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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.
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The Drum Panel: The Rockefeller Center Method
4 november 2026 · 49 min
This week on Drummers on Drumming, we’re back with another installment of The Drum Panel with Brendan Buckley and Luke Adams. Lees meer
Brendan has toured and recorded with Shakira, Morrissey, Tegan and Sara, Perry Farrell, and many others. Luke is an LA drummer, producer, mixer, and studio owner who works across touring, recording, and remote sessions.
In this episode:
Why freelancers often confuse a busy calendar with personal worth
How turning down the wrong gigs can also make the phone stop ringing
Why time away from the drums can sometimes improve your playing
Learning to practice the skills your actual work demands
Why playing slowly may be harder and more useful than playing fast
Finding the strongest time feel in a band, even when it isn’t the bass player
The subtle ways drummers guide a band through breakdowns and tempo changes
The difference between developing a good sound and creating a gimmick
Why a live drum track should offer something programming cannot
If you enjoy the show, please rate and review it wherever you listen!
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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.
For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and …
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The Drum Panel: The state of feel
28 oktober 2026 · 38 min
This week on Drummers on Drumming, we’re back with another installment of The Drum Panel with Fred Eltringham and Sterling Laws. Lees meer
Fred is the longtime drummer for Sheryl Crow and has also played with The Wallflowers, The Chicks, and k.d. lang. Sterling is a drummer, producer, and musical director whose credits include Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, Kim Gordon, and Liz Phair.
Highlights from this episode:
The danger of treating a hired gig like you have ownership in the project
Why loyalty and hard work never make a touring musician fully irreplaceable
Loving certain drummers even when their influence never appears in your playing
What’s the state of feel?
Why the list of great drummers is much longer than the list you would trust to represent you
How recording yourself can prepare you for the pressure of a major session
We also work through a listener question about measuring success when you’re a hired player. If you have something you’d like us to discuss on a future episode, submit it below.
Got a question for The Drum Panel?
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If you enjoy the show, please rate and review it wherever you listen!
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Get Your Copy of the Drummers on Drumming Book Today
🎯 Click here to order now!
Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.
For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, …
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The Drum Panel: What you don't know is part of your voice
21 oktober 2026 · 37 min
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This week on Drummers on Drumming, we're back with another installment of The Drum Panel with my co-host Eric Urrea and guest Ben Masters.
Ben is a drummer, producer, and songwriter here in LA who's worked with artists like Grace VanderWaal, LÉON, and friend of the pod Chance Fameghetti, AKA Free Arlo. He's also someone whose musical instincts I've really come to admire, especially when it comes to knowing what a song needs and what it doesn't.
In this episode:
Why the music you haven't listened to might be just as important to your musical identity as the music you have
How percussion can completely change the momentum of a song without changing the drum groove
Why playing the same songs hundreds of times might actually make you a more attentive musician
Being happier than ever with your career while questioning whether you can sustain the pace
Practical ways to deal with nerves, physical tension, and losing focus onstage
What actually makes someone a “good hang”
Why audiences might notice something without ever realizing it.
We also answer our first listener-submitted questions! If you've got something you'd like us to discuss on a future episode, please write in via the link at the top of the shownotes.
If you enjoy the show, please rate and review it wherever you listen!
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Get Your Copy of the Drummers on Drumming Book Today
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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.
For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out …
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The Drum Panel Needs Your Questions!
14 oktober 2026 · 5 min
This week on Drummers on Drumming, I'm taking a quick break from our usual format to ask for your help! Lees meer
First, a huge thank you to everyone who filled out the recent listener survey. Your feedback has already helped improve the show, and I want to keep that going.
I'm officially introducing Listener Questions as a regular part of The Drum Panel. The idea is simple: You submit questions, and I'll bring them to the panel for discussion.
Have a question for The Drum Panel?
[SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION HERE]
Nothing is too simple, too obvious, or too ridiculous. You don't need to be a professional drummer, either.
Some ideas to get you thinking:
Motivation, practice habits, and getting out of a creative rut
Navigating gigs, band dynamics, and the music industry
Technique, gear, and developing your own sound
Balancing music with work, family, and everyday life
Opinions, frustrations, or anything you've always wanted to ask other drummers
You can submit anonymously, and the link will be available in the show notes of every episode moving forward.
Thanks again for listening and helping make this show better. I'll be back next week with a regular episode and some great guests on the way!
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Get Your Copy of the Drummers on Drumming Book Today
🎯 Click here to order now!
Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.
For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook…
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The Drum Panel: Tantric drumming...
7 oktober 2026 · 44 min
This week on Drummers on Drumming (powered by Big Fat Snare Drum), we’re back with another installment of The Drum Panel with Mark Stepro and Chase Elodia. Lees meer
Mark plays with The Wallflowers and has worked with artists like Butch Walker and Brett Dennen, and Chase plays with Hudson Freeman and is getting ready to release his new record, Real Ones, on October 23rd.
Check out Chase's music HERE
We continue putting the new Drum Panel format to work, using a few loose categories to give the conversation some direction without keeping us from going down whatever rabbit holes come up.
