There are reminders, and then there are painful reminders. I was on the receiving end of a most-unpleasant reminder recently concerning what I don’t like, and I thought it would be useful to pivot the negative experience into a teachable moment. The purpose of this month’s column is to spark conversation between the drummers who read this and their musical colleagues. Hence the title, “What Drummers Don’t Like.” Please share this with your immediate circle of musician friends, engineers, fans, and drum companies. For the sake of clarity, I will list these dislikes numerically but in no particular order. 1. We do not like gimmick-sound clicks like cowbells or cross-sticks when recording. The industry-standard for a headphone click (that metronome musicians listen to when recording) is the UREI (pronounced “your-E” with an emphasis on the first syllable). “UREI” is an acronym for United Recording Electronics Industries. They were a manufacturer […]

November 2022 Issue