Richard N. Geer | Home Studio Drummer For Collaboration

Home Studio Drummer and Hobbyist

If The “Shu” Fits

Going to give the Kelly SHU™ Composite Series Drum Microphone Shock-mounts I purchased a while back a run to eliminate the mic stands out in front of the bass drum and clean up the look of the...

Varus Imminence

It is finished and on the way! Thank you Thomas Mantovani for building an incredible snare drum. I am very excited to receive it soon, break it in and add it as another voice to the kit. Great...

Shedding The Winter Skin

Thank you to Clark Kirkwood, owner of Clark's Music Center in Jacksonville, Florida for helping me re-skin and tune the DWs yesterday .... Clark is a long time friend from junior high school and...

10 Albums That Inspired My Drumming

Some time ago, my buddy Anders Qvicker challenged me to share the 10 most memorable albums that influenced my drumming. There are quite a few so I am focusing on the ones that I would listen to,...

Expectation

My wife and I are expecting....... no, not that ha....After contacting Varus drums to request some information on their beautiful kits I stumbled upon online, I received a very nice note from the...

Reinvigoration – A Man After My Own Heart – Ray Hearne

Hello old friends, it has been a while. 2020 has really derailed a lot of people's lives and truly hope you are doing well. Much of this year has been spent adjusting to this "new normal crap" and...

Hey guys, I have enjoyed drumming since I was around 5 years of age if I recall correctly, I was introduced to drumming by my father Pat Geer on his SONOR trap set that he used with his band the Malibu’s in high school. I have recently improved my home drum studio with better mic preamps and cables and converted to a pc based recording system from a Roland studio in a box. I have done various recordings in the past both in a physical studio with a band or in my home studio as part of a collaboration project via the web. I thoroughly enjoy playing the drums and especially creating fresh tracks for music in the Progressive Rock genre. I love drumming, can keep a solid tempo and can balance rhythm with unique accent effects and fills. I approach the drum set as a complete musical instrument in the purest sense.

“I consider acoustic drumming a form of art and extension of myself, much like an airbrush. I enjoy the technical aspects of drumming and recording of auditory canvases of rhythm. I don’t view it as a competition with others as I play for enjoyment and the sharing of a gift from God.”

Rich ~~~

Richard Geer Plays Sabian Paragon Cymbals

Neil Peart

“If you’ve got a problem, take it out on a drum.”

Dave Lombardo

“I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.”

Ringo Star

“First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I’m other things… But I didn’t play drums to make money.”

Buddy Rich

“But, I don’t think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can’t create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that’s written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.”

MOBY

“It’s much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you’re a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.”

Taylor Hawkins

“I don’t have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.”

Buddy Rich

“I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.”

Hunter Hayes

“A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.”

Neil Peart

“Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.”

Bruce Lee

“Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.”