Portraits In Rhythm by Anthony J. Cirone Snare Solo 1

Portraits In Rhythm by Anthony J. Cirone
Snare Solo 1 performed by Tobin Wagstaff
Tobin Wagstaff is the Executive Director of Studio Percussion, Inc.
For more information please visit www.studiopercussion.org.

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[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.

[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!

[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

[WithASideOfFries]

This is my homework!

[RCOmusicMAN]

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

[maffia182]

Le falta diferenciar mas los matices.

Failure to distinguish the dynamics

[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

[slipknotrapist]

i meant 2

[slipknotrapist]

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

[aj7cook]

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

[rrdrums110]

Pretty simple snare drum part.