Drumming

My drumming sister Diane has prepared and edited footage of the Orion Community Drummers' Pontiac Eagles gig, which my drumming brother Sandy has dutifully uploaded to YouTube. Here are the results. Enjoy!

For my friends in the Orion Community Drummers, here are the sound files for Fume Fume, the rhythm Kofi taught us on January 17th. Sorry I'm so late getting them up!

This is the video taken of my summer bodhrán workshop, available here courtesy of Druidic Dawn. Enjoy!

For my friends in the Orion Community Drummers: Here are the audio files from Wednesday night's practice. My little recorder choked a little on the bass tones, but as before, you can pick out the rhythms if you were at practice. I gotta get me a better recorder...

My new bodhrán arrived the day before I left for the Celtic gathering, so I had ample opportunity to play it throughout the weekend. It has a lovely mid-range tone, somewhere between my Walton goatskin drum and my handmade, reservation deerskin drum. I am especially impressed with the range provided by the synthetic Remo Renaissance head, most of which is surely because of the Cooperman frame's excellent tuning mechanisms. When I first played it, I knew immediately that I had to keep all three drums, since the goatskin has the deepest tone, and the deerskin is high and bright.