Monday, 22 June 2015
MESHUGGAH's - Bleed
The Double Bass rudiment from MESHUGGAH's Bleed is something I've been looking into overtime, and it is something I definitely want to conquer as a drummer. The Rudiment is both physically and mentally difficult, like ridiculously difficult. Physically just due to the speed and consistency that you have to keep the beat going for, roughly 6 minutes being the the length of the song (there is a about a minute break in the sound at around 5 minutes through then the song carries on as normal).
Mentally, its playing the triplet fill "The Herta" on the feet - The Herta being a type of rudiment fill, where the the pattern adds a fast note after the first hit and then the rest carries on as if in a triplet style (see picture below)
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Tiberius and Rollin'
So we had to play a piece of music via sight reading, just playing as you go, for a couple of different genres. the ones I sight read were Tiberius and Rollin'. Tiberius was a grade 4 metal beat and Rollin' a grade 4 blues beat.
Rollin' was the first beat i did, its fairly straight forward, there's a couple of parts where you have a swung cymbal pattern, and there is also an improvised drum solo for 8 bars i believe. Anyway here is my video on my first attempt at Rollin'
So above is my first run through of Rollin', the grade 4 blues piece. It was okay, I have loads to practise however, as i t was very messy, and the drum solo section was very under thought, and the swung pattern was wrong so yeah loads to learn, and practise and generally work on.
Next was Tiberius, the heavy metal grade 4 piece. also fairly simple, i'd say easier than Rollin', couple of parts work a little weird, but I like this beat and genre just due to the amount you can improvise around the beat with rather fills or double bass techniques and stuff.
Tiberius, also needs a lot of work and was quite messy.
(Due to the videos not uploading correctly, here are the links to the videos Tiberius and Rollin' -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QoMv-U5u5s&feature=youtu.be&list=PLiOd5HtT3teDSIHTmHshNBnKSu0GDiTbO - Tiberius -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa7WObMmb70&list=PLiOd5HtT3teDSIHTmHshNBnKSu0GDiTbO&index=21 - Rollin' -
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