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So I had JP Bouvet in the flesh at 8020 HQ this past week. And what a treat it was.
I’d deliberately avoided looking to specifically into the guy I consider maybe the foremost drum teacher…out there…
…because I had a bunch of my own stuff to shoot, and I didn’t want to worry I was being influenced. (i.e. if we had a parallel thought I didn’t want to wonder if I “stole” it.)
But given that it’s the end of the year and most of those things are in the can, I reached out to JP with an idea: come over to the studio, and let’s mic us up and just “hash out” where our ideas overlap.
The result was a nearly 90-minute interview, complete with playing, talking, and switching places at the drums, which I’ll release as a podcast next Monday.
But for the lesson of the week, I wanted to give you just a taste.
In this 15-minute clip, JP and I discuss his concept of “building blocks”, which overlaps somewhat with my idea of “the switching exercise”. As you’ll hear, our ideas had different origins, but we ended up in similar places. (He also guessed correctly with only about 10 minutes of thinking something that took me years of working stuff out with students to learn. See if you can see what I’m talking about.)
Hope you enjoy.