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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
How do analyze this?
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I just use my ears. ;-)
Of course, I've been playing instruments for almost 50 years now--with drums being my first instrument, and I've been playing professionally for over 40 years. It's not necessarily something easy to hear without a lot of experience, and it might take particular sorts of experiences that not everyone would have.
For example, when I was at university, I had an African percussion (group) class with a pretty well-respected percussionist from Senegal. We were a bunch of kids from around the US, so it's not as if we'd grown up immersed in people playing African percussion. Early on, after a class or two just going over basic mechanics and such, we went through a few classes of the teacher screaming "No! No!" at us as we tried playing back a rhythm he was playing for us--it seemed pretty simple. But it turned out that we weren't hearing timing, phrasing and timbral nuances that he could hear, and it sounded like a train wreck to him. It took us awhile to start to get it, but finally our ears started opening up more.
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Originally Posted by 1blankmind
Well, he is metronomic. Occasionally he does something that isn't, but he for the most part is metronomic.
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You can't both fail to keep time well and be metronomic, haha.