A Drummer’s Guide To...

184 - Showing Up Strong

🎯 Is this the REAL reason you’re not landing the gigs you want?

✨ It’s not just about chops—it’s about how you show up.

🎸 Are you a musician who’s “good enough” but still struggling to get hired – especially when it really counts?

😬 I’ll be the first to admit, for years I unknowingly gave off “don’t trust me” energy. I was insecure, doubting myself, and wondering why the opportunities weren’t coming.

🎙 In episode #184 of A Drummer’s Guide To… Showing Up Strong, I share:

🔹 What showing up strong actually means

🔹 How to project confidence (even when you’re not feeling it)

🔹 Why believing in yourself creates trust in others

🔹 Simple things you can do today to start shifting how people see you

👀 If this has piqued your interest, then check out podcast episode #184 – A Drummer’s Guide To… Showing Up Strong

📱 And if you’d like the curtain to be lifted further on how to create a sustainable career as a professional musician, then search for A Drummer’s Guide To… on all good podcasting platforms and YouTube!

183 - From Hobbyist To Hired

📣 Are you a musician playing with mates, but don’t know how to pivot into the pro world?

👀 If you’re a musician who is confident in their skills and playing with friends but want to take the leap into the professional world without knowing where to start, then you might like my podcast episode #183 - A Drummer's Guide To... From Hobbyist To Hired

🤯 For me there is definitely a mind-shift that had to happen from playing with friends to wanting to pursue music as a profession

🎧 In this episode, #183 - A Drummer's Guide To... From Hobbyist To Hired I share the things that I feel would get a hobbyist over the threshold into the professional sphere:

🙋‍♀️ The importance of getting out there in the flesh, and how I tackled that as someone with major social anxiety

💪 How I used and use social media to leverage every interaction

💬 How I made contact with people to get some insight into the professional world

👀 If this has piqued your interest, then check out my podcast episode #183 - A Drummer's Guide To... From Hobbyist To Hired

🎙 And if you’d like the curtain to be lifted further on how to create a sustainable career as a professional musician, then search for A Drummer's Guide To... on all good podcasting platforms and YouTube

🥰 Support this podcast now on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emilydrums

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182 - Gig Vid Glow-Ups

🚨 If you are a musician wanting to level up your socials video game, then my podcast episode #182 - A Drummer's Guide To... Gig Vid Glow-Ups could be for you!

👀 Are you a musician who is trying to post videos to showcase yourself, but…

😫 you feel you’re not getting any traction

😖 you feel that the quality is too low

😤 you just have no idea what to post!

🙈 Let me tell you, I’ve been there, trying to find some decent footage to post, or create my own, and then by the time I actually get something, I find it’s rubbish quality, or boring, or I feel so insecure I don’t even get to the drafts page on my Insta, and just abandon ship altogether!

🎙️ If this sounds familiar to you, then join me in my podcast episode #182 - A Drummer's Guide To... Gig Vid Glow-Ups. In the episode I share:

💡 How to make the most of even the worst phone footage

💡 How to make the videos really HIT with your audience

💡 How to present yourself in a pro way through your socials

👀 If this has piqued your interest, then check out my podcast episode #182 - A Drummer's Guide To... Gig Vid Glow-Ups

🎙 And if you’d like to learn all the other things it takes to be a professional musician, aside from playing your instrument, then search for A Drummer's Guide To... on all good podcasting platforms and YouTube

🥰 If you have a question you’d like me to answer on a future episode, you can submit it at:

www.emilydrums.com/ama 

 

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181 - Before You Quit...

🚨 If you’re a musician and thinking about quitting, STOP, and listen to this!

 

👀 If you’re a musician that has been grinding away doing, or trying to do the pro thing, but feel like the only thing you're getting closer to is throwing in the towel, then my podcast episode #181 - A Drummer's Guide To... Before You Quit… is for you!

