{"id":12972,"date":"2019-01-03T12:31:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T20:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=12972"},"modified":"2022-08-22T14:32:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T21:32:21","slug":"helicopter-drum-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/helicopter-drum-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Epic Drum<br>Video We&#8217;ve Ever Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUKMr0_hVNg\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the most EPIC drum video we&#8217;ve ever filmed, we took two helicopters, a beautiful Pearl kit, and one of the best rock drummers of all time into the mountains of British Columbia &#8211; in the pouring rain!<\/p>\n<p>This video is a tribute to drummers around the world. Drummers are a rare and amazing breed. We dedicate entire rooms of our homes to our passion, we buy vehicles based on how our drums will fit, and we set up our kits in the craziest of situations all because of our LOVE for music.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so thankful for the drum companies who supported this ambitious project including Pearl, Remo, Pro-Mark, Audix, and Sabian.<\/p>\n<p>And a huge thank you to Mischa Gelb and BC Helicopters for making this video possible. If you&#8217;d like to follow their incredible adventures (including a helicopter trip around the world), make sure to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/YouTube.com\/user\/mischagelb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mischa&#8217;s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Todd:<\/strong><br \/>\nTodd Sucherman is a highly demanded drummer for sessions, clinics, and drum festivals who is most well known for his work with the band Styx. On top of recording several top 50 albums with Styx and playing an average of 100 dates a year, Todd has recorded over 1,000 radio and TV spots and has worked with a wide variety of artists such as Peter Cetera, Brian Culbertson, Spinal Tap, Michael Bolton, and many more. Todd won the Modern Drummer Magazine Reader&#8217;s poll for #1 Educational DVD and #1 Rock Drummer in 2009, #1 Progressive Rock Drummer in 2015, and #1 Clinician in DRUM! Magazine in both 2009 and 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took two helicopters, a beautiful Pearl kit, and one of the best rock drummers of all time into the mountains of British Columbia &#8211; in the pouring rain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":12979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4021,4016],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22569,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12972\/revisions\/22569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}