OMG!!! CALVIN NAPPER!!!! HE IS WHO PUT MY DESIRE TO PLAY INTO OVERDRIVE BACK IN THE LATE 90s!!! I began with my first opportunity to play for the base chapel while stationed in Germany where we played many songs featuring Mr. Napper on them. From there I have studied every style he plays! Now the most complimented thing about my playing is my pocket! Calvin Napper is a Fantastic Drummer!!!!! Thanks for this, Josh!
My fav Napper performance was the Karen Clark Sheard Live with her Sisters and Donald Lawrence! Fav songs were Balm in Gilead and Jesus is a Love Song!!! As soon as I get my kit(Alesis Strata Prime, I will do a video shoutout to Calvin playing those songs!!!
Calvin Napper is definitely one the best drummers I’ve heard. He’s definitely a pocket master. I wonder if he’s kin to the Napper Sisters from North Carolina. He looks just like one of them.
Every style of music has a pocket variation regardless of the time signature or genre and can be chopped too. Every person playing in the band and someone is going to force something in. My uncle told me pocket gets you paid chops get you laid😅
So if you all haven’t heard, go watch or look up, Joel Sm itb Nor Cal mass apostolic choir Joel Smith kills all of those records. There is a Mexican choir, but he kills all those.
