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Playing the drums
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In this program, Geoff Nicholls, co-presenter of BBC TV's classic Rock School series, introduces students to the drum set with instruction on the components of the drum set and their parts; choosin...
In this program, Geoff Nicholls, co-presenter of BBC TV's classic Rock School series, introduces students to the drum set with instruction on the components of the drum set and their parts; choosing sticks, drums, and cymbals; replacing drum heads; how to hold the sticks using orthodox and matched grips; tuning; hand and foot strokes; drum notation and keeping time; quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes and their associated triplets; varying rhythms with rests; varying tempo and volume; accents; fills; and how to improvise both simple and complex rhythms. The program concludes with a performance by Nicholls.
Details
- Creator
- Espresso Productions
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c1991
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (109 min.) : sd., col., digital
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780736587167
- OCLC
- ocn709668797
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 12, 2005.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- What It Takes To Play the Drums (1:41) -- The Base and Snare Drum (2:46) -- Tom Tom Drums (1:05) -- Cymbals (3:10) -- Drum Kit Uses (1:37) -- Good Sticks (2:18) -- What to Get First (3:49) -- Cymbals (1:30) -- Types of Heads (4:13) -- Tuning a Drum (6:02) -- The Tom Tom Family (2:52) -- Tuning the Snare (3:22) -- Base Drum Tuning (1:37) -- Left hand Orthodox Grip (1:55) -- The Match Grip (3:09) -- The Feet (3:20) -- Single Stroke Variations (3:41) -- Basic Beats (1:58) -- Reading (1:46) -- Eighth Notes (4:27) -- Changing Rhythms (1:29) -- Rests (2:19) -- Song Forms and Fills (4:41) -- Playing Better Time (1:03) -- 12/8 Time (5:58) -- Triplets (2:37) -- Playing Triplets (1:47) -- Triplet Rests (1:49) -- Shuffle Rhythms (2:47) -- Jazz on the Ride Cymbal (1:33) -- Sixteenths Notes (1:58) -- Combinations (1:46) -- Sixteenth Notes Triplets and Rests (2:01) -- Accents (6:12) -- Kit Rhythms and Sixteenth (4:50)