Drum Lesson #6 - Micing the Drums

What are some different ways to mic my drum kit?

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Drum Lesson #5 - Par II

Internal Hearing – Part II
Some tunes are based on vamps.  Generally speaking, when a tune has static harmony, it tends to have a rhythmic/harmonic vamp.  In many ways these type of tunes, such as John Coltrane’s “Equinox,” the vamp is the bass line. 

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Drum Lesson #5 - Internal Hearing

Internal Hearing
Once you have accepted the concept that you should always play off of something, the next important point is this:  there is a distinction between what you play and what to play off of.  In other words, there is often a difference between what you are hearing in your head and what you – or the band – are actually playing.  This brings us to the concept of internal hearing.  Let’s call what you are actually playing the external.  That’s what everyone can hear.  However, what you are playing off of is sometimes an internal thing.  Only you hear it in your head.  So there is a separation between what you think about and what you play.
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