Why drums?

[Odd Fella]

I think I don't like the bipolar antagonism between kick and snare that marks much of Western music.

do you have any examples?
preferably actual hits we will know, not some obscure german rock act from 1987.

often times, not always, the kick and snare have different roles. the kick will hold the pulse, while the snare is for accents.
also, different genres will have very different and recognisable tropes, eg death metal drums are very different to hard rock drums.

I hear it all the time on tv, on the radio etc. It is everywhere, but I don't know any specific songs because I shun today's music. I don't even know the names of current artists.

Somehow it seems that in the West everyone thinks a song needs to have drums, specifically a kick and a snare.

[vurt]

Somehow it seems that in the West everyone thinks a song needs to have drums, specifically a kick and a snare.

i rarely use them.
no sense of rhythm.

[Bunny_boy]

With drums we have drummers.
With drummers, we have drummer jokes.
What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?

[Odd Fella]

With drums we have drummers.
With drummers, we have drummer jokes.
What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?

Hm, let's hear it...

[vurt]

drum machine will rarely sleep with your missus and knows when to stfu!

[Bunny_boy]

With drums we have drummers.
With drummers, we have drummer jokes.
What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?

Hm, let's hear it...

Ones a person and the other is made by Roland

[Bunny_boy]

When people are talking about kick and snares, it's western pop music, as opposed to western music, isn't it?

[vurt]

you only have to punch the information in to the drum machine once...

[thecontrolcentre]

Somehow it seems that in the West everyone thinks a song needs to have drums, specifically a kick and a snare.

i rarely use them.
no sense of rhythm.

My last album had no drums on it. The next one (out soon) has some "percussion" on only one of the tracks. A lot of my favourite music atm has little or no drums whatsoever.

[VOODOO U]

you only have to punch the information in to the drum machine once...

What are you talking about? I'm a drummer and I
have no idea what you said.

[vurt]

you only have to punch the information in to the drum machine once...

What are you talking about? I'm a drummer and I
have no idea what you said.

exactly!

[Odd Fella]

I actually admire good drummers and percussionists, the way they coordinate their limbs as if they were independent from each other, not run by the same brain.

[thecontrolcentre]

you only have to punch the information in to the drum machine once...

What are you talking about? I'm a drummer and I
have no idea what you said.

exactly!

[VOODOO U]

I actually admire good drummers and percussionists, the way they coordinate their limbs as if they were independent from each other, not run by the same brain.

That's exactly why I posted the Bozzio vid. He's a master at that. I don't listen to him to hear a good drum groove, heck just listen to the hi hat. Watch the vid and listen to the hat. It's a f**king spot on metronome amidst everything else he's doing.

[VOODOO U]

you only have to punch the information in to the drum machine once...

What are you talking about? I'm a drummer and I
have no idea what you said.

exactly!