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This is a list of notable drummers that meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for inclusion. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Clyde Austin Stubblefield (April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017) was an American drummer best known for his work with James Brown, with whom he recorded and toured for six years (1965-70). His syncopated drum patterns on Brown's recordings are considered funk standards.
Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 [2] – 7 September 1978) was an English musician who was the drummer for the rock band the Who.Regarded as one of the greatest drummers in the history of rock music, [3] [4] he was noted for his unique style of playing and his eccentric, often self-destructive behaviour.
Early stars of the event in addition to Rabb included: veteran jazz drummer named Art Verdi, the first person to break 1100 single strokes and while using the traditional grip; [5] Jotan Afanador, the first person to regularly perform nearly 1200 single strokes in one minute; [6] Tim Waterson, the first person to score over 1000 single strokes on a bass drum and first identifiable personality ...
Young is seen as the inventor of the disco style of rock drumming [3] (in Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes's "The Love I Lost" from 1973), and is often credited with popularizing four-on-the-floor bass drum beats, and as being the first drummer to make extensive and distinctive use of the hi-hat cymbal throughout the playing time of an R&B song.
The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over the 1900s, influenced by jazz at large and the individual drummers within it. Jazz required a method of playing percussion different from traditional European styles, one that was easily adaptable to the different rhythms of the new genre, fostering the creation of ...
Chris Slade (born Christopher Slade Rees; 30 October 1946) is a Welsh [1] drummer, who is perhaps best known for playing for Manfred Mann's Earth Band from its inception in 1971 to 1978 on eight albums, and AC/DC, for which he drummed from 1989 to 1994 and performed on the 1990 album The Razors Edge.
Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky; February 5, 1929 – March 11, 2019) was an American drummer and session musician, [1] thought to be among the most recorded studio drummers in the music industry, claiming over 35,000 sessions [1] and 6,000 singles. His drumming is featured on 150 US top 10 hits, 40 of which went to number one.