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earthgene
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Drummers brains
Great read on Drummer's brains. I would argue Stickist's are very similar if not identical. Science Shows How Drummers' Brains Are Actually Different From Everybody Elses'My favorite bit was: University of Oxford researchers discovered that when drummers play together, both their happiness levels and pain tolerance increase, similar to Olympic runners.
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Luc
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Re: Drummers brains
That would explain how I was able to play wedding gigs for as long as I did without going stark raving buggo. I'm kidding. One of my musical aspirations is actually to someday provide solo music for intimate settings, which would include wedding ceremonies.
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earthgene
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Re: Drummers brains
Me too. I played a friend's wedding about 2 years ago in a very loud room, a great opportunity.
This article really spells out the high drummers get from playing and playing with other people - an informative read.
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carvingcode
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Re: Drummers brains
The Chicken Dance
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Captain Strings
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Re: Drummers brains
I played with lotsa drummers and a few had brains way different from anybody else. In the 60s I knew a drummer in Virginia Beach named Ronnie Hedland who played absolutely monster double kick funk/rock/R&B drums,sang like Ray Charles and played deep-in-the-changes jazz B3 organ with his right hand - all simultaneously and uncompromisingly. He fronted a trio like that with a bass player and guitar player and could hang for 4-5 sets,6 nights a week and still had so much musical headroom it was scary. He changed his name to Ronnie Dixon,bailed to Toronto during 'Nam and and gigged 20 years in legendary obscurity before becoming a bouncer in strip joints and then was randomly murdered in 1998. But in his prime it was just amazing to watch him in action.Wonderful soulful cat too. A few other drummers I knew were just plain nuts.
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rwkeating
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Re: Drummers brains
"... both their happiness levels and pain tolerance increase, ..."
That's funny because when I play with bad drummers, my happiness level and pain tolerance decreases (insert drum roll and cymbal crash)
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Luc
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Re: Drummers brains
Buh-dum pssshhhhh!
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Nomad Monday
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Re: Drummers brains
Honestly, this seems more like a fluff piece than anything substantively interesting. (Not to knock on drummers, because I AM one.) But when people talk about studies on the mind of drummers, I'm usually reminded of this article having to do with perception of time: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/25/110425fa_fact_bilgerIt's a bit long, but the part that stands out to me was this: Quote: “I was working with Larry Mullen, Jr., on one of the U2 albums,” [Brian] Eno told me. “ ‘All That You Don’t Leave Behind,’ or whatever it’s called.” Mullen was playing drums over a recording of the band and a click track—a computer-generated beat that was meant to keep all the overdubbed parts in synch. In this case, however, Mullen thought that the click track was slightly off: it was a fraction of a beat behind the rest of the band. “I said, ‘No, that can’t be so, Larry,’ ” Eno recalled. “ ‘We’ve all worked to that track, so it must be right.’ But he said, ‘Sorry, I just can’t play to it.’ ”
Eno eventually adjusted the click to Mullen’s satisfaction, but he was just humoring him. It was only later, after the drummer had left, that Eno checked the original track again and realized that Mullen was right: the click was off by six milliseconds. “The thing is,” Eno told me, “when we were adjusting it I once had it two milliseconds to the wrong side of the beat, and he said, ‘No, you’ve got to come back a bit.’ Which I think is absolutely staggering.”
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Navigator
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Re: Drummers brains
earthgene wrote: University of Oxford researchers discovered British scientists strike back!
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earthgene
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Re: Drummers brains
Yeah go figure, they use Bonham, Spinal Tap and Phil Collins as examples.
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