{"id":27604,"date":"2021-03-31T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=27604"},"modified":"2023-11-20T17:50:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:50:41","slug":"most-important-drummers-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/most-important-drummers-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important Drummers In History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editor\u2019s Note: This article was inspired by a conversation with Dom Famularo at the 2020 Drumeo Festival where he shared his personal list of who he considers the \u2018founding drummers\u2019 who shaped the instrument as we know it today. We wanted to capture this for future generations because every drummer should be familiar with these stories.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We wouldn\u2019t be where we are today without the drummers who came before us. We need to step back to understand how we can go forward. This is why it\u2019s so important to learn about the history of this incredible instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In America, we have forefathers who had the vision of what they wanted America to be. They had a vision of being a land of liberty. A republic. A concept that hadn\u2019t been done before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the same with the drum set. There were visionaries who saw the potential in something that wasn\u2019t there. They were holding a machete in a jungle and cutting a path, not knowing where they were going. They kept fine tuning the process and eventually made a clearing where they could settle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America\u2019s founding fathers – Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin – were the force in the vision of what they saw the country to be. They had a vision that nobody else could see, so they had to sell the idea. They wrote the Declaration of Independence to explain what they were trying to achieve, and it inspired everyone to see the potential in a country people could have control over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we look at the first kit drummers, we can see how they created their own set of rules, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n