UCL PLAY - WEEK 2
ONE SONG, NEW IDENTITY
& PERCUSSION ADDITIONS
& PERCUSSION ADDITIONS
This week, you’ll continue developing the brief you started last week, beginning with a short workshop on ways to add percussion to your arrangements (bring week 1 PDFs and any notes/song sheets along).
We’ll focus first on using the cajon and Roland drum pads, exploring how simple percussion parts can strengthen the rhythm, groove and overall feel of a song with a brief demo session at the start before joining forces to continue on your BRIEF 1 arrangement.
We’ll focus first on using the cajon and Roland drum pads, exploring how simple percussion parts can strengthen the rhythm, groove and overall feel of a song with a brief demo session at the start before joining forces to continue on your BRIEF 1 arrangement.
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PERCUSSION PDFs
Adding percussion can bring a song to life by strengthening the pulse, supporting the groove and adding extra energy to the arrangement.
In this workshop, we’ll explore how to build simple, effective beats using the Roland SPD-SX pads and a cajon. Although they’re played in very different ways, both can create a strong rhythmic backbone and add texture, movement and character to a song.
The challenge: Listen to your song arrangement, identify what kind of groove it needs, then create a percussion part that supports the music without overpowering it.
In this workshop, we’ll explore how to build simple, effective beats using the Roland SPD-SX pads and a cajon. Although they’re played in very different ways, both can create a strong rhythmic backbone and add texture, movement and character to a song.
The challenge: Listen to your song arrangement, identify what kind of groove it needs, then create a percussion part that supports the music without overpowering it.
VIDEO DEMO
This guy shows how complex the cajon can get!!! Maybe stick to Level 1/2 for now :)
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