Funny thing happened along the way...

Bubba is fond of collecting local FHM magazine/s... and he happens to get the latest copy with pops fernandez on the cover... no, this will definitely have nothing to do with lambasting any pop icon, nor praising her... but this will have something to do with a previous incarnation and an encounter with a musical warrior with prowess on the drums... clap-clap-clap... but a little academically challenged... (ahem, ahem-ahem)

so, hey, he never had formal studies in music, and he wrote an article about music... so sue me... i may just be sour graping because i spent 6 years in the academe and barely wrote a flying term paper on t'aiko drums and reggae which blurred into the background and into obscurity... (laugh-laugh-laugh)

...but him...! i still remember his long hair and backpiece, like a mural in which q & u wrote the concept... but then agin, i'm not here to praise him, but in my own little way be a bitch again (sourgrape...! you leave sour to the taste... :p) and try to be all literatti about music again... well, i did study musicology -- and this gives me the authority to... (laugh-laugh-laugh)!

But then just for reference, i found an article in wikipedia about -- blast beats -- and there is a pattern for this, you just don't play fast and hard --

"Typical blast beats consist of 16th note snare and 8th or 16th note bass drum hits, on the top of which a cymbal, normally a hi-hat or a ride, is hit, in Quarter or 8th notes. Variations exist. Some people maintain the bass drum should be played with one foot for the best effect in blasts using 8th note bass drum strokes; however, some drummers choose to split the 8th notes between both feet.
One of the most common blast beats, used extensively in extreme metal, is one where single stroke 16th notes are played between the hi-hats and snare drum, and on every 8th note, a bass drum is hit."

And in this case, maybe he was @ a loss for musical description... the concept was there, the expalnation was where it became a bit blurry... music is not otherworldly in which it cannot be defined and measured -- as with any skill or science form -- music is exact -- even those which sound like an ingredient to madness... if that's the case -- maybe in another musical plane -- his short description of the blast beat would have been acceptable... but not that day, not to me (sourgrape-sourgrape-sourgrape...)

i remember a time in nother incarnation, about 6 years ago, where i saw all drum warriors gathered, to see dave weckl -- the "dave weckl" and he was giving a workshop to some cavemen... the "blast beat" was not a concept academically inclined musicians used, you cannot even find it in music... maybe this started from the music critics, maybe early hardcore punk bands... he was even a bit surprised about the concept when he was asked by a gurl-drummer... but then again, there is no "one" authority in music... that would be totally absurd...

...enough said, i just wanted to share a past life experience, hard not to when you keep bumping into them once in awhile... :p