why can so many drummers not play like this kid can?

[pcake]

 

[Chad Michael]

Would like to hear without the backing track, excellent drumming will stand alone.

I too miss the feel and the passion that existed in most of the drummers I have worked with over the years...

Thanks for it pee cakes, I needed this [c:

 

[LBS-bass]

Talent?

 

[Mike JV]

I've seen a few video's with this young lady. WOW!! Gotta be a total natural talent. (Sadly, I'm not! Gotta work and work at it). There's a video where Robert Plant watched her play "Good Times, Bad Times" and he was amazed. Said "well, I know where she can get a job! Of course she would have to bring her parents along!"

 

[Lagado]

Natural ability on that particular plane. There has been another development that has seen a new wave of younger players, tuition at your fingertips. Back in the mid '80s when I felt I couldn't progress any further on my own, it took almost 6 hours out of the day to travel to and from and have an hour lesson. Now you have the top guys, right here.

 

[mapleglo]

I'm finding that a good drummer is the hardest band member to find and keep.

 

[pcake]

i've seen her play without a backing track and with a band, and she's just as good - better than the rest of the band. she's giving local drum clinics LOL

Would like to hear without the backing track, excellent drumming will stand alone.

I too miss the feel and the passion that existed in most of the drummers I have worked with over the years...

Thanks for it pee cakes, I needed this [c:

pee cakes?

 

[Bob_Ross]

I'm finding that a good drummer is the hardest band member to find and keep.

Thread drift: I was reminded recently how the difference between a Good Drummer and a Great Drummer can be ENORMOUS...but also enormously difficult to quantify.
I resurrected the old master tapes from my 1984 band (post-punk/alternative/progressive/new wave/insert meaningless genre here) and was thinking "wow, the drummer is doing everything I like a drummer to do

...except make me feel good."

 

[buldog5151bass]

Lots of comments about natural talent. I'm guessing she practices more hours a day than many here do in half a month.

 

[LBS-bass]

I'm finding that a good drummer is the hardest band member to find and keep.

The pain of looking for a good drummer is part of why I have not put my own band together and likely never will. I know several good drummers. They are either super busy, retired from music, or difficult to work with. I'm no longer willing to deal with the stress of the latter, and the other two aren't available so that leaves me starting at zero and the mere thought of trying to find someone is really discouraging. Of course, it's all academic at this point with nobody playing.

 

[Lagado]

Lots of comments about natural talent. I'm guessing she practices more hours a day than many here do in half a month.

Some have it in the genetic code. Not everyone can be Debussy for instance.

 

[LBS-bass]

Lots of comments about natural talent. I'm guessing she practices more hours a day than many here do in half a month.

The combination of talent and practice is always required in order for talent to come to fruition. But I know people who have practiced for a lifetime and can't play nearly as well as that little girl.

 

[ClusterFlux]

Talent, practice, passion. 2 of the 3 of those are easier to indulge in when you don't have to deal with the SATs, term papers, or a mortgage.

Prodigies are not new. Recognizing or celebrating young female drummers is a much newer phenomenon.

A few years ago I stumbled across the "Hit Like A Girl" drum contest, which is for all ages and has under-13 and 13-17 age categories.

2020 Under 13 winner, Kayla Zahra


2020 13-17 winner, Yufengyi Li


Nandi Bushell is also getting lots of attention, and even did a drum-off with Dave Grohl:

 

[buldog5151bass]

I'm not discounting natural talent, but people don't realize how much goes into becoming a great musician. I doubt many people here practice (not just playing songs) more than a few hours per week. Ask the average student at Berklee how many hours per week they practice.

 

[Lagado]

I'm not discounting natural talent, but people don't realize how much goes into becoming a great musician. I doubt many people here practice (not just playing songs) more than a few hours per week. Ask the average student at Berklee how many hours per week they practice.

I'm sure that people realize that nothing comes for nothing. I spent a couple of years at the Guitar Institute, London. Playing is what you are there for.

 

[Mike JV]

Thread drift: I was reminded recently how the difference between a Good Drummer and a Great Drummer can be ENORMOUS...but also enormously difficult to quantify.
I resurrected the old master tapes from my 1984 band (post-punk/alternative/progressive/new wave/insert meaningless genre here) and was thinking "wow, the drummer is doing everything I like a drummer to do

...except make me feel good."

Boy, but that brings back a bad memory. There was a drummer at a particular church where I use to play. Truly a nice guy to be around and there was nothing this guy couldn't play. Problem was, he pretty much had to show you in every song. Here we were playing Christmas day in church playing Joy To The World which had a very upbeat tempo to it. Great groove to the song and he just destroyed it. Overplayed that song to death. Here I was trying to play along with him (again, in church) and I'm thinking "what the **** are you doing?"

 

[LBS-bass]

I'm not discounting natural talent, but people don't realize how much goes into becoming a great musician. I doubt many people here practice (not just playing songs) more than a few hours per week. Ask the average student at Berklee how many hours per week they practice.

I think that's true whether you have natural talent or not. How many times do we hear about people being told, "oh, you must be so talented to play like that?" Even the most talented people in the world will laugh and tell you that there are many practice hours behind that. Nobody gets a free pass without doing the work.

 

[fdeck]

 

[fdeck]

By the way, I have in fact heard 12-year-olds nail this piece in recital.

 

[HardNHeavy]

ugh i feel your pain.... i see alot of these so called prodigy's are of asian decent, there are others like this girl posted above who was given a guitar by Tom Morello from Rage ATM. She plays bass and guitar pretty well too. Good to see kids actually playing instead burning out on "guitar hero" nonsense ....I applaud them!!