Hello everyone. My name is Graeme Hare and I'm a drummer/teacher from the North East of England. I've recently joined the Istanbul Mehmet family and this is my first blog. I just wanted to say hi, introduce myself and outline the content of future blogs. I picked up my new cymbals this morning and had some promo pictures taken with the team at drumshop UK. Huge thanks to Carl Thomson from Istanbul Mehmet and Andy Anderson from Drumshop UK for their help setting this up and putting faith in me.I won't let you down! Really looking forward to promoting these fantastic cymbals! Pushing my Youtube content featuring Istanbul Mehmet cymbals is a big part of my overall plan. I've already started creating backing tracks for the new Trinity College drum grades that will help teachers and students across the world. Here's one of the finished backing tracks. Future videos will feature footage of me playing Istanbul Mehmet products. Watch "Triple Decker. Grade 2. Trinity College. Slow and fast backing track." on YouTube https://youtu.be/TMlcQXYnvOI I'm about to start recording and filming the next video this weekend. As for future blogs/content, I thought I would write about how I make my living as a pro drummer and everything that goes with it. Including all the different type of gigs I play on, teaching, business, how Covid has affected the gigging scene etc, etc. I hope you will find this sort of thing useful? I like to think I can give some good advice to aspiring young drummers trying to make it as I've been playing for 34 years and I've made a living from drumming for about 26 of those years. Feel free to interact with me on this platform, facebook or any of the other social media possibilities. Best wishes Graeme

Hello and welcome in my blog. I’m very proud and glad to be invited by Istanbul Mehmet cymbals to share with you some exercises from my different books. In this case, for this lesson from my book « Total Update » volume 1, I want to you show you how to apply and learn the process of conversion from scales to rhythmic phrases. All that in Nañigo style + Pentatonic 4th Mode clave: So that you can better understand the principle of  Pentatonic scales conversions, here are some exemples:   I hope you’ll practice and enjoy this lesson.  Watch my improvisation with Total Update and Pentatonic scale clave with this link! https://youtu.be/zesM215EMwE    

Hello and welcome in my blog. I’m very proud and glad to be invited

by Istanbul Mehmet cymbals to share with you some exercises from my different books. Two great drummers inspired me to create these two books: ° Elvin Jones for his execution of polyrhythms and is mastery of « rolling ». ° Bill Stewart for his versatility and perfect polymetric placement. The concept of the two books are to increase phrasing efficiency, freedom in comping, an overall balance on the instrument and all this using the following three parameters: ° Rudimental sticking methods acquired whist studying snare drums technics. ° A motricity acquired by three different melodic interpretations. ° The rhythm represented by cells, grouping of notes or metrics. Memorizing all the contents is important as these books are not intended to be a reading exercises. It is crucial to manage your comping as you conceive, and all of this of course will come to being only if everything is assimilated. In your momentum, you will be able to express yourself with a more fluid style of playing and an acute of your surroundings.

Link video for the exemple 1/A + improvisation:

https://youtu.be/GQTisMqNFTk

Link video for the exemples 2/A + improvisation and 3/A + improvisation:

https://youtu.be/h1tgCo8OLr4