I love a lot if different stuff but some of my favorites include: Dave Matthews Band, AC/DC, Al Green, The Bad Plus, Radiohead, John Coltrane, Steely Dan, Audioslave, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Yes, Zony Mash, The Beatles, Beck, Bela Fleck and his Flecktones, Bill Evans, Supertramp, Kings of Leon, anything with Jeff Porcaro on drums, The Black Crowes, Chrlie Hunter, Skerik, Bruce Hornsby, Brad Mehldau, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chicago (early stuff back before they cheeseballed), Chick Corea, anything with Steve Gadd, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Cannonball Adderley, Damien Rice, Outkast, Roots, Dave Holland Quintet, Clifford Brown, Dave Weckl, G. Love and Special Sauce, Stevie Ray Vaughan, David Bowie, Donald Fagen's solo stuff, the Doobie Brothers, Erykah Badu, Fionna Apple, The White Stripes, The Secret Machines, John Scofield, Freddie Hubbard, Funkadelic, Jeff Buckley, Galactic, The Gamble Brothers, Bill Stewart, Garage A Trios, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, James Brown, The Meters, Oz Noy, Wayne Krantz, Jaco, James Taylor, Jamiroquai, John Mayer, Jonny Lang, Joshua Redman, Keith Jarrett Trio, Martin Sexton, The Mars Volta, Maxwell, MMW, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Parliament, Peter Gabriel, Phish, Sting, Pink Floyd, The Police, Ray Lomantagne, Prince, Robert Palmer, Soulive, Sly and the Family Stone, The Screaming Headless Torsos, Soundgarden, Thelonious Monk, Tom Waits, Tower of Power, Wilco Drumming Influences: Carter Beauford, Keith Carlock, Jojo Mayer, Dave Weckl, Bill Stewart, Billy Cobham, Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Vinnie Colaiuta, Dennis Chambers, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Gadd, John Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, Stewart Copeland, Art Blakey, Bill Bruford, Tony Williams, Zigaboo, Clyde Stubblefield, Bernard Purdie, Dave Garbaldi, John Fishman, Omar Hakim, Joe Morello, Neil Peart, Rick Morrata, and many others
I'm a drummer that recently graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA and is now residing in the greater Seattle area. I majored in Professional Music with an emphasis on composition and performance. Aside from playing the drums, I also like to play the piano and write music. As far as styles go, I'm pretty open musically. I love to play funk, rock, pop, soul, R&B, jazz, latin, afro-cuban, and world music. I also do session work so if you like what you hear please contact me. For my more professional work, please check out http://www.christiancarlsonmusic.com. Thanks and take care.
The Tunes:
1.) Doin' That Thing - This is a tune that was written by Scott Kulman. It features Shaun Munday on bass, Dan Puccio on Tenor Sax, Dane Farnsworth on keys, Scott Kulman on guitar and Chris on drums.
2.) Dr. J - This is a tune that was written by guitarist Christian Hernandez. It features Dan Farnsworth on keys, Christian Hernandez on guitar, and Chris on drums.
3.) The Norm - This a tune that was written by Dave Scher. The tune feaures Dave Scher on guitar, Ben Feltner on Bass, and Chris on drums.
4.) Winnipeg's Odyssey - This tune is based on a rough idea that Tony came up with during a rehearsal. The group on this recording consists of Tony Rincon (electric guitar), Marcel Hamel (electric bass) and Chris on drums.
5.) Phyrgian (3) - This was my mid-term project for my Advanced Modal Harmony class. I wrote this piano piece and performed it. It is based on the mode of Phyrgian Natural 3. I put it on this site because it shows my piano/compositional skills.
Here is a video of me improvising around a 16th note funk groove.
Here is a video of me improvising around a shuffle groove.
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Here is a video of me playing at the Berklee Percussion Department Scholarship Winners Night at the Berklee Performance Center. I received a scholarship from Evans Drumheads and was then was asked to play in this concert. We play a song by Oz Noy called "Steroids." Tony Rincon plays guitar and Marcel Hamel plays bass. I take a solo around the 4:25 mark. Enjoy!
Here is a video of me playing the Soulive tune "Cannonball" with Christian Hernandez on Guitar and Dane Farnsworth on keys.
Here is a video of me playing with the Berklee Soulive Tribute Band. This is a tune by Soulive called "Flurries."
Hey Bro!! It's about 70 degrees and beautiful here. We miss you so much and can't wait to see you, hopefully, this summer. Hope your classes are good. Love you
Glad to hear all is well! Yeah man, everything is rolling along - I'm gigging a bit too, always trying to get into more, though. I'm glad we're finally going to do something with this group past the recording phase!
whats up man? its been awhile. what have you been up to? one of my students let me borrow the jojo mayer dvd and i decided its incredible, one of the best dvds ive seen. i ordered it today. have you heard the new mars volta cd? their new drummer is sick. if you havent heard it you should go listen to it. there's hardly any of that stupid ambient noise crap that took up half of their other cds haha
the drums in water me down are sick dude. especially that little shuffle thing you do in the second verse and the bridge is cool too. YOU ROCK MAN!!!! YOU ROCK
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hit me up when yu around homez..
many things have evolved... i was so out of shape, mentally worn out when i caught up with you.. things are beddeh all around! Im enguaged as well! Sharpened up etc!.. talk with you soon CC ~
Leon's back..the band is on fire.. hope you come over again so we can kick it.. went home to hang with my 90 yr.old Grandfather and 80yr.old Grandmother for 3 weeks.. it was pure GOLD. Detoxed from ciggies and dropped about 10 pounds. Drank an ocean of water in that time and crew cut the rug. LIFE IS RIPPING OFF THE HINGES AGAIN. So good to be back with great energy in the sails. w3rd-
The booking guy cancelled all of our dates last night and I almost took a swing at him. I will get you a mighty fine downeast accent faster than you can say, "You cahn't get they-uh from hea-ah."
