The Practical Pro Musician

Let's go behind the scenes and find out what the rehearsals are like for a major national tour. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Let's change our approach and how we think about practicing the drums, and maybe in the process actually practice MORE and get more improvement in our playing! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Getting a new drum kit certainly feels like Christmas to me, but if your current drum set isn't getting you 80% of the sound quality you're looking for- it's time to make some other changes. That's what we're talking about today... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Live from Walt Disney World....'s Parking Lot. One quick tip for getting your bass player to lock in with your drumming. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Even the greatest musicians in the world don't knock it out of the park 100% of the time. In fact every single legendary musician I've ever worked with or encountered knows and accepts that he or she will actually be quite terrible from time to time. If you can start to embrace this about your own playing, you'll be able to start down the path to truly unlocking your genius. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I've had a recurring dream about playing drums for the past 10 or 15 years. Here's what I think it means and what we can all learn from it... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today I'll share another magic trick on the drums- this time it has to do with how we can use people's perceptions of our cymbal sounds to pull off seemingly-impossible feats! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My drum teacher used to always tell me to make sure to bounce my rolls- now I'm telling you to break that rule and try something different (and with much more feel)! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When the time comes for a studio session, here are some unique questions you as a drummer should ask BEFORE the day of the session... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we'll dive into the visual aspect of drumming, and how the way you look can affect the way your playing is perceived (heard) by others. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Can you make drumming gigs magically appear just by pretending you have an audition coming up? Not really- but here's something that I think is worth your while... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Most of the time, you'd rather be early than late, right? Well when it comes to drumming, that isn't ALWAYS the case... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you're a drum clinician, or someone who LOVES to play drum solos, you might not like what I have to say today... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today, I'll teach you a MAGIC trick on the drums See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Make a mistake playing drums? Don't fix it! Do it again!I have had a great day today. It's been a busy past few days for me. We had a rehearsal for All Sons & Daughters for our upcoming tour. On Thursday, I'll stop talking in days of the week, because I realize not everyone listens to this the day I record it. About four or five days ago, before the weekend, I had a rehearsal with All Sons & Daughters for tour and then on Friday, went back to the same studio where we rehearsed and had a session. I talked about that, I think, on that day, on Friday.Saturday we had a show with All Sons & Daughters, so we traveled up to Illinois, played a show, drove back yesterday, which would be Sunday and got back in the middle of the day. Today, had another rehearsal with All Sons & Daughters for the tour. That's been great. It's been a lot of fun to go through these new songs and really nitpick those and find what works and what doesn't work. Get a chance to play a lot of new songs all at once, which is alwa

Some secrets and insights about what it really is like in a professional recording session for a drummer.I just walked inside from taking the trash out. That's the honest, glamorous life of a professional drummer in Nashville, you still take your own trash out. We didn't get the butler to do it this time. We gave them the day off. I hope you can tell I'm kidding, we don't have a butler. That's a whole other episode of the podcast, about what it's really like, the finances of being a professional drummer.But you probably don't want to hear that right now, and if you do, it's too late, because I recorded this. It's not live. But, what was I saying ... Oh yeah, I took the garbage out. The reason I took the garbage out, I've been waiting until it cooled off enough here and stopped raining to take the garbage out. It finally did, and it's actually pleasant outside right now here in Nashville, which is a rare occurrence.Speaking of Nashville, I wanted to talk to today, and after I got thinking about this I was like

How to deal with making mistakes in big situations- and how things aren't always as bad as we think they are.Transcript: Hey, how's it going? Welcome to another episode of Drummer Daily. I'm Daniel. Thanks for listening. Today I want to tell you a story and then relate it back to something to do with drumming. Yesterday I have an office that's downstairs in our house near the front door. My wife works from home. So do I. We have a son. He was outside playing with some friends, and you hear screaming and crying all throughout the time that he's outside playing. He's got some friends on our street that he plays with all the time outside.Anytime, yesterday I'm working and I hear just wailing, just crying, like the end of the world just happened. Once you get to know your kids, you get to know their cries and what things mean. I knew he hadn't hurt himself. I thought maybe the kid had been really mean to him or something. There was something that was just destroying him. I go out there to find out ... I don't alw

Is this podcast as good as the last 3 Hobbit movies? Probably not, but they DO have something in common. Oh yeah, and we'll talk about having fun while you practice on the drums too!Hey, how's it going? I hope you are ready because I am to bust into this sweet cornucopia of drumming awesomeness. I don't know if you can tell or not, but I make these up every time right when I hit record, so I apologize. I don't know what to say about that, I'm sorry. We are to day 3 of 3 on our series on how to have more fun practicing the drums. Today we're going to talk about something that piggy backs off of what we talked about in the last episode. It's a recap. Day 1 we talked about how you can have more fun practicing the drums if you can work on getting your drums to sound as good as possible to you, like how much more fun it is to play drums that actually sound good to you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today I have a confession to make about how I've practiced my whole life.You're listening to to the Drummer Daily Podcast. The only daily podcast dedicated just to drummers. Go to my website at danielhadaway.com. Hey, hey there good to talk to you again today. As I mentioned, yesterday, we are now going to be in part two of three of my miniseries, my three-part opus, my trilogy of epic awesomeness on having more fun playing. Not having more fun playing drums, having more fun practicing the drums. It's always fun to play the drums I think, but practice is what's not always so fun.Today, I want to talk to you about ... Well, I have a confession to make, and then also a tip that kind of comes out of that. My confession is this; I have been playing drums for ... How long has it been now? 27 Years. 27 Years, that's a long time, which you do the math on that, you might figure how old I am, not that it really matters. I'm not scared of that. Anyway, I've been playing drums for 27 years. That's a long time. From day

Today is the first of a 3-day series that's all about how to have more fun while practicing the drums. Because we all know that if we have fun doing something, we tend to do MORE of it! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.