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Jeff
PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 5:24 am 
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Royal ace wrote:
At least rock drumming is easy to understand.
It embodies, with a few exceptions, inane, monotonous rhythmic patterns played with mind-numbing repetitivity at a volume injurious to hearing, with occasional demonstrations of technical agility empty of musical content... performed to serve a musical genre consisting of banal melodies built on inanely simple harmonic structures, performed by silly, posturing musician manques in a state of arrested adolescent development.
One snarky attitude deserves another. :o :lol: :lol:

Ron (proud jazz drummer)


Yeah Yeah, me play dum, me play Rock Dum, Me like dum. :lol:
Jeff (loud rock dummer) :?

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Kelly
PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 6:24 am 
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Kinda odd. I like rock music.....can't picture it without drums.
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Gregory
PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:48 am 
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Kelly wrote:
Kinda odd. I like rock music.....can't picture it without drums.

:lol:

There are a few rock songs without drums, but probably the drummer "nodded off" - or had been told NO by the guitar guy. :shock: :lol:

Gregory (just a drummer)

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Gregory
PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 6:43 pm 
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cliff wrote:
Gregory wrote:
Can somebody please explain what jazz drummers are thinking about? :shock: :lol:




After that, it is, like any good conversation, more listening than playing, and engaging in the dialogue. Hearing when someone else is giving you room to speak, anticipating the opportunities to make statements together, to set up and/or accentuate each others’ statements, and to make statements with empty spaces.

Then comes confidence to complete phrases. The times and places I screw up are when I have begun and idea, and question whether it will work, and quasi-abort.

Greg, was there something particular that raised the opening question in you?


I'm having a bit of a time trying to articulate what I'm asking, but each suggestion helps. I think the most basic problem is simply not playing it, because that's where the rubber meets the road. You can play rock in a vacuum, even if it's not all that interesting. You can play classical in a vacuum, even if that means hitting a triangle once every thirty minutes. But I suspect jazz cannot be played in a vacuum, because it is more of a conversation than it is a chartable form.

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Kelly
PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:08 pm 
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hogwash
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Jeff
PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:46 am 
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:? ............ :roll:
Me still like Rock Dum :lol: , perhaps that makes me Neanderthal,...................Perhaps Not...

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Gregory
PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:39 am 
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Kelly wrote:
hogwash


I'm inclined to agree with that assessment.

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cliff
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Gregory wrote:
Kelly wrote:
hogwash

I'm inclined to agree with that assessment.

I am inclined to agree that it is an assessment of something...

...just not clear as to what. :?

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Gregory
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cliff wrote:
Gregory wrote:
Kelly wrote:
hogwash

I'm inclined to agree with that assessment.

I am inclined to agree that it is an assessment of something...

...just not clear as to what. :?


That what I wrote about the difference between jazz and rock is hogwash, I believe.

But even a pig needs a bath sometimes.

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Royal ace
PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:06 pm 
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http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/i ... +rock.html
I'd just drop the indefinite article. ;) :lol: :lol:
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