Finally, Reich’s pattern on these four notes bring my left hand on an out-in-out motor pattern, moving from the g-sharp (out or away from me), up to the b-natural (in or towards me), and then from the b-natural down a semitone to the a-sharp (in to out). Next, the truncated scale: four notes of a minor one, but without the other three notes that would tell us more about specifics. First, there its short-short-long-long rhythm whose composite sounding has the feel of a three against two polyrhythm. This is the core melo-rhythmic pattern:Īs I played Reich’s pattern I thought about what makes it so idiomatic for the drummer’s hands. Composed in 1971, Drumming is over an hour of continuous percussion music entirely built on just a few pitches arranged in a constellation of eight beats over twelve pulses. 40)Įvery once in a while warming up before a show I noodle around by playing a bit of Steve Reich’s Drumming on the marimba. David Sudnow, Ways of the Hand (MIT Press 2001, p. There wasn’t one me listening, and another one playing along paths. “But how the paths sounded to me was deeply linked to how I was making them.
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