Drum kit

features many interesting elements; including (what still is) one of the most iconic bass solo’s to feature in popular music, stuttering lyrics throughout the verses, and what sounds like absolute carnage and mayhem at the end of the song as Keith Moon (Drums), John Entwhistle (Bass) and Pete Townshend (Guitar) take playing their instruments to a complete different level of energy and anarchy. Pete Townshend and Keith Moon would quite often break their own instruments on stage towards the end of…

the greatest impact on my life, it would be a day in the fall of sixth grade: the day I decided to join my school’s band. Not just the band; I wanted to play the drums in the band, which required a screening audition, a daunting task for a sixth grader whose only experience with percussion had been banging on an out-of-tune toy drum kit in his basement. During the screening audition, the teacher said to me, “When we are done, are you willing to immediately know if you will be in the percussion…

learned during senior project is amazing. I was very hesitant to do my project on the evolution of the drum kit because I already knew a lot of information, and I wanted to learn something new. In fact, I chose this topic as a last resort. However, as I dug deeper in my research, I soon began to realize there was a lot more information than what I had previously known. For example, I did not know that drums originated in the Middle East; I always thought they originated in Africa. My mentor was…

concert hold by Nocturne- a two years old club in Denver, and the Keith Oxman Quartet did a remarkable concert that night. The Keith Oxman Quartet is a Jazz band lead by Keith Oxman on tenor saxophone, and has Derek Banach on trumpet, Todd Reid on drums, and Jeff Jenkins on organ. Additionally, Jenkins was playing keyboard on April 21st. The Keith Oxman Quartet plays at Nocturne every Friday night between March 10th and April 28th. On last Friday evening, the concert began at 7 pm and ended at…

nails, screws, and bolts. The jars keep them organized and within reach. - Emergency Kits - you can store tea light candles, matches, spare batteries, granola bars, and aluminum foil sheets in the jars. They will come in handy in an emergency, especially when you are traveling. 5.Fun time Life in the homestead is not all work, there is some play too. Why not look at some creative ways to use your old 55-gallon drum? Barbecue Yes, you can have your own BBQ. Cut the barrel in half, and add a…

Appraisal My link to the strand is Syncopation and my composition is written in a reggae style. I like the offbeat feel of this style of music and syncopation was something I wanted to explore within it. A well-known Caribbean musician is Bob Marley and I know that he uses a lot of syncopation in one of his best songs “three little birds”. In this song you can hear the syncopation in the hi-hat, cymbals, organ and guitar; playing the chords. In this way, he plays with our expectations of where…

peoples, handcrafted things and little Knick knacks that seemed to have been picked up along travels. The Jazzhole can be called the gift that keeps giving as you’d find a nice little café section towards the back, with a lovely sitting area and a drum-kit and microphones all set up and ready for someone to rock out with them. Wouldn’t you like to give it a…

John Lennon was the founder of one of the most influential and popular music groups of all time. The Beatles were very popular and had many good years before later breaking up. John Lennon went on to record songs solo, including “Imagine” written and released in 1971. His song was written when the Vietnam War was taking place and the lyrics talk about a time and/or place where everything that divides us is gone and there is peace. I chose this song because I like the message it sends, “Imagine…

legendary producer Phil Spector is most famous for his creative technique of overdubbing an orchestra size group of musicians. The ensemble would include, “ five or six guitars, three or four pianos, and an army of percussion, including multiple drum kits, castanets, tambourines, bells, and timpani — to produce a massive roar” (Kemp, 2001). Spector would combine the sounds and amplify them by adding substantial amounts of reverb (Sewell, 2014). Developing what would come to be known as The Wall…

MacBook Pro would be a mid-2012 model so that I could add an additional four gigabytes of memory through a Crucial 8GB Kit DDR3 1333. This would help me store my numerous tracks and recordings, as well as the large amount of space that Logic and Reason take up. Cost: Laptop - $1,000 (13 in, mid 2012), Monitor - $999 (27 in), PTC Mini-DVi to HDMI adapter - $9.95, Crucial 8GB Kit - $75 Speakers - KRK Rokit Powered 8” Generation…