Im sick of drummer jokes, the rumor that drumming takes no skill started when bands like AC/DC we're popular. The drumming in old rock is a joke but drumming in new metal bands like System of a Down for instance is nuts and deserves respect.
Keith Moon, Nick Mason, Lars Ulrich, Scott Travis.
My Generation, anything by Pink Floyd or Metallica, Judas Priest Painkiller.
Also System of a Down is bad music with no meaning behind the lyrics, crappy vocals, and overall sound that can be replicated by garage bands made of highschoolers.
All hail the true metal gods; Metallica, Judas Priest, and Black Sabbath.
I heard this one as "What do you call a someone who hangs out with musicians? A Drummer" It seems lot more harsh that way to me.
Jobz said:
Fruhstuck said:
What good jokes do you know about drummers and vocalists and singers and keyboardists and guitarists and what have you? (would mention the bassists but they're not really worth it
Sid Vicious is a (previously) walking bassist joke. The Sex Pistols kicked out Glen Matlock even tough he was a great bassist because he was not "punk" enough and replaced him with Sid Vicious who was a great drummer/singer but put him on bass. Sometimes when they played they turned his bass down realy low or off all together and he was just there to look good.
Having said this The Sex Pistols are still awesome and i am a bassist so i do not believe this is a solution most fo the time.
This one is pretty good:
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An anthropologist was surveying a small tribe of people on a tropical island and on the first day he noticed the distant sound of drumming. As the day wore on the drumming continued and finally he pulled the leader of the tribe aside and asked what it was all about. The tribal leader replied:
"When drumming stops, bad thing happens."
Days passed and the drumming continued and the anthropologist brought it up for a second time and the tribal leader promptly responded:
"When drumming stops, bad thing happens."
And then one day the drumming stopped and the anthropologist ran to the tribal leader's tent frantically calling out, "Chief, Chief, the drumming stopped, the drumming stopped!"
And the chief said:
"Oh, no. Time for bass solo."
For great bassist jokes visit the Bass Humour section of Talkbass.com
http://www.talkbass.com
EDIT: Sorry for another but this is awesome
You know when you're obsessed with bass when :
You walk into a guitar store and ask where the bass store is
You walk into a bass store and ask where all the basses are among the fish on the wall
A list of bass player crimes and penalties (from craigslist):
Bass player offenses/fines list
Name of offender _____________________________
Date of offense(s) _____ / _____ / _______
Musical offenses
Playing loudly during warm up ? $10
Sound-checking amp with funk slapping ? $25
Loud cursing after mistake ? $10
Playing high and fast after mistake ? $20
Practicing 2-handed tapping between tunes ? $20
Asking for "E" tuning note ? $25
Playing E anyway when horns tune to Bb ? $50
Playing written-out walking line ? $50
Failure to play written walking line ? $75
Writing note names over ledger-line notes ? $50
Writing beat numbers under dotted figures ? $50
Playing eighth notes ? $5 each
Playing sixteenth notes ? $10 each
Playing above 1st octave-immediate dismissal
Dragging fast tempo ? $75
Dragging ballad tempo ? $100
Blacking out during ballad ? $200
Ignoring drummer's tempo ? $100
Following drummer's tempo ? $250
Asking to borrow Real Book for All Of Me ? $1000
Upright player offenses
Showing up before first downbeat ? $25
Playing audibly ? $25
Faking changes ? $25
Slapping ? $150
Missing tutti lick, then mentioning vintage of bass ? $25
Excessive sweating ? $25
Pedal point double-stops during horn solo ? $50
Asking leader for a solo ? $30
Accepting solo when offered ? $50
Taking second chorus ? $100
Playing solo arco ? $400
Pretending to check tuning after playing out of tune ? $25
Playing "A Train" ending on every tune ? $200
Playing extended "A Train" ending on every tune ? $500
Electric player offenses
Checking hair between tunes ? $15
Experimenting with odd meters ? $25
Missing root at end of blistering fill ? $25
Playing with a pick ? $50
Tuning during ballad ? $30
Playing Jaco groove on samba ? $75
Playing Jaco samba groove on ballad ? $150
Attempting last word on final chord ? $50
Achieving last word on final chord ? $100
Long gliss down to final note ? $200
Equipment violations?electric
Forgetting strap ? $10
Changing strings after every set ? $15
Using electric tuner ? $15
Setting up mic "just in case" ? $75
Forgetting to turn amp on ? $40
Bringing amp larger than 1 person can carry in 1 trip ? $50
Asking horn player for help moving amp ? $25
Bringing custom-made bass ? $100 per string above 4
Bringing more than 1 bass ? $100 per extra bass
Skull decals on bass ? $150
Bringing fretless bass ? $500
Criminal bad taste
Telling bone player about all the gigs you get ? $10
Asking bone player about their day gig ? $10
Sitting behind drums on break ? $10
Quoting "Birdland" ? $25
Practicing scales during break ? $25
Practicing scales during drum solo ? $50
Practicing ? $150
Beginning a sentence with "When I was a guitar player" ? $50
Casually mentioning to Musical Director of cheap theater that you are "into sequencing" ? $100
Basic stupidity
Wearing old Buddy Rich tour shirt ? $10
Wearing new Whitesnake tour shirt ? $20
Asking when the rock set starts ? $20
Continually asking "where are we?" ? $25
Continually shouting "Yeah!" ? $25
Asking bone player where "1" is ? $50
Taking cellphone call during 4's ? $100
How do you know if there's a drummer at the door?
The knocking speeds up and he doesn't know when to come in.
As a progressive rock drummer i get that alot from the musically uneducated who don't understnd anything other than 4/4 (you know who you are bass players!)
What do you call the annoying bastard who tells drummer jokes all the time, shows up late for pratice and doesn't right his own parts?
Yup, it's the bassist.
As a progressive rock drummer i get that alot from the musically uneducated who don't understnd anything other than 4/4 (you know who you are bass players!)
9/8 is 3 sets of triplets in a row, 12/8 feels like 4/4 but has 6 beats per bar and if you play in 3/4 while the rest of the band plays in 4/4 it sounds awesome.
Technical death metal drummer here, contrary to popular belief it does take an assload of skill and training, I dare say way more than it does to be a guitarist/bassist.
I agree, drumming on songs from soft rock bands can't touch the drumming from metal bands, particularly the hyper-technical ones. Listen to bands like Psycroptic and Beneath the Massacre. Tell a soft rock drummer to play that and he would explode.
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