Thursday, December 18, 2008

New Educational Percussion DVD


The NYTimes reports on the new educational percussion DVD Fred Armisen Presents: Jens Hannemann Complicated Drumming Technique:

In a scene from his latest instructional DVD, this vaguely Teutonic musician has just finished demonstrating the step-by-step mechanics of an overly elaborate rhythm: in this case a two-handed drum pattern from his song "Just in Time" that he illustrates by calling out the words "left" and "right," seemingly at random, about 31 times in a row. Then he turns to the camera and with a straight face tells his would-be pupils, "You might want to memorize that for when you’re practicing at home."
I *so* want this DVD!!

BTW, I found this via a blog post by my good friend Ben at The Good Music Adventure. Check out the rest of Ben's blog while you're there - I've added it to the blogroll over there on the right-hand nav panel, too.

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