1. 1. DRUM Steve Vyskocil ORGC 201-501 14E. Jackson 1220
2. 2. Reading Music
3. 3. Dave Grohl Doesnt Know How to Read Music, You Do! Just a few bands Dave Grohl has been in: Foo Fighters Nirvana Tenacious D Nine Inch Nails Pearl Jam David Bowie Queens of the Stone Age P. Diddy Tom Petty Scream Them Crooked Vultures
4. 4. All the Way, No Mistakes! Practice with Mirror Check Hand Position The Mother of All Beats Make up more beats
5. 5. 101 Rolls: bounce sticks Double stroke roll (double bounce) 5 stroke roll 9 stroke roll Reading with feet Think with your feet first Practice with bass drum on all 4 beats Hi-Hat on 2 & 4
6. 6. Building Block Technique Keep Bass pedal with Hi-Hat constant Add one note at a time until finished Dynamics ff: fortissimovery loud f: forteloud mf: mezzofortemoderately loud mp: mezzo pianomoderately soft p: pianosoft pp: pianissimovery soft
7. 7. Drum Movement Parallel movementhands follow each other in any direction Oblique movementone hand stays on a sound, other hand moves round Contrary movementhands move in different directions
8. 8. Rudiments ABCs of Drumming Always play rudiments slow-fast-slow Only 40 rudiments Free poster from Vicfirth.com (youre their biggest advertiser) Most of the drum rudiments are variations of each other, meaning it is not too hard to learn all 40 rudiments. For example, if you can play a flam stroke, and a paradiddle pattern, you should have no trouble playing the flam paradiddle Open Roll Paradiddles Flam Single Stroke Roll Double Paradiddles Flam Tap Buzz Roll Triple Paradiddles
9. 9. Song Form Intro Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Solo Verse Chorus Repeated Chorus Outro
10. 10. Song Form Cont. FermetaHold until cue Crash at beginning of each section Fill at end of each section Find a different groove for each section Listen to music, and try to find out what is going on (drummers ear)
11. 11. Helpful Cues Limitation = Innovation Play fills only on snare Play fills on 2 sounds that dont match Example: Floor tom/Hi hat Bass drum/Middle tom
12. 12. Outro
13. 13. Thank You for Your Time