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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station
I just use my ears. ;-)
Of course, I've been playing instruments for almost 50 years now--with drums being my first instrument, and I've been playing professionally for over 40 years. It's not necessarily something easy to hear without a lot of experience, and it might take particular sorts of experiences that not everyone would have.
For example, when I was at university, I had an African percussion (group) class with a pretty well-respected percussionist from Senegal. We were a bunch of kids from around the US, so it's not as if we'd grown up immersed in people playing African percussion. Early on, after a class or two just going over basic mechanics and such, we went through a few classes of the teacher screaming "No! No!" at us as we tried playing back a rhythm he was playing for us--it seemed pretty simple. But it turned out that we weren't hearing timing, phrasing and timbral nuances that he could hear, and it sounded like a train wreck to him. It took us awhile to start to get it, but finally our ears started opening up more.
You can't both fail to keep time well and be metronomic, haha.
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I listen to Carl Palmer, both live recordings and studio albums, and from what I heard I think he is a very skilled drummer, with a good sense of timing. I am not saying he is
the best, but he is among the better drummers out there. I didn't see a single mistake Carl Palmer made playing drums in this video. I'm not trying to pass him off as the best and no one can play like him. There are many Jazz drummer that are tied or exceeds his level of playing, imo. Palmer's solo here reminds me of Jones' solo in Caravan, not an exact replication, but Carl is doing a lot of the same thing. And since this is a Metallica thread I have to follow up video about Lars Ulrich.
The Solo (Carl Palmer)
Jo Jones, Caravan, 1964
Lars Ulrich is the Worst Drummer in the World
He mispronounces Neil Peart name as "Peert", but other than that he seems like he knows what he is talking about.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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