--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 02/15/2012 12:57 PM, cardemaister wrote: > > Never heard of this chap before: > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CZYhO7vZlo&feature=related > > > > IMO, shows that one doesn't need a monster drum set > > to play some impressive stuff. YMMV, of course! > > Good player, not a very musical solo however. People are easily > impressed with technique when it comes to drummers.
I don't think it is primarily his technical skills that impressed me. There's something in his playing that reminded me of the moment when I "fell in love" with Jimi Hendrix. But that was really the first time I heard this guy play. Perhaps the feeling fades away if I listen to him some more... For instance Buddy Rich doesn't impress me as a musician but merely as a "technician", and with his speed. Here's another Finnish drummer (L.A. Musicians Institute, P.I.T., top of his class 1992): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLPOg907vY IMO, he's way boring... BTW, can you mention some of your favorite drummers? We music teachers > have spent the last 50 years organizing and creating teaching methods to > make playing instruments much more accessible to the general public. > Back in the 1980's when I was teaching high school drum lines this was a > big challenge because kids didn't want to practice much. When I was in > high school in the 1960s I taught my high school drum line. The > interesting thing was that one of my best players had such physical > coordination that he would play complex rudiments with a minimum of > practice. The damn thing was he wanted to be drum major so all this was > wasted! > > An example of how organized such training has become would be the > drumline in Madonna Superbowl show. That was a lot of dummers (culled > from local schools and colleges) that could play the same style. > > It appears that this player used a lot of paradiddle-diddles and > inverted ones (RLLRRL -- also called six-stroke rolls) which are easy to > play but sound very impressive. Simply move your hands around the toms > while playing them and you've got a helluva solo. And learning tap > dancing can be a good trick for doing fancy things with double basses. >
