Drum Notation with Counting & Singing

 

Drum Notation and Counting & Singing Rhythm – Spirit Music Meet-Ups

Drum Notation and Counting & Singing Rhythm for Spirit Music Meet-Ups

 

 

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Video:  Transcribing What You Hear into Music Notation

 

Video:  3 ways to Musically Notate the same rhythm or Groove and which is best for your song

 

Video:  HOW-TO notate Drum Fills – Using a Time Grid to match what you hear to Subdivisions of the Beat

 

Video:  Simple, quick method of creating a Drum Chart for a song to spend more time practicing than charting

 

Video:  Hand-Drum Music Notation of Notes, Rhythms, Tones, and Sticking for charting songs or learning

 

 

The Importance of Counting & Singing Rhythm - Spirit Music Meet-Ups

The Importance of Counting & Singing Rhythm:

 

Video:  Notation – First get pre-programmed: See, Hear, Count-Sing, Feel, and then Play as You Say

 

Video:  Notation – See, hear, and feel to Ride the Wave of the Groove – Counting & Singing to pre-program

 

Making music is an “inside job” – you first have to get music “inside” you to be able to get it “outside” of you with your drumming.  In order to be physically coordinated to drum, you must first get mentally coordinated.  After teaching drums full-time since 1998, I found the fastest way to learn (and the closest to real-world composition in a band) is by using both your left brain to Count the rhythms and your right brain to Sing them – and to do this out of your mouth, because all those moving parts use so much more of your brain!  As you Count & Sing you are “putting the spotlight” on the “singer at the front of the stage” and your body will auto-magically “back up that singer” that is you – just like a band does for a show!  I teach “Focus is power – Focus is fire,” because just like a magnifying glass can focus scattered sunlight into a pinpoint of fire, your Counting & Singing will help focus past so many distracting thoughts to succeed more quickly at your drumming.

 

PDF doc:  My Counting & Singing Method will really speed up your learning  –  While you watch the Video

 

Video:  What & When to Play Notation – Part 1

 

Video:  What & When to Play Notation – Part 2

 

Video:  What & When to Play Notation – Part 3

 

BT1:  Dynamic Markings

 

BT2:  Section & Ensemble Rhythm Figures – Long-note vs. Short-note interpretation

 

BT3:  Tempo Markings

 

BT4:  Song Form, Structure, and Navigation

 

PDF doc:  Melodic rhythm vs. Ostinato rhythms in a Drum-Set Groove    Watch the Video

 

3-count Grooves in 3/2, 3/4, 3/8, or 3/16 Meters

 

6-count Grooves in 6/2, 6/4, 6/8, or 6/16 Meters

 

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How Binary Rhythms (2, 4, 8, etc. parts)  relate to Ternary Rhythms (3, 6, 9, etc. parts) and other artificial Tuplets (5, 7, etc. parts):

 

Music Notation Subdivisions Chart for Spirit Music Meet-Ups

 

Video:  Column 1 Subdivisions – Part 1:  1/4-notes into 1/8-notes & 1/8-note Triplets as Time-Keeping for Grooves

 

Video:  Column 1 Subdivisions – Part 2:  1/8-notes into 1/16-notes & 1/16-note Triplets and smaller Tuplets as Time-Keeping for Grooves

 

Video:  Normal & Artificial (Tuplet) Time Signature/Meter Note-Grouping affecting the Measure/Bar’s Internal Phrasing

 

See also “Rhythmic-Energy Contours based on Note-Density creates Internal Phrasing” on the Groove & Ear-Training Page

 

PDF doc:  Artificially-notated “Tuplets” (Duplets, Triplets, Quadruplets, Pentuplets/Quintuplets, Sextuplets, etc.)    While you watch the Video

 

BT5:  Straight, Flat, or Binary Notation Rhythms

 

BT6:  Swung, Rounded, or Ternary Notation Rhythms

 

Video:  Drum-Tech-Stick Control- Subdivisions of Time using Singles & Doubles – U of A Drumline drills

 

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