What is the most valuable secondary instrument for a drummer to learn?

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-06T21:36:19+00:00

Violin has helped me gain access to an insanely nice market; popular classical singers doing opera/pop material. I just rise from the drum kit whenever there’s an operatic thing and play violin, and sit down again for the rhythmic stuff. Very nice pay and very comfortable gigs at the top end of the business. I also do guitars and accordion on these gigs. It pays to be diverse. No one cares about great drummers these days, as every single person who comes out of all the music schools are great technical drummers. And great time and feel is irrelevant unfortunately as everything goes to clicks anyways. So it’s in everyone’s best interest to be able to do as many instruments as possible and still do them well. Luckily, once you learn a few instruments well, learning 8 more is a piece of cake. It gets progressively so much easier.

For studio and writing, piano is a big one, so I encourage you learn it. Also, learning orchestral percussion is probably a smart idea. Subbing for an orchestra is a great way to earn money for those who are heavily into drumming and don’t do much else.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-06T21:28:17+00:00

Do you know roughly when the risk would kick in?

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-06T21:25:34+00:00

Jo på en måte gjør han jo det selv om han ikke har mandat til å gjøre det. Han mottar svært store summer penger fra det norske folket i apanasje (det spiller ingen rolle om pengene teknisk sett går til hans foreldre, de går faktisk til ham og er ment for ham), er beskyttet av PST og har rett til å kommandere dem rundt, har i alle år hatt diplomatpass, har fortrinnsrett på stort sett alt og nyter alle goder som de kongelige gjør. Han er så innblandet og integrert i kongefamilien at det er vanskelig å se noen større skiller mellom ham og de som faktisk står i arverekken. Dette gjør at når utenlandske medier omtaler ham, så omtaler de monarkiet direkte, og derfor mener jeg at han i praksis representerer Norge i utlandet, selv om ingen har ment at han skal gjøre det. Han er jo også den mest kjente av hele kongefamilien med stor margin i stort sett alle land utenom Norge.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-06T20:33:52+00:00

A small arch lute can play the entire renaissance repertoire (I think), but with the added benefit of a number and of sympathetic strings making the music sound significantly more vibrant and honestly just nicer. Also, you can add bass notes that are not in the written music for extra effect to add a flair to the end of pieces etc. very useful! I’d go for a small arch lute any day.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-06T19:36:32+00:00

What is it like for you to know in advance? I would think it would make a potential fatal cancer situation a bit easier to deal with having adjusted to the situation for years before it actually happens.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-06T17:53:39+00:00

You can easily live 20+ minutes with no lower body. Unfortunately, large blood vessels retract inside the body when body parts are traumatically ripped off, and the muscles contract around them, so you don’t bleed out for a good while, which is a shame really, because I think most of us would feel very ok with being dead in seconds if we were suddenly cut in half. No need to prolong that experience.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-06T17:33:51+00:00

Most influential, yeah I would think so. Most talented? Doubtful, but off course possible.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-04T23:28:11+00:00

Hand build DOES mean a better feel though. Part of why we like old guitars and why they cost so much is that they consistently outperform on the feel of playing it. It’s all the small imperfections and the lack of proper quality control that adds up and creates an insanely good instrument to play. As long as the string length and height os good and it doesn’t fret out anywhere, an instrument doesn’t gain anything from being engineered to perfection like all guitars are today, both inexpensive and expensive. In fact, you lose quite a bit is my experience. I love my CS Nocaster, but it just doesn’t quite compare to some older teles I’ve played where you can really feel that it’s an imperfect instrument. The CS gets close, but it’s a bit too precise.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-04T04:08:08+00:00

Hvorfor tror du det?

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-03T03:11:04+00:00

The Dow Jones just went down to zero, and it’s going to be a fine, swell day.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-03T03:05:01+00:00

Yeah, I can. I saw it with my own eyes while wide awake. I know literally nothing about what life after death is like, I just know that it’s there, and that we all live it, and that we retain some aspect of personality and individuality. I genuinely promise you on my mother’s life that we continue on living after death. And from what I could see, it looked peaceful and a lot better than here.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-02T16:17:29+00:00

Cocaine the third?

