Interview with drummer Eric Schauer :Teamwork principles in the music world & song quiz!
Okay, welcome. Today we’re interviewing our drummer, Eric Shower. Yay. Give him a hand. Now, today we’re going to be doing teamwork principles in the music world. But to kick this off, we’re going to have a song quiz game. Okay. So, the quiz game is very simple. During his interview, we will do four songs, really short versions of four songs that hopefully you know. While we’re playing, scan the QR code of the song that I’m going to be on the screen and text in the answer. Okay? And then make sure you put in your real name. No, hello Galaxy 46 or we won’t know who wins the prize. Then you can sing along if you want to because we’re not singing. At the end of the song, we’ll check the answers. If you’re the first one to get the right answer, you will get a prize. Now, for this to work, everybody needs to be quiet during the interview part because Mr. Eric’s got some good stuff to say. Okay, middle school boys. All right, good. All right, are you guys ready? You guys ready? Okay, hold on. So, this is the song quiz. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. [Music] All [Applause] right. Now, Mr. Eric. Yes. Stand by me. Sorry, forgot. I thought I thought everybody knew. Okay. Um, you’ve been playing music for a long time. You did jazz band stuff in the US for a long time. Yeah. And you even you even played for an American Idol winner on his band too, right? Yes. At the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Very cool. So Oh, go ahead. Okay. So um this first thing everyone has a role to play. What do you want to tell us about this? Um well I I want to say that a a band is like a team and the performance is like playing in a game and you have kind of like teammates versus bandmates. E either way you got to have the mindset that we’re all in this together. And to succeed, um, band members, they need to have they need to go in having a good attitude and respect each other and the music that they’re going to play. And like say, even if a band has a strong authoritarian leader, um, every member needs to be respected uh, for his individual strengths and every member has a job to do and a say about the music. And if everybody in the band wants to be there, wants to help out, and they’re prepared, then the gig will probably go pretty well, right? Well, can you tell us about your old band? Uh, well, I will tell you about my favorite team. Okay, good. My favorite team was a jazz group that I had in Las Vegas a while back, and we were called the Freedom Jazz Trio, which means there were three of us. And our music was very um improvised. I guess in Japanese that’s so right. So, and uh we were very we’re trying to be very creative and and daring and but the the most beautiful part about that group was that everything was equal a 303 and a third percent per member of the trio. the composing, the performance design, uh, and the publicity, you know, and, uh, we had a lot of fun doing it. It was really kind of like a big art project for us and and my te my teacher in Las Vegas was our mentor and we would rehearse like three days a week and we were pretty successful. We we put out three records and we were voted best jazz band in Las Vegas. That’s really good. How about So, how about these guys? What were these guys particularly good at or what did they bring to the group? They were good at eating cake. Uh, no. So, the the guy in the back, that’s Julian. He he was the clarinet player and the guy on the right is Justin. He he was the the acoustic upright bass player. Gotcha. Yeah. and and so yeah, we kind of we didn’t really have like rigidly defined roles per se, but like I for instance, I was good at drawing from my architecture background and so I could draw logos and pictures for business cards and flyers. Uh Justin, he was he was a very curious guy. He just like he was curious about everything and he was good at tech and he had some recording equipment. So, we recorded ourselves a lot. And Julian, he was just a like at that time just a shy kid and he didn’t have a car. So, I gave him a lot of rides. Um, but seriously, like he he would come to life on the band stand. He would play his clarinet and just be dancing around the band stand while he was playing like he’s the pied piper or something. And and and the audience just loved him a lot. And actually, coincidentally, he’s still very popular in Las Vegas now. Oh, very good. Well, now what I thought was interesting about what you said is that there are a lot of parallels to what you’re talking about in the Bible, right? So, according to the Bible, first, everybody is super important because you’re made in the image of God and Jesus died for you. So, these two things by itself make everybody important. But then there’s something beyond that, right? In the Bible in um first Corinthians, it says we are the body of Christ. And it specifically talks about people being feet and eyes and hands. And it says if the foot should say I’m not the hand, I don’t belong to the body. Well, that’s the wrong way to think about it, right? Or if the ear should say I’m not an eye, so I don’t belong to the body. Or if the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? Even here at Riseze, right, we have all sorts of different people doing different things, right? Miss Barb and Miss Simone do the snacks, which you guys eat a lot of, right? And then Miss Hannah does the sound. Tommoi set up all the chairs and all this stuff. And then Mr. Eric’s doing the drums. Everybody has a different role in the body of Christ. So just because your role might not be super up on stage doesn’t mean it’s not important. And then um we have the same sports parallel, right? If everybody on the basketball team wanted to be the center, how would that go? Basketball guy, what do you think? You think it’s okay? I don’t think it’s going to work at all. Right. So, everybody, same as sports, right? So, everybody’s got a role. Every role is important. You guys ready? I think that kid’s going to lose if he’s running a basketball. He’s gonna lose, right? All right, you guys ready for another quiz? All right, here’s the next quiz. Hold on. Let me get my guitar this time. