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Review » OffWorld Percussion Invader V3 Practice Pad
Jul 15th
OffWorld Percussion Invader V3 Practice Pad
Manufacturer: OffWorld Percussion
Product: Invader V3 Practice Pad
Website: www.offworldpercussion.com
DD Rating: 
I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to practice pads. I spend a lot of time chopping out in front of the TV or when just sitting around in my rare bits of free time, so I like to have at least one stationed in every room of the house. Just kidding… But I have accumulated a lot of pads over the years. Gum rubber, foam rubber, MoonGel, homemade, etc. This one is my new favorite by far.
Pöpcørn Drumming
Jul 8th
Check out the Swedish Chef rockin’ the pots and pans. And melons and knife and blender.
Arabian TechnoKore
Jul 2nd
I just stumbled on this video by Reuben Gingrich and thought it was pretty cool. Nice licks. And I like the creative video cuts.
A Drummer’s Dream
Jun 21st
Can’t wait to see this. Not only is it a great collection of players, but the production quality looks amazing.
Featuring:
Nasyr Abdul Al-Khabyyr
Dennis Chambers
Kenwood Dennard
Horacio Hernandez
Giovanni Hidalgo
Mike Mangini
Raul Rekow
Robert Mitchell 3io: “Teardrop”
Jun 14th
This is a pretty awesome rendition of Massive Attack’s “Teardrop”.
Keeping It Simple
Jun 7th
Typically, stick tricks make me roll my eyes. Not because I think they’re lame—quite the contrary, I love a good show as much as the next drum geek. No, what makes me groan is that more often than not the flashy drummer in question has obviously spent time perfecting these tricks to the detriment of drumming. The time will fall apart or the sound will be inconsistent. To me, tricks are done well when you can close your eyes and not hear the visual.
I think this video fits the bill. Yes, it’s hilarious because it’s completely out of place, but the drummer’s sound and time remain quite consistent while doing some of the craziest tricks I’ve ever seen:
And, just because, here’s some from Virgil:
Arto’s Bottle
Jun 3rd
I have a great love for “found objects”, or homemade/improvised musical oddities. These videos of Turkish-Armenian artist Arto Tuncboyaciyan rocking a glass bottle and a tambourine are just wickedly fun. There are several versions of this YouTube, but here are a couple I like best:
Travis Orbin: One of My New Faves
May 3rd
I’m very excited when I get my YouTube subscription update and there’s a new Travis Orbin video link inside. In a sea of Internet “superstar” poseurs, this guy’s the real deal. It doesn’t hurt that the production of his videos is excellent either!
His influences are clear, and comparisons to Mike Mangini are inevitable, but he nonetheless has a very unique style. I’m particularly impressed with his dynamics, ambidexterity, and super-clean feet-and-hands runs around that cool Mangini-meets-Bruford set-up. There’s a lot of really inspiring stuff here that makes me wish I could lock myself in a practice room for a week straight!
Here’s a video of a session Travis did with Pete Peterson. It’s a really neat, complex tune in the vein of Zappa / Mike Keneally / Mike Patton (the Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, and solo stuff). I’d love to see a chart for this thing. It’s rife with meter changes, polyrhythms, and metric modulations—and that’s just the rhythmic stuff!
More Travis vids here.
