Subj : Re: Triumphant Return
To   : SVEN PETERSEN
From : BRETT MCCOY
Date : Tue May 15 2001 02:07 am

> Did you ever check out the "Remember Shakti" recordings of John McLaughlin?
> That is real cool stuff, I think. One CD (the believer) came with a 25 
minutes
> video clip (*.mov or something). That was way cool... it is very interesting 
to
> see/hear what they can do with a tabla drum.
> 
> The Arabian druming is very interesting too...a ctually, the concept of the
> eastern music is pretty similar to modern jazz :))

Yes, it is.  In Middle eastern drumming, you typically have a basic rhythm
or pattern of rhythms 
and it is up to the drummer to improvise and fill to make things more
interesting.  The problem 
you run into is when *everyone* is trying to be the lead drummer and then
everything falls apart 
into a big pile of mush.  Just like with any kind of music, if you are
improvising, you still need 
that good backbone to play around or you end up with something like that
scene in Spinal Tap 
when they are playing at that small amusement park without a lead
guitarist...

-- Brett
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