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2nd Issue, July 2007:
Metric Modulation - Turning a 4 over 3 polyrhythm into a beat, then
growing 2 more beats out of it!
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Welcome
to the 2nd July Big Drum, 2007!
It's been another busy month, UDS 2007 is well underway
and looking and sounding fantastic. So far I've filmed the
entire beginners section with new footage on:
Technique: basics grips, using specific
combinations of fingers, wrists, arms and stick heights to get
different speeds and volumes, heel up and heel down foot
technique, American, German and French grip, Rebound and Wrist
strokes. Rudiments - singles, doubles, parradiddles, flams, buzz
rolls.
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Setup &
Adjustment: how to setup and adjust your kit relative
to your body type and height. Getting drum/cymbal angles and
heights correct, inherent problems in adjusting toms and more..
Tuning: HEAPS of footage on getting different
sounds from toms, snare and bass drum. The tuning technique
itself, getting the skin in tune with itself, and in tune with
the opposite skin, how a drum and sound reflection works, which
combinations of single and double ply skins to use to get
different effects, which skin to tune how tight depending on the
effect you want etc.
Reading and Rhythms: How percussion clef works
and how the dots in different spaces or lines represent
different drums/cymbals, basic note values - 1/4 notes, 8ths,
16ths, triplets etc, how rests work (notating silence), how to
combine different note values and combining note values with
rests.
Rock Beginner and Rock Intermediate: I've just
finished all the filming for these two section, far out there
are a lot of beats in here! Now comes the editing!
SECTIONS STILL TO COME:
Rock Advanced
Total Jazz
Total Latin
Advanced Techniques & Stickings
Double Bass Drumming
The Live Gig Show! (Live Gig and Home Studio)
Fast Track Your Practice!
...and lots of other goodies :)
Check out some of the new UDS 2007 drum tuning footage!

ON WITH THE SHOW!
"STACKING BEATS INSIDE BEATS USING METRIC MODULATIONS!"
Today I'm going to give
you an insight into how Metric Modulation works within
polyrhythmic beats. A polyrhythm is any two rhythms being played
simultaneously, and a polyrhythmic beat is when you turn one or
both of these rhythms into a recognizable beat. Or two.
Today we're using a 4 over 3 polyrhythm as the core unit. Which
means 4 even hits spaced out over 3 beats. Which means we're in
3/4 time.
Always remember, since you're playing a 4 rhythm and a 3 rhythm
(which both sound like pulses on their own, and they are) you
can at any stage focus on just one of the beats, and "grow" (i
love that as an explanation :) a new beat on just that pulse
alone.
Check the vid for the scoop.. (this is the new studio sound
also!)

Part 2 here. See it turned into a funky beat!

CLICK FOR THE EZYBEATS!

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That's it for this Big Drum, anything you'd like to see reviewed for the
next issue - it's your newsletter so write in at
bigdrum@icanplaydrums.com!
Happy Drumming!
Jack Bennett
Icanplaydrums.com
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