re: Cech covers Foo Fighters on drums

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Like I said, I'm a drummer. I'm going to pick it apart. He keeps the beat MOST of the time but he does slip occasionally and he doesn't play those hats for shite. He may as well just set them to play closed all the time. If you listen to the song, he isn't even close. He plays zero accents and he hits everything with the same pressure throughout the song. It is like he's reading a tab verbatim.

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I also play drums. Picked it up 11 years ago, and I remember playing like this really early on. He plays extremely stiff as if, as you said, he's reading a tab. He's clearly not someone who has played for very long. I'd imagine he either just picked it up not long ago to learn or he hasn't played much over time. In my opinion, he needs to relax and find a "style" he likes. For example, I'm a big fan of Art Blakey so I got into playing jazz and that sort of thing. From learning to be better at my own thing, it made playing other people's shite so much easier. It's really just getting comfortable with where your hands are going without overthinking it.