The total-rip-of-the-other-game game

[Epiphender]

Alright, record a minute of yourself playing one drum, one cymbal, or one percussion instrument. You may not use different voices of the same instrument (ex: two different pitched jam blocks) unless it's melodic percussion like a xylophone.

And this time, please record using Faith's click track:
either http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1985KT14LZGB42HCRV3L1K3LJP
or http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0MYJCDA523JVG1TYAG2LH9JYFP
(120 BPM) and record in 4/4 time.

Please begin your recording with four loud count in hits along with the click. This first bar will be excluded from the final mix.

Email your stuff to me at epiphender@hotmail.com DON'T post it here. Put the instrument name in the subject line.

Link to Faith's more cacophonous version:
http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=454829

[Futuro]

Hey what an original idea! Whoever thought of this is a genius!


*Makes fist at epi*

Dibs on SNARE Will send tommorow.

[Epiphender]

:lol: It also promotes YOUR thread.

[Massik Kretal]

I got dibs on triple fusion bells!

[Futuro]

:lol: It also promotes YOUR thread.
:wave: That is what I meant...

[Plan B.]

This is more like it.

[Futuro]

Not all metronomes are the same by the way. You should supply us with a track.

The very few milliseconds between different peoples clicks will make a difference.

You want me to make an MP3 of one at 120?

[Epiphender]

Alright, edits in the first post now.

Sure Faith go ahead. I'll put it in the first post when you're done.

[Futuro]

Here I made it in Audition.

http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1985KT14LZGB42HCRV3L1K3LJP

Its around 1:07 But the down beat is Exactly on one minute, so you should be able to chop down the files easily.

[Epiphender]

I've got Audition too so I'm not too worried about putting this all together.

Thanks for making that. I'll leave it where it is and just refresh the link when it expires.

[rockindrummer]

Awsome another one! I might through a mic up for this and go have some fun.

Dibs china If I do do it.

[Siamese Dreams]

Dibs on djembe

I'll do it after I get home from school tomorrow.

[Double Bass Jim]

I got kick duty

[tapioca]

/me takes cowbell.

[GhostGrooveMike]

I GOT GLOCKENSPIEL!!! (nojoke)
either that or hi hat

[crazyguy832]

Well, I was thinking of doing this but that click track friggin kills my ears.

>_<

Couldn't you get BOCK-tock-tock-tock instead?

[Futuro]

Well, I was thinking of doing this but that click track friggin kills my ears.

>_<

Couldn't you get BOCK-tock-tock-tock instead?
It really does? Turn it down?

[Jezen]

I got ride. Might do the first couple pages of New Breed.

[crazyguy832]

It really does? Turn it down?
It's the pitch of the click.

>_<

[Futuro]

It's the pitch of the click.

>_<
Oh ugh, give me a second.

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0MYJCDA523JVG1TYAG2LH9JYFP

Is that better?

This one lines up perfectly with the other. So choose whichever.

[Jezen]

The annoying thing is, your click track is only 1:07 long..

[Jezen]

Sent at 8:51 PM GMT. Forgot to add instrument to subject line. I used my ride cymbal.

[crazyguy832]

Oh ugh, give me a second.

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0MYJCDA523JVG1TYAG2LH9JYFP

Is that better?

This one lines up perfectly with the other. So choose whichever.
Yeah, it's better. What the hell is with that BONKTH for the 1, though?

o_O

:amaze:

[Futuro]

Yeah, it's better. What the hell is with that BONKTH for the 1, though?

o_O

:amaze:
One of auditions presets.

The annoying thing is, your click track is only 1:07 long..Hey guys lets complain. It gives a measure for intro plus one extra measure.

[Siamese Dreams]

Sent djembe. 2:54 CST

[aznriceball]

reserve 13" timbale

[Win A Rabbit]

reserve high tom. should have mine in in less than 3 hours, when my mom gets up.

[Corkofski]

BOINK tak tak tak

LOL

[Epiphender]

:lol: Thanks again for the click tracks, Faith.

[crazyguy832]

I'm going to play my pillow.

