Ever had a drummer you just locked with?

[555Soul]

Thank god my band finally got a good drummer. He loves me because ive been conditioned by playing with crappy ones. Our first one was a russian dragon, who would speed up and slow down several times in each song. Our second was ok, but drums were not his first second or even third best instrument. Our third was enthusiastic and steady, but wasnt very good at improvising and learned slowly. So now when my current drummer changes tempo i dont even notice that ive changed too. I actually get to play bass and dont have to worry about carrying the rythym for the whole song by myself. We react to each other so well we will improv a sweet fill together for the first time and never be able to figure out later who thought of it. Ive known him less than a year and we are already best freinds. OMG he can count to other numbers besides 4!!!
I cant even really express how happy I am to have a good drummer. I dont want to say that you cant appreciate a good drummer till you have had a bad one, because none of deserve that, but I appreciate him all the more because of it.

 

[Jools4001]

In one of the first serious bands I was in we had a drummer that I grew up with musically. We rehearsed, gigged and hung out together and literally went through all the pain and glory of learning our chops together live in front of an audience.

Eventually, we were like siamese twins and had a sort of telepathic connection, not just locking in to the groove but when to put in a fill, when to push and when to hang back.

We played in that band for years, but when that split we've circled around in various bands, Ocassionally playing in the same band but more often being each others 'first call' dep in each others band.

It's really spooky, even if we don't play together for years, within a few bars it's like we've never been away

 

[crow01]

i never had such good luck of locking with drummers. i try to lock with them. but they never try to lock with me

 

[Vetchking]

Vetchking Here:

I had the reverse situation happen while I was attending North Texas.

I am a drummer/producer.

I am from Pennsylvania, Didn't take the set to school.

One day this bass player askes me to play a huge dance, So I borrowed some guys drum set and played the gig.

The bass player and I killed. We faked every song. You would have swore that we had played together 5 nights a week for 3yrs.

I couldn't believe it, as it was happening we read each others minds. Man what a thrill. We even tried to screw with each other once we understood each other could play.

I am a huge fan of half note triplets. So I picked a spot in one of the songs and droped them in slow motion. That bass player did it exactly with me. We just smiled at each other.... and kept going.

We eventually did a bass, drum solo. The place erupted. We just laughed.

When the gig was over the 20 musicians that stood there all night and watched us came up and showered us with Who the Hell are you two guys.

When all the worshipers left. I asked the bass player (can't remember his name, ugh) how the hell do you understand all this.

His secret??????????? He used to buy drum books and practice the rhythm phrases.

Now theres a trick for all you bass guys. Learn all the rhythm patterns. Then when you meet a good drummer. KAPOW.

LOL.......... Later