 

🏳️ I’ll admit, there have been many times I’ve come so close to just giving up, tired of it all, ready to be defeated, and literally going to grab my white flag of surrender…

 

🙌 However, I (thankfully) didn’t.

 

🎙 In my podcast episode #181 - A Drummer's Guide To... Before You Quit… I share exactly how I have brought myself back from the brink in various ways, and if I found myself in that position now, how I would tackle it.

 

🛠️ Hopefully these tools will help you too, if and when you get to that point (because to a degree I think we all need to!)

 

👀 so if this has piqued your interest, then check out my podcast episode #181 - A Drummer's Guide To... Before You Quit…

 

🎙 And if you’d like to learn all the other things it takes to be a professional musician, aside from playing your instrument, then search for A Drummer's Guide To... on all good podcasting platforms and YouTube

 

🥰 If you have a question you’d like me to answer on a future episode, you can submit it at [www.emilydrums.com/ama](http://www.emilydrums.com/ama)

 

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180 - The Invisible Goal Gap

🚨 Do you feel there is a gap between your goals and where you are right now, but you don’t know what the in-between contains?

😩 Are you a musician who doesn’t know the components that need to be in place to obtain your goals?

🧐 Or maybe you know the skills needed but are waiting to ‘get the call’ before you get good at those skills?

😖 Or maybe you’re working on the skills, but you don’t know what level they need to be at before you can start looking for opportunities? 🎙 If any of this is resonating with you, then my podcast episode #180 - A Drummer's Guide To... The Invisible Goal Gap could be for you!

👀 Personally I have experienced the ABSOLUTE WORST CASE SCENARIO where I got the call, got to the gig, and didn’t have the skills!!!!

🎧 I don’t want that for you, and so that’s why I share my ethos on having the skills in place for your professional goals in my podcast episode #180 - A Drummer's Guide To... The Invisible Goal Gap

🎙 And if you’d like to learn all the other things it takes to be a professional musician, aside from playing your instrument, then search for A Drummer's Guide To... on all good podcasting platforms and YouTube

🥰 If you have a question you’d like me to answer on a future episode, you can submit it at www.emilydrums.com/ama 

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179 - Hyper-Focus Highs and Lows

🚨 Are you a musician who is becoming burnt out from your hyper-focus sessions?

😩 Do you wear your hyper-focus sessions and work yourself to exhaustion as a badge of honour? I know I absolutely did! I only ever felt like I had done something productive if I had driven myself to the point of exhaustion through hyper-focusing on tasks?

🎙 If you can relate to this, then check out my podcast episode #179 - A Drummer's Guide To... Hyper-Focus Highs and Lows

🧐 In this episode, I share:

💪 The massive benefits of hyper-focus - let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater here!

😖 The pitfalls I personally have experienced, and it goes waaayyyyy past just burnout!

☯️ How I use hyper-focus to my advantage whilst minimising the negative impacts.

👀 If this has piqued your interest, then check out my podcast episode #179 - A Drummer's Guide To... Hyper-Focus Highs and Lows

🎙 And if you’d like the curtain to be lifted further on how to create a sustainable career as a professional musician, then search for A Drummer's Guide To... on all good podcasting platforms and YouTube

🥰 …and if you have a question you’d like me to answer on a future episode, then you can at EmilyDrums.com/ama

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178 - Pricing Your Passion

💰 If you’re a musician who is struggling to know what to charge, then my new episode #178 A Drummer's Guide To... Pricing Your Passion could be for you!

💸 Are you a musician who is playing with artists but finding you’re doing it for little or no money, or maybe don’t know how to even approach a conversation about money.

💵 I’ll be the first to say, I find conversations about money HAAAARDDDD!!! I’m much better than I used to be, but has been and continues to be a process for me!

🎧 In my podcast episode #178 - A Drummer's Guide To... Pricing Your Passion I share…

🤑 How I approach conversations about money

🤑 How I price myself.

