The Italian Job - Drumming Perspectives (English Version) E-Book

Ritmo Italiano

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

You don't write about drums. You don't talk about drums. The Drums, maybe, like any other musical instrument, should only be played. "Experience it" would be the right expression, in a constant exercise of dedication, commitment, trial and testing. Five drum veteran-friends who have stripped themselves in order to share some of their musical experience acquired through the years in the field. Five unpublished play-alongs (purchasable individually or as a whole) interpreted by these prominent musicians according to their "trademark", with their own unmistakable sound. "Pizza Funk" a single track - (free download) - where each one shows their own rhythmic and expressive uniqueness. An idea that was born from the pleasure of narrating a way of understanding and living music all round Italian. A "Made in Italy" rhythm, a country that has always nourished itself of art.

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INDICE

INTRODUCTION by Eugenio Mori

ONE FOR ALL

Lele Boria, “The Allan Theory”

Eugenio Mori, “Driving with Nik”

Alex Battini de Barreiro, “Rumbaião”

Giorgio Di Tullio, “Strong Wind”

Maxx Furian, “Relaxing on the boat”

ALL FOR ONE

“Pizza Funk”

Lele Boria Eugenio Mori

Alex Battini de Barreiro

Giorgio Di Tullio

Maxx Furian

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Titolo | The Italian Job - Drumming Perspectives (English Version)

Autore | Ritmo Italiano

ISBN | 9791221481969

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INTRODUCTION

by Eugenio Mori

You don’t write about drums.

You don’t talk about drums.

The Drums, maybe, like any other musical instrument, should only be played…. studied and played. “Experience it” would be the right expression, in a constant exercise of dedication, commitment, trial and testing, … Getting into the game (“Mettendosi in gioco”), because as we all know, in many languages (such as in French, English and German) it has to do with playing and it’s a great suggestion for the attitude that you must keep and preserve whenever it is chosen - fate or consciously - to undertake the journey to study a musical instrument.

Here we meet five drum veterans, five musicians who - each with their own education, background, personal world - strip themselves (and, precisely, in the game) by sharing and passing down some of their experience that they have acquired in the years on stage (or in their musical rehearsal room or in recording studios).

Each of them have their own “trademark”, their own unique unmistakable sound, one’s own matrix, fruit of a magical combination of infinite factors that transmit a fundamental summary right from the start: we can all learn something from everyone (and it’s very important), but we all need to find our own way (musical or otherwise) because playing is not a simple exercise in style, but it’s telling a story: life and soul. As the subtitle says, it’s a question of “perspectives”, points of view, of eyes that look at the same thing (the same “music scene”) in a completely different way. And, as a matter of fact this book or method or manual (call it as you wish) offers multiple starting points, it involves five Italian drummers (Lele Boria, Eugenio Mori, Alex Battini de Barreiro, Giorgio di Tullio and Maxx Furian) with a different personal and musical history, brought together by their friendship, a healthy passion for rhythm, for the drums and especially from an identical educational root: the school of Maestro Enrico Lucchini.

So, think….at the root there is basically one Maestro - the same identical Maestro - that transmits and teaches the same things to five Students who learn, and over time process in a completely different way, forging a musical personality and not, that makes them UNIQUE. Unique in the richest sense of the term has little to do with any ranking in which one excels beyond the others, but where each one is unrepeatable and bearer of a heritage that has no equal, therefore enriching for everyone.

The main element of the text is an unpublished song reread and re-interpreted by each of them according to their own personal stylistic mark. Clearly none of them confronted each other before expressing themselves freely, precisely to avoid an inevitable conditioning or misdirection of intent.

The result - from the listening and reading of the drawn-up notes technical and not - is a matching of pieces that offers infinite colors in a musical framework of equal origin, but infinitely rich of nuances and shades.

The five drumming personalities assume even more precise features in the song chosen independently. Chosen for taste, for affinity, for pure pleasure of interpretation. Nothing new, but always surprising for those who are still able to read the wonder that lies behind a single instrument (in this case, the drums) which takes an infinite life according to the Musician who will begin to play it.

All the songs present in “The Italian Job” are the fruit of unpublished pieces of composer-producer Nicolò Fragile’s creative talent.

An idea that was born from the pleasure of narrating a way of understanding and living music all round Italian. A “Made in Italy” rhythm, a country that has always nourished itself from art.

ONE FOR ALL

LELE BORIA

“The Allan Theory”

It wasn’t easy for me to identify a “favorite genre”, a language that more than others that could represent a convincing synthesis of my artistic evolution.

As for most of us drummers, my music taste and influences have embraced many different genres: Rock, Pop, Latin, Jazz and all the declinations that contaminate these languages. In my years of studies, I have tried to deepen the technical/expressive foundations as much as possible in each of these musical expressions in order to express an authentic and functional language that could give back idiomatic consistency and quality of sound. That’s when the word “Fusion” becomes central in my idea of “favorite genre”, precisely because, like in a wonderful musical kaleidoscope, you go through all kinds of musical genres where it’s diluted in a language where boundaries become difficult to classify and identify all in a single container.

“The Allan Theory” represents perfectly the quintessence of fusion music with which I matured and grew up with. The melodic space and harmonies of this song allow a very creative and stimulating interpretative performance in which you can put together a “way”, an approach that becomes absolutely personal due to the complex harmonic composition, but at the same time very lyrical and melodic.

The theme (the real pillar of the composition) is a marvelous canvas where you can create and find wonder thanks to a rhythmic/harmonic construction that allows total expressive freedom from both a timbral and metrical point of view. In the central part, with guitar and synth solos, the comping moves in a purely Funk/Rock direction with a very tight and incisive rhythmic vamp. After the two final themes, on the coda there is a drum solo that develops on the rhythmic pattern on the previous solos where, once again, one’s solo creativity can find space and make the difference, each with his individuality and aesthetic conception.

In the next pages you will find my music chart of the song along with some ideas I have developed mainly in the solo part hoping it will be an incentive to develop new ideas and concepts.

A special thanks to Nicolò Fragile and Lorenzo Ceci that, with his extraordinary compositional ability, created a song that totally represents my idea of “modern music”, total expression as a synthesis of all my listenings studied over the years, assimilated and humbly interpreted by my “drum heroes”.

Enjoy!

The Allan Theory