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] All right. Next, Mr. Eric. Yes. You told me communication is key for a good jazz band. What are you talking about? Uh, yes. It’s comm communication is very important for band chemistry. And I don’t know if this makes sense, but I say that music becomes relationships. Uh, when you’re in a band, you’re going to talk about the band and you’re going to talk about the music a lot. if you want to be a good band, right? And so because you have to be on the same page uh regarding your goals, your goals for each song, for each rehearsal gig, uh for the band itself, what what kind of band do you want to be and how do we go about becoming that kind of band? And uh another idea about communication is just a performance itself. Um when mu musicians play together, they’re expressing ideas and their and emotions and they’re connecting with each other and with the audience. And so the music is the conversation and especially if it involves jazz and improvisation and we are listening to what each other what what we’re saying. We’re saying things with our instruments and big part of that communication is having eye contact, right? And and big ears. So, uh, and when you finish saying your music idea, you pass it on to the next musician and then you support his idea. Got it. I like this idea you’re talking about with big eyes, big ears, right? Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Okay. Yeah. Uh, and I got to go back to Freedom Jazz Trio for that one because that was a prime example. Um, I I handpicked like-minded musicians for this trio and we we talked about it and we knew what kind of band we that we wanted to be and we were open-minded to each other’s ideas and we trusted each other’s ideas. uh didn’t always agree because it was a democracy, but we still trusted each other. And because the music was so improvisational, the big ears and the big eyes, that was that was an absolute necessity. Uh for each song, you know, every time we played it, it was different. We never played the song the same way twice, and we had no idea where the song was going or how we were going to reach the finish line. Uh but we always like like magic seemed to f figure it out and it it because we were practicing together like three times a week. It was kind of like mind readading became possible. It was it was a lot of fun. Right. That’s really good. And that’s also really similar to a biblical principle for teamworks or really teamwork or just anything. Does anybody know about this? The biblical principle for teamwork. Super useful. You should take this with you to every sports club. And the verse goes like this. Everyone should be big ears. Well, that’s not what it says. It says, “Quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to become angry.” So, what Eric is talking about is everybody’s watching each other during the thing, listening to each other during the music because if they don’t, they’re not going to sound good. Is this true in sports? Do you guys listen to each other in sports? Really? Like imagine like usually soccer players usually they’re blindfolded and have earplugs in, right? What would happen? This would be horrible, right? So everybody’s looking at each other, listening to each other constantly. And so the same in life, same in teamwork, same in music. All right, you guys ready for another quiz? [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] All right, Mr. Eric, this is the last leadership principle, teamwork principle we’re going to do for today, right? For today. This is part This is part one. Make sure you tell everybody it’s part one. Yeah, part one. So, you’re gonna have more music quizzes in the near future. What do you mean by aim to make the team or the band look good? Well, I think that the a musician’s number one goal from a performance standpoint is to make the band sound good. A and the first thing you got to do is leave your ego at the door. Uh, of course, as a musician or any kind of performer, you have to be yourself. Uh, but also realize it’s not about you trying to be the star. Um, if I try to show everybody out there like how great of a drummer that I am, then I’ll be thinking too much about my playing, my heart won’t be in the right place. I won’t be listening to the other band members enough, and then my best self won’t come out. and then I won’t play as well. Right? So, uh that’s not being a team player. And another another idea about about leaving your ego at the door is that sometimes like in like say a practice setting, I might have a suggestion about what we want to do in a song uh but my suggestion through like say a vote is rejected. But that’s okay. It’s it’s not personal. You know, maybe next time, right? Have you ever messed this up? messed up like uh not you took your eye off the ball. Not being my best self, per se. Well, sure. Okay. So, I’m I’m pretty sure yes, a few times to be honest. Uh I’m sure that some of you have seen the movie Back to the Future, right? Okay. Yeah, there it is. Um, there are a couple scenes where the main character there, Marty McFly, he wants to be the guitar god and it doesn’t go so so well for him, right? So, I’ve been there a few times. Well, tell us about it. Well, one time at the uh one of the the local um downtown art affairs, I was playing with um in a band with uh the members. I went to school with all of them and there was we followed another band and I went to school with all those guys too. So all the musicians around me. I knew them for a while now and I had to use for for convenience sake on the on the it was the main stage at the art fair. I had to use the previous drummer’s drums. So not your drums, not my drums. And I I wasn’t very comfortable about that. that made me a little nervous, a little uptight maybe. And I don’t remember what I played. I I I think we were just um improving on some kind of funky jam. And but I I I do remember I started to relax, have fun, build up the energy a little bit, and as you guys know, the drums can be pretty loud and overpowering. And I’m sure you can guess where this is going. Um, I apparently I lost the sensitivity. I played too much and I didn’t listen enough. And so after the performance, a band member came up to me and said, you know, this is not the Eric Shower show. And I was just like, ouch. I was pretty shocked about that because I I thought that I I played pretty well, but and that suddenly I felt really bad. because that was not my intention. But I I guess that’s just how they felt about it, right? Well, the Bible says that as well. It’s a good teamwork, a team principle, and it’s this. Don’t be selfish. Don’t try to impress others. Be humble. And this is the key. Think of others as better than yourself. Is that true? Are others better than you? Not really. Right. No, I’m just kidding. Maybe, maybe it doesn’t matter, right? It says to think of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out just for you. Look out for other people. Super useful. If you have this mentality on a team in a workplace, you’re going to be a super popular co-worker, super popular teammate. So, something to keep in mind. All right, you guys ready for the last quiz? Last quiz. Oh, let’s Noah and and for Dan, they Yeah, they were um they were excellent teammates. They they really helped make this thing work. So, that’s cool. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat.
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