Rimshot
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Carter Beauford is GREAT and
he's one of my favorite contemporary
drummers too.
I don't like to rate creative people because they each bring something different to the experience and I like all of it if it's done well.
I listen for drummers who have excellent technique, who also serve the music, don't use cliche's and are always thinking...finding the voice of percussion instrument that's just right to augment a particular passage or underline a musical statement. Drummers that think musically and have something to say. Drummers that don't just use
their snare to provide a sharp cracking downbeat, but know how to coax the different voices out of their snare as a good effect for the music. I tend to like busy drummers more than the "Ringo" types, but then I am a dummer and I purchase cd's and
go to concerts to see good drumming.
I think percussively, but I do admire good melodic performances
and linear songs also. (I play some trumpet and piano too.)
I tend to not think of
or seperate musical styles when I listen to good drumming. I am a drummer/tradesman and will play for all sorts of music, many times not music that I would enjoy listening to, but I find that I can enjoy playing it and bringing something to it.
I know that the drummers that I'm listing below are not
all rock drummers, but they each have that special something that they bring to the music along with incredible technique. These are all living drummers. Check the ones out that you don't know, who knows, you might find something different that you like.
Jeff "Tain" Watts (awesome jazz drummer who records with Branford Marsalis and Kenny Garrett)
Terri Lyn Carrington (Also an awesome jazz drummer. She's
with Herbie Hancock)
Done Perry (He's been with Jethro Tull for the past 20 years and he's a drummer/craftsman with great technique and very musical)
Mamady Keita (a djembe grand master from Guinea. He is THE
MAN on the djembe)
Elvin Jones (classic jazz legend that played with Coltrane and a whole lot of other greats)
Neil Peart (has all of the qualities that I listed above. He is very musical)
Ian Paice (another rock legend wih great technique and style
"up the wazoo")
Carter Beauford ( He seems to enjoy playing wth DMB. He brings SO much to that music that I can only imagine how shallow it would be without him.)
Steve Gadd ( He can be very showy
when he wants to, but usually he is just SO RIGHT on everything he plays, and can keep it simple and elegant)
Jimmy Cobb ( He's still around and he played with Coltrane and Miles. A very classy old school hard bop drummer that KNOWS his instrument and KNOWS music)
That's just ten off the top of my head that I selected from the many that I listen to. I only listed living drummers or otherwize I'd definitely have put Buddy Rich, John Bonham, Philly Jo Jones, Gene Krupa, Art Blakey,
and many others.
he's one of my favorite contemporary
drummers too.
I don't like to rate creative people because they each bring something different to the experience and I like all of it if it's done well.
I listen for drummers who have excellent technique, who also serve the music, don't use cliche's and are always thinking...finding the voice of percussion instrument that's just right to augment a particular passage or underline a musical statement. Drummers that think musically and have something to say. Drummers that don't just use
their snare to provide a sharp cracking downbeat, but know how to coax the different voices out of their snare as a good effect for the music. I tend to like busy drummers more than the "Ringo" types, but then I am a dummer and I purchase cd's and
go to concerts to see good drumming.
I think percussively, but I do admire good melodic performances
and linear songs also. (I play some trumpet and piano too.)
I tend to not think of
or seperate musical styles when I listen to good drumming. I am a drummer/tradesman and will play for all sorts of music, many times not music that I would enjoy listening to, but I find that I can enjoy playing it and bringing something to it.
I know that the drummers that I'm listing below are not
all rock drummers, but they each have that special something that they bring to the music along with incredible technique. These are all living drummers. Check the ones out that you don't know, who knows, you might find something different that you like.
Jeff "Tain" Watts (awesome jazz drummer who records with Branford Marsalis and Kenny Garrett)
Terri Lyn Carrington (Also an awesome jazz drummer. She's
with Herbie Hancock)
Done Perry (He's been with Jethro Tull for the past 20 years and he's a drummer/craftsman with great technique and very musical)
Mamady Keita (a djembe grand master from Guinea. He is THE
MAN on the djembe)
Elvin Jones (classic jazz legend that played with Coltrane and a whole lot of other greats)
Neil Peart (has all of the qualities that I listed above. He is very musical)
Ian Paice (another rock legend wih great technique and style
"up the wazoo")
Carter Beauford ( He seems to enjoy playing wth DMB. He brings SO much to that music that I can only imagine how shallow it would be without him.)
Steve Gadd ( He can be very showy
when he wants to, but usually he is just SO RIGHT on everything he plays, and can keep it simple and elegant)
Jimmy Cobb ( He's still around and he played with Coltrane and Miles. A very classy old school hard bop drummer that KNOWS his instrument and KNOWS music)
That's just ten off the top of my head that I selected from the many that I listen to. I only listed living drummers or otherwize I'd definitely have put Buddy Rich, John Bonham, Philly Jo Jones, Gene Krupa, Art Blakey,
and many others.
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