JustJames
Platinum Member
...I've noticed a lot of guitar and bass players are more or less married to the genre they're working in, so they can't stray too far outside of that lest they become something other than what they were going for. But I don't see drums as being so bound by such constraints...
That is so very true, and exactly matches my experience, both as a guitarist and as a drummer.
As a guitarist, especially when I was setting out, I was very specific about the styles of music I was interested in.
But as a drummer I find that I will often hear something that I like tucked away in genres that I don't usually listen to.