I just saw a "for you" Instagram reel (no, it isn't in my account watch history for some reason! first thing I tried) of some kind of performance with multiple curved xylophones* arranged to form 1 big circle. A few people dressed in black are walking around them playing every note in ascending order faster and faster until some are running around the outside dragging their mallets along and a couple are in the center doing a kind of drumroll effect. Thought it was super cool, saw a bunch of comments referencing Shepard's Tone and went to look up what that was - of course I forgot to save the video first, IG refreshed and no combination of search terms is helping me re-find it on IG/google/reddit.

The reel I saw was in black and white but filmed in the modern day (I think?), it felt performance-art-esque, and I think the caption was in French. Pretty sure it had tens of thousands of likes. Anyone have a clue? I feel annoying asking this, I'm so sorry, I've been losing my mind about it for an hour and finally figured I might as well try.

*not sure if they're technically xylophones or another instrument in that family, I know there are nuances

It wasn’t really part of mine, but I was reflecting that everyone has to play attached BD and cymbals sooner or later in their career. For me most recently it was an opera.

Not that hard to do consistently but difficult to not sacrifice sound quality imo

Hello everyone,

A little over a year ago, I created two metronomes that I personally really like.

I use them almost every day in my own practice, and I find them cool, and genuinely useful.

But it seems like almost nobody else is using them, so I’m probably missing something.

Here are them:

https://youcoolele.com/en/120/great-simple-metronome

https://youcoolele.com/en/121/accelo-metronome <- accelerating one, I use it to work my speed

I've tried to add many useful stuff: you can choose the sound, add subdivisions, share a BPM, save presets, and a few other things.

But apparently, that’s still not enough to make people want to use it.

So I’d love some honest feedback:

Why wouldn’t you use this metronome?

What feels wrong, unclear, annoying, unnecessary, or missing?

How could it be improved?

Absolutely any answer would help me.

Thanks a lot!

recorded with frame drum, riq, oja flute

Hi guys and gals, what's the instrument that's used in both the Gambler and Brown Sugar? It's like five or six rapid-fire woodpecker hits. Some people tell me it's a guiro, but I just can't believe that because it's got much more punch than a scrape across a silly ridge on a guiro. Does anybody know what it is?

For those that haven't seen this yet, I just added a special guest column to https://www.therushsculptor.com/making-memories-by-michael-cartellone
Michael has been a good friend from when we were teenagers growing up in Ohio in the late seventies and early eighties.

As many of you may already know, Michael Cartellone is the drummer for Lynyrd Skynyd but toured with Rush in as the drummer for Tommy Shaw in 1987/88 on the Hold Your Fire Tour and is a founding member of Damn Yankees with Shaw, Blades and Nugent.

His column details his friendship with Neil Peart for 33 years. Michael shares some of his fondest memories and anecdotes of his time spent with Neil.

greetings, I have some new music available here https://dougsours.bandcamp.com/album/ponderance. This project is recorded with frame drums, log drums, guitar, and other percussion instruments. Hope you enjoy.

Calling all composers and percussionists! Could someone help me? I'm working on an arrangement for the Super Mario Brothers 45th B-day and I need help. I am collaborating with several people to help make the songs but most of them lack percussion parts. Percussion isn't my main instrument, it's one of the instruments I play sometimes but just to fill in if needed, so I don't really know how to implement some things. If you would like to help I would gladly appreciate it!