If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.
A drummer is usually like the backbone.
A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
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.
The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.