James Dennett My space Drumkit Exercises Int/Adv: General Info
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Dave Weckl
Virgil Donati
Vinnie Colaiuta
Dennis Chambers
Steve Gadd
Simon Phillips
Steve Smith
Buddy Rich
Tommy Igoe
Jeff Porcaro
Carter Beauford
Thomas Lang
Mike Portnoy
Chad Wackerman
Darryn Farrugia (Aussie Drummer)
Gordon Rhytmeister (Aussie Drummer)
Pete Drummond (Aussie Drummer)
Chris Brien (Aussie Drummer)
Gene Krupa
Danny Carey
Joe Morello
Gavin Harrison
John JR Robinson
Stewart Copeland
Greg Bissonette
David Jones (Aussie Drummer)
Andrew Gander (Aussie Drummer)
Terepai Richmond (Aussie Drummer)
Tony Williams
Billy Cobham
Neal Peart
Chad Smith
Tim Alexander (Herb)
Ian Piace
Angus Burchall
Terepai Richmond (Aussie Drummer)
Lars Ulrich
Dom Famularo
Travis Barker
Terry Bozzio
Joe Jordison
Will Calhoun
Pat Torpey
My Teacher Milan Troha!
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Hi Everybody welcome to my page thanks for stopping by! my name is James Dennett I am a drummer and drum teacher from the central coast NSW Australia. I am 24 years old and have been playing for nearly
10 years, I have my own home drum studio which I also teach out of "James Dennett School Of Drumming". I play and record with a number of bands and artists from the coast/newcastle to sydney. Music is my life and I have an appreciation for all genres of music, Although having
a love for playing Fusion/funk jazz and progressive rock music my main goal is to always try to play all styles of music to ensure that I am comfortable with any musical or recording situation I am put into to.
What you are hearing is a series of exercises that have been taken from my
yet to be completed book. I have basically put together a bunch of random fun exercises split into four categories. FILLS, EXERCISES, GROOVES and DOUBLE BASS DRUM. A lot of the patterns have an 1/8 note beat prior to the exercise to give you a feel of using the exercise as a fill for example.
From my teaching experience I have always found that giving my students a chance to hear what there exercises sound like around the drums, various
tempo's and correct dynamic consistency usually helps them with the motivation to want to really learn and work hard to accomplish the exercise. I know we all at some stage or another have looked at the
dots on the page and thought how will I ever use this or I will never be able to master this! so I always encourage to be as creative as you can be with what is given to you and always remember that the speed is not the important thing, it's the eveness, timing, accuracy and so forth you should be striving for.
I often tell my students that sometimes doubt there technical or speed ability that in my opinion the drummer or any musician for that matter with nice even technique, solid timing and a great feel will always prevail over the crazy soloist with awesome speed and technical ability but lack
of timing, maturity and feel for the music. I feel that guys like Colaiuta, weckl and Gadd for example really have all the chops and flashiness which we all love but most importantly they also have the ability to play a nice even solid groove with loads of feel that we would all love to have, I think thats what makes them the masters they are. We can learn so much from these guys!
James Dennett's School of Drumming has now been published on facebook...Though it does link back Mainly to the Myspace page as this gets updated a lil more frequently
Hey brother virge whats crackin? had shitloads of fun lastweek jammin and writing i got some new 5/4 riffs n stuff to play with and a couple of other time sig's.enjoyed the upbeat click track jam that was awesome. hopefully get up next friday for another session. i got that audition wednesday night at 7pm myspace.com/thundasteel kinda like judas priest theyve heard my demo vids and like it so fingers crossed aye anyways ill let you back to your toploader -Tony-
Virgil wats crackin next time we need to play super smash TV and super probotector kick the dot of some futuristic aliens n Shiit. tell ya what im Fookin spewing the old owners arent out of my house yet and i wanna move in!
I had a look into those Shure SM 57 and SM 58 mics. On ebay they are approx around the $200 mark each. If lucky you can find them cheaper at auction rather than buy it now. I just had a quick look though. If they gave descent quality recordings that is pretty cheap. I might wait a while though; every $200 counts right now...trying to get a car. haha. I'll put recording off for now but once i have a car and am cashed up i will look into it in more depth, maybe even try to find a good value mic kit... see how we go...Thanks for the mic reccomendations James. I might buy one in a few months. cheers. Hamish.
Ok....awesome....thanks heaps James... I will look into it. It sure would be cool to start doing some recordings. I have been working on that double bass polyrhythm with the flams that you showed me last lesson...it is starting to sound pretty good. I will also need to start thinking about coming up with a solo soon to do some time in 2009 at a school concert thing. I have guitar pro but i haven't used it yet...i will as soon as i get a bit of time. That's my update. haha....i'm pretty busy this week but we might try and organise a lesson some time soon... if I don't see you before christmas, have a good one! Cheers. Hamish.
Hey James.... I was experimenting recording myself drumming just with my video camera. The sound once on the computer isn't actually too bad. Much better than some of the crap that is on youtube. lol. But I was wondering if you had any (cheap) ideas as to how to get a better sound quality... I'm not gonna mic up my kit coz that would definately cost too much at the minute. haha. I think you were trying out just one room mic into the camera a while back... How did that work out? If I try that, what kind of mic should I use? Cheers. Hamish.
Fuck yeah bro always got a tune or two aside for the virge, got my new jem yesterday bringing it on friday, gettin my vision hopefully tomorow or thursday getting some pro eliminators too...hanging with you will do that lol i wont play like you but at least ill be able to do some good kickin haha yeah we need to work on some stuff by corespondence check ya friday buuuuddy
Hey James. How are you? Thanks for accepting my friendship. You and Kurt did an awesome job on the cd. It sounds brilliant. i really think you guys will go far with it.
F&^K Virge i didnt realise you had that many friends on myspace your an international sensation without even having to leave your bedroom,ill call ya on thursday bro if the grievous has his car fixed by then ill be up to jam on friday! and we can go through the usual fortnihgtly process...except ina weekly thing. just because hes got that tour and ive got that thing with my missus for our aniv. next week. party on dood!
Hi fellow muso, how are you? Just wanted to take the time to invite you to my exciting show this Sat night, also playing is the gorgeous & talented Deni Hines. Hope to see you there, don't forget to come and say hi!
Much Love
Amanda
