Polyvalent, able to play in all style
and to adapt to machine
•Mike
Portnoy is one
of the leaders of the new generation.
The Rock is still there too, with many
forms, and Igor Cavalera within Sepultura or Lars Ulrich with Metallica continue
the history with an extremist-powerful play and a "muscular" bassdrum
twin pedal.
The drummer still surrounds himself with
accessories according to the style : concert toms, rototoms, bells ; the drums
still keeps beautiful colors.
For some the hour is not always to delicacy
: this is the time of "groove" and watts. The "techno"
music proved that it could impose as a musical kind but all the musics have
not the votes of masses nor the same relations with the record companies...
The drums, as for it, adapts since always
to every new context. Their history is short but eventful and no doubts that
they will be able to evolve with the music of their time.
Besides,
the machine holds today an important place, with the realized progresses regarding
sonorisation and technologies (sequencers, samplers, rhythm boxes...).
Since
several years, the borders stretch to obliterate itself
with
the mix of many trains and the discovery of musics until then less accessible
(musics of East Europe, Africa ...).
Many
styles are created, sometimes the time of a fashion or by a deeper manner, as
the Hip Hop, the Progressive
Rock, the Acid Jazz...
The
drummer transforms his play, sometimes suffering from the constraints of the
progress (one wants the "big sound" and plays less the wire brushes...)
but freing himself from the uniquely rhythmic role where he remained stationed
a long time to exploit his creativity.
Of
course, the acoustic music still live and great drummers like Daniel Humair,
André Ceccarelli or Dennis Chambers contribute to the evolution of the
instrument by the creation of a personal play. The multiplication of the schools
allows hearing excellents drummers, heirs of a one-hundred year history.
