The intro to a song can create a signature for the song as a whole. For a majority of the music you listen to, you know what the song is going to be within the first couple of seconds. This makes the introduction of a song critical in the writi

Our Favorite Female Drummers

Jun 16th, 2020 43m 53s

Female drummers don’t get near the visibility or respect they deserve. This week we wanted to showcase some of our favorite female drummers and hopefully share with you the absolute magnitude of their ability and musicality. These are monster m

Half-Time

Jun 2nd, 2020 1h 3m

The term half-time sparks images of Beyoncé dancing around a stage, Coldplay creating wild visuals, Bruno Mars mars-ing all over the place. But today, we’re talking about musical half-time, meaning switching a song from full-time (4/4) to one h

You Complete Me

May 26th, 2020 59m 42s

Polyrhythms are complex rhythmic structures that layer various rhythms on top of one another. Some songs are able to achieve polyrhythms without the listener knowing, others want to shove them in your face and knock you out of sync with the ban

Count to Five

May 19th, 2020 59m 42s

Can you count to five? Good, because in this episode you’re going to need to. We’re exploring odd time signatures and helping break down what makes them unique (and more importantly, what makes them similar). We want you to leave this episode f

Where's The One?

May 12th, 2020 57m 25s

Have you ever been jamming along to the intro of a song, maybe a rad guitar lead or backbeat, and then the rest of the band comes in and it feels like you’re a beat behind? They do this on purpose, just to fake you out. But that’s the fun of mu

Our Inspirations

May 5th, 2020 1h 2m

Welcome back for episode two of Beat Talk! Today, we're diving into our biggest sources of inspiration as drummers. The drummers we talk about in today's episode helped shape our musical identity and are a huge part of the reasons why we began

Bill Clinton Swag

Apr 27th, 2020 1h 25m

While we’re stuck at home during what is sure to be known as “that time” when we look back on it in a few years, we decided to take the leap and do what we had been talking about doing for a year: record a podcast of conversations between two m

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