Playing Cello on Steel Drums
Part of the Video Series How to Play Steel Pan Drums in a Band
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Playing Cello on Steel Drums
Hi, I'm Alan Lightner with Expert Village. We're talking about the various roles that different members of the steel drum family play in a traditional Calypso or Solka steel band setting. We're talking about the triple guitars or cello pans that we have here. I'm noticing I'm playing with these longer sticks, with a little thicker rubber on them. Just like the double seconds, we do a lot of strumming like you would strum on a guitar. We call it strumming on the pans, on the guitar pans. We have that little melody that we were playing before based on the NEF scale that we harmonized to demonstrate some different strum patterns. That melody was excuse me. We would harmonize that and I'll use those, the harmony to demonstrate some strum patterns. The first one that I'd like to demonstrate is two beats. Just two beats that repeat. One, two, ah one, two, three, four, ba boom. Da doom, ba boom, ba boom. Starts before the beat, the second note is right on the down beat. Ah one, ah two, ah three, ah four. Ah one, ah two, ah three, ah four. So when we put that on the drum, one, ah two, ah three, and four and. Ah one, ah two, ah three, ah four. So if I go through the harmony that we've created for our little melody, it would sound like this. One, ah two, ah one, two, three ah. Ah one, ah two, three, four. Ah one, two, ah three, ah four. And that would be the way we'd play this particular guitar strum on for that melody.
Hi, I'm Alan Lightner with Expert Village. We're talking about the various roles that different members of the steel drum family play in a traditional Calypso or Solka steel band setting. We're talking about the triple guitars or cello pans that we have here. I'm noticing I'm playing with these longer sticks, with a little thicker rubber on them. Just like the double seconds, we do a lot of strumming like you would strum on a guitar. We call it strumming on the pans, on the guitar pans. We have that little melody that we were playing before based on the NEF scale that we harmonized to demonstrate some different strum patterns. That melody was excuse me. We would harmonize that and I'll use those, the harmony to demonstrate some strum patterns. The first one that I'd like to demonstrate is two beats. Just two beats that repeat. One, two, ah one, two, three, four, ba boom. Da doom, ba boom, ba boom. Starts before the beat, the second note is right on the down beat. Ah one, ah two, ah three, ah four. Ah one, ah two, ah three, ah four. So when we put that on the drum, one, ah two, ah three, and four and. Ah one, ah two, ah three, ah four. So if I go through the harmony that we've created for our little melody, it would sound like this. One, ah two, ah one, two, three ah. Ah one, ah two, three, four. Ah one, two, ah three, ah four. And that would be the way we'd play this particular guitar strum on for that melody.
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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