Winds/strings have chord charts or scores in jazz and rock, and classical music uses scores for drums and percussion. How do jazz and rock drummers and percussionists chart their parts so that they play the same way each time a song is performed? I’m especially interested for prog rock, where the drum parts can be very detailed and intricate.
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They don’t. Not always. There’s lots of mistakes.
But so long as they’re sharp on the transitions — the signals to the other musicians or the signals from other musicians they have to follow — it all sounds just as if it was perfectly planned and executed.
(Same for guitar players; bass players; keyboards; vocalists: mistake happen but you get really good and just moving on!!!)
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