>> ^tsquire1:
ah, the 'ol pencil tremolo, proving that the guitar is technically a percussive instrument, not a string instrument.


The guitar is most definitely a string instrument, but like the piano, it's also a percussive instrument. There's no reason it can't be both. The definition of "string instrument" doesn't really have anything to do with how the strings are vibrated, just that the sound is generated by them.

ah, the 'ol pencil tremolo, proving that the guitar is technically a percussive instrument, not a string instrument.

[wind noises]

If I could sample the wind, I would loop it

And let my life poem flow over its sacred beats.

Using Kilimanjaro as my djembe I would drum rainbows out of the moonlight and use them as hooks in between verses; verses of little girls spinning ropes in opposite directions, waiting for an opening to jump in.

As the world turns, double dutch, I jump, double time over oceans and back; the water waves and I wave back.

Rippling echoes of "sunshii-ii-iine" - folks get ground in the "sunshii-ii-iine."

But the lightning flaaash three times and its time for the chorus which includes corn bread, candy yams, and all that good stuff, which black folks on Saturn are made of.

As we approach the second verse the roots of trees are plucked from bass lines, which resonate and shake the earth -- devastating everything that's not built in harmony in it.

The second verse is a journey through the ruins of ruined souls; that valued all that was nothing, and nothing of the all-knowing ever flowing wind - which is the undercurrent of this current blowing, the funky drummer from here to eternity.

But even as ruined souls backspin, the wind mills forward and rocks steady 'till the sun hits the fader and the chorus kicks in; then the moon yells "Go!" and we all backspin -- ZULU! As the moonlight shines true blue silvery indigo light my spirit takes flight - because the moonlight is my indigo; indigo ON, to the break of dawn, I rock rock steady steady 'till the early morn, word is bond I'm talking about seeing your nature in nature innate in your nature - New York states of mind did not create ya.

Not until you listen to Rakim on a rocky mountain top have you heard hip-hop.

Extract the urban element that created it and let an open wide countryside let us illustrate it.

Riding in a freight train listening to Coltrane and my reality went insane and I think I saw Jesus; he was playing hop-scotch with Betty Carter who was cursing him out in a scat-like-gibberish for not saying "Butterfingers."

And like the grains of sand, like the seeds of time, the pains of Man, the frames of mind which built these frames which is the structure of my urban superstructure. The trains and planes can corrupt and obstruct your train of thought so that you forget how to walk through the woods which ain't good, 'cause if you never walked through the trees listening to 'Nobody Beats The Biz' you ain't never heard hip-hop.. and you don't stop, and you don't stop, and you don't...

STOP lettin' cities define you, confine you to that which is cement and brick.

We are not a hard peoples, our domes have been crowned with the likes of steeples. That which is our being soars with the eagles, and the Jonathon Livingston seagulls - Yes - I got wings, you got wings, we all got to got wings!

So let's widen the circumference of our nest, and escape this urban incubator -

You see, the wind plays the world like an instrument; blows through trees like flutes but trees don't grow in cement. And as heartbeats bring percussion, fallen trees bring repercussions; cities play upon our souls like broken drums, we drum the essence of creation from city slums - but city slums mute our drums and our drums become humdrum, 'cause city slums have never been where our drums are from - just the place where our daughters and sons become, off-beat heartbeats, slaves to city streets, where hearts get broken and heart beats stop - broken heart beats become break beats for niggas to rhyme on top, but they rhyme about... NOTHIN'.

You don't got nothin' to rhyme about 'cause you've never seen the moon, your styles can't be universal if you're not in tune, with the... [wind noises]

http://www.myspace.com/kingarthursmen

Myspace: Coming together in the streets of Glasgow, King Arthur's Men was formed by three students at that time enrolled in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama studying varying types of Music and coming from all different parts of the world. The band now consists of four musicians, acting almost as a collective. Alastair Caplin, on Fiddle and Percussion, is a full time musician and plays with other bands such as Alastair Roberts, and the John Langan Band. Alastair hails from the Isle of Lewis. Bryan Benner, our vocalist and guitarist (and on percussion) is currently studying for his BMus in Vocal Studies, while also playing full time with King Arthur's Men (unless he's off gallivanting across America..). Bryan grew up in America in Florida and California. Hazen Metro is on the BA - Scottish Music, Piping course and is studying Scotland's vast traditions and music with a focus on the highland bagpipe. Hazen grew up in the small North-Eastern, mountainous state of Vermont. Our final and newest member is John Langan, who is also a full time musician, playing gigs with The John Langan Band and being Glasgow's most rocking busker. John plays Guitar and Percussion with us, bringing styles ranging from Klezmer to Scottish Folk.
Combined we are King Arthur's Men, a truly powerful and eclectic collective.

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thanks man,guess we are the only ones who dig poetry in all its forms.i thought this was brilliant also.glad you liked it.

Yeah, it's less impressive if she's playing along with pre-programmed percussion tracks. And it seems to be the growing consensus that she is (although please jump in to explain otherwise).

The organ IS doing half the work - at least the percussion. Fuck, the very first noise to come from it is OBVIOUSLY coming from the organ by it's self.

This looks real to me.

Patch changes - You can program keyboards to follow music and change patches at appropriate times. You can also layer patches, so that you can play several instruments at the same time. Combine the two along with some skill and you have the ability to play an orchestral piece with two hands and two feet.

Sped up? - No. This isn't as difficult as it sounds. Try turning off the volume and just watching the performance. This is well within the grasp of a decent organist.

Percussion? - It does sound like some of it is tracked or perhaps triggered via patch changes.

Mikey, actually she is handeling the percussion in real time. It's only a single note per percussion instrument (there is no scale, like piano/horns/violins). These organs are pretty amazing for one man bands, and have been features on sift before.

heres a good one that shows in detail how percussion is handled on a keyboard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wnDAPcoPsk

g'damn, people are idiots. OMG, I think she is playing along to prerecorded percussion, but this is in no way fake. She's playing the entire melody section, including that deep bass sound with her left foot.

Great percussion sounds. Bravo.

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by calvados.

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I know.

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This is a xylo rag composed by George Hamilton Green in the 1920s, when (believe it or not) xylophone music was a huge fad. I believe this one is called 'Log Cabin Blues'. Most percussion majors will get to do a couple of these in college (but with marimba accompaniment instead of bass) and they are very fun.

*promote percussion

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In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
This is a xylo rag composed by George Hamilton Green in the 1920s, when (believe it or not) xylophone music was a huge fad. I believe this one is called 'Log Cabin Blues'. Most percussion majors will get to do a couple of these in college (but with marimba accompaniment instead of bass) and they are very fun.

*promote percussion