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| From | MCGaudio@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V1 #713 (14 msgs) |
| Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:15:52 EDT |
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Except the key aspect of Charlie Watts is not that he plays the bass drum on
the one and three and snare on two and four like ten thousand other rock
drummers, it's the subtle way he doesn't play it exactly on the beat. And that's
what makes all the difference between a good drummer and a bad drummer. Much
tougher than just learning to play like Mo Tucker, IMO. Or at least the
thousands of good but not Charlie-Watts-good rock drummers would seem to say so.
Mark
> Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com wrote:
> But Charlie Watts, for all his jazz background, is a straightforward rock
> drummer, and anyone who has learned to play rock drums in the last 35 years
> has --
> whether consciously emulating him or not -- been taught how to play in a
> style not at all dissimilar to his. But to play like Mo Tucker, you would
> have to first ditch about three-quarters of your kit, get rid of the drum
> stool, grab a set of mallets and turn your bass drum over on its side, and
> then teach yourself how to play unaccented, steady pulses. It seems to me
> like that would be harder to do. "Simple" does not always equal "easy."
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