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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

124 - Clifford Koufman

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2015

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Clifford has been studying percussion for over 20 years, including several extended trips to Africa. He teaches in Portland at http://www.soundandrhythm.com.



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0:00.0

Thanks a lot, folks.

0:10.0

Welcome to another episode of The Me Show.

0:32.4

I'm your host.

0:33.4

Me.

0:35.4

Not really.

0:36.4

Not really.

0:37.4

We will have a guest.

0:38.4

Clifford is my guest.

0:40.2

Clifford, who's last name I don't remember, but I'm sure we say it in the conversation.

0:45.3

He was briefly my drumming teacher.

0:49.2

I took drumming lessons because I found a group on and I've always wanted to dabble in

0:54.2

the African drumming scene.

0:56.9

And so I took a few classes and Clifford's a really nice guy and I wanted to talk to

1:02.0

somebody about the mysteries of drumming.

1:04.9

And I knew that he'd been to Africa and been studying percussion for a long time.

1:09.5

So I invited him on the podcast and we talk about drumming.

1:14.2

It's cool.

1:15.2

I'm interested in that stuff.

1:16.4

I suck at it.

1:18.6

But I think it's very important to do things that one sucks at.

1:25.0

And sucking, sucking itself, the word sucking as meaning bad, it's something is kind of

1:30.5

a weird thing.

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