Benny Greb (Moving Parts) - drumtalk [episode 17]

I met Benny Greb while on tour with his three piece band Moving Parts and we had a marvellous chat that won't please only us drummers but each & every musician. In this episode you'll see that Benny is not just a great artist but also able to convey his thoughts on sound, creative practice, dynamical range etc. in a fun and intelligible way.

[@Kingding6]

safe to say Benny is not only one of the best drummers around, he is also one of the best thinkers around.

[@vincenzoa2929]

Benny is such an inspiration and has the right mindset as a drumming educator. He’s fantastic in every way.

[@jcabs3170]

Inspiring... It totally changes your perspective as a drummer.

[@vivekteega]

Loved it! such a cool person

[@pavoldzavan3389]

Thanks for recording and sharing! I'm a big fan of Benny yet somehow I haven't seen this episode before.

[@Uuultrakrass]

"a little bit krrch instead of ssccchhh" :D love you benny

[@TheMetalFreshTiger]

Great! Thank you DrumTalk for this interview :)

[@conradgarrison6550]

Thank you.

[@drumtalkofficial]

you're welcome =D

[@randrade89]

Thanks for this great interview!

[@JSquaredDesigns]

Great video and all around great YT channel - Benny interview is just great. FWIW - I do a fair bit of videography, it might be nice on these interview vids if you contrasted the B&W talking head footage with full color clips of the drummer being interviewed playing his kit....makes a nice contrast - subbed and look forward to digging deeper into your channel - thanks

[@aaronkeener4055]

“Practice is confronting yourself with something you cannot do”

[@starryshadrach6803]

very insightful...

[@Leviplaysdrums]

Awesome stuff, Love me some Benny

[@tommonk7651]

Love Greb's playing. So interesting....

[@stefanerdes5125]

Such an inspiration!!

[@simplyme23m2000]

This kind of mindset is what most speed / technical drummer misses a lot,

[@raybond6047]

Not so true! Having more chops give you more tools to express with. Build fundamentals to perfection I say. Just my personal experience or 35 years of playing.

[@AmiltonGarcia]

Very nice!!!

[@StartdrummingDe]

Wie immer ein spitzen Interview! Danke an euch und Benny! LG, Jürgen

[@pk-films]

startdrumming.de bittesehr :-)
dank zurück!

[@wanneswhoop]

supercool!

[@t3hgir]

I'd need maybe two more lives to properly work through the whole of stick control...

[@Kingding6]

Fantastic!!

[@pk-films]

Kingding6 indeed :-)

[@reneegonzalez6064]

BENNY IS MY FAVORITE DRUMMER Is He Married?? I'd luv to play with him ESPECIALLY a drum battle lol....Hes Hilarious As Well

[@antonribkin5319]

What song are the playing at 2:05?? Is it a piece of Moving parts repertory?

[@bennygrebofficial]

Anton Ribkin its called "Stabila" and is the first track of the album Moving Parts.

[@antonribkin5319]

I keep coming back to this to listen this snippet. I hope some day I will have an ability to see Moving Parts live..

[@dumpygoodness4086]

I just got my first drumkit.... and I got it TO PLAY MORE QUIETLY THAN ANY OTHER DRUMMER. (I hate big dumb loud drums. SO INEFFICIENT in every possible way.) I got a Ludwig JR kit (!) $200, and tweaked it so I can always practice outdoors, and there's no need for a kit to be so loud. (Acoustic guitars can easily be heard over me outside. And I only use Rods. Fast and quiet is my M.O.)

[@jangobango2847]

Nice wait until the concious incompetence starts lol joking aside quiet playing is hard and something I never did enough been practicing it alot more recently

[@dumpygoodness4086]

@@jangobango2847 I came about the drums from a BACKWARDS way as most drummers: i couldn't get a kit (nowhere to put it, blah blah), so I would drum on my thin carpet while reading or watching tv, and i'd use BOTTLE
CAPS at my targets, just to work on hand / eye co-ordination.
Most drummers START with a loud AF drumkit... so they're beginning from a standpoint of MASSIVE LOUDNESS (that can't be good for their
ears, either!)... but I came the opposite way. (I can play ANY volume on
my drumkit! But I don't see any logical reason big kits are so loud. That
was when they were in WARS and played with BIG BANDS!)

[@tomtom-is8fg]

I bet he can do a great ARNNNNOLD impersonation..

[@blackl1steddrums]

nevermind his superior drumming, his english is literally better than most Americans is. (not mine of corse..)