2026-08-22 15:13 UTC
@theodoraward@mastodon.social was he really bad at it? I feel like scatting is a really efficient way to communicate drum ideas
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@ikesau@micro.ikesau.co 2026-08-22 15:17
@theodoraward@mastodon.social my story is that when I was a kid I "invented" an esoteric musical notation system that was expressly designed to represent the drum and bass parts in At The River by groove armada. I foisted it upon my friends and when they tried to compose literally anything else with it, I was like "hmmm nah it doesn't really work that way"
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@theodoraward@mastodon.social 2026-08-22 15:54
@ikesau@micro.ikesau.co it is better than any alternative i can think of! but because the specific kind of drumming needed was so reliant on accents and sometimes he'd want toms or different cymbals involved (plus i was nervous bc the whole class was looking at me lol) it was still a pretty lossy operation