Are Young Drummers Sounding So Fast Because of Their Kick Foot?

Rattlin' Bones said:
I guess one thing, or myriad of "things" I'm hearing with very fast super-duper machine gun fast kick is being able to lay down something equivalent to a very precise roll on the kick, and then play over it on snare and toms. To me it's an impressive sound when Annika does it with a band. I appreciate it when layed down in the context of a jazz/ fusion band. Now, I don't like fusion jazz at all I think it's boring and meanders and often goes no place, but as a style of playing drums I think it sounds remarkable. And you can take that lightning fast kick and play traditional jazz doing it, too, in solos and trading. I can't but a good player could. I like that sorta jazz that's my cuppa. Anyone have any videos of a drummer trading or doing solos with a more traditional jazz band playing those machine gun kick licks?
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Checkout Naked City should be some live stuff on YouTube I'd find a full live concert and just watch.
 
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Push pull stroke said:
Honest questions—

Which approach do you feel gets you more paid gigs?

If you don’t think paid gigs matter, how and why are you supporting your drumming habit?
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Kinda off topic, but I like to play gigs in front of people. I like playing with mates in the two bands I'm in. A few blues gigs we played last year were just for tips and I took home maybe $20 each time. Other were paid, but pay was somewhere between $20-$40 for both blues band and jazz combo. But each band played big festivals last year and those paid me $100. I'm playing gigs, they matter, but most of the time the "pay" is irrelevant. Which is true for 99% of drummers in real world who haul their beat up Gretsch Catalina kit out to bars and restaurants and make $25. They're not hanging out on forums like this. The people on these forums represent 1% or less of real world drummers who play gigs, they matter, but most of the time the "pay" is very little.
 
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