The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured.
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.
Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.
It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just to try to mimic the dynamic [of the drums]. Drums seemed a lot more expressive. [I was] Trying to emulate the feeling of playing the drums on the guitar - I guess that's why I played it so loud.
Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soulBut it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week.
I just want to make music on the drums.
From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.
When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but I ended up attending a magic convention that initially got me interested. I took classes, bought videos, and practiced relentlessly. I began performing at parties and soon realized that developing an on-stage routine is often tougher than being a musician. I focused my act on magic that incorporated as much science as it did entertainment, which was really satisfying for me.
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
Think of what happened after 911, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.
I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action.
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.
Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums.
I've played drums in bands since I was 16.
It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer.