{"id":36606,"date":"2022-08-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=36606"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:53:51","slug":"how-todd-sucherman-writes-musical-drum-solos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-todd-sucherman-writes-musical-drum-solos\/","title":{"rendered":"How Todd Sucherman Writes Musical Drum Solos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0SaYqRLjfO4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Styx&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/j6NoINimNrw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Todd Sucherman is known for writing delightfully musical drum solos<\/a>. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered how to come up with rhythms that tell a story, watch this video!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll see Todd play a solo (&#8220;Evening The Odds&#8221;) that transforms over time (things get especially cool around 3:06) and hear him break down some of his creative choices, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Why he phrased the 16th notes\/flams section in groups of 5\/5\/3\/3<\/li><li>How he took a note from Tony Williams to create &#8216;triads&#8217; on the toms<\/li><li>&#8230;plus a samba-inspired moment and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/simon-phillips-teaches-the-double-bass-shuffle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">double bass shuffle<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can watch another epic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/mountain-drum-solo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Todd Sucherman drum solo<\/a> here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn more about building drum solos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">join Drumeo<\/a> and watch Todd&#8217;s good friend Steve Smith&#8217;s course, &#8220;The Art Of Drum Soloing&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/art-of-drum-solos-steve-smith-part-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">check out a free excerpt here<\/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>Todd Sucherman breaks out a musical, groovy drum solo before explaining how he put it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":36667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4021,4016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36606","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\/36606","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36606"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36666,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36606\/revisions\/36666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}