If You Can Hit It With Something, It Is A Drum

1/8/2022

Music is not something you learn,
it is something you unleash.

Forget music theory,
invent your own thory.

Lmms will get you started,
take the lmms tutorial, and hit the can!

I consider cans to be bell like instruments, or cymbals,
and I think it is a good idea to leave higher pitches sounds for last.

When you start with plastic bottles,
you get a sound that fills the background of you song.

There is just more echo,
and the sound is more profound and loooonger.

I don't use forks,
so I brought one of my metal chopsticks with me.

I will start by playing my water bottle,
it is a thick, rectangular two liter face twisting watermelon juice, juice bottle.

I won't start with just one strike of the bottle,
I like my drums complex.

But more than that,
I like to hit my drums in such a way that it creates a double whammy.

A transition between two sounds,
at first you will hear the two hits separately then I'll mix them up a bit.

Upon the resolution of the intro, I will very gently introduce a third drum,
also based on my water bottle.

But that is just to give an occasional deeper hit,
as if an exclamation mark at the end of a sentence.

The tempo will be set to 280 beats per minute,
and I will slowly turn up the re-verb, bass boost and the equalizer as we go.

(intro plays)

I have purchased a little red mixing bowl for my salads recently,
and grabbed it last time I was downstairs.

We will use it is to deepen the drum,
creating an evolving exclamation mark.

I also hit my water bottle too hard on the edge,
and rather than it marking a sound, it was metal chopstick that stole the show.

So I'll mix in a gentle metallic sound,
as if to throw in a bit of Jalapeno into our salad.

It just happens that the metallic sounds helps us move,
so the introduction jumps right into fast dance.

Grab onto something,
and give this a listen.

(dance plays)

Now, no drum kit is complete,
without a bucket and fruit can.

Though un-intimidating raw,
with a touch of bass, a bucket is as mighty as it sounds.

(middle plays)

I recently 3D printed a wallet prototype dodad,
and it turns out to be very drum like when struck with my chopsticks.

So as the song winds down,
and introduce it to add a little bid of wood like drum.

Here is the song in full,
I hope you enjoy it.

After the song, I have included,
the raw unfiltered version.

It may not be very fun to listen to,
but it is interesting to hear the raw instruments.

And now,
for the unprocessed version.