An application for smartphone that anyone can easily experience UGO-like instrument "Hang Drum" playing music of healing and passion

ByElvert Barnes

A mysterious percussion instrument with a tone that seems to penetrate deeply as if it were a disk shaped UFO "Hang drum(Hang Drum) "has gradually become known from around 2000 when it first appeared. A distinctive calm tone and the passionate melody created from it are attracting a lot of people, but it seems that such a hang drum can be easily experienced even with a smartphone application.

◆ Hang drum's sound and performance
Hang drum is a Swiss instrument manufacturer "PANArt(Panato) "was developed in 2001, the principle that sound comes out is often used in Caribbean music"Steel drum(Steel bread) "almost the same thing. It is said to be a musical instrument that is able to play a melody by processing a thin iron plate, the price is said to be about 200,000 yen, but from the fact that the world wide shortage continues constantly, trading at several times premium price It is also a musical instruments that are often done.

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What kind of sounds and performances are possible from the following movies. With duo playing with two hang drums and simple percussion, the charm of hang drum should be able to understand quite a bit.

Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys - YouTube


Although it is a hang drum which is difficult to obtain already and can not be actually experienced, in the application for smartphones, there are a number of things that simulate such a hang drum and it is possible for anyone to try playing easily.

Applications are of course released both for Android apps and iOS, and if you search on "Hang Drum" "Hang Drum" on the Play Store or App Store, you will find many applications hit. This time, it can be said that it is a staple of a hang-drum application for iOS with 45 different scale presetsOddTunes: HangI tried using it.

OddTunes: Hang on the App Store
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/oddtunes-hang/id309730872

OddTunes: Since Hang is a paid application provided at 120 yen, tap on the price icon to purchase and install.


Installation launch the application after the completion if such a screen. It is displayed hang in the middle of the screen, the lower the shows the current scale setting "Aerian (Eolian or natural minor scale,)" has been displayed. The bottom can change the scale settings to and "Tuning (tuning)", recording and playback button of the performance, it is lined with a menu button.


By the way, the default scale is like this. It is a natural minor scale starting from D (les), and the sound of A (La) used for bass sound in the middle is set.


So, when you play with Sarato like this, you can enjoy such a feeling just by arranging sounds appropriately like this.

I tried playing the hang drum sound with the iOS application "OddTunes: Hang" - YouTube


In tuning it is possible to set a very wide scale. Currently set aeolian is displayed in the item of "ACTIVE", and frequently used scale is displayed in "FAVORITES". Also, "BASIC PACK" shows the scale selected by default.


"COMMON PACK" includes harmonic minor, Hungarian major, minor pentatonic scales, easy-to-use scales on hang drums.


"EUROPEAN PACK" contains a lot of unfamiliar scales such as Hitzaz used in Greek music. This is a pattern of scales often played in ethnic instruments such as bouzuki.


"MODERN MODAL PACK" contains scales used in mode theory such as Dorian, Ionian, and Lydian. Depending on the combination with the base song, it seems to be able to use it very effectively.


"MICROTONAL PACK" seems to be a scale set to a finer scale than usual semitones. It was a setting that can give out a unique atmosphere that can not be done by the 12-scale equal temperament.


The scale listed in "EASTERN PACK" is "Ake Bono (Urgency) "Or" Banshiki-cho (Paneling) "Is arranged in the chord floor.


"MIDDLE EASTERN PACK" literally has musical scales of Middle Eastern music lining up.


Using all these scales seems to be a very high-level content, but for the time being it is possible to enjoy the atmosphere to a considerable extent just by playing with the default Eolian scale. When I got up at night, when I was absorbed in the world with earphones while I was drinking alcohol, it was supposed to take me to a quite dangerous world.

If you play a hang drum like it with the iOS application "OddTunes: Hang" Like this - YouTube