Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!aplcen!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!CLEMSON!DCODESP From: DCODESP@CLEMSON.BITNET (Dan Codespoti Minstrel) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic Subject: Re: Peart, Vinnie, and Dave... Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 90 16:58:00 GMT Sender: Discussions on all forms of Music Reply-To: Discussions on all forms of Music Lines: 17 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway If a percussionist CAN'T play xylophone, wind-chimes, marimba, or half a dozen other things that have more to do w/ keyboard than "white noise" instruments they don't stay percussionists very long... think about it...when someone hires a musician for studio work, they don't hire a drummer, or a sax player... they hire a "percusionist" - someone that can play all common percussion instruments including bells, xylophone, marimba, etc. when they hire a "sax", they hire a wind player....that means the person can play at least 4 different saxes, plus flute, usually oboe, english horn, maybe piccolo, and bassoon.... I thought about being a studio musician, but I really felt like I wasn't gifted enough to do it well..those people really are gifted...know what sight-reading is?? they do it for a living....I had a prof in high-school who could play almost everything, and has played studio work....he was excellent....as a matter of fact, he is the Band DIrector at U of Minn last I heard........ I have done a very tiny bit of studio work..for the university....*very* minor.. . it's fun, but not easy...... Minstrel.