Somehow, in the last few weeks, Nigel has found his mojo and come out of his shell in many ways. One of these is his sudden affinity for playing the drums. We've had this set in the house for nearly a year now, and he's always complained when anyone played them. We always keep a couple sets of air-traffic-controller headphones nearby for that reason.
However, Elissa called me the other day while I was in Alaska to let me hear this: he's taken to drumming all of a sudden, getting the kick-and-hi-hats going with both legs working in opposite rhythm, and playing this clackety polyrhythm with the sticks on top. It's a pretty cool, sort of loose Meters-style funky beat.
I don't know where he gets this. I certainly can't play the drums to save my life. We think the independent limb coordination might come from his apparent left-handedness, which I've heard creates a more ambidextrous person than those of us who are so totally right-handed that the other hand really does little more than providing balance and aesthetic symmetry (like myself).
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