vitaflo
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I just don't understand why drummers as a group are so resistant to drum machines and the like. The same skill that one develops as a drummer can be translated into programming drum machines.
I really think a lot of drummers are just incredibly closed-minded when it comes to drum machines.
It also ignores the obvious opportunity. Hip hop and electronica may use drum machines for their beats, but drum machines can't improv and don't have feel.
Look at drummers like Jojo Mayer and Chris Dave, two drummers who have deconstructed drum machine beats from electronica and hip hop respectively and turned it into an entire new genre of drumming. One where you can improv, jam, and change it up on the fly in ways no drum machine ever could.
This is why I think kids today have an awesome opportunity. While us old farts complain about how machines have taken over our craft, these kids are out there one-upping the machines and adding in something that those same machines simply cannot do. That's a positive!