You’ve probably seen the short version, but today I’m back with the complete “part deux” interview with JP Bouvet.
To catch you up, two weeks ago I invited JP to the studio for an “in person” podcast interview, in which I wanted to “compare notes” about our teaching philosophies. It seemed like a fun thing to do considering I’d avoided consuming his teaching directly for around a year, to avoid any doubt about whether the ideas I was putting into my videos and courses were “my own”. Now that a bunch of that stuff is already released, written, or in the can, I thought it would be fun to get together and hash out our approaches.
While the short version covered one aspect - our approaches to a similar method he calls “building blocks” - the full interview delves into a bunch of juicy subjects:
Why we paradoxically need restrictions to feel more free
Why “drum solos” are the wrong way to think about improvisation on the drums
The one way in which JP never wants to have to move his body again
“Weak hand” technique and generating volume
Know you’ll enjoy this one!