After hosting four consecutive annual festivals on the company’s own premises in Gutenstetten, Germany, the Meinl Drum Festival is now going international and will be held at the Palace of Youth in Moscow on 6 June.
“Our idea is to host the festival in an international metropolis one year, and then go back to Gutenstetten again the year after,” explains Meinl’s festival coordinator Norbert Saemann.
“This year we will debut the international Meinl Drum Festival in Moscow, Russia. Drummers all over the world have followed the previous festival on the internet and have watched the videos we produced. We have had an especially strong demand from Russian drummers to host a Meinl Drum Festival in Moscow.” The festival line-up includes - Mike Terrana, USA (Tarjia) - Wolfgang Haffner, Germany (Nils Landgren, Till Broenner) - Snake, Russia (Agata Kristy, Naive) - Benny Greb, Germany (Jerobeam) - Thomas Lang, Austria
This week I had to break down this track for one of my students, and on hearing it I figured it’d be good for this weeks track of the week! It’s got 2 handed 16ths running pretty much the whole way through which makes it tough to play in itself, but couple that together with the speed at which it’s played and for a lot of people it becomes a matter of endurance!
Here’s there breakdown.
Section Bars
Intro 12
1st Verse 16
Break 2 (just hats+ lil fill)
Chorus 16
Bridge 8
2nd Verse 16
Break 2 (just hats+ lil fill)
Chorus 16
Inst 16 (bass drums on “3 + +” with bass guitar and snare’s on the “2” only)
Solo 16 (snares back to “2” and “4” and bass back to the “1”)
Mid Section 16 (8ths on h/h and snare on ¼’s)
Break 2 (just hats + lil fill)
Chorus 16
Chorus 16 (8ths on h/h and snare on ¼’s)
Outro 12 to fade…. (8ths on h/h and snare on ¼’s)
Notes: Groove is 2handed 16ths, “2” and “4” on snare and the “1” on the bass. There are sporadic fills which are pretty much just “4e+a” or “3e+a4e+a” (basically just move the hands off the h/h and onto the kit somewhere and keep them going and you’ll be fine!). The bass drum does change but it’s not overly tricky. There is also a lift on the h/h in most bars, it does change in some parts of the track so listen and see if you can pick it out.
After hosting four consecutive annual festivals on the company’s own premises in Gutenstetten, Germany, the Meinl Drum Festival is now going international and will be held at the Palace of Youth in Moscow on 6 June.