I like the "Abandon Ship" convo. I play free improv in a quintet and it is easy to always keep moving forward with new idea after new idea, but I'm noticing more ideas actually spring forward from exploring more subtle changes within one idea and seeing where the rest of the band takes it. It also makes the music more dynamic for me, and saves the showy stuff to really bring ideas to a landing. Sometimes free improv ends up leaning more towards frenetic noise, which is one valid idea, but can take a piece right to a specific volume/intensity and just stay there for 10 minutes until it peters out. Hanging out on the subtle variations provides a foundation for deep dives into ideas.
I changed where I position the snare throw-off after watching Mark's videos, to make it easier to adjust tension in the middle of playing to get it just right for whatever is happening in the music.
I like the "Abandon Ship" convo. I play free improv in a quintet and it is easy to always keep moving forward with new idea after new idea, but I'm noticing more ideas actually spring forward from exploring more subtle changes within one idea and seeing where the rest of the band takes it. It also makes the music more dynamic for me, and saves the showy stuff to really bring ideas to a landing. Sometimes free improv ends up leaning more towards frenetic noise, which is one valid idea, but can take a piece right to a specific volume/intensity and just stay there for 10 minutes until it peters out. Hanging out on the subtle variations provides a foundation for deep dives into ideas.
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! Always found Mark‘s snare sound and control amazing.
I changed where I position the snare throw-off after watching Mark's videos, to make it easier to adjust tension in the middle of playing to get it just right for whatever is happening in the music.
awesome interview thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
What‘s Mark‘s philisophy on the reso head?
he said in a different interview that he never changed reso heads from the stock ones until he had a drum tech recently
@benjammin4840 Nice, interesting! 🙂