| Show 7 r. r i I Ii Bernard Bartons Barton's Playing I of I Instrument Gives True Rating I New York City Thou City Though h the drum trum is ordinarily relegated to the lack ack of the orchestra there ar or ar some Fome super drummers who I L ling ing it to the fore Bernard Thu ton manager of tho n eedo Meyer Meer Orchestra Orchestra Or Or- chestra hestra is 15 one great musician who is a 1 drummer I 1 I Thou Though h the basis of our music music- Is its the African drum the drum has hu rot not been de developed as have th other instruments in the band Marton apologizes for his medium Yet the tom tom-tom lent beat of f the drums from tribe to trio trill In Jn Africa lira bas tn male te th h hi bai i U fo Th xu wP t h ha t I v.- v. so tl t 1 I 04 I Musicians as ns a 1 rule do d not take tako the drum seriously and it is only I on rare occasions that one pets the tho musical value out of tho in In- In I strument Yet it would not bo be bopo po possible to have a dance orchestra without a drum although any I other instrument might be substituted substituted substituted for it Drum beats are the teeth of the band nd I Mr Barton Darton his studied the druin drum dru in ill lands he ho In Haiti many sa says n natives often drop from flom exhaustion exhaustion tion tri l trying to keep up with ther the tho I r rhythm of their elongated torn tom to torn tom II Many fany pf of our most popular tu es are real drum numbers and am surprised eJ that more leaders t t I take advantage nl of the pos pos- ites of cf the he Instrument V nuts nut's tile the Use the fox tax trot troth h ballad that Is s p It nn an I sung n I U is f. f I of of t o il-o h kind of If I iw- iw If |
