A Drummer’s Guide To...

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’A Drummer’s Guide To...’ is the podcast that dives into everything it takes to thrive as a professional musician beyond the practice room. Hosted by Emily Dolan Davies, a drummer since 1999, pro since 2008, and a passionate mentor since 2018, this show unpacks the real-world challenges, triumphs, and strategies for building the career of your dreams. Whether you’re chasing gigs, navigating the music industry, or balancing passion with practicality, Emily’s got your back with honest insights and inspiring stories. Find out more about Emily at EmilyDrums.com

Episodes

Mar 16, 2024

142 - My Favourite Mantras

Mar 16, 2024

52 min

Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... My Favourite Mantras as I share the MAIN things I tell myself, my inner workings and beliefs that help me stay on track with my career, goals, and in my personal life too. I've always been fascinated by what people tell themselves, so thought I'd share my side of things. I'd love to hear some of your favourite mantras too, so please feel free to share :-)

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Mar 9, 2024

141 - Process Goals

Mar 9, 2024

34 min

Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Process Goals, where I turn goal setting on it's head, and reverse them, to make them more achievable, fun, and allow for all the uncontrollable elements that come with pursuing a creative career :-/

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Mar 2, 2024

140 - Shortcuts

Mar 2, 2024

45 min

Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Shortcuts where I share some proper cringey things I used to do when I was younger to find the 'most effective' route to becoming a professional drummer, as well as some useful things, but the reality of trying to get past the hard work that is necessary to a career in this industry. So if you'd just like to come and laugh at a past version of me, then this is the episode for you, and you're more than welcome to join! :-)

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Feb 24, 2024

139 - Hot Cross Buns!

Feb 24, 2024

44 min

Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Hot Cross Buns! Is it about food?! Nope, I wish! This is a CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) method that is widely used to help with moments of anxiety by noticing what's actually going on within you. I share how I apply it to auditions, rehearsals, social situations, and I hope it helps you too! Also would highly recommend you look it up for a visual too :-)

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Feb 17, 2024

138 - Hyper-Focus and Flow

Feb 17, 2024

33 min

Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Hyper-focus and Flow as I share the benefits of getting into those states and how I use them to 'move the needle' as it were towards my goals. If you want to delve deeper, the books I talk about that are 2 of my favourites are Deep Work by Cal Newport, and Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Would highly recommend both! :-)

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Feb 10, 2024

137 - Perfectionism Revisited

Feb 10, 2024

23 min

Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Perfectionism Revisited where I share about my bloomin perfectionist attitude and negative self talk rearing it's head once again in my life. Coming off the back of a fight or flight situation (it's not really but could seem that way in the moment), it's so unexpected and so disruptive! Hopefully this makes you feel less alone if you're suffering with perfectionist tendencies.

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Feb 3, 2024

136 - Identity Pitfalls

Feb 3, 2024

36 min

Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Identity Pitfalls where I share the dangers of identifying yourself in certain ways, vs empowering yourself. As always there's a lot of tangents, ramblings, and some real time realisations... you love to see it... kind of!

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Jan 27, 2024

135 - Developing Complexity in your Playing (Question from Lindsay Roberts)

Jan 27, 2024

33 min

Thank you to Lindsay Roberts who inspired this episode of A Drummer's Guide To Developing Complexity in Your Playing. Whilst I don't actually consider myself a complex player, I kind of realised through the episode that maybe I am, how I developed that, and liken it to other aspects of my life. Come join me :-)

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Jan 13, 2024

134 - Finding Your Rhythm

Jan 13, 2024

36 min

Join me on A Drummer's Guide To... Finding Your Rhythm where weirdly I won't be talking about drumming or even music, but working within your constraints to make the most of the time, energy and resources you have day to day to get stuff done without absolutely killing yourself!!! If you're the kind of person who has tried and failed at the 5am club, or can't get with the grind culture so many people preach about, then maybe this episode is for you! Come join the 'sustainable individual routine' club!!! So rock n roll!!!!!! Ha!

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Jan 6, 2024

133 - Setting Goals for 2024

Jan 6, 2024

31 min

Join me on this episode of A Drummer's Guide To... Goal Setting for 2024 as I share how I create, implement and maintain my goals for any given year and beyond. This is an amalgamation of many years of trial and error, and I'm loving this hybrid version I've created for myself! Hope it inspires you in some type of way too :-)

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