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[NCDrummer]

hey guys i just thought i'd post this and see if anyone else had things like this in their town...

ok so anyways i found out yesterday that there is a drum circle that meets in a park every friday and they all play their drums. Well at first i didnt' know what a drum circle was but then i found out that a drum circle is just a bunch of hippes who bring their hand drums and just play. I found a forum about this on the net and i asked if any drumsets are there but sadly they said they've only seen a couple.

but yeah i just thought that that was cool and was wondering if anyone else had things like that in their town.

[Cheungman]

i know a girl that goes to some and she was suposed to take me but never did =(

[Epiphender]

There's drum circles all over the place. This town's full of hippies. They're nothing special at all; the homeless folks on street corners play exactly the same.

[Matter]

Hey man I'm just 1 hour 30 mins from Asheville...

[NCDrummer]

wow really? i thought it was kinda a cool thing that might be worth going to...

oh sweet dude...what part are you from in NC?

[Sammy_L_D]

My buddy's parents host drum circles at their home.

Of course, his father's native Aboriginee from Australia, and his mother's a beatnick.

[MeaninglessPhoto]

sweet. Im gonna be around Asheville on Friday. I might just drop by to check it out.

[Caleb3221]

Drum circles can also exist as a therapy method, I'm not sure exactly what for, but you might end up dropping in on retarded people instead of hippies FYI.

[Matter]

oh sweet dude...what part are you from in NC?

Franklin...sadly

[MisurCanavi]

I live in Goldsboro, which is semi close.

I wish this forum has an Area specific forum with a bunch of sub forums for each state. So musicians could contact other people to play with.

[MeaninglessPhoto]

Franklin...sadly

Just be glad you arent in Johnston County. It sucks over here.

[Ethan.]

Be glad ya'll don't live in Union county. There are so many illegal beaners... And overcrowding... ughh I hate where I live.

[NCDrummer]

well i think its kinda cool...besides maybe i'll see some drumsets or something maybe... but however i can't make it tonight so next week

[some jive turkey]

In theory drum circles would be really cool.

The very few times I've ever jammed with "drum circle people" I have found it kind of frustrating because most of them are not very competant musicians. i don't mean to sound so snobby, but by competant, I mean being able to
1. keep time, and play in time (4/4!),
and
2. be able to groove, play rhythms, and not play like you're continually doing a solo


This isn't to say some of the "drum circle people" aren't good. Usually I single them out instantly though, and then jammed with them later on.
I think a lot of the "drum circle people" bought a hand drum because they thought drumming was easy and "you just hit stuff" so they really don't understand things like ....accents, or grooving, or mother-earth forbid: syncopation.....and so they're mistified when they see a drummer who can, ....like we have some sort of spiritual power or something (oooh aaaahh, oooooh aaaahh).

[NCDrummer]

too true! too true!

yeah i thought that might be a problem.


i imagine syncopation would be the least likely thing to find. cause when i started syncopated songs it was Freshman by Verve Pipe (or at least i think thats the artists name) and that was hard for me at first.

[Corkofski]

this thread is called "drum Circle"