Solo Percussionist, Performer, Educator, Podcaster, and host of Drums and Drams Cameron Leach stops by to talk about his recent PASIC 2022 performance, removing applause breaks, and playing highly difficult music on a deadline (04:00), teaching at Capital University (OH), attaining the Principal Percussion position at the Columbus Symphony, and negotiating for better pay (19:40), maintaining his mental and physical health (41:15), growing up near Columbus, being in pop bands and marching band, and his enjoyment of learning languages (51:30), attending Capital University for undergrad, going to Chosen Vale, and multiple styles of teachers and teaching (01:14:00), getting his Masters at Eastman (NY) with Michael Burritt, and beginning his solo percussion career (01:21:20), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, with sections on developing artist percussionists, sensible clothing, great movies, and much more (01:40:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 documentary film Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (02:02:10).

Links:

Cameron Leach’s website

“63 Across 81 Down” - Ancel Neeley

“Originating Within” - Nick Werth

“Broken Mirrors” - Vera Stanojevic

“I Leave You the Real World” - David Skidmore

Emmanuel Sejourne

Orphic Percussion

Columbus Symphony

Phil Shipley

Jack Jenny

Danse-macabre - Camille Saint-Saens

Cameron Leach on the @percussion podcast in 2022

Drums and Drams

“You’ve Got a Friend in Me” - Randy Newman

Mark Scatterday

“A Little Piece of Heaven” - Avenged Sevenfold

“Disasterpiece” - Slipknot

Jon Merritt

Rhythm X

Bluecoats

Blue Devils

Randall May Carriers

Michael Burritt

Leigh Howard Stevens Marimba Seminar

Bob Breithaupt

She-e Wu

Chosen Vale

Colin Currie

Ryan Kilgore

“Burritt Variations” - Alejandro Viñao

Robert Van Sice

Casey Cangelosi on the podcast in 2017

Arts Leadership Program at Eastman

Drew Tucker

Todd Meehan on the podcast in 2017

Josh Jones on the podcast in 2020

Rob Knopper

Andy Harnsberger on the podcast in 2022

Richard Henson

Chad Floyd

“Over the Rainbow” - Robert Oetomo arrangement

“Astral Dance” - Gordon Stout

“Mirage” - Kasuo Sueyoshi

“Prelude No. 1” - Emmanuel Séjourné

Shooter trailer

The Longest Yard trailer

Drumline trailer

The Dark Knight Rises trailer

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Gods of Egypt trailer

Georges St-Pierre

Khabib Nurmagomedov

Conor McGregor

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof

Wild Turkey 101

King of Kentucky Bourbon

“buttonwood” - Evan Chapman

Raves:

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space - American Experience

Principal Percussionist for the Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra Becca Laurito stops by to talk about her PASIC 2022 presentation on performance anxiety and her focus on sound and energy healing (03:40), her role with the Hawai’i Symphony, the audition process, and the challenges of performing on the island (29:00), growing up in Chicago, playing piano prior to focusing on percussion, and rowing crew (54:05), her undergrad at Northwestern (IL), recovering from a broken clavicle, and making a freelance career early on (01:08:50), going to grad school at Temple (PA) and later to DePaul (IL), and the auditioning process (01:19:45), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions (01:33:15).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2022 film Till (02:04:00).

Links:

Becca Laurito’s website

Flumie

Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra

Raynor Carroll

Brad Davis

Mason Bates

Trey Wyatt

Matt McClung on the podcast in 2022

David Moss

Drive My Car trailer

Symphony No. 1 - Jean Sibelius

Michael Burritt

She-e Wu

James Ross

Alan Abel

Chris Deviney

Lychee fruit

Pita Inn

Good Will Hunting trailer

The Love Guru trailer

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery trailer

Fight Club trailer

Memento trailer

Se7en trailer

Shameless trailer

The Body Keeps the Score - Besser Van Der Kolk

The Life of Pi - Yann Martel

The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

Tom and Jerry classic episodes

Raves:

Till trailer

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Spotify.

