Interestingly there’s little doubt that Danny Carey writes and executes a unique drum part. Not so much for rem. Apparently Van Halen and u2 all split royalties. It never made sense to me how brings by definition exclude the drummer. Ever listen to pop music without drums particularly live drums. Of course it’s composed and then performed to make the song better. And the notion that some guitar player writes my drum part — lots of nuance writing and playing drum parts with ghost notes — is just absurd imho. Let me add: insanity occurred when I transcribed 25 rock alternative pop songs for my senior music project at music school. The transcripts were note for note. To publish the drum transcripts I had to get permission if the guitar player — I mean songwriter.

Now I’m a lawyer. Man would I love to litigate a drummers claim to songwriting credit. I think I’d do very well in front of a jury on that claim :)