Drumming for Film and TV
Posted on Aug 5, 2011 in Guides and Resources
Choreographing a Drummer. One of the services we provide is drum coaching for films, TV, adverts and other visual media. It involves training actors who have not played drums before to look like a convincing drummer on screen. Essentially, it’s drumming ‘choreography’ – just like training a dancer to do the right moves, except instead of dancing it’s drumming. The...
Read MorePlaying grooves using triplets
Posted on Jul 20, 2011 in Creative Concepts
Triplets are groups of 3 notes. They are used in many different forms of drumming, whether constructing drum fills, solos or grooves. In this article we’re going to look at using triplets to construct a groove. Andy Burt gives us an introduction to triplets and how to count, play and apply them in a groove context. The Triplet Feel Sometimes referred to as 6:8 or 12:8 Blues, or even the 6...
Read MoreIf you can say it, you can play it
Posted on Nov 10, 2010 in Creative Concepts
Some of our previous articles have been based around the theme of ‘drumming as a language’. We looked at the written language of drumming and visited the idea of punctuation in drumming. The Elephant Drums teaching method is all about the application of drumming in a practical musical context. Therefore let’s try to take some of the linguistic concepts discussed in earlier...
Read MoreLong and short dynamics
Posted on Sep 20, 2010 in Creative Concepts
This article is closely related to the previous discussion on drumming as a language (see ‘the secret of reading drum music‘). Let’s build upon the idea of ‘communication’ through music, this time paying particular attention to dynamics. SHOUT! whisper SHOUT! whisper If you were to vocalise the words above in the manner the words describe (i.e. you shout the word...
Read MoreThe secret of reading drum music
Posted on Aug 5, 2010 in Creative Concepts, Guides and Resources
Following on from the previous post about “punctuation” in drumming, this article takes a step back to look at the bigger picture of “how to read drum music”. First a bit of fun: Read the following sentences (read through quickly without paying much attention to detail, and then read again more slowly)… Aoccdrnig to rseearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t...
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