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Essential Peart...

“TO CRAFT EVERY NUANCE OF THOSE GROOVES, BEATS AND DEVELOPMENT... HE REALLY DID HAVE THE MIND OF A PROFESSOR.”

When I discovered Neil Peart and Rush in the early ’80s, it was very much a case of the right band and the right drummer at the right time. It was exactly the type of challenging music I was looking for to help me grow and develop as a musician in my mid-teens. Neil became my number one hero. Nobody was applying themselves to a big kit in the same way that he was, and I was fascinated by his setup, his incredible time signatures and the feel of his patterns. He constructed his drum parts in such a musical way, and everything he played was so meticulously thought

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