percussion minimal two sticks: click click click click click click click click 010515 ... no reason we're going to play a fugue that uses crazy 'instruments', such as a washtub and a lion's roar...and lots more that i can't seem to remember right now. and it has all these weird counterrhythms too. it's hard. it's crazy. it's awesome. 021124 ... yenaldlosi on some nights you can't escape the rhythm of drums being beaten like truant kids down the street 021125 ... yenaldlosi on some nights you can't escape the rhythm of drums being beaten like truant kids down the street 021125 ... no reason i got me a tambourine. 030105 ... no reason he started me on the marimba today. i was really hoping we'd start on the vibraphone, but he said this was better. still a really nice sound. ilovepercussioninstruments. 030116 ... unhinged percussion art ensemble rocks the house 030116 ... no reason writes dorky percussion poems Practice Time Enclosed in sound Tossed back and forth by pitch toyed with by opposite noises shocked by dynamics A room taken over must ........listen carefully ting-ting-ting-ting-ting mallets softly tap the vibraphone and a peaceful hummmmmmmm resounds CRASSSHH! a cymbal interjects rudely and a one... two.. BANG! sticks brought down angrily onto a responding drum prolonnnnnnnged rinnnnnnnnngs echoes first notes of a piano melody breaking softly through the clamor only to be trampled BOOm! ThUMP... thUDD by timpani tuning as it ......pulsepulsepulsepulses A room must struggle to hold it all in maintain the balance within these walls focused and trembling it creates space for reverberations in this cacophony of confusion it struggles withholds and contains the dissonance just about to burst when finally crucially ringing dies down and vibrations slow It must recover and for a second regain harmony until an insistent ‘ping’ on the triangle reminds a room of what it is of what it has to be 030703 ... hmmm it looks better when words are scattered on the page more. and when font sizes and styles are different. 030703 ... no reason passion 120112 ... no reason creativity goes a hell of a long way i can't stop watching you play (rhyme unintentional) 120113 ... unhinged hip_hop bass in my headphones or the south american percussionist that accompanied the urban flamenco artist. cowbell on a foot pedal...now that's impressive 120113 ... ungreat drum 120114 what's it to you? who go blather from