Creator of Grover Pro Percussion, Percussionist, Educator, and Music Leader Neil Grover stops by to talk about his PASIC 2022 Presentation on Accessory Percussion Instruments and his thoughts on past PASICs (02:00), growing up on Long Island and gigging in bands growing up (20:00), studying with Vic Firth at the New England Conservatory (MA) (35:35), starting his gigging life post-grad, and his thoughts on organization (44:30), getting into percussion manufacturing and starting Grover Pro Percussion (52:00), his current musical activities and selling the company pre-pandemic (01:17:40), and takes on the Random Ass Questions (01:25:25).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2016 Memoir Lab Girl (01:52:45).

Links:

Neil Grover’s homepage

Keith Aleo on the podcast in 2020

Alan Abel

Ian Finkel

Ronnie Benedict

Frank Zappa

Arturo Toscanini

George Gaber

Vic Firth

Ringo Starr

“Proud Mary” - Tina Turner

“You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” - The Righteous Brothers

“I Say a Little Prayer” - Dionne Warwick (written by Burt Bacharach/Hal David)

Gunther Schuller

Douglas Howard

Fred Hinger

Harvey Vogel

Martin Cohen

Bill Youhass

Mike Balter

Leigh Howard Stevens

Arnie Lang

“Three Cornered Hat” - Manuel De Falla

Maureen Brennan

“Four Mallet Primer” - Neil Grover

RBI Music

Gone With the Wind trailer

Wizard of Oz trailer

Alice’s Restaurant trailer

Max Steiner

The Hunt for Red October trailer

The Cowboys trailer

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World trailer

Raves:

Lab Girl - Hope Jahren

Albany State University (GA) Assistant Professor of Music and Percussion Professor Jillian Baxter returns to talk about her recent PASIC 2022 Diversity Panel she moderated on Black Women Percussionists (03:10), updates on her career and job, challenges of the pandemic, and local performing opportunities (17:10), and an updated Random Ass Questions segment on inspirational books, taking time for herself, cooking for family, and the TV show Scandal (37:35).

 Finishing with a Rave on the Long Island Youth Orchestra Reunion Concert from early January (54:00).

Links:

Jillian Baxter on the podcast in 2020

Jillian Baxter’s faculty page at Albany State

Britton-Rene Collins

Camelia Akhamie Kies

PAS Diversity Alliance

Marimba Concerto - Ney Rosauro

Elayne Jones

Jessica Williams on the podcast in 2020

Boundaries - Henry Cloud and John Townsend

Destiny - TD Jakes

“I Will Survive” - Gloria Gaynor

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Scandal TV series

Raves:

Long Island Youth Orchestra

Percussionist, Composer, Instrument Maker, Sound Designer, Filmmaker, and Dancer Bri Wiegand stops by to talk about her PASIC 2022 presentation on vibraphone twitching and her background in sound design (02:10), her current activities at Penn State (15:30), growing up near Philadelphia, her musical family, her piano background and beginnings of composing and arranging, along with teaching dance (29:35), her undergrad years at Penn State (47:10), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including discussions of IDE issues, costuming fun, horror movies, pro wrestling, and Alvin Lucier (01:03:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2022 film Corsage (01:40:20).

Links:

Bri Wiegand’s PASIC page

Bri Wiegand’s Instagram page

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare

Mark Ballora

Logic Pro

Owen Wilson “Wow” compilation

The Shining recut as a rom-com

“Libertango” - Eric Sammut

Singin’ in the Rain trailer

The Tick first episode from the 1990s

The Tick first episode Live Action

Robot Chicken - Villain Car Pool

“Fool for your Loving” - Flesh Tuxedo

Alfred’s Piano Series

“Rustles of Spring” - Christian Singing

“Solfeggio in C Minor” - CPE Bach

“Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” - JS Bach

“Bohemian Rhapsody” - Queen

“Jump” - Van Halen

“Good Enough” - Evanescence

Lee Hinkle

Dan Armstrong

Gifford Howarth

Baljinder Sekhon

Steven Rice

Corpse Bride trailer

Grand Budapest Hotel trailer

Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter trailer

Murder on the Orient Express trailer

Hisss trailer

Men trailer

Rubber trailer

The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Mindhunter - John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker

