4.8 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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In this bonus mini-episode, Matt Chamberlain talks about his obsessive quest to become a great drummer; working with legendary teachers such as Jack Dejohnette; and how he broke through and became one of his generation's most admired and prolific drummers.
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0:00.0 | Here's a bonus outtake from our interview with Matt Chamberlain. |
0:03.4 | You can hear Matt's full-length episode, |
0:05.3 | and you can browse our growing archives of past episodes for free |
0:09.3 | by subscribing to the trap set on iTunes or your favorite podcast app. |
0:14.2 | Was there a year where you felt like you hit a tipping point |
0:17.2 | and the work started pouring in? |
0:21.6 | Yeah. |
0:24.6 | Trying to think when that, there was, |
0:30.6 | there was two records that I did that came out at the same time, or within the same year, I think. |
0:32.6 | And it was that Wallflower's record and Fiona Apple's first record. |
0:36.6 | And within that year, And it was that Wallflower's record and Fiona Apple's first record. |
0:46.7 | And within that year, there was also Tori Amos did that choir girl hotel record with her, which was, it was her record where she had a band for the first time. |
0:50.9 | So all those records came out within a year of each other, and they all did really well. |
0:55.4 | And then drumming was all really great on them. They let me play. Thanks. They let me play. |
1:00.5 | The other cool thing, I guess the interesting thing, actually, is that they were all so different. |
1:06.4 | You couldn't really apply the same thing. I couldn't apply the way I played in the wallflowers to Fiona |
1:11.4 | because she was more of an R&B singer at the time and we were trying to figure out a different |
1:17.8 | way to make her sound unique because she could have easily have done the programmer |
1:23.9 | dude with synths kind of thing because her voice is very, it's that kind of like soulful thing. |
1:31.7 | And so luckily the producer of that record hired John Bryan and got some quirky elements |
1:37.8 | in there. |
1:38.2 | And we experimented a lot with drum sounds and try to make the drums sound like they were |
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