11th Soft Drum Xchange will be at *scape

[myner]

hahaha. the key to speed double pedalling is control. really. practice around 100bpm first. then slowly go to "sweet spots" like alfe said. 120bpm, 132bpm, 144bpm, 160bpm, 180bpm, and before you know it you'll be at 200bpm.

practicing control is very important, i wasted a lot of time just trying to go fast last time. only now am i beginning to reap the rewards of my practice.

don't worry. for double pedalling crash course, come to next months meetup.

 

[xenOgenesis]

haha thanks myner and many others who gave me tips on dble pedals. great meetup

 

[Frummer]

eh marc...familiar groove eh *nudge nudge...

 

[drumset_raf]

Nice meet up thou it was my first time there. Hehehe at least we all are sharing and not shy or stingy abt sharing like some drummers are. Furthermore, I think we should really make the 'newbies' feel welcome. Cos i think there was this one girl who came alone, i think her name was valerie, and no one approach her. hahaha...must be friend-lier...talk more, socialise hahaha...only towards the end then eric came up to her and intro to everyone.

well i was talking to her first actually hehehehe :mrgreen: kekeke....

 

[plainsman]

heheh, where's the piccies (snowchan?)


marc> bro u were great!!!! no worries. it was ok,. we're just giving u the feedback that u've a dirty sound so u're aware of it now. u're one of the few guys that really makes effort to prepare stuffs to share..... pls continue give us more good stuff for next meetup!!!!

acrimonious> noted and thanks for the feedback.. must share a groove/lick at the next meetup !!! :mrgreen:

drumset_raf> it was great to have you on saturday!!! i'm still stun by how far u've come by urself :shock: i think the softies drummers really benefited from your tips. PLEASE please come to our next meetup (and future meetups too!!!)

myner> i thought your item on the cymbal is really damn good. We should do a more detail one with the crash and ride (maybe at next meetup??)


To all,

thanks for making the effort to come. It was great seeing a few new faces.

As far as I can remember, mihreth (shirley), drumset_raf (raf), vlrc (valerie) and gambatak's friend Elijah attended this Xchange for the first time. It was great for me that old-timer Shawn (turbochicken) dropped by as well. He wanted to get a official tshirt, so that means we've probably to find out if the numbers can and will add up that we can do a 2nd batch of tshirts (there is a minimum quota)

Thank you especially for your feedback on making Xchange programme better. We'll take your inputs and proceed from there.




Until next month,

HAVE A GOOD DRUMMING TIME !!!



ps. need rodney holmes tab :mrgreen:

 

[caijunlong]

Whee! I just came back from chalet. Now feeling very tired. Marc has certainly improve! Haha. We all can see. Lennat, the song is Pull Harder on the Strings of your Martyr if I'm not wrong. By Trivium. A very tiring song. You can try Like Light to the Flies or A Gunshot to the Head of Trepedition by them too.

I think drumset raf brought up a very good point on making everyone feel comfortable especially if it's their first time coming to exchange. So let's interact more!

 

[myner]

personally i feel pull harder on the strings of your martyr is one of the easy trivium song, for double pedalling.

not many fancy foot work patterns...

mainly straight 16ths through.

and its only at 140bpm. . should be quite a work out, if you're new to double pedalling.


but i would have to say that gunshot through the head of trepidation is a damn fun song to play if you've already gotten the whole speed + control thing going on.

 

[snowflier]

sorry sorry...was hoping someone with better quality pics would post 1st then i'll just fill in the rest...

ok here goes...for some reason, my phone cam can't zoom while on a hi-res setting, therefore used lo-res.

mel80 and his (in)famous cha-cha beats

caijunleng and plainsman, the facilitator-turned-impromptu-roadie =P

myner and churnz

drumset_raf with a quick 101 on brushes

 

[snowflier]

myner demo-ing double pedalling (note his self-hammered splashes lying on the snare in the foreground)

turbochicken

turbochicken on djembe and drumset_raf with a combi of hands and sticks on drums

jonathan

 

[snowflier]

marcdadrummer

gambatak

xenogenesis

Rajiv

 

[xenOgenesis]

thanks snowy hahaha nice pics... everyone was great. wooo~

 

[mel80]

This meetup was simple, relaxed, cozy and comfortable. Looks like everyone quite enjoyed it.

 

[Acrimonious]

Btw im Elias and its not elijah hahaha.
Im naturally a shy person so i tend to keep to myself but i was opened up thanks to some friendly souls there.
A cheers out to syamil.
Pls don't ask me to perform unless you really need me to make yourself feel "hey,at least im better than this guy"haha.

 

[smildrumez]

meet up was fun!!!and YES i will use the flat ride and the snare!!!!haha
oh yea....hi elias.....syamil here....cheers!!

 

[plainsman]

oh dear acrimonious (elias) bro !!!

sorrie i left u out of the first-timers list, cos i recall u had come for xchanges before. :mrgreen:

the elijah i was referring to is gambatak's friend, the one who sat beside him the entire meetup...

cheers!!!

 

[snowflier]

to all newcomers at this meetup, i sincerely hope u all had a good time. if anyone felt neglected, it was unintentional. from my point of view, there were a fair number of new faces and i really wasn't sure if some were friends of other drummers or if they came alone. once i saw others talking to these new faces, i felt assured that they were taken care of.

perhaps at future meet ups, we can have short breaks in between turns at the drum set. cos like plainsman said, it's polite to refrain from talking while someone is playing for all of us. therefore the breaks will allow us to mingle a little more and to let the "oldies" chat up the "newcomers" without disturbing any performance.

in any case, all feedback is welcome as there will always be room for improvement. hope to see all the attendees for this meetup at the next + more of course!!:mrgreen:

 

[ceing]

sorry sorry...was hoping someone with better quality pics would post 1st then i'll just fill in the rest...

Talkin about me ah elaine? haha. Sry guys i have no time to upload the pics this few days, cuz my poly is starting schl soon (need to settle some laptop stuff) and my workplace just opened a new branch so they are really shorthanded.

Anyway i promise i will upload the pics tmr. (Im free tmr! FINALLY.)

Yea the meetup was very fun, i learnt a lot of new things and the laser splash (was it frm myner? the one which was hand hammered.), that was damn cool man. And i went dwn to ranking with pacifusion straight after tt meetup and i bought a laser splash to go home hammer as well! haha well it doesnt sounds v nice but well practise makes perfect. haha

 

[ceing]

Ok here are the pics that i promised, sry for the later part of the show i didnt take any more pics cuz my memory card was full. (Camera was infested with my sis pics. haha)

Firstly, The DXS DRUMSET!!!!!

And theres Alfe adressing the crowd,

Is tt a Djembe?!

 

[ceing]

Myner's Hand hammered splash in action!

Falling in love with his splash

Close up!!!!

 

[ceing]

Everyone stunned by Chun Lengs left handed setup!

One Handed Roll!

Ok i think thats about all i have taken, and i have some videos to upload, but first i have to figure out how to upload them, haha