The Shining - Stephen King

2001: A Space Odyssey trailer

WWE: Biography

Wawa Meatballs

“Firefish” - Blake Tyson

“I Am Sitting in a Room” - Alvin Lucier

Vibraphone Century

Raves:

Corsage trailer

Percussionist, Mathematician, and Educator Aundre Wesley stops by to talk about his PASIC 2022 presentation on motion capture for snare drummers (03:10), his life in Austin (TX), what it takes to get a degree in linguistics, and learning multiple languages (17:25), growing up in Houston and getting into percussion and tennis (30:15), Marine Corps years after high school in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans (40:30), UT-Austin for undergrad and his path learning math self-taught (51:05), his post graduate life, comparisons of Aural Skills and Math Skills teaching, and mathematicians (01:02:30), and finishing with Random Ass Questions, including discussion of piano and guitar in the percussion curriculum, Spiderman movies, impressions, Houston sports, Brazilian music, IDE issues over various disciplines, and Thelonious Monk and bebop (01:24:45).

Finishing with a Rave on a Paul Simon Tribute Concert and the 2022 Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (01:54:00).

Links:

Aundre Wesley’s website

Tom Burritt on the podcast in 2021

Syntactic Tree Diagrams

Roma trailer

Lamar Burkhalter

Ralph Hardimon

Ralph Hardimon’s Corpsmaster White sticks

ESPN Sports Science

Andy Roddick vs. Roger Federer

Nick Kyrgios serving

Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Rafa Nadal

Intermediate Snare Drum Studies - Mitchell Peters

Syncopation - Ted Reed

12 Studies for Snare Drum - Jacques Delecluse

Fleet Week 2022

Dave Salay

Tom Freer

Georg Cantor

Arnold Schoenberg

Milton Babbitt

Pierre Boulez

“Kreuspiel” - Karlheinz Stockhausen

A Beautiful Mind trailer

Spider-man: No Way Home trailer

Spiderman (2002) trailer

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse trailer

Tracy McGrady Houston Rockets highlights

Yao Ming Houston Rockets highlights

Rafer Alston NBA highlights

David Carr NFL highlights

Leonhard Euler

Osaka - Houston, TX

AvantGarden - Houston, TX

SXSW Conference

Zuri Appleby

Joao Gilberto 1973

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - Live at Carnegie Hall

Thelonious Monk Quartet - Live at the Blackhawk

Monk Alone - San Franciso

Raves:

“You Can Call Me Al” - Dave Matthews

2022 Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Induction

Shenandoah University (VA) Percussion Professor and @Percussion Podcast Host Karli Viña returns to talk about her PASIC 2022 presentations, performing “Aphasia” last year, the benefits of learning theatrical percussion, and the challenges of applying to PASIC (05:05), her new job at Shenandoah and the challenges of moving away from south Florida (28:30), her work on the @Percussion Podcast (56:50), and an updated Random Ass Questions, including the food of south Florida, Staying Composed, TV Shows of note, and the adventures of her chihuahua, Dexter (01:02:45).

Finishing with a Rave of appreciation for the final run of the @Percussion Podcast (01:21:20).

Links:

Karli Viña’s 2019 appearance on the podcast

Karli Viña’s Shenandoah University page

Karli Viña’s homepage

Alvin Singleton

“Argoru VII” - Alvin Singleton

“Aphasia” - Mark Applebaum

Steve Schick

University of Delaware Interactive Percussion Seminar

Quey Percussion Duo

Earl Yowell

Alphonso Young, Jr.

@percussion Podcast Creators Episode

Vesna Duo on the podcast in 2022

Staying Composed - Dale Trumbore

New Girl

Grey’s Anatomy

Raves:

@Percussion Podcast

Ksenija Komljenovic and Liana Pailodze Harron of Vesna Duo stop by to talk about their (then) upcoming performance of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring at PASIC 2022 and the origins of their version of the work (05:35), the challenges of arranging this, along with comparing to the two-piano version of the same work (20:40), the intense experience of recording their album (29:25), piano and percussion as a genre, and the popularity of their version (38:50), and the origins of their duo name, the strength of their partnership, and shooting photos in NYC (48:10).

Finishing with a Rave on the documentary The Conductor (58:45).

