https://www.bertiqwerty.com/en/categories_en/drums/ Recent content in Drums on bertiqwerty Hugo en (c) 2023 Behrang Shafei, Impressum, Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:42:41 +0200 https://www.bertiqwerty.com/en/posts/starting-drums/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:42:41 +0200 https://www.bertiqwerty.com/en/posts/starting-drums/ <p>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.</p> <p><em>The <a href="https://www.bertiqwerty.com/posts/starting-drums/">original text</a> 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.</em></p> <h2 id="what-has-happened-so-far">What has happened so far</h2> <p>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.</p> https://www.bertiqwerty.com/en/posts/triole/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:56:34 +0100 https://www.bertiqwerty.com/en/posts/triole/ <p>I&rsquo;ve been <a href="https://www.bertiqwerty.com/en/posts/starting-drums/">playing drums</a> for about three years. I recently came across the following simplest of all non-degenerated polyrhythms.</p> <p><em>The <a href="https://www.bertiqwerty.com/posts/triole/">original text</a> 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.</em></p> <div id="abc-2" class="abcjs-container"></div> <div id="abc-2-audio" class="abcjs-audio"></div> <script> (function() { var abcData = `\nX:1\nM:4\/4\nL:1\/8\nQ:1\/4=80\n%%score (1 2) % Merges voices 1 and 2 onto one staff\nU: k = !style=x! % Defines \u0027k\u0027 as the shortcut for x-noteheads\n%%MIDI channel 10\n%%MIDI drummap F 36% bass drum\n%%MIDI drummap c 38% snare drum\n%%MIDI drummap g 42% Closed Hi-Hat\n%%stretchlast true\nK:perc\nV:1 stemp=up\nkgkg [ckg]kg kgkg kgkg |\nV:2 stemp=down\nF2 z2 F2 (3ccc |\n\n`; function renderAbcjs() { try { var visualObj = ABCJS.renderAbc("abc-2", abcData, { responsive: "resize", add_classes: true }); if (ABCJS.synth && ABCJS.synth.supportsAudio()) { var synthControl = new ABCJS.synth.SynthController(); var cursorControl = { onBeat: function() {}, onEvent: function() {}, onFinished: function() {} }; synthControl.load("#abc-2-audio", cursorControl, { displayLoop: false, displayRestart: true, displayPlay: true, displayProgress: true, displayWarp: false }); var createSynth = new ABCJS.synth.CreateSynth(); createSynth.init({ visualObj: visualObj[0], options: { soundFontUrl: "https://paulrosen.github.io/midi-js-soundfonts/abcjs/" } }).then(function() { synthControl.setTune(visualObj[0], false, { qpm: null, chordsOff: true }).catch(function(error) { console.warn('ABCJS synth setTune error:', error); }); }).catch(function(error) { console.warn('ABCJS synth init error:', error); }); } else { var audioEl = document.getElementById("abc-2-audio"); if (audioEl) { audioEl.innerHTML = "Audio is not supported in this browser."; } } } catch (err) { console.warn('ABCJS render error:', err); } } if (document.readyState === 'complete' || document.readyState === 'interactive') { renderAbcjs(); } else { document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', renderAbcjs); } })(); </script> <br/> <p>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&rsquo;s book, 66 Drum Solos. When I saw it, I thought, &ldquo;What the hell is that? How am I ever going to be able to play something so crazy?&rdquo; That same day, I had my drum lesson. Desperately, I asked my teacher. He told me he would play it but with tom<span class="tooltip"><span style="font-size:14t;font-weight:900;">*</span><span class="tooltiptext">not Hapke but the drum. This joke works better in German, because there both are capitalized.</span></span> and snare instead of hi-hat and snare and I should just repeat by ear. It sounded something like this:</p>