More Eli Drumming

The boy is in the zone. Seriously. He has the goofy facial expressions. He closes his eyes. It's fun fun fun to watch. (He does this sometimes while playing guitar, but mostly while he plays drums.) He watches everything Lehr does, as well as everything he sees any drummer do, and replicates it. And Maddux? She does everything Eli does!

Here is a short video of Eli jamming to Satallites and Sirens and the ever-faithful Kings of Leon. He doesn't quite have the tempo down, but if you watch closely, you can see taht he is really paying attention to the music. When there are no drums, Eli knows and anticipates this. And when the music changes and the drummer uses a different beat (pattern??), Eli does the same by changing his hand position. (Keep in mind I know NOTHING about percussion, so my observations are just from watching and listening to him...excuse my lack of jargon!)

2010 01 Eli Drum from Nicole Eliason on Vimeo.