Drummer

Individual drummers can have very different setups for their

kits.

A drummer is a person who plays drums, particularly a drum kit

("drum set" or "trap set", which will also include cymbals),
marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist
applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument,
but usually refers to one who plays classical or Latin percussion.
Most bands for Rock, Pop, Jazz, R&B etc. include a drummer in
their lineup, who conveys the rhythm of the music by using the
drums of the drum kit to play the beat of the song, which is
repeated in every bar, with added drum fills, particularly just
before changes in the song.

Some such drummers are session musicians and are not fixed to a
particular band, working with various musical acts. Though
percussion notation is some times used, many drummers create
and memorise the drum beats themselves without songwriting
credit. Drum beats vary in speed, volume and complexity
depending on the genre of music, but are normally designed to lay
down the rhythm and drive the music along. Drummers usually
work with a bassist to make up a rhythm section.
Drummers in the military
Before motorized transport became widespread, drummers
played a key role in military conflicts. The drum cadences
provided set a steady marching pace, better than often
accompanying wind instruments such as flutes (signal instruments
such as bugles have another primary function), and kept up the
troops' morale on the battlefield. Military drummers were also
employed on the parade field, when troops passed in review, and
in various ceremonies including ominous drum rolls accompanying
disciplinary punishments. In some cases drummers had the duty
of administering those punishments.

Drummers are no longer employed in battle, but their ceremonial

duties continue. Typically the buglers and drummers belonging to
the companies (which often have one of each) are massed under
the sergeant-drummer and on the march play alternately with the
band of a regiment or battalion.

Even more than in Europe (and its (ex-)colonies), military music

was a well-established tradition in the Orient. When Emir Osman
I was appointed commander of the Turkish army on the Byzantine
border in the late 13th century, he was symbolically installed by
the handover of musical instruments by the Seldjuk sultan. In the
Ottoman Empire, the size of the military band reflected the rank
of the commander in chief: the largest were reserved for the
Sultan (viz. his Grand Vizier when taking the field). It included
various percussion instruments, which also became generally
adopted in European military music (as 'Janissary music' though
until then it was never specifically associated with those Turkish
troops) after the failed siege of Vienna which started a general
Turkish fashion. The pitched bass drum is still known in some
languages as the Turkish Drum. Alternatively, in old English,
Tabert is champion of the people, or great leader, i.e. a great
drummer.

Drummers in parades

A drummer in a parade wearing tribal style clothes

A drummer from The traditional buekorps from Bergen in Norway

Is a genre of marching ensemble descended from it military

drummers and can be arranged as a performance of a drum, a
group of drummers, and as a part of a larger marching band.
Their uniforms will often have a military style and a fancy hat. In
recent times, it is more common to see drummers in parades
wearing costumes with a African, Asian, Latin, Native American,
or tribal look and sound.

Ostinato drumming
An advanced way of performing on the modern drum set , which
involves creating layers of rhythms with each limb. Drummers
such as Grant Collins, Thomas Lang , Danny Carey, Virgil Donati,
Marco Minnemann, Terry Bozzio, and Neil Peart have elevated
this style of drumming to a high level. In Greece the independent
drummer Panos Vassilopoulos[1] on his 2 instructional DVD's
presents this style , using a large multipedal drumkit.

Pocket drumming
Pocket drumming is a playing style that consists of a simple,
solid beat that lacks the flair of flamboyant fills. A
drummer sets a groove so deep that he/she never lets the
tempo waver. This creates a comfortable "pocket" for the
rest of the band to play in. Examples of this style are
Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Charlie Watts of
the Rolling Stones, Phil Rudd of AC/DC, Steve Jordan,
Dennis Chambers, Jeff Porcaro and Steve Gadd. Paul
Barbarin
List of drummer
Adolphe Paul Barbarin (May 5, 1899 – Feb 17, 1969) was a
New Orleans jazz drummer, usually regarded (along with Baby
Dodds) as one of the very best of the pre-Big Band era jazz
drummers.

Paul Barbarin's year of birth is often given as 1901, but his

brother Louis Barbarin (born 1902) said he was quite sure that
Paul was several years older than him, and Paul Barbarin simply
refused to answer the year of his birth in an interview at
Tulane's Jazz Archives.

