The Drumming Mastermind Podcast is now live! The goal of this project of mine is to pick the brains of my absolute favourite drummers and get their insights into their unique physical, mental and spiritual approach to drumming. The first episode has been cut into 4 parts. Parts 1 and 2 are currently out and on youtube.
The first episode of the podcast is with 2 of my prog metal drumming idols. Anup Sastry and Nic Pettersen. I’ve been following these guys and their music projects since picking up the sticks, I absolutely love these guys and am so grateful to have had drum lessons, one on one chats and now a group chat with these guys.
Here are the links for the 2 parts and my instagram page.
Pt 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pzG2AHLqQc&t=578s
Pt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUmEs6ErWV4&t=49s
Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/drumming.mastermind.official/
In these first 2 parts we discuss the following:
- Touring and life on the road
- How life and the music industry has been over the last 2 challenging years.
- Unique approaches to preparing for recording and how this has changed over time with more releases and stylistic changes.
- Managing on stage challenges.
- Meeting our drumming heroes in comedic fashion.
- The Yamaha EAD 10 and it’s benefits/advantages for all drummers
- How to manage and handle a big workload
- Anup’s modern day take on sight reading while recording and more of Nic’s prep leading up to recording.
- Coping with external factors preventing practise
- The perils and realities of social media
- What goes on behind the scenes recording a drum playthrough for the internet
- Keyboard warriors and their negativity
- Looking at our drumming through other people’s judgmental eyes
- Different approaches to recording and uploading drumming clips
- The dwindling attention span of Instagram users
Hope this benefits anyone who takes the time to check this out.