Siete Leguas wrote:I also agree on the close relationship between drums and dance. To me, the joy of drumming has come hand in hand with the joy of dancing. Although I was never particularly good at it, it has naturally become something that I need to do regularly.
Jazz critic and author Whitney Balliett once said: "A great drummer dances sitting down. A great tap dancer drums standing up." Although he referred to the late tap dancer Baby Laurence, I suggest that as drummers, we should rather take the first half of his statement to heart.
Conga technique and tap technique have at least one feature in common: the heel-tip combination. Sand dance, by the way, is said to be interrelated with brush playing in jazz drumming.
Thomas Altmann wrote:Conga technique and tap technique have at least one feature in common: the heel-tip combination. Sand dance, by the way, is said to be interrelated with brush playing in jazz drumming.
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