Making Lion Dance Music (Tutorial)

This video is a tutorial to help understand and teach the fundamentals of Chinese Lion Dance Music to beginners.

The music created here is very much a 'hybrid' style.. a more western performance, where the crashing cymbals seen in Traditional Lion Dance are toned down to enable it to be performed in close proximity to the audience; in restaurants etc... Sadly Western ears don't appreciate 6 pairs of cymbals crashing for a full performance close to their table :)

The video covers practice techniques for playing the Drum, with explanations of the rhythms and patterns used in a Traditional Chinese Lion Dance for each of the instruments.

0:00 Introduction to making Lion Dance music
1:00 Drum Techniques
1:44 Grip
2:31 Single Strokes
4:12 Double Strokes
5:19 Paradiddles
7:59 Ruffs
10:05 Dynamics and Accents
11:50 Cymbals and Gong
12:00 Cymbals Introduction
12:12 Cymbals - Rolling
12:30 Cymbals - Crashing and Muting
13:00 Cymbals - Muted Taps
13:20 Cymbals and Drum Together - Examples
14:17 The Gong Introduction
14:33 Gong - Rolling
14:56 Gong - Stricking and Muting
15:58 Drum and Gond Examples
16:28 Lion Dance Structure
17:35 Three Star Pattern
18:23 Sleeping Lion
19:65 Waking Lion
21:02 Standing Lion (Awake Lion)
22:07 Long Bows
22:50 Long Bows (with Bent notes
23:33 Five Star Pattern
25:40 The Greens
26:12 Seven Star Pattern
28:11 Ending Bows
29:30 Final Words
30:30 Example Music with Drum , Gong and Cymbal



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