We have a gift people. The gift of rhythm. Cherish it. Cherish it every day of your lives because there are those that walk among us that do not have the same gift. In fact, some are void of said gift entirely and it is not good. Not good at all...
No Rhythm Dude
It's true.
I don't think I ever really realised how true this is until I was out in Liverpool drinking with a Lawyer a couple of years ago. Really nice chap this guy. Young lad. In fact the youngest full Partner in a legal firm in the UK.
We get talking later on about drumming. "I'd make a great drummer" he says...then crosses his arms and starts 'doing the moves'. He was having a real laugh and so was I. We roared.
Eventually I invited him round to my place to have a go on a proper set of drums...something he'd always wanted to do, but for whatever reason never had a chance.
I handed him the sticks. And he didn't have a clue what to put where. IT wasn't just a case of ability to hit them but not do it in time, or rhythmically or whatever. Just could not even self-articulate where to even start.
Second time I've seen this happen. Plenty of people of course DO know BASICALLY what to do, but can't do it. But these people just, like, lost all ability to even begin the journey.
Me. I'm no great drummer. I'm not even good. Industrially competent I would say. But, as a 12 year old I sat at my mate's kit, during one of their rehearsals. And I just knew instantly what to do. I had spent years tapping on armchairs....foottapping...etc. I just, literally, knew how to drum. Without ever having sat at a kit before.
Strange.
The video was HILARIOUS...I'd have to tell him to stop clapping for the love of God.