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APRIL 2008 $5.99 US $5.99 CAN L.A. Percussion Ace Lenny Castro Blistering Death Angel Drum Part 10 Ways To Beat Stress Sabian XS20 Cymbals APRIL 2008 65 02648 57410 4 0 Thomas Pridgen Tama Starclassic Performer B/B 42 THOMAS PRIDGEN DRUMMING FOR FANATICS How To Mike Hand Percussion Haake! Tomas ...
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THIS PAGE + COVER PHOTO BY ROBERT DOWNS APRIL 2008 DRUM! 7 142 ON SALE 03/17/08 04/14/08 VOL. 17, ISSUE 3 FEATURES 52 Hella Experimental With his ridiculously nasty birthrightchops and a career nurtured by the churchand a loving grandma, Thomas Pridgenwas primed to explode long before ...
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8 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com MORGAN PHOTO BY JASON THRASHER 45 45 PAGE SOUNDLAB 120 TAMA STARCLASSIC PERFORMER B/BDRUMS Brad Schlueter digs the double-woodshells on a kit that looks and soundsway too good for what it costs. 122 SABIAN XS20 CYMBALS David E. Libman finds the line ...
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WALT DISNEY WASN TKIDDING IT IS A small world after all, and this monthsissue is just the latest testimonial tohis assertion. To explain what I mean,we need to go back 13 years to Lous Pier 47, a small club at San FranciscosFishermans Wharf, where I was aboutto go onstage with a ...
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14 EDITORIAL EDITOR IN CHIEF Andy Doerschuk ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dave Constantin ASSISTANT EDITOR Andrew Lentz MUSIC EDITOR Wally Schnalle SPECIAL PROJECTS Eric Kamm CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Jim Aikin, John Aldridge, Ken Babal, Jim Batcho, Matt Bloom, Joe Bosso, Brain, Paula Bocciardi, Strother Bullins, ...
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DRUM! Digital Ive been a subscriber for a year now, andreally enjoy reading your magazines. I lovethe drummers you feature, and alwayslove reading some of your unique sectionslike New Blood and Nutrition For Drum-mers. I also wanted to thank you forputting me in the New Blood section inthe ...
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More Marching I have been a subscriber to DRUM!for over a year and a half now andgreatly enjoy reading it. I liked yourarticle on Shannon Larkin in yourFebruary 2008 issue. Also, one of myfavorite pieces is on the Santa ClaraVanguard Drum Corps by your associ-ate editor, Dave Constantin, ...
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20 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com The simplest way to fig-ure out rhythms is tocount them with thesmallest note value youhave to play. For mostdrum music, that meanscounting sixteenth-notes. In 4/4, sixteenth-notes are counted 1 e & ah 2 e & ah 3 e & ah4 e & ah. Since you arecounting sixteenths, ...
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24 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com ROAD WORRIER A s our overburdened vandrives away from thewarmth and security of our three-night-a-week gig at TheRancid Cork, and our seven-night-a-week appearance at our par-ent s houses, our chests growtight with excitement, possibility,and insufficient cabin ...
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26 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com WILL LUCCA AGE 27 DRUMMING EXPERIENCE 10 years BAND Airshow Disaster Broken knuckles, two onthe right hand. Yeah, I wasplaying a little crazy one time, and I actuallymissed the drum, hit the hoop, andcracked both knuckles on my right hand. Ittook a couple months to ...
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32 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com In a market where advancementsnormally come in modest incre-ments, Roland has consistently bro-ken the sound barrier, creatingelectronic drums that have becomeharder and harder to distinguishfrom their acoustic counterparts. The latest addition to the V-Drumline, ...
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SpareThe Rod If you feel there simplyarent enough multi-sticks out there, Pro-Mark is offering StealthRods and Rocket Rods toits line of specialty multi-sticks. As their namesuggests, the StealthRods sporting nylonbristles produce asofter sound than thecompanys traditionalHot Rods. The ...
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Even though Joe Jack-son warned DaveHoughton, bassistGraham Maby, and guitarist Gary Sanford that theJoe Jackson Bands 25th re-union in 2003 was definitely aone-off, Houghton will cele-brate his birthday in Dublinwhere the JJB band will kickoff a European tour to pro-mote Rain, the reconstituted ...
