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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
You know what this is?
指のアイシングの理由
I'm using this to ice my finger.
I am icing my finger because three episodes ago, I was proving to you that I was a great
drummer and I used my fingers as a drumstick to tap the table very hard.
And it hurts now.
So I'm icing them.
Okay, but let me tell you, let me be clear that this does not disprove my
qualification for applying for your drummer.
Right.
Because you use sticks when you properly drum.
Exactly.
You don't use your fingers.
I will never use my fingers to drum to the actual drum sets.
That would be stupidity.
Yeah.
And you don't smash onto this hard desk.
Exactly.
That's not what you do.
Right.
You're a drummer.
You're a professional drummer.
That's very unprofessional.
Yeah.
You're proving that you have really strong muscles and you have really strong ability
to hit it hard.
Exactly.
That's what you're proving, right?
Exactly.
Yeah.
Right.
I can hit so hard that it injures my fingers.
Right.
Right.
Well, if we were sticks on the drum sets, that would be really strong and punchy
sounds you made.
You're going to love it.
You're going to love the sound that this whip is going to make.
Yeah.
It's going to be very clean and crisp.
ドラムの演奏技術
What do you look for in a drummer?
Are you looking for consistency and the tempo?
Or are you looking for great sounds?
So pretty much everything.
Oh, okay.
Pretty much everything I just said.
Don't worry.
I have both.
Don't worry about it.
You've got everything.
In addition, if it's like you can story tell by the drummings, that would be lovely.
I can do that.
Yeah, obviously you can do that.
I can do that.
Yeah.
It's like I'm singing a song, you know?
It's not just a beat.
It's like you have, you know, if you can sing with the drums, that would be so great.
Oh, okay.
You know what I mean?
Sing with the drums.
I can do that.
I can do that.
I can.
Do you, by the way, do you still have your drum set like that?
Oh, I sold it two months ago.
Oh, you sold it two months ago?
Yeah.
I sold it two months ago.
Yes.
Yes.
Don't worry.
I still have my drumsticks.
I do.
I actually do.
I actually still have my drum sticks.
Sticks.
You have sticks?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yes.
Is that like the same drumsticks as the usual drums or like, is that special for electric drums?
It is the same one as the usual drum sets.
So I can, I'm ready anytime.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
You're the type that the drummer, you don't, that you doesn't have your own drums.
Like you don't, you don't carry your drums.
Oh, I don't carry my drums.
Whatever the drum is.
Whatever the drum is, I can adapt to it.
Easier for you.
Yeah.
That sounds really perfect.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Easier on your end.
Don't need to like transport your...
I don't need to do that.
...drum sets or like...
No, I don't need to do that.
I don't need to do that.
You can just go in and just...
If you want, I can play with my iPad.
I'll do it with my iPad.
Oh, with the fingers like that?
Yeah.
Oh, that's...
A garage band?
Yeah.
Garage band.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh.
Well, I mean, that's great for me.
Like...
Compact.
Yeah.
Compact.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's so professional.
Like you don't...
Yeah, like for real, let me ask you like a real question.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
ドラムの役割とテンポ
What exactly is the job of the drummer?
So, okay.
I get, I know what it is, but like, like professionally speaking, does the, is the
tempo of the song decided by the drummer or the vocalist or the drum or the bass?
Oh, okay.
Because like acapella wise, I was taught by my senpais that I don't even, looking
back, know if they have credibility or not.
They said that like, they said that in acapella, the tempo, the tempo, the rhythm
keeper, the tempo keeper, the tempo master is the bass, the bassist.
Okay.
Everyone should listen to the bass and should sort of align with them.
Yeah.
Okay.
I've always thought it was the drums, but what do you, what do you think?
What's the real job of the drummer to sort of keep the tempo in place or something else?
So it pretty much depends on the band or like the groups or songs even, or like
how you, how you do this, do that, like what you have.
Yeah.
But basically, yes, the tempo keeper is like, basically that's the drummer.
