Elaborating on a question I answered on a forum— someone was asking about the playing in the video below. Here is a little bit of analysis of it, and some suggestions about how you should […]
Category: youtubed
Concert piano clickbait
Here’s an interesting YouTube account, giving concert piano the full clickbait treatment. It’s kind of fascinating, applying all the usual BS traffic-baiting moves to this area of music, that is nothing if not highly serious— […]
Something strange
This person is making a lot of videos composing accompaniment for drum solo videos by some well known players, “adding music”, as he says. The first few minutes explain this was done, then there’s an […]
How not to hit a drum
Hey, it’s been awhile since I’ve watched a drumming video, and rendered the tidal wave of complaints and irritations that come with it, so here are some comments I wrote when someone made me watch […]
Time economics of drum videos
Taking a break from a whole lot of teaching, business related emails— there’s a Seattle cymbal meet coming up, and a Germany trip in October— and whatnot. I get irritable when I don’t get to […]
It’s about records, it’s about records, it’s about records
I’m noticing— online, and to a lesser degree with some students— a lot of people approaching the drums mainly in terms of drumming media. Books and videos, and the drumming concerns they promote, are the […]
My objections to drumming videos
Posting this instead of the bilious, totally unproductive anti-YouTube drumming video rant I was working on, entitled Satan’s Vomitorium. Don’t worry, it wasn’t any good, or even finished— you’re not missing anything. See this post […]
Youtubed: practicing Syncopation
I’m feeling a little irked at the existence of YouTube drumming videos today, so let’s do a search of a subject near and dear to me, practicing the book Progressive Steps to Syncopation, and see […]
We get mentioned on YouTube sort of
Hey, it looks like one of my posts was a catalyst for a video by a semi well-known opaquely-named YouTuber. He has been the victim of some kind of smear campaign to make his videos […]
Anything at all, with energy
Why do they always look surprised. Today there is two big pieces in The Atlantic about social media advancing some very dark ideas, and about trolling and fascism, so maybe it’s a good day to […]