Is this good drumming?

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I'm impressed, but then I am not musical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q8s93klams

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GetCarter said:

cherryowen said:

'kin hell

ETA : Steve, I see you're credited as the composer on that clip of Neal's drumming. May I ask how you approach writing a piece of music? Do you choose a key (say D minor), then decide on what flavour of minor you want (harmonic / natural / melodic) and pick a chordal structure from that? Or would you pick out a melody, and work the key and associated chords around it? I only ask as I've recently been dipping into guitar music theory, and find it fascinating.

Edited by cherryowen on Sunday 7th October 22:55

I'm usually writing to a brief, so that kinda' decides major/minor etc. This is going to sound daft, but I just sit at a keyboard (with different sounds.. strings, piano, marimba - whatever) and arse about for a while (recording) until something catches my ear. Then I'll grab that and start to develop it.

Here's a perfect example. I was playing with the different timings (left and right hand) and wrote the first bar.. as soon as I had the second bar pegged it almost wrote itself. I then just had to get a pianist that was a monster at sight reading to play it! (Al Gavin)

(The brief for this - one of 18 tracks - was anything to do with 'time')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVm-sECpppU

Apologies for the O/T

You're a very talented chap.

That's clearly a different genre from the drumming piece. Do you have a preference?

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GetCarter said:

So said:

That's clearly a different genre from the drumming piece. Do you have a preference?

I played jazz for years, so it's nice to get my old mates back in the studio, but actually I like writing soppy sad stuff for strings best!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YORoqjXcGO0

That reminds me a bit of Gorecki.