reviews
books What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s
Drawn to You
Janel Rodriguez Ferrer Brushstroke Books Sept 2012 This new young adult series begins as 13-year-old “Nuyorican” Gina Santiago is awarded a full scholarship to an elite arts school for talented teenagers (or those with rich parents). Gina is ecstatic even though she is enrolled in the visual arts program instead of her first choice, music. She lives and breathes for playing guitar and writing songs. Gina boldly navigates the culture of her new school and manages to find friends (and a couple enemies) and even band mates. Through one of her friends and with the gentle assistance of her uncle, she discovers a family secret that explains her great love of music and her innate talent. The quick pace of the story will surely keep young readers up late at night surreptitiously hiding the glow of their iPads and Kindles. But what I really want to know is, will Gina and her friends win the battle of the bands in the next book? — Rebecca DeRosa
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Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal Laina Dawes Bazillion Points | Jan 2013 One of the strangest notions is that the way you look has anything to do with the way you listen to music. “What are you doing here?” Author Laina Dawes, a music writer and devoted metal fan, has been asked this question multiple times when she went to see her favorite bands. Why is anyone there? Because they love the music. Dawes interviews other black fans of metal to get to the bottom of why they love the music that people inside and outside of their community think they should not like. For Dawes, it was her way of dealing with racism. As an adolescent at a mostly white school, she felt like an outsider. She used metal to channel her anger. That’s probably the case for a lot of people. Music is the perfect way to deal with our most intense emotions. — Rebecca DeRosa
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Heavy Metal Fills This is a very helpful instructional video that breaks down beginner “metal” drum fills. It even has the written out part on the bottom of the video with a metronome that follows the notes so you can keep track of where everything hits, and lines up. Search: Heavy Metal Drum Fills
Elisa Pilotti – Lesson #4: Linear Fills
Taryn Young
In this video, Eliza is teaching double bass combinations. I really like that she explains them by the number of strokes you play on each drum. This is helpful when you start building your own combinations, and you can see, mathematically, what phrases fit in certain places, and also when an over the bar line phrase occurs. As long as you have the numbers, you will never get lost!
This young lady is tearing it up with her double bass technique. It looks like she is performing a solo for some kind of festival or competition. Whatever it is for, it is amazing, and super fun to watch. Not only is she playing combo’s similar to the ones taught in the other videos, she is also grooving with double bass. Grooving with a double bass pattern is extremely difficult, and she does it well.
Search: Linear Drum Fills Elisa Pilotti
Search: Female Drummer Taryn Lee Young
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