Now playing with a percussionist is a totally different story and something I really enjoy! I was in a band where our bass player was primarily a drummer and percussionist. I would bring my drums and he would bring his bass gear and a percussion rig. He would set bass loops and jam percussion, some times we even swapped and I would play percussion and he would jump on my kit. That was a lot of fun and very easy to keep 'tasteful'.
In HS jazz band we had two drummers- my best friend and me. We were both in the drum line (he played tri toms and I played snare), and pretty equal in skill and ability.
We basically split the time on the kit and percussion which included marimba and some other cool stuff. There was a healthy competition and amazingly we only once had a run in about who got to play what…and that was at a house party with lots of
involved. I probably played the kit a little more than he did because I was drum captain in junior and senior years…and we used my kit. But we never setup two kits.
