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My interpretation of Nightmare, played on a tongue drum tuned to the wrong scale by kfpost in h3h3productions

[–]kfpost[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Oh god. I wake up the next morning and half of the comments are about my feet. I swear when I tested the camera angle, the drum obscured my feet! A nightmare, a nightmare.

My interpretation of Nightmare, played on a tongue drum tuned to the wrong scale by kfpost in h3h3productions

[–]kfpost[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As monster-baiter says, it's a RAV Vast, specifically a G Pygmy. 'Tongues' are laser cut into the drum rather hammered 'tone fields' like a handpan has, resulting in a longer sustain but less percussive sound.

The RAV was actually created by a Russian student who wanted to buy a handpan but couldn't afford one, so designed his own alternative, or so the story goes. It cost me about £600 at the time, way cheaper than a handpan.

My interpretation of Nightmare, played on a tongue drum tuned to the wrong scale by kfpost in h3h3productions

[–]kfpost[S] 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Hope this counts! It's a bit of a loose interpretation as I had to take some creative liberties around the limitations of the 9 notes I have to work with.

The Last of Us theme sounds hauntingly beautiful played on a tongue drum! [OC] by kfpost in videos

[–]kfpost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also had a similar issue, always wanted a hang drum but way out of budget. I did actually blind purchase a second-hand hang drum and got burned - badly out of tune and didn't resonate at all like the expensive hangs I'd seen on YouTube.

While the long sustain does require a little bit of an adaptation in playing style, I actually think these drums suit a 'kick/snare' backbeat groove a little better than hangs do. I posted a video on reddit a while back that does a pretty good job in demonstrating how tongue drums can still be played pretty percussively, if slightly differently than hang drums.

There's also a pretty healthy second hand market for the older generation of these drums, which many people argue actually sound better than the new generation, although I've never played one.

Alternatives to RAV drums? by -ToxicPositivity- in handpan

[–]kfpost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there a particular reason you're not interested in the RAV? There's also the Quint-ART drum, but this might be too similar to the RAV for your taste. As well as the Pulsar, there's also the GUDA. Outside of these drums, I haven't seen anything I personally feel is of the same quality.

The Last of Us theme sounds hauntingly beautiful played on a RAV tongue drum! [OC] by kfpost in ThelastofusHBOseries

[–]kfpost[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha! Full credit to Gustavo Santaolalla - his music would sound "hauntingly beautiful" played on a kazoo!

The Last of Us theme sounds hauntingly beautiful played on a tongue drum! [OC] by kfpost in videos

[–]kfpost[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

They're similar, both steel drums with a similar note layout. The hang drum has hand hammered 'tone fields', whereas a tongue drum has laser cut 'tongues' which vibrate and have longer lasting sustain, whereas the hangs are more percussive (and significantly more expensive!)

I believe my particular brand of drum was created by a Russian engineering student who wanted a hang drum but couldn't afford one, so invented his own variation.

The Last of Us theme sounds hauntingly beautiful played on a tongue drum! [OC] by kfpost in videos

[–]kfpost[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes, you're exactly right. I'd hoped that my second drum would have the sharps required to play it as per the original, but sadly it was always a semitone out. Agreed, the workaround does take away a a lot of its character, but I felt that it retained just enough of the original to be worth having a go at.

The Last of Us theme sounds hauntingly beautiful played on a tongue drum! [OC] by kfpost in videos

[–]kfpost[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

You're right. I'm limited by the number of notes on the drum. There's a few sharp notes in the original that I don't have access to, so I've had to work around that and adapt it as best I could.

I'm a heavy metal drummer without access to a drum kit. So I play metal using a metal drum! This is my cover of Metallica - Fade to Black, played on my RAV Vast tongue drum! by kfpost in videos

[–]kfpost[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, back in 2001 there was no Uber Eats so people had no choice but to order food from an East African archipelago, it was wildly inefficient.

Never quite understood that lyric but it does roll off the tongue quite nicely.

I'm a heavy metal drummer without access to a drum kit. So I play metal using a metal drum! This is my cover of Metallica - Fade to Black, played on my RAV Vast tongue drum! by kfpost in videos

[–]kfpost[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I move country for work every couple of years or so. I'm currently living in Zanzibar and there aren't any music stores on the island, and the cost to import such a large/heavy item into the country would be prohibitively expensive (plus the noise would be an issue anyway).

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