DrumUltimA

sounds great nick! you're watching me type this! that's weird!

Sorry I haven't put anything up yet, I'm having some trouble with my hands right now, as well as am in the process of relocating my studio to my basement (:angry:). But I will record soon!

are there assigned soloists?

I would love to do it! Especially while I'm home and I have my good mic. I have access to: marimba (5 oct) vibraphone xylophone snare drum timpani drumset accessories (tamb, tri, etc)

I've been listening to electric counterpoint like crazy lately. I love pat metheny's version (which i figure is the most popular)--it swings so hard!! :D

are you playing stevens grip? You don't want to get blisters/callouses in your palms, it means you're jamming the stick in too hard. Blisters/callouses in the fingers are okay. If you're getting them on your fingers, some gauze and medical tape can go a long way. I used to have to wrap my index finger daily when i played burton grip.

aherm... Well, as a percussionist it's essential that I'm well versed on all of the instruments in that category... maybe with a few exceptions (I wish knew more about hand drums, steel drums, etc). In some ways I feel I'm lucky that I've haphazardly fallen into that "instrument", because I've always been good at picking up new things quickly. So what would my secondary instrument be, then? I guess piano... I took lessons for quite a while. And should I be discerning between jazz and classical? I'm better at jazz piano than classical piano. Or should i be considering jazz a secondary instrument to classical as well? I also dabble with flute, trumpet, and sax, but for no reason other than I play them when at the computer when they're in an arms reach. I guess if I were to speak within percussion, my "primary" instrument (meaning the one I'm best at) would be marimba/vibraphone, followed by snare drum, followed by timpani. God I need to play more timpani...

hahah, well all he really listens to around here are Nixon in China and the Adams Chamber Symphony, so I guess that makes sense :D

Hey everybody! oingo86's internet isn't working very well right now so it will be ME, his loveable percussable roommate who will upload the recording. I'm playing vibraphone on it, so I take full responsibility for the screw ups in the beginning ._. The singers are two senior vocalists here at Peabody. https://jshare.johnshopkins.edu/dperry9/01%20One.mp3 enjoy!

I love minimalism! I'm not as crazy about Phillip Glass just because of the instruments he uses and the melodic material he uses... just doesn't taste good to my ears. I love his processes though. I'm a HUGE Steve Reich fan though. I LOVE his melodic material. Really puts me in a nice mood. Same with John Adams. Reich really takes the cake for me, though--and not just because I'm a percussionist :P I need to listen to more Arvo Part. I really like what I've heard so far, but have yet to actively seek it out. As for Cage, since he somehow came up in here, I really like a lot of his earlier stuff-namely pieces like Living Room Music, 3rd Construction, and his Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano. That guy could really groove. I don't really seek out his heavy indeterminate stuff, but I definitely respect it.

I will admit, I've felt a bit reluctant on posting some of my marimba/vibraphone improvisations, simply because I didn't know where to post them. I'd be in support of such a sub-forum, unless there is a better place to post these.

We're about to do Rrrr... here at Peabody! What timing...

Audiation? I just take pills for that ;)

I'm a performance major, but through being a performance major have learned a TON about composition. Don't go strictly one or the other--Figure out which one you want to spend the rest of your life doing and major in that. If you want to spend the rest of your life doing both, then do both! But I will echo the sentiments of the other members here--at LEAST keep one as a minor.

I'm not sure about embedding, but I know that tindeck.com is a pretty straight ahead music host. I recommend them to most people.