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Drumeo Podcast

EP39: Interview With Rodney Holmes

Drumeo Podcast

Musora Media, Inc

Drums, Drumlessons, Drumeducation, Education, Lessons, Daveatkinson, Music, Howto, Drumming, Drummer, Jaredfalk, Drumeo

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Rodney Holmes is a multiple Grammy Award winner, having worked with the likes of Carlos Santana, Steve Lukather, the Brecker Brothers, Wayne Shorter, Maceo Parker, Rob Thomas, Al Jarreau, Paul Gilbert, and Steps Ahead, among many others. In this episode, you'll learn more about Rodney's journey: how he got started playing drums, how he developed his skills, his thoughts on drumming education, as well as how he got to play with Santana and what it was like to record "Smooth".

Transcript

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I'm here man on drummio mom check me out

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what's up everybody rich revving here

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hello everyone benny grabs you

0:07.0

hey guys uh... i'm Thomas Lang

0:10.7

i'm ready hey everyone it it's Jarrett here and welcome to another episode of the Drummio Podcast.

0:18.0

This is going to be a great episode.

0:21.0

Now, if you've ever heard the song smooth by Santana and I'm pretty sure everyone has heard that song. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da that that's what what drummer am I mimicking there

0:36.4

none other than Rodney Holmes that's who we have on the show today and I don't know what

0:41.2

Rodney would think about me referencing that song off the top because he's done so many other great things that I'm sure maybe he's more proud of maybe he's not I have no idea but this guy is an incredible drummer an incredible person just

0:56.6

such a nice person to have here in the studio and we had such a good time with him

1:01.2

and so Dave did this interview if you don't know Dave he's the community manager here at drumio he basically books in the artist helps them you know get all the correct gear helps them work on their lesson topics and stuff like that and then he

1:14.4

conducts an interview at the end of their drummio experience and so this interview is a result of that. Now we also filmed an exclusive course with Rodney Holmes.

1:26.6

Now if you'd like to check out any of these exclusive videos that we have as well as the

1:30.8

video of this interview, you got to go to drumio

1:33.4

dot com forward slash trial there's a lot of great things happening inside a drummio

1:38.0

right now when it comes to you know lessons with the legends but also when it comes to other just really cool videos

1:46.8

and educational videos as well as entertaining videos and so as a It's contract less. Okay, so you can leave at any time, although I don't think you're ever going to want to leave. I think you're going to want to stay forever. I know I'm never leaving so go to drummyo.com forward slash

2:14.3

trial and check it out. With that said let's get to the interview with Dave and

2:18.9

Rodney Holmes. Welcome everyone to an interview question and answer time with Mr Rodney Holmes.

2:27.0

Yeah, how you doing man?

2:28.0

I'm doing good.

2:29.0

How are you?

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