Portraits In Rhythm by Anthony J. Cirone Snare Solo 1

[RCOmusicMAN]

Would ANYBODY happen to have the sheet music for this??? i would really appreciate it!!!

[JGillsy]

Solid work man, I played this last year on my entrance audition for university, its a really tough piece to get up to speed and sounding tight. Awesome job!

[iwaslikepfffft]

your flams are so fluid. i am totally unable to do it like that haha

[WithASideOfFries]

This is my homework!

[aj7cook]

I love this solo... watch dynamics and you will be good!

[drumboy175]

uhhh, on a scale from 1-10, i'd give it a 4. you are evidently a drum set player because your dynamic level was wayyyy high. on measure 21 (0:29) i believe that ppp means pianississimo. you had all the rhythms right, but in an orchestral solo, that is about 1/2 of what counts

[slipknotrapist]

I'm trying find examples for each of these solos, can you make a video of number 3?

[slipknotrapist]

i meant 2

[maffia182]

Le falta diferenciar mas los matices.

Failure to distinguish the dynamics

[rrdrums110]

Pretty simple snare drum part.

[ThePhantomRegiment]

if you play your flams with the same hand at the parts where it makes sense (lines 7 and 8) they'll sound more consistent, which is good for an etude like this. sounds pretty good!

[billyvandelinder]

That was great! All your videos (so far) have been great.

[Synsacrus]

I'm sorry if I came off the wrong way; I was just giving a tip, which, trust me felt out of place since I'm not at your level. I played this piece for my instructor, then she explained how a flam in concert percussion should be more like a grace note. I disagreed a bit saying that flams were open for interpretation; however, when she played the piece for me with her more sensitive flams it sounded nothing short of incredible.

[Synsacrus]

That said, if I ever get enough money (music and english ed major with no money here) to get some decent recording hardware I will be sure to put up some videos, and if you could critique or give comments that would be a great experience for my major. It seems I have the music instruction part down, it's just the performance I tend to botch up a bit.

[tobinjw80]

No worries. Flams are totally up for interpretation and I do, in fact, agree with your instructor. However, when you open flams up much more than I do it starts sounding like a dotted 16th note rhythm and I think that's bad so I try to keep them tight enough not sound like a rhythm yet open enough to not be flat. But you would also open them or close based on application. Which is whole other discussion that I'm not trying to get into right now. :o) Thanks for watching.

[Synsacrus]

This may just be personal opinion, but your flams I think could be more consistent and musical. For concert snare drum make them more like grace notes; more sensitive than concussive.

[tobinjw80]

hey man, yeah - flams are up for interpretation. I've been playing drums for a real long time in a lot of different situations. I personally feel like flams should be open enough to sound like flams but closed enough to not sound like a "rhythm." So that's how I typically interpret them. Yeah, I could be more consistent. You should video response this performance to show us all how it's done dude!