Drummer's Insight
The Meta Pursuit of
Musicianship and Meaning
Although playing the drumset involves more of the body than most other instruments, it would be a mistake to assume that it takes less of the other parts. This writing focuses on building the connection between our cognitive and experiential faculties as they intersect with both the immediate and long term processes of learning, creating, and improvising.
In the following essays, we’ll take an ontological and epistemological look at playing the drumset in light of our internal and external aspects, while empowering ourselves to close the gap between them. We’ll explore our role in that important process through themes implicitly in line with Buddhist philosophy and research in contemporary cognitive neuroscience.
But this is no critical analysis of the mystical attributes of drumming. The reader should expect to look deep within themselves, for here and only here is where answers lie.
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In the following essays, we’ll take an ontological and epistemological look at playing the drumset in light of our internal and external aspects, while empowering ourselves to close the gap between them. We’ll explore our role in that important process through themes implicitly in line with Buddhist philosophy and research in contemporary cognitive neuroscience.
But this is no critical analysis of the mystical attributes of drumming. The reader should expect to look deep within themselves, for here and only here is where answers lie.
Select a chapter below or use the navigation pane above left:
It is my belief that each one of us is determined, through great personal effort, to bring together the complex parts of whom we are in the pursuit of musical truths. For it is nothing less than this harmonious and ragtag collection of self that we summon and present to the musical moment.
Brett F. Campbell - 2021
Brett F. Campbell - 2021
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