MUSIC All around the beat: the essential drummer*

Drummers are not always accorded the greatest respect by other musicians. Indeed, there is an entire genre of drummer jokes – most of which are entirely inappropriate in a family magazine, so I shall refrain from telling them. Well, perhaps one. “How do you know it is a drummer knocking on your door delivering your pizza? Because he slows down, of course.” In one sense, drummers are more restricted than other musicians, which is the reason for the jokes at their expense….

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