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Tips for a Great Drum Circle - ONLINE Video 2 - 6117

 
 

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Notes about the ONLINE Audio/Video Players:

  • The mute button is in the lower right-hand corner of the Player. Use your computer's playback volume controls.  Since most of you will be playing along to these, I'd recommend wearing headphones so you can really crank it up!

  • Click anywhere on the Player you're interested in.  Then click on the play/pause button in the lower left-hand corner (has a white, right-pointing triangle on it).  If the session is fully loaded, the horizontal bar to the right of the play/pause button will be completely grey - please be patient if it's not complete, but you should still be able to start playing it.  You can slide the white, upward-pointing triangle to the left to fast-rewind or to the right to fast-forward, while either in play or pause mode.
  
     
 

 

Hand & Body Muting of Resonant Tones: ONLINE Video 2 - 6117

 
 

When playing resonant instruments (e.g., large Drums, Cymbals, Bells, Pans,  or Gongs), you’ll often need to use hand and body Muting techniques to differentiate Short-Articulated Notes (e.g., 1/8- or 1/16-Notes marked Staccato - sing: “dit”) and Notes that are immediately followed by a Rest (so they need to be “Choked” off - sing: “Dah-it”) from Long-Articulated Notes (e.g., 1/4-, 1/2-, or Whole Notes marked Tenuto or Legato - sing: “Daaaah”). That way your rhythms oscillate in volume and timbre (i.e., Tonal quality) for variety’s sake and to provide “dips” or “holes” in which other players can Fill-in (e.g., using Counter- or Cross-rhythms within a Groove or to create a Call and Response Dialogue).

  
     
 

 
     
     
     
 
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