: About Me

I am relatively new to journalism, but have been a creative writer all my life. In joining Helium, I hope to hone my journalism skills with particular focus on music reviewing, both live and recorded, and researched opinion based pieces.

I aim to review musicians' work from a musician's point of view. In daily life I am a working musician, and want to write about the views of the musical community from the inside...what it's like as a young musician starting out in the unpredictable climate of recession where, it increasingly seems, music and the arts are suddenly seen as luxuries, and could well be the first areas to suffer. I aim to investigate what music really means to us, and whether, in the long run, it may come to be seen as a necessity rather than a luxury extra.

who knows?

My passion is ...

Music and writing

I know too much about ...

Balinese Gamelan

My parents always told me ...

that mistakes are a golden opportunity

My childhood ambition ...

to be a rock star!

My favorite memory ...

singing in the Royal Festival Hall

Why I write ...

to share my investigations, discoveries and mistakes

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Punk cabaret

My first job ...

Busker

My best moment ...

singing 'Talkin' Bout My Generation'

My inspiration ...

the whole tone scale

Entertainment > Music Education How to take care of percussion instruments

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Percussion is the oldest form of instrumental music by a long way. The thousands of different percussion instruments we have today evolved from the early rattles, drums and pitched sticks that were the earliest members of the percussion family. Because there are so many different types of percussion instument, it is very important to treat them as individual instruments and not as one massed group. Percussion instruments have been classified into two main groups, idiophones and membranophones. Idiophones are vibrating instruments, subcategories of which include: concussion idiophones such ...

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