Comments on: Practice Hard and Practice Smart http://www.torontopolicepipeband.com/2009/01/06/practice-hard-and-practice-smart/ Not just another pipe band in Ontario Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:19:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Timur Alhimenkov http://www.torontopolicepipeband.com/2009/01/06/practice-hard-and-practice-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Timur Alhimenkov Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:25:37 +0000 http://www.torontopolicepipeband.com/?p=176#comment-20 Wow! Thank you very much! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog? Of course, I will add backlink? Regards, Reader Wow! Thank you very much!
I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
Of course, I will add backlink?

Regards, Reader

]]> By: doug s. http://www.torontopolicepipeband.com/2009/01/06/practice-hard-and-practice-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-13 doug s. Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:23:27 +0000 http://www.torontopolicepipeband.com/?p=176#comment-13 Hi George: A musical line is just another name for a phrase -- can be a small one or two-bar line or a complete part but basically a group of notes that has a meaning larger than the individual notes themselves. In context with the original blog, the musical line for a drummer is often very simple (a simple rhythm with an accent or emphasis on certain notes), but in pipe bands we mostly choose to 'decorate' the line with complex rudimental patterns (why we have a CONSTANT need to do this is a whole other story :-). Good drummers, as I suggest in the blog, are capable of seeing through the complex rudimental figures to get to the root of the basic musical line. The rudimental figures are there to make the basic line more interesting and not to complicate or hide it. This is why when we listen to really good drummers play we can 'follow along' and enjoy the performance without any need to understand what it is they're actually playing. They are tapping into good rhythmical flow and musical phrasing which we all learn to appreciate as human beings from a very early age. I guess 'musical line' is a jazz term now that I think about it. Didn't mean to cross my idioms :-) thanks for posting! doug s. Hi George:

A musical line is just another name for a phrase — can be a small one or two-bar line or a complete part but basically a group of notes that has a meaning larger than the individual notes themselves.

In context with the original blog, the musical line for a drummer is often very simple (a simple rhythm with an accent or emphasis on certain notes), but in pipe bands we mostly choose to ‘decorate’ the line with complex rudimental patterns (why we have a CONSTANT need to do this is a whole other story :-) .

Good drummers, as I suggest in the blog, are capable of seeing through the complex rudimental figures to get to the root of the basic musical line. The rudimental figures are there to make the basic line more interesting and not to complicate or hide it. This is why when we listen to really good drummers play we can ‘follow along’ and enjoy the performance without any need to understand what it is they’re actually playing. They are tapping into good rhythmical flow and musical phrasing which we all learn to appreciate as human beings from a very early age.

I guess ‘musical line’ is a jazz term now that I think about it. Didn’t mean to cross my idioms :-)

thanks for posting!

doug s.

]]> By: GeorgeG http://www.torontopolicepipeband.com/2009/01/06/practice-hard-and-practice-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-12 GeorgeG Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:19:11 +0000 http://www.torontopolicepipeband.com/?p=176#comment-12 Good words from Doug, but what exactly does Doug mean by a "musical line"? G.G. Good words from Doug, but what exactly does Doug mean by a “musical line”? G.G.

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