Do you incorporate humming the desired pitch (while tuning) "into" (just above) the drum head? This is silent and can be heard by the timpanist in most situations.
@tubbers208 ай бұрын
You never hit the center of the head? 😊
@cosmofonia-luigiantonio8 ай бұрын
thank you, Tim Genis! Great information and nice humour!
@thediydaddy20689 ай бұрын
I'm finally getting around to wrapping my worn-out Black Swamp bamboo timpani mallets. Thanks for this video, it was exactly the tutorial I needed.
@redravenrages632111 ай бұрын
Great video! But I just have one question! Why is not good practice to get the note from meldoic instruments? We usually hit the note, sing it, then tune, is this not all swell doings?
@thegoodgeneral Жыл бұрын
What's the piece in the intro?? : o Also thank you! edit: Love that your list of music with specific intervals include 3 melodies by John Williams.
@angelclassicalmusic3931 Жыл бұрын
I am a professional timpanist as well, your video was so pedagogical Thanks Tim!
@FabioBeckert Жыл бұрын
I loved this video. But I can't save it, cause you configured as "child contend" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bcCGn8ybqeCZhZs.html As a composer, I'd love to see something like that with the notation of each movement.
@SOLDbyYOU Жыл бұрын
All good info… but…. An additional concept to NOT MISS… Ultimately when playing with an orchestra the tympanist should be also focused on either the lowest brass or the lowest strings…. And TUNE TO THEM… your fork, your gauges, your technique don’t matter if your not in tune with the orchestra. I had an exceptional “tympani pitch training boot camp” … I was also a full time piano tuner . So yes… I was ( not talented) but certainly always “training my ear”… I remember THE MILLISECOND… when I realized that I was “ getting it”… I was playing with an orchestra in Washington DC… NOPE … not the National…. ( I don’t even remember if it was a concert or a rehearsal)… but.. During a piece…. The low brass, the low strings and I were all “ SUPPOSED” to be playing a longish pitch in unison…. The brass section was in tune with each other… and the low stings were in tune with each other….. BUT THEY WERE NOT IN TUNE WITH EACH OTHER…. WAAAAAY off…. I remember looking up at the conductor with a “ NOW WHAT !,!??” When you can hear “ inside the sections”… and can get a sense of TUNING TO THEM…you’re on your way. On your time off…. Pick up a guitar or bass and practice tuning it…. Hearing “ tuning” from different perspectives may help some see and hear their own instruments more clearly. PLEASE DO NOT….. DO NOT…try to tune a local church or school piano as ear training practice… There are a ton of variables to understand when tuning pianos… Including NONE of the pitch intervals are actually “ perfectly in tune” and even the octaves are larger spread than “ mathematically “ pure octaves. ( play middle A440 and then play the A two and three octaves higher… if upper octaves sound sharp… you’re not wrong…THEY ARE) also… the piano strings must “ slide across” the various bearing edges ( the bridge, capo and other pressure point areas…) AND the tuning pins themselves twist and bend…. it take a LOT of experience to both tune to the right pitch AND stabilize all of the “ mechanical issues”…. Steinway are one of the hardest to stabilize…. Yamahas are one of the easiest to hear…. Without supervision please do not….. try this on your own… I was almost fired when I tuned a concert piano at a college earlier in the day… and then I got a call back for the terrible tuning…I rushed back to the piano… and I was surprised at how badly it sounded….. I eventually put subtle info together and learned that one of the students had some tuning tools…. Frankly my tunings were not THE best but they were fine… and they WERE more stable…they stayed where Input them.. SOMEBODY was practicing … and I almost got fired….
@trumpeterchris Жыл бұрын
What kind of tape is this?
@russxdrums Жыл бұрын
Great video Tim. Could you please talk about how to tune a Timpani to itself?
@richardwilliams473 Жыл бұрын
Tim has taken over the legacy of the late great Vic Firth with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Bravo to you , Tim
@stayfitwithcindy14242 жыл бұрын
I'm new to playing timpani.... I learned alot in this video. THANKS ! ! !
@jobaecker97522 жыл бұрын
Superb tutorial for a drumkit player adding some timpani to a recording session!
@richardwilliams4732 жыл бұрын
Such perfect articulated on the Beethoven. BRAVO Tim Genis
@CoralLey0002 жыл бұрын
i didint found the link to dowload the songs... can you put it here plis?
@fernandopinats70572 жыл бұрын
How i can buy a timpani?
