Questions tagged [drums]
Drums are a subset of percussion instruments played by beating a "head" stretched over a hollow "shell."
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Practice drills for finger drumming
I have spent a bit of time learning to play drumkit but now I want to learn kit drumming with an MPC or midi controller in live performance.
Are there different drills I should practice to learn ...
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Does the piano really originate as a combination between drumming and guitar?
I heard this concept from one my friends, who is a guitar player, that first the guitar and the drum were created, and then somebody decided to drum on guitar and so was the piano born.
I really ...
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Is it true limb independence if I can play the piece, but think of each voice as a single whole?
Apologies for the strange title; I'll explain.
Let's say I'm tapping out a 5:3 beat or playing something like this minuet.
I can think of the rhythms in two ways.
1) It's a single piece—there's ...
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How to improve improvisation (darbuka / doumbek) hand drum
A few years ago, I bought an instructional DVD on how to play the darbuka, and now, all these years later, I have more or less got the all the featured beats down.
The issue is I tend to sound a bit ...
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Playing a steady beat consistently on drums
I've been self-learning to play drums over the last month and my metronome has been the most useful tool in helping me learn to play things that feel difficult to me. I managed to learn how to play ...
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MIDI connection between drum kit and laptop not working
I have an electronic drum kit (Millenium MPS-100) connected to my laptop via a MIDI (5-pin) to USB cable (just a cheap cable, there's no brand/model on it). I can't seem to get any signal from the ...
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Tenor drum sweeps exercises
Hey does anyone here know any really good excercizes for practicing sweep patterns for marching tenor drums (preferably with 6 drums)? I have little to do with school shutdown and just wanted to ...
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When reading Darbukah drum notes, some letters are capital, what is the meaning of it?
I'm learning to play Darkbuka these days and when reading notes, I see that some letters representing notes are capital and some are not and I looked for the reason online and couldn't find it, so ...
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Harmonic lengths of a set of tubular drums?
I have a 200 cm long piece of a clear plastic tube with 20 cm outside diameter that I would like to cut into three pieces to make a bigger diameter version of the tubular drums that exists today in ...
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Which should I record first?
So my problem is that I don't know which is recorded first, do you record the orchestra first or do you record the drums or guitar first?
I've tried recording the drums first but it didn't sound ...
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With EZ Drummer 2, when do you use a midi pack versus an EZX?
With EZ Drummer 2, when do you use a midi pack versus an EZX extension? I'm not sure when to use one versus the other.
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Stick Control for Speed
I've been working on fine tuning my finger control to increase speed and finesse. Here is the problem. My stick rotates in my left hand. It does not move forward or backwards, just rotates. The ...
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how can you put samples together and make a drum machine out of them for midi instruments?
how can you add samples together in garageband to make a drum set on a midi? I want to group my samples of 1 beat drums into an instrument so I can play the midi like a drum machine. Lmk
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In double kick playing, which foot should match with snare?
I’m beginning playing double kick since few months.... my question is; when i play a basic rythme like double kick on every quarter note with hi hat on every single note and snare on second and ...
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how can i mic a 7 piece drumkit to record it in a professional studio
The type of drum is a standard kit ....and i need to know the types of mics i will need to use and also their type (condenser/dynamic),brand names along with frequency response,directionality in terms ...
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What are the physical differences between tuned and non-tuned drums?
Why do some drums (e.g. timpani, rototom) have a distinct pitch, while others do not? What is the physical difference that results in a distinct pitch or lack thereof?
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Should I use PA speakers for a full band all the time?
I've been playing guitar, drums, and singing for about 6 years but I have no experience outside of playing by myself with an amp and speaker. I want to get serious about starting a band and playing ...
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rock drumming (swing?) pattern
I've been curious about the drumming in "Someday" by The Strokes for some time now. Are the kick and snare going in double time? Or is the tempo actually that fast and the hi hats are played in half ...
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Meaningfully significant BPMs
A bit of a trivial question perhaps, but are there any historically/intrinsically meaningful BPMs?
As in, there's obviously 60 bpm. I ask because while trying to correct my rushing, I've noticed ...
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How do you write ghost notes in stop time?
From my example I have a rhythmic slashes notation (stop time), how do I change some of them to a ghost notation?
I know in regular notation you do an X, I think in slashes you do brackets, is that a ...
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I find it hard to understand compression
Unlike other effects, compression seems to be the hardest for me to recognize as there's no much of notable change when it's applied, so how do you determine if your drums need to be compressed or not?...
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Is anything that doesn't have a pitch considered noise?
If we take drums for example like snare, kick, cymbals, etc. They don't have a pitch I was wondering if they're in the "noise family" like pink, white, brown noise. Generally, is anything that doesn't ...
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Is the main role of the bass guitar to give a pitch to the kick drum?
I was reading how the drum and bass are related in a band. Especially the kick. I think it's the main drum part the bass is listening to (?).
My understanding is that the bass is giving the kick a ...
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Aluminum vs. Wooden Drumsticks?
I am wondering about the differences between these materials when playing drums. I've always used wooden sticks - and all the drummers I have played with, as well.
But, I see the potential in using ...
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Should I look into IEMs as a drummer(not playing live)
I've been drumming for a few years in my spare time for fun, and I've recently got issues with my ears.(I'm not playing live)
Although I've always been drumming with some sort of protection, I feel ...
