Whats the hardest drum part you know?

yammyfan said:
Well, it is definitely technically difficult. It may not actually be so, but it sounds chaotic and out of time to me.
Click to expand...
"Jump" isn't difficult, chops-wise, but it's oddly syncopated.

1714510094635.png
 
I used to play through a bunch of Dave Weckl songs minus drums, which are all fairly difficult. Probably the hardest one I could play reliably was Access Denied. But that was all before I rearranged my kit, which made playing these songs much more difficult, so I stopped playing them. About 6 weeks ago, I tried playing Access Denied for the first time in a couple years, and had forgotten a lot of it. But for a while I could really pull it off.

 
Last edited:
honestly, one of the hardest "beats" I ever had to master was the mid tempo country "cut time", or honky tonk beat as I call it. It is like sorta swing, and sorta not.....



when we added these 2 to our set list, it took me a while to find that feel
 
BruceW said:
The hardest drum part I know is the one in the fast song that we're playing 15 minutes till the end of the night, 3 hours and 45 minutes into a gig, after driving two hours to get to the gig, two more hours setting up before playing those four hours. That, of course after already having worked a full shift at the day job.

I'll probably have to sing the foolish song, too.

Yeah. That's the hardest drum part I know.

What's the hardest one you know, OP?
Click to expand...
After which your bar tab put you in debt to the bar...and you had to borrow gas money to get home
 
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX said:
honestly, one of the hardest "beats" I ever had to master was the mid tempo country "cut time", or honky tonk beat as I call it. It is like sorta swing, and sorta not.....



when we added these 2 to our set list, it took me a while to find that feel
Click to expand...

I can play it but it just never feels right for some reason.
 
joedrum said:

I can play it but it just never feels right for some reason.
Click to expand...

interesting that beats like this never really get me, but I think that is b/c they remind me of surf music beats, which I have been playing for a while

but those honky tonk beats....and they are worse when they are in a slow, ballad type feel too....

but playing ANY style slow is always harder than fast to me.

like this:


is way harder to me than this:


and Rush is my icon band, so I am not disparaging them, but Subdivisions was much easier for me to learn than Marrusorg
 
green glass drum said:
Tacet....gave me a lot of problems.
Click to expand...

actually, my students make way more mistakes in space than when sticks are touching the drums....b/c the sticks aren't touching the drums....
 
Try coming in a bar late after about 103 tacet measures in a piece that goes knowhere with no iconic hits.
"oh my..."
 
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX said:
interesting that beats like this never really get me, but I think that is b/c they remind me of surf music beats, which I have been playing for a while

but those honky tonk beats....and they are worse when they are in a slow, ballad type feel too....

but playing ANY style slow is always harder than fast to me.

like this:


is way harder to me than this:


and Rush is my icon band, so I am not disparaging them, but Subdivisions was much easier for me to learn than Marrusorg
Click to expand...
Neil had an unfair advantage... He always had so many things to hit.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top