Hey, I love the drums – and drummers – and also wish I had any talent in that particular area.
I only mack on drummers out of the Grand Tradition of drummer jokes, and because it makes me feel like a Big Man when I’m called upon to play my tuba.
(My less embarrassing instruments are flute, tenor saxophone, cornet, and piano. I don’t actually play the ukulele or any other stringed instrument, although I know the guitar chords for “Mr. Tamborine Man.”)
Then you’re doing it right, at least according to James Brown.
Oh yeah totally getcha - a friend plays tympani in a symphony and apparently violists* are the “drummers” of the symphony, and are apparently a fount of bountiful jokedom. Not sure why - my inquiry more or less got shrugged off, so I’m still baffled as to what why that’s the case. (ditto for stalwart, indestructible, visionary-with-wind-in-hair, most-likely-well-endowed drummers)
*and yes, that’s violists, not violinists.
One time I tried to set up 8 glasses with water at different levels but after breaking two I thought - ok - best cut my losses…fuck this.
And they were fucking love-taps too.
The Viola not a featured instrument - it is an accompaniment instrument. It is focused on harmony parts more than main melody and takes no solos. The “saying” is that folks who can’t lead on violin end up on viola. It’s crap, just like folks who can’t play guitar “end up” on bass, but there ya go.
I met violist Carol Cook in security at an airport. I asked what was in the pricey travel case and when I immediately knew who Mark O’Connor, master fiddle/jazz fiddle/ guitar player, whom she was going to play with, we had a nice conversation. Anyone who plays with O’Connor is a master. And she was beautiful! Link to her album with him: Crossing Bridges - Wikipedia
Ah, I see - thanks.
When the Levee Breaks
We Got the Beat
Come Together
My Sharona
Wipe Out
Walk This Way
Two Princes
Lust for Life
Sing Sing Sing
I can go on and on…
ETA: Oh, sorry, you meant yourself. I originally ready as “a drummer,” not “this drummer.” Surely you can do one of those, though.
Big Star’s Back of a Car. Well, the main guitar part at least.
No probs doing any of those - I’d readily wager, though, that a casual music listener would be able to identify only the beats for Wipe Out and When the Levee Breaks - the others don’t have a unique enough beat for someone to immediately link them to a song. Even Walk This Way’s open hi-hat (on the one) - maybe some folks would identify, perhaps.
Been known to do a pretty mean version of John Cage’s 4’33 on both the dulcimer AND sousaphone.
Hypnotized by Bob Welch is a good trademarked part.
Ok, We Got the Beat I’ll take back. It’s not really unique enough. The rest I think are. But “Come Together”? Nothing else sounds like it. “Sing Sing Sing” only because it’s an old song, but of all those songs, that’s probably the only one my mother-in-law would know off the bat.
Indeed, very distinct, along with Pulykamell’s offering of Come Together, despite the fact that nobody under, say, 40, could i.d. them, I’ll maintain.
oh and I can whistle “A Whiter Shade of Pale” good enough to make Alex Ross to take note.
I could easily ID Come Together, and I won’t be 40 until Sunday.
You had me at Hello.