{"id":32952,"date":"2021-12-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=32952"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:53:56","slug":"godmother-of-drumming-whats-my-age-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/godmother-of-drumming-whats-my-age-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Godmother Of Drumming Plays &#8220;What&#8217;s My Age Again?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WTu09li_4Fo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Dorothea Taylor (the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/dont-judge-a-drummer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">godmother of drumming<\/a>)&#8217;s version of blink-182&#8217;s classic track &#8220;What&#8217;s My Age Again&#8221; is the perfect bird-flip for anyone who thinks you need to be a fresh-faced 20 year old to be a drummer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One reason why this song is perfect for Dorothea is how Travis Barker uses rudiments in the intro (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/why-paradiddles-are-so-important\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dorothea is the rudiment queen)<\/a>. Barker was a marching drummer in school and it&#8217;s cool how he incorporated that training into his drum parts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/flam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flams<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/five-stroke-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">five stroke rolls<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/pataflafla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pataflaflas<\/a>&#8230;who would&#8217;ve thought you&#8217;d ever hear these in punk rock drumming?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re never too old or too young to start playing drums,&#8221; says Dorothea. As a testament to this, she&#8217;s officially challenging Travis Barker to a drum battle. Think we can make it happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(P.S. If you catch someone judging too many books by their cover, share these videos with them)<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6wkCsnFRuwg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudiments in punk rock? Grandma drummers? Let&#8217;s crush all the stereotypes in one video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":33036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4021,4016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performances-and-playalongs","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32952"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33071,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952\/revisions\/33071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}