{"id":24794,"date":"2020-08-07T08:42:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T15:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=24794"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:54:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:54:27","slug":"jack-thomas-slipknot-duality-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/jack-thomas-slipknot-duality-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"He Drums With One Arm. What&#8217;s Your Excuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0tTgU7CYfgk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jack Thomas has been drumming most of his life. When he was 17, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/developing-your-weaker-hand-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost his right arm<\/a> in a tragic workplace accident. Everything he&#8217;d worked toward up to this point had been with a goal of becoming a pro musician.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry, your arm is gone&#8221; is a life-changing phrase for anyone to hear, and a likely career-ending one for a drummer. But after just a few minutes of thinking he&#8217;d never play again, he realized that he could either let this overcome him, or he could do whatever he could to overcome <em>it<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-play-drums-with-one-arm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">So he learned how to play one-handed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jack challenges you to take your struggles and turn them into something you can overcome. If he can play &#8220;Duality&#8221; by Slipknot with just one arm, what&#8217;s your excuse?<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Thomas lost his right arm five years ago. Check out his awesome cover of &#8220;Duality&#8221; by Slipknot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":24826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4021,4016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performances-and-playalongs","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24794","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\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24794"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31739,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24794\/revisions\/31739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}