Orchestral ROM
Appendix D-14
Sticking
The Mirror Image Drum Map lets you simulate the sticking that a real drummer would use.
Try playing a tom tom fill from hi tom to low tom using a paradiddle sticking (RLRRLRLL).
This should be very easy to execute with minimal physical motion. The symmetrical inward-
outward motion also feels comfortable and smooth. Doubling or layering of instruments while
maintaining the beat is as easy as grabbing chords. A good example of this can be illustrated
with program 977, “Big Drum Corps”.
Play a steady repeating sixteenth note snare drum pattern with your left and right thumbs
alternating on the keys, C#4 and D#4. Keep that same left, right, left, right hand motion going
but simply add your index fingers to play the next black keys which would be A#3 in the left
hand and F#4 in the right hand. Finally, add the ring finger for the low tom on F#3 and A#4. If
you look at your hands now the right hand is making an E flat minor chord and its mirror
image chord, F# Major, is in the left hand. After playing with the drum programs you’ll notice
how easy it is to play multiple drums in unison or to add or drop a tom or crash cymbal while
maintaining a continuous flow of rhythm.
For those of you who prefer the old Kurzweil drum map for the drumkit programs, it is
available on the Controller slider.
Drumkit Programs: 984, 985
Drum Corps Programs: 977, 980
Orchestral Percussion Programs: 978, 979
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