Tuesday, December 2, 2008

To play drums

It’s not easy to describe how is to play drums. You feel many sensations runing down your body and there is a lot of movement going on. Your head beats as if to tell you when to hit the drums and your arms move as you are always beating, although you are not. You feel deaf of everything behing the sounds of the hits. The drum is an intrument that shuts up every other sound, except the ones that sound in harmony with it.
The beats are consistent but there’s always a minimal variation between each of them. However they always fill the air since they are perceived as the thick smell of yellow flowers floating on water. Each part seems like yellow flowers floating on water. Like little japanese trees growing in the middle of the wet bamboo jungle. As you play the drums the sound comes alive and the jungle comes alive.
Each part of you is connected with the drums, like energy constantly in contact with you and the instrument. And a high amount of coordination is requiered. This is not difficult to gain, it is just a matter of practise. What is really difficult is the tension of the beat. Sometimes you have to hold it, and others you have to pre-released it, and whichever is the case, it should always be done with perfect groovy.
To play the drums is great. It’s like connecting yourself with what exists behind a song. It is like getting in it from outside to inside, and like coming out from inside it to the outside world. Is like going inside you and outside your head at the same time.

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