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NEWS:
25.12.2009
Have a nice christmas and a great year 2010!
Iīve got some interesting news for you:
DAVE DICENSO has published his long awaited DRUMBOOK!
For more infos click HERE
4.11.2009
What have we got here? oh, looks like a little Carter
Beauford transcription
7.10.2009
Hey Music Fans!
Long time no talk! I really
appreciate you checking in and staying
tuned to what I'm up to.
(thx Dave :-))
Not too much news, BUT - as so
often - itīs the quality that counts.
Have a look at Zsolt Korompayīs
great transcriptions at:
Zolt 01 and Zolt 02
And check out Terry
Branamīs great Dave DiCenso transcription
In case you still donīt have
enough to do, work through further
transcriptions of Terry Branam
Jesus!!
Big respect guys!
15.5.2009
Please make sure that
only the word "webmaster" is put before the @terra..... (see "CONTACT")!
I had to change this
because of massive spam issues. Regards, Wolfgang
24.2.2009
Itīs
been a while since my last post, but I can tell you that nothing
significant in my music world happened.
Now
hereīs some interesting news: Iīve stumbled over a drummer named
ULF STRICKER.
This
guy is playing pretty cool and seems to be a nice guy too. Make sure to
check out his YOUTUBE - Videos and to visit his website ulfstricker.com
.
24.6.2008
If
you are into producing DRUM AND BASS check out this great tutorial videos.
Thanks
to LM1 for this one!
2.6.2008
Check
out 2 instructive demos from my POLYRHYTHM BOOK 1. You can see the
notes and hear me playing them. It turns out that BOOK 1 will deal with
"easier" stuff like
4 over 3 and
3 over 4.
Even this topic is so huge that it fills easily (more than) one book.
And as you can see and hear I picked out the more "spicy" stuff.
Nevertheless this
book
will give you a solid guide for your way into and through the
amazing world of polyrhythmical playing.
When
the book will be available? Sorry, I canīt give you an exact
info
- but Iīm working as fast as possible. BUT: I donīt want to write
another book with boring permutations.
Iīm
writing a book with each
bar well thought, checking out the most exciting variations. So my work
depends a lot on inspiration. And inspiration seems to me like a cat -
itīs
a wonderful friend but it has its own life and visites me when SHE
likes and not when I want it.
CLICK HERE
27.5.2008
IMPORTANT! THERE WAS AN VIRUS ALERT ON MY SITE - I HAVE REMOVED THIS
CRAP AND YOU CAN
VISITE MY SITE WITHOUT DANGER!!
6.4.2008
All of you who own DRUMMETHOD VOLUME 1 can download now the NEW AUDIO
CDs for the book.
I have recorded the complete stuff on an accoustic drumset and lowered
the tempo of some
tracks so it is more pleasureful to listen and work with it.
Click here for CD 1 (45 MB)
Click here for CD 2 (39 MB)
4.4.2008
I have written an article about "automations in sequencer software"
that should be
helpful espacially for those of you who are new in this topic.
Click here
21.4.2008
Check out this interesting article
about polyrhythms written by Bob Brozman.
23.3.2008
I have started a new section called "TIPS FOR...". By now it contains
tips for recording,
transcribing and piano.
Check it out .
16.2.2008
You are invited to listen to a great composition of the pianist and
composer
Heiner D Alquen called
INVISIBLE
DIFFERENCE
for which I was invited to add the drums.
26.1.2008
You are invited to listen to a drumsolo that I played at a
DRUMCLINIC@THEWURSCHTLOCH
.
11.1.2008
I have recorded 3 drumtracks and speeded and pitched them up - with
nice results.
Somehow the fills remind me of the good old Billy cobham...If you want
to use the
tracks for your next drum & bass project feel free to use them.
Check
out
12.11.2007
Dave DiCenso in mordern drummer!
If you subscribe to Modern Drummer Magazine you may already have the
January 2008 issue. If you do, check out the name on the cover, it
might look familiar.
Check out page 86. Modern Drummer sought out Dave for an in-depth
interview titled Modern Journeyman.
20.10.2007
Want to know how to get the best out of your recorded drums and
recorded stuff
anyway? After endlessly searching for USEFULL, UNDERSTANDABLE and
PROFESSIONAL
material I have found something that feels optimal for me:
INTERNAL MIXING VOL.1 and VOL.2 by FRIEDEMANN TISCHMEYER. The DVDs are
produced
in English, German, Espagniol and French. Of course this Video Tutorial
is not specialized on
drumrecording but it is about all aspects about getting your mix down
like the
professionals. And even the long and detailed chapters about drums are
worth the 2 DVDs. I have
found a complete new entrance to mixing (and recording too) my drums
and found
the answers to all those questions - or THE QUESTION:
HOW DID THOSE GUYS GET THIS INCREDIBLE DRUMSOUND?!?!?!?!?
