Drummers on Drumming
A podcast for drummers who think too much. Ben Hilzinger talks to the greats about creativity, identity, staying sane, and finding purpose behind the kit.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 252
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
*BONUS* Dan Mayo's Top 5 Influences: Part 2
This is Part 2 and essentially a bonus episode for my conversation with Dan Mayo. Today, Dan talks about the 5 specific records that shaped the way he tunes his drums (something that he is quite know…
00:19:59 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Big Fat Five: Dan Mayo's Top 5 Influences: Part 1
Today’s guest is Dan Mayo. Dan is an Israeli drummer with one of the most distinct sounds of any player today…partly thanks to his A&F drum set, but mostly do to his personality behind the kit and ba…
01:16:26 |
Wed 21 Apr 2021
Big Fat Five: Matt & Zack from Working Drummer Podcast's Top 5 Drumming Influences
This week’s episode is payback for the boys from the podcast Working Drummer forcing me to take time out of MY damn day a few weeks ago to bump up THEIR podcast numbers. Now I’m totally using them.
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01:33:27 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
Big Fat Five: Ash Soan's Top 5 Influences
This week’s guest is Ash Soan.
I don’t even know where to begin; he’s a complete badass and unless you’ve gone OUT OF YOUR WAY to avoid him, you certainly know who he is. Ash has been one of the most…
01:35:50 |
Wed 07 Apr 2021
**Takeover Episode** Premiere of Sarah Hagan Backstage w/ Gavin Harrison
This week’s episode is a premiere / takeover of a new podcast by our very good friend...Sarah Hagan. Sarah worked for many years as the Head of Zildjian Artist Relations Worldwide, but now runs her o…
01:19:32 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
Big Fat Five: Atom Willard's (Against Me!, Angels and Airwaves, Rocket From The Crypt) Top 5 Influences
This week's guest is Atom Willard. Atom played with some of my favorite bands growing up including Rocket From the Crypt, The Offspring, Social Distortion, and Angels and Airwaves, but he is the curr…
01:02:41 |
Wed 24 Mar 2021
Big Fat Five: Nate Morton (NBC's The Voice): Top 5 Influences
This week’s guest is the ever-energetic Nate Morton, drummer for NBC’s The Voice. His career spans multiple decades and performances with some pretty damn good artists such as Paul Stanley, Madonna, …
01:15:07 |
Wed 10 Mar 2021
Big Fat Five: Madden Klass' Top 5 Influences
This week we have the returning champion Madden Klass on the show to discuss the Top 5 drumming influences that shaped her playing style. Currently a student at Berklee, Madden also plays with Raavi …
01:12:23 |
Wed 03 Mar 2021
Big Fat Five: Liberty DeVitto (Billy Joel): Top 5 Influences
Today’s guest is Liberty DeVitto…the rhythmic powerhouse behind 22 of Billy Joel's 23 top 40 hits and all six of his Grammy Award-winning recordings. His ability to seamlessly switch between mature s…
01:02:30 |
Wed 24 Feb 2021
Big Fat Five: Curt Bisquera—The 5 Career-Defining Moments
Today’s guest is Curt Bisquera…or as most people know him “Kirkee B”. He’s played with so many great artists such as Elton John, Mick Jagger, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Sarah Mclaughlin, Lana D…
01:00:11 |
Wed 17 Feb 2021
The 5 Essential Levon Helm Recordings
This could be the most important episode I’ve had the pleasure to record. Levon Helm of The Band was one of the greatest to ever do it. Thusly, everything I’ve typed / erased / retyped / and so on fo…
01:28:56 |
Wed 10 Feb 2021
Big Fat Five: Tim Baltes' Top 5 Drumming Moments That Shaped His Playing Style
Our guest this week is Tim Baltes or, to many, @timbofromkeno on Instagram. He’s known as a funny man, but a big reason why his schtick works is because he’s a monster player as well. We break down t…
00:43:42 |
Wed 03 Feb 2021
Myths Our Drum Teachers Told Us w/ Dimitri Fantini
Today’s guest is Dimitri Fantini…a great drummer and instructor based in Maryland. I personally subscribe to his Patreon and I suggest you do the same thing. Since Dimitri is technically one of my on…
01:02:49 |
Wed 27 Jan 2021
'Save it for the Pod!" Ep. 3 - Where's The Beat?!
Gunnar Olsen (Puscifer, Big Data, Bruce Springsteen) and I were ODDLY excited about recording this one. We each brought on 5 songs that best represent that feeling of, “um…I can’t find the one....guy…
01:12:12 |
Wed 13 Jan 2021
Big Fat Progress
I invited Kris back on the show to discuss how difficult this last year has been for us (Big Fat Snare Drum) as a small business and what we’ve done to keep the doors open. I’m calling it, “Big Fat P…
01:09:28 |
Wed 06 Jan 2021
Best of 2020: Part 2
LAST EPISODE OF 2020! This is Part 2 of the “Best of 2020” where I put together a show of my favorite clips from the past year. Enjoy! See you (or hear me) in the new year!
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00:45:04 |
Wed 30 Dec 2020
Best of 2020: Part 1
The next few episodes are gonna be a very self indulgent “Best of 2020”. I’ve put together some of my favorite clips of the podcast so far with a little backstory for each. If any of my previous gues…
00:57:46 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
'Save it for the Pod!' Ep. 2 - Ben and Gunnar’s Top 5 Dance Drummers
I’m back with Gunnar Olsen (Puscifer, Big Data, Bruce Springsteen) for another segment of ‘Save It For The Pod’ where we pause our private conversations about various musical topics until we can reco…
01:09:25 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
Big Fat Five: Tucker Rule (Thursday): Top 5 Influences
We’ve got Tucker Rule, drummer for Thursday, on this week’s episode of the ‘Big Fat Five’ pod breaking down the top 5 drumming moments that shaped his playing style…and it’s a damn fun playing style.…
01:08:23 |
Wed 09 Dec 2020
Big Fat Five: Yuri Ruley's (MxPx): Top 5 Influences
Today’s guest is, Yuri Ruley…drummer for the iconic punk band, MxPx. His speed, creativity and disciple were a huge influence on me growing up, and if ever need a good a$# whippin', I’ll put on 'Life…
01:08:52 |
Wed 02 Dec 2020
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