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BenGood representation of the inside of my brain
Edit - the drummer - https://mastodon.art/@liebach/116340007790020165
Bowie@TheBreadmonkey my brain today, most definitely😁
Anna@TheBreadmonkey crying
Tim B
Graceless HippoThis but food.
Patrick Hadfield@GracelessHippo you hit food? Doesn't it fly everywhere?! @TheBreadmonkey
@patrickhadfield @TheBreadmonkey
The dog gets them bits
Disisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸@TheBreadmonkey "no braaaain" jajajaja
A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSCAs a former drummer... can relate
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@Anomnomnomaly @TheBreadmonkey Former drummer? I thought drummers were like Marines: once you're one, you're always one.
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.
@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/
Big Vimto@TheBreadmonkey Even better if I imagine your brain is saying "Ben! Ben!" instead of "Boom! Bam!"
@TheBreadmonkey but sometimes drummers have to read the music. I can't sight read - it's definitely an issue!
LIΞBΔCH@TheBreadmonkey That drummer is https://www.youtube.com/@ElEsteparioSiberiano, it is a very entertaining channel.
cobalt@liebach enlightening and enjoyable, means even more if you’ve ever hear Tool or APC live.
IrishMASMS@liebach @cobalt123 his band is really good as well IMHO
Phil Haigh@TheBreadmonkey reminds me the line from Top Gun - “if you think - you’re dead” - or in this case, “if you think - you’re coming in late”
Parade du Grotesque 💀Drummer no brain! Never brain! 😂
sebulon@TheBreadmonkey
Unless you're the drummer of Meshuggah- then it's all brain *and* pain! 😅
Meshuggah - Bleed - Tomas Haake - Wincent Drumsticks
StuartB@TheBreadmonkey You haven't seen the video where Jorge (also known as El Estapario Siberiano) is playing a different time signature AND a different tempo with each limb, and still ends it on the one!
internetsdairy@TheBreadmonkey hehehe this going straight to my wife
Wildbird@TheBreadmonkey bip, bop, bip, bop, crash, crash - yep sounds like my brain too.
TeflonTrout 
he/him@TheBreadmonkey I'm just here for the beats, the rum, and the ass
Michael Gemar@TeflonTrout @TheBreadmonkey So you’re in the Royal Navy?
@michaelgemar @TheBreadmonkey It was my own fault- a proper gentleman would have noticed the lack of clarity as to who's ass it was going, as it were, to be in the contract
@TeflonTrout @TheBreadmonkey As they say, rum, sodomy, and the lash are what made the Royal Navy.
@TheBreadmonkey the left side/right side split is the trickier thing than the up/down split in my limited experience. Some drummers sing at the same time, of course
inpc@TheBreadmonkey That's brilliant!
Theriac@TheBreadmonkey
boots n cats n boots n cats n
boots n cats n boots n cats n
🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥@TheBreadmonkey Jorge! Love it when he does the polyrhythm videos
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1emLKMDZJ1Q
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1emLKMDZJ1Q
Playing ALL the POLYRHYTHMS at ONCE!
Oliver SchafeldWe learned that in children's TV 😁🥁
The Muppet Show - Buddy Rich vs Animal Drum Battle
FeloniousPunk@oliver_schafeld @blogdiva I’m like Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle
Mike Torr@TheBreadmonkey Yep, this applies to lots of learned skills. You stop thinking after a while. Everyone should realise this! I can name at least four that I happen to have: playing piano, solving Rubik's cube, driving a car, juggling. This is what brains do... why does it surprise anyone? Of course, some people take it to greater heights than usual :)
Michæl La💤@macronencer @TheBreadmonkey
A Swing dance teacher once told me a Zen quote:
"Enter through form. Exit from form."
But I can't find a source online, so maybe he just made it up himself.
(The context was a lesson on musicality.)
@mlazz @TheBreadmonkey Made up or not, it sounds right!
cognitively accessible math@macronencer @TheBreadmonkey automaticity and motor memory ;)
And different people take different paths.
I smiled a lot watching that.
And different people take different paths.
I smiled a lot watching that.
Mark Stosberg@TheBreadmonkey Jugglers have joined the chat.
viq@markstos @TheBreadmonkey are there juggler drummers? 🤔
@viq @TheBreadmonkey I’ve drummed while juggling. It wasn’t pretty.
DamonHD
Twotired
Momo@TheBreadmonkey
My sons drum teacher says when he plays his lessions, he's concentrated in doing precise hits at first. And then there is this shutter... it goes through him like a wave and suddenly he just starts playing as if his brain completely shut down and the body took over.
I agree: Good drummer no brain. Never brain.
Not just drumming.