The Quorn's Drumming World

Quornokol, a Pedagogical Instrument and Musical Work. 

A study exploring rhythmic phrasing East and West 

by 

Alan Corne 

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements 
for the degree of Master of Music (Contemporary Practice) 
 School of Higher Education …

Welcome to The Quorn’s Drumming world “Know Your Subdivisions” Tutorial Video Series “Konnokols part 1 The Basics”. 

The Basics 

Today we are going to start with the basics. Counting with Konnokols, which is the South Indian term for singing rhythms…

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If you put a bunch of drummers in a room and the conversation topic of electronic percussion came up at some point you would no doubt hear:

“C’mon man you can’t compare electronic drums to acoustic drums?" 

Well even though…

I dedicate this page to Billy Cobham a great innovator, musician, open handed drumming master, teacher, and all around gentleman whose dedication to, and mastery of this drumming art form has been an inspiration to me for decades! 

Thank you…

My love affair with Indian music started when I was 16 in 1977, I found an album of tabla recitals that was using Western song melodies as the raga cycle to accompany the tabla soloist. I guess this album was…

Konnokol originates from South India. It is a rhythmic musical language made up of meaningless one syllable sounds that function as a map to navigate South India’s three major drums, the Mridagam, Ghatam and Kanjira. Konnokol is also a means…

 When considering rhythmic phrasing taking into account the great musical traditions of East and West what comes to mind? 

Well for me it’s relatively straight forward first define the building blocks, in other words the subdivisions of the quarter note…