Thank you. I will watch this on my lunch break.
Claus is where I am trying to go, to be that free and fluid with either hand. I discovered him way back at the very start, though I didn't quite take him as seriously as Simon Phillips or Carter Beauford until about 3 months into it when I discovered how much I could learn from Claus. I would love to take a few lessons with him down the road when I'm in a better position knowledge-wise to really absorb what he has to teach.
Ringo is definitely the center of my heart and I wish I had an ounce of his feels when it comes to how he performs fills and builds tension. I want to be a Claus/Ringo love child hahaha. I like all the drummers who are more on feels than technicality, who sit in the music and build phrases that are as much a part of the music as they are the rhythm.
Even though Ringo plays rock, he treats it more like a classical movement, and he definitely treats his drums as a tonal instrument by tuning them to whatever key the song is in. If you haven't noticed his tuning, one or more of his drums will be tuned to the dominant, another the tonic, another the subdominant, etc., etc. until his kit becomes almost a chord. I think one of the coolest compliments I've ever heard of him is, "he was the first drummer to make the drums sing."