drumkat
Senior Member
We pay homage to our great drummers...Colaiuta, Weckl, Drumkat, Gadd
But they learnt from Gruber, Moeller, Spivak
In turn, those 3 gentlemen seem to have adopted the techniques used by the drummer boys of The American Revolution and The American Civil War
Just look at the cover of Stick Control
Those boys must have been some serious cats.....
I am sure a drummer boy wasn't too concerned about finger/wrist control when a regiment of crazed Confederates came charging out of the bush with the rebel yell peppering them with musket shot and cannon fire
And some of them were like 10-14 yrs old
Yet they seemed to have laid the foundation for all who followed
And they would have been belting out rudiments on rotten, weathered, shot up animal skins on their drums as well
It would be great to talk to one of them today....
"......Well son, I lost my entire regiment at the battle of Chickamauga, those Confederates gave us a shalacking, but I drummed a reveille until the days end...."
All in all, are these the guys who deserve the credit for what we know?
But they learnt from Gruber, Moeller, Spivak
In turn, those 3 gentlemen seem to have adopted the techniques used by the drummer boys of The American Revolution and The American Civil War
Just look at the cover of Stick Control
Those boys must have been some serious cats.....
I am sure a drummer boy wasn't too concerned about finger/wrist control when a regiment of crazed Confederates came charging out of the bush with the rebel yell peppering them with musket shot and cannon fire
And some of them were like 10-14 yrs old
Yet they seemed to have laid the foundation for all who followed
And they would have been belting out rudiments on rotten, weathered, shot up animal skins on their drums as well
It would be great to talk to one of them today....
"......Well son, I lost my entire regiment at the battle of Chickamauga, those Confederates gave us a shalacking, but I drummed a reveille until the days end...."
All in all, are these the guys who deserve the credit for what we know?