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“Quiet Sky” Live Bass Recording Session

June 8, 2015June 9, 2015 jonVideos

Recording session for a new song “Quiet Sky”, tracking live bass guitar. As a video experiment, there’s an overlay of the bass guitar waveform from Logic Pro. I guess that’s pretty geeky.

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Vocoder Drumming Instagram Video

November 2, 2014November 2, 2014 jonDrumming, Videos

Found some 2006 footage of a NI Vokator ‘drums processed by vocoder’ experiment. Tonight re-assigned midi to Waves Morphoder and this was the result. Groove is 11/8 or 4/4 + 3/8. I wish they would bring back Vokator. In layman’s […]

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A Quiet Groove – Gentle Drumming

July 1, 2014July 1, 2014 jonDrumming, Videos

An experiment replacing the snare with a 14″ floor tom, an octoban played with the left foot, and no proper high hat. Featuring FMP percussion and Istanbul Agop cymbals. I often get inspired by different setups, mixing things up a […]

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Rudimental Drumming: Fun With Flams

April 22, 2014May 4, 2014 jonDrumming, Videos

  Hand technique is like anything else. Use it or lose it. Before jumping into composing or recording, most mornings I’ll run through some sticking exercises, rudimental drumming, coordination patterns, and sight reading to keep in shape. The above video […]

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Lunar Eclipse 4.15.2014 12:14 am Los Angeles

April 16, 2014 jonVideos

The lunar eclipse was quite surreal the other night, and it had this three dimensional quality to it. I captured it on my iPhone, but alas, it looks like just a speck. I thought I would share a bit of […]

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Trailer Drums Improvisation with a Roland SPD-30 Octapad

April 3, 2014April 7, 2014 jonVideos

From my first experimentations with using the Roland SPD-30 Octapad as a midi controller. I used to use an old Drum Kat, but it has been deteriorating over the years, and went crawling into a corner when I rigged this […]

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Drumming Improvisation featuring Factory Metal Percussion

April 2, 2014April 4, 2014 jonVideos

Here’s the first drumming video that I put on YouTube. It started from an improvised melodic tom theme that spoke to me as I was experimenting with some Factory Metal Percussion instruments. Those big grey circular cymbals are prototype Gothic […]

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Cajon improvisation with 3 JZ BT-201 microphones

March 18, 2014April 4, 2014 jonVideos

It’s no secret that I love JZ microphones from Latvia. When I first received the trio of BT-201 microphones, a did all kinds of tests and shootouts. Here’s a short little video featuring a Meinl cajon recorded with 3 BT-201s. […]

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Studio Drumming Excerpt 3.13.2014

March 13, 2014March 13, 2014 jonVideos

An excerpt from a recording session I did for composer/arranger John Sawoski. 8:15am is never to early to rock out. These are raw tracks (no plugins on the individual channels),  with just a little love from the Vertigo VSC-2 Compressor […]

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Creating Old School Video Game Sounds with a Moog Synthesizer

March 11, 2014March 11, 2014 jonSound Design, Videos

Sometimes it’s best to be ‘hands on’ when creating custom sounds. I’m usually hands on with drums and percussion, but in this case I was working on the game over sound for the iPhone kids game app “Blackhole Joe“. I […]

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