"They're in late-stage RUSH mode."

This^^^^

You can't sweat these things. The polls are dominated by 14-year-olds. When I was 14 I think I probably would've ranked the "world's greatest drummers" something like this: 1. Neil Peart Everyone else Kidding! 1. Neil Peart 2. Billy Cobham (Because I just read a Modern Drummer article the...

As you can see, rock and metal drummers are very overrepresented, meaning this poll is more about the kind of music that people listen to not which drummer is better (if that's even possible to objectively assess=)

OMG that live clip was so badass im still recovering from it. Gary you are pure genius!

http://magazine2.idrummag.com/issue2/page/1/

I love the work these people are doing, the interface is lots of fun. Portnoy's interview was very cool, I think Mike is a great guy and it shines through. Check it out.

"in my experience most musicians cant handle true modulation, they just dont have the internal time confidence and it throws them in a playing situation. the most applicable stuff that seems to be able to be used is more accenting odd rhythms inside whatever is going on. marking out various gr...

"in my experience most musicians cant handle true modulation, they just dont have the internal time confidence and it throws them in a playing situation. the most applicable stuff that seems to be able to be used is more accenting odd rhythms inside whatever is going on. marking out various gro...

Ah right, that. I don't have the Joel Taylor track, but from your example there (I can read it now, thanks!), yeah, that's a pretty typical usage. Weckl uses the heck out of that particular idea, usually when he's playing an afro-cuban type of thing .. accents on the bell of the cymbal, with the ro...

Ah right, that. I don't have the Joel Taylor track, but from your example there (I can read it now, thanks!), yeah, that's a pretty typical usage. Weckl uses the heck out of that particular idea, usually when he's playing an afro-cuban type of thing .. accents on the bell of the cymbal, with the ro...

It's all a matter of context... Chops and groove should be relative to the music being played.. You couldn't hire Steve Gadd to play in a Death Metal band.. So for that music he wouldn't have the "Groove" needed.. Ha ha, that's using the term "Groove" differently than most of th...