A common question I hear from young drummers, especially when faced with coming up with a part for an original song is, “What should I play”? For the sake of drummers tackling this for the first time I will approach this from the ground up. Continue reading »
Hey everyone,
From April 2008 I am pleased to say we have another drummer joining us in writing articles and giving his input on the site! Isn’t that just awesome! Yeah! So, stay tuned and come back next month to see who it is and what they have to say! I’ll give you a clue : he’s from ‘down under’ but his name’s not Bruce!
Matt
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By Chris Beaumont
(Posted with permission)
Original article : http://www.heartheadhands.com/blogs.php?postID=100
I was in America on work last year with a colleague of mine who is the health and safety officer for my employer. Whilst in the bar of the hotel we were staying in, he noticed that I had more difficulty than most people in picking up conversation when other noise was in the background. I explained that I was a drummer and that I was slightly deaf in one ear. He then went on to inform me that I probably had reduced hearing in both ears and that the range of hearing particularly affected was that in which the human voice carries. This means that my wife will accuse me of ignoring her when she’s speaking to me because something else is making a noise in the background that I can hear better than her voice (this condition is handy on occasion!). I will never get this hearing back. It’s gone forever which makes me sad and a little obsessive about what’s left of my hearing. As Christians we are called to treat our bodies as temples and as worship musicians I think this particularly applies to our hearing. I know several people in worship teams who you have to shout at because most of their hearing has gone. The question is how do we prevent it?
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Bart Elliot writes a good piece on practice, one which I hope to put into..er..practice!
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