House of the Rising Sun (Animals) Cover, Sina (drums)

A Wonderful exploration of Dynamics, Soul, Emotion, Licks, Jam, Goove, Pocket and indeed Some Kind of Mojo Channeling! — Live Performance Music how it Should Be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dSE4fgOf2Q From the comments: “Dynamics. Power. Magic. Now THAT is emotive! VERY TASTY sizzle foot pops on the hat, from 4:26” “Please, Please more like this one. I’m an … Read more

Unchoking the snare drum

Sound opens up (and changes) with increasing volume. Tang, ring, no overpowering overtones but an airiness. Buy those nice sticks 5A. Buy those nice sticks 7A.   A “choked” drum sound typically refers to a drum sound that lacks resonance and sustain, often resulting from a combination of factors such as tight tuning, muted playing … Read more

Dynamics in Drumming, an Entire Dimension far too long squashed and squandered — Everything usually “Maximized” boosting every whisper to scream-volume

From the video comments — “It’s funny because far too many of the “pro” drum videos, MTV music videos, and actual pro performers, they essentially have Near-Zero dynamics and instead blast and belt away, fortissississississississimmmmmmmmmmo “ffff”, no FFFF, and more commonly full-freaking-blast, maximal arm-swings, baseball-bat sticks, real head-denting / cymbal-cracking FFFFFFFFFFF – and they get … Read more