Why are you guys still harping on drums? Check out "If I Should Die Tonight" by Marvin Gaye. The drummer on the set gets the "hits", right, the accents, the transitions, embellishes the phrases within the song and even maintains consistent time and stays consistent with volume during creshendos and decreshendos. PV's drum section is more of a drum and bugle style section, yes. Funk Train is alot more similar to this cat on the set...well, it's supposed to be. (see Tenn St. for example) There are some really really good things going on at TSU in the Funk Train, with my most praise to the cymbals because they've got the show and the old-school style almost to a T. I honestly wasn't at the game but from what I can gather, a sectional battle would prove absolutely NOTHING. There's nothing to challenge on except maybe basses. You "drum-heads"...snicker.....I said drum-heads, tee hee.... are making fights over something unnecessary. And on 1 on 1 battles there really isn't much there either. Here's an example, I played "Blue Bells of Scotland" in High School on the trombone. It's a staple for an upper level trombone player but I don't remember it AT ALL. And if someone did and played it AT me in person it would make the crowd go "gosh", he's on point better than lilC. But I sight-read "Comfirmation" by Charlie Parker at 124bts, yeah....sight-read.....and played it good and got most of the accents right and even improv'd on it pretty sweetly. Again though, I don't remember it to play it by heart unless I'm in a combo or big band situation....dig? Same thing with drum cadences.....tomato tomahtow. Outside of rudiments you're all just a bunch of beating freaks.
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