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VCC Percussion Masterclass
Improvising Duets
Here's the audio I wanted to play for you in class, but ran out of time for. Look it up to get some context, once you have listened to it! There are some nice liner notes but my CD is in a box somewhere and I can't find the text online anywhere. dropbox link here |
Day Of Percussion at VCC
Dr. Daniel Tones has put together this amazing event (free for VCC students): Day of Percussion Saturday, February 15, 2014 Auditorium, Vancouver Community College (Broadway Campus) 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $10 general, $5 students and seniors Clinics Jazz Vibraphone with Timothy Van Cleave Orchestral Percussion with Vern Griffiths Brazilian Samba with Nick Apivor and Drum Syndicate Plus,
local professionals and student ensembles from UBC, Kwantlen
Polytechnic University, Trinity Western University and Douglas College
will perform music by Owen Underhill, Bob Becker, Giovanni Solimma, and
many others. For more information, please go to www.fringepercussion.com To register, please navigate to vancouverdayofpercussion.brownpapertickets.com |
Louis Hayes Workshop
http://capilanojazzstudies.blogspot.ca/2013/11/legendary-jazz-drummer-louis-hayes-will.html http://drummerworld.com/drummers/Louis_Hayes.html |
Cymbals
Here are a few photos from the Istanbul Agop factory in Turkey. I got to see every step of the process except the actual melting and casting of the puck/blank. Apparently no photos are allowed during that part anyway, I couldn't even snap a shot of the foundry itself. By the time I got there the latest batch was cooling and ready for the roller. |
Technology and drumming
...a tangled hierarchy. Obligatory youtube roll: Beat Slicing - a guts-bared-for-the-world-to-see version of taking a break beat, slicing into equal portions of time, and reordering them You can download the patch he used to make that video from him, and you can all run the software he used to make the patch called puredata for free (legitimately) Ray Garraway: a great example of a musician who has incoroporated many new concepts and approaches derived from technological changes in music production and applied them to acoustic drum set. Chris Daddy Dave: another great example of the above. I will also post the .VUE file i used in class to the dropbox, although it's not very thorough. any collaborative efforts to improve it are encouraged. |
Improvisation and the Drum Set
apropos of our last masterclass, John Brennan puts on series called Destroy Vancouver at VIVO on main st, and this weekend he's bringing in drummer Chris Corsano to perform and hold a workshop:  https://www.facebook.com/events/373163732791818/ (this may be the first and only time you ever see me post facebook link. i don't even know what it leads to...) http://vivomediaarts.com/event/destroy-vancouver-v http://cor-sano.com/ |
VUE and semantic mapping
the software i used to create the semantic maps in masterclass is called "Visual Understanding Environment" (I know, I know) and you can download and learn about it here: http://vue.tufts.edu/index.cfm it runs on java and so should work on any platform (Appletm OSX liger or whatever, Winblows, you name it) and is free to use. of course my chops with VUE are pretty bare bones, but with a bit of effort you can make these things quite clean and readable. so far i've been just using it as a quick way to write down thoughts, so i apologize for the lack of readability. i've added the map that we did on free improvisation and the one connecting drumming styles from last year to a dropbox, and you should all have an invite to join, so check it out. if you want to try your hand at contributing to the maps, please upload your updated versions to the same folder, i'm not sure if images are embedded in the .vue file, so tell me if you can't see the cheezy pics of the drummers. |
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