It so counts as a percussive instrument.

:p

[Plan B.]

I'd play my pilates ball if I could record.

:cool:

[Epiphender]

Aw come on haha use something real.

[crazyguy832]

Fine, fine...

Meany.

:p

Hmmm... I'll just do my sticks.

Edit: Crap, I just realized I got no batteries.

>_<

Maybe for the second mix...

[Futuro]

Im running a case of BMS now. Bad, Ugh looks like my mic has seen better days :(

Someone can take the snare.

[moogoogaipan]

I sent you a progression I made on piano.
Piano is a percussion instrument for anyone who wants to argue... but it'll sound good with whatever I'm sure cause it has a quarter note bass line.

[crazyguy832]

Itawhata?

Goddamnit!

>_<

I shoulda taken piano... bah.

[Epiphender]

Yeah I suppose it is, on the inside. Eh I might use it.

I just listened to it--some of it reminds me so much of one of the themes from The Incredible Machine. :lol:

[moogoogaipan]

Yeah I suppose it is, on the inside. Eh I might use it.

You gotta put it in. It'll sound cool...

[crazyguy832]

I thought piano was merely percussive and not percussion...

[moogoogaipan]

actually... it's classified as percussion.
The hitting action on the strings makes it so... plus, what else would you classify it... all other keyboards are in the percussion family.

[crazyguy832]

Meh, I guess.

[TTTSNB]

I call floor tom.

[Epiphender]

I always just thought of there being a separate keyboard family. Kind of like how there used to be a keyboard forum on here.

[crazyguy832]

^^^
I liked that forum...

V_V

Now it's just dumb.

[LoneStarDrummer]

i've wanting a kazoo forum for some time, but i doubt it will happen

[crazyguy832]

Actually, you could post about kazoos in the old keyboard forum...

V_V

Sad thing, really.

[aznriceball]

reserve 13" timbale

sorry cant do it, my roomate took my camera and went home for the rest of the week. jerk..

[spirit]

I'd reserve the didgeridoo if I could, but I don't have a mike. I do have the didgeridoo though.

[Epiphender]

I also have a didgeridoo. Email me? I wouldn't mind talking a bit about that.

[nonsense!]

actually... it's classified as percussion.
The hitting action on the strings makes it so... plus, what else would you classify it... all other keyboards are in the percussion family.

A piano is in the Piano family :D
It gets its own.

[moogoogaipan]

A piano is in the Piano family :D
It gets its own.

not sure if you are just joking with me or not...

It's really percussion.

[Jezen]

Piano truly is percussion. However I highly disagree that the harp could be called a percussion instrument.

[crazyguy832]

A harp is a stringed instrument...

Like a guitar...

[Jezen]

Well duh.. I know that.

But it is officially classed as a percussion instrument in a standard symphonic orchestra.

[crazyguy832]

Whoodla-wha?

o_O

Whoever classified the harp as percussion is an idiot.

[Jezen]

Exactly what I said. Actually I was a little more explicit.

[crazyguy832]

Did it involve words you're not allowed to say on the radio?

:D

[Jezen]

You bet your *** it did.

[spirit]

You bet your *** it did.

Same way I reacted when I found out the didgeridoo is percussion. Percussion involves hitting things, right? What the **** do you hit on a didgeridoo?

[Futuro]

Didgeridoo is an aerophone. Not percussion.

Atleast I think. I dunno...

[tapioca]

Didgeridoo is an aerophone. Not percussion.

Atleast I think. I dunno...
true dat.

it just is used rhythmically, most of the time.

[spirit]

Didgeridoo is an aerophone. Not percussion.

Atleast I think. I dunno...

Tell that to the guys at my local drum shop. One day I was looking around and I was like:

"Didgeridoos?? WTFOMGZBOMASSSBBQ?!!?!?!?"

[crazyguy832]

So, what?

Didgeridoos are percussion like bass is percussion?

That's what I've just gathered...

[Btrutt87]

wheres all the aussies at, they should be able to clear this up

[Jezen]

Here I am. And you guys are right already.

