DrummerCA35
Senior Member
Have you ever encountered a drummer with chops, maybe even an instructor, who cannot seem to play on the beat? I've seen this before, where he, throughout a song, will randomly hit the snare just slightly behind the beat enough to where it sounds like a mistake. Or, same with a fill...does a fill and yet the cymbal hit is slightly off. To the point where I see the guitar player turning around and glaring at the drummer, and to the point where the guitar player refuses to play with the drummer. Or, perhaps the drummer is playing fills in the wrong places, adding cymbal crashes where they don't belong, and so forth. I've seen this recently, and am left wondering what's going on as this person is an instructor, with drum students, and obviously has chops. I've also seen this sometimes when watching bands...same kind of thing. Drummer is slightly off the beat, and the lead singer is turning around and glaring. And yet...the drummer has chops! I'm in no way suggesting that drummers with chops do this, it just strikes me as odd, when I've witnessed this. And I know some people have a style of laying back on the beat, but what I saw goes beyond this.