For more infos check out
www.proworkshops.de
The only negative thing is that I have to remix all my favourite
productions!
10.9.2007
For those of you who are looking for a book that introduces you into
the techniques of
creating high quality electronic music I strongly recommend
The Trance Experience
by Torsten Fassbender.
Check the link for more infos.
Great work Torsten!
4.9.2007
New stuff for piano fans:
Again
La Mer
4.8.2007
Concerning all owners of my DRUMMETHOD VOLUME 2:
I have rerecorded audio CD 1 of my DRUMMETHOD VOLUME 2 in better audio
quality and at
slower tempos. You can download it
HERE (6o MB).
2.7.2007
For those of you who are interested in DRUM-RECORDING, MIXING, EDITING:
have a look at
RECORDBETTERAUDIO.COM
.
I think that every drummer should know some basics of how to record and
mix his instrument
because it will prevent you from sitting helpless in a studio or on
stage while some
underqualified sound engineer ruins your sound.
7.6.2007
Just listened to the HIROMI: ANOTHER MIND - CD....folks I can tell you:
if you are a drumfreak
go and get yourself this record and listen to the stuff DAVE DICENSO is
playing on it...
this guy is incredible!!Hard to say what is more impressive: Daveīs
technique or his
musicality...
Drumming at itīs best meets other worldclass musicians at their best!
25.5.2007
IMPORTANT!! MY DOMAIN NAME is misused for sending SPAM-MAIL. I
dissociate
from that trash and say sorry, but thereīs nothing a domainowner can
really do against such
small brained activities.
11.5.2007
Iīve rerecorded the Salsa Solo from my Drummethod Volume 2 and it
became so nice
that I donīt want to deprive it of you.
Click
HERE
and enjoy!
26.4.2007
For my piano fans: my improvisation over
Blackbird from a band named
"The Beatles". You know them?
I also have to tell you that Iīm buisy on redesigning this page.
So stay tuned and keep on donating...harhar...
16.3.2007
NEW! The
TERRADRUMMICA - SHOP
has opened today! I recommend to have a look there quite often as I
gonna offer there lots
of new works in the next months!
26.2.2007
The play alongs
are online again.
2.10.2006
Check this out: a collection of excellent
TRANSCRIPTIONS
of Simon Phillips, Manu Katché, Mel Gaynor
and Eric Truffaz done by Lutz Mayer! He gave me his work to post it
here for you...thanks a lot Lutz! Have a look at Dreadnut.net
for more informations about this tough transcriber.
17.7.2006
Check out 2 outstanding drumming videos:
- the first one is a clip that every drummer (and even notdrummer) must
have seen:
MASCHINE DRUMOLO - an amazing animation that should fit
perfectely into TERMINATER 2 or DOOM 3.
- the other video is
DEREK RODDY
giving an impressive demonstration in double bass playing without any
cheap tricks....
29.6.2006
Ever heard about MORGAN AGREN? Itīs high time! Check out this video
clip:
Sol
Niger Within
This video confirmed me to keep on my work on my POLYRHYTHM-BOOK...itīs
exactely about the stuff that Morgan and Fredrik Thordendal (from
MESHUGGAH) are playing. Letīs face it: this is not a TOP 40 tune...but
those guys
are walking consequentely their paths to new forms of music. In case
you like that stuff go and get all
Meshuggah recordings and Fredik Thordendalīs "Special Defects"!!
27.5.2006
Hi! Iīve written an article that should be very useful for every
drummer...itīs about what other musicians expect us drummers to do and
not to do. Click
HERE .
20.5.2006
Since months Iīm working on a book about POLYRHYTHMICAL PLAYING and I
can tell you that it will get REAL HOT!!
The aim of this book will not only be a clear and easy to understand
explanation of what polyrhythmic is, but also the senseful and cool
sounding USAGE, die Anwendung, līusage, of polyrhythms, like Vinnie
Colaiuta, Dave DiCenso, Thomas Hake and Dave Weckl - to mention a few -
use that stuff.
Click HERE
to listen to an excerpt (size: 1,9 MB) of one of the play alongs coming
with the book .
If you have any questions, suggestions and/or problems about
polyrhythmical playing with x-tuplets, subgroups,
beat displacement etc, you are welcome to send me a mail so that I
probably can include answers to typical problems
that drummers have with this topic into my book.
