Air guitar? Try air drumming!

A video of a Thai musician playing the air drums to a rock track has become an internet sensation. Weerachat Premananda Jr explains how he made his air drumming look so convincing.
A Thai musician has posted a video of himself playing along to a rock track on a drum kit that's chalked on a wall. It's so far racked up more than 200,000 hits on YouTube and its fame is spreading.
You know the kit is just coloured marks on a garden wall, but it's so effective that after a few seconds you forget it's a visual trick.
The man behind it is Weerachat Premananda Jr, better known by his nickname "Note."
The 29-year-old is a music teacher and not surprisingly his subject is drumming. He also likes to draw on the wall of his house in Bangkok. One day in May he had a brainwave and brought the two pursuits together.
It took two days to record the video. Note says his performance may look natural but it took a lot of practise and help to pull it off.
"I didn't know which was the best place to hit," he says.
"When we were actually filming we had a director to guide me where to position my hands, whether to move it higher. 'Left and right, hands up a bit more. Left hand is still too low, move up a bit.' So that made it more realistic because I was just hitting the air."
The video is up to more than 200,000 hits and it's growing fast. Note says the aim wasn't to become an internet sensation, just to do something new.
"I didn't think anything of it at the beginning," he recalls.
"I just wanted to do it for fun, to create something the world hadn't seen before, I don't mind if people imitate because it's fun. For people who don't have drum sets at home it could be another way to practice."
This may be just the start. Note says he's thinking of trying more complicated songs, with bigger chalk drum sets and with unexpected camera angles.
And after that, who knows, he says. Maybe he'll try to develop the concept to cover chalk guitars, saxophones and other instruments.



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