Which band of these 4 would you choose to learn drums from if you could only choose one?

Which band of these 4 would you choose to learn drums from if you could only choose one?

  • Iron Maiden

    Votes: 9 16.1%

  • The Beatles

    Votes: 35 62.5%

  • Metallica

    Votes: 3 5.4%

  • Foo Fighters

    Votes: 9 16.1%
  • Total voters
    56
Metallica (lighting, Puppets)
But to clarify, there would be other sources as well. But out of those 4, as a beginner/intermediate, Metallica is the one I would add to my sources.
 
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It's a silly question - it would never happen. But the Beatles and Ringo built so much of the rock drumming vocab that the other three are built upon.
 
o Tower of Power
o 60s to early 70s Motown
o John Coltrane
o King Crimson

there you go!
kidding! for the long haul (be my 4 'recommendo's)
Of your four the only in-depth I've heard of is 'the Beatles' 😊
 
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I already spent much of the 80's learning Iron Maiden stuff...some of my best memories of my teen years was playing along to Maiden after school...on both drums and bass. No homework. No eating dinner. Just playing for hours

Metallica was much faster than I could go at the time on drums, but I learned most of their bass lines

I could already play along to The Beatles by the time I was in my teens, so I was over them by then
 
I did this when I was a teenager. The Beatles.
 
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX said:
I already spent much of the 80's learning Iron Maiden stuff...some of my best memories of my teen years was playing along to Maiden after school...on both drums and bass. No homework. No eating dinner. Just playing for hours

Metallica was much faster than I could go at the time on drums, but I learned most of their bass lines

I could already play along to The Beatles by the time I was in my teens, so I was over them by then
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metallica was faster than iron maiden??
 
I chose The Foo just because drumming is all about serving the song, but Taylor served the song in a really fun and creative way that made the song more "drummy" and exciting, but didn't take away from the core job of playing what's best for the song.
 
georgeusa said:
metallica was faster than iron maiden??
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pretty much...especially the bass drumming. I could do the hands, I just couldn't do the feet. Plus, I didn't even have a double bass set up untill my 20's. When I did try to play along with Metallica, it was just "punk D-beats" where the double bass stuff was.

but I was playing along to this stuff in the early 80's...like when Kill Em All first came out. I was in 5-8th grade in those days, so it was new to my chops for sure.
 
For learning the drums, I'd go with the Beatles, if only because of the sheer volume of educational material available. There are plenty of books with transcriptions of the songs, and plenty of videos where people break down how to play them. Most of the drumming is at moderate tempos and isn't terribly chops intensive, so it might be more accessible to someone learning how to play. Iron Maiden's stuff isn't exactly Drumming 101.
 
TMe said:
For learning the drums, I'd go with the Beatles, if only because of the sheer volume of educational material available. There are plenty of books with transcriptions of the songs, and plenty of videos where people break down how to play them. Most of the drumming is at moderate tempos and isn't terribly chops intensive, so it might be more accessible to someone learning how to play. Iron Maiden's stuff isn't exactly Drumming 101.
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yeah...the Beatles are usually what I have my beginner students play along to. AC/DC is another good drumming 101 group for the more "rocker" type kids I get
 
If you want to be a real stickler the Beatles and Ringo may be too sophisticated - specialized- to just "learn" drums and maybe taking the Billboard Top 100 of the years 1966 1965 1967 1968 pop hits and run down/ search out the top 20 in those years. get a lot of studio playing and base Song playing within those songs
 
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basic song form drumming
1968
how to keep time how to approach
verses and bridges.. in the Billboard Top 100 and get a wide breadth of (drum) happenings 66 67 68 69..
 
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