It may have looked quiet to you, but around here the scene is a-buzzin’.
If you’ve been through this site memorising everything, then you’ll know that in the seventies I used to play in a folk rock band called Caedmon.
Caedmon played their farewell concert thirty years ago, recorded and released an album and went their separate ways. The album has since become a collectors item and has been called the second best folk rock album ever.
Gosh.
Anyway, to celebrate the thirty year mark, we got together at the weekend and spent three blissful days making music. We’re looking to record some tracks later this year, and in the meantime we’ve put up a web site.
I was possibly a little unfair in my previous post Drumming for Beginners, which might have given the false impression to the more trusting amongst you that I was actually an excellent drummer with a superb electronic kit.
Neither is quite true. I’m a shite drummer and the kit in question is the ubiquitous DD502, which can be found all over the place under a variety of different brand names. The main thing is - it’s cheap.
So to help folk who may be thinking of buying one to learn how to play the drums like I did, I’ve recorded a short audio clip to demonstrate what it does do, and what it doesn’t do. You can find reviews all over the web for this kit, including quite a few on YouTube, but I didn’t find any which illustrated the weaknesses as well as the strengths.
For what it’s worth, skilled drummers generally don’t think much of it, and beginners think it’s excellent value for money.
