{"id":10731,"date":"2018-07-24T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=10731"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:03:56","slug":"harvey-mason-drum-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/harvey-mason-drum-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming A Chameleon Behind The Drums &#8211; The Art Of Versatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OZhM3Q8XP8s\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Harvey Mason has been playing drums and producing music at a high level with some of the best musicians in the business for practically his entire life. This type of experience has helped him carve an illustrious career, and in this lesson, Harvey is going to teach you how to achieve this level of success by becoming a versatile drummer that can play any type of music and gig.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lesson Index<\/b>:<br \/>\n0:00 &#8211; Song: &#8220;Chameleon&#8221;<br \/>\n7:00 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n11:16 &#8211; Song: &#8220;Silver Streak&#8221; by Four Play<br \/>\n17:50 &#8211; What does becoming a chameleon mean?<br \/>\n22:30 &#8211; How do you achieve a good sound?<br \/>\n30:38 &#8211; What are the benefits of being versatile?<br \/>\n35:15 &#8211; How should drummers approach the music industry?<br \/>\n39:15 &#8211; Drum Solo<br \/>\n46:54 &#8211; What tips can you give beginner drummers?<br \/>\n51:29 &#8211; Song: &#8220;The Bird&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Harvey:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs one of the world\u2019s top drummers, Harvey Mason has played with the who&#8217;s who of the pop and jazz music scenes, including Barbra Streisand, Seal, James Brown, Herbie Hancock, Jennifer Hudson, Frank Sinatra, John Legend, and the London Symphony Orchestra, just to name a few. His top playing and musical sensibilities have garnered him accolades over the years by being voted \u201c#1 Studio Drummer\u201d in the Modern Drummer Readers\u2019 Poll four times and nominated ten times for a Grammy Award. Besides the music industry, Harvey has worked closely with the film industry by scoring movies, performing on over 150 soundtracks, and playing on over 20 Academy Awards ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvey Plays:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/canopusdrums.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canopus Drums<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.muratdiril.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Murat Diril Cymbals<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/remo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Remo Drumheads<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vicfirth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vic Firth Sticks<\/a><\/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>In this lesson, Harvey is going to teach you how to achieve this level of success by becoming a versatile drummer that can play any type of music and gig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038],"tags":[13,64,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36192,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10731\/revisions\/36192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}