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crowd watcher as well. I like itwhen we can see audiences. Peo-ple always tell me I look miser-able, and Im not, Im very hap-py. Maybe I have a miserableface. Im actually quite happy. But that wasnt always the case. In fact, it was his personalproblems that began the even-tual dismantling of the ...
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39 nostalgia. But they turned out to be wrong. Itwas a shock when he said he wanted to do it,but a pleasant shock. The only thing I had reservations about was we all wondered whether it would be ofthe same sort of quality that we had when wewere younger. But it was. We only had tohave about an ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 41 ALEX LOPEZ A lex Lopez is kickingit at home in Witt-ier, California, theL.A. suburb with the dubious distinctions of beGrind AndBear It PHOTO BY BILL DURRANT ing both the low-rider capitalof the state and the birthplaceof Richard M. Nixon. At themoment, the 22-year-old ...
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42 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com JORDAN BURNS because I remember seeingthem and I was like, Man, ifonly their drummer couldbring some spice, you know,Morgan Rose that stuff. Putsome flavor up in there. Not long after shopping their demo around, the band wassnapped up by indie label Cen-tury Media ...
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Suicide Silence The Cleansing CENTURY MEDIA The double leadvocals suggestAbbott andCostello doingstandup in Hell, butthe real attraction on The Cleansing is Alex Lopez. His main challenge doesnt involvemetrical complexity, though plentyof fragmented measures aresprinkled throughout this ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 45 BRAD MORGAN BY ANDREW J. NUSCA Taking It Easy PHOTO BY JASON THRASHER B rad Morgan is oftenthe guy behind thewheel when his band,Drive-By Truckers, is hurtling down Interstate 85 onthe hunt for a Waffle House.And with some 200 shows ayear, the Drive-By Truckers busalmost ...
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the Truckers original drum-mer left the band for another,Morgan was summoned ontothe tour bus for good. Once I got in the van it was nonstop, he says. Twohundred days a year, just con-stantly, three months at atime. Out on the road, livingout of the van, living on peo-ples floors back in the day ...
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down the hallway and Max Wein-berg comes out the door and islike, Who the hell did this? Whoput this on my plate? and juststarted raising hell and I just keptgoing, because Im kind of hard ofhearing, so I didnt notice it wasgoing on. So I get to the control room and the manager comes running in ...
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Force ature N Of Thomas Prid gen GetsH ella Busy WithTheMars Volta By Andrew Lentz PHOTOS By ROBERT downs ASIDE from the castle where Phil Spector dwells, Los Angeles ALHAMBRA NEIGHBORHOOD IS an uneven mix of middleand working-class bungalows nestled in hills hemmed in by the I-10, 710, 605 and ...
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54 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com THOMAS PRIDGEN INFOGRAPHIC BY JOSH SUKOV PRIDGENS KIT DRUMS DW Custom Clear Acrylic 1 24" x 20" Bass Drum 2 14" x 7" Snare 3 12" x 8" Tom 4 13" x 9" T om 5 15" x 14" Floor Tom 6 16" x 15" Floor T om 7 18" x 16" Floor Tom CYMBALS Zildjian A 15" ACustom Mastersound ...
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tunately, Pridgen wasnt so cocky he wouldnt take advice.He knew The Voltas reputation for pushing its members tothe limit, so resilience on his part creatively and psycho-logically was a must if he was going to survive in theband. I was figuring everything out because I was doing anew thing, Im ...
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lasted three days before getting pummeled to pieces. Nextcame a special-order Remo Junior kit, but it wasnt long be-fore he outgrew that as well. She encouraged me becauseshe played piano and she actually quit. She played, but shedidnt go as far as she could. She got a day job and did ...
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other students. For me, it made me develop quicker becauseI was like, Theyre trying to steal my stuff, so Im gonna playthis lick now, and switch it up on them. In New England, Pridgen was like a fish out of water in other ways, too. I went there in January and I had these kin-da shoes, he says, ...
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Berklee also exposed students to the importance of musical context, geographicaland otherwise. Pridgen already had a sense ofthis from his years kicking it with WalfredoReyes and other players, watching theirmoves, soaking up their road-hardened wis-dom. But it was Francisco Mela, his ...
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sounds, is symmetry. Im still trying to make my left handas fast as my right hand. As a drummer I think thats theone thing youll never do. Like many young drummers, Pridgen was weaned on instructional videos. Now that he finds himself increasingly onthe other side of the camera, he feels ...
