*promote percussive competitiveness!

Note: in order to clear up some confusion expressed in the comments with regard to the sound on this clip, the stereo audio recording was made independently of the camera (which has poor sound) and later synched in post production. The 'percussion' sound that can be heard is not a hi-hat or a snare drum, it is possibly audio peaking, (unlikely), or something resonating inside the piano - most likely a broken string. The recorder was placed very close to the back of the instrument near the floor, and was therefore closer to the noise made by loose stuff rattling around inside. I only heard this on playback when I got home - didn't appear on the camera soundtrack.

Although it doesn't have much to do with drumming, the overall vibe and dedication to the craft reminds me of U Theater, the percussion ensemble, who are also from Taipei.

Great talk! My understanding of a one-man-band has always been those guys you'd see in the public park with the ridiculous percussion rigging and 5 different instruments tied to their legs, arms, etc.
This changes my perception of that, though what he does sounds like what I've grown up knowing simply as a talented guitar player, he increased my respect for the complexity of the style.

looks like 14 floppy drives + 1 hdd (for percussion?)

"Dirty Harry (Schtung Chinese New Year Remix)":

Erhu: Hou Shih Chieh
Keyboards: Johnny Yim
Percussion: Tung Tang
Guzheng: Morton Wilson
Chorus: Jaxqueline Fu, Mazy Yap, and the Lok Sin Tong Primary School
Rap: MC Yan
Chorus Lyrics: Chantal Sun
Programming & Mix: Tung Tang
Produced by Ann Yeung & Tung Tang
Executive Producers: Morton Wilson & Hans Ebert
Mixed at Schtung Music Ltd, Hong Kong.

Available on 'D-Sides', I'm told.

His sorta flamenco-style percussion is very cool and adds something to the cover; unfortunately since we only have two hands he has to rely on clean hammer-ons (which to be fair, he does very well) to produce the correct notes on the actual strings as opposed to fretting and then strumming or picking as usual. Despite his skill, occasionally notes get missed and they are frequently not as loud compared to the percussion as would be ideal.

Worth an upvote, but I'd love to see him arrange a version for two guitars with one doing the percussion and harmony and another one doing the melody with conventional strumming. It wouldn't be *twice* as good, but I think it would be significantly better.

It's a very vaguely defined genre. According to Wikipedia, dubstep "generally features syncopated drum and percussion patterns with bass lines that contain prominent sub bass frequencies."

This definitely has syncopated drum and percussion. I don't think that machine can produce sub bass frequencies, but the sample he was using was probably as close as it'll get. It had the right BPM (somewhere around 140) and even contained the quintessential bass drop at around the 55 second mark of the song (32 measures in at 140 BPM).

Not saying it was good dubstep, but I think it falls within the broad category.

For a moment I thought you meant the percussion instrument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBBvK5wpeog

Ok so, been a month and 3 weeks, and shagen454 axeded.so..

ChogBlog 1


Ok so, been trying to figure out the best way to inspire myself musically without the use of my un-damaged vocal range, with a go-to musical instrument battery I know my way well-enough around to use as a framework for a studio-I can get sounds outta anything, have access to any rudimentary keyboard but am flexible with strings, woodwinds, bass. Now you have to understand if yer mind interprets a musical instrument as some outer-space device requiring a manual or instruction via direct-transmission in order to fire: I can coax pleasing tones from vegetables. What I need is a new kick. I can go for miles rendering compositions only I want to hear with a guitar, harmonica, saxophone-IO crave arrangements, and bass and drums..

Can Keep great time and love percussion, vibes, marimba, steel-drum but never had a set to wail on worth a fuck till now: Same as it ever was….

Worlds’ the oyster, and fuck the dumbshitz, I have access by nature of incarnation and geographical locale and resources to make anything happen-Goin’ for percussion and bass, and solo-Only I can work with a band of miscreants, those dwelling inside my own head, be-damn! The logistics of other fleshapoids in the way for the task of rendering!!....Why bother? Make it and take it to musicians I don’t have to fuck with-Maybe I should have been Quincy Jones fucking adopted white baby…..


Shootin' for a fat stack 'o pearly-white Slingerlandz, maybe Ludwig-Need 2 stellar floor toms and oh fuck....adding shit already-!

*livemusic that's some fantastic pickin' [and percussion] right there!

This is the first time I've seen [or heard of] a hang drum. Very nice. I'd be worried about rapping my knuckles with whatever the other percussive weapon of destruction he was wielding was. Now THAT'S talent

Pretty girl ... pretty voice. Almost sounds like Blue Man Group on percussion pipes

Well yes it's a valid musical instrument. So is the kazoo.

The act of playing it is very different from playing piano and is much less technically skilful than learning to play the flute. I play clarinet, saxophone, flute and piano. They each have a different level of difficulty. Piano is the easiest, and clarinet is the hardest. The very hardest instruments to learn are the double reeds - oboe, cor anglais, and bassoon. The very easiest are the percussion family - drums, piano, all other keyboards.

I guess this is why I'm so opinionated about this...

>> ^bareboards2:

This was very funny.
This would have been massively more funny if they had worked in a way to do the lip smacks. Maybe as a percussion aspect of the song.
Those lip smacks. Thank god we don't have to listen to those for four years!!!


You're right! That would have made this 3X better.