Hello Ray, I liked your anecdote. Perhaps he took offense to the word "You" as in "you people", and not the word "guys". If anyone has an interest in mule...
Hi Guys, anyone know someone who knows how to mount a conga head in the Redwood City / Palo Alto vicinity? If so I could use your help, Thanks, Isaac ...
Hello all, Does anyone have any experience{ good or bad} with mounting Mule skins on Bata drums. The heads on my drums are on their way out and I was thinking...
... Traditionally there are only two types of skin that should be used on bata. I think male goat is one and the other slips my mind. This of course, applies...
... Hi Chris, The drums in question are L.P. Bata.They came with those crappy Buffalo hides that they were putting on all their drums. These drums are not used...
Hi Mick, I've recently got some mule heads for an experienced Bata player. If he's open to it I could get you to contact him for his advice. He's been a...
There've been all these posting about places to get skins in the US but does anyone know of anywhere to get them in the UK? I've been looking for replacement...
From: "Brendan Brolly" <BB@...> ... "Quintomusic.com" sells the Timba line of products in the UK. Also, a huge percentage of leather goods these days...
I wanted to get your opinion on how the different intruments should be feeling the pulse in, say, a salsa band. I always feel that the congas are played a...
Of course, How they're played, and how they sound in the overall mix are two completely separate issues. You can play with all kinds of determination and...
... down - ... I don't get the question. Everyone plays together. No one is "on top of" the beat while someone else is "laying back." The singer could lay back...
Having had much experience programming (tumbao, montuno, etc.) in a midi set up to be a one man latin band, and for practicing, my feeling is that this music...
It occurs to me that one area of expressiveness (via "bending") happens when one constructs a phrase that transitions between duple and triple pulse, this is...
Hello group i have the last video concert of richie flores in puerto rico is a wonderfull concert of richie(the second giovanni) i trade for any other video of...
It seemed to me when I would hear Mongo use this riff in his earlier recordings there would be some slight tweaking...who knows, maybe it was my imagination,...
... Interesting point. Well put. I have noticed that the inherent "melodic/harmonic" components of percussion instruments are overshadowed and/or dominated...
In a message dated 10/16/2004 1:07:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... And yet, I can imagine somehow, Paquito, and Chucho Valdez, in their younger Irakere years,...
The name of the album escapes me but I believe it was John Santos who had a tremendous orchestration utilizing classical string arrangements with bata and bata...
Yes. Actually this impulse to combine classical music with African based (Afro Cuban) rhythmic structures goes way back and is one of the fascinating aspects...
Hello, I recently received a brand new hand made beautiful set of cajones, made by Matthew Smith. I am a total beginner at percussion but have been playing...
Lanie, didn’t you say you were from Denver? I play with some excellent congueros who’ve been teaching me for the past 2 years. If you like, I could make...
In a message dated 10/20/2004 11:06:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Yeah, but in 1968/9, neither were electric guitar, Fender bass, and Hammond organ turned...
Excellent point and message, Richard, thanks. It is just as "wrong" to insist that there is only one right way to play music, as it is to ignore tradition. In...
Hi Dave, Yes, I'm in Arvada, actually. Thank you so much again for the reference. I am taking lessons on piano a couple x a month, studying jazz. I really need...
Oh, sorry list, I meant to send this directly to Dave C. Sorry Dave :-). Yes, I guess that's what I meant by 3/2, that is what you notated. What musics are...
... LOL! Great comments Richard. There are some, alas, who are purists, who are just wired as to black-and/or-white approaches to music or art forms or what...
... Hopefully, there is only the slightest chance of that at this point in this list's development. Many of us, being vets of previous "percussion" lists, ...
In a message dated 10/21/2004 3:10:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... And that was my other thought, Steve, and my response to "purist traditionalists" in this...
