Drum soloing – some drummers are very adept at them. When I was younger, I often felt like I just fell on my drums when I am pushed to do one. It was never a priority on my list of things to practice when alone with my drums as I was usually busy working on songs to play in a cover band. Recently, we saw live music get a reboot after the COVID shutdown had people realizing how much they missed seeing a live band in a club setting. The weekend rock band I was in at the time saw the potential of this and put together a very energetic rock set list that had me playing harder and faster than I had – ever! This group also required me to do a drum solo that I was dreading. It had been probably more than thirty years since I had done a long solo and, as you know, I had always disliked them. It’s not that I don’t like drum solos that other guys do, in fact I love them - when done well. I just felt that I wasn’t in that category probabl...
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