Well, if you take for instance, listening to a song on the radio such as incubus's stuff, or hearing system of a down's earlier stuff, and then being able to play that *by ear* accurately on the drums, then yes.
and I know drummers who have been playing for a decade; they listened to me do it, we checked the drumtabs/charts and found it to be accurate, so yes, i wasn't just thinking it was accurate.
if you'd like, I can do a demo of me playing just random patterns, rolls, etc. and you can see if i know how to play drums decently or not.
Plus, i still don't get how it's so hard to realize that playing DM *teaches* you patterns which you can then break apart, combine, speed up, slow down, change the pace of, etc.
Take for instance Newspaper. You can get the basic pattern in that, add in drum hits (which i do on a lot of songs, actually to make it sound more interesting) or take out certain ones when you're playing on your own to make a different pattern. |