Here’s Levon Helm— if the question on your mind after seeing this is not “my God, how do I make my time sound like that?”, you may need to reexamine your priorities as a drummer…
In re: singing and playing, the principle is the same as for things we do in just drumming: it’s more a matter of coordination than of “independence.”
(h/t to Jake Feinberg and Drum Talk TV)
Commencing Re-examination!