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As a bassist, I'm curious when neuroscientists will think about analyzing the brains of the rest of the rhythm section.

• Cshelton 11y ago
  In my years of jazz band on set, along with different rock groups....I love bassist <3. A good bassist allowed me to go crazy, and if I got off, I knew where to listen to be on...nobody else would even notice. That said, I think it would be pretty similar, the study should have said "anyone who thinks...in time".
• duderific 11y ago
  As a musician and drummer for many years... I am putting myself in the "natural rhythm" camp - I never struggled with keeping time, it came easily and I didn't have to work too hard. Now, actually learning to play a drum set, actually getting the limb separation down, took years and years of practice before I could feel really comfortable. As far as the rest of the rhythm section -- it's the same for any member of the band. You either have it, or you don't. I played with several bass players who didn't have it, and I felt like as the drummer I was working twice as hard as playing with a bass player that did "have it". I knew a bass player who practiced for hours with a metronome, and he could never play an upbeat in the right place. That's something that comes at an intuitive level.
• rrss1122 11y ago
  I share that curiosity. A band works best when the drummer and the bassist are "locked in". I have to imagine that if a neuroscientist were to image the brains of both the drummer and the bassist in a band with a really good rhythm section, their brains would "look" very similar.