I have been drumming my whole life.
I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus.
Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.
Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.
I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.
Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them
I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms.
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
