The Practical Pro Musician

Why you should only ever HAVE to play up to 80 percent of your actual abilities.Hey, you guys. Thanks for listening to another episode of this glorious short daily podcast. Today, this episode is coming out a little bit later than I usually put them out each day because I've spent a couple hours outside today painting our deck. We have this stuff that we're painting with that you have to wait to where it hasn't rained in 48 hours. Also, once you paint, you need to make sure that it doesn't rain for another 24 hours after that. Here in Tennessee, in a summer like this, that is nearly impossible to achieve. Basically, 3 days straight without rain. Of course, we finally hit a time, I think today, where that's going to be possible. It was 95 degrees outside. My wife and I have been outside sweating and painting a deck for a while today. It was not fun. We got about half way done. A few weeks ago, I thought we had to half paint a deck and that wasn't cool.Anyway, all I had to say, this episode is a little later. T

We don't know what we don't know. So how do you break out of your own mold and learn new drumming vocabulary?Today I was thinking about something, first off I got some feedback. I went live on Facebook yesterday and someone gave me some feedback. I was talking about having a bad habit and he was like, "Hey, I actually don't have that bad habit so instead of trying to use your exercise to break a bad habit I actually did the opposite of your exercise to break my own habit." Which was the exact opposite of what I was talking about, which I thought was really cool. I thought, "Man you're pretty genius if you can ... " I don't think about that, when someone says, "Hey, you should do this thing," I'm pretty like ... I don't know what the word is. If someone gives me advice, like, "Hey, you should do this thing," I'm like, "Okay, yeah I'll do it." I don't thin about it enough to be, "I don't have that problem but actually if I completely flip what you're telling me on its head, that will actually help me. It's valu

More practical advice today. 3 Tips for tuning your snare drum, Including an overview of the method I use to tune my snare drum every time.Hey guys. This is Daniel. I hope you're doing well. I'm kind of laughing still. I just was talking to my wife about how awesome it is that there is a ... I've been looking at the stats for downloads for the podcast and how many people are listening to this and I'm amazed that we're not too far into this and there are already quite a few of you who are listening every day and downloading it. I was like "Man, there's this many people listening to the podcast or who want to hear what I have to say." She was like "That's kind of scary." I was like "Yeah, that's true." People are actually wanting to listen to what I have to say every day it is kind of scary, definitely scary for my wife so that's funny.Today I'm really pumped. I wanted to share with you some more practical tips like I promised last episode. Today I want to share with you three tips for tuning a snare drum. Disc

Many of us who grew up playing in marching band or orchestra might have a habit of playing a flam every time we hit our right and left hands on the same beat. Today I talk about why this kills the feel of a groove and give you an exercise to start to correct it.Anyway, as promised today I want to share something with you that's a little more practical than what I've been sharing maybe in the past few episodes. I mean, everything is practical, but I mean more something specific to drumming versus just any other kind of principle or idea. Today, we're going to talk about what I think is one of the biggest enemies of playing with a click for sure, even without a click it's something that's kind of built into a lot of us, and it kind of ruins groove when trying to make things feel good. The thing is this, it is flams.A lot of us, myself included, grew up in band, orchestra, marching band, and whenever you play the snare drum, or other kinds of assorted drumming instruments, pretty much every time that you bring y

Are you really willing to do what it takes to be a top-notch studio and live drummer?Hey there, you are listening to Drummer Daily, the Podcast, new world's first and only, I think, daily podcast for drummers. My name is Daniel, I am your host and in case you've never listened to this podcast before, this is how every podcast is. No frills, no music, no intro, just me talking. Why is that? It's because I do it everyday and if I had to do all that other stuff, I would never get around to doing the podcast. I want to do it daily for you guys, so that's why you don't hear any crazy production on this. Speaking of crazy production, and I have heard it from a few of you guys, that you'd like to hear more practical tips for drumming. I hear you loud and clear, so tomorrow I promise you I will have a very practical tip for playing drums with a click track, playing in a studio, playing live. Something that will make everything you're doing stand a lot cleaner and have a little more groove to it.Today, because it's Mo

My friend Dan said something interesting today after we finished filming my Boot Camp for Drummers.I've been filming all day for Boom Click Boot Camp. I'm recording this Friday night. My family's downstairs watching the Olympics opening ceremony which is like blowing my mind. I feel like I'm that guy on Super Troopers, I'm freaking out man because it's crazy.Anyway, I've been having a great day. Like I said, we filmed all the pre-recorded stuff for Boom Click Boot Camp today and I just wanted to share with you guys. There's this crazy thing that happened ... well it's not crazy to me because I knew it was true, but it was fun because my buddy, Dan, who's shooting all of these videos for me was here with me today. After we got done, we were wrapping up, we did the whole thing and it was great. What was crazy was he was like,"Yes man, I think this is going to do really well." He's a musician too. He's not a drummer, but he's a musician so he kind of understood what we were doing. He's like, you know what's craz

Every pro drummer I know shares this one trait - adopt this into your life and get a head start in your music career!Yeah this is Daniel and you're listening to the Drummer Daily Podcast. I'm going to stop numbering these podcast, I was saying what number each episode was, but I'm not going to do that anymore. I realized that I plan on doing these daily and honestly. I'll probable be forgetting what number it is very soon, so no more numbers.I will just say and mention one thing, yesterday if you listened to yesterday's podcast. You probably just heard it randomly cut off at the end, which if you actually listen to the podcast. You'll know that was just par for the course yesterday, things going wrong, having to fight through things. Which happens a lot sometimes and the life of a entrepreneur and definitely life of a drummer. Things don't always go right, so sorry about that if you heard that. We're recovering today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What to do if you're stuck trying to play a difficult part, and just want a shortcut.I had an interesting afternoon, but before I tell you about that, I just want to remind you to go over to DanielHadaway.com and check out what I got going on there. If you haven't already signed up for my Boom Click Boot Camp Beta, go over there and do that, DanielHadaway.com/beta, and check that out. What I wanted to tell you about today was something that happened to me earlier today, and I don't know if I want to cry or I want to laugh about it. You might have seen, if you follow me on Instagram, if you don't, you should, but over on Instagram, I was doing a video, shooting a video of me playing drums. I like to at least try to get some professional mics and multi-track it into logic so that it sounds decent. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Avoid these 3 Common Mistakes When Tuning Your Snare Drum! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

No... You DON'T need to work on your foot speed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.