Coming from a drumming background, it’s fairly easy for me to play with mallets, do the rolls, and coordinate the two hands. However, it needs a bit of learning and training to get used to holding two mallets in each hand. It is of course very important to be able to play each mallet independently [...]
It is very easy to learn the first basic polyrhythms (2:3 and 3:4), you can learn how they sound, and can get the feel for them. What is more important is being able to hear each one separately, and count each separately. A great idea in Peter Magadini’s book “Polyrhythms – The Musician’s Guide“, is [...]
Your elbows… This is definitely not a descriptive post about the details of the Moeller method, but one of the most important things I realized about it, is that (although this is a bit controversial) the elbow movement is what creates the effect. If you move your elbows in the proper way, you can cause [...]
