Re: Musicality
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 2:55 pm
electrizer wrote:How to play music instead of just drumming? When I watch a drum video there are those "huh!" moments sometimes, but not after a super fast lick but after those few notes you don't expect but which really "tie the music together". I was thinking drum vocabulary but it cannot be just the amount of time you spend practicing rudiments and licks. What goes on through Vinnie's or Dave's or Benny's (Greb - I really think/hope this dude will go far) when they play that makes their drumming music instead of just drumming?
Why is it that the music feels great (to me) when Phil Rudd plays the song instead of chris slade. Or compare Chad's playing with Frank Zappa during his first tour or the last tour... At first it felt like he could play the music technically but could not get to level musically. Dire straits had three different drummers. Benny greb's cover of Vinnie's I'm tweeked felt like "I'm not tweeked". I've listened to the Karizma album with Vinnie, Garfield etc tons of times, but can sporadically appreciate Vinnie's overplaying. Goes trough their minds the feel the music requires, or trying to play the right stuff at the right time, assuring chemistry with the other players or the music itself, or just do what the producer wants me to do? Vinnie's live performances with Sting got less busy and more subtle over time .... Why? Age? Sting?