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Sirotnikov
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<--- Yes, It's a "kitty" in a boot.
Feb 2000
time: 07:29
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Everyone knows that the main basis for music is rhythm. It's drum base can make a mediocre creation great, and a great creation a mediocre one.
Most drum parts are sadly quite 'standard' to the point one would think a basic drum machine was used.
I wish to dedicate this thread to famous music pieces which have an exceptionally good drum part, which not only 'adds' to the music, but is an active part of it.
One group which usually integrates drum beat as the main element of the melody is Metallica, but I wouldn't want to dedicate a thread to them.
I wish to draw attention to Styx - Lady. It has an exceptional drum piece which gives the heart and soul to the music. It is important however to listen to the original recording from the late 70s, since the new version (circa 1995?) though somewhat better in quality, is very much lacking a good drum setup and performance.
conclusion: listen to the original recording of "lady" with a good set of speakers, and notice how unlike in most songs, where you hear 2, maybe 3 differet drums, you can hear a whole drum symphony.
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Zopperoni
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Check out "Toad" by Cream. Peter Baker has a 12.5 minute drum solo in that song.
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Buck Birdseed
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Khoon Ki Pyasi Dayan (1988)
Nov 2000
time: 05:29
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Sometimes good drums just blow you away in terms of accuracy/incessancy/loudness/sensitivity, but I've found a special place in my heart for drum parts that work on a more understated level than that, where the drummer brings attention to himself/herself not through how exceptional a drummer he is but through how creatively he can use his instrument as a song-writing tool. To me, a truly successful drummer is one which, in addition to carrying a song rhythmically or adding an extra dimension to it also uses the drums as an entirely hook-based instrument, creating memorable fills, rhythms and bridges that compete on an equal basis for the listeners attention with the riffs and licks and choruses other instruments provide.
A very good example of someone who while never being an exceptionally expressive drummer nevertheless manages to out-hook the vast majority of riff-makers and melody-writers is Kinks drummer Mick Avory. Most notably his genius (combined, to be fair, with Ray Davies', who produced and artistically co-ordinated the thing) comes through on the inseparable unit that was The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968). Entirely subdued, with no hard hits or complex, solo-like sections, it becomes a perfect, pop-making part in the complex of other instruments, never too loud or too quiet, and always doing something intensely interesting that, if you care to focus on it, makes you mime air-drumming in delight. If you don't focus on it it insiduously lodges itself into your memory popping up at the most unexpected times. The perfect drum part from the most perfect "normal" production of all time.
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:29
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Music is for wussies.
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