I have been drumming my whole life.
I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus.
Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them
Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.
Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.
I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.
I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms.
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
