AndyMC
Senior Member
One thing that I have been wondering about recently is why people and drummers in particular like or dislike drum solos. I was also wondering if this lined up with the genres of music you listen to and play. If everyone could put their 2 cents in I'd appreciate it.
Personally I enjoy drum solos that are basically a song. There needs to be a beat driving underneath, whether its complicated or simple, with either a melody played on top of that, or a rhythm that connects back to the rest of the song.
My absolute favorites are Bonzo's Montreux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sal1nVhYPiY
I love it so much when he keeps dropping down the toms onto the kettle drums, plus it has amazing phrasing and he keeps doing so much without sounding like doing too much.
My other Fav is Tell Me How Do You Feel by Lee Michaels with Frosty on drums.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq-ZmjUYEqs&feature=related So diverse and musical and it gets right to me yet for the life of me I can't figure why I like it more than all the other similar solos that are mostly technique.
I play mostly hard rock and funk, but do a bit of everything (blues, jazz, indie, pop etc.) except for metal and latin (my latin beats are quite miserable lol) I also noodle around on guitar and other melodic instruments and i feel this is where my desire for both a beat and a melody during a solo comes from
Personally I enjoy drum solos that are basically a song. There needs to be a beat driving underneath, whether its complicated or simple, with either a melody played on top of that, or a rhythm that connects back to the rest of the song.
My absolute favorites are Bonzo's Montreux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sal1nVhYPiY
I love it so much when he keeps dropping down the toms onto the kettle drums, plus it has amazing phrasing and he keeps doing so much without sounding like doing too much.
My other Fav is Tell Me How Do You Feel by Lee Michaels with Frosty on drums.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq-ZmjUYEqs&feature=related So diverse and musical and it gets right to me yet for the life of me I can't figure why I like it more than all the other similar solos that are mostly technique.
I play mostly hard rock and funk, but do a bit of everything (blues, jazz, indie, pop etc.) except for metal and latin (my latin beats are quite miserable lol) I also noodle around on guitar and other melodic instruments and i feel this is where my desire for both a beat and a melody during a solo comes from