{"id":33053,"date":"2015-10-07T02:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33053"},"modified":"2015-10-04T23:16:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T03:16:31","slug":"drummers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/drummers\/","title":{"rendered":"Drummers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone who knows musicians has heard at least a few drummer jokes. Open Culture<\/em><\/a> attempts to put a bit of science into the casual abuse drummers have been subjected to over the years:<\/p>\n

An old musician\u2019s joke goes \u201cthere are three kinds of drummers in the world \u2014 those who can count and those who can\u2019t.\u201d But perhaps there is an even more global divide. Perhaps there are three kinds of people in the world \u2014 those who can drum and those who can\u2019t. Perhaps, as the promotional video above from GE suggests, drummers have fundamentally different brains than the rest of us. Today we highlight the scientific research into drummers\u2019 brains, an expanding area of neuroscience and psychology that disproves a host of dumb drummer jokes.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrummers,\u201d writes Jordan Taylor Sloan at Mic, \u201ccan actually be smarter than their less rhythmically-focused bandmates.\u201d This according to the findings of a Swedish study (Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm) which shows \u201ca link between intelligence, good timing and the part of the brain used for problem-solving.\u201d As Gary Cleland puts it in The Telegraph<\/em>, drummers \u201cmight actually be natural intellectuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neuroscientist David Eagleman, a renaissance researcher The New Yorker<\/em> calls \u201ca man obsessed with time,\u201d found this out in an experiment he conducted with various professional drummers at Brian Eno\u2019s studio. It was Eno who theorized that drummers have a unique mental makeup, and it turns out \u201cEno was right: drummers do have different brains from the rest.\u201d Eagleman\u2019s test showed \u201ca huge statistical difference between the drummers\u2019 timing and that of test subjects.\u201d Says Eagleman, \u201cNow we know that there is something anatomically different about them.\u201d Their ability to keep time gives them an intuitive understanding of the rhythmic patterns they perceive all around them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone who knows musicians has heard at least a few drummer jokes. Open Culture attempts to put a bit of science into the casual abuse drummers have been subjected to over the years: An old musician\u2019s joke goes \u201cthere are three kinds of drummers in the world \u2014 those who can count and those who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16],"tags":[200,139],"class_list":["post-33053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-science","tag-music","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2hpV6-drummers","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33054,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33053\/revisions\/33054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}