There are a number of percussion myths that are circulating, such as “warming up crash cymbals”. In all my years of playing cymbals with both the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony, I have never played a crash where I think the cymbals spoke late –…
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When playing triangle, tambourine and cymbal parts of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries – the exact duration of a note can often be unclear. While composers of those periods were good at notating when to start a note, more often than not, they…