AAYcKLy
  • http://pinterest.com/lauriamy/boomwhackers/
  • http://howtosmile.org/record/4734

Tuned

Hang

• http://dennishavlena.com/ - tank

• http://www.balisteelpan.com/

Hand

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VViXFIbJNbk - finger snapping

Spoons

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK_M8TIEE-4
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmBclKzVhkM
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt0QczmQ4Sc

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi7-ipIwVeM

Bass / kick

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_drum

• http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/bdrum.html

Lambeg

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambeg_drum

Surdo

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surdo

Tom-tom

• w:Tom-tom drum
• w:Floor tom

• How to Tune a 16 Inch Floor Tom

• How to Mute Tom Drums the Very Cheap Way - cardboard ring

Snare

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snare_drum

Technique

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snare_drum_technique

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched_grip - or German grip
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_grip - or orthodox grip. martial, jazz, etc.

Vanz Drumming

• Drum Lesson: Building Hand Technique - stance, technique, prerudiments
• Drum Lesson: Hand Technique 2 - Stick Control
• Drum Lesson: Hand Techniques For Speed & Control (Part 1 of 2)

215th Army Band

Massachussetts Army National Guard

• Snare Drum Lesson #1 - Basics
• Snare Drum Lesson #2 - Accents
• Snare Drum Lesson #3 - Ornaments; flams, ruffs, 4-stroke ruffs

Moeller method

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moeller_method - uses a specific "whipping motion" that allows gravity to do most of the work, allowing the drummer to play faster, by staying relaxed.

• Jim Chapin on the moeller technique - skip to 36 seconds
• Dave Weckl - Moeller Technique
• Moeller method drum strokes - Mike Bennett
• Derrick Pope - Moeller Technique
• The Moeller Technique Explained In Detail, Billy Canty
• Moeller Pumping Motion - Beyond the Beat, Clayton Skinner
• Jojo Mayer: Moeller Technique Lesson
• Jojo Mayer Moeller Technique - Controlled Bounce - good
• One handed 5 stroke roll - Moeller method by Georg Voros
• Sanford Moeller Drumming on Film, 1925
• MOELLER TECHNIQUE BY LEO COFANO

• Moeller Double Strokes (Matched Grip)

• Moeller Para-diddles
• Lesson 25 Rudiment with Moeller

Open, closed, open

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open,_closed,_open

• Open/Close Roll - SnareScience Audio Intro and Demo
• Jeff Peterson - Open/Close Technique

Tuning

• How We Tune Our Snare Drums - Drum Center of Portsmouth

• Tuning the Snare Drum Bonham style

• Jojo Mayer - My Snare Drum

• The greatest snare drum tuning trick EVER! - Udo Masshoff

Rudiments

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_rudiment

• Snare Drum Rudiments - good intro

• Standard 26 American Drum Rudiments
• 40 International Drum Rudiments - Percussive Arts Society added 14 more

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_cadence

Lessons

• Vic Firth:
  • Rudiment Lessons with Dr. John Wooton
  • Fresh Approach to Snare Lesson Series by Mark Wessels
  • Vic Firth Marching Percussion 101

• SnareDrumTV:
  • Snare Drum TV Episodes | Great Snare Drum Exercises
  • Rudiments - Learn the 40 Essential Rudiments
  • Drumline Chops Playlist

• Drumline Chops:
  • Drumline grid exercises for rudimental drummers. - This Drumline Chops playlist contains grid exercises for rudimental drummers. The 421 Grid is a very common drumline exercise and one that all rudimental drummers should know! Here you can learn what the Grid is, what the 4-2-1 Formula is, as well as the basic 16th Note Grid and Triplet Grid to get you started. After that you can expand on adding embellishments to the grid like diddles, flam drags, chees, flam fives, etc.

Grids;

• How to Play Triplet Grid
• How to Play the 16th Note Grid
• 16th Note Grid with 2 Accents
• 16th Note Diddle Drum Exercise
• Add a Diddle- Snare Drum Exercise
• Triplet Diddle Exercise
• The Flam Drag Grid: Forwards... then Backwards
• Grid Independence
• Cavaliers Drumline Snare Circle 2012 Triplet Diddle

Practice

• Open / Close Roll Play-along Audio

Vic Firth playlists:

• Rudiment Playalong
• Rudiment Breakdowns with Dr. John Wooton
• Elastic Subdivisions

Other:

• Triplet Diddle Play Along 100-240bpm - no accent?

