Chords for Drums - Trailer - Billy Martin's Life on Drums

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Good musicians with a good sense of time don't have to imply it.
They have it internally.
Right.
So everybody shares that internal sense of time and pulse.
Even when they're not playing.
Right.
So no one has to be playing, banging out the time. _ _ _ _
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_ _ That's really what I try to do with you is to get you to be able to use your hands in
a manner that was pleasing to yourself, that felt good, that would be [N] able to let you express yourself. _ _ _ _
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There's definitely some things you pass [G] on to me that obviously is coming from Joe, a
certain kind of _ _ _ relaxed technique that I often [E]
get comments on all the time.
_ What I tell my students is that, you know, just, you know, you can play for a [N] minute
or five minutes.
Whenever you sit down on your drums, the first thing before warming up or anything is play a solo.
I mean, don't kill yourself, but play a solo.
And it could be, you know, just start to check the sounds of the drums and follow that.
There's no, you don't have to think, what is this going to be?
You can just start and be in the moment and take it from there.
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_ _ Frankie Malabey was _ a Congo player, Afro-Caribbean [Eb] percussionist, and he taught me things like
the merengue and the [D] wawanko and all these things that were more folkloric. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ I really was into [Em] _ [C] composition and trying to use what I knew about percussion [N] and try to
express myself that way.
_ _ You can't develop quickly as a young person without life experience.
You can't sit in a room and just practice _ [D] something without [Eb] putting your life experience into [Em] it. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ Sometimes I talk about [A] visualizing things like, or some kind of simple concept without
[G] thinking about, well, what is this solo [B] going to be? _
Two or more rhythms together, played together, gives you a feeling.
Now if you [Eb] add more rhythms, it's going to [A] change the feeling. _ _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ I love the word jazz because it's kind of abstract, actually, and it doesn't mean one thing.
But free jazz is even more open.
That means to me that anything can be expressed in a musical context. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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This is another [Eb] extension of [Gbm] _ [Ab] a drummer's style, [A] is how they tune the [Eb] drums and what sounds
they choose [E] around them to play.
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