I love your music and rhythms! One question: can you please recommend a ride cymbal thin enough to be played by hand, which is still be produced? Thank you so much! Greetings from Austria... Stefan
Hi Stefan, thanks excellent question…so much so, I think this is best answered through a video rather than a comment, so I’m going to sit down a little later today and make a short video response. Stay tuned and thanks again for checking out the content, and for leaving a great question!
This idea of a percussion hybrid kit is very attractive, but rather intimidating to a new percussionist. So how to start, without investing the ton of money, and years of practice that you have invested into this kit. Take me as an example. As a (lower) intermediate-level percussionsit, I have a cajon to sit on and play, and a frame drum (on a stand). I also have a set of bongos on a stand. I could start with those, could I? Enough perhaps? Or should I add a symbol next, or a foot pedal? So the question becomes, what is the bare minimum for such a skit, or better still, what is the order of acquisition, of such a set up. Clearly it will depend on the type of music I wish to play, but as a relatively new percussionist (my way of dealing with covid lock down) I am not yet sure where my interests lie--except that I love percussion, and percussion-dominant music. My wife is a singer, so something to accompany her would be nice. And I do play cajon for community singing groups, so what could I add to that? A foot shaker works well, but what about adding more. Can you discuss this, please?
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I love your music and rhythms! One question: can you please recommend a ride cymbal thin enough to be played by hand, which is still be produced? Thank you so much! Greetings from Austria... Stefan
Hi Stefan, thanks excellent question…so much so, I think this is best answered through a video rather than a comment, so I’m going to sit down a little later today and make a short video response. Stay tuned and thanks again for checking out the content, and for leaving a great question!
This idea of a percussion hybrid kit is very attractive, but rather intimidating to a new percussionist. So how to start, without investing the ton of money, and years of practice that you have invested into this kit. Take me as an example. As a (lower) intermediate-level percussionsit, I have a cajon to sit on and play, and a frame drum (on a stand). I also have a set of bongos on a stand. I could start with those, could I? Enough perhaps? Or should I add a symbol next, or a foot pedal? So the question becomes, what is the bare minimum for such a skit, or better still, what is the order of acquisition, of such a set up. Clearly it will depend on the type of music I wish to play, but as a relatively new percussionist (my way of dealing with covid lock down) I am not yet sure where my interests lie--except that I love percussion, and percussion-dominant music. My wife is a singer, so something to accompany her would be nice. And I do play cajon for community singing groups, so what could I add to that? A foot shaker works well, but what about adding more. Can you discuss this, please?
Thanks so much for the comment, Gary…I want to address this in more detail in a video, hopefully by next mid-week, stay tuned!