Drumming Dynamics. FreeDrumLessons.com Live. Live Lesson #17. Featuring Schroeder. With Jared Falk & Dave Atkinson. Sheet Music Included

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1 FreeDrumLessns.cm Live Live Lessn #17 Drumming Dnamics Featuring Schreder With Jared Falk & Dave Atkinsn Overview & Transcriptins b Hug Janad Almeida Cver Pht b Christina Kliewer Sheet Music Included

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3 FreeDrumLessns.cm Live Table f Cntents Dnamics in Drumming... 5 Lw Energ Vs. High Energ... 5 Half-Time Feel Vs. Full-Time Feel... 6 The Paut f a Sng... 6 Ghst Ntes... 6 Time Signatures... 7 Beginner Tips... 7 Creating Drum Parts... 7 Schreder n the Drum Set... 7 Sheet Music

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5 FreeDrumLessns.cm Live Drumming Dnamics In this drum lessn Jared & Dave bring in Dean "Schreder" Reimer t walk u thrugh sme cncepts n drumming dnamics. Schreder explains hw plaing with dnamics will imprve ur drumming and ultimatel make ur plaing much mre interesting t ur listeners. Schreder als plas a 30 Secnds T Mars "Frm Yesterda", an Audislave "Explder", and an Our Lad Peace "Ling Awake" drum cver. If u are interested in listening t sme f the music that features Schreder, u can check the cuntr band The Higgins n MSpace, n their persnal website, r if u want t bu sme f their music, u can get it n their nline stre. David Blair is anther artist with which Schreder plas. David als has a MSpace page and a persnal website, and u can bu his music n cdbab. Dnamics in Drumming While brwsing thrugh sme vides f Travis Barker n YuTube, ne f the mst cmmn discussins in the cmments is f his dnamic abilities. A lt f users state that Travis Barker is everthing but dnamic. Nw, we are nt ging t g int an argument regarding the validit f thse arguments, but use this as wa t explain dnamics. Yu see, mst f the cmments abut Travis s dnamics, are referring t vlume level. We can see lts f peple stating that the are dnamic because the use ghst ntes, and dn t use full vlume all the time. There is a whle lt mre t dnamics than just vlume. There are ther techniques that will change the dnamics and feel f the whle sng, besides vlume changes, like using different time signatures, using a half-time feel instead f full-time, keeping time n ther cmbals besides the hi-hat; the list ges n and n. T shw u sme f these cncepts, Schreder analses parts f sme ppular sngs. He als shws u hw he ges abut, when creating drum parts fr a sng, and were he gets his influences frm. If after this lessn u want t learn mre abut this subject, check the dnamic drumming sectin f this website, where u can learn abut mre techniques that will definitel help u spice up ur grves, fills and verall drumming abilit. Lw Energ Vs. High Energ In the first example, Schreder ges thrugh the verse and chrus f Our Lad Peaces sng Ling Awake ; frm the album Happiness Is Nt a Fish That Yu Can Catch. The first big thing u can lk at is the difference between the chrus and verse, regarding nt nl vlume but energ as well. The verse is carried between the snare and hi-hat while the bass 5

6 Lessn #17 Drumming Dnamics drum has just a bit f sncpatin happening with the bass guitar. In the verse, u can feel that the energ level is lw; hwever the grve still carries it alng. Fr the chrus everthing pens up, the sund gets bigger, the drummer plas a little mre spaciusl, and with sme sncpatin n the snare drum. As u can see and listen t, this cntrast between chrus and verse is a ver cl ne, especiall in the cntext f this sng. Half-Time Feel Vs. Full-Time Feel This sng takes us t the cncept f switching between half-time feel and full-time feel. Fr the pening hk f the sng there is this big and pen half-time feel. Althugh the guitars are as pwerful in the verse as in the intr, the drummer changes the feel f the tw sectins b ging frm half-time, t a full-time grve with duble bass hits. As u can see, this is anther wa f creating cntrast, even when the ther instruments dn t change that much, regarding dnamics, u can change the feel a lt bu switching what u pla, r in this case b ging frm half-time t full-time. The Paut f a Sng Fr this tpic Schreder uses the sng Explder frm Audislave. Brad Wilk, the drummer fr Audislave, keeps a reall cnstant drumming thrughut the entire sng. He plas a simple grve between the snare, hi-hat, and bass drum in the verse, and just changes the time keeping t the crash and ride, instead f the hi-hat, n the chrus. But in the third verse f the sng the energ changes cmpletel, the singer brings is vcals dwn an ctave and sings it with a mre thrat vice. Schreder shws us hw t bring the energ f a sng dwn fr this part, and hw t bring things up again in a cnvincing and energetic wa, fr what he calls the paut. The paut is the sectin f the sng where it reaches an emtinal pitch. Sngs like Fix Yu frm Cldpa, where there is a crescend thrughut the sng, until it expldes when the guitar cmes in fr the emtinal apex f the tune, are a gd example f this. Having and building twards a paut is reall imprtant because it gives directin t a sng. Ghst Ntes Schreder plas lts f ghst ntes when he wants t pla sftl. This gives a smther feel t the sng. T exemplif this, in the lessn u can see him pla a straight ahead rck grve using nl a cuple f ghst ntes, and als a mre intricate grve with lts f ghst ntes. In the first example u can feel the grve chugging alng, but b adding lts f ghst ntes, like in the secnd example, in between the accented strkes f the fist grve, this will carr the grve withut all that chugging. Als, plaing with ghst ntes reall changes the energ f a sng. 6

