So, there's live drums, electronic/programmed drums, ambient music with no drums, syncopated rhythms, electronic drums played with a live drummer (a la Zach Hill in Death Grips), crazy rhythms, simple 4/4 dance rhythms, IDM/breakbeat freakouts, jazz drumming, improvisation, subby 808 drums, dry live drums, etc…
Lots of aspects in drums/rhythm/percussion sections. What do you want from the music you listen to/like the most? What's IMPORTANT to you when you listen to drums?
(Also let's not forget that drums aren't necessarily the only parts in a rhythm section, either.)
Kind of a /DG/ Drum General kind of deal, but mainly about what you want out of drums/good examples of drum or rhythm sections, etc.
>2 drummers
That they are expressive, tasteful, and well played.
This basically means that 90% of drums in music end up being very boring.
>>55378083
Death Grips makes some cool music for sure but Zach Hill's drumming is really annoying. It's hardly technically proficient, instead relying on a blur of single-stroke rolls that so often fall off tempo that it moves past the point of "tastefully in and out of time, creating a nice pocket" to "uncomfortably missing the beat."
He's cute though.
>>55378110
>expressive, tasteful, and well played.
elaborate? What do you mean by that, exactly?
>>55378216
point out one instance where Zach "misses the beat"
>>55378272
https://youtu.be/BinKCtUTWBA?t=118
That was easy. It actually happens twice right here.
>>55378083
I always look for new and interesting beats.
technical skill is nice too, but not always necessary
I like stuff like this where the beat is not just the same as everything else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtoitUv1yMA
Do you guys prefer live drums, even if there are electronic beats there already? (like some hip-hop stuff).
Also what do you think about breakbeats? Like the Amen Break and shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2ikhatPxNE
Billy Cobham on drums. Not sure the name of the bassist.
This is supreme stuff. The drummer goes on multi-bar fill benders and the bassist is keeping everything in time while playing an absurd line. It probably doesn't get any better.
What do you drummers think of Shigeto? I don't play drums, so I think he's great, but what do you guys think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DduNRXh3h3o
>>55378306
I'm not a drummer, so it's hard to tell which part exactly you're talking about. Could you post the times in the video where the beat is off?
