?uesto
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I always considered myself a great groove drummer, but that was before playing music where I had to make people dance. Luckily, I came around pretty quickly, but on all the old rock stuff I used to do, I would lay it down right in the pocket, but there would be no groove to it.
After discovering what it felt like to groove on the kit, and seeing the affect it had on the audience and on the band, I could see how one could be limited in making your groove dance on the drums if you can't dance. Now I, personally, can't dance at all. So it's not impossible, but I think it's much more difficult and it's harder to connect the movement of your own body with the drum groove and with that of the audience members.
Steve Jordan said this in an interview in Modern Drummer that I read recently, and I think it's so true.. There's an ambiguous presence of swing in music that grooves, be it pop, funk, disco, rock, or anything else.
Thoughts on this matter?
After discovering what it felt like to groove on the kit, and seeing the affect it had on the audience and on the band, I could see how one could be limited in making your groove dance on the drums if you can't dance. Now I, personally, can't dance at all. So it's not impossible, but I think it's much more difficult and it's harder to connect the movement of your own body with the drum groove and with that of the audience members.
Steve Jordan said this in an interview in Modern Drummer that I read recently, and I think it's so true.. There's an ambiguous presence of swing in music that grooves, be it pop, funk, disco, rock, or anything else.
Thoughts on this matter?