DRUM with Mike & Eddy

About DRUM with Mike & Eddy

DRUM with Mike & Eddy aims to bring drummers together and give them weekly updates and banter about the wonderful world of drumming. Each week professional drummers Mike Johnston and Eddy Thrower will discus how topics such as motivation, practice habits, routine, health & fitness, and many more have an effect on your drumming. Obviously this podcast is for drummers, but in all honesty it's for anyone that wants to improve at their craft!

Publisher

Mike Johnston & Eddy Thrower

Category

arts · education · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Aug 2020

Latest episode

6 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

14 of 211 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Thank You & Goodbye

   Hosts Mike and Eddy express gratitude to their listeners for six years of the DRUM podcast, sharing a final lesson learned from their journey.

2. 

   2 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Career Defining Moments

   Welcome to Episode 211 of DRUM with Mike & Eddy! This week, we are looking back at the exact turning points that shaped our careers as professional drummers. We’re skipping the "hustle culture" buzzwords and getting straight into the reality of what it actually takes to build a life around the kit. Here is what we get into this week: Grail Gear Guilt: Eddy scores a legendary pair of Joey Jordison sticks, and I break down why I couldn't resist dropping my own cash on a 1970s stop-sign badg...

3. 

   19 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Preparing to Track a Song

   In this episode, we get into what it really takes to prepare to record, and why “jamming to a song” and tracking a song for an artist are two totally different worlds. Eddy shares how he practices and preps parts (often without writing anything down), why e-kits can be a secret weapon for learning technical material, and how to identify the non-negotiables in a drum part when a demo already has programmed drums. We also talk about fighting muscle memory, why simple pop parts can be harder tha...

Inside a recent episode

Thank You & Goodbye

Published 6 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's about two podcasts a day So we just want to let you know The big news is this is the last episode of the podcast. Yeah, we will talk about it in depth a little bit But the bigger news or not news, but the thing that we want you guys to know is this has nothing to do with our friendship This is all work related stuff. We are just honestly Too busy Like I said, we'll talk about it It's it's just it's just kind of something that we just can't keep up with anymore And we can't keep up with it at the level that we want to do For you guys, but it doesn't mean that the drum with Mike and Eddie brand is going anywhere We are going to do online masterclasses. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

261 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

619 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

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Quality

77

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

95

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