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Are there any tricks/patterns that creates the illusion of speed ?

Speed is no illusion brotha...

some 'illusions' and 'tricks' on this video previously posted on congaplace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUmFPsKRCEc


by the way, why would you want to create 'the illusion of speed'?

I knew somebody was gonna post this ! jajajajaja

You may be referring to the double tone by a single hand stroke, people that have a lot of hand technique can achieve this by letting their hand bounce back to the drum after they hit the drum already. I hope you get what I am saying, if it is perform correctly and fast enough people can actually think you are hitting the drums twice as fast, like if you were doing single strokes.

DJBakan

pavloconga wrote:
by the way, why would you want to create 'the illusion of speed'?

There's a book by Alan Dworsky "Soloing strategies for hand percusionist" where you can read that
"you don't need a blazing speed to play a sizzling solo". Or something like that.
So I just got that question about tricks

No illusion here!.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe15md7VFQQ fast and clean...

JohnnyConga wrote:No illusion here!.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe15md7VFQQ fast and clean...

WOW! Where do I get drums like that...must be the drums right?

Triplet fills. everywhere you would normally play one beat,it's easy to insert a fast triplet and still land on the same hand. When relied on instead of actually developing ideas it becomes a cheap gimmick fairly easily.

Hawker it's all in the hands!....not the drums....I never heard back from you, what happened?...

Here is my video on doing doubles 2 different ways..there is also a third way, which i will show later...but try these 2 ways first...remember to use the 'weight' of your hand to get a 'rebound' on the drum working from the wrist...u can't 'stiff arm' doubles and play them at the speed Im playing them if so I'd like to see it done....relaxing is key and tension is your enemy...so the first way of stroking for doubles is drum corp style...one hand down one hand up(sticking as it's called) but doing it with your hands..and the second way is what I call 'the drop and drag"...where the hand is dropped and dragged a bit back to get 2 tones per hand...

http://youtu.be/Q2TVT_QZCMg