Drumline

• Blue Devils 2009 Snare Lick - Drum Solo Dissection

• Ol' Skool VIII - 1978 'Lezghinka'
• Ol' Skool 39 - SCV 1987 - first year with kevlar heads
• Santa Clara Vanguard "Lezghinka" July 4, 2011

• Purdue Drumline Cadences from Slaytor

Scottish pipe band

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_band

• The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association
• https://www.youtube.com/user/ukpipebandtv

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Duthart
  • Drum clinic
  • Basics
  • On drags

• Alex Duthart & Seamus MacNeill Pt1 / Pt2
• Alex Duthart-Armit-Fisher-Sacher_1976

• Alex Duthart 1986 Max Rayne Salute
• Steven plays Alex Duthart Drumsalute
• Alex Duthart - Cameronian Rant

• Remo + Jim Kilpatrick + Pipe Drum Tuning
• Remo + Jim Kilpatrick + Stick Technique

• World Pipe Band Championships
• BBC: World Pipe Band Championship - by year

• BBC Scotland: Pipeline

Sticks

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_stick

• http://www.ebay.co.uk/gds/Confused-about-drumsticks-Tips-for-buying-drumsticks-/10000000005915843/g.html

• http://www.vicfirth.com/product/how-to-pick-your-sticks.html

• Drum Sticks Explained

Clicking

• Backsticking & Stick Clicking - Alex Duthart

• Stick Click explanation video

• Stick Tricks - Stick Clicks - further method

Kit

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie
  • Bernard Purdie Drum Lesson - 16th Ghost Notes

• John Bonham isolated drum outtakes

• this drummer is at the wrong gig
• julio the drunken drummer
• Korean Drummer Steals The Show - My Way

Udu

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udu
• Udu drum solo
• Udu Drums

Wavedrum

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBkiPdnqutk

Other

• Vic Firth Factory Tour playlist

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_stick
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_cello

Muting

• How To Muffle Your Drums - Drum Lessons.com

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moongel
• Instructables: How to Make Your Own Moon Gel For Your Drums

• http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/694431-moon-gels-too-expensive.html - Blu-tack, tissue paper and green painter/gaffer tape

• Drum Silencer Pads on Floor Tom

Styles

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewe_music
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewe_drumming

• adham shaikh - krishna raga

• http://carnaval.ig.com.br/rio/carnival+in+rio+play+yourself+a+samba+school+drums+section/n1238135402474.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-finger

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Percussion_performance_techniques

Groups

• Les Ballets Africains

• http://www.percossa.nl/en/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching_percussion
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corps_of_drums
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumline
  • Top Secret Drum Corps: The Next Level (Basel Tattoo 2012) - whaaaat
  • Blue Devils Drumline 2013 - Part 1 -1080 HD-

Patterns and rhythms

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_rhythm_and_divisive_rhythm

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(music)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_pattern

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyrhythm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-rhythm

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_African_music_traditions
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_in_Sub-Saharan_Africa

• http://www.afrodrumming.com/djembe-rhythms.php
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kpanlogo - son clave

• http://djemberhythms.com/books/excerpts.htm
• Djembe rhythms and grooves part 1 - Kuku, Kono, Yankady, Rumba etc

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tresillo_(rhythm)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habanera_(music)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinquillo
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYHyNTNjwgI

• Middle Eastern Rhythms FAQ - rhythms for middle eastern dance for dumbek, dumbec, doumbec, doumbek, Arabic tabla, darabuka, tombak, zarb ...

• http://tcd.freehosting.net/djembemande/microtiming.html

Clave

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clave_rhythm

Son Clave;

1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a ||
X . . X . . X . . . X . X . . . ||

Rumba Clave;

1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a ||
X . . X . . . X . . X . X . . . ||

• YouTube: How to Play Clave-Conga Master Class - 3/2 or 2/3
  • YouTube: Son Clave
  • YouTube: Rumba Clave - third note is delayed an 8th

• http://www.unlockingclave.com/volume-1-the-clave-matrix.html

Batá

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%C3%A1 - Lukumí/Santería ritual rhythms

• PDF: Drumming The Gods: Selections from Traditional Santeria Drumming

• YouTube: Oro Igbodu (Seco) - Abbilona - Batá

Tumbao

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbao

• YouTube: How to Play Conga Drums : Tumbao Latin Music Rhythms

Soca

• YouTube: Basic Soca Beat

Breaks

beastie;

• waggly tail
• orgasm
• fuck shitty
• nose

• amen, etc.

ideas

• second half of 4/6 silent, one person/section yells, repeat but with 2/4/8/whatever people or 1/2/3 sections

• free improv/idm allowing

Other

• http://www.elspethmurray.com/Poems/poems_theone.htm - fuck it

• FOLI (there is no movement without rhythm) original version by Thomas Roebers and Floris Leeuwenberg

• http://www.concerthotels.com/got-rhythm

DIY practice pad

• Non plastic topped mouse mat + wood backing + glue

Software

See Audio#Drum machine

Blogs

• http://briansbedroom.org/

Web

• http://patternsketch.com/

• http://stuartmemo.com/beat-petite/

• http://box.cloudymedia.com/

• http://shout.afterwrk.com/

• http://stepheneisenhauer.com/demos/drummachine/

• http://www.randomthink.net/labs/html5drums - doesn't play two consecutive sounds if the first overlaps the second. reduce temp to compensate.

• http://www.groovemechanics.com/euclid/ [1]

• http://mmodm.co/ [2]