[tapioca]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo
:rolleyes:
our drum shop also sells trumpets and shít, since that belongs to marching stuff. ok, didgeridoos don't belong to marching bands, but I don't think your drum shop is limited to selling drums/percussion only anyways.

[Jezen]

Abodigines sometimes hit their didge's too.

[moogoogaipan]

hurry up and make your files people. I'm impatient and I want to hear the mix.

[Win A Rabbit]

i'm going to have to withdraw. my mom got company over 2 nights in a row now, which means no drums for me. unless you want to wait another 24 hours, i can try to get something in. so until then, don't count on me.

[Epiphender]

Same way I reacted when I found out the didgeridoo is percussion. Percussion involves hitting things, right? What the **** do you hit on a didgeridoo?
All the wrong notes, in your case. :lol:

Guys I've only got cowbell, djembe, ride, and piano. I'm gonna hold out for more haha.

[Double Bass Jim]

Ever play piano wearing brass knuckles? Thats about how I sound.

[Panopticon]

haha that was such a pwn that it wasnt even funny!

[Massik Kretal]

I still gotta record my triple fusion bells. Probably tommorow.

[moogoogaipan]

yo, don't let this die. Come on Phender... post up the audio.

[Epiphender]

Let it die? I'll just bump it til I at least get the things people said they'd send me.

I'm a mod I'll do whatever the hell I want :lol:

[spirit]

All the wrong notes, in your case. :lol:


:upset:

Owned by a zebra.

Ah well, I'll tell the guys at my local they have no right to be selling aerophones.

Incidentally British Boy, if I were to hit a trumpet, would that make it percussion? No really, would it? Cos that could make for an interesting orchestra. Come in, sit down, get out some sticks, and beat on classical instruments.

[moogoogaipan]

I'm a mod I'll do whatever the hell I want :lol:
and I'm that irritating kid that screams at the top of his lungs in the middle of a grocery store cause his mother won't buy him candy....
I'm in charge:p :rolleyes:

[Epiphender]

Bumparooni.

[Panopticon]

anybody done snare yet?

I have no way to record audio but i can record video and then someone could extract the audio...

[timehawk]

Il do some tabla or something tommorow, electronic kit lets me do about anything I want! If theres any requests for something cool I am open for it!

[Jezen]

Incidentally British Boy, if I were to hit a trumpet, would that make it percussion? No really, would it? Cos that could make for an interesting orchestra. Come in, sit down, get out some sticks, and beat on classical instruments.

I wasn't saying that it is sometimes regarded as percussion simply because you can hit it. As you said, you can hit anything.
Aside from that, you don't traditionally hit a trumpet whereas Australian/Torres Strait Islander Indigenous people have been blowing through and hitting their didgeridoos for thousands of years.

Il do some tabla or something tommorow, electronic kit lets me do about anything I want! If theres any requests for something cool I am open for it!

That's not tabla. That's an electronic kit playing some typical tabla sounds, which in reality doesn't cut it. For starters, you don't play tabla with a stick...

[spirit]

I wasn't saying that it is sometimes regarded as percussion simply because you can hit it. As you said, you can hit anything.
Aside from that, you don't traditionally hit a trumpet whereas Australian/Torres Strait Islander Indigenous people have been blowing through and hitting their didgeridoos for thousands of years.



Oh well. I can dig that, although I liked the idea of a percussion orchestra.

[Massik Kretal]

I always wondered why string instruments like guitar isnt percussion....you do hit the strings with ur hand or a pic. Same with the piano except something is hitting the strings for you.

[Epiphender]

With a piano though, the strings are actually struck like with a hammering motion--not so with guitars, where the strings are usually plucked/uh strummed?

No one's doing snare yet. If anyone needs to send video I can extract the audio from that no problem. Don't know if hotmail can handle that though.

[timehawk]

That's not tabla. That's an electronic kit playing some typical tabla sounds, which in reality doesn't cut it. For starters, you don't play tabla with a stick...


I realise that, and in reallity is, we are after "sounds", its not like this is going to be some profesional studio recording.

