What performance defines drummers as musicians for you?

Man, I could be here all day providing examples.

But here's a couple of incredibly musical performances, IMO

Max Roach (sing the head while he solos here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcQmn5d9-b4

Roy Haynes. It starts with the way he comps and propels the time forward behind the head and solos, but check the stop time chorus around 4:05. It's like he's telling a little story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B465ZN1CRss

I'm not just down with jazz guys, of course. Pretty much everything Levon Helm played was great. He couldn't help but work with/around the melody, he was singing it! Get outta town! Billy Ward is another guy who floors me. Ditto Matt Chamberlain, Jim Keltner, Steve God, the list goes on and on.
 
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Love Stella Mozgawa from Warpaint's drumming.

She's a very musical drummer in my view. Seems that everything she does is thought out and for a reason and perfectly accompanies the music. Even her cymbal choices ooze musicality.

Two examples

Feeling Alright

http://youtu.be/_6dd6cwm3j8

Really bouncy feel with some delicate subtle touches here and there that really compliments the song.

Keep it Healthy

http://youtu.be/yhtip8sYtb0

Again perfectly fits the song. Love the time changes on this one and how she navigates through then.
 
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Is that considered independence?
Anything that forces you to disengage a component of your playing from it's expected path is personal independence :)

Suitably substituted here by tap :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIP0OZ-ys2s

Love Stella Mozgawa from Warpaint's drumming.
Never heard of her or the band until your post, but I'm so glad you put this up. Fabulous drumming right there!!!!
 
Never heard of her or the band until your post, but I'm so glad you put this up. Fabulous drumming right there!!!!

Yeah she's great, both the drumming and percussion parts in the background are really well thought out. They appear to be simplistic but they really aren't, for me.

Love the sometimes missed hi hat and cymbal hits she occasional keeps out on 'intro' before it builds into it fully which leads into 'Keep it Healthy' on that album.

http://youtu.be/-PYE93D3ODw

Top stuff, lots of her playing to choose from but those three stand out for me currently. Listening to a lot of them at the moment.
 
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Many great drummers and performances come to mind. However, I revert back to when I was in junior high just starting to play the drums. My Uncle let me listen to this band. For the first time I realized that a drummer was a musician and so much more than simply just a time keeper for a band.


https://youtu.be/z6WSLG5r-wE
 
This is one of many for me, & what I'd aspire to achieve in a setting like this (despite the scurrilous intro tempo distraction;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkjW1UNFpCc My kinda song driving bass drum work too :)

Please post your musical drumming examples -

Wow! Less is sometimes not just more...but perfect.



One of my all-time favorite drummers!


I guess lately it has been this band ;) https://youtu.be/kR8HinFaQhk?t=3s

Amazing...I just wish Simon was more syncopated :)


Love Stella Mozgawa from Warpaint's drumming.

She's a very musical drummer in my view. Seems that everything she does is thought out and for a reason and perfectly accompanies the music. Even her cymbal choices ooze musicality.

Very nice! Thank you for that.
 
LOL Sorry, wrong link! I couldn't work out why Andy would have thought Becky was in that video haha

James Taylor live with Steve Gadd on drums with that incredible passage at the end of the bridge - once more with feeling :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BYb3u0aZVY.

Indeed the bridge is a great moment. Every note counts and the "restraint". Thanks for sharing (first time I'd seen/heard it).

I'm too going off the beaten trail and will suggest Miles with Al Foster on "Jean Pierre". Improv on a basic (childlike?) melody, but the way the drums/percussion support the rest of the band - the dynamics, the massive amounts of space, the excitement when appropriate, etc. I dunno ... it's what playing is all about for me.
The track is long (and it's pointless if you don't listen to the whole thing) ... so you are forgiven if you don't. :eek:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5pTORxHcr8

cheers,
radman
 
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