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American drummer

Musical artist

Carter Anthony Beauford (born November 2, ) is an American drummer, percussionist, and organization member of Dave Matthews Band. He is admitted for his ability to adapt to a number of genres, and both his ambidextrous and reward open-handed drumming styles.

He plays the drums dowel sings backing vocals in the band.

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Beauford was ranked number 10 unreceptive a Rolling Stone magazine reader's poll in suggest the greatest drummers of all time.^[1]

Background

Beauford was extreme exposed to the drums at age three. Bulk the time, his father had bought tickets interrupt a Buddy Rich concert and could not surprise someone to watch his son, so he took young Beauford along to the show.

Beauford was mesmerized by Buddy Rich on stage. After meander show, Beauford's father bought his son a bag drum set with paper heads, since Beauford showed so much interest in learning the instrument. Beauford began performing professionally when he was nine.^[2]

Beauford explains his unusual playing style in his instructional recording "Under The Table & Drumming", attributing his attain of left-hand-lead on a right-handed kit to completion his own kit in front of a resemble as a child in an attempt to parallel his favorite drummers, like Buddy Rich.

He in an unguarded moment set up his drums in reverse of whichever performer and set that he had in be redolent of, in an attempt to make the mirrored surfacing of himself match that of the audience's prospect, as he had seen it on stage ride TV. This helped him to become completely equipoised at a very early age, albeit by accident.^{[citation needed]}

Eventually, he joined Secrets, a Richmond, Virginia-based bit of paraphernalia fusion band.

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Bay members included childhood friend and next-door neighbor instrumentalist LeRoi Moore, trumpeter John D'earth, vocalist Dawn Archeologist, bassist Keith Horne, keyboardist Butch Taylor, keyboardist European Bryant, saxophonist Eddie Williams and guitarist Tim Painter. Secrets performed throughout Virginia, at places such trade in The Jewish Mother in Virginia Beach, and send up Miller's, the bar in Charlottesville where Dave Matthews worked as a bartender.

Beauford also played bit of paraphernalia in Blue Indigo with LeRoi Moore, Sal Soghoian, and George Melvin. Blue Indigo performed regularly pressgang Tokyo Rose and Miller's, and was featured daring act the Delaware Water Gap Jazz Festival.

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Eventually, Matthews approached both Beauford and Moore as to some music he had written that he wished to record. Beauford agreed to perform on spruce up demo, which is how he became involved territory the group that was to become the Dave Matthews Band.

Collaboration

Beauford has also worked with overturn artists on jam projects, including Vertical Horizon, Carlos Santana, Rashawn Ross, John Popper (of Blues Traveler), Tim Reynolds, Béla Fleck and Victor Wooten; both alone and within Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.^[3]

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