Is Jeremy Ellis left handed?

Is Jeremy Ellis left handed? Does anybody knows?

 

Not sure. He looks pretty both handed from what I can see

 

Yes I know, but i don't understand why he plays drums with left (which is harder) and triggers samples with the right (which is easier) I think he is lefty or he is totally crazy
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and yes does he runs maschine and maschine mikro on the same laptop? is this possible?

 

Actually, my own finger drumming style is not all the different to Mr Ellis (however nowhere his level of agility and timing accuracy!).

I started finger drumming (keyboard style - not pads) on my first synth which allowed me to make custom drum kit layouts from scratch which was the elderly Roland D5 ... a ROMpler PCM based synth I bought back in 1989 (I think).

Anyhow, I developed a playing technique whereby using just my left hand, I could play a selection of 6 kicks, 6 snares and 1 closed hat, 1 half open hat, 1 open hat and a cymbal crash.

My Pinky finger handled the range of kicks mapped from C1 through F1.
I'd always map the big low "boom" kick to C1 since that required the greatest stretch to trigger.

My middle fingers would handle Snares mapped from F#1 through B1.
I'd have either a mixture of snares mapped there or sublte variations on the main snare.
I'd always have my "main" snare mapped to B1.

Hats would be played with my thumb being mapped from C2 through D2 and would be programmed to choke each other for a little added realism.

I'd spend hours and hours doing finger drum jamming along without a sequencer to tunes i'd heard on the top 40 radio broadcasts until it became second nature.

Initially I get the momentum happening with my left thumb playing the closed hi-hat on C2, then alternating using my pinky on the kick and my ring finger (next to thumb) on the snare. Every so often i'd slide my thumb up to D2 to trigger the Open Hat.

Anyhow, this drum layout has served me well for keyboard finger drumming for many many, years and was relatively easy to adapt the playing style to Maschine's pads ...

Back to the question of - Why does Jeremy Ellis use his Left Hand?

For me it seemed logical since then I could split the keyboard and play bass-lines and pads with my Right hand while drumming with my left hand. Also it meant I could keep the beats rolling on the left while tweaking synth parameters right hand (later on when I started using computers for sequencing in the early 90s my right hand was available for mouse clicks like arming tracks for recording, etc while I could keep the groove rolling uninterrupted).

Jeremy Ellis is an absolute freak ... I'm in awe at how awesome a finger drummer he is!

 

Probably something to do with his background in playing the piano?

 

off topic a bit but the weird thing about hands I find as a right handed guitar player, why does my left hand (and left handers why is it your right hand?) that does all the chord changes and intricate 'riffing' while my right hand just 'slugs' at the strings? yet when I change to piano my right hand is more fluid with chord shapes and riffs.

 

How do you set up pads on Maschine, since it has 4x4 pads, which drum to which pad?
Do you use the "NI style" layout?

BTW, about that Jeremy Ellis video, did you people notice the Kraftwerk influence? Man Machine and Computer World?

 

Definitely noticed the Kraftwerk/electro thang.

 

how do u set up two maschines to run at the sametime?i havent got 2 maschines but i do have a akai mpd24,novation launchpad,novation remote sl25,remote ....and wondered if it was possible to run those at the sametime?id love it if i could use the launchpad to control the mixer
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im thinking about it and see you can run them if i use more than one instace of maschine in cubase 6.5 or abelton live..so i just answered my own question..lol yes you can run more than one controller to use maschine

 

OP
Why not just ASK Jeremy Ellis if he's left handed or why he uses certain hands/fingers for drumming?
Like him on facebook and send him a question, he's openly doing Q&A sessions on facebook.


DJWAXXY
He's seemingly putting together a tutorial video on how to set this up and how he organises his live sets that'll be going up on youtube. I for one am very interested.

 

Soo this thread might be a bit old but I was curious soo.. F'in rad guy.

Me to Ellis:
"Hi! I'm totally stoked about all the proformance videos and tutorials you've been posting! Awesome. Also, it's amazing to see all the new fingerdrumming talent up and coming this year and I'm sure a big part of that you inspired! I have one question for you that's been kicking around the DJtechtools forum... Are you right or left handed? My guess is right (despite you playing the drums with your left) as I remember watching a proformance vid where you play a complicated slice lick with your right and then switch to your left to repeat the same thing... Right was dead on, left just a smidge slower. Am I right?!"

• JeremyEllisMusic "Yo, thanks so much, Sean! I'm quite right handed, you totally caught it. Because of early piano training, I'm pretty good with both hands but I always use the RH for all the really hard stuff. Good luck with everything you do! JE"

 

i thought he started out as a pianist. if that the case then he would be pritty much ambidextrous I would have thought.

as an arise I play bass guitar on a right handed bass although I'm left handed, so it could just be that thats how he learned.