🤑 What NOT to do!

👀 If this has piqued your interest, then check out my podcast episode #178 - A Drummer's Guide To... Pricing Your Passion

🎙 And if you’d like the curtain to be lifted further on how to create a sustainable career as a professional musician, then search for A Drummer's Guide To... on all good podcasting platforms and YouTube

🥰 If you have a question you’d like me to answer on a future episode, you can submit it at [www.emilydrums.com/ama](http://www.emilydrums.com/ama) 

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177 - Building Confidence After Criticism

😬 Are you a musician that has dealt with unsolicited criticism?

👀 If the answer is yes, then you are not alone, and the lovely Greg shared with us his exact experience of getting criticism during a gig, how they dealt with it, and my own experiences of similar situations (of which there have been many!)

🎙 If you’re part of this club too, then come join me in my podcast episode #177 - A Drummer's Guide To... Building Confidence After Criticism.

🎧 In this episode, I share how I have dealt with moments of criticism, in the moment and longer term. And here are the areas I look to:

☯️ Finding ways to know in myself my strengths weaknesses

🙋‍♀️ How to take criticism as an opinion rather than fact

🤔 Other factors that are almost definitely involved that we may not always bring into the equation

👀 If this has piqued your interest, then check out my podcast episode #3 - A Drummer's Guide To... Building Confidence After Criticism.

🎙 And if you’d like the curtain to be lifted further on how to create a sustainable career as a professional musician, then search for A Drummer's Guide To... on all good podcasting platforms and YouTube

🥰 and if you have a question you’d like me to answer on a future episode, then send your question in to EmilyDrums.com/ama

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176 - Teaching, Touring and Transitions

🚨 Are a musician who is wanting to transition from a ‘stable’ job to following your passion and making music your career?

☺️ Well, if it is, you’re in luck because the awesome @zachondrums asked me a question on this very subject and so I gave him some steps to make this scary step more manageable, and you can hear all about it on my podcast episode 176, A Drummer's Guide To... Teaching, Touring and Transitions.

🙋‍♀️ If you’re a musician who is also struggling with this step and want to know how to give yourself the best chance of success, then I think you’ll enjoy this, and feel a little less alone… hopefully.

🧐 In this episode I share how best to: Leverage your situation Leverage social media Leverage your current contacts …and then building from there!

👀 If this has piqued your interest, then check out my podcast episode #176 - A Drummer's Guide To... Teaching, Touring and Transitions

🎙 And if you’d like the curtain to be lifted further on how to create a sustainable career as a professional musician, then search for A Drummer's Guide To... on all good podcasting platforms and YouTube

🥰 Support this podcast now on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emilydrums

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175 - Sacrifice

🧐 Are you wondering the level of commitment needed to pursue a career as a session musician?

🎙️ If you’re wanting to make music your career then my podcast episode #175 - A Drummer's Guide To... Sacrifice is for you

🏞️ In my experience I feel sacrifice is necessary if you’re looking to excel into spaces that are off the beaten path, however, too much sacrifice in the name of music can make you fall down injured on that path and come crawling back to the mainstream!

🎧 In my podcast episode #175 - A Drummer's Guide To... Sacrifice I share my personal sacrifices I’ve made in my career that have made my career, as well as the ones that have hindered my career and life.

👧 This is an episode to my younger self, and so you don’t have to make the same mistakes I did.

👀 If this has piqued your interest, then check out my podcast episode #175 - A Drummer's Guide To... Sacrifice

🎙 And if you’d like the curtain to be lifted further on how to create a sustainable career as a professional musician, then search for A Drummer's Guide To... on all good podcasting platforms and YouTube

📣 And shoutout to Patreon member Matthew North, and if you’d like to check out his music, www.matthewnorthmusic.co.uk 

🥰 If you'd like me to cover a specific topic on a future episode, hit me up at: https://www.emilydrums.com/ama

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