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What is the most effective, structured way for an adult beginner to learn drums without a teacher?
If you are serious about drumming I have good advice:
Background
I've been playing 13 years.I play in my college's jazz ensemble and play in a rock band outside of that. I take lessons with the ...
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Crash cymbal turned green
For your first question. Your cymbal is oxidized, and the green color is called patina
Initially, bare Cu metal atoms react with air to form the pink oxide,
cuprite, Cu2O, which has Cu+1 cations. ...
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What's the purpose of a drum teacher in today's age?
All teachers bring something to the student that the student cannot get online: experienced observation and training catered to both the strengths and weaknesses particular to the student.
Everyone ...
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What are the disadvantages of using an electronic drumset?
To be clear about what we are talking about, this is an electronic drum set:
There are other ways to generate sounds that function as drums in a music production, including drum machines and several ...
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How to notate a quick open and close hi-hat?
Here is an example of hi-hat open and close notation:
The hats are notated by the x note heads above the top line of the staff. The + above a note indicates playing the closed hi-hat with a stick, ...
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Crash cymbal turned green
This cymbal is an alloy of copper and tin. The green coulor is the a phenomene of the oxidation of copper. It can be cleaned and will disappear by a chemical reduction with hydrogenium.
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Why are drum-kits put on risers on stage?
I think you'll find that this is not limited to rock bands. Any time there are seated musicians in more than one row, it is quite likely that the rows in the back will be elevated. This certainly ...
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Best strategy for tuning a 4 piece kit?
Warning: This is probably subjective.
The actual note pitch of your snare doesn't matter that much, it's more just a measure of how high or low it is. I tune my snare to G, roughly, I think that's a ...
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Drums: kick drum substitute for practise at home
This may sound dumb and simple but: a box. Get a real kick pedal, even a cheap one, and set it up to hit something that will make a sound loud enough to hear and quiet enough that you can tolerate it ...
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Force note beams to be horizontal
If you just replace: \once\override Stem.length-fraction = #1.5
with: \override Beam.positions = #'(4.8 . 4.8)
... I think you'll get what you are looking for; all beams at the same height, without ...
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Drumstick qualities for rock music, teens, and beginner/intermediate drummers
People generally use heavier-than-average drumsticks for rock music. No lighter than 5A, often 5B or 2B drumsticks are used. This covers quite a range, and which particular stick you use is largely ...
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What are the attachments used for on this bass drum?
That's actually not a snare drum but a “huge-diaphragm microphone”. This was a gimmick some studio engineers built out of, indeed, a snare drum shell by mounting a subwoofer in it instead of the drum ...
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Do drum skins crack?
Drum heads don't last for ever. Cracking is a standard failure mode.
It may SOUND ok, but does it 'bounce' the same way when practicing rolls etc.? If so, carry on if you like. If you go on ...
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Can Bongos be Safely Incorporated into a Normal Drum kit?
First, I’m not a percussionist but I do know a decent amount about Latin percussion so here goes: Bongo skins are thin but the skins that are made for companies like LP and Meinl are pretty durable. ...
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Force note beams to be horizontal
I do agree with Element’s suggestion to either notate this properly the way you intend it using chords, or to keep multiple voices. Entering multiple voices as Chords is a bit tedious. Theoretically ...
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Is it possible to add notes with inverted stems on the same beat in Guitar Pro 6
Yes, you can use the multi-voice feature.
On each track, you can use up to 4 independent voices : the notes can have different duration and independent stem direction.
Each number represent a ...
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What does the music notation "/ / / /" mean in a music drum score?
Counting Verse 1 from bar 5. Bar 5 & 6 are repeated 7 times to lead to bar 21. = 16 bars
Bar 21 is repeated 6 times Then the 4 slashes / are played solo or freeform = 8 bars.
These 8 bars are ...
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What is the most effective, structured way for an adult beginner to learn drums without a teacher?
I am 33yrs old and just picked up playing drums. After enough research I have a routine which seems to work for me based on everything I've seen online. I do 1 1/2 hours a night and split it up into ...
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What is the most effective, structured way for an adult beginner to learn drums without a teacher?
Well, you say...
Knowing myself and how I learn best, viewing random YouTube clips won't help me stick with it.
But sticking with it is on you, not the medium you're using for learning. If you ...
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Is it a bad idea to mix lessons on acoustic, and practise on electronic multipad?
Practicing with multi pads is not a bad idea, it's a great idea. You can actually just practice on a cheap, portable, (affordably ship-able) practice pad to learn stick control for rhythmic accuracy, ...
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Why might one want to record a drum accompaniment electronically without using regular or electronic drumheads and cymbals to drum on?
My band, a three piece rock/techno/metal band, only uses drums from a machine. We did initially use live recorded drums, but for the type of music we play, we needed the rhythm section to have exact ...
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Do drum skins crack?
Drum heads stretch and degrade over time. Sometimes they crack. Sometimes they tear. Sometimes all the material in then batter head wears off. Replacing drumheads is normal and how often depends on ...
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Crash cymbal turned green
I hate to break it to everyone but, this is not oxidation at all... Yes, copper-based oxidation is green and occurs for all the reasons stated but, it's also (9 times out of 10) highly localized and ...
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Delay in sound when connecting electronic drumset to a soundbar
Consumer audio products like the "sound bars" you mentioned are made for applications where precise timing is less important. Whether there's a 2.5 ms or a 25 ms delay between the input and the output ...
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how high to position the snare drum?
I'm sure there are as many setups as there are drummers.
I sit so my knees are just under 90° & my thighs maybe 2" higher than level. That gives me my optimum pedal position. This, btw, is ...
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Drumming: Where do backbeats/snares go in 2/2 time
The question has fallen into the traps of thinking that the drum beat and back beat are based on quarter notes and that the drum beat necessarily corresponds to the time signature.
What's "really&...
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Drumming: Where do backbeats/snares go in 2/2 time
When there are 4 beats in the bar, 'Back Beat' is accenting 2 and 4.
It's a 4/4 thing. Or music that COULD be notated in 4/4. Asking where to put the back beat in a two-in-the bar time is like asking ...
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Change staff position of hi-hat
LilyPond has few different "styles" that set the positions for the various instruments on a percussion staff. See 2.51 Common notation for percussion - Percussion staves.
For example, to ...
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