The most ambidextrous thing in music

[Hey Yo]

is to play drums and lead vocals.

[BurningHammer]

GOAT drummer/singer Karen Carpenter.

[SATAN]

Mike Brown is good at it.

[Overdrive]

Playing Piano is similar. The weirdness of drums and singing is that it, if you can't connect your singing to the beat, works against the melody. The temptation of piano is that you can't escape its melodic runs.

I'm really impressed by both, but yeah singing drummers are on a different level than most other musicians.

[Hey Yo]

Just realized that ambidextrous isn't the word I should have used to what I was getting at.

It's the insane 'coordination' that one has to have to pull off the feat.

[Jasper]

I was always under the assumption when someone listens to country rock , and calls it acid rock

that's pretty ambidextrous

[dunksby]

Just realized that ambidextrous isn't the word I should have used to what I was getting at.

It's the insane 'coordination' that one has to have to pull off the feat.

Playing the drums is all about limb independence, and being a human metronome, the effort saturates all your mental capacity which is why drummers who are vocalists are so rare. I also think there's an element of counter-intuition to it as well. When I'm playing the guitar, lets say covering a song, I have an urge to sing along with it too. yet, when I'm doing the same thing on the drums I'm fully content with just banging on the kit.