Links:

Vesna Duo website

The Rite of Spring - Vesna Duo

Ksenija Komljenovic’s appearance on the podcast in 2020

Ksenija Komljenovic’s website

Liana Pailodze Harron’s website

Mitya Nilov

The Rite of Spring - 2 piano version (Lucas and Arthur Jussen)

Michael Burritt

Ivan Trevino on the podcast in 2022

Concerto No. 1 for marimba - Ney Rosauro

Vesna: Goddess of Spring

“The Ever Evolving Etude” - Avishai Cohen

Raves:

The Conductor trailer

Percussionist, Educator, Composer, Songwriter, Entrepreneur, and Rapper Christopher Thompson (a.k.a. Master Christopher) returns to the podcast to talk about his recent performance at PASIC 2022 (03:10), his personal and professional update for his life since we last talked in 2020 (25:40), and an updated Random Ass Questions segments, including portions on karaoke songs, sports in Philadelphia, UNC/Duke, and taking in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture (49:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2019 film Zombieland: Double Tap (01:04:30).

Links:

Christopher Thompson’s 2020 appearance on the podcast

M.A.P.S. Motivation Project

“Music Desegregation” Videos

Julian Allred

Matt Henry on the podcast in 2017

Shawn Mativetsky

Adam Riviere

Shure Wireless Headset System

“Been Broke” - Toby Nwigwe

“Humble” - Kendrick Lamar

“Bad and Boujee” - Migos

“Mind Yo Business” - Juicy J

“You Gotta Jump to Be Successful” - Steve Harvey

“Can’t Truss It” - Public Enemy

Xavier Ware drum solo

Lamon Lawhorn on the podcast in 2020

John’s Roast Pork

Cookout

“Let’s Get It On” (Live) - Marvin Gaye

Bojangles

Villanova beats UNC for national championship

UNC - Duke Final Four 2022

Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Raves:

Zombieland: Double Tap trailer

Western Carolina University Percussion Professor Adam Groh stops by to talk about his percussion ensemble’s PASIC 2022 performance on the New Music Research Day (04:30), his job at WCU, his predecessor, the Marching Band there, the town of Cullowee and the remoteness of the campus (19:15), growing up in St. Louis, band experiences, playing drumset, and lacrosse (35:20), his undergrad years at Truman State University (MO) (49:30), eventually getting to Florida State for the master’s and studying with John W. Parks IV (01:02:10), getting his doctorate with Tom Burritt at UT-Austin (01:11:20), teaching at Graceland University in Iowa (01:20:00), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions (01:29:15).

Finishing with a Rave of Appreciation for the live of Marching Mizzou member Alex Jackson (01:56:00).

Links:

Adam Groh’s website

Adam Groh’s Western Carolina University page

Western Carolina’s PASIC page

Inti Figgis-Vizueta

Diana Loomer

Melinda Leoce’s appearance on the podcast in 2021

Mario Gaetano

Matt Henley

Giant Steps - John Coltrane

“Enter Sandman” - Metallica

“Night Moves” - Bob Seger

“Sharp Dressed Man” - ZZ Top

“Sweet Home Alabama” - Lynyrd Skynyrd

“All The Small Things” - Blink 182

“All Downhill From Here” - New Found Glory

“Basket Case” - Green Day

“‘97” - Alkaline Trio

“Undone” - Weezer

Michael Bump

Kent Lineberry

Glenn Kotche

Tom Burritt on the podcast in 2021

“First Construction” - John Cage

So Percussion

“Last Train Home” - Pat Metheny

Birdman soundtrack - Antonio Sanchez

Shaw Communications

Ghostbusters (1984) trailer

Oliver Molina on the podcast in 2022

Bluey

FC Liverpool

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Timshel

Imo’s Pizza

Urban Chestnut

Pappy’s Smokehouse

Ted Drewes Frozen Custard

“I Want It That Way” - Backstreet Boys

“Honeybee, 1820” - Evan Chapman

“Bad Guy” - Billie Eilish

“Burn the House Down” - AJR

“Grace” - Marcus Mumford

Sol LeWitt

Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival

Raves:

Alex Jackson obituary