On
this website...
1. The Who's Who of Drumming: A youtube journey of the most
important drummers of all time.
2. Brush Playing: An in-depth look at the pioneers, brush patterns and
advice.
3. VCE Syllabus: An investigation contextualising and analysing the
pieces on the VCE syllabus.
4. Drumline: Another youtube journey and an exploration of contemporary
marching percussion.
What
is this website and why does it exist?
I built this website primarily as a resource for my students to contextualise
the material and styles that we cover in our lessons. Having knowledge
of the great drummers who have come before us not only gives us an idea
of the extremities that have already been explored on our instrument
- but it gives us creative vision and some inspiration, if not some
motivation, to get cracking.
Still
to come for VCE students...
The second idea behind this website is for VCE Solo Performance
Drumkit/Percussion students to learn more about the pieces they are
performing (the Victorian Certificate of Education is the final 2 years
of secondary school study in Victoria, Australia). This section will
explain and give video examples contextualising the syllabus pieces
within the history of drumming. It will also reference the important
drummers that contributed to the genres and give examples of their contributions
found in the pieces.
Listening...
In the days before illegal downloads and youtube, it was obviously much
harder to learn from other drummers. Which begs an interesting question,
how did the early drummers learn? Afterall, they were some of the best
drummers to this day. There are a few answers to this question. The
early drummers watched other drummers playing at gigs, they immersed
themselves in the style by listening and hearing other drummers playing
on recordings, and they played a lot of drums themselves!!
My
point is that it is far more possible to learn these days than what
it used to be. Try to work out what some of the drummers are playing
on this website, recognise what you have learned and how these drummers
are using the same or similar material - what makes it different to
how you are playing it?
Make
use of this website and listen as much as your download limit allows
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