The Italian Job - Drumming Perspectives (English Version)

By Ritmo Italiano

You don't write about drums. You don't talk about drums.

The Drums, maybe, like any other musical instrument, should only be played. "Experience it" would be the right expression, in a constant exercise of dedication, commitment, trial and testing. Five drum veteran-friends who have stripped themselves in order to share some of their musical experience acquired through the years in the field. Five unpublished play-alongs (purchasable individually or as a whole) interpreted by these prominent musicians according to their "trademark", with their own unmistakable sound. "Pizza Funk" a single track - (free download) - where each one shows their own rhythmic and expressive uniqueness. An idea that was born from the pleasure of narrating a way of understanding and living music all round Italian. A "Made in Italy" rhythm, a country that has always nourished itself of art.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Youcanprint
• Release date: Aug 30, 2023
• ISBN: 9791221481969

Book preview

INTRODUCTION

by Eugenio Mori

You don’t write about drums.

You don’t talk about drums.

The Drums, maybe, like any other musical instrument, should only be played…. studied and played. Experience it would be the right expression, in a constant exercise of dedication, commitment, trial and testing, … Getting into the game (Mettendosi in gioco), because as we all know, in many languages (such as in French, English and German) it has to do with playing and it’s a great suggestion for the attitude that you must keep and preserve whenever it is chosen - fate or consciously - to undertake the journey to study a musical instrument.

Here we meet five drum veterans, five musicians who - each with their own education, background, personal world - strip themselves (and, precisely, in the game) by sharing and passing down some of their experience that they have acquired in the years on stage (or in their musical rehearsal room or in recording studios).

Each of them have their own trademark, their own unique unmistakable sound, one’s own matrix, fruit of a magical combination of infinite factors that transmit a fundamental summary right from the start: we can all learn something from everyone (and it’s very important), but we all need to find our own way (musical or otherwise) because playing is not a simple exercise in style, but it’s telling a story: life and soul. As the subtitle says, it’s a question of perspectives, points of view, of eyes that look at the same thing (the same music scene) in a completely different way. And, as a matter of fact this book or method or manual (call it as you wish) offers multiple starting points, it involves five Italian drummers (Lele Boria, Eugenio Mori, Alex Battini de Barreiro, Giorgio di Tullio and Maxx Furian) with a different personal and musical history, brought together by their friendship, a healthy passion for rhythm, for the drums and especially from an identical educational root: the school of Maestro Enrico Lucchini.

So, think….at the root there is basically one Maestro - the same identical Maestro - that transmits and teaches the same things to five Students who learn, and over time process in a completely different way, forging a musical personality and not, that makes them UNIQUE. Unique in the richest sense of the term has little to do with any ranking in which one excels beyond the others, but where each one is unrepeatable and bearer of a heritage that has no equal, therefore enriching for everyone.

The main element of the text is an unpublished song reread and re-interpreted by each of them according to their own personal stylistic mark. Clearly none of them confronted each other before expressing themselves freely, precisely to avoid an inevitable conditioning or misdirection of intent.

The result - from the listening and reading of the drawn-up notes technical and not - is a matching of pieces that offers infinite colors in a musical framework of equal origin, but infinitely rich of nuances and shades.

The five drumming personalities assume even more precise features in the song chosen independently. Chosen for taste, for affinity, for pure pleasure of interpretation. Nothing new, but always surprising for those who