{"id":39719,"date":"2022-11-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=39719"},"modified":"2022-11-18T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:46:47","slug":"todd-sucherman-most-influential-drummers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/todd-sucherman-most-influential-drummers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Influential Drummers Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mzX469bMGPA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>In his 26 years of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/todd-sucherman-performance-gone-gone-gone-styx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drumming with Styx<\/a> &#8211; and even more decades of experience as a clinician, educator and beat-keeper &#8211; Todd Sucherman has watched and learned from his fair share of legendary drummers, even befriending many of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So who else is in a better position to share their passion for the greats?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video is a &#8220;who&#8217;s who&#8221; of the drumming world where you&#8217;ll hear some of Todd&#8217;s stories about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/the-top-100-drummers-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most influential drummers of all time<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/steve-smith-live-lesson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steve Smith<\/a><\/li><li>Lenny White<\/li><li>Mark Brzezicki<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/danny-seraphine-drum-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Danny Seraphine<\/a><\/li><li>Jerry Marotta<\/li><li>The drummers of Steely Dan (Jeff Porcaro\/Jim Gordon)<\/li><li>Tony Williams<\/li><li>Terry Bozzio<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/the-genius-of-phil-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Phil Collins<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Todd features each of these drummers &#8211; and other must-know players &#8211; in individual episodes of his documentary series, <em>Spotlight<\/em>, available exclusively for Drumeo members (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">get a free 7-day trial here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with rare footage and insider info (including the story of how Steve Smith responded to a letter Todd wrote at age 12), you&#8217;ll see Todd demo some of the best licks he&#8217;s learned from each legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you like a solid deep dive into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/most-important-drummers-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drum history<\/a>, this video and the <em>Spotlight<\/em> series are for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson Index:<\/strong><br>0:00 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Crash Of The Crown&#8221; by Styx<br>3:50 &#8211; Introduction<br>6:00 &#8211; What is Todd Sucherman&#8217;s &#8220;Spotlight&#8221; Show?<br>8:30 &#8211; The Genius Of Steve Smith*<br>14:30 &#8211; The Genius Of Lenny White*<br>20:00 &#8211; The Genius Of Mark Brzezicki*<br>25:05 &#8211; The Genius Of Danny Seraphine*<br>29:15 &#8211; The Genius Of Jerry Marotta*<br>35:33 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Coming Out The Other Side&#8221; by Styx<br>38:15 &#8211; The Genius Of Jeff Porcaro and Jim Gordon*<br>41:53 &#8211; The Genius Of Tony Williams*<br>49:54 &#8211; The Genius Of Terry Bozzio* <br>56:50 &#8211; The Genius Of Phil Collins*<br>1:03:17 &#8211; Alta Forma (Antoine Fafard, JK Harrison &amp; Todd Sucherman)*<br>1:09:50 &#8211; Spotlight highlight reel<br>1:12:00 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Renegade&#8221; by Styx<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*Full spotlight episodes available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drumeo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Todd:<\/strong><br>Todd Sucherman is a highly demanded drummer for sessions, clinics, and drum festivals. On top of recording several top 50 albums with Styx and playing an average of 100 dates a year, Todd has recorded over 1,000 radio and TV spots and has worked with a wide variety of artists such as Peter Cetera, Brian Culbertson, Spinal Tap, Michael Bolton, and many more. Todd won the Modern Drummer Magazine Reader&#8217;s poll for #1 Educational DVD and #1 Rock Drummer in 2009, #1 Progressive Rock Drummer in 2015, and #1 Clinician in DRUM! Magazine in both 2009 and 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Todd Plays:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pearldrum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pearl Drums<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/sabian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sabian Cymbals<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/remo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Remo Drumheads<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daddario.com\/products\/percussion\/promark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Promark Drumsticks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow Todd:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/toddsucherman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Website<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/toddsucherman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/toddsuchermanmusic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/toddsucherman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Sucherman highlights some of the most influential drummers of all time and shows some of his favorite licks from each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":39785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-full-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39719"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39795,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39719\/revisions\/39795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}