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I don't really believe in the use of drum machines live.
I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.
Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.
I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.
I play a bunch of instruments.
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.
'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.'
'Drum and Bass in the deep,' said Kumar.
I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus.
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.
Drumming's pretty physical. We sit at the back of the stage getting beat up like a workhorse.
Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.
What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
To be a drummer you also have to be a musician.
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion
Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.
without noise of drums or
Playing the drums hurts my back.
Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.
Whoever's drunkest gets on the drums.
At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.
I'm a drummer. I've been playing since I was three. I was in college bands when I was in elementary school: you'd see all these older kids and then this little kid behind the drums creating this big sound.
Drumming is not worrying about what you can't do. It's about having fun with what you can do.
The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin
It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things ... But I didn't play drums to make money.
But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.
As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.
Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.
Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.
I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.
As the drummer, I know that drums fully support the band. Their rhythm keeps things within the pulse and contributes to the overall energy of each performance. I am a very balanced person and I realize that through my personal level of balance, I also outwardly balance Stjepan and Luka.
I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.
The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.
Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.
I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.
I don't think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.
Marvin bongo drums and a piano and some grass
Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.
In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock.
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.
I'm a drummer. I can count to four and repeat.
Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.
I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.
Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.
In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.
It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
As with any art, you create it [drumming] out of something that isn't there. It's very architectural. It's the architecture of whatever piece of music I'm playing. I think the whole idea of drumming is to allow other people around you to more easily express themselves.
I am just a guy who plays drums.
There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.
I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.
I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer.
Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance.
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.
A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.
I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.
I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'
I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.
If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.
You better go to someone else for words. All I know is, there are some drums that sound good together and some that don't. I think we sound good together.
It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic the sounds. That was it. And it worked. It worked for years.
I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.
You get a few of them together and don't be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in ...
People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.
I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.