Drummers Unite: Rhythm Theory of Everything (singer, drum, funk, jazz)

Freebase Dali · 03-19-2009, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by mr dave

i dig on your philosophy but i don't really play drums (unless rockband counts haha)

as for my personal drummer philosophy the way i describe my friend jef's drumming is as the rhythmic melody to my melodic rhythms. it's a change in perspective much like choosing to see either the forest or the trees. he doesn't play a steady beat but he always plays on time. i'm far more concerned with how the music feels than how it adds up on paper.

Exactly.
There's a certain zone you get in when playing music with other people and you begin feeling what the other people are feeling, by virtue of their playing and how their emotions show through what they're doing and how they're doing it.
That feeling is fuel that I feed off of when I'm playing music with others, and as a result, they feed off the emotion I create.

That's a dynamic that can be extremely hard to obtain in a band if all of its members aren't in tune to it.