Lots of updates this time. Again, I waited an extra week before posting as I was working on something extra special. The news is that I now have a bass guitar I can record with, so I had to practice hard to get live bass into this next track.
Once more I see the deadlines I set for myself come and go… sigh. I really don’t know what to say about it at this point, it’s been over a month. Anyway, the bass for the track has been done for several weeks by now, and the track has already been uploaded to my album on bandcamp, along with the next one, RH-19, or Nylon Blue as it seemed appropriate to call it.
I’ve been eager to share some of my music, but I wanted to make a point of posting about it here first, for the few of you who’ve been following for awhile and still, despite the long hiatus and inconsistent content, still hang around and check out my stuff. Freshly uploaded to bandcamp yesterday, I think you’ll like this one.
Not going to say anymore, it’s been a long couple of weeks and I really want to close this file. Check out my links :D
Not so great. The year is almost half over, and I’ve yet to change much about this place. The site’s plan isn’t much expensive annually, still, I set myself to make more use of it or get rid of it, as for the past few years I haven’t been using it much at all.
The notation for it is here. You can get a hybrid-kit-MIDI mp3 version too. At 120bpm, it plays all the parts in order as per notation, then after repeating the intro it plays them in reverse order (and hey, it’s digitally quantized so guarantied not to swing!).
It’s my take on a Double-Kick note value ladder, or pyramid. I didn’t manage one complete loop-around in this clip, so it fades-out at the end, but I did reach the re-intro and even up a few rungs, so stretch-goal partly achieved! yay! I’m working it from 60 to 96bpm, you can tell I’m pushing myself a bit.
-My latest recorded attempt at 85bpm.
So there it is. Next for this, I hope I can share a full loop of me playing it (like the mp3 basically, and as fast ideally), tighten it way up, and really nail those transitions and feel for each part.
I haven’t posted in longer than I would have liked again, so it seems like there’d be lots to update about. Things are still improving and the situation is positively better. I’m definitively getting work done on being organized, even if overall there much cleaning up to get done. Keeping up a steady schedule is happening, and holding up for longer periods of time. Despite this important personal progress in learning harder and working smarter, the past few months haven’t been all that productive per say.
I’ve been dreading recording a video for this month again, with no painting anywhere near ready, not much else to write about otherwise, and having fleshed out an idea for Rabbit Hole part 5 already, that is however exactly what I did.
They gave the bouncer a quarter note, since all of them could fit in half the space, twice.Continue reading →
Rabbit Hole, part the 3, is what happened when I altered the Double Paradiddle rudiment, from RLRLRR to RLRRLR and LRLRRL, then orchestrated it 20+ different ways around the drum kit, playing triplets over a 4/4 (RLR-RLR-LRL-RRL).
Notations here: Rabbit Hole III.pdf and also the mp3 from a MIDI recording of those same notations.
There’s a few spots to touch up then a semi-glossy finish coat or two. If I find more of these boxes I might do some more. No clue as of yet what I’m going to stuff in there, but if you want to send me some amount more money than what it’ll cost to ship it to you, I’ll stick some bubblewrap in it and send it out. Leave a message through the site’s contact page with at least some vague description of your whereabouts to start the conversation.
Right, so over two years now. Reliably executing this track correctly, with all the right parts in the right places, it’s not a thing. I’ve tolerated the bumps and blocks as my kick leg and overall independence improved. Seems like I could, still was rough and needed polish, but the snares felt soggy and boring so I rewrote them. Almost what, 1 year now since I dropped back down to training wheel speed 60bpm grinds. Staying there (excluding the occasional 90bpm full tryouts or section looping) to flattened out all the curves and wrinkles instead of progressively increasing by 1-2bpm each time as I improved, even while overall other exercises and tracks have gotten better and faster. I’d like to get a good enough recording done by now and move on. Move the fuck on already. Anyway, but which part to leave un-good-enoughed?
Dividing it down into 4 main sections, an intro, two halves each further split into 4 parts, and an outro, it’s difficult enough to play a take exactly like I wrote and learned, at 60bpm, not to mention its intended bpm of 90, wanting to have it hold some dynamics and groove without falling of the click just makes it a nightmare.
In this one: forgetting the 2nd section snare/hi-hat pass that throws back to the outro and doing a double instead, playing the b version of the kick pattern instead of the regular one in the mid-section of the 6th part. Otherwise feels kinda okay really, sounds like it should. The triplets on the hi-hat bang on, as in off-beat.