30.4.2006
Iīve transcribed some nice stuff from
Steve Gadd and Dave Weckl that they played on the legendary "Buddy Rich
Memorial Concert". Click
HERE
and enjoy! I think this drumbattle with Dave, Steve and Vinnie is some
of the coolest stuff that was ever played on the drums.
11.3.2006
The riddle about the unknown "Amazing Drummer" on the "youtube.com"
video is solved: it is Bobby Jarzombek
from the band "Spastic Ink". Thanks to Trevor Schrotz
for this
information!
24.2.2006
3 interesting news:
- Iīve posted two new songs of mine...wired and amazing grooves...let
the machines inspire us...
SPASTIC SALSA
and
NO WIND .
Check it out!
- WWW:YOUTUBE.COM
turns out to be a rich source of amazing free drumming videos.
Simply type in a drummers name in the "Seek" field...
- As Jim Walent reminded me the Modern Drummer Readers Pool of this
year is opened. Click
here
and vote for me ;-)
12.2.2006
Jim Walent - proud father and website
designer and webmaster - informed me that Daveīs site will appear
redesigned soon. I had an inofficial look....cool stuff!
Dave also has been featured in Vater Percussion's February 2006's
newsletter. Vater's newsletter includes an Artist Spotlight on Dave
DiCenso as well as Stick Selection and New Product info. This can be
downloaded
here .
10.2.2006
Check this out!!:
ONE AMAZING DRUMMER
Who is this guy??!
3.2.2006
New equipment - new sounds...check out
SINKING
a moodful trip to nowhere....at the moment without Peter Gabrielīs
voice....
11.1.2006
A happy new year to all and an IMPORTANT NOTE to all of you who bought
my drum books
at THOMANN or at TIEROLFF MUZIEKCENTRALE:
Please contact me for a personal registration which will give you the
option to benefit
from my free add-ons (play alongs, sheets, etc.) that I produce
specially for working with my books. You then get a password to
download this add-ons.
17.12.2005
NEW:
I was busy with my new Steinberg equipment and as a study I created a
play along.
A special play along: I took the chapter "Eights Grooves 1" from my
DRUMMETHOD
VOLUME 1 and added some bass, horns and electric guitar to the drum
grooves
Have a look
Mainly for BEGINNERS but also fun for ADVANCED DRUMMERS. Enjoy!
22.11.2005
NEW STUFF:
Basic exercices
for EVERYBODY! For BEGINNERS as well as for ADVANCED DRUMMERS. Enjoy!
21.09.2005
New transcription stuff:
DENNIS CHAMBERS shows his class on John Scofieldīs PICK HITS .
4.9.2005
Enjoy a new TRANSCRIPTION of DAVE
DICENSO with mp3 files!
Important: some additional exercises and tips like sticking suggestions
etc.to this transcriptions will follow soon - so make sure to come back
soon!!
30.08.2005
A beautiful composition of mine for you:
Quiet In The Twilight
No sensational drum licks - there are no drums at all - but a moodful
ballad based on a lyric by Paul Verlaine.
26.8.2005
Hello everybody! I wasnīt lazy the last few weeks...finishing my new
piano CD (you can download it for free here soon), getting started with
new great software, writing, composing, transcribing and playing...
Look arround the next time, as some cool new transcriptions and some
beautiful soundfiles of mine will be posted soon. See Ya!
PS: lots of people asked me which software I used for writing my books:
it was Finale Allegro 2002.
10.7.2005
3 new sound clips have entered the "Hear Me Play" section: the openning
solo from my drumclinic ,
a nice "Reggea" from
Dave Wecklīs "Ultimate Play Along, Level 1, Volume 2" and the testpiece
Gardenwall
from Daveīs play along "Contemporary Drummer + One".
Check it out !
1.7.2005
You can download now PEEPSHOW
(5 MB), a song Iīve done in coproduction with my friend Schorsch.
Enjoy!
25.5.05
Iīve added MP3s to the
Hendrik
Thiesbrummel
Transcriptions
17.7.05
Hear my playing along with a
Dave Weckl play along
(1,8 MB)
from his great work "Dave Weckl: Ultimate Play-Along, Level 1, Volume
1.
15.5.05
Iīve transcribed some cool odd measure Double Bass Licks played by the
upcoming drumtalent
Hendrik Thiesbrummel
from Germany. Enjoy!
5.05.05
2 new links not only for drummers: Check out
STEVE VAIīS
great site with an amazing article about polyrhythms for
hardcore
maniacs (goto: -> Little Black Dots -> Tempomental), and
profund
thoughts about the mental aspects of making music (goto: ->
Little
Black Dots -> Martian Love Secrets).
