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The 8020 Drummer Podcast

Nate Smith

Asking Great Drummers The Questions You"ve Always Wished Somebody Would Ask Them

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44:58

Greg Hutchinson on Teaching Jazz, "Forgetting"...

The 8020 Drummer Podcast ·

2023/12/04

Greg and I have had a few conversations over the years. I took a lesson from him way back in the early 20-teens. We spoke most recently this past February, when internet connectivity unfortunately interfered. But Greg graciously agreed to come back for another chat, and this time the quality came out great. If you know Hutch at all, you know him as the outspoken, funny, larger-than-life presence he is, and look no further than his instagram to see him weighing in and not holding back on…well pretty

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50:55

JP Bouvet on Teaching Improvisation, Learning Songs,...

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2023/11/27

I’ve been meaning to catch up with JP Bouvet since I first saw his clinic videos around 2015. At the time I was gearing up to do my own first clinics, and I had no idea what to do or say. JP had been on my radar, of course, since the Guitar Center Drumoff, and the Berklee Chops video. But recently, he’s been putting out some really thoughtful content about improvising on the drums. Of course that caught my attention, because it’s something I’m super focussed on as well. And, as you’ll hear, he and I

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25:36

List Q&A 1 - Dilla Beats, Haters, Harmony, and Time...

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2023/11/20

Get the podcast early every week, and get your questions answered on the next Q&A - https://bit.ly/nate-qna-1 Links ride cymbal technique - https://youtu.be/fLkf43ponic?si=BrLaWSp15gCGYCY7 drop catch technique - https://youtu.be/DGq4OU0BbZ8?si=WKw81_BcgDe3Z3U6 up tempo brush tricks - https://youtu.be/povI68obSLs?si=GoLL_WiMhoZ7-gXh dilla beats - https://youtu.be/0Tccnx_FuwU?si=0T_1GgxlwnoVJiTf Chapters 0:42 - is learning harmony important to learning songs 2:59 - biggest things missing

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29:36

ZackGrooves on Writing for Everything Yes, The...

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2023/11/13

While Zack Graybeal, aka ZackGrooves, isn’t necessarily an avatar for the average drummer - he seems to have exceptional drum skills, comedy and filmmaking skills, hustle, and timing - he is a great example of what’s possible for an independent drummer in 2023. The fact that noone’s asking him to teach seminar classes at the nation’s music schools leaves me puzzled. But all-the-more opportunity for people like me to feature him on our outlets. Zack was playing gigs right up until 2020, not thinking

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54:24

Joel Turcotte on Independence, Career Moves, and...

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2023/11/07

Increasingly, I want to use the podcast to introduce you to players you may not have heard of, but who deserve wider recognition. Whatever the drum analogy is for jiujistu’s fabled Danaher Death Squad - a crew of upstarts who came seeming out of nowhere and started dominating in competition - Joel is part of that “crew” or “cadre”, many of whom I want to feature on the podcast soon. What happens in 2023 if you have world-class/guitar-center-drumoff-winning ability, but you haven’t “hit big”

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50:00

John Riley on Nature vs Nurture, How Students Have...

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2023/10/30

The last lengthy conversation I had with John Riley before this interview was probably when I was still a college student. That’s why it was super rewarding to catch up with one of drum teaching’s deepest thinkers, and pick his brain about a great many things I’ve experienced and thought about in the intervening years. John and I begin by discussing nature-vs-nurture, when I ask him about a passage in his first book. That kicks off a thread about John’s own musical journey, whether he ever thought

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38:01

Dan Weiss on Tabla Rhythms, Frankie Dunlop, Flow...

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2023/10/23

It’s been a few years since I’ve spoken to Dan Weiss, who I’ve known since we were both in the vicinity of our music school in the early 2000s. Dan was, on various occasions, a teacher - such as when he’d sub for John Riley, or when I sought him out for a the odd lesson later on. But mostly Dan was the hard-to-categorize drummer who was blowing everybody’s mind. First on early gigs with people like Tigran Hamasyan, then later with Dave Binney at the 55 Bar, and throughout with people like Thomas

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52:22

Stanton Moore on Adapting to a Digital World, Clave...

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2023/10/16

When I got Stanton on the line, I was expecting we’d talk all about his core passion and expertise - New Orleans music. And we did get there. But it turns out Stanton is also fascinated with the world of online drumming and content creation. I hadn’t realized this, but he’s taken the transition to the “influencer economy” very seriously, and even assembled a production team that helps him produce high quality courses and constant YouTube content. As such we “nerded out” about content creation for a

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56:17

Dana Hawkins - Why Creativity is So Hard to Cultivate

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2023/10/10

Anyone who came up listening to drum youtube in the 20-teens is familiar with Dana Hawkins. His collabs with Evan Marien started appearing in 2010. Every few months, there would be a new one, and it was pure drum-fusion crack. I actually met Dana in person before I discovered those videos, however. He was playing with two of my friends on a live gig on the Lower East Side. In any event, I had zero idea how this conversation would go, because I’ve never before spoke to Dana at length. I’m happy to

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45:41

Steve Lyman - Inventing a New Drum Language

The 8020 Drummer Podcast ·

2023/10/02

Chapters 1:14 - was Steve conscious he was creating something unique with the vector system 11:15 - resisting the pressure to conform 15:30 - should someone learn the basics before learning vectors 19:30 - the map paradigm 21:30 - what's Steve's coaching like from the student POV 30:55 - after a lot of throat-clearing, kids these days? 36:30 - biggest pros and cons of our current, hyper-online culture == I’ve followed Steve Lyman’s journey for at least a decade. He was a promising young jazz

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44:58

Nate Wood on Radical Creativity, Performance vs...

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2023/09/25

Nate talks about: How fatherhood affects creativity How he prioritizes his time in his life, and in the shed When he realized Kneebody was becoming “a thing” Whether the internet is a net positive or net negative for drummers today What I’ve been calling “radical creativity”, an approach of complete trust of your musical instincts in the moment …and more… He also critiques my performance of a Kneebody song called Greenblatt, from their record The Line. 0:25 - how has FOUR changed his

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38:05

Mike Johnston - The Godfather of Online Drum Lessons...

The 8020 Drummer Podcast ·

2023/09/18

Show Notes Sony FX3 (15:00) - https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/cinema-line-cameras/all-cinema-line-cameras/p/ilmefx3 Red Camera (15:00) - https://www.red.com/ color rating index (15:00) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index Amran lights - https://shop.aputure.com/collections/amaran C Stands - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-stand Filmic Pro app - https://www.filmicpro.com/

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Jharis Yokley on Playing Fearlessly, Vibing with The...

The 8020 Drummer Podcast ·

2023/09/11

Jharis Yokley generously donated some of his time to enlighten me about how his practice routines have changed over the years, the true difference between “MCing” your own performance and a self-critical voice, whether they should being back the Guitar Center Drumoff, what excites him about young players, and more.

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44:11

Richard Spaven on Finding a Creative Voice, Flow...

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2023/09/06

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Episode 3 - Arthur Kam

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2014/09/25

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Episode 2 - Kassa Overall

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2014/09/09

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