Who Are You - Isolated Drums

At first there is just a quick cymbal hit, and then silence. Just wait. The rest of the drums will come soon. It is an isolated track anyways, and there would usually be music there, so yeah. YEEEAAAHHHH! Sorry...

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[Leftyguitarplayer123]

anyone notice the moaning at 1:54 and 2:19

[thankyoupourlavideo]

It's all throughout the track. It's just Keith...being "the greatest "Keith Moon Type" drummer in the fucking world!

[lexy67flc]

But by this time, Keith was an absolute mess, and this was recorded not long before his untimely death. Try listening to anything from Live at Leeds to see how good he REALLY was. And to see just how well The Who played as an ensemble, because that was what it was all about for them - playing as a group, a cohesive unit, and I think they did that better than anyone else out there, and with more passion.

[drummer78]

Fueled on Brandy and cocaine.

[nedmarc]

A good drummer knows when to drum and when to keep silent. He also knows how to get many tones out of his drums. Keith was beyond a good drummer!

[timwho72]

Young man blues isolated drums

[jnuno999]

@lexy67flc i agree with you except i don't think keith was an absolute mess by this time and he drummed pretty good on this song. nothing compared to live at leeds but hey that was back in 1970 they were practicaly at the top of their career with shitloads of energy to give, as they were still young.

[check6ii]

These Premier drums sound GREAT. Nice match w the pAisTe cymbals

[Rownolds77]

This isolated track illustrates ‘Keith Moon style drummer’ perfectly. Thanks so much for posting it!

[Rownolds77]

(Continued, still quoting ‘The New Yorker’) He did keep the beat, and very well, but he did it by every method except the traditional one. … Moon clearly found repetition dull… Everyone else in the band gets to improvise, so why should the drummer be nothing more than a condemned metronome? … It follows from this that the drummer will be playing a line of music, just as, say, the guitarist does, with undulations and crescendos and leaps." quote ends.

[Rownolds77]

(Continued, still quoting ‘The New Yorker’) The filler is the fun stuff, and it could be said, without much exaggeration, that nearly all the fun stuff in drumming takes place in those two empty beats between the end of one phrase and the start of another…Keith Moon ripped all this up. There is no time-out in his drumming…It’s all fun stuff. The first principle of Moon’s drumming was that drummers do not exist to keep the beat. (To be continued)

[Rownolds77]

(Continued, still quoting ‘The New Yorker’) This results in the familiar ‘boom-DA, boom-boom-DA’ sound of most rock drumming. A standard-issue drummer…would keep his 4/4 bet steady …until the end of the …musical …phrase, where …a wordless, two-beat half-bar readies itself for the repeated chorus. In that half-bar, there might be space for a quick roll, or a roll and a triplet, or something fancy with snare and high hat…. (to be continued)

[Rownolds77]

From ‘The New Yorker’ Nov 29, 2010, by James Wood - well worth reading:

“Most rock drummers, ever very good and inventive ones, are timekeepers. There is a space for a fill or a roll ant the end of a musical phrase, but the beat has primacy over the curlicues. In a regular 4/4 bar, the bass drum sounds the first beat, the snare the second, the bass drum again hits the third (often with two eighth notes at this point), and then the snare hits the bar’s final beat. (to be continued)