I notice a lot of the drummers here are either old school (jazz and such) or metal heads. Not that anything's wrong with that. It just reminds me a lot of the drummers I know in real life. Just wondering if there are any drummers here that play ska. Personally, it's my favorite kind of music to play. Just curious to see if anyone else likes ska drumming too.








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Right now my primary gig is roots reggae. Not ska, but it's all the same family.








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i'm a fan of ska drumming, especially like the Skatalites. i like some newer stuff too.
i played in a ska band for a while. a christian ska band...which was kind of bogus because our trumpet player was an in-closet lesbian and our vocalist was banging our guitarist and our keyboardist along with a revolving door of other musicians.

but that said, yes. i'm a ska fan.








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Pearls, Zildjians, Vics, Evans.

I love some of the stuff that has spawn from the early ska and dub roots..

Op Ivy had great stuff, citizen Fish, the Specials..even the Clash blended that dub feel into a lot their stuff

and it's funny how each of those bands drummers all had very different style, ranging from punk to jazzy to very straight forward.

I can't say i like much of what came out of the 90's ska revival because it was all so poppy and bubble gum..

but none the less, generally those bands had great drummers...

lots of very fast 4 and 4 with that alternating hh...








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i love ska
but ya i also love metal jazz blues funk and rock

but yes ska kicks ass








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I'm currently drumming in a ska/punk, alternative band and I love it. The drumming is so energetic and the overall style is just really catchy.








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x_dont_even_ask_x wrote:

I'm currently drumming in a ska/punk, alternative band and I love it. The drumming is so energetic and the overall style is just really catchy.

ska is some good stuff....damnit you got me listening to voodoo glowskulls....(I know, not really ska-ska...but ska enough...those dudes are great)








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i havent drummed to some ska ina minute... i like jersey ska like Catch 22 ooo and the drummer from Streetlight Manifesto taught me everything i know about drum corp. hybrid rudiments... yea i know you dont care.








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There's the "oldschool" guys and the younger guys. Then there's people like myself who don't really fit in to any of those brackets. I'm both a codger and a youngster. Dangerous for both camps, I suppose.

Whether you categorize your certain brand of drumming as Ska, Punk, Metal, Extreme, etc. it all involves swinging sticks and hitting things in a rhythmic manner.

Ska has the "skank" rhythm (pushing the upbeat out front like the hook on a sawblade). It's an urgency thing that drives the music.

So some of us may relegate our "feel" now and again to the back note of a triplet...doesn't mean we don't know what's up. I'm just as content to do that, because I know that something different always lurks around the corner!!








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BillRayDrums wrote:

There's the "oldschool" guys and the younger guys. Then there's people like myself who don't really fit in to any of those brackets. I'm both a codger and a youngster. Dangerous for both camps, I suppose.

Whether you categorize your certain brand of drumming as Ska, Punk, Metal, Extreme, etc. it all involves swinging sticks and hitting things in a rhythmic manner.

Ska has the "skank" rhythm (pushing the upbeat out front like the hook on a sawblade). It's an urgency thing that drives the music.

So some of us may relegate our "feel" now and again to the back note of a triplet...doesn't mean we don't know what's up. I'm just as content to do that, because I know that something different always lurks around the corner!!

bill, dude....... I'm reading this post of yours and trying to avoid calling this a "defensive position"....








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i love ska drummers.

My only problem with Ska is that it gets old after a while
Like punk or metal
Not a lot of variance
Of course, you can point to the different flavors but it all goes back to the same style of drumming
Kinda like rockabilly/psychobilly etc...








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dwtoast72 wrote:

BillRayDrums wrote:

There's the "oldschool" guys and the younger guys. Then there's people like myself who don't really fit in to any of those brackets. I'm both a codger and a youngster. Dangerous for both camps, I suppose.

Whether you categorize your certain brand of drumming as Ska, Punk, Metal, Extreme, etc. it all involves swinging sticks and hitting things in a rhythmic manner.

Ska has the "skank" rhythm (pushing the upbeat out front like the hook on a sawblade). It's an urgency thing that drives the music.

So some of us may relegate our "feel" now and again to the back note of a triplet...doesn't mean we don't know what's up. I'm just as content to do that, because I know that something different always lurks around the corner!!

bill, dude....... I'm reading this post of yours and trying to avoid calling this a "defensive position"....

No defense at all. Just illustrating a point.








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I like to jam with friend who play all kinds of stuff like reggae, ska, jazzy/funky stuff, and I play some old school metal too.








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I like to jam with friend who play all kinds of stuff like reggae, ska, jazzy/funky stuff, and I play some old school metal too.








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