[Tokzic]

Originally Posted by Afrobean

several paragraphs of nitpicking my use of the word "drum"

oh sorry

*playing drums (that is, the musical instrument)

are you happy now

Yes, you can call it drumming, but you can also call tapping a table to a rhythm drumming. The fact remains that it is only a simulation of playing the drums. If you were to go to a real kit and try to play a song from Rock Band on it without any prior experience, you would not be able to. Hitting the crash, for example, is not simply a basic stroke - you have to angle your stick such that it hits both the cymbal edge and the inside, or else you get a wussy noise. Rock Band also doesn't take into account the high hat pedal for open splashes or foot pulses (which is almost universally ignored at least once per song), and rolls, accents, double bass, ghost notes, special strokes, or unique hits (e.g. hitting rims) are impossible.

But that's to be expected. It's a simulation.