Tone & B&B ,
I gotta disagree w/ both of you's, even though I conceded that Sandy's sticking made the cachimbo part I was playing sound right.
I think it's a rare thing that a good , experienced drummer can't take a transcription of music he/she is accustomed to hearing and make it sound "right". Though I conceeded some legitimacy to the theory that one can't play with the right feel from reading a transcription , I gotta say that the rest is bullshit. I have heard so many "master drummers " say you can't play this and you can't play that , and it's all bullshit in my opinion. I can read transcriptions 99% percent of the time and play the stuff the way it goes .
I can transcribe 85% of the things I hear, and play them the way they go, and don't need any master drummers approval.
I know a cat that sounds exactly like the Tumba player from the Munequitos , he never met the guy from the munequitos , he just sat bye the cd player tirelessly figuring things out. He could of did it twice as fast with some good transcriptions , and that's my point.
I wonder why some master drummers can't conceed the fact that people from all over this country can play "their stuff" just as well , if not sometimes better , and that it's not "their" music anymore.
It's "ours".
A good lesson can be learned from all the white jazz players of the 60's who played just as well as the Elvin Jone's and Tony Williams. I know one on this forum . The same is happening now in this music, and it will come around soon where everything will be as universal as jazz is today. I can't wait