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Drumming Recordings & Trance

nutella23

18:11 / 07.10.02

I'm interested in using drumming cassettes/CDs for trance work. If you have experience with this sort of thing, how useful did you find it and what titles are worth obtaining? (NOTE: I'd use actual drums if I could, but the neighbors are apt to complain.)

spidervirus

19:23 / 07.10.02

i actually make my own tapes and cds for that purpose and so far i am having some progress. i've also been programing beats into my computer and adding in reverb so it echoes through the room. but if you want some good percussion cd's there is an industrial band called test department that does some heavy drum work. its not a percussion cd, but a friend of mine once told me that phillip glass' minimalist pieces can be used to achieve a trance like state.

Stone Mirror

02:03 / 08.10.02

Steven Harner has a series of shamanic drumming CDs that are quite good.

rorkboy

10:02 / 08.10.02

Try music made by masters of music from Jojouka. Also Drumming by Steve Reich could be excellent.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

18:04 / 08.10.02

I just made my own cd. I like it that way because you can control and mess around with how fast the tempo is and what tempo really suits you. I've found that I like a faster tempo than most.

nutella23

18:59 / 08.10.02

Thanks for the suggestions. Am mainly interested in shamanic-type drumming, but will use whatever works. I agree with using recordings by the master musicians of Joujouka though, they come out of a very shamanic tradition. Am also interested in Japanese taiko drumming, as well as didjeradoo. Steve Reich I'm not familiar with, but will look into. A friend is recording some of the Harner material mentioned for me, which I'm anxious to try. In addition, might be checking out some of the trippier ethnic trance, dub and ambient that's out there, for what its worth.

gravitybitch

00:43 / 09.10.02

Slightly older stuff that might be worthwhile or seem too dated - look for anything filed under Bill Laswell.

Wyrd

01:57 / 09.10.02

Check out the Foundation of Shamanic Studies audio CDs. I used the No. 7: Shamanic Journey Multiple Drumming CD when I first started. I understand that Ross Heaven, who has some decent intoductory books out as well, does tapes too. Check out Beautiful Mutants (he's an initiated Hougan too, btw). If I remember right you can get CDs/tapes from Eagle's Wing, Chris Southall and Nick Woods of Sacred Hoop fame. Those last four are all in the UK. There seems to be plenty to choose from.

Though, journeying while you drum for yourself is a knack well-worth developing. Then you can experiment with journeying using other sounds, such as rattles, etc. Then, why not try it without anything at all!

drzener

10:56 / 10.10.02

If your interested in making your own beats try anything in 6/4 time. This gives music a sort of spiralling feel that works pretty well.
I've also heard that 112 beats per minute has been used by shamans, druids etc. for putting people in trance. I've used it for dub stuff and it's a pretty hypnotic tempo.

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