Archive for Music

March 24, 2007

Percussion Update

10:59 pm | Music | Pictures | Comments: 8

Much excitement this past St. Patrick’s Day as my band Fennec Fox played its first show, exactly one year to the day after I began learning drumset. It was great fun. Another way to describe it would be a great learning experience. In other music-related news, I’ve added a new voice to my drumset as well as a new cymbal. Let the good times roll!

Here we are at Dillenbeck’s at the beginning of the show. Sadly, because certain people were way at the back and we didn’t hear their request at the end, we did not manage to play Freebird.

Yes folks, this is a cowbell.

The Paiste Signature 19” Full Crash.

December 30, 2006

A Real Christmas Song

11:59 am | Music | Comments: 4

When I was a wee lad of 8 years, one particular Christmas carol was all the rage on the elemtary school playgrounds. It went something like this:

Joy to the world! Saddam is dead!
They bar-becued his head!
What happened to his body?
They flushed it down the potty!
And around and around it went,
And around and around it went
And arou-OUND around, around it went!

December 7, 2006

Feel It

8:56 am | Music | Comments: 9

I recently upgraded my foot pedal and hi-hat stand. I had been using the Yamaha Flying Dragon single pedal up to now, and I was quite satisfied with it. However, it’s a single pedal and double pedal technique is considered essential in modern drumming. So I dropped a few hundred dollars on a solid double pedal, which in this case turns out to be the Pearl 2002C, a.k.a. the PowerShifter Eliminator. Preliminary tests have been great, and the right foot feels substantially better than the Yamaha. I also had to upgrade from my el cheapo hi-hat stand to a model with rotating legs, this one from Pulse.