Sam Ulano. That was beautiful. Music. You have to make music.
Technique is the way someone gets something done. Billy hit the scene (for most people) with MO with technique that literally changed the way players play drums. Had that effect on me, anyway. Even if everyone did not go open handed, his right hand punctuations on crashes changed the world for how most drummers use their left hands which were mostly confined to snare drum in rock and pop music. Cobham's technique was a simple thing, really. Is there a drummer in the modern world not influenced by the freer use of the left hand?
So, if technique is the way, the methods we get things done, it must be important. For some it is Mel Lewis. For others it is Buddy Rich (showing my age here). For others it is the technical gymnasts coming at us from every country on the globe who seemingly have maxed out physical limitations of human bodies on a drum set. I do not see people getting any more coordinated, or faster. I believe the physical limits have been reached.
Will be interesting to see where things go from here.
Technique is the way someone gets something done. Billy hit the scene (for most people) with MO with technique that literally changed the way players play drums. Had that effect on me, anyway. Even if everyone did not go open handed, his right hand punctuations on crashes changed the world for how most drummers use their left hands which were mostly confined to snare drum in rock and pop music. Cobham's technique was a simple thing, really. Is there a drummer in the modern world not influenced by the freer use of the left hand?
So, if technique is the way, the methods we get things done, it must be important. For some it is Mel Lewis. For others it is Buddy Rich (showing my age here). For others it is the technical gymnasts coming at us from every country on the globe who seemingly have maxed out physical limitations of human bodies on a drum set. I do not see people getting any more coordinated, or faster. I believe the physical limits have been reached.
Will be interesting to see where things go from here.