Metal & Jazz, end of debacle!!!
TOUGHEST GENRE
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 03:27 PM
The whole question of "Toughest Genre?" is one that is loaded to the hilt. Each genre has it's own difficulties in learning to play. I think we should learn about each one and specialize in one type. It really doesn't matter which one is the toughest, does it? Not to me anyway. BTW, I voted for jazz/fusion but it really doesn't matter which is truly the toughest. I see the toughness in both jazz and metal and I can appreciate both in their own way.
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Posted 21 February 2012 - 01:25 PM
tamajama, on 04 December 2011 - 03:27 PM, said:
The whole question of "Toughest Genre?" is one that is loaded to the hilt. Each genre has it's own difficulties in learning to play. I think we should learn about each one and specialize in one type. It really doesn't matter which one is the toughest, does it? Not to me anyway. BTW, I voted for jazz/fusion but it really doesn't matter which is truly the toughest. I see the toughness in both jazz and metal and I can appreciate both in their own way.
There's an interesting video (for free) in the Berklee online courses where Dixie Dregs drummer extraordinaire Rod Morgenstein talks about never underestimate the power of NOT playing or of keeping it simple. On how he had to struggle with playing a simple beat and not making it complicated he teaches how he learned the hard way that knowing what NOT to play is as important as knowing what to play. I think I posted that video here before. He is the drummer of the Dixie dregs a Jazz Fussion band.
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Posted 12 March 2012 - 03:26 PM
I think Thrash Metal is the hardest genre to play because you have to play at high tempos like 173 and make it sound good. Jazz is also quite hard... I am still learning it 
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Posted 02 May 2012 - 08:04 AM
The Mimic, on 12 March 2012 - 03:26 PM, said:
I think Thrash Metal is the hardest genre to play because you have to play at high tempos like 173 and make it sound good. Jazz is also quite hard... I am still learning it
I think everything that you don't practice is hard. For people that are used to playing fast keeping a groove at slow tempos might be killing. I've seen professional accomplished drummers talk about that in the drum channel previews. And the other way around as well. I doubt Chad Smith who has great time keeping can play Erotomania.
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Posted 02 May 2012 - 01:40 PM
The Mimic, on 12 March 2012 - 03:26 PM, said:
I think Thrash Metal is the hardest genre to play because you have to play at high tempos like 173 and make it sound good. Jazz is also quite hard... I am still learning it
Don't take this as sarcasm. You don't "learn" jazz, you feel it.
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Posted 19 May 2012 - 11:58 AM
ahh yes... I definitively feel the frustration in trying to get all the freakin rolls down to eventually play at a wedding... of course... NOT SARCASM
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Posted 19 May 2012 - 04:56 PM
Transcribing Rachmaninoff's Concerto no.3 to the drumset and then playing it. That would be kinda tough.
Caution: The above rant has been disjected with sarcasm.
