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Wearable Third Arm Gives Drummers Extra Robotic Rhythm (gizmag.com)
Zothecula writes: Thumping out as many drum beats in 60 seconds may get you a podium spot at the annual World's Fastest Drummer competition, but we'll take the full kit virtuoso playing of Cozy Powell, Philthy Animal Taylor or Mitch Mitchell any day of the week. When trying to emulate the fastest or the greatest on your bedroom bin-bashers, though, you'd be forgiven for wishing you had a third arm. Georgia Tech Professor Gil Weinberg and his research team may have the answer to your prayers. They've developed a drumstick-wielding wearable robotic limb that's able to respond to both the music being played and the movements of the player.
...welcome our new drumming robotic arm overlords.
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I've got a natural third leg. Does that count?
Or second arm in the case of Rick Allen
A robotic third arm?
When can i get a robotic third leg?
They've developed a drumstick-wielding wearable robotic limb that's able to respond to both the music being played and the movements of the player.
Shouldn't this be from the solving-problems-that-aren't-problems-department?
why hit a "drum" when you can simply program a computer and fully synthesize it?
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They left Keith Moon out of the list.
When he wasn't passing out from animal tranquilizers at a concert...in his younger days he was amazingly fast.....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
why hit a "drum" when you can simply program a computer and fully synthesize it?
Why program a computer to synthesize it when you can just sample it?
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They already get more ass than the base player, now they get an extra arm??
why hit a "drum" when you can simply program a computer and fully synthesize it?
Why program a computer to synthesize it when you can just sample it?
Why bother sampling it when you can just claim it was yours in the first place, and issue a DMCA takedown request for it?
(Note: This may only work if you're Sony or one of the other three corporations remaining in the world.)
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Table-ized A.I.
Oh, whatever... double bass makes any song 2x as good and you know it...
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
As a drummer, this is worst idea ever.
Fast is not talent. Fast is not musical, creative, or in good taste.
Fast is pretty much just cacophony, no different than a garbage truck emptying a dumpster.
It depends on the genre and band.
Someone like Dave Lombardo shows how speed is used to great effect.
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Oh, there will always be more than 3 corporations .. how the hell do you think they'll play shell games with the money to claim they weren't profitable.
You can't do Hollywood accounting if you don't have shell corporations to juggle the money around.
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That would make it sort of like this ??
http://www.rolandus.com/blog/2...
That is how the 'less' talented make up speed and flourishes and other bonus sounds are added to the traditional percussionists array.
Not to impugn anyone's' skills as I can't even manage the 2 arms I've got to produce a constant rhythm.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
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Strap-on.
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In the 1960s there was a garage band called The Barbarians. Their drummer only had one hand, but he held the drumsticks on the other side using a two-finger hook. One of the most inspiring things I've ever seen in my life is the video of an auditorium of teenagers screaming enthusiastically when he launched into his drum solo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
No thanks,unless it can play a shuffle, swing or otherwise kick a band in the ass.
Get up!
it could actually play in time.
..and no mentions of Peart, Carey or even Bonham?
Silence is a state of mime.
Yeah, that sounds great. Scratch your ass and get your phone robotically implanted.
So you could say it's like... a gripping hand?
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Not to impugn anyone's' skills as I can't even manage the 2 arms I've got to produce a constant rhythm.
But with one hand you can? Yeah, thought so.
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(Sorry, but that was sooo much an open door, I couldn't resist
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Amen Brother!
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Because at that point, you remove all musical talent from the creation....and become a rapper.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Extra robotic rhythm? Or turns them into a Rube-Goldbergian Drum Synth.
Yep, I pat her on the back of the head with one hand to help keep time, but it doesn't seem to extend duration much.
BTW Don't apologize for a good joke, If the subject, in this case me can't take it, then I shouldn't be posting here in any case...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
It was called "Use my Third Arm"!
..more Cowbell!
Thumping out as many drum beats in 60 seconds may get you a podium spot at the annual World's Fastest Drummer competition
As many as what? 60? That's one a second. That's... not very fast.
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I always wondered why drummers spend years practicing and building up enough stamina to be able to do that.
Surely all you need is an Arduino, a foot switch and some sort of linear actuator to move the pedal.
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I wonder if Rick Allen of Def Leppard is sitting up and taking notice of this technology...
Is this expanding to other instruments like, say, the wind section? I wouldn't mind a third hand to help with my skin flute practice! Zing!
All the drummers I know had 3 arms, when girls were around even 5.
Rick Allen is a drummer, and a rather incredible story. Drummers, real drummers, see drumming as a pure body effort. This third "robot" arm is no different than using a drum machine. It's no longer the body doing the work, it's a machine.
Watch Mike Portnoy, Mike Mangini, Neil Peart, John Bohnam (videos obviously), etc.. etc.. they use both arms and both legs with incredible precision for an incredible effect. I don't think Rick was ever that caliber drummer (miracles are not that common) but before the accident he used both arms and both legs too. He didn't swap to a drum machine afterward, because he knows what "drumming" is to a "drummer". He retrained his body so that his feet do more than most drummers can do with their hands.
I have played for 45 years myself, so yes I have an opinion and yes I'm biased. I have little respect for bands that use artificial drums. A person with a robotic arm would be a novelty at best, and a joke to a real drummer.
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You have just gave me a perfect example how unique (and from my perspective: weird) Japanese culture is. Never heard of Hatsune Miku thing before. ... Thanks.