And - in case you are interested in astronomic software - download the
fantastic
CELESTIA
freeware.
15.4.05
The return of BADMAN
2.4.2005
For all of you that are planing on working through Dave Weckls Play
Along "For The Contemporary Drummer" or other hard play alongs I have
written a
DAVE WECKL WORKSHOP
.
With scores. Enjoy!
22.3.05
Some more BADMAN`S STUFF
for free download.
21.3.05
Vinnieīs new website is online: www.vinniecolaiuta.com
14.3.05
For my friend Roberto from thedrumland.com
Iīve started a huge transcription: Manu Katché playing great stuff on
"The Badmanīs Song" from the legendary Tears For Fears album "The Seeds
Of Love".
Click
HERE
and enjoy!
16.2.05
Another FREE ONLINE LESSON:
"Tips For A Studiojob" .
These tips are resulting from my own experiences and from discussions
with Russ Miller and Thomas Lang. This lesson is an excerpt from my
Drummethod Volume 2:
DRUMMETHOD VOLUME 2
is finished and
available now.
For more infos please click HERE
.
10.1.
Vinnie Colaiuta has
informed me that he will
take control of his domain (vinniecolaiuta.com). His new site should be
live in a few weeks.
1.1.2005
New year - new
transcription: Dave Weckelīs drumpart on Mike Sternīs Upside Downside
Also worth a click: TABLE OF
CONTENT
of my DRUMMETHOD VOLUME 2 that will be available in a few days.
21.11.
Today Iīm starting my
FREE ONLINE LESSONS FOR DRUMS, as I want to make
my knowledge available for everyone.
LESSON 1
deals with my "x step method", that I introduced in my
TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK.
17.11.
New transcription! 12
tasteful bars of swing soloing
by the great Dave Weckl.
29.9.
Enjoy a new
Vinnie-transcription:
Slink from the
legendary "Vinnie Colaiuta"- CD.
22.9.
As I promised you can
download now demoscores and mp3s from my
TERRADRUMMICA DRUMMETHOD
VOLUME 2
Please
CLICK HERE . The book will be available soon- arround end of
autumn. More infos will follow.
25.4.
When I had finished a
transcription I played it on the drumset - thatīs
the best way to find bugs
in the scores. During working out the transcriptions on the drumset I
had a lot of useful ideas
how to solve the technical problems in it. The rudiments of this ideas
you can find in "TIPS".
If you want more detailed informations, tips and tricks about real
modern drummig, then my
suggestion is to buy my book "TERRA DRUMMICA- THE DRUMMETHOD VOLUME 2"
that will be available on
my website www.terradrummica.de soon. "TERRA DRUMMICA- THE DRUMMETHOD
VOLUME 2" and "THE
TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK" are connected very close, because Iīve worked on
them parallel. The work of transcribing is very inspiring and every
transcription gave me many, many new
ideas. I collected them, worked them out, tested them with students,
improved when necessary
and what came out is a school that introduces you seriously into the
STATE OF ART of modern
drumming from fusion over latin to jazz,
introducing you into the
fascinating world of ghostnotes,
quintuplets, accent-shifting, polyrhythmic playing and thinking, odded
measures and how to get
real command of your drumset. After working through "TERRA DRUMMICA-
THE DRUMMETHOD VOLUME 2"
you wonīt have any problems to play all the transcriptions here.
I will post some scores
and mp3s from this book on my site soon, so
stay tuned.
PS: The TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK
is available soon !
9.4.
Rhythm `04
- International
Drumseminar in Marktoberdorf! Marktoberdorf,usually a small, unknown
town in south-
germany meanwhile has reached such a high musiccultural level that many
metropols wonīt ever meet. The International Drumseminar Rhythm `04
offers once again a staffage of firstclass musicians
: Hakim Ludin, Steve Smith, Jeff Hamiliton, Johnny Rabb, Ed Thigpen,
Armando Peraza, Russ Miller, Thomas Lang, Juan Carlos Melian and as
special guest Karuna Murthy. Check for this!
7.4.
NEWS CONCERNING TERRA
DRUMMICA-THE TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK!
Pete Erskine
gave me his friendly permission for using his
drumpart on "Pools" in
my book. Another real nice guy! Now everything depends more or less
on Vinnieīs permission....The recording labels donīt answer my
requests, so maybe I have to give up the dream of offering all
transcribed pieces to you on a CD (only the impressive Dave Dicenso-
Solo is for shure). Sad to face this and not understandable, because
it would be a good advertise for those albums too.... If you have any
idea or suggestion, please mail me!!
25.3.
NEWS CONCERNING TERRA
DRUMMICA-THE TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK!
