From: studiowizard@gmail.com   
      
   I'm very familiar with Gadd's drumming on multiple albums and he's such a   
   fluent player, but NOT a robot.  haha  He's made quite a few "mistakes" on   
   many tracks, yet always musical ones.  I've heard him stop the beat   
   momentarily because the phrase was    
   not going where he intended, or he hit a roadblock and simply stopped for a   
   moment.  I'm sure he spent a lot of time practicing how to get out of tough   
   spots like that.  There's an instructional video where he stops momentarily   
   and the video interviewer    
   asked him about "that spot".  It was funny.  But it was the same thing...   
   super musical and questionable as to whether it would be perceived as a   
   mistake.   
      
   There are lots of examples of great tracks that have little drumming mistakes   
   on.  I grew up listening intently to my favorite drummers and was fascinated   
   when I would hear something starting to go awry then I'd hear the genius way   
   they slipped out of it.   
        
      
   So, Gadd's drumstick click is in time, it's musical, but it missed the mark of   
   whatever he was aiming for.  I'd be so lucky to have my mistakes hotly debated   
   as being intentional or not.  Truly a master musician Gadd is.   
      
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