{"id":11584,"date":"2018-09-19T11:33:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=11584"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:03:54","slug":"russ-miller-drum-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/russ-miller-drum-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Russ Miller: Becoming A Musician, Not Just A Drummer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tDu_IelLuCI\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Russ Miller comes from a generation of drummers who all grew up playing in bands. Playing music all the time and constantly communicating with other musicians teaches you a skill that sitting alone in a practice room won&#8217;t: the ability to execute <b>music<\/b> on a high level. In fact, Russ makes the argument that some of the skills you need to develop to become a better musician are potentially contrary to what makes a good &#8220;drummer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Music is a language. The best way to learn a language is to practice speaking with other people.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lesson Index<\/b>:<br \/>\n0:00 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Skin Tight&#8221;<br \/>\n4:47 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n8:50 &#8211; About The Lesson<br \/>\n13:48 &#8211; Controlling Sustain<br \/>\n26:18 &#8211; Drum Chops<br \/>\n30:45 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Fields of Gold&#8221; by Sting<br \/>\n45:38 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;I&#8217;m Like A Bird&#8221; by Nelly Furtado<br \/>\n1:00:15 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Run For Your Life&#8221; by Yellow Jackets<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Russ:<\/strong><br \/>\nRuss Miller is the definition of a working, successful drummer, having recorded for various multi-platinum, Grammy award-winning recordings. His level of musicianship, versatility and prowess on the drums have led him to work with artists such as Ray Charles, The Fifth Dimension, Natalie Cole, Tina Turner &amp; Bobby Caldwell, Nelly Furtado, The Psychedelic Furs, Hilary Duff, Steve Perry, Andrea Bocelli, Daniel Bedingfield and Meredith Brooks, among many others. Russ has performed on more than 400 albums, over 60 movie soundtracks, and has crafted four critically acclaimed solo albums. And if all of this wasn\u2019t enough already, this seven-time Modern Drummer readers\u2019 poll winner has authored two very successful educational books and three DVDs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russ Plays:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/mapexdrums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mapex Drums<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zildjian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zildjian Cymbals<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/remo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Remo Drumheads<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vicfirth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vic Firth Sticks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constantly playing music and communicating with other musicians teaches you this skill that sitting alone in a practice room won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038],"tags":[13,152],"class_list":["post-11584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-full-lessons","tag-drum-lessons-2","tag-free-drum-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36250,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584\/revisions\/36250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}