Playing Chords On Steel Drums
Part of the Video Series How to Play the Steel Drums
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Playing Chords On Steel Drums
Hi. I'm Alan Lightner and we're here with Expert Village talking about the art of playing steel pans. We talked a lot about playing single notes and doing, practicing techniques, single strokes and double strokes and paradiddles and rolls. Things with single notes. We're going to talk now about playing two notes together which is called a chord. When I strike both of those notes, this note and this note together, it's called a chord. Learning chords requires some ears and perhaps some, some, some studying, but experimentation always works. If you can, if you've got ears and some time to experiment, you can find playing chords can be very fun and sound very nice on the drum. It's a way to get more sound out of your instrument. When I play chords, I try to hit both sticks, have both sticks attack the drum at the same time. There are other techniques. Occasionally, I want to do what's called a flam where one stick comes a little later. For instance, in a, a lot of times in a lot of Latin music, you'll hear on purpose people playing flam. I'm starting those on purpose. I'm starting those rolls as flams. I can also do that where I don't. Where I try to attack them at the same time. Playing chords, striking them all at the same time, or as flams, learning your chords is going to require, as I said, some study and some experimentation. But choosing two notes you can find, two different notes and they don't have to, it's really your choice. Whatever sounds you like. Whatever sounds you like to hear out of your chords can work for you. But the idea of playing two notes together is the idea of playing chords on your steel pan.
Hi. I'm Alan Lightner and we're here with Expert Village talking about the art of playing steel pans. We talked a lot about playing single notes and doing, practicing techniques, single strokes and double strokes and paradiddles and rolls. Things with single notes. We're going to talk now about playing two notes together which is called a chord. When I strike both of those notes, this note and this note together, it's called a chord. Learning chords requires some ears and perhaps some, some, some studying, but experimentation always works. If you can, if you've got ears and some time to experiment, you can find playing chords can be very fun and sound very nice on the drum. It's a way to get more sound out of your instrument. When I play chords, I try to hit both sticks, have both sticks attack the drum at the same time. There are other techniques. Occasionally, I want to do what's called a flam where one stick comes a little later. For instance, in a, a lot of times in a lot of Latin music, you'll hear on purpose people playing flam. I'm starting those on purpose. I'm starting those rolls as flams. I can also do that where I don't. Where I try to attack them at the same time. Playing chords, striking them all at the same time, or as flams, learning your chords is going to require, as I said, some study and some experimentation. But choosing two notes you can find, two different notes and they don't have to, it's really your choice. Whatever sounds you like. Whatever sounds you like to hear out of your chords can work for you. But the idea of playing two notes together is the idea of playing chords on your steel pan.
About the Expert
Expert: Alan Mark Lightner is a master faculty member at the East Bay Center for Performing Arts where he served as the director of the steel pans and drum set departments. Read More
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