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tanglefingers - Posted - 11/08/2009: 20:19:29
I have been drumming a fair bit for the last 4 months and I just wondering how this fits on the musicians "social tree'. Given my starting position as a banjo player, does drummer move me up the ladder? Down? Sideways? If sideways and im occupying two positions, does this make me twice as uncool?
From talking to my other muso freinds I think I may have moved up, but my IQ has apparently dropped as compensation.
Your thoughts?
We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it onto PEACE.
Micheal Franti.
trick420 - Posted - 11/08/2009: 20:44:55
Hehehe... I'm no help to you in your query.
I've played drums for 25 years (I consider myself a drummer first and foremost, then a guitarist).
I officially became a banjo player this last Friday in hopes of moving up the ladder.
There's an old joke... What do you call the guy that is always hanging around the band members? The drummer.
Best of luck to you in your quest.
Jeff
kirbonite - Posted - 11/08/2009: 20:45:44
My bass players favorite joke:
Q. What do you call a person that likes to hang out with musicians?
A. A drummer
kirbonite - Posted - 11/08/2009: 20:47:58
I see someone beat me to the joke.
Well, I played drums once and was asked to never do it again. but the banjo
is a drum.. A drum with strings.. i'd call it a sideways (more profitable move)
Bill Rogers - Posted - 11/08/2009: 21:43:30
Round Peak clawhammer ace Tom Collins (FretlessFury) was a drummer. His sense of rhythm and timing on banjo is impeccable. When I learned he'd been a drummer I knew where that came from.
Bill
Surveyor - Posted - 11/08/2009: 22:22:04
Bill nailed it. My Uncle is a killer old school drummer and banjo player. Jokes are funny but when I break out the banjo people listen. They like it......JUST LIKE DRUMMING. My family may tell me to stop but others want to hear more. Banjos get a bad rap...whatever...bring it. Maybe you will be the banjo whisperer. :)
Mr. B
Wind me up and watch me go!
mike gregory - Posted - 11/09/2009: 02:46:51
When I was younger, I thought it would be easy to be a drummer.
Don't have to learn scales & stuff.
Then one fine evening, a few of us were sitting in a bar, and I watched the combo go. Piano guy, trombone guy, and a working drummer.
Feets a stomping two different pedals, arms flailing every whichaway in a very complicated manner, and the sweat pouring down his face like Gramma's picture of Jesus In The Garden.
I figured "There must be an easier way to have fun!" and stuck with my 4-string, 4-chord banjo.
Later added a 5th string, but that's another episode in the miniseries they'll make about my life, once my child-trapped-in-a-balloon hoax gets me some positive publicity.
Whether you're higher up the social ladder or not, if you have a sense of ryhthm, you're ahead of me.
ValleyDac - Posted - 11/09/2009: 03:19:05
quote:
Originally posted by bevans
And, to be serious for a moment, if you're a GOOD drummer :), there is a lot that carries over from drumming to banjo playing. To play banjo really well, you've got to have good rhythm.
This is basically what I came here to say, but Bill beat me to it.  I've played drums off and on (mostly "off" lately, though I still do play occasionally) for nearly 25 years. Just started playing the banjo very recently. My drumming background has really helped since I'm already used to timing and playing rhythmically. As far as the social ladder...hmm...I think taking on another instrument of any kind automatically moves you up.
R Buck - Posted - 11/09/2009: 04:45:17
I drum every time I play my banjo. It is the percussion of the notes that drew me to the instrument.
RobBob
Music; the best way to count time. It is a journey not a destination.
www.blueridgerounders.com
eddie83 - Posted - 11/09/2009: 05:04:21
quote:
Originally posted by ValleyDac
quote:
Originally posted by bevans
And, to be serious for a moment, if you're a GOOD drummer :), there is a lot that carries over from drumming to banjo playing. To play banjo really well, you've got to have good rhythm.
This is basically what I came here to say, but Bill beat me to it.
I've played drums off and on (mostly "off" lately, though I still do play occasionally) for nearly 25 years. Just started playing the banjo very recently. My drumming background has really helped since I'm already used to timing and playing rhythmically.
As far as the social ladder...hmm...I think taking on another instrument of any kind automatically moves you up.
I'm a drummer. I think it's why banjo came so easy to me. I have been drumming for a bout 18 years. I consider myself a really good drummer...I have toured all across the world playing for bands. Now I feel I'm getting to be a great banjo player. I would say being a good drummer can help you in anything music related.
mybote - Posted - 11/09/2009: 07:31:35
I started playing drums at age 12 in grade school band. What a great foundation in music. Later played professionaly in the U.S. and Europe. Learned basics of alot of instruments from diverse musicians. The backbone of music is the beat.
So, If you are a drummer and a banjo player..........heck.........you're at the top of the food chain.
sparksfurr - Posted - 11/09/2009: 07:39:00
Raymond Fairchild did some drumming on "whoa Mule" LOL
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