{"podcast":{"title":"Drummers on Drumming","slug":"drummers-on-drumming-743881","podcast_index_feed_id":743881,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BFSD7009217936","website_url":"http://thedrumclick.com/category/big-fat-five/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b0868584-72ff-11eb-8e01-d33fae48fe5f/image/079ef2615281b6b5c8d13ee037841282.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Ben Hilzinger","episode_count":300,"summary":"A podcast for drummers who think too much. Ben Hilzinger talks to the greats about creativity, identity, staying sane, and finding purpose behind the kit. Powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. For more inforamtion, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T06:27:09.910664+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/drummers-on-drumming-743881"},"episode":{"title":"The Drum Panel: Chick Corea's cheap but good advice for playing music in a group PART TWO","slug":"the-drum-panel-chick-corea-s-cheap-but-good-advice-for-playing-music-in-a-group-part-two","published_at":"2026-06-03T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/drummers-on-drumming-743881/the-drum-panel-chick-corea-s-cheap-but-good-advice-for-playing-music-in-a-group-part-two","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/drummers-on-drumming-743881","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/BFSD9018066534.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/BFSD9018066534.mp3","summary":"Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This episode is a new installment of The Drum Panel, and it’s Part TWO of TWO of diving into Chick Corea’s Cheap But Good Advice For Playing Music in a Group. I’m joined by good friend of mine ⁠Rafa Vidal⁠, who also plays with the band Almost Monday, who are currently killing it, and of course ⁠Eric Somers-Urrea ⁠is back on the panel. In Part One, we covered numbers 1 through 6. Today, we’re finishing the list with numbers 7 through 16, which get into some really good stuff: balance, intention, taste, space, relaxation, ego, and what it actually means to serve the music. As always with The Drum Panel, we’re not pretending to have all the answers. We’re just using these ideas as a jumping-off point to talk about playing music, being in bands, staying creative, and trying to become better musicians without losing our minds. ——— Chick Corea's Cheap But Good Advice For Playing Music in a Group. Play only what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything. Don’t let your fingers and limbs wander. Place them intentionally. Don’t improvise on endlessly. Play something with intention, develop it or not, then end off and take a break. Leave space. Create space. Intentionally create places where you don’t play. Make your sound blend. Listen to your sound and adjust it to the rest of the band and the room. If you play more than one instrument at a time, like a drum kit or multiple keyboards, make sure they are balanced with one another. Don’t make any of your music mechanically or just through patterns of habit. Create each sound, phrase, and piece with choice, deliberately. Guide your choice of what to play by what you like, not by what someone else will think. Use contrast and balance the elements:…","meta_description":"Welcome back to Drummers on Drumming, powered by Big Fat Snare Drum. This episode is a new installment of The Drum Panel, and it’s Part TWO of TWO of divi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3002,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/drummers-on-drumming-743881/episodes/the-drum-panel-chick-corea-s-cheap-but-good-advice-for-playing-music-in-a-group-part-two/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/drummers-on-drumming-743881/the-drum-panel-chick-corea-s-cheap-but-good-advice-for-playing-music-in-a-group-part-two.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}