Drum Solo'z

[Wtf_omfg_BBQ^^]

Talk about some Drum Solo'z.

[Wtf_omfg_BBQ^^]

Ive Been playing drum'z for 14 years im 28 Currently and i was just wondering if u guys have any drum solos.

[Bdrum]

I could write one out, or download one.
What kind of solo are you looking for?

[Wtf_omfg_BBQ^^]

Originally Posted by Bdrum

I could write one out, or download one.
What kind of solo are you looking for?

Punk Rock Solo all out. i wanna use varity not like 1 thing.

[Farview]

I didn't know that punkers did solos. I thought it was on of the things they were rebeling against.

[Cloneboy Studio]

There are no more "punkers". Today's punks are yesterday's preppies. Just substitute Attica for Izod and poof!

[masterofpuppets]

Yea I never thought punk rock and drum solos went together. I always thought soloing was more of a Jazz/Prog Rock thing. I mean I went to the Metallica/Godsmack show and heard the dualing drum solo thing. It was okay, but nothing like Mike Portnoys or Neil Perts solos. Bu they if a punk or metal guy wants to solo, nothing to lose. Have at it, try stuff live see what works.

[drummerdude666]

i had a spontanius solo at my gig last nite. the crowd started chanting name. then sumone shouted solo then evry1 was cheering 4 me 2 solo. so i did. ive passed grade 8 and im taking a dimloma now. ive only been playin for 2year and im 15

[Blink 182]

wow, you're a real rock star now.

[mikeh]

Drum solo's are overly self indulgent and in the majority of cases, boring.

A hunter was in the deepest part of the African jungle when he heard drums start to play. When he asked his guide about the drums, the guide said "Um drums bad sign"

The drums continued on and on and the hunter thought he would go insane from the non stop pounding. He screamed out " when will the drums stop'? The guide said "um very, very bad when drums start".

The hunter cried out, "how could it possibly be bad when the drum stop?"

The guide said "bass solo".

[KevinDrummer]

I'll try to actually give some productive advice here.

The best solo's are interwoven with a song or mood with the band. It doesn't have to be drums only, either. People like the drums and a good solo WILL entertain and be tasteful if you do it right. It's not about showing off.

If you are doing a solo in the middle of a song, keep the structure of the song in your head and improvise around it. Include a beginning, middle, and end. A good solo often "retells" the song in it's entirety.

[Bdrum]

I would start with a wipeout like type of progression and then let it go into what "FEELS" the best for you.
DONT COPY, JUST CREATE! DONT DICTATE, DELEGATE..
BDrum

[enferno]

one of my all time fav. drum solos is of Edgard Winters Groud - Frankenstein.

i'll never forget when i say Gary Hoey do a cover of that song, and his drummer go off on that solo. bad ass.

[mikeh]

Kevindrunner provided very valid advice.

An extented drum solo should have a beginning, middle & end (I once had someone tell me a drum solo I had just completed was almost like reading a book). I think solos should combine some rythmic & some melodic content. If the solo is not "musical" and is simply a show of chops you can quickly lose the interest of the crowd. The Frankenstein solo is a good example of an extended solo (within a song) that is rythmic & melodic - and which captures the attention of "non-drummers".

If the solo is part of the song, (such as "trading 4's" or something like Wipeout) then it is normally best to "follow form" - which means the drum riffs should in essence follow the rythmic & melodic content of the song. The Wipeout solo is a good example of this.

That being said I still feel drum solos are self indulgent and mostly boring (I do however think things like "trading 4's" are very cool).

I have learned and transcribed many drum solos (from Gene Crupa through Alex VanHalen) and at one point I could play very decent solos - but I dd not like to. I think it is much more valid to play a great groove and support a song with taste than to rip through single stroke rolls (or triplets or whatever)

[dwdruman]

when ever my band has a drum solo in it, the song is made with the intention of purring a drum solo in it, thus I get a big say in how the song "feels", it makes it alot easyer for me. but we only do this song when we need to eat up time, and it also depends on the crowd, if there likeing your set then do a solo, if not then it wouldn't be such a good idea, seeing as most drum solos in rock are very.... lets just say long and uncalled for

[Blink 182]

the think the content of the solo depends on who your audience is. if it is a bunch of kids at a rock concert, they are not looking for technical excellence, they are looking to be impressed. you can make the solo as musical as you like, but if it looks and sounds like you are playing something difficult, even though it may be technically easy, it will have the same effect.

on the other hand, in more musically educated circles, if you played as fast as you could and hit every drum in sight, you would probably be shot in the face. to impress the people who know, a drum solo has to be like a piece of music, not just a virtuosic performance. for A level music i had to perform alot of solos, which annoyed me as im not great at them, but by far the best one i did was an improvisation around a picture. to class it to be an improvisation you have to have some form of stimulus to work from and develop it into a piece which explored all the musical ideas you could work with from that stimulus without totally branching off and doing something different. i couldn't think of a decent stimulus that gave me alot of freedom, but i found a picture of a painting of a guy sitting outside a posh hotel dressed in rags and smoking a cigar, and i just imagined this really sleazy jazz solo i could put to it.

[notCardio]

is that I was around when going to a rock show meant you were almost guaranteed to hear a kick-ass drum solo. That was what I liked the most about seeing live music was the sound of drums in a small arena, that chest-thumping kick drum, back in the days of festival seating, when you could stand right down in front.

To all of you who never saw Tommy Aldridge live, in his prime with Black Oak Arkansas, I'm sorry you missed it. It was a quasi-religious experience. Right up there with Bonham.

Bring back the days of the double bass.