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60 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com BY BRAD SCHLUETER 811 j j j y > j y > > > > > > j y > j y > j y > j y > > > > y > y > y > y > y > j y > j y > j y > y > y > y > y > y > y > > > > > y > y > > j y > y > > > Y > > Y > > > > > j y > j y > 86 8 12 y ...
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skills (the others being raw talentand 35 years of practice, naturally). As he passes by, anked on either side by fellow Meters royalty,Art Neville and George Porter Jr., Istick out my hand in introduction.Batiste s face drops into a Nowwhat? expression. I quickly explainI m not some over-eager ...
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docks. A now fro-less Alan Evanskeeps his solo brilliantly spare mostly kick, snare, and hi-hat. I triedto keep it kind of simple because Ididn t want to fall off the throne incase a wave came in and hit me, Evans would half-joke later. But thelast few shows I ve been gettinginto that. I see a ...
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go, Moore explains. Either you regoing to be in your cabin, or you regoing to be out playing. So that swhat s really fun about it. I m scheduled to meet up with some more drummers in theArtist s Lounge for video inter-views. My rst victim is Mike Dillon,aka Mike D, a solo percus-sionist making ...
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ON RECREATING THE HART/KREUTZMAN DYNAMIC [Rob and I] played in a band together for two-and-a-half years before wecame to this band, so we kind of came as a package deal. We just kind of de-veloped a way of playing, and then wejoined Dark Star. The persona thing isall about the music. Were not ...
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70 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com on the Pool Deck and I m wander-ing through a semi-deserted mid-ship disco on Deck 5 where Istumble upon Jon Fishman tap-ping out some practice beats inpreparation for tonight s SuperJam, which, when it arrives a fewhours later, features a blitzkrieg ...
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72 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com Cruise] is like a big family. Dark Star Orchestra follows with a Dead catalog sampler. That spart of our regular routine too, DinoEnglish tells me. Once every fouror ve shows we do was a blast. But I think basically I ve been trying to tiptoe around and play ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 77 T he void following thefirst real punk move-ment left an audiencecraving something fresh, different, and a bit morecommercial. The influence ofMTV put a bands image on anequal footing with its sound,and the post-punk era sawbands playing a variety of differ-ent styles that ...
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NEW WAVE 78 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com MTV helped quickly establishDuran Duran as one of thebiggest new wave bands, inequal parts due to their catchysongs, their high-quality videosoften shot at exotic locations,and the fashionable andvideogenic nature of the band.Drummer Roger Taylor (no ...
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NEW WAVE Who can forget Devos yellowjumpsuits and energy domehats? Devo somehow mergedperformance art and music into asaleable commodity. Whether thelyrics are about pulling yourselfup by your bootstraps or aboutS&MIll let you decide. The fasttwo-handed groove that AlanMeyers played on the song ...
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More than The Cure, the post-punk band Bauhaus planted theseeds of goth rock. Peter Murphywas a large influence on TrentReznor and many other currentrock bands. This nine-minutesong is peculiar, experimental,gloomy art rock and drummerKevin Haskins bossa novagroove certainly seems an oddchoice. ...
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NEW WAVE 82 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com The 80s new wave movementwasnt known for lots of impres-sive drummers and drum parts,but Big Countrys Mark Brzezickiwas an exception. For the intro ofthe bands signature song, In ABig Country, Brzezicki playedseveral overdubbed drum partsthat Ive done my ...
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NEW WAVE Poptones BY Public Image Ltd. After the Sex Pistols broke up,John Lydon and early Clash gui-tarist Keith Levene formed oneof the most innovative and oddbands of the era. They are hardto categorize since PiLs songswere usually depressing, eerie,a bit atonal, and featured Ly-dons ...
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Singer Richard Butlers ciga-rette-and-whiskey coated deliv-ery is a bit reminiscent of DavidBowies, but is darker and moremorose, especially on themoody and plodding tune, Sis-ter Europe. Vince Elys drum-ming is simple and machine-like,but functions brilliantly in thiscontext, creating a ...
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I ts time to vote for the drummers, percussionists, andinstruments that made a difference in the past year.We included check boxes within the gear categories tohelp jog your memory about your favorite drums, cym-bals, and other hittables. While we selected instruments that have been featured in ...
