This time, we have a very sick set of drums coming in. I can’t stand the sight of the injuries. Misunderstood, abused, and misused. The poor drumset has been bashed and trashed by frustrated students and mindless, deaf and dumb drummers. It’s a crime! Anyway, Doctor Dad and me applied TLC and some fine handwork [...]
The boys and girls are really getting better as a band. Here we see the rhythm / percussion section working on a groove on the drumset, roto-toms, congas and bongos. Unfortunately some of the guys in the section are on medical leave, but anyway I kind of liked the way the section was learning to [...]
Hi everyone, I just installed the Mobile Pack into this blog. This means anyone can surf down to this site and read stuff from their mobile phone. I should think the service provider data charges shouldn’t be high. The graphics have all been reduced in size to maybe 3kBytes to fit nicely into your mobile [...]
Now this is what my rhythm set looks like now. I hope it sounds as good to the neighbours as it does to me. Hey, I’ve been jamming along to the tunes from Santana’s Supernatural album and stuff from Tito Puente el rey de timbale. Excuse me, I’m going to tap some rhythms on them [...]
I managed to get a copy of the movie Amadeus. This was a movie that I watched on VHS video tape, back in the mid eighties. The costumes in the movie are nice to look at. The scences, indoors and outdoors are magnificent. I have to mention that the music is thought provoking, nice [...]
What is that? Sacred Music. The music of the Church, applied in the liturgical settings. This time round I’ve been listening for hours to the “good stuff.” Orlando di Lasso (Lassus) 1532 – 1594 a master from the Flemish school. It was during the period of the renaissance that he composed this acapella music to [...]
Time for more fun with music. The kids are seen here preparing for their school anniversary concert. Again, lots of practice makes everyone tired and thirsty. But everything is coming along nice and smooth! I have to admit that the costumes are striking. It’s one of those days where you can go to school with [...]
As usual, I’m operating the digital still camera (with the usual compact video function). Brought it down to a P&W session to check out how it sounds in an electro-acoustic setup, small room. Good volume, unique characteristics for each cymbal. Gentle taps with the wood tipped sticks is enough to give a decent drive to [...]
I had some time this week to play with my cymbals. Cool! I kind of like how the Zildjian K Dark Thin Crash just goes with the rest of the cymbals. Using this setup to provide rhythms for an acoustic setup. Also use it for my training recordings. Check out the pics. I might add [...]
I thought I would be able to doze off at midnight on the eve of Labour Day but something just came up. My hardware RAID from Adaptec failed. Total lost, it’s going to be time consuming to set restore stuff again. You see, my DAW also doubles up as my programming and testing workstation running [...]