I’m posting this for those interested in any form of drumming, whether kit or hand percussion. The points they make are for anyone who makes music, and some who don’t. I’ll be teaching lots of music stuff every day for as long as I can maintain it. Meanwhile, take the time to watch and listen to these guys — they really do know what they’re talkin’ about, and you would do well to take heed.
Solid Silver Open-hole Gemeinhardt flute has produced amazing results for CDs, but Native American flutes are very different in timbre and fluctuation.
Starting this very morning, we have a new music program. Monday afternoons will always be FAXL’s band practice. Here’s the plan for the remainder of the week, to make every day into a music day, if time, energy and schedules permit… We’ll be setting up the stage with the F# didgeridoo as the basic. On this, we’ll build percussion, to wit: everything we can lay our hands on that makes a sound when agressed upon percussively. That will include djembe, congas, rekinto, thumb-piano and a host of ibo and ube drums. Featured in the center will be (with your help — $1225 for the whole package including special shipping — is needed right now for this project) an array of chromium IBO stands and special Pro-35 microphones in five incredible HAPI drums. We haven’t yet found a stand for the big UFO angel drum. Here’s the reason we can do this now — I have found THE PERFECT (not too expensive, but not at all cheap) F# Native American flute that will allow me to make recordings for you that at last can include my HAWKAA Eagle and Hawk Calls. I will be doing workshops explaining how to draw your TOTEM out with the Native American flute, but it can’t be a cheap imitation. They just don’t work the same, although they can sound pretty good. The animal spirit has to be actually living inside the wooden heart of the flute, and must be invoked with a special breath. This is well known to all shaman everywhere. I made sure of that back in good old 50,000 B.C. (Truthfully, it was more like 48055 B.C., but 50,000 sounds soooo much better.) So, please somebody dig into the pocket, purse or wallet and make this exciting HAWKAA project possible. My bird friends are waiting to sky-walk you to Heaven.
Here’s a little fun thing just for reading the page…
I posted a tutorial on subway busking with HAPI drums. My HAPI drum stage setup now consists of an array of a total of 6 HAPI drums, a D Minor, a C Akebono, a UFO in C Major, an E Integral (pygmy & akebono) and a D Integral, which delivers all the HANG tones you could want, plus a stunning F# Minor thin guy — it really knocks ’em out in concert!!!
Here are a few interesting experiments with the HAPI drum. You’ll note that it does not always have to be used as a percussion instrument — it has plenty of melodic punch as well. The videos are intended by me to be viewed in the sequence given for the best effect.