The 10 best pop/session drummers in the world right now

[JazzDrummer]

Who the hell are these guys?

http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums...ght-now-631530

[Scrotum Scissor]

Who the hell are these guys?

Oh, they're the 10 best pop/session drummers in the world right now. Takes a truly creative virtuoso to play with One Direction n'stuff.

[Phlakaton]

Matt Chamberlain gets a nod from me.

[Baribrotzer]

They're also mostly British, and were compiled by a British magazine from a readers' poll. So you don't see Jim Keltner or Vinnie Colaiuta or Steve Jordan. Indeed, Matt Chamberlain is the only one I recognize.

Takes a truly creative virtuoso to play with One Direction n'stuff.

It actually may. They're having to duplicate, live, something that typically was programmed on a drum machine, and duplicate it exactly note-for-note every night - because the hits must sound like the hits. (Beyonce's band has two kit drummers for that very reason, to duplicate drum-machine parts not playable by one person.) They're also having to play something simple and dumb perfectly. That takes ability - a very different kind of ability from playing jazz well, but ability nonetheless.

[Scrotum Scissor]

It actually may. They're having to duplicate, live, something that typically was programmed on a drum machine, and duplicate it exactly note-for-note every night - because the hits must sound like the hits.

Absolutely true, and a rather obvious point that I myself ignored here.

[Phlakaton]

They're also mostly British, and were compiled by a British magazine from a readers' poll. So you don't see Jim Keltner or Vinnie Colaiuta or Steve Jordan. Indeed, Matt Chamberlain is the only one I recognize.

It actually may. They're having to duplicate, live, something that typically was programmed on a drum machine, and duplicate it exactly note-for-note every night - because the hits must sound like the hits. (Beyonce's band has two kit drummers for that very reason, to duplicate drum-machine parts not playable by one person.) They're also having to play something simple and dumb perfectly. That takes ability - a very different kind of ability from playing jazz well, but ability nonetheless.

That's why I dig the guys who've played with Prince and Madonna... gotta be a human metronome - but with pocket and groove. Rod Morgenstein once told me the hardest thing he ever did was learn to play Winger songs... haha. Too easy - yet so hard for a player who likes lots of little notes. :P

[Zeuhlmate]

Problem is not to get bored so you lose the concentration.

[Drake]

If Chad Wackermann's not there, it's all lies.