Jarda Haz

 

Keep up with Jarda here:

www.alienationmental.com
www.myspace.com/alienationmental
www.youtube.com/mentalalien

 

 

Jarda Haž drum history:

1998    ALIENATION MENTAL – Kopferkingel
1998    YAGA – Yaga
1999     ALIENATION MENTAL – Veneration Of The Biological killing Machine
2001    ALIENATION MENTAL – The Restricted Cerebral Capacity
2002    ALIENATION MENTAL – Ball Spouter
2002    ALIENATION MENTAL – Eurotour
2003    M.F.A.G.C.O.Q.D. – No Jokes With Devils
2003    M.F.A.G.C.O.Q.D. – Eye For Eye
2005     ALIENATION MENTAL – Psychopathicolorspectrum
2005    ALIENATION MENTAL – Eurotour

 

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Jarda Haz Interview:

 

 

SD.com: When did you start playing drums?

Jarda: I play drums more than 10 years (I was born 1980), but I tried to hit everything everywhere and anytime long time ago. I remember, that I wanted to play the drums much more early but my parents told me that the guitar or keyboard is much more better than drums. So I work long time as part time job to earn money to buy my first drum set. Nobody trust me in the beginning that I could be able to play drums…

 

 

SD.com: Do you play in a school band or any drum corps?

Jarda: If you say drum corps or school band I can imagine only group of young smiling drummers dressed in the uniform, when the play before the American football match.  You maybe know Czech republic is country where is the highest number of beer consumption in the world, we are also second in the weed consumption. There isn’t any place in our republic for drum corps or school bands 

 

 

SD.com: Have you ever taken any lessons?

Jarda: No, I haven’t. I am not so patient to play, and play, and play the exercise. I know it isn’t good for improving my drum skills, but I am so lazy. On the other side, my job takes me lot of time and I want to spent lot of time with my wife and my small son.

 

 

SD.com: What album do you think best represents your playing?

Jarda: I should say the last one (alienation mental – PSYCHOPATHICOLORSPECTRUM), bud if I want to be serious, I should say that the biggest break in my drum skills came with the album “BALL SPOUTER” (alienation mental). This material show, all of the variations I was able to play in this time. There is mix of death grind groovy parts and nu-metal breaks and cymbal work.

 

 

 

 

SD.com: Who are your top 5 influences?

Jarda: Flo (Cryptopsy), David (Korn), Tim (Divine Heresy), Joy (Slipknot), John (Cephalic Carnage)

 

 

SD.com: Assuming that influences doesn’t mean favorites, who are your favorites?

Jarda: Generic say, my influences are the unorthodox artists. Orthodox thinking isn’t my cup of tea. I love these humans, who are out of the limits. Everyone who is trying to find something new, or mix “unmixable” is in my eyes hero.

 

 

SD.com: Let us know 3 CD’s that are in your current personal rotation

Jarda: Now I have in my mobile phone: last Divine Heresy, Contrastic (Czech great band), and first Korn album

 

 

SD.com: Do you practice any specific rudiments or combo’s regularly?

Jarda: No. I play only two times (2 hours) in the week in our practise room together with other band members. I saw lot of footages by many drumers, it is nice to be so patient and careful…

 

 

SD.com: What is your favorite part of your drum kit?

Jarda: My favorite is my home made snare. It is 8 inch snare made from Mapex Pro M tom tom. This snare allows me to have the sound and the attack I want. I love it. I am not oriented to play usual breaks on the tom toms and floor toms, I try to spice my parts with “cymbal” breaks. So fats breaks with high pitched sound of my snare in the combination with cjhina, splash and bell cymbals is my way how to play modern neo machine grind. 

 

 

 

 

SD.com: If you could give one piece of advice to younger drummers, it would be…

Jarda: Start early, play and play and play, listen to all kinds of music, build your own style…

 

 

SD.com: Who gave the best live performance you’ve ever seen?

Jarda: It isn’t simple to answer this question. I cant answer it directly. Great drum events were for me the live performance of: Cryptopsy, Suffocation, Korn, Fear Factory, Cephalic Carnage, Slipknot, Slayer, Meshuggah, and many more

 

 

SD.com: If you had to stop drumming, what else do you want to do with your life?

Jarda: That is bad vision, I cant imagine my life without drumming. If I have to stop drumming, I will concentrate my free time to the web design and design as well. Maybe I can program some drum parts on the PC,… THAT’S IT.

 

Drums:  Mapex

A    8”    snare
B    8”    tom
C    10”    tom
D    12”    tom
E    14”    floor tom
F    20”    bass drum

Cymbals:  Zildjian, Meinl, Sabian, Istanbul, Anatolian

1    14”    hi-hat
2    6”    bell
3    16”    china
4    10”    splash
5    16”    crash
6    8”    bell
7    8”    bell
8    18”    crash
9    12”    splash
10    18”    china
11    20”    ride

Hardware: Gibraltar drum rack

Pedals: Trick Detonator

Drum sticks: Balbex my own type / Jarda Haž 2006 model