From the late 1910s on, Barbarin divided his time between
Chicago, New York City and New Orleans, and touring with such
bands as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Luis Russell, Louis
Armstrong, and Henry Red Allen. From the 1950s on he usually led
his own band. He, along with Louis Cottrell, Jr. founded and led
the second incarnation of the Onward Brass Band from 1960 to
1969.

Barbarin was an accomplished and knowledgeable musician, a

member of ASCAP, and the composer of a number of pop tunes
and Dixieland standards, including Come Back Sweet Papa, Don't
Forget To Mess Around (When You're Doing The Charleston),
Bourbon Street Parade, and (Paul Barbarin's) Second Line.

Paul Barbarin died on February 17, 1969 while playing a New

Orleans Mardi Gras parade.
Terry Bozzio
Terry John Bozzio (December 27, 1950) is an American drummer
best known for his work with Missing Persons and the late Frank
Zappa.

Biography
Terry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco,
California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets of
various materials such as coffee cans, broken arrow sticks, and
crumpled high voltage signs playing to the records of Tito Puente
and the "Surf Drum" music of Sandy Nelson and The Ventures. At
the age of 13 he witnessed The Beatles premier performance on
The Ed Sullivan Show, and begged his father for drum lessons.
During this time he played in the garage bands Blue Grass Radio,
The Yarde, and Tamalpaias Jungle Mountain Boys.

In 1968 Bozzio attended Sir Francis Drake High School in San

Anselmo, California and later went on to the College of Marin.
During this time he studied concurrently with Chuck Brown on the
drum set and Lloyd Davis and Roland Kohloff on percussion and
timpani scholarship. He also played Bartok-Dahl-Cowell & Baroque
chamber ensembles with the Marin and Napa County Symphonies.

In 1972 Terry played in the rock musicals Godspell and Walking in

my Time. He also began playing in local jazz groups with Mark
Isham, Peter Maunu, Patrick O'Hearn, Mike Knock, Art Lande,
Azteca, Eddie Henderson, Woodie Shaw, Julian Priester, Eric
Gravatt, Billy Higgins, Andy Narell, Hadley Calliman, Mel Graves,
and Mel Martin. He became a regular in the Monday Night Jim
Dukey Big Band at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall.

He recorded and toured with Frank Zappa beginning in 1975, and

appeared in the concert movie Baby Snakes. He is noted for
performing Zappa's "The Black Page", a piece of music designed
to be a "musician's nightmare" a page so filled with notes as to be
almost black.

In 1977 he joined The Brecker Brothers with long time San

Francisco friend and guitarist Barry Finnerty. With The Brecker
Brothers, Bozzio toured and recorded the album "Heavy Metal
Be-Bop." Shortly after, Terry was dismissed from Zappa as he
joined Group 87 with Mark Isham, Peter Maunu, Patrick O'Hearn
and Peter Wolf. The group auditioned for and got a record deal
with CBS, wherein Bozzio declined membership in the group and
then auditioned unsuccessfully for Thin Lizzy.

In 1979 he joined the band UK with Eddie Jobson and John

Wetton, replacing Bill Bruford & Alan Holdsworth. They record
Danger Money and Night After Night and tour the US twice
(supporting Jethro Tull), as well as Europe and Japan. Bozzio then
quits UK to form the band Missing Persons with ex-Zappa
guitarist Warren Cuccurullo and then-wife and vocalist Dale
Bozzio. Missing Persons released the albums Spring Session M (in
which they received a Gold Record), Rhyme & Reason, and Color in
Your Life. They also toured US & Europe and appeared in
numerous TV and Radio shows.

After disbanding Missing Persons in 1986, Terry joined up with

ex-Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor for his solo band. He can
be seen in a couple videos from that period. He also played on
sessions with Robbie Robertson, Gary Wright, Don Dokken, XYZ,
Paul Hyde, Herbie Hancock, Dweezil Zappa, and Richard Marx.
During this time he also began touring as a clinician/solo drummer
and recorded "Solo Drums" which was his first instructional video
for WB. Bozzio also joined Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck to make
the video Throwaway, and later teamed up with Beck &
keyboardist Tony Hymas to co-write/produce and perform on the
Grammy Award winning album Guitar Shop.

