Enemy Number 2: Fear
Posted on Feb 18, 2011 in Guides and Resources
Picture this: You are in your practise room. Everything sounds immaculate. Hands and feet are comfortable, you feel you can play anything you want. You are on fire! Just then your mate comes in and says he wants to film you and suddenly everything comes down like a deck of cards. Hands are not flying effortlessly, you start feeling stressed and your playing goes well under the level you...
Read MoreRudimentary Rolls
Posted on Jan 26, 2011 in Guides and Resources
The ‘highlights’ of the drum rudiments: Part 1 – Rolls. Drum rudiments are the building blocks of developing stick control. The rudiments are useful and relevant to almost every aspect of drumming. They help build drumming ‘vocabulary’, consistency, accuracy, and the tools for developing expressive playing. You use rudiments in fills, grooves and to create...
Read MoreEnemy Number 1: The Click
Posted on Nov 18, 2010 in Creative Concepts, Guides and Resources
“I don’t need that, I’m in a band!” Whatever you may think of it, the majority of recording/performing industry today revolves around that ‘annoying tiny beeping’ sound and it’s more than certain that you’ll be asked to work with one sooner or later. Click tracks can be your best friend and your worst enemy. In this article Dan Peranic examines what it means to play with...
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 MoreTiming vs Time-Keeping
Posted on Oct 9, 2010 in Creative Concepts
“How do you know when there is a drummer at your door?” The knocking speeds up. Ha ha! The jokes are abundant, we’ve all heard them. It can become a sensitive issue when the drummer is constantly blamed for every slight slip-up in the time-keeping department. Is it not the responsibility of everyone in the band to keep a grip on the sense of time-keeping? Firstly let’s...
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