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Matte Kudasai, in Japanese, literally means “Wait, please” or “Please wait for me”. Adrian Belew’s beautiful song was a moment of calm in what was usually the whirlpool of a King Crimson show. Time to kick back and listen to the poignant, melancholy lyrics that Belew was so good at. The Simmons hi-hat chirps away on the up beat, sidestick reliably on two and four; the slide guitar is surrounded by guitarist Fripp’s comfortable arpeggios, and for a few minutes, all is well with the world. “When, when was a night so long / Long, like the notes I’m sending…” We all have choices. All drummers have four levers of control: temporal, metrical, dynamical and timbral. The way they choose to pull and push on those levers gives the player a different sounding voice and an identifiable style. Style seems to be an individual thing; the way an individual goes about doing things, in my case, on a drum kit. Allan Moore has called it a ‘patterning of sonic decisions’. Most drummers try to develop a style, of more or le