Good news: Dave Dicenso
gave me his
"YES".Nice guy! So prepare to
meet 115 hardcore-bars of finest drumming with no prisoners taken!
To that I added a lot of tips and explanations. Prepare to be stomped!
The other transcriptions
are finished too - Iīm only waiting for the
okays from the artists and the recordingsocieties.
Stay tuned!
1.3.
NEWS CONCERNING TERRA
DRUMMICA-THE TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK!
Wow! Iīm a Dave Dicenso
fan now.
The reason is a link on
Steve Holme`s houseofdrumming site
to a great drumsolo by Dave Dicenso. I was so amazed that Iīve
transcribed the
whole solo and added it to my TERRADRUMMICA-TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK.
Letīs face it: nothing for the first drumming lesson, but ideas for the
advanced.
To give you a pretaste
I īve put page 1 (of 10 sites) of my transcription and a mp3-file of
the transcribed
part on this site. Have fun!!
My TERRADRUMMICA-TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK should by finished by the end of
april.
It will not only contain lots of first quality transcriptions of some
of the worlds
best drummers, but also helpful concepts how to solve
technical and
rhythmical problems
you`ll be confronted with. So stay tuned!!!
PS: On Daveīs site you
can find some more fine drumsolos.......
7.2.
NEWS CONCERNING: TERRA
DRUMMICA-THE TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK
These great DRUMMERS will
be featured:
VINNIE
COLAIUTA on: Alan Holdsworth"Secrets", Frank Zappa "Joeīs Garage" and
"Shut Up And Play Your Guitar","GRP Super Live In Concert",
Gino Vanelli "Nightwalker", some more MP3s from Steve Holmes "houseof
drumming"
OMAR HAKIM on: Weather
Report "Procession", Omar Hakim "Rhythm Deep",
Victor Bailey "Bottoms Up"
CHAD WACKERMAN on: Frank
Zappa "Them Or Us" and "Does Humor Belong Into
Music?"
CHASEY SCHEUERELL on:
Jean Luc Ponty "Live At Montreux"
PETE ERSKINE on: Don
Grollnik "Pools"
STAY TUNED!
20.1.
The bugs in "MIDIFILES" and in "HEAR ME PLAY" are repared. Have fun.
4.1.
Thoughts about Glenn Gould.
At the moment only in german language.
30.12.
The world has waited for it: my personal collection of MIDI-Files.
Look at Midi-Files
7.12.
TERRADRUMMICA-THE TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK gets more and more concrete. I will
feature
Vinnie Colaiuta (as you might have guessed), but also Chad Wackerman,
Pete Erskine,
Omar Hakim and Casey Scheuerell (what he plays on Jean-Luc Pontiesī
"Live At
Montreux" is an absolut highlight in drumming). Damn, and there is
still Tomas
Haake who explored new dimensions with MESSUGAH and Franz Di Cioccio
and Tony Williams
and....ok, looks like there will be TRANSCRIPTIONBOOK VOLUME 1 for
first.....
17.11.03
News from the secret transcription
laboratory....(see:"Drums:Transcriptions).Thanks for
the interest and encouragement to my Transcription-Book! Iīm working
real hard on it.
7.11.
An interesting Vinnie Colaiuta-interview to be found at "links".
3.11.
again impressive Vinniestuff (see: "Drums:Transcriptions")
Due to the impressive resonance to my transcriptions, Iīm working hard
on a TERRA DRUMMICA
book full of transcriptions of the best drummers drumming at their
best. I donīt know how
long it will take to finish it. I guess some months. Meanwhile have fun
with the transcriptions on this
site. Stay tuned!
29.10
some interesting bars of Omar Hakim (see "Drums:Transcriptions")
29.10.
a new Vinnie transcription (see "Drums:Transcriptions").
6.10.
under "other compositions" you can find now a piece avec beaucoup de
sentiment
3.10.
In the drumsection you can find two new drumsolos of mine as mp3s.
7.9.03
The piano- and the musictheory/essays-section are opened now. At the
moment only in German.
Sorry. Translation will follow soon.
3.9.03
I`ve increased my webspace so that you can get MP3s too. Have fun!
29.8.03
Get Hardcore:
Some real hard stuff Iīve transcribed from Vinnie Colaiuta......with
MP3.
click here: Five Storks
27.8.03
How to work out a tricky groove of Dave Weckl...
click here:
Harte Nüsse knacken 1
Harte Nüsse knacken 2
18.8.03
Read what Vinnie Colaiuta plays on Gino Vanellis` "Nightwalker"-Album.
click here:
Stay With Me 1
Stay With Me 2