I play drums for my own noodling pleasure, don't consider myself a drummer. you can drum all the time. I mean, drummers do. tapping fingers, feet, counting. drummer for the Boston Symphony says he always counts as he walks down the street, almost all the time. this pungent reverie inspired by the news that Elvin Jones is doing poorly. jazz drumming goes way beyond my own possibilities but I love Jones. I saw a tv show about Coltrane and Jones is saying that Coltrane was a GOD, and he had this awed expression as he said it. funny, for that kind of awe you expect from a knucklehead fan like me, not someone who has a certain share of godhead himself.