What drum has the spookiest sound?
Butchy Fuego: It depends on the style of music. Most drums can sound all different ways. A conga drum wouldn’t do. Some talking drums would work, or a giant giant drum can be very eerie, with very little attack. What’s the sexiest drum? Butchy Fuego: The conga. I’ve been playing a lot of conga lately. My next door neighbor does Wildness so he knows lots of Latin rhythms and we just geek out. It’s a brain-melter. Playing a conga is so different from a kit. You’re just using your hands and there’s all these different ways you can strike the drum. The left hand keeps tempo, and on a kit, your right hand keeps tempo on the hi-hat. So that’s reversed. It’s also much more about syncopation as opposed to just keeping time, which is a rock idea. It’s more fluid sounding. What country would you like to study percussion in? Butchy Fuego: I love Brazilian percussion. I’ve been obsessed with Brazilian rhythms for a long time. Any Latin rhythm, really. Lately most of the stuff I’ve been listening t
