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That was fun. The genuine enthusiasm shines through.

On Akane's double pedal, it is mostly a DW 9000, it is modified with the connector shaft from a Pearl double pedal, and she has modified/replaced the springs, using Tama, Ludwig, DW and others to get the return she wanted. She has also added additional weights to the pedals to control how they feel and respond. And she has been seen using multiple different beater types and styles. Her kit is a Tama Star Bubinga kit. If it had the gold trim it would be her old Sakae kit.

Setting an alarm. Spoiler alert! I mean, the rolls, the fills, the bass drum flams, that crisp 4 on the floor stabbing my ear drums, the hihat work, the solo accompaniment, rim shots, tympani intro, violins, choral ensemble. And is that a gong? All hail the 🦍

11:28 Goes full drum nerd. Excellent video!

Thanks brother! That was fun! Have a great day!

Thanks for answering the ghost notes question!

Your reaction... Akane's kit mastery...All adds up to Hollars and Sense...💰💷 Or some kind of relevant currency !

As a none drummer, I really appreciate your nerdy explanations. Thank you!

Good to have the video to go with the heel/toe kick explanation. Nice 👍

I think the quarter note triplets at 9:15 is a genius idea. The drum fill is added from beat 3 even though the chorus has already started, giving the listener the feeling that only the drums have started late.

Fantastic info as usual! Glad you got your hands on these isos, because it helps me understand the concepts.

Thank you for saying her name! Sorry about the Patio Hose thing, but that a cane thing really bugs me. However, when Akane gets the Demo from Kanami, she will often complain, "This drum part cannot be played by a human being." John Lennon used to do the same thing to Ringo, show him a drum part on a record and say, "Play it like that Ring." And Ringo would point out, "That's two drummers!" And John would say, "Don't worry about it." But Akane always comes up with something playable. The break in 'Blooming' makes sense. It's a sample. Perhaps because this snare was tuned so high and Akane's is low. Maybe just for variety, Kanami wanted a Piccolo Snare there, and rather than have an extra drum in the kit it was just added to the Backing Track like they do with keyboards, effects or doubled vocals. They did the same thing with a certain cymbal in 'Don't You Tell ME!". It's even in the LIVE version. I can't identify it but it has a huge sound almost like a gong. Is there such thing as a Splash Gong? Because that's what this sounds like. You can only find the LIVE version on the Bilibili site now. It's the 9th song in on the Zepp Tokyo LIVE concert. It comes at the end of each verse right before they go into the chorus and it's huge!

i like the format of doing a demonstration and reaction. I am not a drummer or a musician for that matter, but I enjoy learning about what I'm hearing.

I read somewhere that akane rebuilds her pedals with other shafts and stuff from different companies. God knows where the reference is.

Wait, you're DOCTOR Drum Nerd? :)

Fantastic DN

A-chan A-chan A-chan!

The A-ka-ne triplet pronunciation idea was genius! Also I don't think you accented any syllable in the triplet so maybe you "saw" it without any > markings in the score. Bravo, because English tends to accent syllables all the time, but Japanese doesn't usually, if ever. An aggravated Japanese shopkeeper once corrected my accenting of Shiitake 🙂 English speakers tend to accent the third syllable of arigato (thank you), which probably makes schoolchildren giggle. Instead of syllabic accents, Japanese and some other Asian languages use tones, which musicians might call pitch, and I feel bad that my tone-impaired Anglo brain hasn't caught those in Akane's name yet -- maybe someone'll put pitches on the notes in the triplet. While I'm going on too long, English pronunciation rules guarantee we will mangle most written non-English names! Two simple tricks can help much more often than not: #1 every vowel gets pronounced -- no silent e's, and #2 vowels are pronounced like Latin-derived languages (Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese), not as in English. Absent knowing how to pronounce Latin-style written vowels, musicians can translate letters to vowel sounds from do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do and a bunch of Italian musical terms[*]. Trick #2 says the e in Akane is pronounced like the e in (Italian) forte or re. So Akane vowels might rhyme with fa-fa-re, arigato with la-mi-fa-do. Misa: ti-la Kanami: fa-fa-ti Miku: ti-lu (ok I made up lu since u is one of the missing vowels in the scale -- rhymes with Lulu or too). Trick #1 says Saiki is likely 3 syllables, so Sa-i-ki vowels might rhyme with fa-mi-mi but Saiki's a hard one for Anglos, so it usually comes out like psyche. Homework: Guess how to pronounce Akane's last name. [*] I've heard some pretty awful Anglicized pronunciations of Italian musical terms, even from teachers and myself.

Good job on Akane's name! I'm glad the triplet analogy worked. I've only used it with people who have music backgrounds. 👍 😁

What are drum triggers and why are you against them? I've heard a few reactors talk about them over the years. Some are fine with them and some are not, but I still don't know what they even are. Maybe upload a video on the subject (if you haven't already)? Help us clueless non-musicians out. Kudos to you for getting "Akane" right. 😀

Thanks! Love this!

Yes, it’s a Tama Star Custom Bubinga kit.

triplets Triplets TRIPLETS!

Bassist here so here comes the dumb question. In the intro, Akane was doing the slide technique for the single bass drum, although you said it could’ve been double kick. Why choose one over the other? Why didn’t Akane just use the double pedal? Seems to be choosing the difficult over easy?

I like how you explain stuff because I don't know anything about drumming except what I like LOL. I got my ticket to see Band Maid in Minneapolis. I mentioned Otoboke Beaver a while back. This is what I'm talking about. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ipiSpZudtLCreIE.html Rock on!

Can you drop a link for this foot cam source?