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
Big Fat Five: Sam Merrick's (Broadway's '& Juliet') Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is THE Sam Merrick, drummer for ‘& Juliet’ on Broadway at the Sondheim Theater in New York City. We’ll learn more about that show later on in the episode, but Sam just got done with…
00:43:02 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Big Fat Five: Willy Rodriguez' (The Mars Volta, Mon Laferte) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Willy Rodriguez. Willy is a Latin-Grammy award winning drummer and percussionist based in New York City. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Willy has been playing drums since he was…
00:51:50 |
Wed 09 Nov 2022
Big Fat Five: Rod Elkins' (Tyler Childers) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Rod “Hot Rod” Elkins…drummer for Tyler Childers and The Food Stamps…among many others. Rod was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia and has spent his life keeping time an…
00:55:59 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
Big Fat Five: Greg Hersey's Top 5 Influential Records
This weeks guest is Greg Hersey…a percussionist and educational artist based out of Jackonville, Florida. He is currently the Director of Instrumental Music at Episcopal School of Jacksonville. I fir…
00:45:26 |
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Big Fat Five: Dimitri Fantini's Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Dimitri Fantini. I’m actually not sure how I first found out about Dimitri, but he was my online instructor for quite some time and I’m just a huge fan of his drumming. He’s garn…
00:35:53 |
Wed 19 Oct 2022
Big Fat Five: Ryan Seaman's (Mercy Music) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is everybody’s favorite drummer, Ryan Seaman. Ryan has been on my wishlist of guests for a while now and surprisingly enough, we were finally able to work it out on the road when it…
00:48:23 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
Big Fat Five: Q. Robinson (Broadway's 'Hamilton', 'Ain't Too Proud')
This week’s guest is Q. Robinson…the newly-announced touring drummer for Broadway's ‘Hamilton’ (which is huge as it's a highly-coveted chair!). But before he starts that, he currently finishing up hi…
00:46:58 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
Big Fat Five: Ralph Alexander's (Poppy, CRX) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Ralph Alexander…an incredibly talented drummer currently out with the artist Poppy. Ralph is one of those “rarely makes a mistake” kind of drummers, but his incredible independen…
00:52:07 |
Thu 29 Sep 2022
Big Fat Five: Mike Robinson's (k.flay, Oliver Tree, Blame My Youth) Top 5 Influential Records
My guest this week is my good buddy and even gooder drummer, Mike Robinson. Mike is the quintessential working LA drummer who’s played with so many rad artists and bands…most recently with the two po…
01:00:43 |
Wed 21 Sep 2022
Can You Guess the Drum Machine?!
Let’s play a game…
Can you guess the drum machine in these 30 songs?
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00:48:05 |
Wed 14 Sep 2022
5 Things To Avoid When You’re Engineering Drums
This episode is Part 2 of my conversation with Dan Bailey.
Dan is a Drummer / Music Director / Engineer / Multi-Instrumentalist who’s played with Father John Misty, First Aid Kit, Reignwolf and many …
00:32:31 |
Wed 07 Sep 2022
5 Things to Avoid on a Session When You're Playing Drums For an Artist
Today’s episode is part one of my conversation with Dan Bailey on the topic of 5 Things To Avoid When Working on a Session For An Artist".
Dan is a Drummer / Music Director / Engineer / Multi-Instrum…
00:31:50 |
Wed 31 Aug 2022
Big Fat Five: Ilan Rubin's (Nine Inch Nails, Angels and Airwaves) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Ilan Rubin. He is currently the drummer for Nine Inch Nails and Angels and Airwaves, but has collaborated with Paramore, M83, Beck, Phantogram and many, many more throughout the …
01:12:42 |
Wed 24 Aug 2022
Big Fat Five: Rob "Beatdown" Brown's Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Rob “Beatdown” Brown. If you haven’t heard of Rob, it means you’re the perfect drummer and don’t need to work on anything. You’ve won drums. But if that’s not you (also ME!), and…
00:47:54 |
Wed 17 Aug 2022
Big Fat Five: Eddie Burns' (Clairo) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Eddie Burns…a Chicago-based producer / drummer who is currently out with the artist ‘Clairo’. He’s an incredible drummer with an old soul and a VAST knowledge of the Chicago musi…
00:58:11 |
Wed 10 Aug 2022
Big Fat Five: Thom Sonny Green's (alt-J) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Thom from the band Alt-J. He’s one of the most creative drummers out there today and the band, as a whole, are young legends. It was truly an honor talking with him and, if you d…
00:56:25 |
Wed 03 Aug 2022
Big Fat Five: J-rod Sullivan's Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Mr. Jerrod “J-rod” Sullivan…a bada$$ drummer, programmer, arranger, producer and educator. He’s incredibly clean with both his beard trimming skills and his playing, but that’s j…
00:36:32 |
Wed 27 Jul 2022
Big Fat Five: Rajeev Maddela's (Currency Audio) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Rajeev Maddela. He’s a drum set artist, electronic music composer, DJ, computer programmer, and rudimental percussion instructor based in Brooklyn, NY.
Under the name Maddela, …
00:47:32 |
Wed 20 Jul 2022
Big Fat Five: Jessica Burdeaux's (@jburdsbeats) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Jessica “The Hoot” Burdeaux. She’s a former guest of the show before we switched to the current format so I knew I had to get her back on. I’m confident you’ve seen her on either…
00:47:28 |
Wed 13 Jul 2022
Big Fat Five: Logan Baudean's Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest Logan Baudean…a New Orleans-raised, now LA-based musician. He can do it all. I don’t even remember how I first heard about Logan, but I’ve been following him for awhile now I was re…
00:56:35 |
Wed 06 Jul 2022
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