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THE AMAZING DRUMBALLIA




 
 


It is possible to run these tracks through a motion picture theater's
sound system for instance before the lights go down and the curtain
opens. A disco might have fun playing these tracks through their
powerful sound systems. Due to equalizations disco systems tend
to favor, drumballia tracks may sound harsh and unmusical until
the equalizations are adjusted, if possible.





                
 

                
 

                THE AMAZING DRUMBALLIA 



   Unique drum solos on a unique hand made drum set

                
                
 
 
                

                

HISTORY - of the Amazing Drumballia drum set

 
 

16 tracks each a free download as well as online listen



DRUM RYTHMS THAT SOFTEN THE WORLD



HUGE MIGHTY RESOUNDING RYTHMS, A WORLD'S FIRST, NEW,
YOU HAVE HEARD NOTHING LIKE THIS EVER


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  Performed by Greydon Moore (Greydie). Drumballia is pronounced
  (Jumbl-i-ah)


 
 

SELECTIONS OF RE-MASTERED ORIGINALS


    - Re-mastering was simply streaming in from cassette to computer,
      with extra fadeup added to some of the tracks to make the cascading
      resonant drums roomier and richer.


  AMAZING DRUMBALLIA THEME  - 3 1/2 minutes.

  Track  DRUMS-14A2 

       - This is the signature track of what these resonating drums were
         capable of achieving. This track (link above) was digitalized
         from original cassette tape, then further amplified in replay
         through the wave editor's fadein/fadeout slide bars. In this
         adjusted version the fadeins for both channels were set to
         maximum, increasing the lower frequency ranges of the cross
         harmonmic resonances.

  Track  DRUMS-14B.WAV 

       - The next solo recorded after the above signature track
         drums-14a2. The two tracks are one then the next on the
         original cassette tape. A home stereo equalizer was used
         for this side of the cassette (the other side is blank).
         Success using the equalizer was not noticed until several
         weeks later when the tracks were patched through to the
         TV home theatre (three extra beat up give away speakers
         piped from the TV, two in series). This is when the house
         first suddenly unexpectedly filled with huge revererating
         sound again, a few weeks after the recording.


  Track  DRUMS-14F.WAV 

       - A brief experiment seeing if solo material could be coaxed
         from the clatter and racket of cymbols and gongs. It ends
         with a few bars of pounding drumballia.


  Track  DRUMS-14A.WAV 

       - This sample is not performance, the drumballia kit was slowly
         assembled piece by piece. Drums supported on snare drum stands
         were set to vibrate as freely as possible with no grip, the
         horizontal tilt was special, the vertical height was special,
         and exact placement within groups of drums critical. To this,
         tedious testing went on by the hour, gradually coaxing more
         and more performance out of the kit as days passed.

         One evening I let the cassette run it's full length (45 minutes)
         recording as I adjusted, tested tap tap tap, readjusted. You
         can hear how much concentration went into setting up the best
         resonal and vibrational properties, given what I had to work
         with, bent and beaten up stands and supports some dating back
         into the 30's too worn to have antique collector's value, and
         cymbal stands plus the higher tympani resonator stand made
         of rods and pieces which ever smaller rods fit into larger
         pieces. The whole set's hardware was marry rigged, in other
         words, almost no money was spent on new equipment.


  Track  DRUMS-15C.WAV 

    - Playing with the spanky snare drum trying to get it less spanky.


  Track  DRUMS-15D.WAV 

    - Base drum big bangs


  Track  DRUMS-15E.WAV 

    - More variations on the Drumballia theme, one channel quit during
      recording, the trailing 5 minutes are mono.


  Track  DRUMS-15F.WAV 

    - More variations, slightly higher pitched (from original cassette
      tape).


  Track  DRUMS-15G.WAV 

    - Same solo as drums-15f.wav, lower pitched via digital fadeup.


 
 

THREE SAMPLE TRACKS FROM THE FIRST DAYS


      - December 2001 - March 2002. Only to show the developement of
        the drum ensemble from first days, to Amazing Drumballia solos
        9 months later September 2002.

  Track  DRUMS-0XA.WAV   - December 2001

      - No skip rythms, beats pound straight to the bar.


  Track  DRUMS-3A.WAV     - February 2002

      - The base drum beaten by foot pedal paps as if hitting a base
        skin held in the air.


  Track  DRUMS-2A.WAV     - March 2002
        Clumsy, still absent bigger tones.

      - Big tones and power amplifying cross resonances began in
        the late spring-summer of 2002. Skip rythms appeared one day
        adding to the effects, leading to the Amazing Drumballia's solo
        performances, which were all recorded with no afterlife in mind
        the recordings (technical drum tests) were intended only to keep
        track of ideas to try and recapture later. The entirety of the
        recordings were monitored through an old pair of earphones once
        used by the CBC, the left ear phone had less than half the
        presence of the right ear phone.


  AFTER LATE 2002 THERE WERE NO FURTHER RECORDINGS OF DRUMBALLIA


  Track  DRUMS-13I.WAV 

      - Another variation, earlier spring 2002, short piece.

  Track  DRUMS-13J.WAV 

      - More variations.


  USE THE MAXIMUM BASS YOUR SYSTEM CAN ALLOW

  


  IMPACT VIBRATIONS SATURATE YOUR ROOM AND BEYOND

  


 
 

DRUMBALLIA - A HOME MADE DRUM SET 

one drummer, no mixing


 SEEME AND DRUMS  - HISTORY AND LOCATIONS

   - my performer's costume, the blue pullover is a beach towel with
     a hole cut in the middle and long wood buttons sewed down the side.

 


SHORT ANIMATION WITH DRUMBALLIA

 SHORT ANIMATION   - by Meta and friend in Uganda, using Amazing Drumballia riffs.

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OTHER SITES BY GM

 HISTORY.HTM  History and locations for The Amazing Drumballia
 GREYDIE.COM  Greydie keyboard music

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OTHER SITES OF INTEREST

REVELATORIUM  revelatorium.com  The Revelatorium

KARMIC CAR CYCLES  karmiccarcycles.com  Karmic Car Cycles stories
     - autobiographical novel by C.S. Livingstone

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Email
Contact:   greydonm@gmail.com


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Copywrite 2009 Greydon Moore, Rhae S. Livingstone

Peace. December 2009.