Talk:Drum solo

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Notable Drum Solos[edit]

Modern Drum magazine recently devoted most of an issue to the drum solo. One of its articles listed what the magazine considered to be the most significant drum solos and discussed them. Only two among this wikipedia article's list were mentioned in the Modern Drum magazine article: the Ginger Baker "Toad" solo and the Ringo Starr "The End" solo. Notably missing from the wikipedia list is Gene Krupa's "Sing, Sing, Sing" solo, perhaps the most famous drum solo ever. The list is also far too long, dwarfing the rest of the article. It needs to be considerably shortened and it needs to be made far less subjective. The criteria for inclusion should stress fame over an extended period. If the list cannot be considerably shortened and cannot be made far less subjective, then it needs to be deleted altogether. TheScotch 10:56, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

some Neil Peart info[edit]

I have left roughly half of this in the article. The rest is more suited to Peart's own article.

Neil Peart of Rush is known for his complicated, technical drums solos containing odd time signatures, complicated arrangements and exotic percussion instruments. These solos have been featured on every live album released by the band. On the early live albums, the drum solo was included as part of a song. On all subsequent live albums, the drum solo has been included on a separate track.

Peart's drum solos include a basic framework of routines connected by sections of improvisation, leaving each performance unique. Each successive tour sees the solo more advanced, with some routines dropped in favor of newer, more complex ones. Since the mid-late 1980s Peart has utilized MIDI trigger pads to trigger sounds sampled from various pieces of acoustic percussion that would otherwise consume far too much stage area, such as a marimba, harp, temple blocks, triangles, glockenspiel, orchestra bells, tubular bells, and vibra-slap. Some purely electronic, description-defying sounds are also used. All are incorporated into each drum solo including:

--Design 11:21, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ringo's solo[edit]

I've read somewhere that the drum solo near the end of Abbey Road is actually played by Paul McCartney, as Ringo wasn't around for that session. Does anybody have info on this one way or another? Robotman1974 23:42, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey, Beatles recording engineer Emerick describes in detail the recording of the solo, and he leaves no question whatsoever that the solo was entirely Ringo's. (Note that Emerick's book is strongly slanted in favor of McCartney and against Ringo, George, and John--against Ringo especially.)

McCartney played drums (and piano) on John Lennon's "The Ballad of John and Yoko" because neither Ringo nor George Harrison were easily available on the day Lennon (extremely impatiently, it seems) wanted to record it. McCartney also played drums (with help from Lennon) on "Back in the U.S.S.R." and possibly on certain other songs that appeared on "the White Album" because Ringo had temporarily quit the group at that point. Session drummer Andy White played drums (with Ringo on percussion) on one of the versions of the Beatles first recording "Love Me, Do" (on the other version Ringo plays drums). Session drummer Bernard Purdie claims to have played drums on one or more Beatles songs, but so far he hasn't said which (McCartney disputes this claim). That's it. TheScotch 11:11, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article needs help[edit]

This reads poorly in places. I'll try to clean it up a bit, add sources, and examples that were mentioned in this discussion but no one implemented. There's not enough people on this page to merit extended discussion prior to making an edit and considering the poor condition of the article, I'm plowing forward. --Adam00 (talk) 10:36, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It was mentioned above to shorten the list. I agreed. It was an arbitrary list of drummers someone listened to in the 70s. I have played drums for 32 years and have never heard of some of them. There was disproportionate attention on some drummers and not on others. Buddy Rich is an obvious noteworthy drummer, much more so than that other link that was there to some drummer's personal website. Categories added. --Adam00 (talk) 11:05, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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