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While its not that i dont appreciate your positive inputs, cant you keep time on virtually every component of a drum ? And yeah i get the idea of Standard Practice, but how will you and i revolutionize drumming, taking it to a new and expanded state, if we stick only to the praactices of the past?

I dont know if youve watched any of my bass videos, but theyre all spontaneous improv, as are any overdubs, and conformimg to the norms of what bass "can/cant do" is not something i much ascribe to...

With percussions cant any element be used in that capacity, be it snare, hi hat or catbell? keeping time is an absolute but also an arbitrary construct, and the choice of what aspects and elements shall be stressed lay in mind of the man with the sticks! if you and i are to take drumming to the next level of expanded form, function and essence we're gonna have to break some toms(crack some shells)and reorient the omelette! Take what is known, as a reference for others, and yet restructure the manifestations of beat, groove, and even time itself as we know it! Free the percussionist from rote static forms so as to embrace a creative flow alive with time and beat yet of diverse and varying form! or maybe bass drum on 2&4.....

@@Alembizoa Listen to any rock song. They don't keep time on toms the way you are attempting to. I'm a drum teacher. Have instructed a ton of students. I don't want to be a downer, but you're way off time . BTW Keeping time is math. Listen to Led Zep, Soundgarden. I love that you're trying though

Of course! And i will comtinue to post my drum progress videos. But are you aware that this channel is mainly my bass improv stuff? ive played bass for 47 years, keyboards for nearly as long , guitar ive played with for a couple decades, along with banjo, ukulele, cello, dulcimer, sitar, hand percussion, therimin, touchboard instruments(warr guitar & chapman stick), as well as recording and signal processing. i got this drum set from my natural mother after she died. it took a while to get it functional, but about two years ago i slowly began trying to teach myself how to play. Gradually building it up to where/what it is today, the set has besn my "project car". you may have noticed that i have close to 1K videos posted here, which took 12 yrs so far, and most have under 50_views. i am mystified as to how a beginner drummer video gets 1.4k in a couple weeks, while bass videos played by 47 years of bass playing dude get 14 views. And while that kinda stings, i am, in a manner, honored you ask me to play anything, but i am primarily a bass player. However i'll get some more drumming videos up tomorrow or the next day. thanks for listening and for your input! Guy

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​@Alembizoa hey can you do a live for me 😊

Your the best!

How So?

Its all drum solos! What do you mean?

As would i !! i'm figuring that should that manifest, it will begin to show evidences of such intent relatively soon. But, i must confess...ive never much been one for ascribing to the mainstream expectations, conventions or socially sanctioned norms.... however, if you check out the recent TSoMD 4/9/24 youll find at least a bit more general consistency, as its the first clip ive done with the intent of adding overdubs

@@Alembizoa Oh man, I hate conventions as well...But music is music. Maybe even try a metronome. That will help with timing. I don't mean to sound like a douche, but try the Quarter note on the or ride or hats

i love the sound of every drum i hear him hitting. imo muting them would be a shame.

Wow! thanks for that heads up! ive avoided Carpel Tunnel for 47 years playing turbo bass, id hate to get taken down by a couple sticks! ill see what i can do, its about time for a restructuring anyways! thanks again!

Im a 61 yr old bass player who inherited an old Ludwig set maybe two yrs ago. I had to get various parts(snare, cymbals, stands, the 12&13" toms, and the Roto toms) and then began playing around on it...thanks for your advice!

I get audio.....

What?

Well I am definitely a beginner, so now I'm worse than myself!

Thanks for listening

Im a beginner!

Thanks man! i inhereited much of it from my natural mother, and then started to gather the parts to make it functional. im trying to find all the blue vistalite toms, but cant seem to find any of the ones under 12" so i brought in two rows of the roto toms(i love roto toms!) ive only been playing these for a little while, im primarily a bass player(47yrs)

@@Alembizoa i LOVE roto toms ...congrats, those vista lite kits look and sound great

No, its a beginner charting his hopeful progress! Im actually a bass player of 47 years who inherited an old Ludwig set

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Ive played electric bass for 46 years, so i get ya about the learning never ends! the last 20 years have been recording spontaneous stuff and working with reverse delay, finding acually useful applications for it. thanls for your input!

