Hey Pete, you look different.

Yeah, I actually lost a little weight and got a chin job.

You sound different, too. I'm Adam Maness, and I'm Jeff Klapp.

And you're listening to the You'll Hear It podcast.

Brought to you by Open Studio this week.

This week, we have a very special guest in the Podcave.

We have friend of the podcast friend of open

studio friend of peter martin friend of mine now the great mr jeff clap and a big fan of you both

oh man thank you for being here absolutely thanks for having me oh man so jeff is in st louis we're playing

this opera terence blanchard's new opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

Killing. Amazing. Amazing. And I thought we'd have them on. Because we have some relevant things

to talk about. Absolutely. And Terrence being from New Orleans too. So today we're going to dig in to

New Orleans, to drummers from New Orleans that Jeff recommends because you live there

20 years 20 years yeah and are deep into that scene love that scene still my heart's still there

so we did this episode uh it was last week I forget what it was about but I'd mention that one of my

teachers Hal Galper told me to you know have a second line snare drum solo going in my head while I improvise and taking out most of it, but using that as sort of the basis of my rhythmic vocabulary. And then we got a flood of emails like, hey, who should I check out? And like, it's one of those things, like, I don't feel that qualified to rattle off a bunch of, I mean, I know some bigger names, but it's cool that we have you here because you are a bit of an expert.

Man, I used to follow hurling around like a puppy dog.

It's Hurling Riley.

Hurling Riley, yeah.

And he is a master of New Orleans drummer.

He could groove on, you know, anything and it can be hit upon.

And his snare drum solos are definitely the quintessential, what is a second-line drum solo on a snare drum? Yeah. Him, you know, it's amazing. So, okay, so could you, you brought your brushes here, which is convenient. Okay. Could you demonstrate a little bit of what we're talking about when, for someone who might not know at all, what we're talking about?

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