70 years ago if you were writing a song to be recorded and wanted there to be a steady drum beat in it you would hire a professional drummer and bring them to a recording studio. And then drum machines were invented and suddenly you can just tell a machine to provide the best but the effect it had on music wasn’t that drummers went out of business but that more people could had “drums” to their songs and even if it isn’t and wouldn’t ever be exactly the same as using a live drummer one of the biggest impacts it had was making music much more accessible to produce and create for people that couldn’t otherwise afford it but had creative ideas in their head and that’s why early hip hop music has so much electronic sounds in it