This is the podcast I, Emily Dolan Davies, wishes existed when I was starting out in the music industry. I share my stories, lessons and musings from 20 years experience as a session drummer. Anything goes from touring, recording, and running a business, to random anecdotes in between! Come join me :-)
Social media! What's the point?!?!
In this episode I let you into my train of thought as to why anyone should bother posting on social media! It's oversaturated, so much noise, and compared to others…
How do you stay present when you play?
In this episode, I share how I stay present on a gig so I can truly be in the moment, and give everything to what I am playing and feeling fulfilled to the brim…
How do you deal with change?
Well, this is a unique opportunity to let you into how I deal with change in actual real-time! 2 hours before filming this episode, I found out The Voice Kids wasn't goin…
What is it that YOU want?
I spent the first 15 years of my playing (and arguably 26 years of my life!) looking to everyone else to find what would make me happy, where I should be putting my energy a…
How do you stay positive?
This is a quesiton I get asked a lot, and in this episode I go deep into why I HAVE to find the positive, my struggles when I can't, and hopefully give you some insight into…
How do you eat well on tour?
Keeping on top of eating fairly healthily on the road can be a nightmare! There's not always great options, or sometimes there's great and very tempting options, plus you…
How do you deal with online trolls?
In this episode, I share how I have dealt with haters and trolls and try to keep my composure and self-esteem intact. Hope it helps, and please share your tactics …
What are/were some of your favourite games, and why? Can you think of a way to reverse engineer your love of those games into areas in your life you want to build upon? Share your thoughts in the com…
How do you get past your own fears when you come up against something that triggers nothing but a want to run away from a situation?
Join me as I share how I make the potential for opportunity outwei…
How do you deal with rejection?
Ah it's a tough one, and it's inevitable if you want to move forward in anything, so in this episode I lay out how I personally deal with rejection and try to take som…
One of the questions I get asked the most is, 'how do you do so many things?!'
Well the answer isn't big, clever, or sexy... what a great way to entice you into this episode eh?! What I can tell you …
Welcome back to A Drummer's Guide To... !!!
It's been a 2 year hiatus (I can hardly belive it!) and now I'm BACK! Tacking all the subjects surrounding what it takes to be a professional musician that…
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Join me as I geek out about routines and how it's made me the person that I am today for all the good and all the bad!
I also sha…
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Join me in this episode as I talk about one of my favourite books - Malcolm Gladwell's, Outliers, which talks about the 10,000 ho…
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Well, I bet you thought I'd never be talking about Cardi B's WAP, but here we are!
It made me really think about my attitudes and r…
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Join me this week as I talked about the Curse of perfection, and how it breeds overwhelm, anxiety, and complete inactivity! So usel…
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In this episode, I wanted to address the idea of having a choice on what you can focus on in this life and how to get through tough…
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Join me as I geek out about marginal gains, a concept about taking the parts of you as a musician, or even as a person that you'd…
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Join me in this week's episode as I talk about what to do for the next six months upon the news that we are not going to be moving …
This is what I do to learn any music for any job, and have done for over 10 years! Let's share this so we can all be the best version of ourselves, especially when it comes to music, songs and creati…