Hasta la vista, BenbyGood representation of the inside of my brain
Edit - the drummer - https://mastodon.art/@liebach/116340007790020165
Entertainment Porpoises Only@TheBreadmonkey I am a drummer and I can confirm that if you start to think about what you're doing in any sort of detail it all rapidly falls to pieces
Colin H.@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey Ex-drummer (is anyone ever really an ex-drummer?) - can confirm. Drumming is like that bumblebee myth about flying - it's only possible because nobody has told us we can't.
DziadekWas my experience. I drummed because nobody told me I couldn’t. And I worshiped Buddy Rich. His big band was awesome (using the word properly).
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦years ago read about a neuroimaging study done on drummers and basically, y’all rewire your brains in ways that kinda obliterate that whole “left brain vs right brain” shtick:
“Neuroscience and Music: Insights from Drummers’ Brains”
Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/201912/neuroscience-and-music-insights-drummers-brains
you know, seeing how primates use their limbs, maybe it’s an evolutionary skill we forgot on our way to being humans?
anyways, to me drummers brains are just bananas.
Sue Smith@blogdiva my partner and best friend are both drummers, and my best friend recently realised that all of her closest friends (5/6 folk) have partners who are also drummers lol, there is definitely something interesting about them imo 🤣
Fugue State Machine Moto
Clive Thompson@blogdiva @DziadekMick @GlasWolf @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey
oh that study is so cool, thank you!
tectonic@blogdiva @DziadekMick @GlasWolf @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey Re: "to me drummers brains are just bananas"
Well, I'm a drummer and I can assure that my brain isn't just bananas - there are other fruit-like substances in there, too.
I also kind of disagree about not thinking - just that it's thinking more in sounds and sensations, and, ideally, not in words at all. Words in your head mess up the flow.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@msbellows @DziadekMick @GlasWolf @TheBreadmonkey
I mean, yes?
Buddy Rich - The Bus Tapes
@pikesley @DziadekMick @GlasWolf @TheBreadmonkey Also, given your nym, have you heard the shaggy dog joke about seagull extract helping marine mammals live forever?
Jules she/her@GlasWolf @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey I assume it's like the way you can't do your signature if you think too hard about it
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Michael 🇺🇦@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey I'm not a real drummer; I'm just part of the drumming group for our handball team. Our task is to play rhythms that the spectators can clap along to. We have several different rhythms for attacking, defending, cheering on our team and celebrating victory, ...
Once the lead drummer starts playing, my hands know exactly what to play. And while my hands do their job, I watch the game without even thinking about my hands.
I once wrote a tangentially-related blogpost
https://sam.pikesley.org/blog/2016/02/10/rhapsody-on-a-theme-of-imposter-syndrome/
