drummerseahawkboy81
Junior Member
Guys, I'm trying to get to the bottom of this and find out why I see and hear more guys that dont play this style bashing it. I go into the Seattle GC last weekend to pick a few things up, as Im walking in the drum dept I saw two different guys playing on two different kits one of the guys(adult) was playing a simple rock groove in 4/4 and the other guy(younger kid) was playing blast beats loud as hell. When I told the guy what I needed he said they have to go to the back to see if they had it in stock, so Im just chilling waiting and by that time the older getlemen got off the one kit and started looking around so I decided to get on the kit, I wasnt doing anything fancy just simple rudiments I would say but I was jus applying it around the kit in different variations. About a minute in the younger blast beat kid came over and actually asked me what was that I was doing so I did my best to explain. When all this was going on I noticed the older getlemen talking to one of the othr drum dept guys all kinda low while eyeballing me a the same time. I finally get off the kit and go back up to the register to just wait for the guy to come from the back, when I get up there the guy tells the drum dept guy I'll see you later or something like that. So I'm waiting and me and the GC worker struck drum conversation, how long youve been playing, drummers you like etc. All of of sudden he tells the getleman that just left was talking borderline crap about my playing style and how I must be a gospel chops drummer who makes those stupid youtube videos and how gospel drummers dont have feeling or know what a pocket is etc he went on a little more I just dont remeber everything he said.
Bascially guys Im just want to get your opinion on gospel drumming etc because thats not the first time I heard somene talk crap about the style. Theres a couple other drum boards that have a similar topic and sure as you know what there are more guys bashing it that actually liking it. I personally dont get it, it always seem like the ones that bash it are always the rock/metal/punk drummers I could be wrong, To me it seems like the comments I have read or heard sounds more like jealousy than anything else. I mean there is more to gospel and r&b drumming than shedding and having ridicolous chops, people have this misconseption that gospel drummers overplay everything even in studio and that is def not the case. IMO gospel drummers make some of the best and most versitale drummers to date cause growing up in a COGIC church I can honstly say Ive had to play rock, jazz, fusion, funk,r&b,latin just depending on wht type of gospel song it was.
Thomas Pridgen- Mars Volta, Spanky MaCurdy- Lady Gaga, Nissan Stewart- Jessie J, Teddy Campbell- (ex)American Idol stage band now on Jay Leno, Rex Hardy-Current american idol drummer, Aaron Spears-Usher, Chris Coleman- Prince, Chaka Kahn
These are just a few and I mean a few drummers that started off with gospel backgrounds and look at the now very sucessful careers. Dont knock until you underrstand it
Bascially guys Im just want to get your opinion on gospel drumming etc because thats not the first time I heard somene talk crap about the style. Theres a couple other drum boards that have a similar topic and sure as you know what there are more guys bashing it that actually liking it. I personally dont get it, it always seem like the ones that bash it are always the rock/metal/punk drummers I could be wrong, To me it seems like the comments I have read or heard sounds more like jealousy than anything else. I mean there is more to gospel and r&b drumming than shedding and having ridicolous chops, people have this misconseption that gospel drummers overplay everything even in studio and that is def not the case. IMO gospel drummers make some of the best and most versitale drummers to date cause growing up in a COGIC church I can honstly say Ive had to play rock, jazz, fusion, funk,r&b,latin just depending on wht type of gospel song it was.
Thomas Pridgen- Mars Volta, Spanky MaCurdy- Lady Gaga, Nissan Stewart- Jessie J, Teddy Campbell- (ex)American Idol stage band now on Jay Leno, Rex Hardy-Current american idol drummer, Aaron Spears-Usher, Chris Coleman- Prince, Chaka Kahn
These are just a few and I mean a few drummers that started off with gospel backgrounds and look at the now very sucessful careers. Dont knock until you underrstand it