Swingin’ those wire brushes

Brush playing is an art that doesn’t get all that much attention anymore. Drummers keep getting stronger and faster so most of the drummers and drumming highlighted these days tends to focus on blinding speed and complex patterns. Maybe it has always been that way. Not that speed and complexity isn’t cool, because it is. But I’m more thrilled by subtly and nuance, which probably comes as much from being older and slower as it comes from refined taste.  That said, this is a way cool clip of two great drummers playing brushes.

Cool and funny, from Jeff “Tain” Watts

Nice moment, bad camera angle

A nice demonstration of how I have more experience as a drummer than as a camera operator. Although having my face hiden by a pole is useful in the event that I fall off the stool or encounter some similar musicial mishap.