Sarah Thawer has been involved in many things since her first time in the podcast, including international drum festivals and drum clinics, major video shoots for the companies she endorses, Drumeo, VF Jams, and international touring with Watsky. It is absolutely crazy what she has been accomplishing. In this episode we're going to chat about how her life has changed since we last talked, how she balances being spontaneous with having a well organized life, and being real in social media.

In this episode, Rashid talks in detail about the importance of following "the blueprint" to be successful. He shares how this road has been forged already and that all a player really needs to do is follow that road. You have to build a solid foundation. Create your brand on something that can withstand the load that you will place on it as you grow into your new opportunities. If you don’t use the blueprint, it is quite possible that you may have nothing in the end and your house of cards will crumble.

This episode is based on Brian’s Instagram where he shares these #BFMThoughts: small quotes that he has written that all have this flavor of a “cautionary prescription”. With Brian’s appearances at Drumeo, you get this strong sense of a thankful and humble man behind the kit and I always love how this comes across with my interviews. It goes without saying that given the subject matter and Brian’s personality, the BFMThoughts route really brought out some great stuff.

The Victoria Drum Festival celebrated its 10th year anniversary this year and what an amazing job Murray and his team did! So why would someone decide that they would like to run a drumming festival? As Murray explains in this short interview, it was a way for him to celebrate the tenth anniversary of is business “Groove Studios” and inspire the local drumming community simultaneously. Join us for this episode so you can get a glimpse of what goes into making such a huge festival a reality.

This episode is not about the show "Seinfeld". Instead, this is an episode about nothing ... well that isn’t entirely true. I mean, it is about stuff but it doesn’t have a trajectory. You see most interview style podcasts, should at least, stay away from sounding too much like a conversation and more like an event that features conversation. It shouldn’t sound like a couple of buddies hanging out with microphones. But what happens when you have a VO artist on the other end? Well that changes EVERYTHIN

Rob Wallis is a co-founder, along with Paul Seigel, of DCI Music Video, later to be Hudson Music. Rob being a longtime provider of content to the drumming community; Rob is the OG of video content.

In this episode we talk about watches, audiophile equipment, a gruesome skiing incident involving Carter and his friend, that one fateful morning working at Manny’s Music when the Twin Towers came crashing down, a memorable lesson with Peter Erskine, his new book, and the switch the Ludwig. A lot, in other words, and it is all dealt in a rapid-fire type fashion. This is a rather short episode considering the sheer vastness of subject matter.

In this episode, Bruce Becker shares his thoughts concerning long-term development by walking us through some of the most important layers within this topic with clarity, providing us with a sense of reassurance and guiding us towards a solid path. Besides discussing such important aspects of drumming, we also go into a very interesting conversation about balancing our personal passions with the people that share their lives with us and our day-to-day obligations.

In this episode we talk about the Aristocrats, what Marco Minnemann’s practice routine looked like when he was developing early on, his creative process with composing music, his thoughts on hand/foot speed (this is something everyone needs to hear), Joe Satriani and my musical banana shirt. There is other stuff in here too. Enjoy! ;)

Jose Medeles is the owner of the vintage drum shop Revival Drum Shop, the author of "The Stoic Drummer", and one of the members of 1939 Ensemble. In this episode, we use his book as our reference point to a wandering conversation that dips heavily into some topics concerning who we are. Why do we play drums? What are our thoughts? What is fear? And how do we nourish ourselves with self love? May this episode open your mind and heart, and feel a sense of gratitude for having the gift of drumming.