The thing about the Slowest Drum Solo Ever is that it's not slow at all. Far from it. Ali Siadat, the skinsman for Vancouver's Mother Mother seen here rolling off mid- and up-tempo beats and fills, is not plodding through the maw à la Chris Brokaw. He's fucking soloing, dude. He likes to play.It's some super-slow motion camera work, rather, that breaks things down. And down, and down, and down again.Which isn't entirely new. We've been transfixed by the hidden physics (pdf) and vibrational modes (cymatics, anyone?) of hitting things, be it ancient Sumerian hand chimes or modern-day floor toms, for about as long as we've been making noises. It's only now, with insanely sophisticated imaging technology, that we're able to visualize those reverberations, to see how percussion works. YouTube is chalk full of this sort of slow-motion drum porn. But this video, courtesy CBCMusic, really hammers it home. Check out 0:36, 1:04, 1:59, 2:36, or 3:12, and you'll see what I mean.To that point, I've never been much of a solo drummer. I was into the idea of soloing only briefly, when I was maybe 10 or 11 and all I wanted to do was to mimic Geek U.S.A., hit for hit, until my hands swelled and bled. But over time, as my chops hardened up with age (OK, and with pathetically little practice), I've come to appreciate the reserved cool of just plain keeping the beat. I'll take a thick snare-kick lock groove over scattershot tom blurs any day of the week. Anything to trap the hidden shake.@thebanderson