Quotes About Percussion

My drum parts are a song within the song; that's the way I look at writing my drum parts. They follow patterns, and they're written to interact with the rest of the band. There's quite a bit of thought that goes into it.

As far as drummers are concerned, when I was a child growing up I was really attracted to artists like Gene Kupra and Louis Bellson and Buddy Rich; a lot of the drummers that played in the popular big bands of the '40s. I would listen to their records.

I think everything that I've ever played has somehow trickled down from Gene Krupa.

The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

When I do a press roll, I use the traditional grip. Sometimes I flip it around; for a louder crack on the two and four, I use the new grip.

I have worked with the tavil and the mridangam all my artistic life. My style does have a strong grounding in rhythm.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion

I have been drumming my whole life.

Most great records really start with the drums.

I never professed to be a great drummer but I was a very heavy drummer.

John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing.

It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor.

All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

I've been taking tabla lessons and they've helped expand my rhythmic horizons.

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

loved the air after a hard rain, and the way a forest of dripping leaves fills itself with a sibilant percussion that empties your head of words.

But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.

I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

Worst-case scenario: malevolent spirits have appeared. Low-level spirits will likely be at least temporarily dispersed by: • Bells and chimes • The presence of iron • Firecrackers and other sudden loud noises, like the shattering of pottery and plates • Clattering metal percussion instruments: castanets, cymbals, sistrums, or tambourines. If you have no such instruments, then bang metal pots and pans. • Peals of sincere, hearty laughter Amulets,