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CUSTOM DRUM MAKERS Allegra Artisan Battlefield Brady Canopus Craviotto C&C DAmico Dunnett Ford Heartwood GMS Longo OCDP Oregon Phattie Pork Pie San Francisco Drum Company Shine Spaun SJC Thrust Truth OTHER____________________ __________________ CYMBALS Alchemy Power-X ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 89 meshuggah ALONE GOES IT TOMASHAAKE By David Weiss Whats in a name? In thenine letters that mark theband known as Meshuggah,there seems to be more and more with each passing moment.
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buy the next albums as well. Thats whyweve been able to stick with it. RETURN TO THE KIT. The fullest realization yet of the potential of experimentalmetal, the nine-song obZen is a perpetually fascinating rhythmic exploration beset by jaggededges, paranoia-inducing sound assaults, lonely ...
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first time Ive recorded, edited, and chosenthe drum takes myself. In the past, its al-ways been someone else in the control roomrecording me, but here I had a laptop com-puter [next to the drum kit], so the start andstop I did all myself. I was in total control ofthe drum aspect of this album. ...
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maintain at a certain level and grow as adrummer. I need those serious bursts of chal-lenges that come with each album thatsthe most important part for me to be able togrow as a drummer and evolve, if you will. Discipline for what Meshuggah does and wants to do is a definite must, and its ashame ...
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The great Terry Bozzio explained to me whatwe did as far as our notes are considered. Iguess you could call it alternative cycles orodd groupings or permutations because itsthis odd number of hits in a riff. Eighth-notes in an odd number over 4/4 just soundstrippy after a while. CONTROL FREAKS. ...
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boomy addition to the toms and kicks. So,in other words, the drum sound you hear onthe album is basically a mix of our closermiking and close mike samples, and the awe-some-sounding room that they have atAvatar Studios in New York City. The improved production values will particularly strike a ...
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y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 4:45 13/16 4/4 = 115 MESHUGGAH MATHEMATICS Meshuggah has a well-earnedreputation for playing some of themost ...
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LENNY L.A. PERCUSSIONACE BYJOE BOSSO CASTRO THEART ACCOMPANIMENT OF APRIL 2008 DRUM! 99 In 1990, when he was 40years old, Lenny Castro fi-nally realized he was a mu-sician. It didnt matter thathe began playing drumsand percussion at the ageof three, was trained at NewYorks prestigious ...
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A BE FG D C 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 100 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com to shake hands with Miles, and he did thestrangest thing: he grabbed my hand ratherquickly and turned it palm-up. Then he start-ed touching my palm, just feeling it, runninghis fingertips over my calluses. After a fewmoments, ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 101 worker, he says, but it was hard. I didntwant to be a retailer, selling drums to playerswho were doing what I wanted to be doing.One day, Castro received a call to audition forsinger Melissa Manchesters band somebodyfrom Melissas camp called Ippolito to askhim if he knew any ...
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Things sounded good to me, but after it wasall over nobody said a word; Boz was up andout the door. So I went to Jeff and said, Well, what do you think? Did I get the gig?Jeff looked at me and said, Man, you had thegig before you even walked in! Touring with the Boz Scaggs band proved to be an ...
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Rosanna, they wanted me rightthere with them. I used to watchthem come up with their parts; a lotof the time they would bounce ideasoff of me. It was a great collabora-tion, which is why so many musi-cians respect Toto. You can hear thedifference when real players are com-municating with one ...
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Castros 14-year association with Bette Midler proved to be just as much of a strug-gle. On four separate tours with her, Castrobecame, in his words, a comedic actor pos-ing as a musician. During the course ofany given show, Castro and the rest of Mi-dlers band would be called upon to per-form ...
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105 Ex. 2 OOO MOMM O OOO MO OO MO Ex. 1 OMO MO OO OMOMOOOOO OMSMMM OO OM SOOM OO Ex. 3 OOO OOO S OOO OOO S OOO OOO S OOO OOO S Lets look at some grooves that helped establish Lenny Castroas one of the first-call percussionists in the competitive LosAngeles session scene. LENNY CASTROSGREATEST ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 107 CoveringAll TheAngles Miking Percussion In The Studio BY KAREN STACKPOLE T he world of percussionencompasses a stagger-ing assortment of toys that can be struck, rubbed,scraped, or shaken using barehands, mallets, sticks, bows,whisks, toothbrushes, chain-saws, or whatever ...
