The fact is that music school helps you get connections- but I never went to school and I've been fortunate enough to know a lot of Wynton Marsalis's bandmembers. So, it doesn't mean everything. You still have to find your way around AFTER music sch…
But I do think that any drummer who has gone though a "school of drums" so to speak will have a certain element of genericism, unless he's been playing for a long enough time and has explored the instrument enough to add his own things on top of wha…
I think I can find a better way of putting it. When we have on one side people who have gone through four years of Berklee, we get a product of, "play everything on the score, and have the technique that BERKLEE says to have." On the other hand, tak…