Drum kit

heavily by the gravity of the situation and didn’t quite know herself at the moment. All she could think of was to get the girl to her car as fast as she could. Get her safe. Get her away, was the only thought that pounded away in her mind, seeming to drum in time with the rhythm of her beating heart. Before she could realize it, she was there. Her tiny car, sitting peacefully in the dirt parking lot where she had left it. Morgan was relieved that her hike hadn’t taken her very far away from…

Spanish Mass at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church 1. What happened during the services? I arrived at the church a few minutes prior to the service and I was greatly surprised by how well attended the service was. There were dozens of families in a spectrum of Sunday best and work-stained denim jeans and nearly every person wore a yellow and white vest with a red cross embroidered on the lapel. At the entrance there was a small dipping well and although there was no water in it at the moment…

Points of Interest The TH350 is an automatic shift, three speed transmission. The TH350 transmission was introduced in the 1969 model year as the successor to the GM Power glide automatic transmission. The TH350 transmission was developed in a joint effort by the Chevrolet and Buick Automotive Corporations. The TH350 transmission it is also referred to as the CBC (Chevrolet-Buick Combined) 350. Soon after production the Turbo 350 quickly became known for its strength, versatility and…

“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!”(Sitting Bull A-Z Quotes) Spring break is made out to be some spectacular time of the year. This is a time for high schoolers and college kids to flock to the beach in packs. Young adults pack up their coolers and red Solo cups in hopes for the best week of their lives. Most walk away from the less than toxic week with more questions than answers.…

basically a jam session – the musicians would experiment and try new things, with no real obligation to the audience, often with their backs to the audience. They were playing what they wanted and not adhering strictly to music sheets. Also, the drum kit was no longer simply a kind of metronome for the band, but it became more of its own instrument -- drummers would play solos and bring something of their own to the group’s sound. Kenny Clarke for instance, a drummer, who had played with just…

noted by Stanley Kleppinger: “Among those ‘jazz techniques’ commonly cited in [the Piano Concerto] are the use of ‘blue notes’ (chromatically lowered scale degrees in close proximity to their diatonic versions), emphasis of certain timbres such as drum-kit-like percussion and brass with various styles of mutes, and the use of rhythmic materials common to jazz music” (Kleppinger). The influence of American popular music is much more evident here than in Piano Blues, because the meter of Copland’s…

Swimming through the Notes I can remember the day in fifth grade band sitting at the long, gray percussion tables listening to our band director teach “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” Staring off into space because I already knew how to play it for a few months, I could vaguely hear Mrs. Tripi’s voice telling the flutes to watch for A flats and reminding the trumpets that B flat is first valve. As I waited patiently for the rest of the band to finally pick up on the well-known melody, I sat…

Jimmy Buffet. After re-locating to Hollywood, Bret Michaels gave Killerhit his former publicist Debra Rosner's number, and she instantly became the band's manager. Johnny vacated the drum stool for center stage, as he felt the need for there to be a front man. Las Vegas native, Darek Cava, took his place behind the drum kit at this point. Soon…

Although written by the same rap artist, Tupac Shakur’s “Dear Mama” and “Hit ‘Em Up” could hardly be more different from each other. Both songs, considered to be Tupac’s most influential for different reasons, showcase a contradiction in the personas he embodies in them. Described as “a moving and eloquent homage to both the murdered rapper's own mother and all mothers struggling to maintain a family in the face of addiction, poverty and societal indifference” by the Library of Congress, “Dear…

Digital recording was a much more exact science facilitating easy editing, reproduction and storage solutions. The emergence of digital audio coincided with the development of the audio compact disc which is the most common medium in the commercial audio industry to date. Due to its precise nature, there is a growing culture of running a signal through analogue equipment to give it ‘warmth'. Towards the end of the 1980s, computer based sequencing and studio controlling exploded onto the…