Re: What's wrong with the best drummers in the world?
Originally Posted by
Norske
Discipline is an absolute necessity. Having great chops doesn't mean that you're going to exhibit them in everything you play. You go to any drum clinic by a big name drummer and you'll see things that they never do with their bands.....very simply because the music doesn't call for it. They know how to accentuate and enhance the music, without being flamboyant.
It's all about being a musician, not showing what you can do to impress people.
My opinion of course.
You said it all, Norske...just because you can do the flamboyant stuff doesn't mean you have to do it all the time...believe it or not, 99 percent of the time, drummers do the simple stuff no one else notices--unless they screw it up big-time and everyone notices! And that's the time you don't want to be noticed!
keep the beat goin' ... Don't keep it to yourself!
Charlie
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
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