Today on the show we have the honour and the pleasure of sitting down with Paul Wertico. If you’re at all familiar with the all-time great drummers of the world or you’re a jazz fan then you’ll know his name and his work. [ Ссылка ]

Paul is a 7-time Grammy Award winner, perhaps best known for his almost 20 years playing with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny where his distinctive “flat ride” cymbal style became a defining part of some of the group’s best known recordings.

Paul is an innovative musician and a devoted educator, including his role as Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, and as author of a new book entitled “Turn the Beat Around”.

As you’ll hear us say in this interview, Paul is a man frequently associated with the very word “musicality” and so it was such a delight to get to speak with him and unpack what exactly it means for a drummer to be “musical” and exhibit “musicality”.

We talk about:

- How Paul learned the drums and the influential music educator who helped encourage him in developing his own unique identity as a musician.

- What it means to “turn the beat around” and how playing what he calls “front beats” can bring a unique flair to a piece of music.

- And how it’s possible for his group Wertico, Cain and Gray to perform 100% improvised compositions together with no prior discussion, ranging from 30 seconds to several minutes long which have a coherence and structure that mean the listener would never guess they were improvised.

We also talk about practicing with a metronome versus a backing track, what role the drummer plays in different genres and situations, and how he ended up ditching the drums to just play cymbals on a tango record in Italy.

This was a blast and there’s a ton of insights and wisdom here for drummers and musicians of all stripes.

Show notes: [ Ссылка ]

Links and Resources:

• Paul Wertico Online
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• Paul Wertico – “Turn the Beat Around: A Drummer’s Guide to Playing “Backbeats” on 1 & 3”
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• Cream – “Sunshine Of Your Love”
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• Derek And The Dominos – “Bell Bottom Blues”
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• Chicago – “Women Don’t Want To Love Me”
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• If – “Forgotten Roads”
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• The Emotions- “A Long Way To Go”
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
2:21 - What does musicality mean to you
4:55 - How did you learn to play the drums
10:41 - What does it mean to "turn the beat around
11:18 - How Do You Learn Drums
13:18 - Drums: The Ideal Instrument
18:10 - Different Contexts You’ve Played In
22:00 - Talent vs hard work
25:25 - What to listen for in a drummer
29:05 - Learn the lyrics of the song
34:06 - How to think about practising
38:50 - What is your new book about
43:10 - What does the front beat version of a groove sound like
49:15 - Cocaine and Gray - how do you do it and what does it sound like
49:54 - What is the Where the Wild Things Are Trio
54:22 - How do you structure a musical conversation
57:06 - What is the Pull Vertigo Trio
1:04:31 - Outro

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