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Name that beat: bass-bass-snare-bass
Is there a name for the rock drum pattern that repeats 4-beat measures of bass - bass - snare - bass?
Examples: Next to You (The Police), Pain Killer (Judas Priest), Tyson vs Douglas (The Killers)
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What's the difference between a grace note and flam?
I'm an amateur drummer but slightly less amateur with other instruments like guitar, piano and clarinet.
What's the difference between a grace note and flam?
As far as I can tell they're very ...
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Why didn't classical music use drums?
I was wondering why doesn't most classical music use drums? For example when I type in "classical music" on youtube, most of the music I hear doesn't have drums. Take Bach, Mozart, Beethoven as an ...
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Is this a correct traditional grip?
I know I put the stick on my ring finger but the exact joint that I’m supposed to have it on confuses me as I was told to do this, but it is slightly painful and my ring finger slides around a lot.
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Unusual position of little finger while holding drumstick [closed]
Is this ok? It feels natural but it looks awkward.
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Using brushes as low-volume drumsticks
I'm playing a pretty simple drum part over some light rock and pop music in an small theater, for a piece in which the vocalists play an extremely prominent role and need to be heard very clearly; I'm ...
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Are the drum patterns in songs comprised of rudiments?
I've been trying to get some basic understanding of drumming. The first thing I came across is rudiments. Some have likened it to practicing scales for melodic instruments.
But I was wondering if ...
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What are Upbeats and Downbeats in a 16 Step Sequencer?
I'm trying to figure out the terminology of upbeats and downbeats in regards to a step sequencer. In this image of a 16 step sequencer, each box represents 1/16 of a measure:
Is it correct to say ...
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How to play proper time when another instrument is playing out of time?
As a drummer, I'm expected to provide a metronome-like precision and a foundation to a band. When playing in a band and having an instrument (i.e. guitar) which doesn't play in time correctly or is ...
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Why do I not get stereo output of my drums through the mixer?
I am trying to mix my electronic drum kit with music from my iPhone so I can play along with tracks on my drum kit.
Here is my drum kit controller with outputs.
And here is my mixer:
I am ...
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Hi-hat Sheet notation
Would someone help me out with the hi-hat notation here?:
My theory's a little rusty, I'm thinking it is a foot close of the hi-hat and not a closed strike? I only started learning 6 months ago so it'...
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Performing drums with my band while listening to metronome?
I'm a drummer in a band; is it common for drummers to wear headphones and to listen to the metronome while playing with a real band?
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Is there a software that will allow me to create my own drumless track? [closed]
I want to be able to take any song from any source, and remove the drums so that I can practice, and possibly play my own interpretation. Is there an specific software package to do this? I see a lot ...
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Can the bass be used instead of drums?
I noticed how there's not a lot of drums in orchestral classical music, in comparison to today's beat-based music. Do they get away with that in the orchestra by having instruments in the bass range ...
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Are most modern drums in pop/hiphop/edm music synthesized?
I was wondering if the drums that I hear around me on the radio/youtube/etc for the most part are synthesized or sample based. And even if they are samples, were they originally created by synths?
I ...
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How are the notes organized on a tongue drum?
Disclaimer: I don't now much about music theory.
Anyway, my wife just bought one of those, which I think is called a "tongue drum":
What strikes me is that, as bad as I am at playing music, whatever ...
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How to do visual (waveform?) analysis of one's playing
As I notice that my left hand is not on the beat at all times, I was wondering if there was a simple way to do a visual analysis of one's playing.
What I mean is the ability to see whether we hit the ...
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What OTK abbreviation stands for?
I've heard about it when someone was talking about drum mic positions, but I'm not sure. Is it something like overhead mic position?
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Where can I get Native American drum and flute samples [closed]
I would like to be able to dynamically compose music using JavaScript using the sounds like from this video. I don't know where you would even begin. Do I need to record it all myself or is there some ...
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The gist of how you create varied pitched/volume realistic drum samples in JavaScript
Like this, what do you need in terms of drum samples to do something like this and have it sound like that native american drum, with dynamic loudness and duration and depth, it's not just the same ...
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Cubase doesn't export stereo [closed]
In my arrangement, I set panner left/right for different instrument channels. It sounds good but when I export the file, the final export wav file doesn't reflect the left/right features, it sounds ...
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Practice timing and general drumming skills
6-7 years ago, I started learning how to drum. However, I was a kid, and whenever I played or even had a lesson, it basically just ended in my trying to learn to play whatever rhythms of whatever ...
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Use MIDI e-drums sounds in Ableton 10
I have no experience with Ableton, but I wanted to start learning by recording some drums samples with my e-drums (Alesis Crimson 2).
I already set up the instrument and it sends and receives MIDI ...
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Rhythm non-standard notation
I have read this paragraph a couple of times, but I haven't really had a light bulb moment.
My interpretation is that the upper example wants one to play
In bar 1: four beats of ones own choosing
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Leftie drummer being taught as rightie - should I switch?
Well, i believe, it's pretty classic situation.
I'm left-handed person that went to a right-handed teacher in order to learn some drumming.
I'm being told that we'll be playing open-handed on a RH ...
