After I've
watched many different drums cover's videos, I realized that there's another
interesting drums cover, which we called Street Drums.
What is Street Drums?
Hereby I share a video to you all, Amazing Street Drum
Performance by 3 years old
(Amazing
Street Drum Performance By 3 Year Old, 2011)
A 3 years
old kid played street drums with his father.
Basically,
street drums is one of the performances that performing at street by
"Street Performer/Musician".
They have no
any professional instrument, they can just anything that by using a simple
material. For example, they used paint bucket as the drums, then play it with a
pair of drum sticks. With the simple materials, it brings an amazing show. It could be considered as doing their performance in public places.
Sometime,
many people will only pay attention or watch those professional drummers'
concert or performance. However, in my opinion, I will not only focus on
particular category, but also search for others talented performers.
After you
have discovered some talented people's show, you will realize that, they are
another professionals too, in other field. Everyone has own expertise.
Besides, I
found out there are few steps in making a street drum set.
- Buy a pair of drum sticks, I will recommend the good quality and branded drum sticks, Vic Firth. It costs around RM42 - RM45. To know more about Vic Firth, here you go http://www.vicfirth.com/
- Search for objects, something is big and hollow. For example, something could overturned plastic buckets or bins, or items of metal or glass, which has good ring when you hit it.
- After you have found an appropriate object, then test it! Make sure the sound from the object could produce a fairly loud and resonant sound.
- Make sure the object is strong enough because for street drummers (maybe you), would play many hundreds or thousands times for the performance. Therefore, the object must be tough enough to overcome the punishment.
- For street drummers, some of them might need one object (for example, one empty paint bucket) only, however, to make it complicated, adding some timbres in the instruments. It produces wide variety of sound colors in order to attract listeners and making fun on the music.
As a
conclusion, there are two types of drummers, ordinary drummers and street
drummers. Which drummers is the most attractive for you?
References:
Vork, L.
(2012). How to Make s Street Drum Set. Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/how_4797177_street-drum-set.html
Amazing
Street Drum Performance by 3 Year Old. (2011, July 26). [Video File]. Retrieved
from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA25VuQgZ9E&feature=player_embedded
