{"id":23965,"date":"2020-06-08T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T17:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=23965"},"modified":"2023-06-28T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:22:42","slug":"casey-cooper-interview-drumeo-gab-podcast-170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/casey-cooper-interview-drumeo-gab-podcast-170\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Cooper: Do What You Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14666207\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><em>\u201cI want you to do it because you love it and because you want to create something cool and see what happens.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Casey Cooper is a very well known YouTuber who has established his online presence by providing content that encourages beginner to intermediate drummers to have fun playing drums. He has created content for YouTube officially since 2011 and has since then become the largest YouTube drumming account in the world.<\/p>\n<p>However, these claims of major success online through views and subscribers appeal very little to Casey. His major focus is communication between his audience and creating a strong positive message to drummers who need encouragement and reminding them that having fun needs to exist within drumming.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, we go over his humble beginnings, the purpose of his content, and the realities of being a YouTuber.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>In this episode:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You will hear about&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Being a \u201cbridge\u201d for drummers<\/li>\n<li>What Casey\u2019s fans say to him in emails<\/li>\n<li>The different points of where we are on our journey with drums<\/li>\n<li>The financial realities of being a massive YouTube drummer<\/li>\n<li>The best approach and reason to create content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Why you should listen:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Casey has a unique presence online. He keeps his drumming content approachable and doesn\u2019t focus on displaying highly advanced drumming. Yet, he managed to create a large brand. This is rare and very difficult to pull off and so Casey gets backlash for that here and there. I think there is a fairly small but fierce sub-community of drummers that is very focused on the art of drumming. These drummers take this stuff very seriously and we all know that it is incredibly tough to break through the noise. And then there is Casey, who has a huge following and is perceived to be quite successful. And he very much is, but not in the way you might think.<\/p>\n<p>No one needs to be barraged by wannabe pro drummers and I think this episode clearly informs listeners that Casey doesn\u2019t make a ton of money, at all, from YouTube. He is providing entertainment and a kind and approachable spirit to engage younger drummers to stick with it and hopefully find themselves playing for years. Eventually, they may venture off into more \u201cartsy\u201d stuff and no longer watch Casey. It happens to him. That is why he considers himself a \u201cbridge\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Casey\u2019s content, to the more experienced musician, still has value though. He reminds you of why you play. He somehow has a legit sense of \u201cbeginner\u2019s joy\u201d or \u201choneymoon phase\u201d when he plays. What is special is how that hasn\u2019t seemed to wear off. A lot of drummers probably lose that as they develop. It becomes something else or it simply evolves as we go through our seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Casey\u2019s content is about some fun gimmicks, inspiration, and overall positivity. He has something that is very good for the industry, so it makes sense to just appreciate what he\u2019s doing. I can\u2019t see him breaking down Tony Williams parts from Eric Dolphy\u2019s \u201cOut To Lunch\u201d anytime soon but there is a person for that I am sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Casey Cooper:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/coop3rdrumm3r\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/THECOOP3RDRUMM3R\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/COOP3RDRUMM3R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Drumeo Gab:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/drumeogab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drumeogabpodcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UClVNG62FcO82sRtmAzmoNXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey (coop3rdrumm3r) has a huge social media following. In this episode, he talks about the financial realities of being a massive YouTube drummer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":23967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175,1570,4019,4039],"tags":[986,1608,990,1609],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965"}],"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\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23965"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47019,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions\/47019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}