Playing the drums

Espresso Productions. (Added Author). Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) (Added Author). Films Media Group (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (109 min.) : sd., col., digital.
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electronic resource (video)
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c1991.

Content descriptions

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Formatted Contents Note:	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)
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