Oh, okay.
Cause it's obviously the, it's really loud.
Yeah.
Everyone can hear it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it's true.
The bass and drums together, we call them like a written section.
Oh, okay.
So it's true.
Bass is having a, like a huge role in tempo, but it's more like rhythm.
For the basses.
But the tempo is more like drums or like, yeah.
I mean, professionals doesn't need to even keep the tempo, you know, they, they,
they can, they can do it in the tempo that we make, that we set.
So it's more like, yeah.
But mainly they start counting, you know, and that decides the tempo.
Oh, okay.
True.
So, yeah.
The master of the tempo.
Yeah.
That's a big role.
I see.
By the way, I cannot keep the tempo on my drums.
Keep that in mind.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Just being fair.
Yeah.
Keep that in mind.
Yeah.
アカペラ演奏の挑戦
But it's all, you know, depends on the groups and depends on the band.
Yeah.
So if, if you have like great bassists who can keep the tempo and do everything
and then the keyboard and you don't, you don't have to keep the tempo, you can just
play along with everybody.
That's fun.
Yeah.
That's, that's more fun.
Like sometimes when I get excited, it gets faster a little bit.
And when it's a little bit complicated, I tend to go a little bit slower.
Just keep that in mind.
Yeah.
Well, the complicateness, yeah.
That's just a little aside.
But if you get happy and like excited, the tempo gets fast.
Yeah.
Well, that's like, that's the joy of like playing together, you know?
Oh yeah, that's right.
So yeah, don't worry about that.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you're sad, you, you, you, you know.
Slower.
Oh yeah.
That's lovely.
That's a line.
That's lovely.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
I'm glad that's acceptable.
Yeah.
I mean, if you just keep, the only job is just to keep the tempo and you can just play the
truck and just sing, you know, that's, that's no fun.
Oh, okay.
Play the live music together.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
I have this idea for acapella groups.
Yeah.
Why don't they all wear sort of like this earphones on the other half?
Oh, they, we have earbuds, right?
Yeah.
Why don't, why don't they wear that and sort of have, have, have, have counters,
Oh, like a click?
clicks be heard in their ears.
Doesn't that make, doesn't that make it easier?
Um, well in, I guess in some cases they do.
Oh.
Like, um, I guess Pentatonix, you know?
Yeah.
On like, for example, they perform in the halftime show in the, you know, Amefuto
studio through the microphone.
They cannot even listen to what they're actually singing, but they listen, the
sounds from the speakers that were that like far, far away from, from them.
Yeah.
So they were like listening to hearing like, they don't even know what they're
doing.
So they were like earphones and having clicks and their vocals backing into the
ears.
Oh, that's too, that's cool.
Yeah.
That's really cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really cool.
But, but if you're singing in the small rooms, maybe it might not be necessary.
Yeah.
You don't, you don't need it, but yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
But I, yeah, I have my.
Oh, your Iyamoni?
Yeah.
Iyamoni.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cause I'm terrible at like, in those situations, then sounds are like coming
from anywhere and I would be lost.
Does it take time to get used to that situation?
Like, I feel like putting an Iyamoni itself, that needs time to sort of get
体験と共感の共有
used to.
Right, right, right, right.
You know?
It's a lot of different from singing like this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Different from a karaoke room.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, once you get used to it, it's easy.
Yeah.
At least for me, it's easier.
Okay.
That's cool.
Especially singing in the big room, the speakers.
Uh, yeah, right, right.
Do it both ears on or just half?
Um, it depends.
Oh, sometimes I put out the half.
Oh, okay.
This one.
And so that I can hear the outer sound and my voice.
And so, yeah.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Sometimes I put out both and feel like without ears, it's more fun.
It's more exciting.
You're like there.
Like you're here in the moment.
It's live concert, performing.
I see.
If you're having two ears on it, it's like you're just singing in just yourself.
And I see.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, that sounds fun.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Right.
All right.
Thanks for listening guys.
Bye-bye.
