{"id":40864,"date":"2023-01-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=40864"},"modified":"2023-04-21T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:13:39","slug":"nic-collins-breaks-down-the-grooves-of-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/nic-collins-breaks-down-the-grooves-of-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beats Of Genesis: Nic Collins Breaks Down His Dad&#8217;s Grooves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kJNHnecsoYs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/phil-collins-son-plays-whiplash-after-hearing-it-once\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nic Collins<\/a> is the most recent drummer of Genesis. He also happens to be the son of the band&#8217;s longtime sticksman, the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/the-genius-of-phil-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Phil Collins<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nic filled his dad&#8217;s shoes beautifully on the final Genesis tour in 2022. He&#8217;s drummed on Phil&#8217;s solo tours, also touring with supergroup Mike And The Mechanics, and he&#8217;s been busy with his own band Better Strangers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has the experience of three lifetimes under his belt, and he&#8217;s only 21 years old!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this free hour-long lesson, Nic breaks down some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/iconic-phil-collins-drum-parts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Genesis&#8217; coolest grooves<\/a>, talks about Phil Collins&#8217; influences (from Santana to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/john-bonham-drum-genius\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bonham<\/a>), shares a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/taylor-hawkins-best-drum-parts-notation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Hawkins<\/a> story, demos some classic Simmons pads, and yes &#8211; he shows you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/in-the-air-tonight-longest-drum-fill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>the <\/em>fill<\/a>. The one you&#8217;re probably waiting for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson Index:<\/strong><br>0:00 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Duke&#8217;s Intro&#8221; by Genesis (live over Europe version)<br>3:55 &#8211; Introduction<br>6:15 &#8211; The fill from &#8220;In The Air Tonight&#8221;<br>9:00 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;The Cinema Show&#8221; by Genesis (live keyboard solo section)<br>14:23 &#8211; Opening ride cymbal groove from &#8220;Behind The Lines&#8221;<br>16:09 &#8211; Verse from &#8220;In The Cage&#8221;<br>21:54 &#8211; Groove from &#8220;Wot Gorilla?&#8221;<br>24:35 &#8211; Groove from &#8220;Watcher Of The Skies&#8221;<br>27:22 &#8211; Tom groove from &#8220;Duke&#8217;s Travels&#8221;<br>31:20 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Fading Lights&#8221; (instrumental section from the Way We Walk version)<br>38:00 &#8211; Groove from &#8220;Los Endos&#8221;<br>49:35 &#8211; Groove from &#8220;In That Quiet Earth&#8221;<br>43:58 &#8211; Groove from &#8220;Supper&#8217;s Ready (Apocalypse In 9\/8)&#8221;<br>47:30 &#8211; 7\/8 groove from &#8220;The Cinema Show&#8221;<br>49:22 &#8211; The <em>Chester <\/em>fill<br>53:34 &#8211; The Groove from &#8220;Second Home By The Sea&#8221;<br>57:20 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Raincheck&#8221; by Better Strangers<br>1:04:37 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;You&#8217;ll Be In My Heart&#8221; by Phil Collins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Nic Collins:<\/strong><br>Nic Collins is a rock drummer known for playing with Phil Collins, Genesis, Mike And The Mechanics, and his own band, Better Strangers. Nic\u2019s passion for the drums began at an early age thanks to his father and that passion has only grown as time goes on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nic Plays:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gretschdrums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gretsch Drums<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sabian Cymbals<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow Nic:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nic_collins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nic_collins21?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nic Collins, son of legendary drummer Phil Collins, teaches the grooves of Genesis in this free hour-long video lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":40909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4017,4038],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-beats-and-fills","category-full-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40864","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\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40864"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45119,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40864\/revisions\/45119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}