@DigitalAndInnovation2 жыл бұрын
This was great- really covered more than I was wondering about getting into it... but glad I know it know... But wish I had a chance to still play
@MrMathsniper2 жыл бұрын
Muito obrigado por passar informações de tanta sabedoria e qualidade. Muita humildade em sua parte em compartilhar seus conhecimentos em um área que quem sabe não gosta de compartilhar. Muito obrigado 😁✌🏼
@goodhotfreshfly2 жыл бұрын
Tim genis? More like Tim-pani geni-u-s
@thehappypiano29853 жыл бұрын
Ok this was funny but also useful to watch .I am playing timpani for the first time in a wind orchestra I’m playing phantasmagoria 😀👍for a competition
@psychtank86814 жыл бұрын
After years..
@psychtank86814 жыл бұрын
After years..
@rayfundichely78324 жыл бұрын
Me encanta el video pero lo necesito en español
@timgenis75444 жыл бұрын
Lo siento .. no hablo español
@iandrum872 жыл бұрын
@@timgenis7544 I offer as a volunteer for a translation. It will be amazing to have such a valuable material available to Hispanic viewers
@brisket55884 жыл бұрын
I was looking for the timpani solo from Tchaikovsky’s 4th. Didn’t think I’d find it here though
@timgenis75444 жыл бұрын
It's on the list for rep videos in the future.
@lawrence18uk5 жыл бұрын
12:20 awesome pedelling technique :-D I never knew this was possible! (But please don't tell *too* may composers about this ;-) To me, the character of the timp comes from playing a fixed set of pitches - and then another, not jumping around....
@brisket55885 жыл бұрын
I learned more about timpani tuning in these 17 minutes than I did my 4 years of playing thank you
@Roligyilok3 жыл бұрын
That’s a sad news
@opide5 жыл бұрын
1:44 demonstration
@rovshanasgarzade31655 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for information!!!
@prometheus23c5 жыл бұрын
Mr Genis, I love your videos! You are great at explaining stuff, and you have a super sense of humour. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
@baileyjorgensen29835 жыл бұрын
I didn't know that a Super Mario Odyssey speed runner had to be tuned.
@Christ-dq2rx5 жыл бұрын
ooh flanel. taste like flanel LOL
@batboy50235 жыл бұрын
You're awesome, man! Great sense of humor and extremely informative. Subbed!
@davidrenz15345 жыл бұрын
And I'm sitting here using a tuner on my phone
@ezrawright43855 жыл бұрын
Tim Genius
@rsperc5 жыл бұрын
Wonderfully clear and helpful, Tim! I’m going to recommend this video to all my students.
@MsNerfer5 жыл бұрын
You can teach me, how to play well the timpani?
@timgenis75445 жыл бұрын
Francisco Perez well you need to come and live in Boston first!
@MrBowiedj5 жыл бұрын
Hi Tim, I'd like to ask how tall is your stool? it seems comfy. What I've got is 70cm high the timpani hoop is equal to my waist, sometimes I hit the rim when rolling... need some suggestions thanks
@timgenis75444 жыл бұрын
My stool is a Kolberg. It goes up to 50 inches high.
@doyeondykim4925 жыл бұрын
☑Timapni playing!🥁 1:47
@JesseGuo5 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to see the rest!
@oldspartan745 жыл бұрын
A question about the sit vs stand for playing. While sitting is preferable, I am only 5'6" and have found it difficult to comfortably reach the pedals and have good hand posture at the same time. I have been playing for a long time and have adapted but any suggestions would be appreciated. The pedals are not the clutch type, rather common Ludwig type.
@timgenis75444 жыл бұрын
You could tilt the drums which will bring the rim lower and make it so you won't risk getting a rim shot.
@andreasfarmakis54225 жыл бұрын
Great video
@gregorymacdonald24815 жыл бұрын
Interesting mallets. The drums sound GREEEEEEEAT!
@ferrysille37105 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video!
@laszlokollar43426 жыл бұрын
...tastes like flannel... :D :D
@timgenis75447 жыл бұрын
Pitch is relative. You could be hearing the pitch one way while your neighbor might hear it another way. Also the "perceived" fundamental pitch on a timpani is tough to hear. The amount of overtones from a timpani note is greater than other instruments in the orchestra making that fundamental harder to pinpoint. Also just because someone has "perfect pitch" doesn't mean he/she is playing every note in tune.
@gustavohenrique29794 жыл бұрын
You mean timpani is a transposer instrument?
@eboone Жыл бұрын
@@gustavohenrique2979 What
@larsivarthorkildsen30167 жыл бұрын
when are the other videos coming up
@nobleteamftw8 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to more of these videos. Keep it up!