Monday Drumday: Ghost notes and new furniture

Hey beatniks!

I have had a fun week of drumming. It has mostly been continuing the Drumeo course on ghost notes and I just completed that this evening. The final lesson was playing a whole song with verse, chorus and middle eight, each with a variation of the rhythm at full speed. The lesson actually meant playing that three times and I was feeling it by the end. I had a short break and came back to do this video as a log of my progress.

I am only playing the song once, for anyone who actually watches the whole thing. I can feel I have made progress as I could not have played this before the course. I managed to keep up pretty well, but I may have drifted a little off the beat. When you do not have something like a metronome you have to feel where it sits in the music. I also have to sense where the changes come unless I manage to count the bars. I did okay on that too.

I had been wanting to improve my drumming setup for a while. I had a cheap drum 'throne' that came with my second hand kit. It was not too comfortable. I now have one with a well padded seat that is more stable. I also got a new mat that protects the wooden floor and stops the pedals from slipping.

Something else what changed recently is that I found a draught excluder that helps in reducing the sound leakage between my study and the living room. It is one with two foam rolls that sit either side of the door and it has some effect whilst maintaining domestic harmony.

I may look at learning some songs that are available on Drumeo. They have thousands of them that are all tabbed out and provide backing tracks without the drums. They use some of the current tools that can split out the instruments. An advanced version of this was used to produce the 'new' Beatles recording.

Now beat it!