I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.
I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.
My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.
And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.
I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.
I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.
I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.
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