Welcome to Joshua Ting's personal home on the web
Josh was born in Malaysia and grew up in a home filled with love and music.
He showed an early interest and gift in music by picking up simple piano playing by ear at the age of 3.
He started playing the piano from the age of 5, specialising in improvisation by listening.
At the age of 15, Josh also showed a keen interest in the drums, an instrument he had not had a chance to play or be exposed to.
Taking some early lessons, Josh showed promise by possessing a good sense of rhythm and showing a quick rate in improvement.
By this time, the piano had become Josh's first love and he was playing the piano in high school musicals, including reproductions of "Miss Saigon" and "Oklahoma".
He began playing regularly in small groups and duos, focusing on accompaniment for solo and duet vocals.
Josh joined the swing band in high school for an opportunity to develop his ability on the drums.
Although leaving home was hard to do, Josh moved to the UK to attend university, and found his feet quickly by earning the position as resident pianist at an award-winning fine dining restaurant.
He stepped his way onto the drum throne of the incredible University Big Band, gigging regularly.
Three amazing years later, Josh found himself playing in the Montreux Jazz Festival with the Big Band.
Upon graduating from university, Josh has moved his focus to drums and has plays sessions and in funk bands, Big Bands, and jazz quartets
including
Moment's Notice and resident jazz quartet for JAM, a regular jazz evening at Warwick University.
In addition to his love for playing jazz, Josh has also collaborated with up and coming artistes across the UK in private functions, sessions and
showcases, playing a variety of music styles, including latin, pop and funk.
In the near future, Josh is looking to get involved in exciting new music projects, ideas and thoughts are welcome on a postcard please!
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
My Setup
I've drawn some pictures of my potential drum setup, and here's how it looks at the moment.
In the setup diagram, I included an
Istanbul Agop Custom Sultan Ride which I plan to buy within the next 2 weeks. However, I haven't included a set of remote hi-hats which I have, now that the
dw5000 remote hi-hat pedal I bought has arrived, and Dave (the legend!) has kindly given me his old set of
Sabian AAX Stage Hats.
More pictures coming soon!
My New Baby
After a long 10 day wait, the snare I bought on eBay finally arrived today!
It's a previously-owned
Pearl Session Custom snare, 14" x 5.5" with a 6-ply all maple shell and Pearl Superhoops and even came with a simple (single-braced) Pearl snare stand. Nice little package for the princely (bargain) sum of... GBP82.
Tiny snare stand, perfect for my Slingerland.
Up close and personal.The old (stock!) head was battered beyond recognition, and so [dweeb]'s amazing Dave (and I) fitted a brand new
Aquarian Modern Vintage coated snare head. The new head has the perfect thickness, and although very resonant, gives controlled overtones. The coating is beautiful and seems much more durable than the coating on the
Aquarian Satin Finish Texture Coated head I use on the Slingerland.
The only negative thing about this whole experience is that I bought wrong size snare drum case (14" x 6.5") and so will have to make a lengthy trip to Dr. Um tomorrow. I may come back with more than just a snare case. Somebody stop me!
A great day in my life of drumming! Cheers for your help Dave, you're a legend!
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Drum Gear
Snares
- Pearl Session Custom Maple Snare 14" x 5.5"
- Slingerland Artist Series Maple Snare 12" x 5"
Cymbals
- Bosphorus Hammer Ride 22"
- Zildjian K Dark Crash Medium Thin 16"
- Zildjian K Custom Dark Crash 15"
- Bosphorus Traditional Splash 10"
- Zildjian K Custom Dark Hi-Hats 13"
Hardware
- Tama Iron Cobra Power Glide Twin Pedal
- dw5000 Remote Hi-Hat Controller
Sticks
- Zildjian Jazz drumsticks
- Vic Firth AJ1 American Jazz drumsticks
- Vic Firth Rute rods
- Vic Firth T6 mallets
- Pro-Mark TB4 wire brushes
Gallery
Saturday, March 04, 2006
in loving memory
You came into my life..
.. to put a smile on my face..
.. and others' too..
.. through thick and thin..
.. when south winds blew..
.. you kept us warm..
.. the kiss of death..
.. i cried with you..
.. and that was goodbye.
In loving memoryRachel
N316LGHDeparted 4th March 2005
.. deeply missed.
year 3 (5) term 2 : final hurdle
There's a week left to go before the term officially ends and here's where it gets busy beyond belief.
On the bright side, my supervisor is very happy with my model and I have declared it complete. There are a couple more variations I want to work on but nothing that will take me more than 6 hours. Simple presentation material and that's phase 3 (out of 4) of project complete.
Current Uses progress : 0/5000 words.
Countdown to..Project Presentation (model complete) : 4 days
Current Uses essay (5000 words) due date : 5 days
Ops. Management report (4000 words) due date : 7 weeks
Project Report (15000 words) due date : 8 weeks
First exam : 12 weeks
Last exam : 15 weeks
Switzerland : 17 weeks
Graduation : 19 weeks
E&Y start : 22 weeks
Slacking for 2 days at this stage of my university life is probably the worst thing I've ever done. That was a confession if ever you've heard one.
