Dave_Major
Silver Member
Afternoon gang.
Bear with me on this but i hope this is clear
So i wanna kick my playing up a gear or 2 over the next while and have saught some help in this.
I'm at the stage in my playing that I think I know all the 'stuff' i am going to to know. I know my styles, my hands are good etc, I can dissect most peoples playing and know what they are doing - doesn't mean I can play it but I know what is happening in most things I listen to or see and if I don't I can work it out.
(I still work on being technically better on both hands, feet etc)
One of the guys i reached out to was kind enough to have a skype convo with me the other day and he brought up a very interesting point.
I opened up a clinic for him in October and there he saw my playing and in he convo he said my playing was good, clean, technically correct but lacked the art side of it. (something I feel all the time) The thing that makes someone go oh that's that guy.
That feeling we get when steve gadd hits a snare, or benny greb plays something.
Now the scene is set i'm just gonna ask all the questions in my head.
The guy I had the Skype meet with has gone through that transformation in his playing and now sounds like him so i have comfort in that it is totally possible and will come.
But do i get there by studying the guys I like and really trying to learn their things and putting my own slant on it?
Does that recognisability come from things that the player always plays? or is it sound? or is it something less tangable than that.
If we hear Vinnie C. play on a Miley Cyrus record he's just the drums there and nothing 'vinnie' in there but when he can rip he rips and becomes the drum vinnie we know.
I like that idea that I have the musical knowledge and taste to play whats required and blend in the background but when Im asked to I can put my stamp on a song.
Or will the Art side of it just come with time?
Should I practice creatively more than technically?
I'd love to hear from Bill Ray Drums because you sounds like you. I can hear the influences in your playing but it still sounds like you whenever I watch.
Anyone everyone please chip in on any of the points or on the general point of when drumming becomes art.
D
Bear with me on this but i hope this is clear
So i wanna kick my playing up a gear or 2 over the next while and have saught some help in this.
I'm at the stage in my playing that I think I know all the 'stuff' i am going to to know. I know my styles, my hands are good etc, I can dissect most peoples playing and know what they are doing - doesn't mean I can play it but I know what is happening in most things I listen to or see and if I don't I can work it out.
(I still work on being technically better on both hands, feet etc)
One of the guys i reached out to was kind enough to have a skype convo with me the other day and he brought up a very interesting point.
I opened up a clinic for him in October and there he saw my playing and in he convo he said my playing was good, clean, technically correct but lacked the art side of it. (something I feel all the time) The thing that makes someone go oh that's that guy.
That feeling we get when steve gadd hits a snare, or benny greb plays something.
Now the scene is set i'm just gonna ask all the questions in my head.
The guy I had the Skype meet with has gone through that transformation in his playing and now sounds like him so i have comfort in that it is totally possible and will come.
But do i get there by studying the guys I like and really trying to learn their things and putting my own slant on it?
Does that recognisability come from things that the player always plays? or is it sound? or is it something less tangable than that.
If we hear Vinnie C. play on a Miley Cyrus record he's just the drums there and nothing 'vinnie' in there but when he can rip he rips and becomes the drum vinnie we know.
I like that idea that I have the musical knowledge and taste to play whats required and blend in the background but when Im asked to I can put my stamp on a song.
Or will the Art side of it just come with time?
Should I practice creatively more than technically?
I'd love to hear from Bill Ray Drums because you sounds like you. I can hear the influences in your playing but it still sounds like you whenever I watch.
Anyone everyone please chip in on any of the points or on the general point of when drumming becomes art.
D