When I was younger, I played in the school jazz band and was also involved in some garage bands at the drum kit. I own next to no drum gear now and I rarely get to play, although I relish opportunities to use the various percussion instruments in Buddhist liturgy (drums, wooden fish, whackers, clackers, gongs, bells, the whole kitchen).
Anyone else here share this interest?
Any DharmaWheel drummers here?
Re: Any DharmaWheel drummers here?
My band is actually searching for a percussionist. He should be cool, man.
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Re: Any DharmaWheel drummers here?
I've played dharma drums, yes.....and done the Umdze thing a bit--familiar with the silnyen and rolmo, though not an expert by any means.
As for "jazz drums," I'm a bassist!
As for "jazz drums," I'm a bassist!
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
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སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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OK, now it all makes sense.conebeckham wrote:As for "jazz drums," I'm a bassist!
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
Re: Any DharmaWheel drummers here?
Bassists in ensembles are interesting people: willing and capable of playing what appears to be a stable, repetitive pattern, but doing so with creativity and feel.
Sort of related: Peter Hershock describes the kinds of improvisation and collaboration that go on in Ch'an Buddhist communities by reference to bebop.
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Sort of related: Peter Hershock describes the kinds of improvisation and collaboration that go on in Ch'an Buddhist communities by reference to bebop.
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-2374-liberat ... imacy.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Any DharmaWheel drummers here?
Aside from wooden fish, bell, and inking (mini bell), would something like this count?
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That looks like a lot of fun.
Re: Any DharmaWheel drummers here?
I play drums. Mostly jazz. Studied music with emphasis on jazz in college.