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Know your role in the band, and don't try to muck it all up with "cool" stuff that just subtracts from the net effect.īut now with this new music we're writing, I feel like I am leaning more towards just keeping solid beats, using fills only when they're needed, and keeping the avant garde aspect of my drumming to a minimum like the fills (only when its needed.) In a way, my drumming is now "dumber." Not because I haven't put enough thought or time into my writing, but because I feel as though it may be the more professional route to choose.The new piano roll editing looks great and all of the individual track output stuff is going to be huge, I mean it's a big reason Drum Perfect Pro is the go to app for a lot of us writing songs requiring traditional "rock/pop" acoustic drums vs. When keeping time is needed and the drummer is playing intricately instead.he just doesn't "get it" yet. Drums are not a melodic instrument and when the groove aspect of our playing is sacrificed to play "intricate" stuff, our inexperience is being showcased. It's to support everything else, not be the center of focus. You have to understand what the role is of the drumset. As a beginner (not implying that you are at all) you naturally want to play intricate stuff to impress people, this lasts a long time, then hopefully you start to realize you don't sound as good as you think and you do a 180 and start to simplify, which is a good thing. So now when I play those "boring" songs, I now know that it doesn't come across "boring" and I can enjoy them much more. Also, songs that I just "keep time" to, that to me are boring (I thought), actually sound WAY better than I think it sounds onstage. Intricate drumming.All I can relate is my experience.When I listen to playback of gig recordings, (every gig without fail) that's when I realize that "intricate" drumming just plain doesn't work (in the music I play at least) So over time my fills have gotten pared down to only the necessary ones, the groove is king, and I am much happier listening to the playback. Trying to drum to "outdrum" others is taking a trip down a dead end street, wrong motivation. It's actually the right path, for most "regular" music at least. Great topic, this will expose a lot of drummers preconceived notions (mine included) that "dumber" drumming is bad. Is the drummers performance more memorable when hes solid as can be, as opposed to him trying deliberately hard to impress others? I use to make it my personal goal to out drum other bands drummers, and as a result I threw a lot of crazy avant garde crap into our music with the intentions of having other drummers look at me and think "he just did that." I was cocky and pretentious in many ways.īut now with this new music we're writing, I feel like I am leaning more towards just keeping solid beats, using fills only when they're needed, and keeping the avant garde aspect of my drumming to a minimum like the fills (only when its needed.) In a way, my drumming is now "dumber." Not because I haven't put enough thought or time into my writing, but because I feel as though it may be the more professional route to choose. Come a year ago I wouldn't even be thinking about "simplifying" my drumming.
We are in the process of writing a new set/ep, and this time around I feel like my philosophies on drumming may be changing. I am drumming in a hardcore punk band right now. The topic is over drumming meaning, trying to do to add too many intricacies into your drumming. I haven't posted a whole ton on this forum, I usually stick to ghostnote, but nonetheless this topic wouldn't fit in ghostnotes forums very well.
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