Terry Bozzio’s drum solos are always dazzling. In this one, I’m impressed with the melodic sense.
Tag: drums
All I want for Christmas …
… is this drum set.
(And maybe 1/10th of Terry Bozzio’s skill in playing it.)
Picking the proper facial expression for your drum solo
I see three basic options:
1. The Neil Peart “Just doing my job” look:
2. The Terry Bozzio “I’m passing a kidney stone” look:
UPDATE: I have no idea what causes someone to disable embedding on a YouTube video. If it’s violating copyright, why isn’t it taken down? So anyway, here’s the link to the Bozzio video.
3. The Mike Mangini “This is FUN, dammit!” look:
And if you want to see a drum solo I actually played once upon a time (no, it’s not me in the video), check this out:
In my senior recital, I actually nailed the section starting at 2:22, which surprised me so much that I botched a couple of notes in the marimba solo that followed. Which is bad, because no one would’ve had any idea if I’d missed something in this one.
And for the record, since Duke had no timpani mutes, I used some gym socks.
Stewart Copeland can still play
Someone has video evidence: