Can you make drumming gigs magically appear just by pretending you have an audition coming up? Not really- but here's something that I think is worth your while...

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Most of the time, you'd rather be early than late, right? Well when it comes to drumming, that isn't ALWAYS the case...

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If you're a drum clinician, or someone who LOVES to play drum solos, you might not like what I have to say today...

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Today, I'll teach you a MAGIC trick on the drums

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Make a mistake playing drums? Don't fix it! Do it again!I have had a great day today. It's been a busy past few days for me. We had a rehearsal for All Sons & Daughters for our upcoming tour. On Thursday, I'll stop talking in days of the week, because I realize not everyone listens to this the day I record it. About four or five days ago, before the weekend, I had a rehearsal with All Sons & Daughters for tour and then on Friday, went back to the same studio where we rehearsed and had a session. I talked about that, I think, on that day, on Friday.Saturday we had a show with All Sons & Daughters, so we traveled up to Illinois, played a show, drove back yesterday, which would be Sunday and got back in the middle of the day. Today, had another rehearsal with All Sons & Daughters for the tour. That's been great. It's been a lot of fun to go through these new songs and really nitpick those and find what works and what doesn't work. Get a chance to play a lot of new songs all at once, which is always fun. Also, it can be really tiring to focus that long. It's almost like playing a session when you have to pay attention and put your energy into songs. You might play them over and over again, but you still have to focus and make sure you're paying attention to what you're playing and listening to yourself, and all kinds of stuff. Maybe I'll talk about that some day, about rehearsing.Right now, I am sweating and my mouth is on fire, because I just finished eating some Thai curry. I told them to give me a two-spice, which they do the 1-5 on the spice level. I think these people were like getting done for the day and decided they wanted to empty out their spice bucket or whatever the stuff is they put in there, because it was really hot for a two. My wife and I were down there eating, we were like crying. She said, you look like your lips are swollen. They probably are. Anyway, that's what's happening with me. Also, I think that... here's what I don't get. Why does curry retain heat so well? I feel like that and, if you've ever been up to Canada, Tim Hortons coffee, those things stay hot for forever.

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Some secrets and insights about what it really is like in a professional recording session for a drummer.I just walked inside from taking the trash out. That's the honest, glamorous life of a professional drummer in Nashville, you still take your own trash out. We didn't get the butler to do it this time. We gave them the day off. I hope you can tell I'm kidding, we don't have a butler. That's a whole other episode of the podcast, about what it's really like, the finances of being a professional drummer.But you probably don't want to hear that right now, and if you do, it's too late, because I recorded this. It's not live. But, what was I saying ... Oh yeah, I took the garbage out. The reason I took the garbage out, I've been waiting until it cooled off enough here and stopped raining to take the garbage out. It finally did, and it's actually pleasant outside right now here in Nashville, which is a rare occurrence.Speaking of Nashville, I wanted to talk to today, and after I got thinking about this I was like, oh man, I have probably three hours of material that relates to this topic. I thought I'd just kind of generally touch on it today and then we'll get into more specifics down the road. But what I wanted to talk about today was this.

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How to deal with making mistakes in big situations- and how things aren't always as bad as we think they are.Transcript: Hey, how's it going? Welcome to another episode of Drummer Daily. I'm Daniel. Thanks for listening. Today I want to tell you a story and then relate it back to something to do with drumming. Yesterday I have an office that's downstairs in our house near the front door. My wife works from home. So do I. We have a son. He was outside playing with some friends, and you hear screaming and crying all throughout the time that he's outside playing. He's got some friends on our street that he plays with all the time outside.Anytime, yesterday I'm working and I hear just wailing, just crying, like the end of the world just happened. Once you get to know your kids, you get to know their cries and what things mean. I knew he hadn't hurt himself. I thought maybe the kid had been really mean to him or something. There was something that was just destroying him. I go out there to find out ... I don't always go out when he's crying to try to not make a big deal about it and hopefully he'll learn not to always cry about everything and only cry when it's a big deal, which is something we're working on. Anyway, go outside and I'm like, "What is going on? What is happening?" He told me that Hans Solo was lost in the bushes.TO back up a little bit, my brother and I, we both played with Star Wars toys when we were kids, and my brother ended up with most of the old toys. Most of those toys he ended up having them stored away with him in Seattle. For his birthday, my son really wanted some Star Wars toys because he had seen the new movie and loved it. We got him a few of the new ones, but he really wanted a lot, and so I was like, "It would be so cool to pass down some of my toys to my son because they're exactly the same as the new ones, so why not?" Long story short, my brother shipped some to me, and it includes one of the Hans Solo figures from the '80s.Anyway, my son and his friend were outside, and my son had lost Hans Solo in the bushes out in front of our house. It's funny because that's what caused him to be so upset, was that he had lost Hans Solo. The resolution to that story is that I went out and found Hans Solo pretty quickly. It was around top of the bushes. He hadn't fallen into the bush. He had actually been caught by the other top layer of the bush, and that's where he was.Anyways, flash back 2 to 3 weeks ago, and he has this really nice awesome scooter that he rides around on, and the back wheel has one of those roller blade wheels with the break on it, and the break had broken on, and so he can't really stop anymore, so he can't ride his scooter until we get him a new one. He actually much less upset about that than he was about Hans Solo being temporarily missing. All that to say the things that we choose to make a big deal, and I'm talking about when we make mistakes playing drums, a lot of things that we choose to make a big deal about to ourselves the outside world doesn't think of those things as being as big of a deal.Basically what I'm trying to get at here is if you make a mistake in drumming, and the reason why it even matters what other people think is that drumming is a performance based thing. Part of the reason why most people play drums is that so other people can hear you play. You're trying to give something to those other people. Their perception of what you're doing actually can be important. When we make mistakes, the things we choose to make a big deal about don't actually always matter that much to everyone else.

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Is this podcast as good as the last 3 Hobbit movies? Probably not, but they DO have something in common. Oh yeah, and we'll talk about having fun while you practice on the drums too!Hey, how's it going? I hope you are ready because I am to bust into this sweet cornucopia of drumming awesomeness. I don't know if you can tell or not, but I make these up every time right when I hit record, so I apologize. I don't know what to say about that, I'm sorry. We are to day 3 of 3 on our series on how to have more fun practicing the drums. Today we're going to talk about something that piggy backs off of what we talked about in the last episode. It's a recap. Day 1 we talked about how you can have more fun practicing the drums if you can work on getting your drums to sound as good as possible to you, like how much more fun it is to play drums that actually sound good to you.

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Today I have a confession to make about how I've practiced my whole life.You're listening to to the Drummer Daily Podcast. The only daily podcast dedicated just to drummers. Go to my website at danielhadaway.com. Hey, hey there good to talk to you again today. As I mentioned, yesterday, we are now going to be in part two of three of my miniseries, my three-part opus, my trilogy of epic awesomeness on having more fun playing. Not having more fun playing drums, having more fun practicing the drums. It's always fun to play the drums I think, but practice is what's not always so fun.Today, I want to talk to you about ... Well, I have a confession to make, and then also a tip that kind of comes out of that. My confession is this; I have been playing drums for ... How long has it been now? 27 Years. 27 Years, that's a long time, which you do the math on that, you might figure how old I am, not that it really matters. I'm not scared of that. Anyway, I've been playing drums for 27 years. That's a long time. From day one of playing the drums, until this very moment, now, I'm talking to you, I think realistically I have maybe only played drums, or practiced drums with just me and the drums, probably ten or less times in my entire life.I would guess that most of those times were either during a lesson that I was taking, or, let's see ... I was prepping for an audition for when I played for this Christian artist Rebecca St. James, years and years ago. When I was preparing to audition for her, for her band, I practiced a couple of times the songs that I needed to play. I practiced those from memory to make sure that I had them completely learned without any reference from music. All the rest of the time, I have practiced playing along with music. I mean when I was five years old, there was a boom box blaring music, and I was playing drums with it. All throughout being a teenager, there were headphones on my head, and I never didn't play with music. That's what I was about to say that. I always played with music.What that means for me ... Here's the thing about it, is that I think of myself as maybe a music fan first and foremost. Then I also happen to play the drums. I really love a good song. I really love all of the instrumentation that goes into a great song, or a great performance, or a great band, or for church, you know, a great worship service. I really enjoy every aspect of music. I find a lot of enjoyment in listening to music and seeing it be played live. So much so, that even when I'm playing ... That's maybe why I enjoy playing such simple beats so much, is because I am able to be a part of something that I am perceiving to be bigger. I'm actually, even though I'm playing the drums and the music, I'm actually enjoying the fact that the overall band is sounding great, and I get to be a part of it.

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Today is the first of a 3-day series that's all about how to have more fun while practicing the drums. Because we all know that if we have fun doing something, we tend to do MORE of it!

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