Friday, June 5, 2009 10:55 PM
My Goal- Be a great musician

On 4 June 09, my section play an improvised percussion ensemble song...For this song... we only play the drums and other percussion accessories...In this song...we need our own creativity of playing our very own rhythm ...This is to spread our creativity of our musicianship and showmanship...In this song...we really depend on each other as we need to communicate and interact with each other by playing our instrument...I played the drumset...So everyone is depending on me as I am the one that give the tempo...I realised that my tempo have been improved...My tempo was constant...There is no problem for me to coordinate my both hands and to play latin-samba drumbeat as it is easy...I can apply my basic drumming skill to it...However...I still practising and improving on my jass swing technique...
Percussion Instruments such as bongo, conga, cowbell and agogo bell is very important as it makes the rhythm more lively with some samba and latin element...Usually when playing samba percussion...The agogo bell will be played first to give the queue to the drummer to start beating the drumbeat...So...I must be very alert to start playing the drum...When filling the drumbeat..I must not give a complicating drumbeat as it will affect everyone rhythm..the best thing to do is to play and give basic drumbeat...Beside me giving the main tempo of the song...the cowbell also assist me for constant tempo...So..the cowbell is the second important instrument in percussion ensemble...