What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

www.myspace.com/ohthisisathing

I have two new songs up that use parts of the same guitar pat, "Metro Green Line" and "Metro Red Line". This has been my first week in the DC area and I finally had time today to make some new jams.

We have put four of the songs from our recent recording sessions up on our Myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/uhfband

My label has a new video:

http://www.dreamboatrecords.co.uk/video/greenwound/

Had some good & fun shows for my band's 30th anniversary: https://www.instagram.com/p/C09ju0tgMnd/

Technique-wise I very recently switched to using a back fulcrum (ring finger & pinky) and a lot of things started clicking in terms of speed and consistency. Promising developments!

wait what were you using before as the fulcrum?

also congrats on your anniversary!!

Thanks! I was using the thumb and pointer finger as the primary fulcrum with the other fingers more free to do finger control stuff, but it felt inconsistent and on my right (non-dominant) hand I was still having trouble with a lot of things. I had the revelation when I strapped on the snare to practice for these gigs (which I almost never do), when I started using the back fulcrum and found that I was getting the consistent rimshots and volume (while still being relaxed) that I was looking for.

There's a famous Tony Williams clinic where he talks about this, but it never quite made sense to me since it seemed like a rigid way of playing. But it seems to me you can use the back fulcrum (or a middle finger fulcrum, where it's sort of a triangle between the thumb + first finger + middle finger) and still have rebound. That's what I'm working on anyways. And almost immediately my stroke started to look & feel better, more integrated with the wrist movement, less to think about, more consistency across different surfaces.

It's hard to find drummers who teach this, but I also heard Nate Wood very briefly say in an interview that he switched to a ring/pinky finger fulcrum three years ago and that he wished he had done it a long time ago, that it's a better way to play drums. Everybody's hands & brains are different though.

I'm still trying to figure out how this works when playing the ride cymbal (ie switching to french grip and playing jazz patterns) though, if I move back to more of a pointer/middle finger fulcrum or can keep the same grip.

Btw I reserve the right to repudiate all of this in the future. :) Maybe this will be a blind alley, or a situational tool for certain kinds of playing.

Here's Nate Wood talking about it in depth with Mark Guiliana (who clearly does something completely different, which goes to show that there's no one way):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCAQkeqCs54

I was on the Cities And Memory podcast stream yesterday - doing what I would do if I could record inside the abandoned submarine pens at Kotor, Macedonia: https://audioboom.com/posts/8419423-kotor-bay

that's a cool idea for a podcast and your track sounds awesome

What budo said. I am listening my way through close to 500 of these recordings now. Yours was a highlight.

Re: what I was blathering on about above, I've already gravitated more towards using the middle finger as a primary fulcrum rather than the back fingers, there's more bounce and it's easier to go back and forth with the ride cymbal if I'm playing jazz. But either way has helped my wrist motion a lot, and gives a lot more control & power than relying on thumb & first finger and letting all the other fingers move with the stick. It's hard to explain but I'm still letting the stick move in the hand & rebound, and I'm working on more freely moving between the different fulcra for different situations.

i made this short instrumental alt tuning guitar piece i'm happy with. i tend to not have the patience to see a chord progression through but this one came together nicely. i feel like it could use a soft bed of noise underneath or something. suggestions welcome: https://on.soundcloud.com/Va2jV5iQ2rvZBDdn8

vault stuff. multi-part vaporpop suite. shoutout to js.

i love that!

@heez - way late but that's a lovely song would love to hear more

back on a very tenuous basis, the spectral REprojections compilation is bandcamp-only. overlapping with the philomath material quite often, we nicknamed it "beyond benton." if philomath represents the bustling center of the galaxy from which this music originated, the REprojections are the farthest edges of where you might end up; related by coincidence more than anything.

something tangible+based in reality about all this music is that it was recorded in late 19-summer 20, so right in the initial wave of covid/lockdown. not meant to be sad or depressing, just a statement of fact: it's what was coming out of my brain as the last semblance of any sanity slipped away. sure does sound nice sometimes, considering.

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we're so excited to see you again, friend! you must have grown about three feet over summer break! great job, have a lasso! remember to ask if you need help with anything and don't forget to use your shelf marker! have fun!😃

hi. here's a previously shelved project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz4P9W_VUL0

idk, ya'll. mental health clinic that was supposed to get me housed is bawking left and right. "mid january" is the word now. i keep getting parking tickets for sleeping in my car. no one will advise me on safer places. my gofundme is still open and even a handful of $5 or $10 donations would help greatly. i was supposed to be housed back in october. my friend is trying to help navigate the hold-up and advocate in the meantime.

anyway, if you can or if you know anyone, please and thank you-
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-austin-become-stable-again

really loving this, no surprise! i wish i had more than $10 to donate, but that's what i can spare right now. stay safe <3

I’m singing Messiah again today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AczLXk4Ifas

https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/inheritance-part-ii-domestic-labor-theory-of-value

first time ive recorded a song in like literal years, click here if you like full blown orchestras, 7/8 time signature, and little ditties about socioeconomic class