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108 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com springboard from whence toonce again commence thisfront-end journey to a greatpercussion recording. MIKING DRUMSWITH ONE HEAD Depending on the instrumentand the playing style, a single-headed drum can be mikedwith a single transducer abovethe top head, with a mike ...
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tones and attack from the head.To add fullness and depth tothe sound, you could opt fora second mike at the port,positioned a couple of inchesbelow the opening to capturethe boom emanating from thecavity. Remember to flip thephase on the bottom mike. Congas Congas are typically played ingroups ...
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110 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com each timbale, angled slightlytoward the head to pick up boththe side sticking and the attackon the head. One or two over-head condensers can be used tocapture the bell/block clusterand the cymbal (FIG. 3). Tabla A tabla setup can be miked witha single microphone ...
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pitched head on the smallestdrum, try pointing the mikemore toward the center. Oth-er asymmetrical two-headeddrums, such as the barrel-shaped dholak from India,can be approached the sameway when setting up mikes. Surdo The surdo is like a big floortom with a deep, resonantsound. It can be miked ...
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be used forgreater controlif you have theinputs: a small-diaphragmcondenser outin front of thebase area, anda large capsulecondenser justabove the op-ening of thegourd, out ofharms way,angled towardthe cavity tocatch the lowend (FIG. 6). Again, be sureto double check the phase coherency ofthe ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 115 Thrice The Alchemy Index, Vols. III & IV VAGRANT So the Californian post-hardcore pop-punk band,Thrice, decided to maketheir sixth (and seventh) album an atmospheric conceptpiece based on the fundamental el-ements of earth, air, fire, and water,released as four EPs under ...
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Armor For Sleep Smile For Them SIRE MUSIC Crunched, heady guitar lines call for raised fists while lyricsjump between vapid and death-ob-sessed in an obligatory homage toteen angst. The album suffers fromthe aggressive prevailing produc-tion philosophy of loudness trump-ing nuance, but the ...
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DRUMMING Patience is key. Nothing resembling a beat punc-tures the heavenly gospel until sixminutes have passed. Then hyper-kinetic, circular drum patterns fromwhat is obviously several differentkits meander over eight counts ofmore monotonous vocalizations.Occasional electronic flourishesadd ...
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Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted ROADRUNNER MUSIC It s tough to follow major metal acts such as Sepultura andSoulfly, but with Cavalera Conspir-acy brothers Max and Iggor havedone just that by not trying so hardto upstage their better-known vehi-cles. Inflikted is a monster slab of chunky groove, ...
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harder. Instead, when trudgingthrough waltz time on Don tJump, marking verse/chorus tran-sitions in On The Edge with sim-ple eighth-note accents, and evenshifting to double-time at the endof Break Away, he seems contentto just add more weight to hisgroup s heavy tread.VERDICT Tokio Hotel has a ...
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120 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com BY BRAD SCHLUETER I t seems like every time I blinkTama has expanded its up-per-level Starclassic lines.The company currently offers birch, maple, bubinga, acrylic, and annual limited edition exotic kits,and now it s introduced a new bub-inga/birch hybrid shell kit ...
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tack. One of the other people in theshop stood 15 back while I was hit-ting each kit and made a gesturewith his hands when I played theB/B kit that either meant bigger or ballsier. I heard the difference fromwhere I was sitting as well. Then came my surprise. The comparison kit turned out not to ...
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122 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com BY DAVID E. LIBMAN W ith its revampedXS20 series, Sabianis offering a combina-tion of professionalquality B20 cast bronze with asemi-professional level mid-rangeprice tag. That s very unusual, and here s why. DIFFERENCES FROMTOP TO BOTTOM All of Sabian s most ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 123 SPLASHES The XS20 10" splash shocked mewith its superior sound quality. Itbarks with an instant, explosiveburst of papery highs and mids thatquickly disperse without any weirdlingering overtones. This splashsounds better than many other pro-fessional splashes I ve heard ...
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124 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com third of it). The foot plate, instead ofpulling down on a strap or chain,abuts the bar and rolls down it toproduce the forward motion of thebeater. A spring, located directlyunder the foot plate, pulls back onthe central bar, thus pulling thebeater back to its ...
