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Post by drumsbeehatch on Aug 28, 2006 17:09:30 GMT -5
So I noticed something interesting at the True Music Rock Fest, and even at Rock Stock. I play drums for Delusions of Grandeur, and I don't use a double kick pedal. But, at those two shows, Esteban from Seven, and I were the only drummers who played single kick. Now...on that note, I feel like this double bass thing is kinda trendy. Just because you "play" double bass doesn't mean you are good at it. I have a lot of drummers tell me that they like my double bass work, and when i tell them I dont use one, they freak the hell out. I'm not trying to say I rock harder than anyone. I dont really know what I'm trying to say. I'm just pointing it out. So, please dont burn me or anything. Thanks!!
Justin
Delusions of Grandeur
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Post by PrincipleD on Aug 29, 2006 9:20:14 GMT -5
I say sangle, used as Dubble. I seen Engleke do it, lots of cats can do it, they are just few and far between. That is cool you don't use a double pedal and such, I wonder what the end result for a player that can do that would be if he applied that concept to a double bass pedal, I like plsayers that can be fast with their double bass, but what I really like to see is a drummer that can really work and manipulate the double bass into more than just fast patterns, I like the guys that think and put motifs into their patterns. Fast or Otherwise D1%
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Post by adam on Aug 29, 2006 11:46:08 GMT -5
come on guys.....if the song calls for dbl bass play it....if the song doesnt call for it dont play it.....the song should be telling you what to play.....not the other way around.
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Post by drumsbeehatch on Aug 29, 2006 13:04:02 GMT -5
yea I like watching a player who know what he's doing. I can't stand to see a double bass player do that double tap with both feet. You know, the fast 16th note double hit before a snare hit. They use both feet to do it. I can do it with one foot, and very rapidly. I am actually trying to work on my left foot, so I can pick up the double bass and use it to create unique patterns. I dont wanna do just straight 16th notes or triplets all the time.
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Post by PrincipleD on Aug 29, 2006 20:54:38 GMT -5
Right on DBH thats what I'm talkin bout, mixture of both techniques to create something amazing and different. I respect fast as well because you do have to spend time in the wood shed to get there, I like the way drummers who play progressive put more thought into their overall patterns.
I enjoy playing with a drummer who can build, Take a simple beat play the hell out of it and build on it. I love drummers that are creative enough to accent something different as the tune progresses. I love it when the beat falls in unanticipated places. D1%
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Post by Loki on Aug 30, 2006 12:26:03 GMT -5
PD: I agree.
Adam: I agree
'course that don't mean we all oughtta take a long warm shower together or anything. ;D
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Post by drumsbeehatch on Aug 30, 2006 19:01:45 GMT -5
AHH Come on Loki!! Why not?!!
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Post by guitarwarrior on Aug 31, 2006 11:29:20 GMT -5
I think a single is more elegant, but you'd need the double bass to play speed metal. I don't play speed metal. I'd much rather have John Fishman or John Bonham than Vinnie Paul or Lars Ulrich.
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Post by Loki on Aug 31, 2006 11:49:21 GMT -5
AHH Come on Loki!! Why not?!! I didn't say nuthin' about you, big boy.
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Post by drumsbeehatch on Aug 31, 2006 13:07:40 GMT -5
AHH Come on Loki!! Why not?!! I didn't say nuthin' about you, big boy. That's what I thought. muah
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Post by JROD on Nov 13, 2006 13:00:09 GMT -5
Good posts guyz, for me at least, being a drummer at an early age I started on double bass drums around 12 years old and progressed from straight beats, to paradiddles, to pretty much alot things taught in band class / drum corps like flams, triplet paradiddle poly-rythms. It takes practice to teach those legs what the hands will do. I love to see drummers using a single kick and are damn good at that for what they're playing or trying to achieve. Some genre's I listen to call for double bass and there's really not any other way to play (like our friend said earlier bout speed metal)
recently the last 5 or so years I switched from double bass to single bass with combination pedals, witch I like for simple fact of tear down sessions get smaller in time. But you also have to compensate for lag time on combonation pedals and alot of drummers out there have had hard times tweaking those lags.
in short...if the shoe fits..wear it.
good posts guys.
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Post by pete069 on Nov 21, 2006 14:59:22 GMT -5
I agree with adam on this one 100% ...a drummer should show off his art by playing what the song is asking for...right on the mark adam!!! Too many drummers over play a song to show off thier respected talent, but sometimes its want you dont play that makes everthing sound tight....
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Post by ddrummer on Apr 30, 2007 13:09:39 GMT -5
I use my single pedal when i play with others, it is clean and i am NOT ginger baker but for practice i love just whomping on a double pedal sometimes just for fun and it is about the only exercise i ever get...
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Post by PhrenicCell on Aug 7, 2007 17:58:05 GMT -5
Well I hate to say it but I'm one of those drummers who DOES the little mini gallop before I get busy on the snare.......well actually it doesn't bother me, because that's the way I choose to play. So I agree with JROD....whatever fits the style do it. Tomayto - Tomahto...................
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