Blog: I Hope Your Ears Bleed

Songs in the Key of Inept

Nov 13, 2009, 7:07am I Hope Your Ears Bleed
This weekend, I visited a church with a ham-fisted drummer. He played busily when the song required a skeletal beat. He ignored song structure and any notion of dynamics with a toothy grin. And just as the chorus of a beautiful hymn prepared to soar, he played an entire bar of gut-wrenching hi-hat fills. Despite the obvious fact that he was new to the instrument, a stranger thought irked me. Something about the clumsy beats was disarming, even appealing. The drummer's mistakes lent the entire affair a [...]
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