The Work of Playing (Marching For the Mind)

Timing is everything.

I am always amazed at drummers that keep both good time and play melodically. This relies on everyone meshing rhythmically. Most audiences tend to focus on the singer and are hypersensitive to pitch accuracy, but in bands where there is a kit drummer and/or percussionist, it is the architecture for the music--yet those players are mostly invisible. (In the early days of