If you check out my bass videos you'll see repetitive elements are not really of my sentient repertoire, but its certainly something to integrate into my musical cognizance. I've been playing tonal instruments for so long using digital drum tracks, that I've come to view those as an anchor from which the instruments im playing can then move around, perhaps more freely than the average ear is used to. But in this sense, the rhythms are expressed and inferred by the melodic instruments through shifting phrasings that are directly connected to the beat through a series of steps away from it, like climbing a hill but on parallel paths. Say you have a set beat but continuously rotated which drum played which part of the groove, such that the groove is expressed yet continuously dynamic and "alive" as well? Certainly my playing is still far from that ability and level of expression. But its a thought! Or is it just a disregard for effort and disipline! I tell myself surely no, but a little voice somewhere is screaming "you damn lazy denialist try to hide your lack of consistency in the guise of sound beyond mere music, but rather 'Art' as if poser!"

Oh man, tjats gotta be freaking awesome! Do you have the bongos? I got this set when my natural mother passed , once my youngest brother brought it down 7 years later(2022) it had the 28-30" bass drum, the 14 & 15" aireal toms on the bass drum(way to tall!) and the 18" floor tom. He sent me a snare later, but i had to get most of the hardware and all of the cymbals(which kills me, cuz im pretfy sure the guy that gave it to her would have had the old classic Zildjians going on) but then i added the two sets of roto toms, moved the 14&15" to a dual stand, and found first the 13" tom, and then the 12" and mounted those on the bass drum. And while ive been looking on reverb for at least a year, i have yet to find any of the smaller toms ...ive seen the 16" floor toms on Reverb, as well as a 20" floor, but the little toms and the blue bongo set ive only seen as parts of complete vistalite sets!

You honor me beyond my hopes!

I have listened to both for decades now....

Thank you! if you like that part, checkout Part viii of this series new years eve 2023, the first final mix part viii. the stuff i do on solstices/equonoxes, halloween and newyears is sort of a sonic protection for both myself and those who can make it through its no ,format format, odd tonal combinations, and seeming lack of structure. Yet these aspects are there, just not where most people keep em!

Thank you so much!

well i write left handed, but i play stringed instrument right handedly...of course, being a fella, when i hit puberty i became ambidexterous to a greater degree.... in terms of drumming ive had them set up both ways, and ive considered switching them back and forth to keep my brain paying attention, but ive found i like the hi hats on my right side and it seems my right foot works that pedal better than my left one does, so ive been going with that lately. why do you ask?

@@Alembizoa oh i asked mainly because you have the hihats on your right (although that wouldn't definitely mean that you are left handed). also, because i see many videos where the image is flipped/reversed i came to wonder if the hihat is in fact on your right.

Im actually trying to work that sorta thing in. i havent been able to get much drumming in over the last few weeks. last night i did manage to get the bass drum into the mix to some extent, but i hear yas, limb independence is definitely a goal at this point

I've found the left handed configuration works better with hihat stuff as my right foot is more adept at at least more consistent 1/4-1/8 note repetition than my left. Of course this leads to somewhat "avant-garde" bass drum parts, but its all part of that quirky charm my drumming embodies! Lol

What tuning? i guess ive tuned the roto toms to some extent...for a while i had em tuned to a pentatonic scale, but was a ways back. Now that you mention, though, as i was playing last night i do recall thinking "this non-scalar tuning could prove a little hypnotic....." thanks!

Thanks! New sounds and new combinations is what life and music are all about!

That's a great idea!

Check out the latest two......

Its funny because with all the other instruments I play in these videos, im using drum/backing tracks made with the dual arpeggiation engines on my old Korg Triton which in little time become a static feature that I often view as a timing anchor and with its absolute time it allows me to move around/away from the beat to a greater degree on the other instruments I'm actually playing. I mean, its always connected in some manner, just not always in ways a non-musician might hear it. So playing that static(or at least a lot closer to it) line , be it drums or something else is at this point still kinda alien to my minds sense of what should be...if that makes any sense! Lol But I hear what you're saying, and I appreciate your Input and suggestions for improvement! And thanks for listening and commenting!

Quick question. Did you play in a band called Everfelt???@@Alembizoa

No, I'm on the west coast. In high school I played in all the bands as I was the only bass player in the school, in college I played in the Jazz band, after that fours years in a reggae band in Washington state. After that it was mostly hit and miss rock/prog/improv stuff. Took up studio engineering and started doing all the parts(except drums) myself. And now have 900+ videos on youtube... "I made made it ma!" Lol

I don't know if you ve listened to any of the bass tunes I have here, but the approach you describe is quite akin to how I go with bass. I've played bass for 46 years, been in a bunch of bands, but these days I pretty much play the moment as I feel it. Of course I'm a good deal more fluid on bass, but I figure with drums "from Chaos order will Arise!" Thanks for your input! And thanks for watching!