Non-Drummers Playing Drums

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by MortSahlFan, Dec 25, 2020.

  1. GodShifter

    GodShifter Forum Member

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    All true. To address your last sentence, I guess my point is: we’re seeing various examples of guys/gals on drums and it isn’t their main instrument in the band or what they do solo yet they can do it. In other words, we’re not talking about even playing with a ‘high degree of skill’ but getting through a song. I think most professional musicians can do that. I mean, Gilmour isn’t tearing it up. He’s just playing drums.
     
  2. Vangro

    Vangro Forum Resident

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    No they can't.
     
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  3. thehatandbeard

    thehatandbeard Forum Resident

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    If you’re playing the drums then you’re the drummer.
     
  4. malco49

    malco49 Forum Resident

    classic drummer bias (original comment). as a now retired competent professional drummer , it's all about timing , feel and hitting the changes while sometimes staying in the pocket and keeping time. it's not as easy as it sounds.
     
  5. malco49

    malco49 Forum Resident

    i have heard that on the song "boys keep swinging" bowie had the band change up instruments to get a bit of a ragged feel about the song.
     
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  6. Dr. Zoom

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    Yeah, the guitarist in my band claims he can play the drums.

    He can’t.

    Guitarists...
     
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  7. Vangro

    Vangro Forum Resident

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    Gilmour's drumming on "The Narrow Way" is all over the place, timing wise.
     
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  8. Fitter Stoke

    Fitter Stoke You don't suspect my life's a mess...

    Peter Hammill played drums on a few of his solo albums (pH7, A Black Box and Sitting Targets come to mind) but, to put it kindly, he’s no Guy Evans.
     
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  9. GodShifter

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    It seems the main contention of my original point was using the word competently. I guess that definition varies. I’m certainly not trying to denigrate good, professional drummers. But what I said is true: timing, feel, and hitting the changes. That’s drumming 101. Playing in the pocket and other subtleties of the instrument come with proficiency.
     
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  10. MortSahlFan

    MortSahlFan Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    He's trying to play like Nick, but he's a bit shaky.
     
  11. groundharp

    groundharp Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger

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    He sure did! Sang harmony and played bass on it too.

    Here's a fellow who can do it ALL as seen below! Guitars, bass, pedal steel, keys... and DRUMS:

    Ron Wood

    (he plays a mean harmonica, and he likes to play sax too!)
     
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  12. Aar Gal

    Aar Gal Monkberry Moon Delight

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    Doesnt Jack white drum with the Dead Weather
     
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  13. BluesOvertookMe

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    Tab’s a pretty good drummer; whenever there is an all-star Jam at a Blues festival, he gets on the drums so that more guitarists can participate.
     
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  14. fenderesq

    fenderesq In Brooklyn It's The Blues / Heavy Bass 7-7

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    You've never heard me play the drums.
     
  15. peteham

    peteham Senior Member

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    Steve Winwood, Paul Rodgers, Prince, Ben Folds, Jan Hammer and Pete Townshend have all had their moments behind the kit.
     
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  16. fenderesq

    fenderesq In Brooklyn It's The Blues / Heavy Bass 7-7

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    I'll leave it to the Beatlephiles to either detail beyond his drumming on his s/t solo album or chastise me... but Mccartney.

    I'm surprised 6 of the first 10 posts of he thread didn't address this.
     
  17. fenderesq

    fenderesq In Brooklyn It's The Blues / Heavy Bass 7-7

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    Jimmy Miller but first and foremost he always thought of himself as a drummer and percussionist. Maybe not first and foremost... but I could make an argument he did think of his first love as being skins and such.
     
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  18. GodShifter

    GodShifter Forum Member

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    Yes he does and he's pretty good.
     
  19. Beamish13

    Beamish13 Forum Resident

    Adele on drums


     
  20. stewedandkeefed

    stewedandkeefed Came Ashore In The Dead Of The Night

    Don Henley at least chose not to be his own drummer as a solo act.
     
  21. joepepitone

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    Tull keyboardist John Evan plays the drums in this video.


     
  22. GodShifter

    GodShifter Forum Member

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    Hetfield played drums in his side band Spastik Children.
     
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  23. Wounded Land

    Wounded Land Forum Resident

    That was fun. I love things like that.
     
  24. NudieSuitNezHead

    NudieSuitNezHead No Michael, "teriyaki" is NOT 13 letters...

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    Davy Jones of The Monkees would play drums when Micky had a solo. Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day will take over for Tré Cool when Tré does his solo bits onstage. Billie also played drums (and bass) on some of their Kerplunk! (1992) tracks because he was in a rush to get them done.
     
  25. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    Had no idea. Thanks!
     
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