If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.
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Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.
I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.
But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.
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.
I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
The closest things to an influence would be people like Charlie Watts or Al Jackson. But I didn't really listen to drummers; I basically played what I thought was needed for the Ramones.
A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
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