Mark Guiliana: "Sound Is More Influential Than Vocabulary"

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Video essay - https://youtu.be/GS0ZG8os8Ww

Everyone calls Mark Guiliana the drummer who fused jazz and electronic music. He played on David Bowie's Blackstar, he's toured for years with St. Vincent, he made a duo record with Brad Mehldau, and Time Out once tried to explain him using actual maths. All true. All, I think, slightly beside the point.

Because the thing Guiliana keeps talking about in his interviews and his clinics isn't sounds or genres at all. It's what a drummer should be preparing in the first place. This is the story of a kid from New Jersey with a cardboard cymbal, and the idea that quietly rewired how a generation of drummers practise.

Chapters:

00:00 In Time, And Really In Time

01:20 Cardboard Cymbals In New Jersey

03:07 Avishai, Heernt And The First Statement

05:40 Bowie Hires A Band

06:37 The Sound

09:33 The Four Tools

10:48 The Plan Is No Plan

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