G'morning!
Still remember Earth? We went there for jamming a couple of days ago and finally found out his real name :P
Last night me and the some of the fellas from the other day went there again. He came late, and then he gotta go out again to settle stuff before doing his thang. So we waited for about 2-3 hours for him to come back. He has no full time assistant/worker to help him for the mean time so he gotta do everything by himself.
Before we head home, he asked our drummer whether she 'forced' her fill-ins, and then we were all kinda blur because we thought that isn't it what you're supposed to do? You force it so it'll produce the hits that you like, right? Our vocalist (who plays drum as well) also agree with me. And then Earth took us inside the studio again then lectured us on how it is supposed to be, plus some tips (he's a metal drummer btw. Jaw-drop worthy).
"Let the stick bounce by itself." He said repeatedly. "You can't force it to follow your liking. It is indeed a challenge but that's the way it is or else the drum's tone will be ruined and whatever sound you set up beforehand will be useless." When he showed us the forced one and the bouncy one, I could really see and hear the difference! But then it looked pretty hard because your hands gotta have to sync with the bounce or you should be able to control the bounce that when you hit another tom or anything you won't lose a beat. He's frickin pro. Well, from my noob point of view, his hands looked as if his grip on the stick is really loose. It looked like he was giving more 'freedom' to the sticks, but yet his strokes were powerful and missed beat count = 0. *btw one of Earth's friend were there, and apparently he was frickin sleepy so Earth told him to go inside the jamming room and sleep on the couch there. His friend went in and finally landed on the couch but then less than 2 minutes later we gotta go in to see Earth rolling -forced vs bouncy- like nobody's business. Epic nap fail.
Now here's extra tip from him: "When buying drumsticks, you gotta look at its flexibility so that they won't break easily. Expensive ones are not really necessary. But of course you don't buy the Cap Ayam (read: cheapskate) one lah!" and then he bent a pair of stick near him. Those were bendable. According to him, when those sticks were made, those had to go through a machine which will dry them up to remove all the humidity. He said "It's not like flowers will grow out of it but there are still living cells inside. Those will make it flexible. When you're bending it, don't do it in front of the shopkeeper or else they'll go What the *beep* are you doing with my sticks?!?! *LOL*."
That kinda conclude everything and I arrived home at about 4.30am. A very fruitful time indeed. Thank God :)
didn't come to jam btw.
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