069 - In Conversation with Damian Erskine - Groove Tools

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4.8 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In today’s podcast we’re talking to Damian Erskine, author of our latest SBL Academy course, Contemporary Groove Techniques. Having honed his chops with some of the best musicians the West coast of America has to offer, Damian Erskine is the real deal. A player of both strength and depth, he more than matches the hard-swinging grooves of his counterparts, not to mention his exceptional soloing. Being the nephew of drummer Peter Erskine, who formed a formidable rhythm section with Jaco Pastori...

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0:00.0	Hey guys, how's it going? Scott here from Scott's Bassessons.com and I'm back with another episode of the SBL podcast.
0:07.5	And this week we've got a returning, a returning interviewee. We've got Damien Erskine with us,
0:13.8	who is, I know many of you will know that Damien is an absolute monster base player. He's based ever in Portland.
0:20.5	And he's just, as I said, an incredible player. He's based ever in Portland.
0:23.5	And he's just, as I said, an incredible player.
0:27.4	He's played with a host of incredible artists.
0:31.4	And he's just one of the coolest guys you'll ever hang out with the two. And which brings me on to say that we did get to hang out over in New York earlier on in 2017 when he was recording
0:40.1	a brand new course for us here in SBL. And it was a real fun experience. Damien shared
0:49.5	all about his right hand technique and he's actually going to talk about this in the interview how he developed his right hand technique and he's actually going to talk about this in the in the interview how he
0:55.0	developed his his right hand technique and and also you know how he how he started to develop that
1:01.4	technique and and specifically how long it took him to actually get into his playing in a real sense
1:06.5	you know so he could use it on gigs it's a really fascinating subject actually because at one point or another,
1:13.0	we're all going to want to change our technique in a certain way.
1:17.5	So it's fascinating, listening to somebody as advanced and proficient as Damien,
1:23.1	talking about this exact subject and how it took him, you know, it took him a while, as it will probably take you.
1:28.7	And it's certainly taken me a while in the past to get technique changes into my plane.
1:34.3	So, so actually, without further ado, I'm going to hand over to Nick, our resident interviewer here on the SPL podcast.
1:43.5	Actually, Nick does a ton of other stuff as well at SBL, but you guys listen to him every week interviewing the guys. So I'm going to hand over to Nick, and I'll catch you at the end of the interview. Take it easy, guys. Hey, guys, welcome back to another episode of the SBL podcast, joined today by Damien Erskine all the way from Portland.
2:01.6	Is that right?
2:02.3	Portland, Oregon.
2:03.5	I saw so, yeah, cool.
2:08.5	We're going to catch up today with Damien because if you haven't heard,
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