Quoted from Rdoyle1978:
I’m not really a drummer, just a guitarist - but I play in a band with a great one. Great, bombastic drummers have always been my preference. I didn’t want to believe Rush was over when Neil retired in 2015. Now I guess I have to believe it. Something wrong with the universe today.
Let’s see some more kits and demos! And get some of these young kids into rock music again!
Same for me, I (sort of) play guitar, and for me it was always about the guitar for years going way back. And while this is obvious to many, I am recently finally realizing that all the great “guitar” music I was in love with all those years was really only good because of the drums behind it. The drummer is not jut sitting there banging a rhythm for some background noise. Just as a few examples, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Black Sabbath, all had amazing drummers. Typically these days when I am listening to all that old music my ear is tuning in to the drums (and bass also) instead of the guitar, and, and marveling at what I am hearing. Also, realizing that without the drums, these songs mostly would generally suck and devolve into the wanking of the guitars.
So now I like looking at those clips of Buddy Rich and all the others and enjoying those. Also, while quite a bit of the rock oriented music is set to a standard type of beat like 4/4 and I can kind of get it, there are plenty of songs with different drumming, for example, something like 5/4 which I don’t really understand. And then, there’s all that metal stuff.
If anyone has good links for learning the basics about how drumming actually works I’d like to see them.
There are some fairly popular songs that I have noticed have an odd beat structure that I just can’t figure out, I’ll try to remember some of those and ask you drumming wizards how it works.