SPOONS!!!

[Vash]

So, I play the spoons, among other weird things and at the request of some of my frineds and former students I borrowed a digital camera and did a bit of filming. Thing thing was set on auto focus and I did this myself, so the focus is a bit fuzzy at times. This is a first attempt towards making instructional DVDs.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mt0QczmQ4Sc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Mt0QczmQ4Sc</a>

[Robmeister]

Cool stuff.

I'm a drummer myself....but never played the spoons.  Could be a cool way to entertain the kids.

thanks for that

[VFRWolf]

Very cool.

[BaldRob]

Very cool Vash!!

[ar3inc]

Pretty awesome stuff there!  Thanks, Vash!  You make and explain it all to be so simple.  I still need the lesson on how to get the rhythm to do the stuff and make sound good and in solid beat.

[Vash]

Pretty awesome stuff there!  Thanks, Vash!  You make and explain it all to be so simple.  I still need the lesson on how to get the rhythm to do the stuff and make sound good and in solid beat.

Rhythm is the easiest thing in the world to teach and to learn. Rhythm is innate, we are born with it. Rhythm controls everything in the natural world, the movement of the planets, the waves on the ocean, everything including you. Rhythm is primal, it’s the first kind of music, cavemen first made music by banging rocks and sticks and bones together. The drum is the oldest instrument known to man in any part of the world. If you have a heartbeat, you can drum. If you can breathe, you can drum.

When someone says “I don’t have any rhythm” what they are really saying is; “My muscles don’t know how to make the rhythm I feel and hear yet”. Just like learning any other instrument, you need to teach the muscles to do something that they aren’t accustomed to...yet.

First you need to learn to consciously feel rhythm, and then hear rhythm, and then teach your muscles to make rhythm. All of which are far easier than most people think.

I teach workshops, classes and lessons several times a year where we cover all of this and more. 

[Vash]

These are the other videos I have on YouTube right now. Like I said, they are a very rough beginning to the idea of an instructional DVD for this kind of folk percussion. These are all just improved, spur of the moment recordings.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/mU31eqwC3w4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/mU31eqwC3w4</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/pQcP6HQCoSY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/pQcP6HQCoSY</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mt0QczmQ4Sc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/Mt0QczmQ4Sc</a>

[wpruitt]

Very cool - unfortunately I was born with no sense of rythym - should see me attempt to dance