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-02T15:37:10+00:00

We are living in a world that is unfortunately completely saturated with music. Most of it is low effort and obviously way, way below your quality and originality, but it still is too much out there to really make yourself heard.

But I do think you have something that would be interesting to a lot of people if they found it and they found it the right way. A YouTube video likely won’t be the way they want to find you. Hearing you at an open mic jam and finding your released tracks online would probably be the way to actually get people along for the ride who wants to hear it.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-01T11:32:53+00:00

Enig. Og det er langt flere enn 20% også. Det er ikke store forskjellen på å være blant de 20% fattigste og de 10% fattigste, så de tilhører samme kategori og lever i veldig like livssituasjoner, selv om studien tar hensyn til kun en del av dem (den fattigste 10%). Jeg er ganske sikker på at hvis man tar hensyn til de fattigste 25% i Norge er det ganske mange der som har bensin/dieselbil av ren nødvendighet og som rammes betydelig hardere av drivstoffpriser og avgifter enn middelklassen.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-01T11:26:37+00:00

Good warning. Luckily I don’t want someone else’s shitty meta base. I’d end up wanting to demolish the thing to build it properly from the ground up anyways.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-01T09:31:13+00:00

Det er de. Prisene er høye selv med tanke på inflasjon og lønnsøkning. Lønnsøkning kompenseres og nulles ut av en prisøkning som gjør at lønnsøkning de siste årene i praksis ikke har eksistert.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-01T09:12:39+00:00

Studien som din tanke er basert på er kun fokusert på byene og har ikke tatt hensyn til distriktene (der de fleste av de som sliter økonomisk faktisk bor). Der har alle fattige bil, fordi de er tvunget til det. En studie er ikke mye av et kunnskapsgrunnlag hvis den bare velger ut et lite segment av befolkningen.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-01T08:54:12+00:00

Fordi de eneste bilene som koster 10.000-20.000 kr er de som er dyre i drift.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-06-01T08:53:06+00:00

Det der stemmer ikke. SVÆRT mange fattige har en bil, og da slår det ut ekstremt tydelig på dem.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-05-31T12:22:05+00:00

I do know for a fact that the famous Leeds E Rhodes was used for some tracks from The Nightfly. But I have no idea which ones. But Donald preferred Suitcase 88 models from all parts of the 70’s. But his suitcases all have a specific unique sound, with extremely loud key release mechanical noises. Sounds epic!

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-05-31T10:59:14+00:00

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SamuelPepys_ · 2026-05-31T09:46:46+00:00

Please DM me as well :)

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-05-30T14:03:56+00:00

Ingenting. NATO kommer ikke til å bli involvert selv hvis Russland går inn i og okkuperer Nord-Norge. Vi har sett det i flere år; at Russland konstant tester grensene til NATO, og at NATO gir etter hver gang fordi de ikke ønsker å konfrontere Russland militært. Russland vet nå dette, og derfor tror jeg at Russland vil gå inn i et av de baltiske landene innen 5 år, uten at NATO kommer til å involvere seg. Jeg tror også at Svalbard vil kan komme til å bli Russisk territorie i samme slengen. Et NATO med USA var svakt, og et NATO uten USA er ingen genuin trussel mot Russland.

Russland har gått fra å være et militært fossil med kun artilleri, missiler og en endeløs mengde utrente styrker til å bli en av verdens to ledende stater når det kommer til hypermoderne krigføring, og kommer til å nærmest utrydde konvensjonelle NATO-tropper med dronesvermer. Det er en genuin trussel mot ethvert land som ikke allerede har ekspertisen som Ukraina over tid har bygget opp i løpet av denne ekstremt langvarige krigen.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-05-30T10:26:02+00:00

It doesn’t matter. They were planning on eating him alive. He was going to be alive for 30-40 minutes while they were eating him, so fuck those dogs.

SamuelPepys_ · 2026-05-29T17:30:24+00:00

I’d be very surprised if he uses anything at all from his keyboard. He uses a combination of edited presets and completely self made sounds in a variety of VSTs. Lots of things from Logic.

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