7 FreeDrumLessns.cm Live Time Signatures Dave s band Yuca has a sng called Hell, that switches between a 4/4 time signature in the verse, t a 6/4 time signature in the chrus and pre-chrus. Changing the time signature t 6/4 is a reall cl idea/tl t change the energ and flw f a sng. Beginner Tips One f the simpler ideas Schreder uses, when it cmes t taking the energ and vlume t a whle different level, while plaing luder music like rck is t use a crash r ride as a hi-hat. He shws what he means b this, b plaing the same grve whereas exchanging between the half-pen hi-hat, ride, crash and clse hi-hat while plaing time. B ging frm ne t anther, u will see hw the crash reall fills things up, in cmparisn with the hi-hat and the ride. Yu can ntice the biggest difference in dnamics when Schreder ges frm the crash t the hihat; there is a great decrease in energ. Creating Drum Parts When he is creating drum parts fr a sng, Schreder s main apprach is t just sit back and listen t what the remaining members f the band are plaing. This will help him t achieve a better understanding f what is happening with the parts plaed b the ther musicians. Adding t all f this, he thinks abut what he has heard in ther bands, and what sngs it reminds him ff. A gd example f this is the Rck Pla-Alng #2, In All f This frm his frmer band Sterr, which u can find in this website. At that time, he was listening t a lt f Jimm Eat Wrld. One f the sngs, Cautiners, was the inspiratin fr the drum part n the intrductin f In All f This. Schreder n the Drum Set Schreder sits ver high n the drum set, and as a result, his heels dn t tuch the ft plates f the pedals and his upper legs slpe dwn in a high angle. He feels ver cmfrtable with this psitin, and even learned hw t pla sftl with his feet this wa. He gt this idea while watching ne f the DVDs that feature Thmas Lang. Als, Schreder s legs are lng, s if he had them parallel t the flr his knees wuld cramp up. Sitting this wa enables him t get reall pwerful strkes n the snare drum withut hitting his leg. His tm psitining is anther thing with which he has fled arund quite a bit. Usuall, a lt f gus just have the rack tms ver the bass drum. Since he likes t pla a 6 piece kit, and f having the ride near him, he shifted the tms clser t the hi-hat. Even thugh his 10 inch tm is 7

8 Lessn #17 Drumming Dnamics hitting the hi-hat stand, he still has clearance t get t that tm and at the same time t keep his ride in a ver cmfrtable psitin. Schreder likes t set up his kit s as t make the least amunt f travelling and effrt as pssible. His advice is fr u t set up ur kit t what feels the mst cmfrtable t u, because if u are ging t practice fr tw t three hur straight, u might as well make it as cmfrtable as pssible. 8

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11 FreeDrumLessns.cm Live Bradcast Drumming Dnamics b Schreder 1) Our Lad Peace "Ling Awake" - Verse ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) R L R 2) Our Lad Peace "Ling Awake" - Pre-Chrus and Chrus ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) + ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) FreeDrumLessns.cm - Cpright Railrad Media, Inc. - All Rights Reserved - Licensed Fr Persnal Use Onl 1

12 3) NOFX "At Least I'm Knwn Fr Smething" - Verse and Chrus + + p f FreeDrumLessns.cm - Cpright Railrad Media, Inc. - All Rights Reserved - Licensed Fr Persnal Use Onl 2

13 5) Audislave "Explder" - Verse and Chrus ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) 3 ( ) ( ) 3 ( ) + ( ) ( ) 3 ( ) + Œ Ó 6) Plaing With Ghst Ntes a) With N Ghst Ntes r With a Few ( ) ( ) ( ) FreeDrumLessns.cm - Cpright Railrad Media, Inc. - All Rights Reserved - Licensed Fr Persnal Use Onl 3

14 b) With Lts f Ghst Ntes 3 ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) 3 ( ) ( )( ) ( ) 3 3 ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )( ) ( ) ( ) 3 + ( ) 3 ( ) ( )( 3 ) ( ) 7) Yuca "Hell" - Verse and Chrus a) Verse In 4/4 + ( ) b) Chrus In 6/4 ( ) FreeDrumLessns.cm - Cpright Railrad Media, Inc. - All Rights Reserved - Licensed Fr Persnal Use Onl 4

15 + ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) FreeDrumLessns.cm - Cpright Railrad Media, Inc. - All Rights Reserved - Licensed Fr Persnal Use Onl 5 8) Simple Cncept Fr Dnamic Plaing 9) Frm Sft t Lud Tr interchanging between sft and lud plaing

16 10) Jimm Eat Wrld "Cautiners" - Intr + 11) Sterr "In All f This" - Intr Œ Ó FreeDrumLessns.cm - Cpright Railrad Media, Inc. - All Rights Reserved - Licensed Fr Persnal Use Onl 6