In this episode:
What people are actually getting when they hire you beyond someone who can play the parts
Knowing a song well enough that you don’t need the usual safety nets
Adding drums to a song without ruining what already makes it great
Getting so good at serving other artists that your own music gets neglected
Whether music actually needs to be released to feel finished
Translating what an artist says they want into what they actually mean
Records that gave us permission to make different choices behind the kit
Finding creativity inside really simple drum parts
Whether “serving the song” can become an excuse for not making an interesting choice
Touring, having a family, and accepting that there might not actually be such a thing as balance
Plus, Tom Petty, Steve Ferrone, Brian Devendorf, Alan Myers, Stewart Copeland, Vinnie Colaiuta, and a lot more.
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Get Your Copy of the Drummers on Drumming Book Today
🎯 Click here to order now!
Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voic…
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The Drum Panel: did someone leave shoes in the dryer ?
30 september 2026 · 43 min
This week on Drummers on Drumming, we’re back with another installment of The Drum Panel with Eric Urrea and William Goldsmith. Lees meer
William is the drummer for Sunny Day Real Estate and was also the original touring drummer for Foo Fighters. I’ve had him on the podcast before, and he’s incredibly funny, down to earth, and always really thoughtful about this stuff without taking any of it too seriously.
We continue putting the new Drum Panel format to work this week, hitting questions from The Work, The Playing, The Why, Drummer Problems, Records + Drummers, The Hang, and Hot Takes.
In this episode:
The stuff we leave out when people ask how our careers are going
Who first made us comfortable enough to sound bad in front of them
Getting out of your own way when coming up with drum parts
How much of our taste was decided when we were kids
Why certain drum sounds just feel right to us
What to do when you hate the programmed drum part you’re being asked to play
The difference between playing the part and figuring out what somebody actually wants from it
Drummers people assume influenced us who really didn’t
Hitting too hard in the studio
Playing the record exactly versus capturing the spirit of the original drummer
Some pretty fucking great stories involving David Bowie, Foo Fighters, Sunny Day Real Estate, and more
As always, we also end up talking about creativity, influence, ego, and all the shit we should probably be paying therapists to listen to.
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Get Your Copy of the Drummers on Drumming Book Today
🎯 Click here to order now!
Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find y…
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The Drum Panel: be where your pigfeet are
23 september 2026 · 45 min
This week on Drummers on Drumming, we’re back with another installment of The Drum Panel with Eric Urrea and Gunnar Olsen. Lees meer
We’re continuing with the new format for the Panel, using a few loose categories to give the conversation some direction without keeping us from going down whatever rabbit holes come up.
A lot of this one ended up being about how your relationship with drums changes the longer you do it.
In this episode:
The gigs you would've killed for ten years ago that you might not take now
Separating being busy from actually feeling successful
What happens to your playing when you get nervous
How much technique actually matters if what you’re doing sounds good
Knowing when a song actually needs a fill
Why constantly recording and analyzing yourself can sometimes take something away from playing
Leaving a band when you still love the people in it
Drummers we understand completely differently now than we did when we were younger
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Get Your Copy of the Drummers on Drumming Book Today
🎯 Click here to order now!
Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.
For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok
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The Drum Panel: The kickflip of drums (NEW FORMAT)
16 september 2026 · 56 min
This week on Drummers on Drumming, we’re back with another installment of The Drum Panel with Eric Urrea and Cain Daniel. Lees meer
This episode is also a test run for a new format for the Panel. After going through the listener survey, I wanted to give these conversations a little more structure while still leaving plenty of room for us to go wherever the conversation takes us.
In this episode:
What actually makes you recommend another drummer for a gig
What we’re listening to while we play that has nothing to do with the drums
How we choose the right gear for different gigs
Taking a gig you really want when the money sucks
Famous drum parts we might not understand the hype around
Horrible gigs that somehow led to something good
Having your own voice versus being adaptable enough to make a living
Whether you actually need to read music to be a professional drummer
A few Hot Takes to finish things off
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Get Your Copy of the Drummers on Drumming Book Today
🎯 Click here to order now!
Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.
For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok
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The Drum Panel: Can I practice having better taste?
9 september 2026 · 40 min
This week on Drummers on Drumming, we’re back with another installment of The Drum Panel. Lees meer
I’m joined by Eric Urrea, an independent drummer from Chicago who plays with Marina City and La Armada, and Adam Christgau, who has toured and recorded with artists like LP, Troye Sivan, MARINA, Sia, Miley Cyrus, Angel Olsen, Kacey Musgraves, Tegan and Sara, and more.
I had just finished a week of rehearsals where we were recording everything, listening back, and picking apart what was actually working. So I came into this one with a bunch of thoughts I wanted to throw at Eric and Adam.
In this episode:
Why the best-sounding snare might not be the most fun one to play
Tuning drums for the microphone versus the room
Shells vs plugins
Why dynamics might matter just as much as timing
The painful importance of recording and listening back to yourself
Why a great-feeling show doesn’t always sound great the next day
Whether you can actually practice having better taste
Learning the difference between what you think you’re playing and what’s actually coming out
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Get Your Copy of the Drummers on Drumming Book Today
🎯 Click here to order now!
Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.
For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok
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The tests results came back...
4 september 2026 · 9 min
Thanks again for filling out the survey! Lees meer
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Get Your Copy of the Drummers on Drumming Book Today
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Drummers on Drumming (the book) takes you inside the stories, records, and moments that shaped some of the world’s greatest drummers. Built on the Big Fat Five format of digging into top influences, it’s packed with candid interviews and personal insights. Whether you’re just starting out or have been playing for years, this book is here to inspire you to sharpen your skills and find your own voice behind the kit.
For more information on Big Fat Snare Drum, check out www.bigfatsnaredrum.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok
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