When the great Louie Bellson first used two bass drums on his Gretsch set in the 1950’s, he revolutionized drumming forever! His pioneering double-bass chops with the Duke Ellington Orchestra always brought down the house. However, this has presented a problem for the average joe who digs the double-bass thing: Who the hell has the ...
Music has many genres, ranging from Hip-Hop to Classical. An average person knows all the common styles of music, such as Rock, Rap, Country, etc., but what they most likely do not know is that music is taken to a much further extent than these common genres. Styles of music are combined to create new, ...
The Bass Drum is probably the most recognizable drum today. It is the first drum people notice on a set, and in a marching band, only the Sousaphone is more conspicuous. Even those among us devoid of the gift of sight can pick it’s instantly-recognizable “BOOM” out of any orchestra. Second in importance only to ...
The well-tuned bass drum should sound like a cannon, therefore they don’t sound very musical. However, tuning to a definite pitch should still be attempted. I personally try to hit “B” on my bass, because it blends well with the widely used rock keys of “E”, “D”, “F#”, and “B”. First, you must consider the ...
Marching bands come in all sizes and include instruments such as the horn and woodwind sections, but the powerful beat of the music comes from the percussion section, better known as the drum line. The following is a list of drums used. The Snare Drum. The snare drum is considered the lead of the drums ...
SYNCOPATION: A rhythmic method drummers use to vary the position of stress on the beats so as to give the illusion of irregular rhythm. It can entail accenting weak beats and putting rests over strong beats, sudden time and/or meter changes, or simply playing a different rhythm from the rest of the band (in time ...
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