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bass drum has wooden rims that are1.5" deep. As I pushed down on thepedal, at first I didn t notice that thewing nut holding the beater in placewas hitting the head as well. Thishad two serious implications: 1) Themetal wing nut could punch a holein my bass drum head. 2) When thewing nut hit the ...
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126 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com BY NORMAN WEINBERG W ith today s best drumsounds coming fromsoftware programsrather than hardwired drum brains, it s no wonder thatplayers and audio engineers arelooking for easier ways to interfacetheir electronic kit to their com-puter. If you already own an ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 127 EDITING INDIVIDUAL KITS Each one of the stereo trigger in-puts can send individual notesnumbers over individual MIDI chan-nels for the pad and the rim. Thisoffers total flexibility to control alarge number of different sounds atthe same time. For example, youcould have each ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 131 First, you have to learn every note of 2112, he laughs.Just kidding. As much as Galeon likes to joke, his drum parts toBeatdown are anything but funny. Complex kicks andflamboyant fills abound ineach section of the song, yetthe feel and groove are neverabandoned. Small bites ...
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GALEON'SGEAR INFOGRAPHIC BY JOSH SUKOV DRUMS Yamaha Absolute Maple Custom Drums 1 24" x 17" Bass Drum 2 14" x 6.5" Met al Snare Drum 3 10" x 8" Tom 4 12" x 10" T om 5 14" x 12" Tom 6 16" x 16" Floor T om 7 18" x 16" Floor Tom CYMBALS Sabian A 14" AAX Metal Hats B 20" AAX O-Zone Crash C 18" AAX ...
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LOREM IPSUM DOLOR LOREM IPSUM DOLOR 136 ANDY GALEON SONIC BEATDOWN (CONTINUED )
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= 76 APRIL 2008 DRUM! 139 The campana, which is used in salsa music, specifi-cally by the bongo player, is a large, loud mount-lesscowbell (even by cowbell standards) designed to cutthrough the horns and rhythm section during thechorus of the song. Nowadays even the daintiest ofsingers in a pop ...
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140 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com ROCK Left Hand/Left Foot Independence BY MATT BYRNE This month, Iveprovided somebeats that focuson two concepts:1) Working theleft hand on the snare, and 2) Improving the in-dependence of the left foot onthe hi-hat. The first set of beatsworks sixteenth-notes ...
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Djembe Key = B = Bass, MS = Muted SlapEx. 1Ex. 2 BBMS MS MS MS MS BB BB B Ex. 3Ex. 4Ex. 5 LATIN PERCUSSION One of my mostrecent musicalfinds is a groupfrom the Sahararegion of North-ern Mali called Tinariwen (Tinariwen.com).Their disc, titled Aman Iman,which means Water Is Life, isone of the ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 143 UGLY PERCUSSION Lounge kit, 6 ply maple, 12 x 18bass, 5.5 x 12 snare, 6.5 x 10 tom, 12 x 12 floor tom.$985. Free shipping! www.uglypercussion.com DRUMMERS WANTED www.MusiciansContact.com. Need work? Paying jobs and resumes online. Thousands of satisfiedmembers since 1969, ...
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144 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com Simon Kirke of Bad Company. Available for teaching in my own studio in Manhattan. Call: 516-448-0211.NYC - Drummers. Study with John Sarracco, one of the most knowledgeable pros in the NY area.Accepting only the serious-minded for druminstruction the professional ...
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APRIL 2008 DRUM! 145 AD INDEX DRUMS A.D.H. acrylicdrumsheaven.com 128 Allegra allegradrums.com 128 ddrum ddrum.com 44 DW dwdrums.com 62/63 George H. Way georgewaydrums.ca 136 Gretsch gretschdrums.com 71, 116 Ludwig ludwig-drums.com 59 Mapex usa.mapexdrums.com 25 Maxwell maxwelldrums.com 114 ...
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146 DRUM! www.drummagazine.com SPEEDREADING DW national sales rep Bob Peyton (left) presents DWNational Independent DealerOf The Year award to CASCIO INTERSTATECEO Mike Houser (center) and Cascio drum buyer Scott Thayer (right) atthe Winter NAMM Show inAnaheim, California on Janu-ary 17, 2008. ...
