The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.
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 write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.
As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means.
I'm a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of 'Lost in Love' and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!
Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.
My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.
I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that much to me.
I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum.
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you're going to play.
I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.
I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion for music and helped me to develop my drumming talents.
