Drums

In this somewhat personal article, I describe my thoughts and experiences as someone who started playing drums at the age of 39 and otherwise has very little musical experience. The original text of this post was created by my human intelligence in German. The translation was a collaboration between man and machine. The man was me and the machine was Google Translate. What has happened so far Before his 7th birthday, I asked my then-noisy child if he would like to learn drums and would forgo other birthday presents in return. Surprisingly, the child was very happy to oblige. ...

I’ve been playing drums for about three years. I recently came across the following simplest of all non-degenerated polyrhythms. The original text of this post was created by my human intelligence in German. The translation was a collaboration between man and machine. The man was I and the machine was Google Translate. The first three quarter notes follow a completely normal eighth-note rhythm. Then comes a kind of crazy triplet fill on the snare, while the hi-hat continues. I encountered this in Solo 17 from Tom Hapke’s book, 66 Drum Solos. When I saw it, I thought, “What the hell is that? How am I ever going to be able to play something so crazy?” That same day, I had my drum lesson. Desperately, I asked my teacher. He told me he would play it but with tom*not Hapke but the drum. This joke works better in German, because there both are capitalized. and snare instead of hi-hat and snare and I should just repeat by ear. It sounded something like this: ...