Drum It With Brummet

Part 1 of 2:  If Drums Were Lost As  drum teacher I was asked recently by a student: "What would it be like if there were no drums?"  It took me a minute or two to come up with an answer that could possibly explain the loss of what I do for an income/hobby, and more importantly what it would mean to music. It is hard to imagine life with out the rhythm we hear in our popular music. No rock and roll, blues, funk, disco, reggae, jazz as we know it - as they all are rhythm based.  It is almost unthinkable what the world itself would be like if the drums were gone… First lets go back to an era where there was actually was an absence of drums in music. James Blades author of Percussive Instruments and Their History , wrote: “With the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire, percussive music was banned as “mischievous” and “licentious”; the drums and cymbals were particularly singled out as evidence of “the devil’s pomposity” .  As B.C. becomes A.D., drums were k...