Re: What makes a good drummer good?
I’m with Ricardo on this. I would only add a couple things;
1) a good drummer plays for the song. That may mean zero fills....or it may mean a few simple ones. It rarely means complicated beats and fancy fills (but it might). It may mean lots of dynamics or no dynamics. It always requires a “feel” for the song in the context of what & how the rest of the band is playing. Which brings me to #2....
2) a good drummer can sit down behind a kit and play any song, even songs he doesn’t know or has never heard before. He always listens to what the rest of the instruments playing and plays off of them. He will hold it all together and make it all work. He doesn’t need to know the song because he’s attentive and adaptive. He can read everyone else and anticipate where they’re going.
-Brian
"Too many crappy used drum stuff to list"
Play the SONG......not the DRUMS!!!
"I think that feeling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts." ~ John Bonham
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