In 1988 Bozzio married Ev Kvamme and in 1990 was the birth of

his firstborn son Raanen Bozzio.

Between the years of 1990-1995 Terry developed ostinato-based

drum solo compositions and recorded his second instructional
video Melodic Drumming and the Ostinato Volumes 1, 2, and 3, as
well as Solo Drum Music Volumes 1 & 2 on CD. He also joined Tony
Hymas, Toney Coe, and Hugh Burns to form the band Lonely Bears
and record The Lonely Bears, Injustice, and The Bears are
Running, while living off and on in Paris, France. He also formed
the band Polytown with David Torn and Mick Karn.

From 1995-2002 Bozzio did numerous tours of the US, Australia,

Canada & Europe as a solo drum artist as well as recording two
solo CDs: Drawing the Circle and Chamberworks. He also teamed
up with Chad Wackerman to produce the Duets video and
Alternative Duets CDs. Bozzio was inducted into the Modern
Drummer "Hall of Fame" and won the Clinician of the Year award
twice as well as Drum Magazine's Drummer of the Year and Best
Clinician. Internationally, her received Schlagwerkrant
Magazine's (Germany) and Player Magazine's (Japan) Best
Drummer Award.

In summer of 2005 Bozzio filled in for Dave Lombardo in

Fantômas for their European tour.[citation needed] Bozzio was inducted
into Guitar Center's RockWalk in Hollywood on January 17, 2007[1]
along with rock and roll icons Ronnie James Dio and Slash. Bozzio
also worked with the nu-metal band Korn on their 8th studio
album after the departure of their drummer David Silveria. He
was scheduled to also play on the road with the band during the
Family Values Tour, but he left the group and was replaced by
Joey Jordison of Slipknot and later Ray Luzier.

Terry Bozzio is currently the Artist in Residence for the online

drumming community website, http://www.drumchannel.com

Musical innovation

Terry Bozzio performing live with the SS Bozzio.

Like Hall of Fame drummer Gary Chester, Bozzio is noted for

creating the melodic ostinato for the drum set.[citation needed] In most
of Bozzio’s works, the ostinato is played using various bass drum
and hi-hat permutations while he solos against these rhythms
using his hands. Sometimes (often in the same composition) the
opposite is true, where he will hold an ostinato pattern with his
hands and solo with his feet. Like Chester, Bozzio developed the
application for the melodic ostinato for drum set when he noticed
how a pianist would solo or play counter rhythms against the
ostinato or pedal point. He then applied this concept to the drum
set.[citation needed]
Bozzio is also noted for creating orchestral compositions on the
drum set by playing polyrhythms and metric modulations[citation needed]
while utilizing his large custom kit (sometimes nicknamed "SS
Bozzio"), in which the tom toms are tuned to specific notes to
create the atmosphere that is Bozzio’s signature sound. Terry
Bozzio’s influence has been seen in some of the most prominent
drummers of today including Marco Minnemann, Thomas Lang,
Mike Mangini and Chris Utter.

Terry Bozzio currently endorses Drum Workshop drums, Sabian

cymbals, Vic Firth sticks and Attack drum heads, all of which
have special custom lines designed for him. In fact, his cymbals
were designed from the ground up by Bozzio himself, including a
completely different kind of lathing method. Terry is known to
use various white noise cymbal pairings, where he stacks multiple
crashes and/or china cymbals to create atypical sounds. This idea
may have arisen from Zappa's abhorrence of loud cymbals, so to
satisfy his boss, he cut large chunks out of his cymbals, which
created a "swooshy", and more trashy sound. This is seen in the
Baby Snakes movie in prominence. The "SS Bozzio" is often just
as amazing, to onlookers of his performances, as the drummer
himself. His kit has evolved from a fairly standard large drum
set, akin to that of Neil Peart, including various sound effects
and the standard drum arrangements, to his current setup which
includes more than 10 pedals to operate various percussion
devices and dozens of drums to achieve his melodic drum parts.