This post is only to remind myself of a great quote given to me by Heidi Washburn. When people respond with jealousy or disdain regarding the fact that I make $12/hr for sitting on my arse and many of those hours include doing whatever I want...Well. Don't hate the player, hate the game!
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Wise Words from African Drumming Class
*Where does music "happen"? Music happens in the space between the notes. Not in the notes themselves!
*Sound is strengthened when it is surrounded by silence. Case in point- This beat makes the body move in ways most other rhythms cannot: MOM-my Dad-DY Mom-my DAD-dy. Notice how the 2nd beat, (DY) is isolated, thus emphasizing it's presence. Another example is Rasputina's Saline the Salt Lake Queen. When the music halts for 1 second in the middle of the song, and then again, it grasps your attention and really pulls you back into the music.
*The three myths of drumming:
That it must be 1) Loud 2) Fast and 3) Complex. It's actually much more difficult to drum softly and slowly as opposed to loud and fast. Master drummers take fundamental, simple beats and use them over and over. "If you can say it, you can play it."
*Sound is strengthened when it is surrounded by silence. Case in point- This beat makes the body move in ways most other rhythms cannot: MOM-my Dad-DY Mom-my DAD-dy. Notice how the 2nd beat, (DY) is isolated, thus emphasizing it's presence. Another example is Rasputina's Saline the Salt Lake Queen. When the music halts for 1 second in the middle of the song, and then again, it grasps your attention and really pulls you back into the music.
*The three myths of drumming:
That it must be 1) Loud 2) Fast and 3) Complex. It's actually much more difficult to drum softly and slowly as opposed to loud and fast. Master drummers take fundamental, simple beats and use them over and over. "If you can say it, you can play it."
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