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**xresultsearch** · 11-05-2005, 06:36 PM

There's a lot of drummers in New Orleans who've made a serious study of this stuff, because so much of the tradition there grows out of it. In the late 19th and early 20th century there were a lot of drummers who played both marching band AND dance band gigs, so there was a lot of cross-fertilization of vocabulary. That funky, parade-style snare stuff grows out of that. And that stuff is ALL about stick control and manipulation, because otherwise it doesn't swing, it's just corny "rented-a-tent rented-a-tent" stuff.

Sorry, I'm rewriting my masters thesis here.:-)

It's called:

The Spanish Tinge: Afro-Cuban Clave in New Orleans Drumming, Past and Present.

11-05-2005, 06:36 PM	#6
xresultsearch Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 434 Senior Member	There's a lot of drummers in New Orleans who've made a serious study of this stuff, because so much of the tradition there grows out of it. In the late 19th and early 20th century there were a lot of drummers who played both marching band AND dance band gigs, so there was a lot of cross-fertilization of vocabulary. That funky, parade-style snare stuff grows out of that. And that stuff is ALL about stick control and manipulation, because otherwise it doesn't swing, it's just corny "rented-a-tent rented-a-tent" stuff. Sorry, I'm rewriting my masters thesis here.:-) It's called: The Spanish Tinge: Afro-Cuban Clave in New Orleans Drumming, Past and Present.
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