If I did a tom on my elec kit it would still be a "tom sound". It wont have different pitch hits or anything either.

Im recording with my electronic kit because it would sound better then with the mic I have. If your not satisfied with a tabla "impersination" then you should suggest something else.

[Siamese Dreams]

I realise that, and in reallity is, we are after "sounds", its not like this is going to be some profesional studio recording.

If I did a tom on my elec kit it would still be a "tom sound". It wont have different pitch hits or anything either.

Im recording with my electronic kit because it would sound better then with the mic I have. If your not satisfied with a tabla "impersination" then you should suggest something else.

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[Jezen]

I realise that, and in reallity is, we are after "sounds", its not like this is going to be some profesional studio recording.

If I did a tom on my elec kit it would still be a "tom sound". It wont have different pitch hits or anything either.

Im recording with my electronic kit because it would sound better then with the mic I have. If your not satisfied with a tabla "impersination" then you should suggest something else.

I was not implying that your electronic drums would not suffice for the recording. I simply picked up on your message which from either your choice of words or my point of view, seemed like you were saying electronic drums can replace any percussion.

[timehawk]

Ok sorry about that then. I just meant they can sound like almost any piece of percussion. I know that they cant replace them. When I have the choice to play my acoustic kit or the electronic kit, its the acoustic hands down.

[Epiphender]

Thanks for the china. The instrument itself totally doesn't fit haha but that's perfectly fine.

[Siamese Dreams]

Damn it just mix it.

[Panopticon]

No one's doing snare yet. If anyone needs to send video I can extract the audio from that no problem. Don't know if hotmail can handle that though.

i can compress the file to 1 meg if i wanted to:p

[timehawk]

No problem man, I can record another track with something that fits better if you want.

[Epiphender]

Nevermind, looks like hotmail can hold 25mb. Send away.

Umm...what is it anyway?

[Epiphender]

Alright I'm mixin it. Anyone can still contribute if they want to.

[Siamese Dreams]

Cool.

[Epiphender]

Alright guys.

http://www.purevolume.com/epiphender

Did three mixes. Included the cowbell and djembe because I thought those worked really well together. Pretty cool how they magically line up at around 25 seconds in.

[Siamese Dreams]

The cowbell and djembe sounded good towards the end

[spirit]

Not to rag on the original, but that actually sounded pretty cool. Kinda jazzy with the pieano, tribal without it.

[Epiphender]

Yeah the china makes makes it into some really weird jazz haha.

[moogoogaipan]

I agree, it did sound pretty damn cool.

[timehawk]

That turned out awsome. More mixes like these would be really interesting.

[Win A Rabbit]

it turned out alot different than i thought it would. i kind of liked the other, unstructured one more.

[Epiphender]

I had another idea but it would really require commitment from everyone. And I have my doubts regarding that.

[Win A Rabbit]

i'd like to hear it. can't guarantee commitment, but i always like hearing schemes.

[moogoogaipan]

If it involves recording and music, then I'm committed.

[Epiphender]

Alright well the idea was to make up a short song with some sort of structure, using these kinds of recordings. Maybe even with solos. For example, I'd first see what instruments I've got then layout something like the following:

snare: basic beats for 1 minute, solo for 20 seconds, nothing for 10, then basic until song end
bass: basic for 1 minute, pulse for 30 seconds, then basic until song end
crash: ride for 30 seconds, crescendo rolls for 30 seconds, nothing for 10, accent sparingly for 20, then random light hits until song end
cowbell: nothing for 30, even quarters for 50, go absolutely nuts for 10, then play sparingly

etc. etc.

But I wouldn't put those instructions in here, I'd email everyone their instructions individually and then they reply back with their recording.

I thought I'd try this thread first as a test run and well...it's not like people were jumping all over the chance to record.

[Jezen]

That was great! We should definately have more of these.

[Epiphender]

Added a poll.

[Siamese Dreams]

I shall contribute.

[timehawk]

I give it a go. Im not doing snare though, I sadly and shamefully dont practice my rudiments enough.

[Panopticon]

I just thought i'd bump this...give people a chance to do more...