[QUOTE=The Mites;15889487]With regards to placement, your tom-toms should descend in pitch from left to right. There are a good many great drummers who switch some of their toms around to make playing them more difficult or for aesthetics or whatever. In all seriousness, the drum kit is a hard enough instrument already and if you need to find ways of making it more difficult then you need to stop and reflect as to why you are playing in the first place. [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=The Mites;15889584]By that reasoning one could restring a piano so when you play an ascending glissando it actually plays a nursery rhyme.[/QUOTE]
Umm, restringing a piano so it played a nursery rhyme when you ascended would made it easier, not harder.

Try another example plz.

[quote=Sunshine;15889554]The guy on the side provides foreground, like, layers 'n sh[B]i[/B]t.

/had her night Intro to Media Production class last night[/quote]

It's called depth of field, my dear...

[QUOTE=Win A Rabbit;15889586][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDlvEAYyWM&feature=related[/url]

[COLOR="Red"]Umm, tell Bernard Purdie how to play drums plz[/COLOR]


[COLOR="SlateGray"]Toms =/= exclusively used for descending rolls.[/COLOR][/QUOTE]

[COLOR="red"]Watch Billy Ward's [I]Big Time[/I]. It says exactly the same thing. I am merely in agreeance.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="SlateGray"]Now [I]that[/I] is really stupid. So if they were ascending left to right, then the toms would be exclusively for ascending rolls? Because a piano ascends from left to right, all you can play is ascending licks? Nice reasoning there..[/COLOR] :rolleyes:

do us a favor and post somewhere else

:lol:

:lol:

:lol:


I like rack toms in reverse order. More comfortable placement above bass drum.

I don't understand how that makes it more difficult. Please give a valid example.

THE MITES you are just digging yourself a hole trying to be the overlord.

[QUOTE=As The Roots Undo]do us a favor and post somewhere else[/QUOTE]

Do us a favour and contribute some actual intellectual discussion to the forums as opposed to being so immature as to try and attack me by lowering my reputation score at every turn for personal reasons.

Do you really think I care? Does it affect my life in the slightest if I don't have lots of little green squares? No.

Grow up son.

[quote=The Mites;15889572]A good many thoughts and ideas about drumming that make perfect sense. That's why it's so good. It focuses on actually playing the drums rather than pushing double bass double strokes to 16ths at 250bpm or playing 9 over 5 over 7. Like.. who cares?[/quote]

Fo sho. I have his Inside Out book. Just wondering what specific topics he covers in it.


I'm assuming ergonomic set-up would be one of them....?

his name is jizzin, gimp

[QUOTE=The Mites;15889660]Do us a favour and contribute some actual intellectual discussion to the forums as opposed to being so immature as to try and attack me by lowering my reputation score at every turn for personal reasons.[/QUOTE]
Yeah George, plz share wisdom, like this.
[QUOTE=The Mites;15889487]With regards to placement, your tom-toms should descend in pitch from left to right. There are a good many great drummers who switch some of their toms around to make playing them more difficult or for aesthetics or whatever. In all seriousness, the drum kit is a hard enough instrument already and if you need to find ways of making it more difficult then you need to stop and reflect as to why you are playing in the first place.[/QUOTE]
tbh I am looking at my reversed rack toms and questioning my existence. Why do I spend time playing drums, when my toms do not descend in pitch? It just doesn't make sense. Why do something I enjoy in a comfortable matter, if the pitches do not descend?

/srs moment

[QUOTE=gimp fest;15889655]THE MITES you are just digging yourself a hole trying to be the overlord.[/QUOTE]

I am not trying to be the "overlord". This is an online community, not a heirarchy. I have the right to express my opinion. It's called freedom of speech.

I don't care if i'm offending some. The point is i'm getting a few people thinking. That's the point of the forum as far as i'm concerned.

The worst mentality is jumping on the bandwagon and agreeing religiously with the opinions of members with a good reputation or high post count or mod status or whatever. I know this forum has a first class history of exhibiting this exact mentality.

In fact that's the story behind my user name: The Mites. Even DBJ, the moderator from near the beginning of this forum's conception, was caught blindly bandwagoning, even over something so ridiculous it is hard to percieve how he would have let that slip by his own reasoning. It was just stupid.

[QUOTE=The Mites;15889610]I already have people rejecting my logic. Guess it wasn't so obvious to them. Just because people see it as blisteringly obvious when written down, doesn't mean the apply these logical tidbits to their practice/playing.

I have much more writing to come, with regards to many more aspects of drumming. This is just a start.[/QUOTE]

ok.

snore

[QUOTE=Retarded Chipple]I'm assuming ergonomic set-up would be one of them....?[/QUOTE]

Yeah man definately. That's exactly what I mean with the rant. That's my general direction.

[QUOTE=As The Roots Undo]his name is jizzin, gimp[/QUOTE]

My name is Jezen.

...Gimp.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[QUOTE=As The Roots Undo;15889703]snore[/QUOTE]

yeah i agree religiously... but it's only because of your high post cont and those pretty green squares.

lol i am jumping on the bandwagon right?

i already jumped on the sleep bandwagon omg

i am sleeping right now lololomg

lol you tool ;)


[QUOTE=The Mites;15889710]Yeah man definately. That's exactly what I mean with the rant. That's my general direction.



My name is Jezen.

...Gimp.[/QUOTE]

wut

It does happen a lot.

i agree

OH **** AM I DOING IT AGAIN?!?

i agree 100%

but jizzin has neither post count nor reps

Nice way to participate in a discussion guys. You're both really really cool :)

i try

i try really hard

[QUOTE=As The Roots Undo;15889736]but jizzin has neither post count nor reps[/QUOTE]

My post count on my other account is 160% of the size of yours. Does anybody actually care though?

i try really really :) hard

[QUOTE=The Mites;15889765]My post count on my other account is 160% of the size of yours. Does anybody actually care though?[/QUOTE]

well you said that people only agree with you if you have post count or reps soooooooooooo

i try 160% more than you