{"id":34504,"date":"2022-04-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=34504"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:03:31","slug":"hannah-welton-prince-drummer-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/hannah-welton-prince-drummer-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"What Hannah Welton Learned Drumming With Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yOapYnlQMNQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Hi, thank you for coming. I&#8217;m Prince. Do you play ping pong?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hannah&#8217;s first meeting with The Purple One was anything but conventional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The guy was a genius,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that I ever heard an off note.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this hour-long lesson, you&#8217;ll hear straight from Prince&#8217;s former drummer, Hannah Welton, what it was like to work with Prince, including songwriting and performance tips and rarely-told stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What happens if you mess up at a Prince rehearsal?<\/li><li>Who originally wrote the song &#8220;Plectrumelectrum&#8221;?<\/li><li>What was it like having a drum-off\/bass-off with Prince?<\/li><li>Can the space between the notes be just as funky as the notes themselves?<\/li><li>And is Hannah now a ping pong master?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the video for some important <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/hannah-welton-everything-happens-for-a-reason\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insights<\/a> on drumming, life, and Prince &#8211; while enjoying some exceptionally funky performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more free lessons like this &#8211; and awesome articles and discounts on cool drum stuff &#8211; drop your email here!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weekly-email\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesson Index:<\/strong><br>0:00 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Women&#8217;s Intuition&#8221; by Hannah and Joshua Welton<br>3:07 &#8211; Intro<br>5:12 &#8211; How she got the gig with Prince<br>8:20 &#8211; The importance of taking notes and active listening<br>11:53 &#8211; &#8220;The space is funky too&#8221;<br>15:17 &#8211; Writing parts with personality<br>27:26 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Ain&#8217;t About To Stop&#8221; by Prince<br>32:04 &#8211; Dueling with Prince<br>34:04 &#8211; Prince&#8217;s favorite fills<br>38:23 &#8211; The importance of committing<br>40:20 &#8211; Prepare for shows like you would a live recording<br>43:00 &#8211; Name the iconic grooves<br>45:30 &#8211; The ping pong story<br>47:23 &#8211; The Louisville Purple Rain story<br>50:15 &#8211; Hannah&#8217;s advice for drummers<br>51:35 &#8211; SONG: Funk Medley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Hannah:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hannah Welton was the drummer for Prince from 2012 to 2015 as a member of his backing band, 3RDEYEGIRL, and she also performed live on Prince&#8217;s Live Out Loud and Hit And Run tours. You can hear her drumming and vocals on the 2014 album <em>Plectrumelectrum<\/em>. Already a touring drummer and clinician from a young age,  Hannah got her big break when Prince discovered her on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hannah Plays:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gretschdrums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gretsch Drums<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/zildjian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zildjian Cymbals<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daddario.com\/products\/percussion\/evans-drumheads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Evans Drumheads<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vater.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vater Drumsticks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow Hannah:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hannahjwelton\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hannahweltonfanpage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hannahjwelton?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>Prince&#8217;s former drummer shares stories about Prince, tips she learned from working with him, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":34590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-full-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34504","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\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34504"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34594,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34504\/revisions\/34594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}